What Are You Boasting In?
Philippians 3:1-11
Part of SEARCHING FOR JOY—A Letter to the Philippians
June 22, 2020

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WHAT ARE YOU BOASTING IN?
Philippians 3:1-11 : 06.21.2020


REHEARSING THE TRUTH
• It is a

to us to rehearse and repeat and know deeply the truths that change our lives.
is the only basis and source of true and lasting joy.

SIGNS OF LIFE
The “true circumcision” are those whose

have been marked and changed by faith in the gospel.

  1. God brings people into his family by putting his

    in them.

  2. God’s new humanity are those who

    in Christ Jesus.

  3. Confidence in “the flesh” and confidence in Christ are

    -
    .

CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH
1. The advantages of

.
2. The advantages through effort, merit, skill and hard
work.

All the things Paul received, or worked for weren’t evil, but his

towards them was .

KNOWING CHRIST JESUS MY LORD
1. That he might “

Christ” = being “ in him.”
2. Paul’s life would take the of death and
resurrection.

THE HEART OF THE MATTER
1. Don’t

it.
2. Don’t it.
3. Don’t it.

TODAY’S PASSAGE

Philippians 3:1-11
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. 2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. 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— 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: 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 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.