Philippians 3:8-9 English Standard Version
8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
Imagine a chalk board used in teaching.
Write the lie.
Then write the truth.
Both appear on the chalk board have to be dealt with.
Paul had the best Old Testament teaching available. He took it all and threw it in the trash, removing it from sight.
We are human and the idea of removing every memory is impossible to those who have lived long lives faced with many lies, many experiences, and many abuses.
How can we just ignore our memories?
That is accomplished by living a life of faith in Christ who dwells in our hearts. It is not head knowledge we seek but heart knowledge. One ancient teaching indicates that the heart is the true seat of choice.
When truth dwells in our hearts we can choose truth over memory and act out of faith and not experience.
This concept is not of the world, it is Kingdom living. No one with maturity expects the old babes in Christ to practice living by faith immediately. We all need to learn to listen to spiritual reasoning.
Examples of spiritual reasoning are found throughout the bible but we need to search it out to see it.
Seeing with these spiritual eyes is new to all the babes in Christ, young and old.
Let us look at Psalm 2 and see what happened in the world and the spiritual response that God shows us.