Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

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1 choose this day whom you will serve but as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15 Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

2 The Mexican Wave Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

3 The Message of Philippians Joy, Even in Affliction Chapter 1 The joy in suffering Chapter 2 The joy in serving Chapter 3 The joy in believing and obeying Chapter 4 The joy in giving Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

4 The Vertical Self : Mark Sayers Page 10, 19

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7 Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation 12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

8 15 Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind; and if you think differently about anything, this too God will reveal to you. 16 Only let us hold fast to what we have attained. 17 Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us. 18 For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears. 19 Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.

9 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 21 He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself. 4 1 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved. (Philippians 3:12 4:1)

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11 6 Goals for Growth Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

12 6 Goals for Growth 1. Pursue the Worthiest Ambition Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

13 6 Goals for Growth 1. Pursue the Worthiest Ambition 2. Run a Focused Race Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

14 6 Goals for Growth 1. Pursue the Worthiest Ambition 2. Run a Focused Race 3. Be Consumed By a Heavenly Call Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

15 6 Goals for Growth 1. Pursue the Worthiest Ambition 2. Run a Focused Race 3. Be Consumed By a Heavenly Call 4. Hold Fast to What You Have Attained Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

16 6 Goals for Growth 1. Pursue the Worthiest Ambition 2. Run a Focused Race 3. Be Consumed By a Heavenly Call 4. Hold Fast to What You Have Attained 5. Be of Godly Imitation Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

17 6 Goals for Growth 1. Pursue the Worthiest Ambition 2. Run a Focused Race 3. Be Consumed By a Heavenly Call 4. Hold Fast to What You Have Attained 5. Be of Godly Imitation 6. Be Called to a Heavenly Citizenship Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

18 Run to Win 1. Don t let successes get in our way 2. In spite of fatigue, suffering and discouragement. 3. Accept imperfection ironically it sustains us. 4. Run our race and nobody else s. Not letting others run for us. 5. Run knowing that there is only first place. 6. Focus on the right models so we will run well. Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

19 Prayer LORD, I pray for.. He/she would run his/her race, focused always on the goal, to get his/her prize. AMEN. Pressing on toward the Goal of our Salvation

20 With this glorious prize in mind namely, the blessings of everlasting life; such as perfect wisdom, joy, holiness, peace, fellowship, all enjoyed to the glory of God, in a marvellously restored universe, and in the company of Christ and of all the saints Paul is pressing on toward the goal. WILLIAM HENDRIKSEN ( ) Conceiving the Heavenly Prize

21 choose this day whom you will serve but as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15

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25 Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 29:23 A person s pride will bring humiliation, but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.