Your Religious Résumé Can’t Make You Right.
- Thad DeBuhr
- 4 days ago
- 20 min read
Study Guide: Philippians 3:1-11
There is something deeply satisfying about earning something.
You work overtime and finally pay off the truck. You spend years learning a trade and become the person everyone calls when something breaks. You put in the hours, earn the promotion, build the business, raise the kids, or finish a project nobody thought you could finish.
There is nothing wrong with hard work. In fact, the Bible has plenty of good things to say about it.
The problem comes when we carry that same thinking into our relationship with God.
Without realizing it, we can start building a spiritual résumé.
I go to church.
I read my Bible.
I give.
I serve.
I don't do the things those people do.
I've been a Christian for 30 years.
I know what I believe.
I was baptized.
I grew up in a Christian home.
Those may all be good things.
But then comes the dangerous little thought:
“Surely all of that counts for something with God.”
Paul understood that way of thinking better than almost anybody.
In Philippians 3, he basically pulls his spiritual résumé out of the filing cabinet, lays it on the table, and says:
“You want credentials? I've got credentials.”
Then he does something shocking.
He pushes the whole thing aside.
Not because everything on the résumé was bad.
But because none of it could do what Jesus had done for him.
That's where we're going today.
Setting the Scene
Paul has just spent most of Philippians 2 talking about the mindset of Jesus.
Jesus didn't use His position for His own advantage. He humbled Himself, served, obeyed the Father, and went all the way to the cross.
Then Paul showed us what that looked like in ordinary people.
Timothy genuinely cared about the Philippians instead of only looking after himself.
Epaphroditus served so faithfully that he nearly died doing it.
Now the tone changes.
Paul gives a warning.
Apparently, there were teachers telling Gentile followers of Jesus that trusting Jesus wasn't enough. If they really wanted to belong to God's people, they also needed circumcision and the Jewish identity markers connected with the Law of Moses.
Paul sees where that road leads.
If your standing with God depends partly on Jesus and partly on your religious credentials, eventually you'll start trusting the credentials.
And Paul refuses to let that happen without warning his friends.
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Walking Through the Text
Paul Warns Them Because He Loves Them — 3:1–2
Paul begins with:
“Whatever happens, my dear brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord.”
Then he says something easy to skip over:
“I never get tired of telling you these things, and I do it to safeguard your faith.”
That tells us Paul's motive.
He's repeating himself because some things are too important to say only once.
We live in a culture where being told what to do can immediately rub us the wrong way.
Don't tell me how to live.
Don't tell me what I should believe.
I'll make my own decisions.
Certainly, leaders can become controlling, and Christians should never blindly follow another human being.
But that's not what Paul is doing here.
Paul knows there is teaching circulating that can pull these people away from putting their full confidence in Jesus. He loves them enough to warn them.
Think about a guardrail along a mountain highway.
You don't drive past one and think:
“Who put that thing there to control me?”
It's there because somebody knows what's beyond the edge.
That's Paul's heart.
Love doesn't only encourage.
Sometimes love warns.
That's why verse 2 suddenly becomes so strong. Paul tells them to watch out for people who are trying to make circumcision necessary for belonging to God's people.
He's not attacking Jewish people. Paul is Jewish.
He's confronting the idea that Jesus needs something added to Him.
And that's the danger.
Jesus + something I must accomplish = my confidence starts moving away from Jesus.
Don't Get This Wrong: God's Instructions Still Matter — 3:2–3
Paul's strong words can be misunderstood.
He isn't saying the Old Testament was bad.
He's not saying God's instructions were foolish.
He's certainly not saying Jewish people were the problem.
God gave Israel circumcision. God gave Israel the Law.
The problem was turning those things into a way of saying:
“This is what makes me right with God.”
That's an important distinction for us too.
We don't obey God to get Him to love us.
We obey because He already loves us and has rescued us through Jesus.
So God's instructions still matter.
We read the Old Testament because it helps us understand who God is, what matters to Him, how He has worked through history, and where the story that leads to Jesus came from.
We take Jesus seriously when He teaches us how to love people, forgive, handle money, serve, tell the truth, deal with enemies, care for people in need, and live differently from the world around us.
Grace doesn't mean:
“Jesus saved me, so now I can do whatever I want.”
Grace means:
“Jesus has done for me what I could never do for myself. Now I want to follow Him.”
We're not piling up good deeds to convince God we're worth saving.
Jesus is enough. We obey because we belong to Him.
🐇 Rabbit Trail: Do Christians Really Need the Old Testament?
Every so often you'll hear a Christian say:
“I'm a New Testament Christian.”
Usually what they mean is something like:
“I follow Jesus. I don't really bother with all that Old Testament stuff.”
I understand why someone might say it.
But there's a major problem.
There is no such thing as Christianity disconnected from the Old Testament.
In fact, when Paul wrote this letter to the Philippians, there wasn't even a completed collection of books called “The New Testament.”
The Scriptures Paul had been trained in his entire life were what we call the Old Testament.
The Scriptures Jesus knew, quoted, taught, and explained were the Old Testament.
The Scriptures Peter, James, John, and the other apostles used to explain Jesus were the Old Testament.
So when someone says, “I don't need the Old Testament; I'm a New Testament Christian,” they are separating Jesus and the apostles from the very Scriptures that shaped their language, teaching, worldview, and understanding of God's story.
The Torah Was Paul's Bible Training
Paul didn't suddenly begin thinking about God when he met Jesus.
He had spent years studying the Scriptures.
The Torah—the first five books of the Bible—was foundational to his training. He knew Israel's story. He knew Abraham, Moses, the Exodus, the covenant, the sacrifices, the prophets, the Psalms, and God's promises.
And after meeting Jesus, Paul didn't throw all of that away.
Jesus changed the way Paul understood it.
Suddenly Paul could see where the whole story had been heading.
The promises to Abraham.
The rescue from Egypt.
The Passover lamb.
The covenant.
The sacrificial system.
The temple.
The prophets.
The promised King.
The hope that God would rescue His people and put the world right.
Jesus didn't make that story irrelevant. Jesus brought the story to its intended destination.
That's why Paul can explain Jesus using Abraham in Romans 4, Adam in Romans 5, Israel's wilderness experience in 1 Corinthians 10, Abraham's family in Galatians, and Deuteronomy in Romans 10.
Take away the Old Testament and huge parts of Paul's teaching stop making sense.
Jesus Didn't Throw Away the Old Testament Either
Jesus constantly taught from these Scriptures.
When Satan tempted Him in the wilderness, Jesus answered from Deuteronomy.
When someone asked Him about the greatest commandment, Jesus didn't invent two new commands. He brought together Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18:
Love God.
Love your neighbor.
Jesus talked about Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Isaiah, Daniel, and others.
After His resurrection, Jesus even explained to His followers how Moses and the Prophets pointed toward what God was doing through Him (Luke 24:27).
Think about that.
If anyone could have said,
“Forget all that old stuff. I'm here now.”
it would have been Jesus.
He didn't.
Instead, Jesus taught people how to understand those Scriptures correctly in light of Himself.
The Apostles Did the Same Thing
Read the sermons in Acts.
Peter stands up on Pentecost and explains Jesus using Joel and the Psalms.
Stephen tells Israel's story from Abraham through Moses and the prophets.
Philip explains Jesus to the Ethiopian man beginning with Isaiah.
The early Christians weren't carrying around leather-bound New Testaments with Jesus' words printed in red.
They proclaimed Jesus from the Scriptures they already had.
Those Scriptures were what we call the Old Testament.
So calling yourself a “New Testament Christian” while ignoring the Old Testament creates a strange problem:
You're trying to understand Jesus while ignoring the Bible Jesus Himself taught from.
Why Do Christians Avoid the Old Testament?
There are understandable reasons.
“It's hard to understand.”
Yes. Parts of it are.
Ancient laws, sacrifices, genealogies, kings, wars, prophets, strange customs—it can feel like entering another world.
But hard to understand doesn't mean unimportant.
It means we need to slow down and learn.
We study the history.
We learn the culture.
We ask why God gave a command.
We understand where something fits in the larger story.
And most importantly, we learn to read the Old Testament with Jesus at the center of the story.
“But we're under grace now.”
Absolutely.
But grace didn't suddenly appear in Matthew.
God has always been gracious.
Who rescued Israel from Egypt?
God.
And notice the order.
God didn't stand in Egypt and say:
“Here's the Law. Keep it perfectly, and then I'll rescue you.”
He rescued them first.
Then He taught rescued people how to live.
That's incredibly important.
Rescue came before instruction.
That same basic pattern appears in the gospel.
God rescues us through Jesus.
Then He teaches rescued people how to live.
Obedience doesn't purchase the rescue.
Obedience is our response to the One who rescued us.
“Jesus changed all those rules.”
Some things absolutely changed with Jesus and the new covenant.
Christians aren't ancient Israel.
We're not living under Israel's national covenant.
We don't offer animals at a temple.
We don't enforce Israel's civil laws.
Gentile Christians aren't commanded to become culturally Jewish.
And that's actually part of Paul's argument here in Philippians 3.
But “some things changed” is very different from “the Old Testament doesn't matter.”
We have to learn to ask better questions:
What did this mean to the people who first received it?
What does it reveal about God?
Where does this fit into God's larger story?
How does Jesus fulfill, clarify, deepen, or transform our understanding of it?
What wisdom or principle should shape the way I follow Jesus today?
That's much better than simply saying:
“Old Testament. Doesn't apply. Skip it.”
“The God of the Old Testament seems different from Jesus.”
This one deserves special attention.
Sometimes people picture the Old Testament as:
Angry God. Rules. Judgment.
Then they picture the New Testament as:
Nice Jesus. Love. Grace.
But the Bible doesn't give us two different Gods.
The Old Testament repeatedly describes God as compassionate, gracious, patient, faithful, forgiving, and overflowing with love.
And Jesus also talked seriously about judgment, obedience, sin, accountability, and the cost of following Him.
The contrast isn't “mean Old Testament God” versus “nice New Testament Jesus.”
It's one unfolding story of the same God.
And Jesus helps us see that story clearly.
Here's Where We Need to Be Careful
None of this means:
“Christians need to obey every Old Testament command exactly as ancient Israel did.”
That's the opposite mistake.
And it's actually close to the problem Paul is fighting in Philippians 3.
Some teachers were telling Gentile believers that faith in Jesus wasn't enough. They needed circumcision and the identity markers of Israel as well.
Paul says no.
So we shouldn't fall into either ditch.
One ditch says:
“I need Jesus PLUS keeping Israel's covenant laws to make myself acceptable to God.”
Paul rejects that.
The other ditch says:
“I have Jesus, so I don't need the Old Testament.”
The apostles would hardly have recognized that way of thinking either.
The better way is:
The Old Testament helps me understand the God Jesus came to reveal, the story Jesus came to fulfill, the problem Jesus came to solve, and the kind of life God has always desired for His people.
And This Brings Us Right Back to Philippians 3
Paul isn't throwing away God's Word.
He's throwing away confidence in his own religious résumé.
That's completely different.
Circumcision wasn't evil.
The Law wasn't evil.
Paul's Jewish heritage wasn't evil.
Knowing Scripture wasn't evil.
The problem came when those good things became the answer to the question:
“Why should God accept me?”
Paul's answer is becoming crystal clear:
Not because of what I've accomplished.
Not because of my family.
Not because of my religious history.
Not because I know more Bible than somebody else.
Not because I've checked all the boxes.
My confidence is in Jesus.
And because my confidence is in Jesus, I don't throw away the Scriptures that brought the story to Him.
I go back and read them with new eyes.
We don't need less Bible because we have Jesus.
Jesus gives us the key to understanding the whole Bible.
OK Rabbit Trail Over... Now let's unpack the rest of Philippians 3:4-11
Paul Pulls Out His Résumé — 3:4–6
Now Paul does something brilliant.
Someone could have responded:
“Easy for you to say, Paul. Maybe you're against religious credentials because you don't have any.”
Paul basically says:
“Oh, I've got them.”
Then he starts listing them.
Circumcised on the eighth day.
Born into Israel.
From the tribe of Benjamin.
A Hebrew of Hebrews.
A Pharisee.
So passionate about his beliefs that he persecuted the church.
When it came to keeping the Law as his religious world measured it, his résumé looked spotless.
Some of those things Paul inherited.
Others he achieved.
That's important.
His family background couldn't save him.
His religious upbringing couldn't save him.
His knowledge couldn't save him.
His passion couldn't save him.
His behavior couldn't save him.
Even his sincerity couldn't save him.
Paul had been sincerely wrong when he persecuted followers of Jesus.
That's worth remembering.
Being passionate about something doesn't make it true.
And being a very religious person doesn't necessarily mean you're trusting God.
You can spend your whole life around Christian things and slowly begin trusting your Christian résumé more than Jesus.
Paul Changes the Scoreboard — 3:7–8
Then comes the shock. Paul says the things he once considered valuable, he now considers worthless compared with Christ.
Don't hear him saying:
“Everything I've ever done was terrible.”
That's not his point.
He's changing the way he keeps score.
Imagine having a spreadsheet with everything you believed made you successful listed in the PROFIT column.
Then you meet Jesus.
Suddenly you realize you've been measuring life with the wrong scoreboard.
Paul moves the whole pile.
What he once counted as his advantage no longer gives him his identity or his confidence before God.
Why?
Because he's found something better:
Knowing Jesus.
And Paul doesn't mean merely knowing facts about Jesus.
You can know Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
You can know He had twelve disciples.
You can know Bible verses.
You can know Christian doctrine.
You can win a Bible trivia contest.
Paul wants more than information.
He wants to know Jesus Himself—to trust Him, follow Him, experience His presence, become like Him, and build his entire life around Him.
That's why Paul's words are so strong.
He's comparing everything else with the greatest treasure he's ever found.
Jesus isn't another item on Paul's list of valuable things.
Jesus changes the value of everything else on the list.
Stop Trying to Prove Yourself — 3:9
This may be the heart of the passage. Paul wants to be found in Christ, not having a right standing with God based on his own performance, but one that comes through faith in Christ.
Put that in everyday language:
Paul stopped trying to hand God his résumé.
He stopped saying:
Look at my family.Look at my religious background.Look how hard I've worked.Look how much I know.Look how committed I've been.Look how good I've been.
Instead:
“I'm trusting Jesus.”
That's Christianity at its core.
You aren't made right with God because you finally became good enough.
You're made right with God because of what Jesus has done, and you place your trust in Him.
That doesn't produce laziness.
Remember what Paul just said in Philippians 2:12–13: God is working in His people, and that work should become visible in the way they live.
So effort isn't the enemy.
Trusting your effort is the problem.
There's a huge difference.
You can work hard at following Jesus without believing your hard work is what saves you.
Effort is part of following Jesus. Effort is not a replacement for trusting Jesus.
Paul Wants More Than a Ticket to Heaven — 3:10
Then Paul says:
“I want to know Christ.”
Think about who's saying this.
Paul.
If anybody could say, “I've arrived,” you'd think it would be him.
Yet Paul still wants to know Jesus more.
That tells us something important about following Jesus.
Christianity isn't simply:
“I believed in Jesus, so now I'm going to heaven someday.”
Paul wants his life right now to become wrapped up in the life of Jesus.
He wants to know the power that raised Jesus from the dead.
That sounds great.
Then comes the part we'd probably rather skip.
Paul also talks about sharing in Christ's suffering.
He's not saying suffering earns points with God.
He's not telling Christians to go looking for pain.
He's saying:
“I want to follow Jesus wherever following Him takes me.”
Even when obedience costs something.
Even when loving someone is difficult.
Even when doing what's right makes life harder.
Even when serving means sacrifice.
Even when following Jesus doesn't produce the comfortable life I hoped it would.
Paul doesn't want the power of Jesus without the way of Jesus.
And the way of Jesus includes giving yourself for others.
Paul Looks Toward Resurrection — 3:11
Paul finishes this section looking forward to resurrection.
His hope isn't simply:
“Someday I'll escape this world.”
His hope is that the God who raised Jesus from the dead will also raise His people.
Death doesn't get the last word.
Rome doesn't get the last word.
Suffering doesn't get the last word.
Our failures don't get the last word.
Jesus does.
That's why Paul can loosen his grip on everything else.
His future doesn't depend on maintaining the perfect résumé.
His future belongs to Jesus.
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Why Context Changes Everything
If we pull Philippians 3:1–11 away from the rest of the letter, we can easily turn it into a generic message about “trying harder” or “being more spiritual.”
That's almost the opposite of Paul's point.
He's writing to real believers who were facing pressure to add religious credentials to Jesus. And this comes immediately after Paul has told them to live with the mindset of Jesus.
So Paul isn't choosing between faith and obedience.
He's showing them where obedience begins.
Jesus saves you. Jesus becomes your confidence. Then your life begins changing because you belong to Him.
The order matters.
Applying It Wrong
“The Old Testament Doesn't Matter Anymore.”
That's not Paul's argument.
He's attacking confidence in religious performance—not God's Word. The Old Testament is part of the story that helps us understand God, humanity, sin, covenant, justice, mercy, sacrifice, and ultimately Jesus.
“If Jesus Saves Me, It Doesn't Matter How I Live.”
Paul would strongly disagree.
Grace isn't permission to ignore Jesus.
If Jesus really becomes our King, we increasingly want to live His way.
“All Religious Practices Are Bad.”
Bible reading isn't bad. Church isn't bad. Giving isn't bad. Serving isn't bad. Baptism isn't bad. Prayer isn't bad.
The danger comes when good practices become the basis of our confidence:
“God must accept me because I do these things.”
“Paul Says Everything in His Past Was Garbage.”
Paul isn't saying his Jewish heritage was evil.
He's saying none of it could make him right with God.
Even good things become dangerous when we ask them to do something only Jesus can do.
“Faith Means Effort Doesn't Matter.”
Paul worked incredibly hard.
The issue isn't effort.
The issue is what you're trusting.
You follow, obey, serve, learn, grow, forgive, give, and love—not to purchase God's acceptance, but because Jesus has already rescued you.
Applying It Well
Ask What You're Actually Trusting
It's easy to say, “I trust Jesus.”
But where does your confidence really come from?
Your church attendance?
Your denomination?
How long you've been a Christian?
Your Bible knowledge?
Your political positions?
Your generosity?
The sins you don't commit?
Paul invites us to put the résumé down.
Let Grace Lead to Obedience
Jesus being enough doesn't make obedience less important.
It gives obedience the right motive.
You're not trying to make God love you.
You're learning to live like someone who knows He already does.
Make Knowing Jesus the Goal
The goal isn't becoming the person who knows the most Bible facts.
We study Scripture because we want to know the God Scripture reveals.
Ask: “Is what I'm learning actually changing the way I live?”
That's where Bible study becomes discipleship.
Follow Jesus Even When It Costs Something
Paul doesn't only want resurrection power.
He's willing to share in Christ's suffering.
Following Jesus will sometimes cost comfort, convenience, money, reputation, opportunities, or simply getting your own way.
That's not necessarily evidence that something has gone wrong.
Sometimes that's exactly what following Jesus looks like.
Questions to Chew on and Discuss:
These questions are designed to help you personally dig deeper into the passage and help guide your discussions in your Journey Groups and Me & 3 small groups.
Looking Closer
What do you notice?
What is Paul warning the Philippians about, and why does he take the danger so seriously?
What parts of Paul's impressive religious résumé could he have trusted in?
What does Paul say is worth more than everything he once counted on?
According to verses 9–10, what is Paul trusting in now, and what does he want most?
Understanding It
What did it mean then?
If you wrote your own “Christian résumé,” what would you be tempted to put on it?
What good things—church attendance, Bible knowledge, serving, giving, family background—could quietly become reasons you think, “God must be pleased with me”?
When someone lovingly warns or corrects you, do you usually listen first or defend yourself?
Am I mostly learning about Jesus, or is knowing and following Jesus actually changing how I live?
Let It Challenge You
What is God inviting you to notice?
Do I ever look at another Christian and quietly think, “I'm doing better than they are”?
Have I added rules or expectations for what a “good Christian” looks like that Jesus never actually required?
Do the people closest to me experience more grace or judgment from me?
Who in my life loves me enough—and has permission—to tell me when I'm getting off track?
Live It Out
What will you do?
What am I tempted to trust in besides Jesus to convince myself that I'm doing okay with God?
What is one thing Jesus has already taught me that I need to actually start doing?
What's one step I can take this week to know and follow Jesus more, instead of simply learning more information?
Finish this honestly: “Because Jesus is enough, I can stop __________ and start __________.”
Journey Group OR ME & 3 Small Group Discussion Starters:
If you're using this guide with your Journey Group, Me & 3 group, or a few friends, don't feel like you need to work through every question. Start with something that gets people talking and then let the conversation go deeper.
Discussion Starter 1: Build Your Résumé
Imagine everyone had to submit a one-page “Christian résumé” proving why God should accept them.
What would people be tempted to put on it?
Church attendance? Giving? Bible knowledge? Years as a Christian? Missions trips? Good behavior? Being raised in church?
Talk about why those things can be genuinely good and still become dangerous if we begin trusting them.
Then discuss:
How can we practice these things without making them our source of confidence before God?
Discussion Starter 2: Who Can Tell You You're Wrong?
Paul loved the Philippians enough to repeatedly warn them.
Talk honestly about this question:
Who has permission to tell you that you're getting off track?
Why do we sometimes interpret correction as control?
What would a healthy relationship look like where people can encourage one another, challenge one another, and say, “I love you, but I think you're headed toward the guardrail”?
Remember This
Nothing you accomplish can replace trusting Jesus.
Hard work matters. Obedience matters. Bible study matters. Serving matters. How you live matters.
But none of those things are Jesus.
We don't obey to convince God to rescue us.
God rescues us through Jesus, and then we spend our lives learning to follow the One who rescued us.
Sum It Up
Paul had an impressive religious résumé—family background, education, Bible knowledge, discipline, passion, and accomplishments. But when he encountered Jesus, he realized none of those good things could do what only Jesus could do: make him right with God.
Paul didn't stop studying, obeying, serving, or caring about how he lived. What changed was why he did those things. He wasn't trying to earn God's acceptance anymore; he was responding to the God who had already rescued him.
So Paul stopped putting his confidence in himself and made his goal beautifully simple: “I want to know Christ.” That's the invitation for us too. Stop trying to prove yourself or compare your spiritual résumé with someone else's. Trust Jesus with what only He can do, then spend your life learning to know Him, trust Him, and follow Him.
Jesus isn't another accomplishment to add to your life. Knowing Jesus is the treasure that changes everything else.
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Verse 1
Let this mind be found in us,
The humble heart of Christ.
Teach us, Lord, to walk Your way,
To lay our own lives down.
Though You were the Holy One,
King above all kings,
You did not hold tightly to the glory that was Yours.
Chorus
Jesus, You came down to lift us up.
Jesus, You gave everything in love.
We will bow, we will sing,You alone are King.
Jesus Christ is Lord forever.
Verse 2
You chose the servant's place,
You came in flesh like us.
You walked the road of suffering, Faithful to the Father.
You obeyed unto the cross,
Bearing all our shame.
Love was written on the nails,
Mercy called our name.
Chorus
Jesus, You came down to lift us up.
Jesus, You gave everything in love.
We will bow, we will sing, You alone are King.
Jesus Christ is Lord forever.
Bridge
God has raised You high above all,
Given You the highest name.
Every knee will bow before You,
Every tongue Your praise proclaim.
Heaven, earth, and all creation
Will declare what now we know:
Jesus Christ is Lord forever,
To the Father's glory shown.
Final Chorus
Jesus, You came down to lift us up.
Jesus, You gave everything in love.
Every heart, every voice,
Now will all rejoice.
Jesus Christ is Lord forever.
Tag
Jesus Christ is Lord.
Jesus Christ is Lord.
To the glory of the Father.
Jesus Christ is Lord.
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