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0:20 Alright, fellas, welcome to the day five. 0:24 He starts this out in Philippians 3, 1 through 11. 0:26 Finally, and this will be finally for our week. 0:29 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord to write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. 0:34 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. 0:38 For we are the circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh. 0:45 Though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also, if anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more. 0:52 Circumcised on the eighth day of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, as to the law, a Pharisee, as to zeal, a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 1:04 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 1:08 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for his sake. 1:15 I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as scubilon, in order that I may gain Christ, and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, 1:34 and may share in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 1:41 We're going to drill down on verse 10. 1:44 The first two parts of verse 10 are awesome. 1:47 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection. 1:50 That's how it starts. 1:52 The question is do you know him? 1:53 Not just know about him, but do you know him? 1:57 Some of the scariest verses in the whole Bible, like the end of Matt at the end of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 7, Jesus says, Many will come to me on that day and say, Lord, Lord, did we not, and they give him their religious resume, did we not prophesy in your name? 2:13 Did we not cast out demons in your name? 2:14 Did we not do many mighty works in your name? 2:18 And the scary part is this isn't atheists and pagans. 2:22 They don't call him Lord. 2:23 These are church folk. 2:24 And Jesus looks at them and says, Depart from me, because I never knew you. 2:28 The question is, do you know him? 2:31 Or do you just know about him? 2:33 Now, what's interesting about the word no in the Old and New Testament is oftentimes the word no is interchanged with the word to love, or it's a relational term. 2:45 And so the clearest example is when the Bible in Genesis says this, and Adam knew Eve and she bore a son. 2:53 This is an intimate relationship. 2:54 Do you have an intimate relationship with the God of the universe through the person and work of Jesus Christ? 3:00 He says that you may know him and the power of his resurrection. 3:06 You see, the fact that Jesus came out out of the tomb gives us hope for everything. 3:11 He put death to death. 3:12 The book of Colossians says that Jesus is the firstborn from the dead. 3:16 The Greek word there is prototoko. 3:18 It's where we get the word prototype. 3:19 And so that means Jesus went first, that he defeated death and he came out of the grave, and he was the prototype and it worked. 3:26 So now we are the mass production that, like him, when we are buried in him, we will also be resurrected with him in a newness of life. 3:34 This is why I say all the time, if the tomb is empty, anything is possible. 3:38 So the verse starts out strong, man. 3:41 That you may know him, love him, not just know about him, that you may walk in the power of his resurrection. 3:48 And then this next part, people don't quote it a lot, and may share in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. 3:55 And you say, whoa, whoa, whoa, who asked to share in the sufferings of Christ? 4:01 Well, let me ask you, have you ever suffered for Christ? 4:04 And if your answer is no, I've never suffered for Christ, then you gotta ask yourself, then what are you doing wrong? 4:10 Because Jesus makes it abundantly clear that if we follow Jesus, then this world will hate us, not might hate us. 4:17 He says, Blessed are you when evildoers, when this world revile you, say things that are untrue about you, slander your name. 4:24 Jesus says, Don't be surprised, they hated me, they're gonna hate you. 4:27 So if this world does not hate you, if at some point you haven't bloodied your nose because you're living countercultural to this world, it might be because you're not playing for Team Jesus. 4:38 You may want to check yourself there. 4:40 You see, oftentimes, you know, the internet will get mad at you. 4:44 I don't know if you ever noticed that. 4:45 You don't even have to try, all you gotta do is just preach and live out the Bible. 4:49 But what I would say is this but if walking through the valley of the shadow of death of being persecuted by this world is the thing that lets me know that he is with me. 5:02 If that's what it takes to know him like this, then sign me up. 5:07 This is what Paul is saying that I don't want to become like him in his death. 5:13 I want all of me to be gone and all of Jesus to shine through. 5:17 My friend Jim Bergen, who has uh he pastors the church in Colorado Flatirons, he's got a pretty crazy story, and it's his story to tell, but he's been through a lot of pain. 5:28 He said this publicly, he was sexually abused as a child. 5:31 His wife Robin, who he's been married to for a long time, uh suffers from a bipolar disorder, which is really, really tough. 5:38 This man has been beat up a bunch, and many times I've heard him say this, including on stage here at 1122. 5:45 He said, if that's what I had to walk through in order to have the life I have now, to know Jesus like I know him, to get to serve the church I get to serve, and to get to be married to that woman with these kids, then sign me up. 5:59 If that's what it takes to get here, then I would walk through that valley of the shadow of death. 6:05 A few weeks ago I went to visit an 1122er, she's 37-year-old marathon runner who was on the final days of her battle with cancer. 6:14 She was a beautiful girl, and she had cancer in the neck, uh, throat area, and the tumors had gotten pretty gruesome. 6:23 She lost the ability to speak, she was in agony, and I went to spend some time with her in hospice. 6:29 So at this point, they're just trying to keep you comfortable. 6:33 Her name is Holly, and she couldn't speak. 6:36 And uh I prayed over her, spent some time with her, held her hand, and then on a little whiteboard, she wrote something like If this is what I had to go through to have a bad A testimony, so more people would come to Christ than worth it. 6:53 Sign me up again that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 7:08 May it be so in us.