though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: PHILIPPIANS 3:4
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the Law, a Pharisee; PHILIPPIANS 3:5
as for zeal, persecuting the Church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. PHILIPPIANS 3:6
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. PHILIPPIANS 3:7
What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ PHILIPPIANS 3:8
and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. PHILIPPIANS 3:9
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in his death, PHILIPPIANS 3:10
and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. PHILIPPIANS 3:11
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. PHILIPPIANS 3:12
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, PHILIPPIANS 3:13
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 3:14
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. ROMANS 1:8
God, whom I serve with my whole heart in preaching the Gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you ROMANS 1:9
in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God s will the way may be opened for me to come to you. ROMANS 1:10
I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong ROMANS 1:11
that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other s faith. ROMANS 1:12
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. ROMANS 1:13
I am obligated both to Greeks and non-greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. ROMANS 1:14
That is why I am so eager to preach the Gospel also to you who are at Rome. ROMANS 1:15
I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. ROMANS 1:16
For in the Gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith. ROMANS 1:17
We see other believers with deep affection and appreciation. (8 13)
It causes us to praise them.
It causes us to praise them. It causes us to pray for them.
It causes us to praise them. It causes us to pray for them. It causes us to serve them.
I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. 2 CORINTHIANS 11:27
Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. 2 CORINTHIANS 11:28
It causes us to praise them. It causes us to pray for them. It causes us to serve them. It causes us to invest in them.
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, PHILIPPIANS 2:1
then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. PHILIPPIANS 2:2
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. PHILIPPIANS 2:3
Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. PHILIPPIANS 2:4
We see other people as equally needing to hear of salvation. (14 16)
We are compelled to proclaim the Gospel.
We are compelled to proclaim the Gospel. We are enlightened to look beyond human distinctions.
You will not be able to say, I am ready for His coming if you are not able to say, I am ready to do all in my power to preach the Gospel where it is needed. ALVA J. McCLAIN
Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel! 1 CORINTHIANS 9:16b
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the Gospel to every lost person this side of hell. DAVID PLATT
We see the righteousness of God as His gift and our lifeline. (16,17)
The Gospel is the only power to save us.
People nowadays tend to regard evangelism as an optional extra and consider (if they are engaged in it) that they are conferring a favour on God
Paul spoke of it as an obligation. The modern mood is one of reluctance; Paul s was one of eagerness or enthusiasm. JOHN STOTT
The Gospel s power is boundless and boundaried. It is for everyone. It is for everyone who believes. TIM KELLER
The Gospel is the only power to save us. Faith is the required response to the Gospel.
Faith is not (primarily) agreement with a set of doctrines but trust in a person believing is not something we do but is always a response, an accepting of the gift God holds out to us in His grace. DOUGLAS MOO
I took [Romans 1:17] to mean that righteousness whereby God is righteous and deals righteously in punishing the unrighteous
Then I grasped that the righteousness of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us by faith
Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise I broke through! MARTIN LUTHER
The debt of the Gospel can be a delight when we realize we ve been released from our greatest debt, the fruit of our sin.
To be touched by the Gospel is to be transformed by the Gospel.