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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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