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Lessons from Lockdown – Part 3
Priorities (with Ele Mumford)
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Priorities
(with Ele Mumford)
(with Ele Mumford)
"I give thee all! I keep back nothing for myself!"
John Calvin – Theologian
John Calvin – Theologian
"I have but one passion - it is Jesus, Jesus only"
Count Zinzendorf – Reformer
Count Zinzendorf – Reformer
Philippians 3:1-14 NLT
Whatever happens, my dear brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. I never get tired of telling you these things, and I do it to safeguard your faith.
Watch out for those dogs, those people who do evil, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to be saved. For we who worship by the Spirit of God are the ones who are truly circumcised. We rely on what Christ Jesus has done for us. We put no confidence in human effort, though I could have confidence in my own effort if anyone could. Indeed, if others have reason for confidence in their own efforts, I have even more!
I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a pure-blooded citizen of Israel and a member of the tribe of Benjamin—a real Hebrew if there ever was one! I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law. I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault.
I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. 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. 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 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. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
Whatever happens, my dear brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. I never get tired of telling you these things, and I do it to safeguard your faith.
Watch out for those dogs, those people who do evil, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to be saved. For we who worship by the Spirit of God are the ones who are truly circumcised. We rely on what Christ Jesus has done for us. We put no confidence in human effort, though I could have confidence in my own effort if anyone could. Indeed, if others have reason for confidence in their own efforts, I have even more!
I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a pure-blooded citizen of Israel and a member of the tribe of Benjamin—a real Hebrew if there ever was one! I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law. I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault.
I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. 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. 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 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. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
1 – Rejoice in the Lord
2 – Recognise the real thing
3 – Resolve to know Christ
"When Paul says he counts all that he has lost as 'dung', he means not merely that he does not think of them as having any value at all, but, also that he does not live with them constantly in his mind; what normal person spends his time nostalgically dreaming of manure"
J.I. Packer – Theologian
J.I. Packer – Theologian
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose”
Jim Elliot
Jim Elliot
"I am part of the fellowship of the unashamed…The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ... My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure… My face is set… My goal is heaven. My road is narrow. My way rough… But my guide is reliable and my mission is clear… I won’t give up, shut up, let up, until I’ve stayed up…prayed up, paid up, preached up for the cause of Christ… I must go till He comes, give ’til I drop, preach till all know, and work till He stops me. And when He comes for His own, He’ll have no problem recognizing me. My banner will have been unfurled!"
African martyr
African martyr
Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you for who you are and what I’m hearing of you. I thank you that you really are the way the truth and the life. I thank you that I’m beginning to realise that. I thank you that you died for me, to deal with my sins and my shortcomings, so that I can forget my past and turn my face to the future. I can be forgiven and set free. And I ask you now to come into my life, and to be with me forever. Amen
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