The Price

October 12, 2024

This is the last of my thoughts on these verses…promise! 

“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,” —Philippians 3:7-10 

“That I may know…the power of his resurrection…” Most Christians don’t think much about the resurrection until Easter Sunday, but every single Sunday is a resurrection Sunday where we gather, not to honor the founder of our religion, but to worship our Savior who died and is now alive again. We are so used to this thinking that we don’t realize just how revolutionary it is. People who have never heard of Jesus often live in fear, and always live in dread of death. It’s the end of everything for them. 

There’s something else about Christ’s resurrection: We are included in it.

“And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,” —Colossians 2:13 

But in order to be included in his resurrection, we must be willing to be included in his death by dying to our own dreams and aspirations as well as our sins. Resurrection is glorious, but costly. The only question is, “Are we willing to pay the price?”