What do you place your confidence in? All day long, we place our confidence in different things. Your day might even begin having been confident that the alarm clock will wake you up in the morning! Sometimes we place our confidence in friends, family, or even co-workers to be there and to do things things we need or expect them to do.

When it comes to our walk with the Lord—our spiritual strength, our ability to serve Him, and even our standing in God’s eyes—where do we place our confidence?

This week, we continue in our sermon series, Joy No Matter What, as we look at Philippians 3:1-11.

Philippians 3:4-9

“… If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 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 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.”