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Monday, May 31, 2021

Christianity Is Incompatible with Confidence in the Flesh (2021.05.30 Evening Sermon in Philippians 3:4–7)

The Lord intentionally chose as an apostle a man who had more ground for confidence in the flesh than any of us could have—to be the one who warned us that there is no ground (negative ground! loss!) at all for confidence in the flesh.

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