Jesus + (Philippians 3:1-11)
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Good morning my name is Chad I'm one of the pastors here grab your Bibles and go to to Philippians chapter 3 uh if you don't own a Bible uh or don't have one with you this morning there should be a blue one in the seat in front of you it's on page 571 if you don't own a Bible take that one home with you we want you to own a Bible uh we're working our way through the book of Philippians.
When you have children there are things that you have to warn them about and then there are things that you you don't have to warn them about there are things that they're naturally scared of um so you might have a kid and you don't really have to warn them about Heights because they're afraid of heights you might be somewhere and there's like a dog pulling against the chain and barking aggressively you don't have to look at your kid and go hey don't pet that dog like they got it they they can tell that that's something they shouldn't mess with it seems scary.
But then there are other things that don't seem dangerous that are like watch batteries and the outlets that are against the wall at you know infant height um for them to to mess with there are certain things like I I've got a son who has an egg allergy and I've had to take pains to help him understand that there are some things that are dangerous to him you know I've had to look at him and be like oh is that a cookie does it.
Look delicious were your little friends eating it yeah that will kill you you think this is nice this isn't nice this is evil you know like good parenting stuff um this past week I handed him some food he's six I handed to him I said try this and he went does it have egg in it and I was like oh we've first of all I should have checked and I was like probably not but let me go look um but well done like he he's got it he understands this things that don't seem dangerous can be dangerous and we've had to use some aggressive language to try to help him understand that.
Because he wasn't going to pick it up on his own Paul is going to issue an aggressive warning in this text he's going to put some aggressive language to a warning and it's to something that actually could seem fine it's to something that might could creep into how you relate to the Lord mik could creep into your understanding of Christianity and it could seem okay and it can be disastrous and so Paul uses some aggressive language to help warn us and warn the Church in Philippi against this.
And so let's go we're in chapter three we're going to start in verse one finally my brothers now that finally there just like any good preachers in conclusion doesn't really mean finally uh it's it's it's like one you know like the sermon has three points but each point has three points and you just like smuggle them in there it's like that when he says finally really what he means is like to the rest to this next concept and he's not really concluding the letter yet.
And so he's turning to the next thing finally my brothers rejoice in the Lord to write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you that verse to look out uh to write the same things to you sorry the back half of verse one to write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you is he's going to repeat himself something he's already told the Philippian Church he's saying doesn't bother me to repeat this and it's good.
For you to hear it again that's what he's talking about but that rejoice in the Lord is not just a throwaway statement it's the heading for all the stuff we're about to read he's calling us to Joy in Christ to Joy in the Lord to Celebration and rejoicing in the Lord and that in the Lord is very important it's not just hey Rejoice it's it's Anchored In Jesus and so he says rejoice in the lord it's a little bit like if your parent had walked in the house and said hey you need to celebrate your sister we you need to you need to congratulate her the thing you say is why what like you there's.
More to this like what what is it and he says rejoice in the Lord and now he's about to help us see where this Joy is found and one of the things we're going to see is that this Joy is actually at risk because he's about to give them a warning this joy that we have in the Lord is at risk because he says this finally my brothers rejoice in the Lord to write the same things to you is no trouble.
For me and is safe for you verse two look out for the dogs look out for the evildoers look out for those who mutilate the flesh yeah if those people exist let's look out for them they sound awful look out for the dogs look out for the evildoers look out for those who mutilate the flesh that's some aggressive language and it's also I told you he was going to give us a warning but it's a bit jarring where it comes in the text rejoice in the.
Lord what look out for the dogs look out for the evildoers look out for those who mutilate the flesh hey we we're going to celebrate your sister tonight why what happened there's a roving band of lunatics murdering people in the City what was she a part of the band I have so many questions did she stop them so he says rejoice in the Lord and then he gives this aggressive warning so we ought to want to know who these people are who are the dogs who are the evildoers who are those who mutilate the flesh what is he talking about.
Well his next sentence tells us look out for the dogs look out for the evildoers look out for those who mutilate the flesh for we are the circumcision and then he goes on to explain how we're the circumcision but that phrase for we are the circumcision is key to understanding who he's talking about it's it's odd but that let's focus on that phrase for a second for we are the circumcision it's it feels like what what is he's all over the place.
But if you understand the context this makes sense there's also a play of play on words here in the Greek uh mutilate the flesh is the Greek word catat and circumcision is the word perome so catat means to chop up to to mutilate to chop off parom means circumcision which is a very delicate form of cutting very different from katat but what he's saying here is that there are those who are coming along there was a group of people who were coming to the Christian Church and saying that they needed to partake in the Old Testament Jewish rights to belong to Abraham.
So that the the sign of circumcision was given to Abraham and that was what marked them as the Covenant people that was what told them they were in and then they were given the law to Moses was given to the law and so they had circumcision in the law and that was what marked them as belonging to God and so when he says we're the circumcision what he's saying is we're the ones who belong to God and specifically those who are coming by and telling you you need Jes.
Jesus and circumcision you need Jesus and to follow the law you need Jesus and Judaism to be saved he says no they're not in we're in what they're doing is a mutilation it's a catat it's not a parat it's not bringing you in it's not helping you belong to God it's actually messing it up it's tearing it up that's what he's communicating so there was a group of people coming along and saying yes you need Jesus but you also now have to be Jewish you have to practice the Jewish law you have to be circumcised you have to follow the festivals you have to follow the dietary restrictions you have to follow the sabbaths you.
Have to do all of these things to actually be in this is something we see in the book of Acts it comes before the Church and they say no that's not how it works you just need Jesus so that's the point he's making when he says we're the circumcision he's saying we're the ones who are in but he's going to explain what he's talking about here in a second but when he's saying this y'all this this still exists there's still those who will come along and say you need.
Jesus and something else there's actually those who will still say this exact thing you need Jesus and Judaism when we were meeting at Glen Forest school and renting space there was another group there that was meeting called the gates to Zion and they had Jesus and they practiced the Jewish festivals and the Jewish sabbaths and they had all these Jewish I don't know if they followed the dietary I don't know what they did but they basically were saying that you needed.
Jesus plus Judaism that sort of idea still exists but it exists in a lot of other ways too anything added to Jesus so this can be Jesus and but the real ones the real ones know the real ones who are in on it know that you need Jesus and this sort of political activism that's the real Christians or you need Jesus and this sort of Church structure Jesus and this type of myology this type of Miss Focus this type of service you need.
Jesus and this type of marriage this type of child raising you need Jesus and homeschooling you need Jesus and anything else that adds to it there's a lady in our community group who's come out of a menite background and it was Jesus yes but you need to be menite you need to practice it in these ways and then it becomes more about being menite than about Jesus it's anything that someone comes along and says yes okay Jesus sure but you really need this you can get on YouTube and you can find all kinds of versions of this message yeah yeah.
But the real stuff is here you got to know how to do the Bible math and then we can figure out when Jesus is coming back there's Secrets hidden here we got to get in here the real people know and they're in on what you really need to worry about is this you got to have this you got to have this thing and so it's not you need Jesus it's you oh yeah Jesus but you also really need this and Paul says no and it's tempting and in some ways it prays on something that we have which is this General desire to be in I don't want to mess this up I really want to.
Follow Jesus and when someone comes along and says you're missing something you don't want to be missing something so you say what what is it and they can make some compelling arguments at times but y'all the Bible isn't hasn't set out to trick us and to only let a secret group in the Bible is very clear you need Jes Jesus and that's what Paul says for we are the circumcision who worship by the spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh that's who's in that's what Paul says not them and their added adherence to the to the Jewish regulations.
But those who worship by the spirit of God meaning the spirits that work in us are service is through his work in us what he's accomplished and what he's accomplishing in us it's not through our adherence to the law or our morality it's something that the spirit is doing in us and then it says and we glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh the flesh being ourselves our ability to be moral so it's possible it's your first time hanging out with our Church or the.
First time you've been around a Church in a while and your general picture of what Christianity is is the Bible has some rules do the rules you're messed up get it together chip chop and you'll say things to yourself like you know I would you hear people say this all the time I would come back around Church but I got some stuff I got to straighten out first putting some confidence in the flesh but Paul says that's not who's in that's not how it works it's not about putting confidence in flesh it's glory in Christ my my wife and I won tickets to a Braves game and we went we were at the Braves game.
And we uh saw ay guy wearing a a McHugh Jersey he was sitting in front of us and he had McHugh on his jersey now if you're not a Braves fan you don't know who Colin McHugh is but if you are a Braves fan you also don't know who Colin mchu is you'd have to be like really really a Braves fan to know who Colin m is we just thought probably that guy's last name like spent some extra money pretends he's on the team um we're in the middle of the game and they're struggling and they swap out pictures at like the.
Third or fourth inning and they send out calling me Q he's a real person he's going to come in and Pitch one of these like middle Innings and when that happens there's a guy behind us who starts going hey mugh Jersey M Jersey hey you at the M Jersey and finally the guy turns around he goes do you know him and that guy says yes because that's the only person who wants a mchu jersey someone who knows McHugh they went to school together.
So I don't know Kyu but I did see a guy who does know Kyu one time what Paul's saying is when we glory in something we we put the winners on the Jersey we put who we're proud of on the Jersey you'll see Maddox jerseys and glavin jerseys and Jones jerseys and aunia jerseys you'll see those but we put who we're proud of that goes on the Jersey that's the jersey that sells and what Paul is saying is it just says.
Jesus it doesn't have your last name it doesn't have your little Club it doesn't have your little bonus thing that you want it just it just says Jesus we glory in Christ and we put no confidence here that's the point Paul's getting at so if you're part of something if you're listening to some teaching online if you've been a part of a Church you're coming out of a Church or you're trying right now to figure out what Church to belong to here's the thing I want to help you understand what are they excited about what are they proclaiming what are they pointing you to.
And if it's not Jesus get out if it's not highlighting his glory and his goodness and his salvation and his hope and his kingship if it's about something else if they say yes we worship Jesus but then all they talk to you is about your morality or your ability to do this certain thing or for you to be this type of wife or this type of mother or this type of husband or this type of Citizen or this type of whatever and it's not about.
Jesus and it's not about his glory and at the end of the day when you walk out there you're going to walk out with some Jersey that says something other than Christ get out that's what Paul's saying we we put no confidence in the flesh and then he's going to do something kind of weird he says we have no confidence there and then he says but I do watch verse four though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also what here's what he's doing he he doesn't want these people coming along to say.
Well of course Paul of course Peter doesn't want to you to practice Judaism Peter was awful at it he was a fisherman he does know anything of course these ragtag disciples they they they're teaching these things but you need Jesus and you need this extra thing and Paul says y'all I can I can whip anybody's tail on the court of Judaism like I I'm the best Jewish man you could find that's what Paul's doing he's about to say I have more Jewish credentials than they do and I'm telling you it's not worth it that's what he's doing here are his Jewish credentials.
If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh I have more circumcised on the eighth day not late as an adult after I decided to do this no I was born Jewish on the and I was circumcised on the right day of the people of Israel of The Tribe of Benjamin if you join Judaism late you just get to belong to the people of Israel but you don't have a tribe he says I have a tribe I can trace my lineage back he says a Hebrew of Hebrews which is either restating that he belongs it's like another way of saying I'm Tribe of Benjamin in Israel.
So I'm a Hebrew of Hebrews but it's also quite possible what he means is I speak Hebrew because there were a lot of those who were a part of the people of Israel who were in the helenistic Roman Empire who only spoke Greek so he says I'm a Hebrew Hebrew as to the law a Pharisee so if you if you're familiar with the gospels the Pharisees are the ones who would call fouls all the time on everybody they'd walk around and be like ah you're doing that wrong you're not following the rules right they do this to.
Jesus all the time and his disciples it's like anytime Jesus did something it was like Pharisees appeared out of nowhere and were like wrong uh non-stop they would tithe out of Jesus at one point says you tithe out of your spice rack like you take 10% like they were really focused on the minutia of the law but they had missed the point he says I was a Pharisee I was the best lawkeeper I was great at it as to Zeal was I like a like a lazy Pharisee no I was a persecutor of the Church how many people have you arrested.
For Judaism how many executions have you overseen that's what Paul's saying I was getting after it as to righteousness under the law blameless I perfectly followed adherence to the law now he doesn't mean righteousness before God Paul's very clear he didn't have that what he's saying is if it's about following these rules I was great at it verse seven but whatever gain I had so that's his confidence in the flesh that's his resume that's his history he said whatever gain I had I counted as loss.
For the sake of Christ he said I realized that all of this just stood in the way of me following Jesus that if I wanted Jesus I needed just Jesus I didn't need a resume I didn't need something that put glory in me I needed the glory to be in Christ and so it's a loss I got rid of it it's a waste indeed I count everything as lost because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord y'all Paul says I had more credentials than they have I have more credentials than they're trying to give you and I I got rid of it.
Because it stands in the way of Jesus either he gets the glory or we do Jesus doesn't share Glory it's either about his greatness or us and Paul says I realized I I didn't have greatness I didn't have goodness I didn't have anything so I got rid of it so that I could have Christ and the surpassing worth of knowing him and Paul has better credentials than you both in his Jewish credentials and in his Christian credentials he's out Christian to you.
If there was a score chart planted a bunch of churches suffered for the name of Christ he's been I mean he listed in other places beaten Shipwrecked like what have you what all these things that are for Christ all these things that he's done and Paul doesn't list that as a thing he just says none of that matters he actually says it really aggressively for his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ that word rubbish is.
Well attested to be a an exploitive in Greek it also is a technical word that has a right place that's not an expletive but it's an aggressive word and so Paul here is saying it's filth it's garbage it's trash it's the stuff you scrape off your shoe that's what he's talking about this word here is an aggressive word now that doesn't give us license to just use whatever words we want to use all the time there are other places that say watch how you speak Paul's being very pointed and very intentional here and he's using a word that does have a technically right use.
But it's an aggressive word what Paul says is my whole resume was garbage my whole resume needed to be hosed off my boots before I could go inside now I don't know what you think your resume is but you got to understand it fits in that category it doesn't hold weight compared to the glory of Christ and his work on our behalf now I think it's helpful for us to try to understand where can this creep in where can it show up that we're actually doing this and I'm going to try to give us some help with that in a moment.
But I want us to see something Paul says in verse 9 verse 80 says indeed I count everything as lost Lo because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ verse n and be found in him Paul says I just want Jesus and I just want to be in him positionally I want to belong to Jesus there's a mental picture that really helps me with this it's going to take me a.
Second to make sure on the same page but it's the idea of having a champion in battle there's some historical attestation to this that they would have Champions who would fight on behalf of their whole Army the the biblical picture we have of this the story that we have is David and Goliath Goliath stands and he says he represents the whole Philistine Army he's their champion and then he says send forth your Champion now Goliath is a giant 10 feet tall his spear is massive his shield is massive like he's massive and he says send forth your Champion.
If I win philistia wins and you're our servants if your Champion wins then Israel wins and we're your servants but he's got the whole Army in him he represents the whole thing and the champion that's going to come forth represents so you've got two armies encamped only one Champion's coming forward David comes forward for the Israelites and he wins but all the hopes and all the glory and all the the the whole battle rest on does David accomplish this that's what Paul's talking about Paul says I want to be in.
Jesus I want his victory to be my victory I want him winning to be me winning I want him his righteousness to be my righteousness I it's all on Jesus he gets all the glory what's at stake here is our joy and Christ's Glory he gets the glory we get the joy we get to just stand and watch as he walks towards the battle and if he wins we win well Jesus Christ goes to the cross and he takes our punishment and our debt.
For our sin and Jesus Christ rises again do you know how loud you would have shouted when you saw Goliath fall and David run over and chop his head off and hold it above his hands you know how excited you would be you hadn't shouted that loud at a baseball game I'm telling you you haven't been that excited for your football team you haven't you haven't had a moment like that that you would have been I mean I'd have lost my mind I thought we were going to lose it didn't.
Look like it was going to work out well we win and I didn't do anything he did it y'all Jesus goes forward as our champion and Paul says I'm in him his victory is my victory his win is my win he's accomplished it he gets the glory we get joy because it's not about us that's that's what that's what he's pointing out here that's what he says I want to be found in him not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law.
But that which comes through faith in Christ the righteousness from God that depends on faith you don't do work you trust Jesus you have faith and so people will say okay so I have to have faith like that's the thing you do but faith is an anti-work it's a surrendering faith is you not running down theill Hill you watching the champion go and trusting that this is going to work that's Faith so you can't brag about it because it was getting out of the way you don't boast in front of the.
Lord you boast in him you don't Rejoice on your own you rejoice in him you don't glory in yourself you glory in him because he's the one who's gone ahead of us and one for us that's what Paul's saying that he has righteousness but it depends on faith because it depends on Jesus and it's us just saying I trust Jesus so I said I would try to help you figure out where are you doing this and this is where I think it's helpful some of the things that he said is we don't Glory we glory in.
Jesus we don't put confidence in the flesh and then it says that it depends on faith so I would ask you is what do you have your confidence in and what are you depending on and one of the best ways to figure that out is what do you do when you're sad what do you do when you see your sin what do you do when you come face to face with the fact that you are inept and unable to accomplish this on your own.
Because if what you remind yourself of is in this category if you say well I'm struggling now but I'm going to get it together I got a bad resume now but I'm gonna have a better one in the future yeah I'm not doing well and yeah I fell into sin but also I've been doing way better I have been committed to our community group I've been serving in Kid City I grew up in the Church Church if you start listing things to try to help yourself do I really trust.
Jesus and you start saying well I've done this and I've done that and I haven't done this I'm not as bad as those people you're over here putting confidence in the flesh and you're depending on you what if in the midst of your sin you said but I have a champion Jesus Christ the righteous what if you said Lord if you don't save me nobody does if you don't work in this sin it doesn't get fixed if you don't forgive I'm not forgiven.
If it hasn't been accomplished by Jesus it won't be accomplished do you know what that would do to our hearts in those moments when you feel so down and you feel so unable to accomplish things and in those moments when you're going I got to get it together I got to do better Lord I'm such a failure Lord I'm so broken it's not just you hate your sin but you hate yourself because you think it's about you but what if in those moments we turn and said Praise.
Jesus do you know how much joy we'd have this is not about us but it's about him and his glory and his power and his goodness it doesn't matter that Goliath is bigger than you that you would have lost if we're trusting in what Jesus does we don't lose it's not about you so where do you turn what do you remind yourself of how do you encourage yourself do you tell yourself I'm going to get better I'm going to do it I'm going to fix it I'm going to get it going do you remind yourself that you've tried hard in the past and you can try hard again do you put it in this where.
You have confidence in the flesh and you're depending on the Flesh and let me ask you something are you tired are you burdened are you overwhelmed are you understanding that you're completely insufficient to save yourself can I tell you about Jesus who rescues and redeems all those who run to him who gets every ounce of Glory but that we get to re Jo in him and that if we start doing this we lose the joy and he loses the glory let.
Let me tell you something following the rules and having to be good is not a rejoicing spot you can be prideful so there are times where you can feel good some of you right now you feel good about you following Jesus when you're doing well this is going really well but it's just based off of I'm doing really well I'm behaving and so good right now I I bet God was looking around this morning and he was just like look at him getting it done or you can be exhausted.
Because you're one of the ones who's really trying you're one of the ones who's really accomplishing things you're one of the ones who really putting in effort and all these other people around you are messing it up you got a bunch of Scrubs in your group you're the only one who's working signed up to bring cheese didn't bring cheese don't let other's meal needs cheese I'm the only one who really loves Jesus it's like what are you doing you can have pride you can have despair.
But you don't get rejoicing but over here you're free because he's glorious and he's good and he gets the honor and he gets the praise and you get the joy like a child when Jesus says we have to become like children I think some of that is that children have no responsibility they're safe if their parents keep them safe they're fed if their parents feed them they just get to bounce around not worrying about anything I don't bring my boys into the room late at night sit them down at the table and go boys I need y'all to help me figure this out I put them to bed.
If they start worrying about stuff I say that's above your pay grade you don't even have a job shut up you're free go to bed they shouldn't be laying in bed stressing out we get to be free we get to have joy we get to rejoice in Jesus that's what he says not that I be found in him but it's not just that it says that I may know him it's not just that we would be in him positionally but that we would belong to him that we would know him that we would love him that we would cherish him.
Because he's so good and this makes so much sense for this is how God wants the world to work he has not come in and says I need you to be good enough I need you to meet the standard what he did is he came met the standard for us and says I need you to understand how good I am I need you to find joy in me I need you to calm down I need Glory I'm not sharing it with you you don't get the glory I do.
But you get the joy I need you to understand how good I am I need you to participate in my goodness and that's wonderful he says that I may know him that I might participate in him that might love him that I might see how good he is and the power of his resurrection part of the reason why you're exhausted is because you have no power you cannot raise one single thing from the dead not even once ever you have no ability to bring life to your finances to your attitude to your relationship to your marriage you have no ability to bring life in the midst of your sin and your Brokenness you have no.
Ability but he has the power of the Resurrection at work for those who will follow him he says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and may share in his sufferings becoming like him in his death listen there are things that we do because we're Christians not things that we do to become Christians we don't do things to make us some of the good ones but there are things that we do because we know him and we love him and we follow him there are evidences of Faith that's what Paul says that I may share in his sufferings there are things that we participate in.
But he gets the glory and it's about his name and it's about his goodness so he says that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead that by any means possible May attain the resurrection from the dead that I might get the victory that he's earned that I'll participate I'll follow him I'll go wherever he goes I'll get rid of my whole resume so that I might have him that I might be in him and that I might get the victory.
If your hope is to get good enough to depend on your work and to have confidence in the flesh can I tell you that the Gospel is so much better than that that Jesus is so much better than that that he will not share Glory with you it is not Jesus and something else it's not Jesus and your Works Jesus and your behavior Jesus and your attendance Jesus and your particular little piece of theology that's the really good stuff that only the super smart people know it's.
Jesus to the glory of Christ to the praise of his name it's Jesus and y'all you don't want to run down the hill and fight the giant you've you've put off making a phone call because it stressed you out you've lost your mind in traffic or a te- ball game completely ceased to be a functioning adult just lost your mind you've had to quit interacting with your own children and go outside and take deep breaths you've hurt the people around you you've lied you've stolen you've cheated you've started a diet and it worked until there was food that wasn't on the diet that you wanted to eat near you anybody can diet hidden away from.
All food it came to the first test I've done this I'm a diet I walk in Miss Lou is like I bought donuts I'm like well I'm going diet tomorrow you don't want it to be about you you don't want it based off of your goodness and your work and your labor we want it to be about Jesus and we want him to get all the glory and we're going to sing and we're going to praise His name and we're going to hold him up and we're going to tell him this depends on you my confidence is in you my hope is in you my strength is in you the power is in you the.
Glory is in you and then I get joy and resurrection and victory to the praise of Jesus let's pray father we thank you we thank you that the Gospel is so good help us not to be tricked help us not to believe lies help us not to to Listen to evildoers Who Would mutilate the Gospel but Lord may we worship by the work of your spirit may we boast and glory in Christ and may we put no confidence in the flesh and anywhere where we're doing that anywhere that we've started to Hope in ourselves hope in our work hope in our achievements hope in our goodness hope in our resume hope in our our track.
Record anywhere we've been promising you we're going to do better in the future so that we might feel good now oh Lord may we have the joy of knowing that you have won and that you've won on behalf of all those who trust in you and Lord may you get all the glory may it not be about us may it not be about what we do or how we do it or what we think or how we approach it but Lord may we trust you and your work on the cross and your Victory and the resurrection.
So that we might be made whole and we might have joy in Jesus name amen the band's going to come back up and we're going to sing in a moment and celebrate that he has accomplished this for us but I want you to take a second I just want you to ask Lord where am I robbing you of Glory where am I trying to accomplish this on my own and I want you to say Lord I need joy and I need deliverance and I need confidence in you and I need to be dependent on you.
So can you do that for a moment can you just take a second and ask the Lord to help you see where you're trusting in yourself just a moment in prayer where you say Lord where am I trusting in me where am I hoping in me some of you have never trusted in Jesus it all depends on you your confidence is in you your hope is in you and you plan to one day stand before Christ and say I'm good enough maybe you have.
Jesus in there but it's Jesus and Jesus tells a parable where he says that on that day there will be many who will stand before him and say didn't we do this in your name didn't we cast out the enemy didn't we Proclaim didn't we do these things didn't we have and all they're doing in that moment he says I'll say depart from me I never knew you but what they're doing is saying look at my resume don't you remember your name was there.
And then I did a bunch of stuff don't you remember I said your name and then didn't you see all the stuff I did and he says I don't know you because that's not how it works that we'll stand before him and say you did it you got me here you redeemed me you're glorious you're good I'm in Jesus I'm going to be found in him and I'm going to have the power of his resurrection at work that I might have hope.
So would you take a moment if you've never said Jesus I Need You I depend on you my confidence is you my hope is in you the glory is in you and the Joy gets to be for me would you do that would you tell him you need forgiveness and you need hope that you don't want to stand in your own power and your own ability that you don't want confidence in yourself the Gospel is so good don't say no to it don't trust yourself.
But trust Jesus and then let's sing like he's won the Victory and we get the joy.