![]() Every Friday, the Lord willing, I will be providing a Biblical worldview analysis on current affairs in our world. The second component is a commentary from a Biblical perspective on issues affecting believers all over the world, more especially, in Africa. Every Monday, the Lord willing, I will be bringing you devotions, which are brief exposition of Bible passages, to help us grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. ![]() Being a new podcast I need to give some introduction.įirst, what is Doctrine for Body and Soul all about? As already mentioned at the beginning, this podcast will be made up of two components. ![]() Indeed a warm welcome to the very first episode of Doctrine for Body and Soul. On Mondays the podcast brings you devotions for your encouragement in the walk with the Lord, and on Fridays the podcast analyzes current affairs, more especially, those of Africa, from a Biblical perspective. Doctrine for Body and Soul is a Christian podcast, which comes out every Mondays and Fridays. Welcome to Doctrine for Body and Soul (DBS) hosted by Confex Makhalira. Note: This is a script of today’s podcast. ”įor a podcast version of this post, please visit here Every day, has to be a day in which we “count all loss for the sake of Christ. Instead every day we have to hold on tightly to Christ and his righteousness. Every day a Christian should value Christ above all as Jonathan Edwards once put it (quote)“Offer a Christian whatever you will, if you deny him Christ, he will consider himself miserable” (end of quote)Įvery day, the Lord calls us to let go our grip on our own righteousness and the pride that blinds to the glory of Christ due to our heritage, gifts, talents, or achievements. Most of these things are not bad in themselves however, if they keep us from beholding the glory of Christ they are dung.Ĭounting everything as loss for the sake of Christ is the work of God’s grace that begins on the day of our salvation and continues to eternity. For others it might be various trophies and medals that this world has to offer. For some it might be business achievements or riches or fame or even poverty and pain. For some it might be academic achievements. Only Christ meets every need of our soul because through his work and life and death he has fully satisfied all the righteous demands of God.įor Paul it was his religion that made him proud and blinded him to his need for Christ. Our saving knowledge of Jesus Christ should mean that we grasp that our human or religious efforts to earn our way to God are rubbish or filthy rags as Isaiah puts it. This should be every Christian’s testimony. In fact, Paul says as we have read in the verse, that he considered all of them as “loss” and the actual word he uses in Greek is best-translated “dung.” And he surrendered himself to Christ.įriends, this is how our life in Christ ought to be. As he gazed at the glory of Christ and saw the glorious righteousness of Jesus, all of Paul’s celebrated accomplishments grew dim. Paul worked so diligently to follow the law in his own strength to the extent that he was proud of himself and referred to himself as a Hebrew of Hebrews and blameless before the law of God.īut one day on his way to Damascus, Paul met the risen Christ. He mentions how he was dedicated to the law of God. He lists so many things, which he considered to be of great value. In this chapter he describes his life before he knew Christ. The verse I have read is part of Paul’s short autobiography, so to speak, given in the third chapter of his letter to the Philippians. Indeed, there is great change that is wrought in the heart of a Christian when he first comes to know Christ as his Savior. There is a transforming power that every believer experiences when he first takes his gaze of faith at Christ. ![]() “But whatever gain I had, I counted loss for the sake of Christ” – Philippians 3:7
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