WHAT HAVE YOU LOST FOR HIS SAKE?

 PHILLIPIANS 3:7-10

BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THOSE I COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST.
YEA DOUBTLESS, AND I COUNT ALL THINGS BUT LOSS FOR THE EXCELLENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS MY LORD: FOR WHOM I HAVE SUFFERED THE LOSS OF ALL THINGS, AND DO COUNT THEM BUT DUNG, THAT I MAY WIN CHRIST,
AND BE FOUND IN HIM, NOT HAVING MINE OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF GOD BY FAITH:
THAT I MAY KNOW HIM, AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION, AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS, AND BEING MADE CONFORMABLE UNTO HIS DEATH.

These are perilous times that we are living in. Paul began giving a testimony about the natural laws concerning promise and his place in genealogy within the Hebrew lineage, but he wanted to focus on the fact that he gave up the natural and carnal for the spiritual and things that were eternal.
When seeking the face of God you’re going to lose some things for the sake of righteousness especially in the end times. Some folks don’t want to let go of anything natural but Think they will still enter into a spiritual kingdom. To lose is to gain.

Acts 4:32

AND THE MULTITUDE OF THEM THAT BELIEVED WERE OF ONE HEART AND OF ONE SOUL: NEITHER SAID ANY OF THEM THAT AUGHT OF THE THINGS WHICH HE POSSESSED WAS HIS OWN; BUT THEY HAD ALL THINGS COMMON.
AND WITH GREAT POWER GAVE THE APOSTLES WITNESS OF THE RESSURECTION OF THE LORD JESUS: AND GREAT GRACE WAS UPON THEM ALL.
NEITH WAS THERE ANY AMONG THEM THAT LACKED; FOR AS MANY AS WERE POSSESSORS OF LANDS AND HOUSES SOLD THEM, AND BROUGHT THE PRICES OF THE THINGS THAT WERE SOLD.
AND LAID THEM DOWN AT THE APOSTLES’ FEET: AND DISTRIBUTION WAS MADE UNTO EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HE HAD NEED.

We must be willing to suffer and lose things for Christ is the greater gain. Those who are not willing to leave mother, father, sister or brother and deny himself and take up his cross is not worthy of the Lord. Paul stated that the things which happened to him were for the furtherance of the gospel. What we lose...even the sufferings are to gain the kingdom. Our reasonable service is to partake in the sufferings and being made conformable to the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.
Oftentimes the flesh wants us to attempt to establish our own righteousness based on works of the law and of the flesh. However, the Lord says if we do according to the law then it is no more of the faith and without faith it is impossible to please the Lord. We must follow hard after the Lord that we may obtain and apprehend that which we have been believing for from the beginning.