Scriptures from Sunday’s sermon:
Philippians 3:4-14
Even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone
else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on
the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,
a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a
persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of
Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the
surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have
suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I
may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my
own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ,
the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the
power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming
like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the
dead.
Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but
I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing
I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in
Christ Jesus.