This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

The Best Trade

Let me start with a question. Suppose you sat down at the kitchen table tonight and drew two columns on a sheet of paper. One says "gain." The other says "loss." What would you put where? Your job? Your savings? Your good name? Your good works? Your years of church attendance?

Here's the thing. The Apostle Paul did that very exercise. He sat down with his whole life. His family tree. His religious record. His education. His zeal. His spotless reputation. And he moved every single item out of the gain column and into the loss column. Every one.

Why would a man do that? Was he being dramatic? Was he throwing his life away?

No. He found something worth more than all of it put together. He found Jesus Christ.

In today's message we're walking through Philippians chapter 3, verses 8 through 11. It's one of the richest passages in all of Paul's letters. In just four verses, Paul tells us three wonderful things. He tells us why knowing Christ is worth more than anything this world can offer. He tells us how a sinner can stand before a holy God, not in his own goodness, but clothed in the righteousness of Christ, received by faith alone. And he tells us where the Christian life is headed: through the fellowship of Christ's sufferings, all the way to the resurrection from the dead.

Maybe you are carrying a heavy ledger today. Maybe you've been trying to balance the books with God by being good enough. Or maybe you've lost a great deal this year, and you're wondering if it's all been for nothing. This message is for you.

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.