{"id":2370,"date":"2024-11-02T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2024-11-02T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:21:10","slug":"philippians-program-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=2370","title":{"rendered":"Philippians (Program #18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>Philippians (Program #18) &#8211; Counting All Things Loss on Account of Christ<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ.&#8221;\u00a0 What a blessing for a believer in Christ to reach a point the apostle did in Philippians 3:7-8 where the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus caused him to count all things as dung.<\/p>\n<p>Before Paul was converted to Christ he was not one who had a problem loving the material things, the material world. Quite the contrary he was a person who was fully given to the Jewish religion, to philosophy and to the culture of his time. His whole being was for Judaism and for everything that&#8217;s included in it.\u00a0 So, we read these verses in Philippians 3, how Paul, the apostle counted all things loss on account of Christ, we have to realize he is talking about here giving up his Jewish religion, his philosophy and his culture, that were all referred to in earlier verses and not the aspect of the material world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve come to the heart of this Epistle 3:7-8 &#8220;But what things were gains to me, these I have counted as loss on account of Christ. But moreover I  also count all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ.&#8221;\u00a0 Why should we consider these verses as the heart of the Epistle?<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Philippians (Program #18)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2024-11-02T06:21:10-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Philippians (Program #18) - Counting All Things Loss on Account of Christ\r\n\r\n&quot;I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ.&quot;\u00a0 What a blessing for a believer in Christ to reach a point the apostle did in Phili...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Philippians\/Phil_18.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"15.5\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3111\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Philippians\/Phil_18.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3111','http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Philippians\/Phil_18.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Philippians\/Phil_18.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?powerpress_pinw=2370-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Philippians\/Phil_18.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Phil_18.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Religion--Spirituality-Podcas\/Bible-Study-Radio-p959109\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippians (Program #18) &#8211; Counting All Things Loss on Account of Christ &#8220;I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ.&#8221;\u00a0 What a blessing for a believer in Christ to reach a point the apostle did in Philippians 3:7-8 where the excellency of the knowledge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[493,4],"tags":[27,25,26,1126,1104,1127,1132,29,1128,60,7807,1130,7813,1129,1133,1131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}