Selfless Part 6 “Selfless Sacrifice”

Selfless Sacrifice

Selfless sacrifice is the __________________ way of life for the Jesus follower.  1 Corinthians 6:19-20

¹⁹ Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰ you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

What does selfless sacrifice look like for ____________?

Selfless sacrifice involves _______________.  Philippians 3:4-8

⁴ though I myself have reasons for such confidence.

If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: ⁵ 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; ⁶ as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.

⁷ But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ

            Paul had everything the religious world had to offer      and he willingly ____________ it all up.

            What have I _____________ for the cause of Jesus Christ?

            An unwillingness to sacrifice indicates a problem in        your __________________ with Jesus Christ.

Selfless sacrifice brings ________________.  Philippians 3:8-10

⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in^[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. ¹⁰ I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

            The “gain” for Paul was the _________________ of Jesus.

            The kind of knowledge Paul writes about is not   __________________ but ___________________.

Knowing Jesus by experiences involves….

            …the ______________________ of God by faith

            …the ______________________ of the resurrection

                        The resurrection is the _________________                              demonstration of power on earth.

                        You don’t receive power to _________ difficult                     objects but to _____________ difficult people.

                        You don’t receive power to _________ but rather                to ______________.

            …the ____________________ of suffering.  Phil. 1:29

²⁹ For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,

Selfless sacrifice involves _______________ on Jesus.  Philippians 3:12-14

¹² 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. ¹³ 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, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

            What is the object of your _____________?

            Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in…Aim     “at earth and you will get neither. “   C.S. Lewis