Praise Adonai

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Priceless Gain of Knowing Jesus ChristPhil.
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Whatever happens, dear brothers and sisters, may
the Lord give you joy. I never get tired of
telling you this. I am doing this for your own
good. Watch out for those dogs, those wicked men
and their evil deeds, those mutilators who say
you must be circumcised to be saved. For we who
worship God in the Spirit are the only ones who
are truly circumcised. We put no confidence in
human effort. Instead, we boast about what Christ
Jesus has done for us.
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Yet I could have confidence in myself if anyone
could. If others have reason for confidence in
their own efforts, I have even more! For I was
circumcised when I was eight days old, having
been born into a pure-blooded Jewish family that
is a branch of the tribe of Benjamin. So I am a
real Jew if there ever was one! What's more, I
was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the
strictest obedience to the Jewish law.
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And zealous? Yes, in fact, I harshly persecuted
the church. And I obeyed the Jewish law so
carefully that I was never accused of any fault.
I once thought all these things were so very
important, but now I consider them worthless
because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything
else is worthless when compared with the
priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
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I have discarded everything else, counting it all
as garbage, so that I may have Christ and become
one with him. I no longer count on my own
goodness or my ability to obey God's law, but I
trust Christ to save me. For God's way of making
us right with himself depends on faith. As a
result, I can really know Christ and experience
the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I
can learn what it means to suffer with him,
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sharing in his death, so that, somehow, I can
experience the resurrection from the dead!
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Romans 228-29 - For you are not a true Jew just
because you were born of Jewish parents or
because you have gone through the Jewish ceremony
of circumcision. No, a true Jew is one whose
heart is right with God. And true circumcision is
not a cutting of the body but a change of heart
produced by God's Spirit. Whoever has that kind
of change seeks praise from God, not from people.
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Galations 615 - It doesn't make any difference
now whether we have been circumcised or not. What
counts is whether we really have been changed
into new and different people.
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Colossians 211-12 - When you came to Christ, you
were circumcised, but not by a physical
procedure. It was a spiritual procedure -- the
cutting away of your sinful nature. For you were
buried with Christ when you were baptized. And
with him you were raised to a new life because
you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised
Christ from the dead.
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Romans 718-25 - I know I am rotten through and
through so far as my old sinful nature is
concerned. No matter which way I turn, I can't
make myself do right. I want to, but I can't.
When I want to do good, I don't. And when I try
not to do wrong, I do it anyway. But if I am
doing what I don't want to do, I am not really
the one doing it the sin within me is doing it.
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It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to
do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
I love God's law with all my heart. But there is
another law at work within me that is at war with
my mind. This law wins the fight and makes me a
slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh,
what a miserable person I am! Who will free me
from this life that is dominated by sin?
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Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our
Lord. So you see how it is In my mind I really
want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful
nature I am a slave to sin.