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Welcome to the Word of the Lord Endures Forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

But what does he mean by what lies behind?

I think given the context we've been pondering, it refers to his whole life of trying to keep the law in order to establish his own righteousness.

That's the past that he's forever consigning to oblivion, the past where he thought he could make God his debtor and deserve to inherit the kingdom,

deserve to be raised from the dead, where he could merit eternal life by his own obedience

to the law of God.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present. Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Philippians.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you

all. Amen. Greetings, people, loved by God. So I recall last time that we had reached a particularly

beautiful part of this epistle, St. Paul, reflecting on what he now had in Christ,

and comparing that to the righteousness that was his achievement under the law,

realized that his own righteousness was, well, less than useless.

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