{"id":35854,"date":"2022-09-13T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/philippines-37-8-explain-what-things-were-gain-and-then-lost-and-became-rubbish-what-was-paul-trying-to-gain-after-he-was-converted-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:30:52","slug":"philippines-37-8-explain-what-things-were-gain-and-then-lost-and-became-rubbish-what-was-paul-trying-to-gain-after-he-was-converted-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/philippines-37-8-explain-what-things-were-gain-and-then-lost-and-became-rubbish-what-was-paul-trying-to-gain-after-he-was-converted-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines 3:7-8 explain. What things were gain and then lost and became rubbish? What was Paul trying to gain after he was converted? (Nigeria)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Philippians 3:7-11 (NKJV), 7 "But what things were gain<\/strong> to me, these I have counted loss<\/strong> for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus<\/strong> my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ<\/strong> 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness,…but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him<\/strong> and the power of His resurrection<\/strong>, and the fellowship of His sufferings<\/strong>, being conformed to His death<\/strong>, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection<\/strong> from the dead.”<\/p>\n

In Philippians 3:4-6, the apostle Paul lists some of his human achievements – things that gave him status. Philippians 3:4-6 (ESV), 4 “If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more<\/strong>: 5 circumcised <\/strong>on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews<\/strong>; as to the law, a Pharisee;<\/strong> 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church;<\/strong> as to righteousness under the law, blameless.<\/strong>” Before Paul was converted, he was a prominent leader among the Jewish people. <\/p>\n

However, none of these fleshly things are important to the Christian. In fact, if a Christian were to value earthly status, he would develop pride. Paul recognized his flesh to be the enemy of his new creature. <\/p>\n

Remember Romans 7:18, 22-23 (ESV), 18 “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh<\/strong>. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. … 22 For I delight in the law of God <\/strong>(God’s law of love, not the Law Covenant<\/em>), in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin<\/strong> that dwells in my members.”<\/p>\n

Thus, Paul considers his fleshly worth to be rubbish and an opposing force against his new creature. As a Christian, Paul’s new focus was obeying God’s will. He preached the Gospel and suffered for doing so. 2 Corinthians 11:24-27 (NASB20), “Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes<\/strong>. Three times I was beaten with rods<\/strong>, once I was stoned<\/strong>, three times I was shipwrecked<\/strong>, … dangers from robbers, …dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, … in hunger and thirst, often without food<\/strong>, in cold and exposure<\/strong>.” <\/p>\n

Paul focused his whole being on being obedient so that he might receive a heavenly resurrection. Philippians 3:13 (NASB20), “…(this<\/em>) one thing I do<\/strong>: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies] ahead”. So must all Christians develop this desire.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philippians 3:7-11 (NKJV), 7 "But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I … Continue reading “Philippines 3:7-8 explain. What things were gain and then lost and became rubbish? What was Paul trying to gain after he was converted? (Nigeria)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}