God is the of joy Joy: deep abiding sense that your future is even when your today is Righteousness is a that’s to God Philippians 3:2 – Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. people are Philippians 3:3 – For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh One problem with is that making you more like doesn’t make you a Philippians 3:4 – though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. “The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.” – John Gerstner I Philippians 3:5-6 –If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Philippians 3:7-8 – But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ Our are You’ve got the Philippians 3:9-10a – and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith — that I may know him… Phillippians 3:10b-11 - ...and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. people have Living in begins with to ourselves