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Δ Facebook (opens in new tab) Week of June 4, 2023 X X Watch X X Go to our giving website Note: You will be taken to another browser tab to give online. If on a phone/tablet, simply click the back button to go back to this notes page. X Download Note: You will be taken to another browser tab to view this. If on phone/tablet, simply click the back button to go back to this notes page. You will not lose any notes. Calvary Baptist Church Red Bank Focus on a Perfect Pursuit Archived – June 4, 2023 View This Week’s Note View All Past Notes View This Note w/o Blanks Main Scripture Reference(s) Philippians 3:12, 15-21 Focus on a Perfect Pursuit June 4, 2023 / Greg Powell / Philippians 3:12, 15-21 Philippians is a book of the Bible designed to help believers get their focus right and the aim of their life going in the right direction and after the right pursuits. The apostle Paul had one all-consuming ambition and it wasn’t to pay off a mortgage, earn a nice retirement, have an easy life, or to be happy. It was simply to know Christ. That was the ambition and appetite of his life. What is your ambition? What are you longing after and what are you hungry for? I. A perfect pursuit of Christlikeness has proper . (15) Following after Jesus Christ starts with the right attitude. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” The word “perfect” is used three ways in the Bible: (1) It is used to describe perfection that one has in Jesus Christ. (2) It is used to describe perfection, meaning levels of spiritual maturity. (3) It is used to describe perfection, when we are with God and no longer can sin because we are not in the presence of sin. The worst thing that can happen to you as a believer and us as a church is to have the attitude that we have no more or changing to do. II. A perfect pursuit of Christlikeness has proper . (16) Don’t let up! If Paul is thinking in terms, which some commentators think he was, he would have been telling them to keep in step and don’t break ranks. If he were thinking in terms, he would be telling them to stay in the race – to keep to their lane and to stay on the track. What do you do on mile 1 of a 26-mile marathon? Keep putting one foot in front of the other. What do you do on mile 23 of a 26-mile marathon? If we were to change this to a metaphor, Paul would have been telling them to play at the right tempo – to practice what they know and stay at it. The point is, don’t what you’ve . Don’t go backward. III. A perfect pursuit of Christlikeness has proper . (17) In this matter of perfectly pursuing complete maturation and growth as a believer, who you follow ! The word here refers to a blueprint to follow in constructing a life worth living. Some believers have so much to be on fire for the Lord, but they hang around people who hold them back rather than them forward. Let’s an example so that others can an example. IV. A perfect pursuit of Christlikeness has proper . (18-19) Paul brings out two types of people growth-pursuing believers will watch: The first is the type. The second is the type. He’s speaking of professing Christians who are dominated by things of the . V. A perfect pursuit of Christlikeness has proper . (20-21) We must always remember that our is in heaven. Our citizenship causes us to live in this world with a different focus and different of life. Sooner or later the trumpet will sound and our time here will be over and it will be time to go . Save PDF Locally Click to save a copy of the filled-in notes to a PDF file on your device Generate File Click to View PDF Save PDF to Google Drive Click to save a copy of the filled-in notes to a PDF file on your Google Drive account(For Apple devices, use Chrome browser or go to SETTINGS>SAFARI and uncheck BLOCK POPUPS.) 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