07/30/19 PAUL WENT THROUGH PURIFYING FIRE

07/30/19 PAUL WENT THROUGH PURIFYING FIRE
 
If you don't seek (with tears and brokenness) God's transforming work, He will hunt you down. Better to surrender than be chased.

(* I inserted line breaks to emphasize points)

Philippians 3:7-17
* 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

* 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

* 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

*11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

*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.

* 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

* 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.