Episode 377 - Encouraged - A Journey to Healthy Relationships (Part 10)

Encouraged - A Journey to Healthy Relationships

Part 10 (Philippians 3:1-6)

 

1 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 

 

from God, from Self from Hell

 

2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. 

 

church & state

from defensive to offensive 

 

3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 

 

proper ritual + proper attitude

 

4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence.

If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 

 

self-defense (Gospel reputation)

 

5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 

 

6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.

 

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