I Want To Know Christ
Further,
my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write
the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. Watch out for
those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. For
it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in
Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have
reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks
they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people
of
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. I consider them garbage, that I
may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that
comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness
that comes from God on the basis of faith. 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.
Philippians
3:1-11
If you know
Jesus Christ, you boast about it. He gets the credit. Glorify Him.
We are
nothing without Jesus, so give Him the credit.
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