FAITH NOT WORKS
Pastor Bill Young (bill@trc.life)
Philippians 3:1-11

I. Be on guard against

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A. Legalism focuses on the

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, not the spirit.
Philippians 3:2 (NIV84) Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh.
Philippians 3:3 (NIV84) For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh–
B. Legalism focuses on

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not grace.
Philippians 3:4 (NIV84) though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has 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 legalistic righteousness, faultless.
C. If it’s not

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, it’s not

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! Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV84) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
II. Be on guard against false

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A. Your righteous deeds are

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compared to knowing Jesus.
Philippians 3:7 (NIV84) But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him,
Phillips’ translation: “I consider it all mere garbage compared to being able to win Christ…”
B. Your righteousness comes from

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in Jesus, not your good works.
Philippians 3:9b (NIV84) Not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ –the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.
Finding Joy, part 07
III. Be on guard against false

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A. Your ambition should be to know

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Philippians 3:10a (NIV84) I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection
Philippians 3:10b-11 (NIV84) and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
B. How do you get to know GOD intimately?
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IV. Conclusion
A. Maybe you’ve become

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B. Maybe you’ve never put

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in Jesus?
Romans 6:23 (NIV84) For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord