Philippians
4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Paul is not telling the church at
Philippi that they can do anything they want or can do all things that they
want to do.
He is saying that we can do anything “through
Christ” or “in Christ.”
The context is saying
that we can do anything that is in the will of Jesus Christ because He is the
One who will strengthen (enable) you do to it.
Paul is not saying
that we can do anything we want or anything in Christ that is not His will.
But he is saying that
we can endure all sufferings if we are in Christ.
In
the verses before Paul writes, “Not
that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to
be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and
in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound
and to suffer need” (Philippians 4:11-12).
Paul was writing this in prison and he
was likely cold, hungry, and alone, yet he learned to be content in whatever
state he was in … but only “in Christ.”
It might be better to think of this as
saying “We can endure all things in Christ.”
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What Bible verses do
you see most often are taken out of context?
How does proper
context change what people perceive verses to mean?
Context is Everything
Maybe you have heard it said that text taken out of context makes it a pretext, and usually a false one at that.
Maybe you have heard it said that text taken out of context makes it a pretext, and usually a false one at that.
When we take texts out
of their context we are stripping the meaning of the verses and give them a
different, and usually a wrong meaning.
Far too many people
try and find one Bible verse and come up with a doctrine. The result is that
Bible verses are taken out of context and misapplied.
That is not the way to
read the Bible.
When we want to take
out or interpret Scripture properly, we need to read the entire paragraph, the
entire chapter, and sometimes the entire book.
To take one verse and
use it to build a belief system is highly fraught with error.
That is
how cults are started.
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http://puricarefiles.blogspot.com/2016/11/bible-verses-often-taken-out-of-context.html
“His Strength Is Perfect”
Steven Curtis Chapman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZTkW1nyZpsPrayingWarriors
Lyrics
I can do all things
Through Christ who gives me strength,
But sometimes I wonder what He can do through me;
No great success to show, No glory on my own,
Yet in my weakness He is there to let me know . . .
(chorus)
His strength is perfect when our strength is gone;
He’ll carry us when we can’t carry on.
Raised in His power, the weak become strong;
His strength is perfect, His strength is perfect.
We can only know
The power that He holds
When we truly see how deep our weakness goes;
His strength in us begins
Where ours comes to an end.
He hears our humble cry and proves again . . .
(chorus)
Through Christ who gives me strength,
But sometimes I wonder what He can do through me;
No great success to show, No glory on my own,
Yet in my weakness He is there to let me know . . .
(chorus)
His strength is perfect when our strength is gone;
He’ll carry us when we can’t carry on.
Raised in His power, the weak become strong;
His strength is perfect, His strength is perfect.
We can only know
The power that He holds
When we truly see how deep our weakness goes;
His strength in us begins
Where ours comes to an end.
He hears our humble cry and proves again . . .
(chorus)
Excerpt from
Top 6 Bible Verses Often
Taken Out of Context
by JACK WELLMAN
whatchristianswantoknow.com
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