If you have the Bible and I hope you do, the beauty of the gospel is the God has saved us.

He's freed us from the power and the penalty of sin.

He's put us in Christ who's now our life.

So we've got to get to surrender our lives.

Our lives are yours and we're your servants.

It's not radical version of Christianity.

This is biblical Christianity. It's what it means to be a follower of Christ.

We don't call the shots. He calls the shots.

The Radical Together Podcast, we're teaching from David Platt.

Welcome back to a new episode of the Radical Together Podcast. And if you're new to the podcast, you can listen to all the previous episodes at radical.net,

or by subscribing on iTunes. Now today we continue with the fourth and final part

of David's series from Philippians chapter 3 entitled Don't Waste Your Life.

The Treasure Christ and the trust Christ.

Third characteristic of many women whose lives count for the glory of Christ in the landscape of human

history.

They pursue Christ with obsessive passion.

Here's where it gets really good.

In verse 12, he says that I haven't already obtained this,

I haven't been made perfect, we'll get to that in a second, but he said,

I press on to take hold of that for which

Christ she just took hold of me. That word press on, interestingly, is the same word that's

used up in verse six when it says, for zeal persecuting the church. That word persecuting

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