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Falling in Love with Christ I have a confession: I know Christ somewhat but I want to really know Him. Please pray for me that my ultimate desire be realized. I have memories of dating my wife, UD. It was a long distance romance oceans apart. I was in the USA and she was in Nigeria. I met her briefly while visiting and upon return we started corresponding by letters (no emails then but snail mails). We had to arrange for a time and place for her to receive my phone calls which sometimes did not work out. We wrote tons of letters. Separated by distance and making best efforts to know one another, cannot be compared to the day of the engagement, and eventual wedding and then living together. I had “doctrinal” knowledge of my wife but I now have experiential knowledge. We are both still trying to know each other. Some days she thinks I am from Mars (which is true, an alien) and I think she is from Venus and I am asking who are you. Apostle Paul in Philippians 3 is letting us int

Trusting in Your Résumé? This will shock you about percentage of people that lie on their résumés. “The statistics concerning résumé fraud are grim. One survey estimates that as many 80 percent of all job seekers submit applications and résumés that contain intentionally misleading information.[2] The misrepresentation involves work experience, criminal history, inflated past salaries and education credentials…It is estimated that résumé fraud costs employers approximately $600 billion annually”.[1]. Let's assume you and I are in the 20 percent. Lying on the resume is wrong and unethical. Even if you were very accurate, God has a better and complete record of your resume. Apostle Paul had an impressive resume. At the end he said it was nothing and a garbage/rubbish. Listen to Paul as he writes his Philippian friends. Are you trusting in self-accomplishments, including doing “God’s work”? 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! 3 For we are the cir

Watch for the Dogs and Evil Workers Anyone that draws and chases you away from the simplicity of the Gospel meaning total, absolute trust and reliance in the finished work of Christ on the Cross as basis of salvation is a “Dog” and an “evil worker”. Strong words? Yes and very much so. This is the “Jesus plus my self-effort” gospel peddlers who make no case for the need for Jesus as the ultimate Savior. Any “dogs” around you? Run! Apostle Paul has just told us to continue to rejoice in the Lord. All of a sudden, the letter turns with the strongest warning and caution for danger. This danger is too important to ignore and it threatens to steal and stop your joy in the Lord and will endanger salvation of souls. The Philippians are being courted by false apostles and teachers who are parading like dogs. They will confuse, devour and maim. It is the same ploy in our own time too. You cannot please God on your own merits. Here is Paul with the sternest warning in the whole epistle.

Again, Continue to Rejoice If you have ever flown before there is great excitement and joy when the pilot announces that the plane is about to land. You had been flying at very high altitude and have encountered all kinds of turbulence and rough weather now the end is in sight. This is where we are in chapter 3 of Philippians. Paul is about to land the gospel plane and tells his friends “Rejoice again”. I told you before when the plane took off and am telling you again why you need to rejoice and keep on rejoicing in the Lord. God began the good work in you and will finish it therefore rejoice. Rejoicing is within your control so no excuses. “Finally, my [a]fellow believers, continue to rejoice and delight in the LORD. To write the same things again is no trouble for me, and it is a safeguard for you” Philippians 3: 1. AMP. The Lord Jesus Himself is the embodiment of redemption and that is the only reason to rejoice. By redemption we mean the total purchase of the whole world