skubalon?

Skubalon?


We as a group have been spending time trying to reflect on our families, goals, passions and ambition in life. We are developing who and what we are. In other words, to find our "Identity".

To use Paul as an example, we look to how he viewed his "Identity".

3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;
3:6
as to zeal , a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.


It sounds like Paul knew who he was and what he was.

3:7
But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
3:8
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
3:9
and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
3:10
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
3:11
in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Paul laid down all that he was, "Identity", that he would find his "Identity" in Christ. Paul refers to the status of who and what he was as rubbish. Rubbish in the Greek is "skubalon". You'll have to figure out the definition by clicking on the word rubbish in the passage above.