Everything is lost without Christ, as John Piper made clear in his 2014 sermon title,

preparing to know Christ deeply through suffering.

There he addressed Philippians 3.8 where Paul says that we should count all things lost.

So how do we do this?

How do we count all things lost?

Here's a pastor, John, I had to say.

Jesus said Luke 14.33, no one of you can be my disciple who does not renounce all that

he has, period.

No one, I'll say to you, this is Luke 14.33, no one can be my disciple who does not renounce

all his possessions.

Now you've got clothes on, probably got a car out in the snowy parking lot, might have

an apartment or a house, and other possessions, you've got to have an iPhone or a computer,

so you own things.

And this text says you can't be a follower of Jesus if you don't renounce those, check

out different translations on that word, wouldn't that be the same as Paul saying count

them as lost?

So this is mine, right?

I think my wife bought it for me, this is mine, this is my coat of mine, this is my preaching

coat.

And I should count this as lost because of the surpassing value of knowing Jesus.

What would that mean, what would that mean practically, to regard everything in your life

as lost compared to Jesus, for the surpassing worth of knowing Jesus, and give you four

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