Moving On | Donovan Drake Preaching | Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost | 10.04.26

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Are You Ready For Sunday…

Living out the word

“I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 3:14 

• Who benefits from the goals you set? 
• What goals have you reached, and what are some you’re reaching for? 
• Is Paul’s goal for himself or for…?  

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Talking the Text Podcast

Westminster Talking the Text Podcast for Sunday, October 4, 2026 | Philippians 3:4b-14 | with Donovan Drake, Ashley Higgins, Stephanie Boaz, and Sarah Bird Kneff

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Scripture

Philippians 3:4b-14

To know Christ and his resurrection

3:4b If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more:

3:5 circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

3:6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

3:7 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.

3:8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.

3:10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

3:11 if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

3:12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to lay hold of that for which Christ has laid hold of me.

3:13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have laid hold of it, but one thing I have laid hold of: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

3:14 I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.