Part 3 | The Reason for My Season

From Philippians 3

We will get disappointed when we mistake our for our

Paul’s Secret:

If you focus on in your life will abound through .

1.  The reason in my season is the of .

📖 Philippians 3:4b-6 (ESV)  If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

📖 Philippians 3:7 (ESV) But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

📖 Philippians 3:8 (ESV) Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 

2. The reason in my season is what wants me to .

📖 Philippians 3:9 (ESV) and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 

Righteousness: as I to be.

Through Christ I am . 

In Christ I am called to to what He has me.

📖 2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV) For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

📖 Romans 1:16-17 (ESV) I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in (the Gospel) the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

📖 Philippians 3:10 (ESV) that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

📖 1 Peter 2:2-3 (ESV) Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

If all I get out of this of life is a with – it was .

📖 Romans 6:3 (ESV) Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

📖 Romans 6:9-11 (ESV) We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life He lives He lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

3. The reason in my season is on my where I meet Christ to .

📖 Philippians 3:12-14 (ESV) Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Sermon in a Sentence:

If we to what God us, we will be in whatever life us. 

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