First Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, TX

Johnny Glover (Pastor of Worship), "Knowing Christ".          9.  And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,  10.  so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,  11.  filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.          7.  But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.  8.  What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ  9.  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.  10.  I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,  11. and so, somehow,