Philippians 3:8,
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
What does it mean to win Christ? Is he your trophy at the end. Is it like a race and you get an award to win the race. What is the meaning of Paul's (that I may win Christ) statement? Look at the verse and see what you can see, Paul has taught-preached over and over the in-Christ message. Over 150 times he has the believer in Christ or Christ in the believer. He never veers from the message of Christ in you, his fear and trembling was the believer not being able to handle being separated from their false identity.
Who you think you are is false, and Paul knew the message he preached gave proper identity which can place a believer in a shocking dilemma. You think we would be more than willing to live out the new identity of being a Christian. Some do but most will live through hell on earth to come to the understanding of the "it is nolonger they that lives, but Christ lives in them," that is proper identity for believers, Galatians 2:20.
When you see believers giving excuses for hanging on to their false identity, you know they are not able to correct their own thinking at the time to come to understand. It has been such a security blanket it is impossible to let go of, but in time they will overcome and they can move on in the Lord.
So winning Christ is when the believer is able to express the true life that is in them.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
What does it mean to win Christ? Is he your trophy at the end. Is it like a race and you get an award to win the race. What is the meaning of Paul's (that I may win Christ) statement? Look at the verse and see what you can see, Paul has taught-preached over and over the in-Christ message. Over 150 times he has the believer in Christ or Christ in the believer. He never veers from the message of Christ in you, his fear and trembling was the believer not being able to handle being separated from their false identity.
Who you think you are is false, and Paul knew the message he preached gave proper identity which can place a believer in a shocking dilemma. You think we would be more than willing to live out the new identity of being a Christian. Some do but most will live through hell on earth to come to the understanding of the "it is nolonger they that lives, but Christ lives in them," that is proper identity for believers, Galatians 2:20.
When you see believers giving excuses for hanging on to their false identity, you know they are not able to correct their own thinking at the time to come to understand. It has been such a security blanket it is impossible to let go of, but in time they will overcome and they can move on in the Lord.
So winning Christ is when the believer is able to express the true life that is in them.