TAT 140 Phil. 3:12–13
I know some of you struggle with Phil. 3:12. So, lets put a few verses between Phil. 3:12 and 3:13 to clarify.
Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of THAT for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:12)
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James. 1:2-4)
For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you be made complete. (2Co 13:9)
for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
(Eph. 4:12-13)
Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, (Heb 6:1)
grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (2 Pet. 3:18)
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, (Phi 3:13)