PRESSING ON!
Philippians 3:13-14
Philippians 3:13-14 (King James Version)
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
3 Reasons to press on....
I. FOR THE PRAISE THAT BELONGS TO GOD
¨ Philippians 3:3 (King James Version)
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
¨ attending church services
¨ praying
¨ thinking of God
¨ being baptized
¨ joining a church
¨ theses kind of things are not worship but are the results of worship
A. The basis of our worship is the Spirit of God, and the spirit of worship is the Spirit of God
B. worshiping God is inwardly through the Spirit of God who lives within us
C. the flesh can deceive you
¨ John 4:24 (King James Version)
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
II. FOR THE PEOPLE WITHOUT THE LORD
¨ Philippians 3:18-19 (King James Version)
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
A. live for god that others may see your faith is true
B. look at the condition
1. weeping-SHAME-WORLDLY
C. WHOSE END IS DESTRUCTION
III. FOR THE PRIZE THAT LIES BEFORE US
¨ Philippians 3:14 (King James Version)
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
¨ THE MARK THE FINISH LINE
¨ Philippians 3:20-21 (King James Version)
20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.