“Get on and Get up”

Finding Meaning Beyond Life’s Achievements

Mark 8:36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

vs 7-8 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

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Mark 8:35-36 “If anyone would come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?

‘to have the righteousness of Christ’ ‘to become like Christ’ ‘to be found in Christ’ ‘to have the righteousness of Christ’ ‘to become like Christ’

vs12-14 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.

v12 I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me

v12 I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me

Phil 2 v6-8 Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Christ took hold of me

Let go – to take hold ….