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! I. /10 “[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him,” /
!! A. “To know” (V 10) means “to know by experience” It also has to do with a sense of intimacy, learn to know, come to know.
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The noun (gnōseōs) is used in verse 8.
The “surpassing greatness of knowing Christ” is now elaborated in verses 10-11.
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!! B. V 10 b Says, “…Perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly],”
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He goes on to say in verse 10c “And that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers],”
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To experience the power of His resurrection was also the apostle’s goal.
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!!! 2. (Rom 8:11) Says, /“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”/
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!!!! a) What has it done for us?
Col 2:13-15
!!!! b) (Rom 8:37) Says, “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”
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!!!! c) (2 Cor 2:14a) says, “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ”*[5]*
!!! 3. Paul wanted to know “The power which brought Christ forth from the dead now operates in every believers since they have been “raised with Christ” (Col.
3:1).
!!!! a) “Power” dynamis,/ /also used in Acts 1:8; *[6]*
!!!! b) It is the miracle working power of God, and Paul wanted to see and to know this power, But it wasn’t appointed to them.
!!!! c) For this great power is going to take place in the last days which we now live.
!!!! d) The church of the Lord Jesus Christ is going to see the power of God like never before.
!!!! e) Miracles are going to start happening in you home, in your work place, in the market place.
!! D. Finally at the end of verse 10d paul says, “and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]
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/11 That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body]./
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*12 Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) /and/ make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me /and/ made me His own.*
*13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured /and/ made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,*
*14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.*
*15 So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature /and/ full-grown have this mind /and/ hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also.*
* 16 Only let us hold true to what we have already attained and walk and order our lives by that.
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*I.*
There are *2 things* (from Verses 13 & 14) that I want you to *notice about* this *passage* *Paul wrote* to the *Church at Philippi*:
*A.*
*1st* Paul said, *“Forgetting those things which are behind,”*
*B.*
And the *2nd* thing he said was *“Reaching forth unto those things which are before.”*
*1.*
*Before* you can *go on with God*, you *must forget about* the *past*.
*a.*
*Paul*, who *once* was *Saul of Tarsus*, *had to forget* about *his past* as a *persecutor of Christians* *in order to minister effectively.*
*i.*
Just a *little side thought* about that but *not only* did *Paul** have to **forgive himself*, *but* the *Christian world had to forgive him**.*
*2.*
Let's *look at something* that *Paul wrote* about himself *to Timothy*.
*a.* *1TIM 1:11-16 *
*b.*
*Paul had to forgive himself* *before he can step out and do* *what the Lord wanted Him to do*.
*But also*, *from these Verses* *we see that the Lord also forgive Paul* *and* *counted him faithful and put him in the ministry*.
*3.*
The *Word* of God *tells us* that *Paul* *or Saul* was *present at the stoning of Stephen*.
*a.* *Stephen* was *appointed* *one of the seven* to oversee the *daily ministration* of the people.
Really, he was one of the *1st deacons* of the Church.
*b.* *Acts 6:1-13*
*i.*
Most *definitely,* this was a *man of God*.
*4.*
In *(ACTS 7)* we find that *Stephen* was *stoned* and *Saul was there*.
*a.*
*ACTS 7:58*
*i.*
But *not only* was *Saul there*, he was *also consenting to it*.
*b.*
*ACTS 8:1*
*C.*
Even in this *same chapter,* we can see some *more* things *about Paul* that the HS inspires Luke to write.
*1.*
*ACTS 8:3*
*2.*
*ACTS 9:1-2*
*II.*
*Thank God for the Mercy of God.*
*A.*
*I don't think* that *we understand* fully *the Mercy of God*.
*1.*
Look at *GEN 18:20-32*
*a.*
*Look at* the *Mercy of the Lord*.
*He would not destroy* the *most wicked city* *for* the sake of *ten righteous*.
*i.*
I believe that *if Abraham would have asked* the *Lord* to *spare* the *city **for 1 righteous*.
The *Lord would have said*, *“If 1 shall be found there, I will not destroy it for one's sake.”*
*b.*
But *if you know the story* *God did destroy the city*.
*i.*
*Abraham stopped at 10*, because he *thought* that there *must be at least 10 righteous* in Sodom.
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But *he was mistaken*; there was *only 4* righteous in all of the city.
*c.*
But *God's mercy was still great*.
*i.*
*GEN 19:1,* Look at what the *angel said* in *V 12-13.
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*ii.*
Go down to *V 15-16, 24-26*
*iii.*
*God would have saved the city for only 10 righteous*, but *only 4 were found* so the *city was destroyed*.
But *God* in Him great mercy *saved the righteous* from destruction.
*B.*
Look at *DEUT 4:31*
*1.*
Even though *there will be a great destruction on* this *earth during* the *tribulation*, *God will not forsake you*, He will *not destroy you*, and He will *not forget His covenant *that He has *with you*.
*2.*
*EXO 20:6*
*a.*
*Some translations add* the word *“generations”* here.
And it *could mean that but* I *also see* from the Word of God *that many unrighteous* are going to *reap benefits **because of the righteous*.
*C.*
*Thank God for His Mercy*.
His *mercy* is *far greater* then we ever thought.
*1.*
*If God had mercy on Paul* then he *surly* will *have mercy on us* when we blow it.
*a.* *Don't beat yourself over the head **for your recent or past **failures*.
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