Philippians 3:1-6 No Confidence in the Flesh

Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. The grounds for salvation is that it cannot be earned. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. By grace we are saved by faith, but not of works lest any man should boast. Yet in the world we are told to be independent and your own man not recognizing the source of freedom and power is based on the work of Christ, raised from the dead. In him we find our righteousness and in him we have liberty and in him we are reconciled to God and in him we have an inheritance. When we quest for independence from God, we commit the sin of Satan and lose all of our privileges before a holy God.