According to Philippians 3 there are three consequences or blessings which flow from knowing Christ. The first blessing is gaining Christ. Our sovereign Lord and Savior who still directs the wind and the waves! It is He whom we have come to know.
The second blessing a believer receives is union with Christ. This speaks of a mystical relationship with the Lord in which we are united to Him in and through all things.
The final blessing mentioned in this passage is a life lived in reliance upon Christ.
Herein is the Gospel! Though Adam could not save himself, nor could any man for that matter; all are born with sin. God became man. Christ perfectly fulfilled the stipulations of the covenant — He never sinned! And then He forfeited His life in our place thus accounting to us His own righteousness —the righteousness of God.
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“ 'Righteousness' IS transferable!! ” Here are my notes from hearing this sermon -- it was exegeting Phil 3:9 and the humbling understanding that all are "righteousness" is filthy rags in our Lord's sight, BUT the righteousness of Christ is given to His elect, as we wear the robes if His righteousness, by His blood.
And the fact that His righteousness is transferred to slime such as we is because, and ONLY because of Christ!
Since we have entrusted our soul salvation to the Lord is He not big enough to guard our temporal possessions? Our jobs, finances, health, etc.??
2TIM 1:12 "I know Whom I have believed"
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS MEAN ON MONDAY MORNING? What difference does it make on Tues. night when you find out your son was in a severely debilitating car crash? What difference does it make to you on Fri. afternoon when you are handed a pink slip at work after 20 years of service to that company???
The answer is "it makes EVERY difference"! That Christ's righteousness -- the greatest blessing -- is yours by grace, then so also must be the lesser blessings of the Lord (i.e. care, love, provisions, protection, nuture, and giudance).
Rom 8:31 "what shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?"
AMEN!!!!
