ATTAINED, PERFECT, AND APPREHENDED

Keep these definitions of the word attained, perfect and apprehended, in mind as you are reading the Scriptures below.

Attained: To gain as an objective; achieve, to come to or arrive at.

Perfect: Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind, being without defect or blemish.

Apprehend:  to take into custody

Philippians 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

I have not attained, reached my objective, which is to be Home.  Heaven is my final destination. As long as I am still on this earth, and am in this body, I am not perfect. This earthly body has flaws, pain, and is decaying. This body will die, and when it does, I will be apprehended, taken into custody, by my LORD JESUS, then and only then, will I be made PERFECT.

To be Perfect, to Attain, and be Apprehended, I have my Faith in Him And His Sacrifice alone, not my works, which is by The LAW, but by, HIS FINISHED WORK!!! 

Philippians 3:9-16,20-21 And be found in Him, not having mine own Righteousness, which is of the LAW, but that which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith:

Conformable: corresponding in character; similar

Through Faith and Faith alone, will I know Him in His Resurrection, by being BORN AGAIN, dying to myself, and to sin, 

 [10] That I may know Him, and the Power of His Resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; 

I'm not Home yet, but when He raises up this body that died, I WILL BE!!! HALLELUJAH!!!

I do follow after what I do have in Christ Jesus, I know I am Saved, Sealed, by His Spirit, unto The Day of Redemption!!!

[11] If by any means I might attain unto the Resurrection of the dead. [12] Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

I may not have apprehended, been taken into His Home, or His, final custody, but I have forgotten those things that are behind me. I know I have been forgiven!!!

 [13] Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, [14] I press toward the mark for the prize of the High Calling of God in Christ Jesus.

 So I reach forward, and press on, to hit The Mark of His High Calling, in Christ Jesus!!!

 [15] Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. [16] Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. [20] For our conversation is in Heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: [21] Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His Glorious Body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto. 

PRAISE YOU LORD, JESUS THE CHRIST, THAT MADE MY HOME TO BE IN HEAVEN, WITH HIM!!!

GLORY TO HIS NAME!!! NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES!!!

Donna K Purifoy

10/21/2021