Philippians 3: 10-11 Part 2
Note: For the Summer we are reprinting some devotions that ran back when we were getting this site up and running. Hopefully this is new content to you, and we will get back into writing fresh devotions as our schedule allows.
10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Sometimes when you read through the Bible you need to stop on a verse and look a little deeper into it. Often there is more than one meaning to a scripture, or at least more than one thing we can learn from it. So we're going to take a couple days to look over these verses and see how much truth we can learn from them.
This may come as a surprise to some, but the Bible wasn't written in English. In fact, the Bible we have today is a translation of the original, which was written over more than a thousand years by people in different countries, who spoke at least 3 different languages. I bring this up because there's a word in our text today that's not English. We skip over it all the time, but when we understand what that word means it will help us understand several portions of the Bible. That word is Christ.
The word Christ wasn't Jesus' last name. He didn't get it because Joseph Christ married Mary Christ, and they had a baby named Jesus Christ. The word Christ is actually a greek word that is a translation of the Hebrew word Messiah. The Messiah was the person the Jews were looking for to save them from the Roman occupation. So when Paul says I want to know Christ, he's talking about his savior! There's so much more, but you'll have to wait til tomorrow.
-Jeff-
