I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Christ is my righteousness, and I stake everything on winning Him, as a runner strains for the prize, as a fugitive reaches the city of refuge. My own works amount to nothing; only His perfect righteousness, received by faith, can make me safe before God's judgment.
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Commenting on Philippians 3:9-14
We mature believers must think as I do: count all earthly gain as loss for Christ, press toward Him as the mark, and claim no perfection here. Those who seek justification by law or imagine sinless completion in this life deceive themselves; God will expose such errors in the end.
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Heaven is the goal set before us, the crown of imperishable glory awaiting at the finish. God calls us upward to an honor worthy of our highest exertion; the prize is real, the calling genuine, and the effort demanded is worth everything a life can give.
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