Righteous Reality Checks Part One: True or False Relationship

Phil. 3:1-3

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Phil. 3:1-31Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you. 2Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision; 3for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,

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1. The False Relationship Revealed

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Phil. 3:1-21Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you. 2Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision; 

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Eph. 2:8-9 8For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

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Gal. 5:1-6 1It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. 2Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.

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4You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness. 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

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Phil. 3:18 18For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,

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James 4:14 14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

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2 Cor. 13:5

 5Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you--unless indeed you fail the test?

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A. Clarify the Principle: Outward Actions

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B. Clarify the Players: False Teachers

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C. Clarify the Problems: Empty Religion

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1. Adding to the Gospel of Grace

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2. Avoiding the Gospel of Grace

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2. The True Relationship Realized

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Phil 3:3 3for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,

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Rom. 2:28-29 28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. 29But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.

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1 John 2:24-27 24As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.

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26These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. 27As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.

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Gal. 6:14-15 14But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15For neither is circumcision anything, nor

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A. Clarify the Principle: Inward Trust

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B. Clarify the Players: Every Believer

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C. Clarify the Practices: Real Relationship

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1. Heartfelt Worship

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2. Humble Trust

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3.  Honest Dependence

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