The Christian Faith
Podcast

Episode #102:
Pursuing Christ in
Philippians 3 (2):
“To Be Found
in Him”

21 August 2024

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This edition of our podcast
is part of our 7-part series,
“Pursuing Christ in Philippians 3”

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Although every believer in Christ has the initial, inward knowing of Him (John 17:3), what we see in Philippians 3 are the stages we must pass through as we pursue Christ and seek to know Him in a much deeper, fuller way than we do through the new birth alone.

This chapter shows us that, after suffering the loss of all things and counting them as refuse, we begin to gain Christ (vv. 7-8). For this, we must be found in Him (v. 9) by God, the angels, the demons, and our fellow human beings. They do not find us in our own righteousness, nor in our own kindness, love, goodness, or any of our other virtues, but in Christ Himself, because all else has become refuse to us on account of Christ. Thus, when they contact us, they do not merely see us being a good person, but rather, Christ Himself being lived out through us (Phil. 1:21, Gal. 2:20).

This is to apply the cross to our natural life, and it is the unique way to magnify Christ as we live in this fallen world (Phil. 1:20, 2:15-16).

Length: 104 minutes.

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RESOURCES

Books

Witness Lee
Purchase the Kindle Edition on Amazon: Further Talks on the Knowledge of Life.

Titus Chu
Purchase the Paperback Edition on Amazon: Philippians: “That I May Gain Christ”.

Purchase the Paperback Edition on Amazon: Hudson and Maria.

Purchase the Paperback Edition on Amazon: The Standard Version of the New Testament

Online Note
“Hudson Taylor: A Mother’s Offering of Her Son to the Lord”

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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCED
IN THIS EPISODE

Philippians 3:1-6: Saul’s righteousness according to the law.
Philippians 3:7-8: Counting all things loss for Christ to gain Him.
Philippians 3:9: And be found in Him.
Colossians 1:15-20: Who Christ is.
Hebrews 12:1-2: Laying aside and running with endurance.
Luke 14:26: Counting our family as refuse.
Exodus 10: Pharaoh’s bargaining over the children.
John 17:3: Eternal life is to know God.
John 5:30, 15:5: Nothing apart from Christ.
John 12:3:2 The Christ uplifted from the earth drawing all men to Himself.

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Recorded…
in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, 20 August 2024

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