Sovereign Grace Church

…not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ

(PHILIPPIANS 3:8-9)

Before the Lord saved Saul he was a pride-filled, ambitious, sinner lost in religion who would heed no one’s voice but his own. After Christ appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus and knocked him off his high horse the Lord called him by name and this was Saul’s two fold response, “Who art thou Lord?” and “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” Until we have been saved from the great death, we are yet in need of God’s gracious operation in the mind and in the heart so that we see what we are and who he is. Have you been made to see yourself and your works as dung? Have you been made to ask, “Who art thou Lord?” Have you been made to tremble in amazement so that you say, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” Have you been made to confess with Paul saying, “Yea doubtless, I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God, by faith.” If so, then rejoice evermore, brethren, for God has graciously granted you true faith and repentance. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh (PHILIPPIANS 3:3).