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Together We Have a Goal
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Delivered By
Pastor Jack Peters
Delivered On
February 19, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Central Passage
Philippians 3:1-11
Subject
TOGETHER IN CHRIST!!!
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PHILIPPIANS 3:1-11 - TOGETHER WE HAVE A GOAL Part 1

TOGETHER WE BELIEVE #6 – AM 2/9/23

  • If you are like me, I get more done when I have a goal in mind.
  • When I proposed to Dottie and she said “yes”, there were lots of goals set and achieved.
  • We had to set a date, decide on a venue, plan the service and the reception, get a preacher, enlist our attendants, and send invitations. Dottie made her own dress, and I planned the Honeymoon. If we didn’t set goals, we would have never gotten things done!
  • Together as Christ-followers we should have goals that are individual and corporate.
  • One of the most important goals we should have is to be imitators of Christ, and thus be imitators of God.
  • Christ-likeness should be our goal!
  • And to achieve this we must understand how it fits in God’s overall plan for our lives!

OUR WORKS-ORIENTED PAST – Philippians 3:2-6

  • Vs. 2 – Judaizers teaching that circumcision is required for salvation – works oriented.
  • Vs. 3 – Circumcision of the heart is of the utmost importance. Deuteronomy 30:6
  • We should give self-effort for being acceptable before God so we can be forgiven and go to Heaven a vote of “no confidence”
  • Vss. 4-6 - Paul enumerates reasons why, if anyone could have earned eternal life, it would have been him.

OUR CHRIST-CENTERED PRESENT – Philippians 3:7-9

  • Vss. 7-8 – There came a day of reckoning when Paul counted all his self-effort as loss and trust Christ alone for salvation.
  • Vs. 9 – Found in Him and trust Him for righteousness by faith. Titus 3:5, Romans 5:6-9, 1
  • Why work for something that’s already paid for?

OUR LIFELONG PASSION – 1 John 3:1-3, Philippians 3:10-11

  • 1 John 3:1-3 should instill a love for Christ in us causing us to desire to really know Him. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
  • To know him is to spend time with him and others who do.
  • Knowing His power is to yield to His resurrection power through the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 1:19-21
  • The “fellowship of his suffering” – to take abuse for Him as He took abuse for us. Acts 9:16, 2 Timothy 4:10
  • As I die with Christ, the resurrected Christ lives in me. Romans 6:10-14
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