PHP 0081 Paul the Accountant - Philippians 3:1-11

Counting - a skill we all need. Sometimes we to take inventory. What has value? What is trash.
The apostle Paul counted up the important things in his life up until the time when he knew the Lord Jesus. What things he had imagined were valuable to him, he now realized were of no more value than the sludge at the bottom of the septic tank.
What counted, what really mattered, was knowing Christ. Knowing the immense power of the resurrection, joining into the sufferings all believers are called to, and dying to himself.