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Sunday, 14 October 2018
News Bulletin
Philippians—Partners for Life #1
1. Power of Prayer
Banning Prayer
Answered Prayer
2. Philippians 1
History & Geography
Paul in Prayer
Joy & thankfulness
Gospel Confidence
Prayer structure
Love growing in Knowledge and dis-
cernment
Approve superior things
Pure and blameless
Filled with fruit of righteousness
Glory and praise of God
3. Conclusion
Praying this week
Philippians 1:1-11
1 Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Je-
sus:
To all the saints in Christ Jesus who
are in Philippi, including the overseers
and deacons. 2 Grace to you and peace from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving and Prayer 3 I give thanks to my God for every
remembrance of you, 4 always praying
with joy for all of you in my every pray-
er, 5 because of your partnership in the
gospel from the first day until now. 6 I
am sure of this, that He who started a
good work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 7 It is right for me to think this way about
all of you, because I have you in my
heart, and you are all partners with me in
grace, both in my imprisonment and in
the defense and establishment of the
gospel. 8 For God is my witness, how
deeply I miss all of you with the affec-
tion of Christ Jesus. 9 And I pray this:
that your love will keep on growing in
knowledge and every kind of discern-
ment, 10 so that you can approve the
things that are superior and can be pure
and blameless in the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness
that comes through Jesus Christ to the
glory and praise of God.
SUNDAY SERVICES
10am Family Service Lord’s Supper 2nd Sunday of Month 5pm Family service
$3 dinner Lord’s Supper 4th Sunday
10:30am New Horizons (1st & 3rd weeks) Aged Care Service—Badajoz Rd
First and Third Mondays of the month
ST JOHN’S NORTH RYDE ANGLICAN
Ph: (02) 9878 3974 [email protected]
152 Cox’s Rd North Ryde 2113 Find us in the middle of the community hub of North Ryde—we are located in the
centre of the Cox’s Rd Shopping district, adjacent to North Ryde Public School,
opposite IGA and North Ryde Library. There are around 30 onsite car parking spots,
with adjacent council car parking and shopping centre parking
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SERVICES 152 Coxs’s Rd (opposite Mall)
9am Family service & Morning Tea
5pm Family service & optional $2 dinner Monthly Communion: 9am (2nd Sunday) 5pm (4th Sunday)
3pm SOMA church (Macquarie Centre) Lead Pastor: Rev. John Chappell
Ph: 9878 3974 Mobile: 0403 812 782
Lead Pastor:: John Chappell
(Kylie, Joseph, Tara, Nathaniel & Jacob)
Ph: 9878 3974 & 0403 812 782.
Yr 13 Apprentice
Lauren King
Mob: 0411 594 681
St John’s Preschool Team. Ph: 9888 7835
L-R: Mary, Elena, Sophia, Joan
L-R Rachel, Kathy (director), Brenda
Children’s & Youth pastor
Sarah Robertson
Mob: 0417 863 852
ESL Pastor
Ruoxin Zhang
Mob: 0451 575 355
2018 Parish Council Chris Aspland, Peter Bliss, John & Kylie Chappell,
Bruce Duncan, Francis Gosling, Jennifer Harrison,
Rick Wu
2018 Wardens Chris Aspland
Ph: 9887 2663
Peter Bliss
Ph: 9878 3978
Francis Gosling
Ph: 9878 3840
Seniors Tour—Windsor
20/10/2018
Meet @ Church—car pool 9am
Windsor Antiques Tour
Contact Glenn Walker on 0411 463 494 or Rob-
ert Taylor 98781353
WHAT DO CHRISTIANS BELIEVE? The bible explains that our world is God’s good
creation, a display of his honour and majesty. How-
ever, humanity has chosen to try to run life inde-
pendently from God. This has disastrous conse-
quences. Life lived in opposition to the maker natu-
rally breaks down—we cannot control God’s world
without him. We begin to experience the just
judgement from the maker we have rebelled
against.
Creation no longer reflects the majesty and honour
of God. God could justly put an end to his rebel-
lious creatures, but in his love, treats us differently to
what we deserve.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one
and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have eternal life”
John, Chapter 3 verse 16
(John 3:16 Mandarin)
(John 3:16 Japanese) Jesus, the Son of God, is God’s rescue plan for his re-
bellious creatures. Jesus did not rebel against God—he
was perfect. He is God’s gift to us in that he, being the
perfect human, can be punished or judged in our
place. On the cross Jesus Christ dies taking the punish-
ment of separation from God that we all deserve.
Therefore, anyone who believes in him can escape
God’s anger. But that is not all, they can reconnect
with God and start to experience life the way it should
be, finding true freedom in obediently serving our
creator.
The bible explains that this sacrificial action of Jesus
brings great honour to God. All who believe in Jesus
continue to bring honour to God. But God’s patience
with ongoing rebels who bring him dishonour will run
out, and Jesus will soon return to eternally punish.
Christians are eternally thankful to Jesus as our saviour,
and strive to live rightly under him as Lord and master.
The bible explains that we need supernatural help to
do this. We can never be thankful enough or good
enough to earn ‘saved’ status. We must be saved first,
then thankfulness and obedience rightly follow.
Will you accept God’s rescue plan?
in Jesus right now ?
PRAYER POINTS Prayer points are compiled in the church office. Please email
Pray for Synod as it meets over the next two weeks and for our representatives Chris Aspland, Peter Bliss and John Chappell
Thank God for recent rains in NSW. Pray for on-going drought breaking rain
HSC Students: Pray for Yr 12’s we have con-nected with over recent years: Liam, Lioda, Tara, Ben, Zoe, Chloe, Krishna, Chris, Olivia, Melanie and Kurt.
Pray for recruitment of new staff over the next month—seeking full time assistant minister, part time children’s and youth, part time preschool and a partner with Generate—RACE.
Planning for NTE mission (summerfest) Dec 6-9 Pray for Norma Grenier, Wilma Wilson. Rusty Rus-
sell Pray for our Mayor Jerome Laxale and local
member Victor Dominello
DROUGHT PRAYER Our heavenly Father, we acknowledge our ingratitude when we have taken your goodness for granted, when the heaven has poured forth rain and the earth has pro-duced its fruit. Yet now we cry to you for help, as the drought in New South Wales deepens. Have mercy on our land; have mercy on the people of the land. May your bountiful hand send forth rain upon our parched earth. Fulfil your promises that while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest shall not cease, so that those in remote and rural areas may find relief from their distress and glorify your name for the provision of their needs. We ask this in the name of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Giving @ St John’s Can you partner with others in our church in helping to meet our
target?
The best way to do this is via
establishing an electronic transfer with your bank.
BSB: 032 088 Account: 810054 Currently over 50% of all offertory is given electronically.
Please contact Francis via email ([email protected])
to confidentially notify him that arrangements are in place. For more
details speak to our treasurer
Francis Gosling on 9878 3840.
Seniors Activities 2018
20/10/2018 Meet @ Church -car pool 9am Windsor Antiques Tour
17/11/2018 6pm @ Venue Dinner -Noble Terrace Chinese Restaurant - Cox's Rd
15/12/2018 9.30 am Morning Tea + Board Games @ Robert Taylors
Contact Glenn Walker on 0411 463 494 or Robert Taylor 98781353
Coxs Rd Cares—Monday Night
Happy 80th Birthday Peter Bliss!
Term 4 Sermon Series
Philippians—Partners for Life
14th Oct - SERMON 1: Partners in the gospel - Philippians 1:1-8 21st Oct - SERMON 2: Praying for partners - Philippians 1:9-11 28th Oct - SERMON 3: Finding freedom - Philippians 1:12-30 4th Nov - SERMON 4: Jesus on unity - Philippians 1:27-2:11 11th Nov - SERMON 5: Meeting the challenge - Philippians 2:12-30 18th Nov - SERMON 6: True confidence - Philippians 3:1-11 25th Nov - SERMON 7: Going for glory - Philippians 3:10-4:1 2nd Dec - SERMON 8: Standing firm - Philippians 4:1-23
PHILIPPI. In the course of his apostolic travels Paul received in a vision an invitation from a man of Macedonia who implored, ‘Come over to Macedonia, and help us’ (Acts 16:9). Interpreting this plea as a summons from God, Paul and his party sailed for Neapolis, the port of Philippi, 13 km S of the city and the termi-nus of the Egnatian Way, a military road which joined Rome and the East as a much valued line of communication.
The arrival at Philippi is marked in Acts 16:12 by a descrip-tion of the city: ‘the leading city of Macedonia and a Roman colony’. The stages by which the city attained the rank of this noble description may be traced.
The town derives its name from Philip of Macedon, who took it from the Thasians about 360 BC. He enlarged the settle-ment, and fortified it to defend his frontiers against the Thasians. At this time the gold-mining industry was developed, and gold coins were struck in the name of Philip and became commonly recognized. After the battle of Pydna in 168 BC it was annexed by the Romans; and when Macedonia was divided into four parts for administrative purposes Philippi was included in the first of the four districts. This fact supports a proposal of prōtēs in place of the TR‘s prōtē in Acts 16:12, suggested by F. Field and accepted by F. Blass, who explained it by this reference to the division of Macedonia into four districts by Aemilius Paullus in 167 BC (Livy, 45. 17–18, 29); cf. commentaries on Acts by H. Conzelmann and E. Haenchen, ad loc. On this emended read-ing the verse runs: ‘a city of the first division of Macedonia’. If the text is not changed, Philippi’s claim to be ‘chief city of the district’ can be accepted only in a general sense, as A. N. Sher-win-White observes (Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament, 1963, pp. 93ff.). The comment possibly reflects Luke’s special interest in the city, which may have been his birth-place.
In 42 BC the famous battle of Philippi was fought with Anto-ny and Octavian ranged against Brutus and Cassius. After this date the town was enlarged, probably by the coming of colo-nists; the title Colonia Iulia is attested at this time. This promi-nence was enhanced further when, after the battle of Actium in 31 BC, in which Octavian defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra, the town ‘received a settlement of Italian colonists who had favoured Antony and had been obliged to surrender their land to the veterans of Octavian’ (Lake and Cadbury, p. 187). Octavian gave the town its notable title, Col(onia) Iul(ia) Aug(usta) Philip(pensis), which has appeared on coins. Of all the privileges which this title conferred, the possession of the ‘Italic right’ (ius Italicum) was the most valuable. It meant that the colo-nists enjoyed the same rights and privileges as if their land were part of Italian soil.
The civic pride of the Philippians (who are given the equiva-lent of their Latin name Philippenses in Paul’s letter, 4:15) is a feature of the Acts narrative, and reappears in allusions the apostle makes in the Epistle. See Acts 16:21; cf. 16:37. Official names are used (duoviri in 16:20, 22, and ‘lictors’ in 16:35). The Gk. word translated ‘uncondemned’ in 16:37 probably reflects the Latin re incognita or indicta causa, i.e. ‘without examination’. In the letter to the Philippian church two passages, 1:27 and 3:20, speak of ‘citizenship’, a term which would have special appeal to the readers; and the virtues listed in 4:8 are those which the Ro-man mind would particularly appreciate.
After the apostle’s first visit with his preaching, imprisonment and release, his further contact with the city is inferred from ref-erences in Acts 20:1, 6; 1 Tim. 1:3.
