July 14th, 2024 - The Faithfulness of Christ

Scripture Passage:  Philippians 3:7-14

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The Faithfulness of Christ

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What are you leaning on?
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more

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What are you leaning on?
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more

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The cost of discipleship
7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

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Loss is Gain
8 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. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ

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The Great Exchange
9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

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The Cycle of Life
10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

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High Jump
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal,

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Beautiful image - goodest of news
but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

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Worth repeating - get the rhythm
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

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In all humility, run!
13 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,

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It is easiest to run when you know you have already won.