This One Thing I know

Philippians 3:13–14 (NASB 2020)

Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Paul is saying that he may not know everything about living a righteous life, but this one thing he does know and do: Never look back.

We need to never look back, and run toward the prize which is Heaven.

PRAY

Rather than causing him to give up and quit, Paul’s sense of incompleteness compels him to press on. This term press on means “to move rapidly and decisively toward an objective.

G. Walter Hansen

1 Corinthians 9:24 (NASB 2020)

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

In a race, there are many that run, but the one who runs the hardest and fastest wins the race

We need to run like this when it comes to Salvation. Run like you are competing against everyone. Run hard. Run Fast to Jesus!

720 The Bible is the only thing that can combat the devil. Quote the Scriptures and the devil will run … use the

Scriptures like a sword and you’ll drive temptation away.

Billy Graham

Luke 9:18–22 (NASB 2020)

And it happened that while He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him, and He questioned them, saying, “Who do the people say that I am?” They answered and said, “John the Baptist, and others say Elijah; but others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.” And He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered and said, “The Christ of God.”But He warned them and instructed them not to tell this to anyone, saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised on the third day.”

Jesus asked His disciples who people were saying He was. They said a few answers.

Then he asked them who do THEY think He is. Peter was quick to answer, saying Jesus is The Christ of God. The Messiah. This is one thing Peter knew.

Napoleon was right when he said, “I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.” Emerson was right when he replied to those who asked him why he did not include Jesus among his Representative Men, “Jesus was not just a man.” Arnold Toynbee was right when he said, “As we stand and gaze with our eyes fixed upon the farther shore, a simple figure rises from the flood and straightaway fills the whole horizon of history. There is the Savior.”

Billy Graham

Mark 5:25–34 (NASB 2020)

A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but instead had become worse—after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. For she had been saying to herself, “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.” And immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that power from Him had gone out, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?” And His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in on You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ” And He looked around to see the woman who had done this. But the woman, fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be cured of your disease.”

This woman suffered for 12 years . Spent all her money and savings on doctors. She didn’t get healed, she got worse.

She simply heard about Jesus and knew one thing: She had to get to Him to be healed. She knew He was her only chance. She fought the crowd only to touch the hem of His garment, but her faith did the rest!

John 9:19–25 (NASB 2020)

and they questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?” His parents then answered and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself.” His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already reached the decision that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be excommunicated from the synagogue. It was for this reason that his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

So for a second time they summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.” He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”

Jesus healed this blind man. The the religious elite saw this and went to his parents to verify that he was indeed blind. They confirmed.

They asked the healed man one more time. He basically told them that I don’t know everything, but this one thing I know. I was blind and now I can see. The thing that happened in between was Jesus!

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Anonymous

You don’t have to ask the smartest person questions. Just ask the expert that knows that one thing better than anyone else.

Don’t ask a genius atheist about God. Ask a true believer. He will tell you everything you need to know, which is one thing: Jesus!

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