Practical Steps

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Practical Steps

• Philippians 3

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Freedom From Religious Bondages

• Phi 31 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the
  Lord. To write the same things to you is indeed
  not grievous to me, but for you it is safe.
• Phi 32 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers,
  beware of the concision party.
• Phi 33 For we are the circumcision who worship
  God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and
  have no confidence in the flesh
• Thought We are to be free from religious
  stuctures

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Freedom From Church Class Structure

• Phi 34 though I might also have confidence in
  the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason
  to trust in the flesh, I more.
• Phi 35 I was circumcised the eighth day, of the
  stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a
  Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, I was
  a Pharisee
• Phi 36 concerning zeal, persecuting the church
  regarding the righteousness in the Law,
  blameless.
• Thought Position and power are problems, not
  benefits

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Free to Have Right Priorities

• Phi 37 But whatever things were gain to me,
  those I counted loss for Christ.
• Phi 38 But no, rather, I also count all things
  to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of
  Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have
  suffered the loss of all things, and count them
  to be dung, so that I may win Christ
• Phi 39 and be found in Him not having my own
  righteousness, which is of the Law, but through
  the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by
  faith,
• Phi 310 that I may know Him and the power of
  His resurrection and the fellowship of His
  sufferings, being made conformable to His death
• Phi 311 if by any means I might attain to the
  resurrection of the dead.
• Thought We are free to pursue what is important!

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Jesus The Goal!

• Phi 312 Not as though I had already attained,
  either were already perfect, but I am pressing
  on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also
  was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
• Phi 313 My brothers, I do not count myself to
  have taken possession, but one thing I do,
  forgetting the things behind and reaching forward
  to the things before,
• Phi 314 I press toward the mark for the prize
  of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• Thought Where the prize, there your eyes!

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Free To Be Like Minded

• Phi 315 Let us therefore, as many as are
  perfect, be of this mind. And if in anything you
  are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this
  to you.
• Phi 316 Yet, as to what we have already
  attained, let us walk in the same rule, let us
  mind the same thing.
• Thought We can imitate those who imitate Christ.

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Free To Follow

• Phi 317 Brothers, be imitators together of me,
  and mark those who walk this way, for you have us
  for a pattern.
• Phi 318 (For many are walking, of whom I have
  told you often and now tell you even weeping, as
  the enemies of the cross of Christ
• Practical Daily Life as a Christian
• Phi 319 whose end is destruction, whose god is
  their belly, and whose glory is in their shame,
  those who mind earthly things.)
• Phi 320 For our citizenship is in Heaven, from
  which also we are looking for the Savior, the
  Lord Jesus Christ,
• Phi 321 who shall change our body of
  humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His
  glorious body, according to the working of His
  power, even to subdue all things to Himself.
• Thought Everyone has a destiny. Why not follow
  those whose destiny is in Christ!