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Excerpted from: The One ThingThe one thing God wants more than anything is the one thing we need the most: daily sacrifices that put to death our human nature and self-focus. Brethren, God never asks us to sacrifice anything that is not for our own good. Paul tells us in Philippians that we must reframe sacrifice as an investment. Paul tells us in Philippians 3:8-9 that he counted all things as loss. Not just as loss, actually as rubbish, he says, that he may gain Christ in the righteousness of God through faith.
Brethren, we too must reframe sacrifices as investments. We must count all things loss as Jesus commands in Luke 14:26 and Matthew 16:24-25, and as Paul exhorts right here in Philippians, we must be ready to sacrifice everything to follow and imitate Jesus Christ, so that we can have fellowship with His sufferings. Fellowship with His sacrifice is what Paul is saying, so that we then can be conformed to His death. Sacrifice is not just the one thing, sacrifice is everything.
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Excerpted from: Faith (Part Three)The excellence of the knowledge of Christ...Moses did what he did because he sifted the evidence that was available to him, and he considered the evidence that God gave him—that is, the Word of God—as being of greater value to him than what he could see with his eyes. Now look at what Paul says in verse 8, "the excellence of the knowledge of Christ." The knowledge of Christ is contained for you and me in the Word of God. Paul's was a little more direct. Christ spoke to him directly and there was that fantastic miracle that took place, but nonetheless this Christ spoke to him and began the process of enlightening his mind in the true way that he should interpret and understand the Old Testament and all the prophecies that were there. Therefore the excellence of the knowledge of Christ also was contained in the word of God.
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