Paul

1
Pauls Success

• 13Brethren, I count not myself to have
  apprehended but this one thing I do, forgetting
  those things which are behind, and reaching forth
  unto those things which are before,
• 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the
  high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Phil.
  313-14).

2
Pauls Success

• A Sense of Personal Unworthiness
• Quick to admit imperfections
• Not as though I had already attained, either were
  already perfect but I follow after, if that I
  may apprehend that for which also I am
  apprehended of Christ Jesus (Phil. 312).
• 26Therefore I do not run like one who runs
  aimlessly, or box like one who beats the air.
  27Instead, I discipline my body and bring it
  under strict control, so that after preaching to
  others, I myself will not be disqualified (1
  Cor. 926-27).

3
Pauls Success

• Must See and Correct Faults
• 22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,
  deceiving yourselves. 23For if anyone is a hearer
  of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
  observing his natural face in a mirror 24for he
  observes himself, goes away, and immediately
  forgets what kind of man he was. 25But he who
  looks into the perfect law of liberty and
  continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer
  but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed
  in what he does (Jas. 122-25).

4
Pauls Success

• Singleness of Purpose This one thing I do
  (Phil. 313).
• Divided Life A Weak Life
• But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would
  not defile himself with the portion of the kings
  delicacies (Dan. 18).
• he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his
  ways (Jas. 18).
• Now it came to pass, when the time had come for
  Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set
  His face to go to Jerusalem (Lk. 951).

5
Pauls Success

• Forgot the Past Forgetting those things which
  are behind (Phil. 313).
• No time to focus on the past
• But Jesus said to him, No one, having put his
  hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for
  the kingdom of God (Lk. 962).

6
Pauls Success

• Pressed Forward Toward the Goal
• I press toward the goal for the prize of the
  upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Phil. 314).
• Goal Revealed in the Scriptures
• Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so
  great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
  every weight, and the sin which so easily
  ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the
  race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus,
  the author and finisher of our faith, who for the
  joy that was set before Him endured the cross,
  despising the shame, and has sat down at the
  right hand of the throne of God (Heb. 121-2).