Post by VR on Jun 24, 2016 5:32:32 GMT
EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 50 of 66 | PHILIPPIANS 3 | Signpost Words | ‘WAR’
Some Observations |
There is a pattern, there is a die, there is a mold of Christian leadership, and the apostles and those of Paul in particular are that pattern. They walk by Spirit led rules, are kept on track by Scripture led boundaries, and are, to all who follow them both ensamples and examples. BEWARE! For not to walk according to this pattern will lead to those same selfish, self-serving, and self-delighting Mavericks becoming enemies of the cross of Christ.
A Call To Action |
Are your thoughts heavenward of earthward? Are your thoughts on the ‘here and the now,’ or on the age to come? Are you waiting for your pension, or waiting and watching for Christ’s return?
Highlight Verses | Philippians 3:13-21
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 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: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame — who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, NKJV
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 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: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame — who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, NKJV
There is a pattern, there is a die, there is a mold of Christian leadership, and the apostles and those of Paul in particular are that pattern. They walk by Spirit led rules, are kept on track by Scripture led boundaries, and are, to all who follow them both ensamples and examples. BEWARE! For not to walk according to this pattern will lead to those same selfish, self-serving, and self-delighting Mavericks becoming enemies of the cross of Christ.
A Call To Action |
Are your thoughts heavenward of earthward? Are your thoughts on the ‘here and the now,’ or on the age to come? Are you waiting for your pension, or waiting and watching for Christ’s return?