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I Also Count All Things Loss – Admonition 169

In Admonition Podcast by Web Administrator

Scripture:

Philippians 3:8 – Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

Transcript:

And now, Admonition, brought to you by the Collierville Church of Christ.

We read in Paul’s letter to the church at Philippi. Yet indeed. I also count all things lost for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ.

Paul emphasizes as he sits in a Roman prison that he has lost everything he had in a physical sense. All of his possessions are gone. He’s in prison. But he’d give it all up again. He counts it as rubbish. He counts it as nothing… Having obtained Christ. What would you pay for the excellence of the knowledge of Jesus Christ? You might have to give everything. Would you give it?

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