Philippians (Week 09) - Confidence (Philippians 3:1-11)

Philippians 3:1-11 (NIV) 1 Finally, my brothers, 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 men who do evil, those mutilators of the
flesh. 3 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– 4
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. 7 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, 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. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his
resurrection 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.

1. Beware outside

2. Silence the

3. Listen to the

The main point: Confidence comes from