Following Paul’s Example

Philippians 3:15-21 

  All of us, then, who are mature  should take such a view of things.  And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.    Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

    Join together in following my example,  brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.    For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears,  many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.    Their destiny  is destruction, their god is their stomach,  and their glory is in their shame.  Their mind is set on earthly things.    But our citizenship  is in heaven.  And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,    who, by the power  that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies  so that they will be like his glorious body.

Questions of Jesus

. On Discernment

Mark 8:27

Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”

Mark 8:29

“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

 Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”

Luke 9:18

Once when Jesus was praying  in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say I am?”

Ways to Holiness

. By Christ’s Blood

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light,  as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

. Trough the Holy Spirit

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And we also thank God continually  because, when you received the word of God,  which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.

[Message No: 7891]