Hey, church family, if you got your Bibles, hope you do, we're going to continue in Philippians

chapter 3. We're going to pick it up in verse 10 again. I think I read it yesterday, but let's do it again.

Before we dive in, what Paul is going to be talking about in 10 through 16 is sanctification.

Okay, sanctification. Salvation is a multi-layered process and experience.

Okay? And what Paul just laid out in chapter three versus one through nine, which we covered

yesterday, essentially what he was talking about is justification. A way to remember

what it means to be justified. This isn't complete in its definition, but it's a good enough way.

That is that when you put your faith in Jesus Christ, when you believe when Jesus died on the

cross, that counted for me, when you surrender your life to the Lordship of Jesus

Christ, then in that moment, you are justified. Now, whether you can remember when that moment

happened or not, there was some moment in your life where that happened in a moment. You can't

gradually ease your way into justification. That's not how it happened. Now, my testimony, I can remember

the exact moment. If we could get my truck, I could drive you to the exact place I was standing

when my justification happened when I put my faith in Christ. And a part of the reason is just

my background. I was really bad and I didn't grow up in church. So I know that moment where I surrendered my life to Christ. My wife cannot remember that moment,

but she grew up really good. And she grew up going to church. And she can't ever remember a moment where she didn't have faith in God.

But it's not remembering that moment that saves you.

It's her current posture to her Lord and Savior that saves her, okay?

But there was a moment at some point where she crossed over from death to life.

So that's called justification.

And to be justified means that when Christ died on the cross for you,

if you put your faith in him, it's just if I'd never sin. According to God's view of you,

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