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Philippians chapter 3, verses 7 through 11.

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. For his sake, I have suffered the loss of all

things, and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him,

not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through

faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith, that I may know Him in the power of His resurrection,

and may share His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, that by any means possible, I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

This is such a great passage. There's so much in here, the big picture.

I want to encourage you with today and lead us to pray according to,

is this reality that everything is lost compared to the surpassing worth of knowing Jesus as Lord? Like Paul says, I've suffered the loss of all things and I

count them as rubbish. The word he uses there is basically dung in order that I may gain Christ

and be found in him. He just took all the things of this world, even good things in this world.

Many of the things he listed right before this in Philippians chapter 3 are good things.

And Paul just said, they all together are dung compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Jesus, of being in Jesus, united with Jesus

now and forever into the future.

That's the big picture point.

I just want to encourage you.

I don't know all that you're walking through. I don't know what challenges you're enduring,

but I want to encourage you in a fresh way.

If you are a follower of Jesus, you have Jesus.

You have Jesus.

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