Wednesday, January 29, 2012
Pastor Matt McFarland
Open your Bible and follow along.
Verses referenced in this teaching:
Philippians 3:12-13 12Not 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.
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,
1 Corinthians 10:12 12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Galatians 6:3 3For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Philippians 3:12-13 12Not 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.
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,
Hebrews 12:1-2 1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2Looking 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 is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Philippians 3:14 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:6-7 6For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Philippians 3:15-16 15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
If we are to succeed in Christ we have to run the race His way. -Pastor Matt McFarland.