“Whatever Gained, Counted As Loss”
“Whatever Gained, Counted As Loss”
Blessings folk!
Read the passage again…
Phl 3:7-11
But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Know these truths.
Reflect on these truths.
Live these truths.
Whatever we have “gained” in this life is nothing compared to being “in Christ”.
Paul had reached the pinnacle of religious leadership.
He had just described himself this way…
Phl 3:4-5
although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh.
If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:
circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,
a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church;
as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.
He was a Hebrew of Hebrews.
He was righteous…in his own eyes and deeds.
As to the Law, he was found blameless.
Yet, he says that all this is to be “counted as loss” as compared to what is gained in Christ.
Have you gained Christ?
Or, are you still living in religion?