Strive Now for What's Ahead - Philippians 3:4b-14 - 5th Sunday in Lent - April 6, 2025

Thanks for joining us! In this world, we all base our worth on our accomplishments, our job, our salary, our skills and abilities... But listen in to see how we should instead be looking at all of those things through the lens of Christ, and know that we are already worthy and loved and forgiven through the gift of righteousness given to us by Christ and his death on the cross and resurrection! Let all of our actions and thoughts be looked at through the filter of Christ, and know that our worth lies in him, not in our accomplishments. 

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If someone else thinks they have reasons to put 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; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.

7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. 10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.