“Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more.” (Philippians 3:4)
In the preceding verse before our text Paul says, “And have no confidence in the flesh.” That, of course, is speaking of our standing with God. In today’s text the apostle says that if you want to boast in the fleshly accomplishments he could win the prize. In verses five and six he enumerates seven “bragging rights,” beginning with his circumcision when he was eight days old and ending with being blameless as far as keeping the Old Testament law.
Following that he says he counts those “bragging rights” as “nothing” or as “dung” as far as his salvation is concerned. Elsewhere he says he is the chiefest of sinners. (I Tim. 1:15)
What bragging rights are you claiming for your entrance into the Kingdom of God? Those things will keep one from the Kingdom. One will not be saved until he first sees himself as a lost sinner in need of salvation. One must then repent of his sin and turn in faith to the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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