Living the Five
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READ PHILIPPIANS 3:4-8.<br />
If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in <strong>the</strong> flesh, I have<br />
more: circumcised on <strong>the</strong> eighth day, of <strong>the</strong> people of Israel, of <strong>the</strong> tribe of<br />
Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to <strong>the</strong> law, a Pharisee; as for zeal,<br />
persecuting <strong>the</strong> church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.<br />
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for <strong>the</strong> sake of Christ. What<br />
is more, I consider everything a loss compared to <strong>the</strong> surpassing greatness of<br />
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.<br />
1. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH?<br />
2. WHY DID PAUL LIST ALL HIS ACHIEVEMENTS? HOW MIGHT THIS HAVE<br />
AFFECTED HIS READERS?<br />
3. HOW WOULD PAUL’S RELIGIOUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS HAVE PROFITED<br />
HIM? WHY WOULD HE NOW CONSIDER THEM TO BE A LOSS?<br />
4. THE PHARISEES WERE AN ELITE SECT OF JUDAISM; THEIR NAME<br />
MEANS “THE SEPARATED ONES.” HOW DO THESE VERSES SHOW PAUL’S<br />
TRANSFORMATION FROM PHARISEE TO CHRIST FOLLOWER?<br />
5. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PAUL’S COMMENT THAT HE “COUNTS” ALL<br />
THESE THINGS AS LOSS? WERE THEY WRONG IN THEMSELVES?<br />
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