Philippians 3:12-16

In this passage Paul sets before us a tremendous challenge. It is neither complicated nor impossible, but it is a challenge.Paul wants us all to know that none of us have fully apprehended nor will any of us fully apprehend all the God has apprehended us for until we get to heaven. Yet our supreme desire must be, to be all that God has called us to be for His glory alone. We do this by not living on past accomplishments. Rather, we reach ahead and press on to the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. The only way this will happen is if we hear God's word, we know God's word and we live in total obedience to Jesus and His word regardless of cost or consequence.

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12 Not 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.

13 Brethren, 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,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Let 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.

16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

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