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Gospel Alchemy

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Gospel Alchemy

Noel Heikkinen

Pastor Noel Heikkinen teaches on how the Gospel of Jesus can turn our negative circumstances into one filled with hope in God.

Philippians 1:12-18

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I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel… (Philippians 1:12)

Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. (2 Corinthians 11:23-27)

I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel… (Philippians 1:12)

so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. (Philippians 1:13)

And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. (Philippians 1:14)

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. (Philippians 1:15-17)

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. (Philippians 1:18)

“The Christian life is sweet in the sense that our suffering is never wasted on God. He works his purpose even in the midst of your pain. In fact, God will do some of his best work in and through you when you are in the midst of personal crisis.”

– Keith Krell

I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel… (Philippians 1:12)

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