On Sunday it was a real privilege to be able to invite one of my tutors from college, to speak at our morning service. Richard Harvey teaches Hebrew Bible, Hebrew language and Jewish Studies at All Nations Christian College. Richard tackled the next passage in our series through Philippians - 3:1-14, allowing his own experiences as a Messianic Jew to bring the passage to life.
This is such a rich passage that a life time of sermons will not unpack it all, certainly not a short blog! But there is this central theme of knowing Jesus. In comparison with knowing Jesus everything else is rubbish, worthless, and will count for nothing. No matter what our heritage, history and hopes unless we know Jesus they all count for nothing.
Someone said to me yesterday in passing - "it's not what you know but who you know that matters". That was in the context of getting hold of empty shoe boxes - and how much more true that is of Jesus. Unless we know Jesus what we know, who we are, what we've done...it all counts for nothing.
And so as disciples of Jesus our desire, our ambition, the thing that gets us out of bed in the morning should be this passion to know Jesus better, and so to become more like him (which involves suffering too!). For the glory of God.
Thank you Richard - I've had people asking when you're coming back again! I'll be in touch.
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