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3 January 2016
JAN 10 sufferingJAN 17 feeling insignificantJAN 24 unanswered prayerJAN 31 sin
WE ARE TO BE CHANGINGChangingGrowingPressing OnNot ComplacentNot Coasting
Philippians 3MatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans
1 & 2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians
PHILIPPIANS 3:7-8
But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing
worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,
for whose sake I have lost all things.
PHILIPPIANS 3:5-6
Citizen of IsraelTribe of BenjaminPhariseePersecutor of the churchObeyed the law without fault
CONSIDER IT GAIN…
if you have got a lot of money
if you have got a real good reputation
if a lot of people know you, you’re famous
if you are pretty or sexy
if you are smart if you are driving a
Tesla if you are wearing
nice clothes if you are a celebrity blah, blah, blah, blah
“ZĒMIA” (LOSS)
less than having no valueless than worthlessIt’s a lossIt’s a negativeIt’s a deficit
because of the surpassing worth of knowing Jesus Christ
because of the surpassing worth of knowing Jesus Christ
PHILIPPIANS 3:8-9
Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing
Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as
garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the
law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right
with himself depends on faith
“SKYBALON”
garbageexcrement BSrubbish
It stinks! It’s revolting! It’s disgusting! It’s crap!
RIGHTEOUSNESS
right relatedness
ISAIAH 64:4
We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous
deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags.
PHILIPPIANS 3:10-11
I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him
from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that
one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!
“I WANT TO KNOW CHRIST”
Not just intellectually. I want to know him from the inside. I want to experience Jesus intimately. I want to know from the inside that resurrected life. I want to know from the inside God’s life coming into ours;
PHILIPPIANS 3:10-11
I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him
from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that
one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!
SUFFERING
simply by being human
because of being a kingdom of God person, a follower of Jesus
PHILIPPIANS 3:10-11
I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him
from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that
one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!
2 PETER 1:3-4
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our
knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has
given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having
escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
PERICHOREISIS
God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are in this beautiful, loving dance that goes on throughout eternity, and we are invited to join in that dance.
PHILIPPIANS 3:10-11
I want to know Christ – yes, to know the power of his resurrection
and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him
in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection
from the dead.
THE END OF WORLD HISTORY
our bodies will be raised from the dead, the kingdom of God will come in fullness, God will correct everything that’s wrong in creation, His kingdom will reign forever and ever, we shall reign with him.
WHEN WE ATTAIN
All of our…
SinPride
Hatred & strifeBondage to lust
Addictions & Oppressions
Self-centeredness Flesh life
Carnal mind Racism
Power struggles
…will be
burned
away
what is left,is what reflects
the character of God, what puts God’s love
unambiguously on display
PHILIPPIANS 3:12 I don’t mean to say that I have
already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection.
But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first
possessed me.
PHILIPPIANS 3:13-14
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken
hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is
behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on
toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
pursuing God because Christ
has already pursued you
everything we do for God is a reflection
of what God has already done
towards us;everything.
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PRESSING ON
I want to be more like ChristI want to love more like ChristI want to live more like Christ
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