Keith's Messages

A talk about living in the right ‘tense’ as believers In Philippians 3 Paul outlines his past, present and future and how he has changed under the grace of God. 1-11: Paul’s Past - the calculator 12-16: Paul’s Present - the competitor  17-21: Paul’s future - the citizen 1. Paul’s Past - the calculator 3-6: For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 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; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. Here Paul is recounting his past before he met Jesus. Why is he doing this?  He's doing this because there is a group that is trying to affect the Philippi church. ...