Knowing God Our Greatest Goal!
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Reverend Larry Deering
Philippians 3:9-10
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Or [through the faithfulness of] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
Luke 1:34
"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?"
Exodus 33:18
Then Moses said, "Now show me your glory."
Psalms 42:1
( For the director of music. A maskil Title: Probably a literary or musical term of the Sons of Korah.)As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
Philippians 3:4-6
though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:
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;
as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
John 17:1-3
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Philippians 3:12-14
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Romans 7:15
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
Romans 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
