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;circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
3 sermons cite this verse
… He gave his pedigree in the book of Philippians. He said, I was born of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, circumcised the eighth day, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the law, a Pharisee, concerning righteousness that comes from keeping the law, I was blameless. I was so religious, I did everything right until he discovered not enough. He said, now I consider all of those things rubbish that I might simply have Christ, know him. So some people choose being good. Some people choose being religious, like Paul the apostle, other people by being sincere. You know, it doesn't matter what path you choose, brother, what religion you believe in brother just be sincere if you're sincere that's all that matters because we're all gonna if you're sincere enough we're gonna get to heaven it's not about being good or being part of that ritual or religion it's just about being true to yourself there is a way the writer of proverbs says that seems right unto every man but the end thereof is the way of death there's one gospel there's one god there's one savior so being good nope being religious nope being sincere nope okay how can a man be right with god here's the answer by receiving a righteousness external to us given to us not earned by us but given freely as a gift one we could never earn one we could never produce but just receiving something already given to us it's called here's the word imputation …
… I have more. 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. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for his sake. I have suffered the loss of all things and I count them as rubbish in order that I might 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 might know him and the power of his resurrection 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. this is the word of God for the people of God. …
So we're in John's gospel this morning, the fourth one, which is so different from the other three that it helps to keep a few things in mind. The first thing is that John was the last to write down what he had seen and heard a long time after those things happened. Children whose parents had brought them to Jesus for a blessing were great-grandparents by then, if they were still alive at all. John had been thinking about who Jesus was and what his life, death, and resurrection meant for a long time. If he had read any of the other Gospels, he did not feel compelled to harmonize with them. He had his own sense of how the story should be told, and he felt freed by the Spirit to tell it in his own way. So that's the second thing. John tells stories that none of the other evangelists does. Without him, no one would ever heard about Jesus turning water into wine, or talking to Nicodemus late in the night, or to the Samaritan woman at the well. …