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July 11, 2010
When a body of believers takes God’s Word seriously, we can risk a doctrinal commitment so intense that we become rigid and demand too much from others, or even ourselves. We may even suggest that certain beliefs are essential for salvation when they are not. In this message, Alistair Begg suggests that this can be just as dangerous as doctrinal indifferentism and identifies what he regards as essential doctrines, as well as others upon which we might agreeably disagree.
7But awhatever gain I had, bI counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8Indeed, I count everything as loss because of cthe surpassing worth of dknowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I ehave suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having fa righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but gthat which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10hthat I may know him and ithe power of his resurrection, and jmay share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11that by any means possible I may kattain the resurrection from the dead.
12Not that I have already lobtained this or mam already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: nforgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for othe prize of the upward pcall of God in Christ Jesus. 15Let those of us who are qmature think this way, and if in anything ryou think otherwise, sGod will reveal that also to you. 16Only tlet us hold true to what we have attained.
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