Philippians 3:7-16 YLT
7 But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;
8 yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
Paul writes that he counts everything he's done in his life worthless next to knowing Jesus.
9 not having my righteousness, which [is] of law, but that which [is] through faith of Christ -- the righteousness that is of God by the faith,
Nothing he's done that he wants, nothing from "law keeping", only that which is through trusting Jesus.
10 to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
Paul wants nothing that he was, nothing that he did, nothing that he can do . . . only to know Jesus, to have Jesus' resurrection power, to be joined to Jesus through suffering,
having been conformed to Jesus' death.
11 if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.
12 Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;
Paul want to lay ahold of that for which Jesus laid hold of him. He hasn't laid hold of it yet, but he wants to. He hasn't already been perfected - matured, completed - but he pursues after it.
Resurrection. The power of Jesus' resurrection in living in newness of life.
13 brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --
14 to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Not there yet, but forget everything before this moment . . . why? Because the reality is that this life is hear for us. We can walk in newness of life.
15 As many, therefore, as [are] perfect -- let us think this, and if [in] anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,
16 but to what we have come -- by the same rule walk, the same thing think;
To what we have come - to the point you have come to live the resurrection life, walk so in it.
Paul wrote in this place that there is a life he stretches himself into, a life that he doesn't say he has yet, but a life that he apparently is to be sought after, the resurrection life.
Thoughts?
Much love!
Mark
7 But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;
8 yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
Paul writes that he counts everything he's done in his life worthless next to knowing Jesus.
9 not having my righteousness, which [is] of law, but that which [is] through faith of Christ -- the righteousness that is of God by the faith,
Nothing he's done that he wants, nothing from "law keeping", only that which is through trusting Jesus.
10 to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
Paul wants nothing that he was, nothing that he did, nothing that he can do . . . only to know Jesus, to have Jesus' resurrection power, to be joined to Jesus through suffering,
having been conformed to Jesus' death.
11 if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.
12 Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;
Paul want to lay ahold of that for which Jesus laid hold of him. He hasn't laid hold of it yet, but he wants to. He hasn't already been perfected - matured, completed - but he pursues after it.
Resurrection. The power of Jesus' resurrection in living in newness of life.
13 brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --
14 to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Not there yet, but forget everything before this moment . . . why? Because the reality is that this life is hear for us. We can walk in newness of life.
15 As many, therefore, as [are] perfect -- let us think this, and if [in] anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,
16 but to what we have come -- by the same rule walk, the same thing think;
To what we have come - to the point you have come to live the resurrection life, walk so in it.
Paul wrote in this place that there is a life he stretches himself into, a life that he doesn't say he has yet, but a life that he apparently is to be sought after, the resurrection life.
Thoughts?
Much love!
Mark
