These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. It may well be that one of our faults is our desire for novelty. The Lord is at hand." Paul said, "No, I came out of that. Observe, Those who think they have grace enough give proof that they have little enough, or rather that they have none at all; because, wherever there is true grace, there is a desire of more grace, and a pressing towards the perfection of grace. It is not a question of acceptance in Christ. It is our progress then that we are to forget. It was not thus that the true-hearted Philippians felt; and spiritual feeling is worth more than all reasoning. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus," feeling, judgment, everything, guarded and governed by this precious peace of God. The Christian awaits the coming of Christ, at which everything will be changed. Yea [not and], I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labour with me." WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. (b) It is the guarantee of the life to come ( Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:14 ff.). "* Clearly we here look out of the world and into a state to come, when we have the consummation of our hopes and the end of the journey. It might have been thought that so much the more would Paul need his love and services. We now heard what the apostle renounced; let us now see what he laid hold on, and resolved to cleave to, namely, Christ and heaven. "Rejoice in the Lord alway." "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed." The hope of the Christian is that the day will come when his humanity will be changed into nothing less than the divinity of Christ, and when the necessary lowliness of mortality will be changed into the essential splendour of deathless life. Christian joy made Wesley able to accept the great blows of life, and also to greet the lesser discomforts with a jest. Now here we have what is present; so that the passage presents some difficulty to souls because of intermingling the present with the future. Not so Paul. Had it been a question of his apostolic dignity, this could not have been; but an apostle even could, and did, and loved to, take the place of one that served others whom he viewed directly in their relationship to Christ. But not the righteousness which God has accounted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. But this is not the character of Christian joy. It was in the body that Christ rose and it is this body which he sanctifies ( 1 Corinthians 6:13 ff.). So, those things which we once gained, those things which were once so important to me, I counted loss, and I forget those things which are behind, because I am pressing forth for those things which are before. Whatever the case, all should make sure that they do not slip back from the standard of practical holiness they have already reached (15-16). "My bonds in Christ," he says, "are manifest in all the palace." Here, my entire life I have never done anything wrong, have been going by the rules, up till now. With Him you will be right about the gospel, right about the church, right about doctrine, walk, and service. It was seen laid in the grave of Christ. As the Christian has died with Christ, been buried with Him, been raised with Him, and now walks with Him, he will also be glorified together with Him. And so Paul says, "Beware of those who would mutilate your body, for we are of those who are circumcised in the spirit." Hers is a more delicate place than that which becomes the man, and one which a man attempting it would awkwardly fill. WebHe was naturally grateful to the Philippians, but more so to God who had worked such kindness through the Philippians. For it is not meant looking to Him now, or having Him as one's life: to win Christ means having Him at the other side. It expresses expectation. We now heard what the apostle renounced; let us now see what he laid hold on, and resolved to cleave to, namely, Because he lives, we shall live also; his victory is our victory. Oh, it is a blessed thing, that in the midst of the sorrows of this world, the Holy Spirit knows how thus to blend the name of Christ, as the sweetest balm, with the sorrow, however bitter, and to make the very memory of the grief pleasant because of Christ, who deigns to let Himself into it all. Remembering that, we try to paraphrase this passage and to set down, not so much what Paul says, as what was in his mind. There was the very reverse in Paul's case. As he had said elsewhere before, so he says here, "Be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. He is referring to it, "The things which were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ, thirty years ago, on the road to Damascus." He was a Pharisee. "All that time, Mr. Wesley and I lay on the floor: he had my greatcoat for a pillow, and I had Burkitt's notes on the New Testament for mine. And though I may have a fleshly rite, if my heart was after the things of the flesh, then what happened to me physically has no bearing upon my relationship with God at all.The same can be said of any of the other rites that we have within the church. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. Much akin to Pauls straining toward what is ahead; this racers concentration on So, she decided that she would make for herself a new dress for the senior prom. and mark them which walk so as ye have us for your ensample [example]. We are not to suppose that, because we are men, we monopolise all the gifts of Christ. Skubala has two meanings. He no longer existed. forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before ( Philippians 3:13 ), We haven't seen anything yet. Christ was "without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation." Soul (14+ yrs) CY (11-14 yrs) Epic Explorers (kids) Universal Editions; Promotional materials; Translations; Booklets and tracts; Books; Shop by Type; Evangelistic Books; "I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you," says he, after his usual salutation and wish, "always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy.". He is author of. ( 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 ), When Jesus comes again, we will each experience a metamorphosis. Jesus wasn't resurrected until he first went to the cross. They may have been Gnostics. F and G, by manifest error, read , and this seems to have been corrected (or rather corrupted) in order to make sense into (omitting ) in K and L and the mass of cursives. I mean, you have got to give it every effort, working through pain, beyond the pain threshold. It is what enabled him to look at the saints, as he called them to look at one another, esteeming others, as he says, better than themselves. i. Jesus was not merely resuscitated from the dead in the same body. It describes him with eyes for nothing but the goal. The point is this. One possibility is that Paul was thinking of his spiritual co-resurrection with Christ. Observe, The best men in the world will readily own their imperfection in the present state. Codd. Far from him was the vanity of being the man first to preach Christ in the great metropolis. However there is no other Scripture that teaches a difference in the resurrection of faithful and unfaithful believers. No man knew better from personal experience what Jewish religion was at its highest and most demanding. The expression intimates that we have need to strive for him and after him, and that all is little enough to win him. that is miserable to God, we can go on delighting in the goodness of God, as well as in its fruits. Such things only prevented him from trusting in Christ (4-7). And what is the true divine rule? The new body, the building of God not made with human hands, the eternal house that God has created for my spirit. There were those who distorted the Christian doctrine of grace. ( Judges 5:14; Hosea 5:8). Videos. WebComplete Concise He cautions them against judaizing seducers (v. 1-3) and proposes his own example: and here he enumerates the privileges of his Jewish state which he It is not the physical experience that saves, it is the spiritual: the death to the old nature and the old man in my heart, the reckoning of myself to be dead, and living that new life in the resurrected Lord. The Lord has laid down their places respectively with distinctness. [Paul] also speaks positively in verses 1214 of what he is doing in light of the incompleteness of his spiritual journey. Himself the striking witness to the contrary, he looked for nothing less in the saints he so dearly loved. Paul had discovered that a right relationship with God is based not on Law but on faith in Jesus Christ. All these things Paul might have claimed to set down on the credit side of the balance; but when he met Christ, he wrote them off as nothing more than bad debts. But so it is; and thus the food of faith becomes the poison of unbelief. Such did, such was, Christ. Paul said. 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. When Christ laid hold of us, it was to bring us to heaven; and to apprehend that for which he apprehended us is to attain the perfection of our bliss. "I have attained, I have achieved. Hence he desired that their conversation should be as became such zeal; "that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.". And as he headed out towards Damascus, he was going out with threatenings of murder against the believers. Hence it may be remarked that in the epistle to the Philippians it is not a question of lusts of the flesh; the flesh is not so much as named here, except in a religious way; not in its gross sins, as man would judge, but in its pretensions to religion. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. (ii) Here also Paul sets down what we might call the necessity of repetition. But the (trace of Christ wrought in them all; and that was the great joy and delight of the apostle's heart. This explains the unusual word Paul employed that appears only here in the Greek New Testament. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect [would be complete], be thus minded [let this be in your mind] ( Philippians 3:14-15 ): Let this be the same rule for your life. Who they were is not certain. And so accordingly His servant says here, "If I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour.". Not only do we have the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, but we have the privilege of gathering together and studying the word of God together. It is not legal experience, for which you must turn to the chapter spoken of inRomans 7:1-25; Romans 7:1-25, the only bit of a saint's experience under law, as far as I know, that the New Testament affords (certainly in the epistles). Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. "A lot of people testify of an experience that they had in Christ years ago. Christ was surely blameless in the highest sense, as His ways were harmless, "holy, harmless, undefiled," as it is said elsewhere. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Now, Paul said in his Roman epistle, "I know in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good thing." For there are many who behave in such a way--I have often spoken to you about them, and I do so now with tears--that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ. He associates Timothy with himself, not merely, as elsewhere, himself apostle and Timothy in some other relation, but here conjointly "Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ." Superficially this verse seems to suggest that Paul had some doubt about the certainty of his resurrection. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. The tribe of Benjamin had the place of honour in Israel's battle-line, so that the battle-cry of Israel was: "After thee, O Benjamin!" Every teacher must be more anxious to listen to God than to propagate his own opinions or he, too, will run the risk of being a worker of evil, even when he thinks that he is a worker of righteousness. all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love. He provides his own life as an example to the Philippians to follow as opposed to the false teachers. And observe, too, that the apostle felt the value of others' prayers. Hence it is that, although doctrine is sparse, if not almost excluded, nevertheless what little appears comes in as ancillary to the main purpose. [Note: Saucy, p. Paul felt that when Christ stopped him on the Damascus Road, he had a vision and a purpose for Paul; and Paul felt that all his life he was bound to press on, lest he fail Jesus and frustrate his dream. After a dead dog! Dikaiosune ( G1343) is always difficult to translate in Paul's letters. And with a lot of people, there is just a lot of bad experiences in the past. A man must always have a care that he is not himself guilty of the sins of which he accuses others. We need to draw from God, the spring and the only supplier of power that can resist the devil; but, at the same time, that we have the devil to resist in His power is a conviction that may well demand "fear and trembling;" and this, lest in such a conflict we should let in anything of self, which would at once give a handle to the devil. Proud member At any rate they endured the conflicts of the gospel in its earlier days at Philippi. Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. 661.] Why, it was gain. 3:8-9 Yes, and I still count all things loss, because of the all-surpassing value of what it means to know Jesus Christ, my Lord. And that he ever was anything but a prisoner there, man at least cannot say. Israel was the name which had been specially given to Jacob by God after his wrestling with him ( Genesis 32:28). We love him because he first loved us,1 John 4:19. He had put all, as it were, into the hands of Christ, who had Himself given him His own comfort about it. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is the efficient cause, for this the apostle had attained to; unless the consummation of that spiritual life, in perfect holiness, should be intended, than which nothing was more desirable by him; nor in a representative sense, for this also he enjoyed in Christ his head, being risen with him, and in him, when he rose from the dead; but in a literal sense and designs not the general resurrection of the just and unjust, which he believed; for he knew that everyone must, and will attain to this, even Pharaoh, Judas, and the worst of men; but the special and particular resurrection of the righteous, the better resurrection, which will be first, and upon the personal coming of Christ, and by virtue of union to him, and in a glorious manner, and to everlasting life and happiness: and when the apostle says, "if by any means" he might attain to this, it is not to be understood as if he doubted of it, which would be inconsistent with his firm persuasion, that nothing should separate him from the love of God, and with his full assurance of faith, as to interest in Jesus Christ; but it denotes the difficulty of attaining it, since through various afflictions and great tribulations a believer must pass, before he comes to it; and also the apostle's earnest desire of it, and strenuous endeavour for it; not caring what scenes of trouble, or sea of sorrow what fiery trials, severe sufferings, or cruel death he went through, so be it he obtained as he believed he should, the glorious and better resurrection; he counted not his life dear to himself, he loved it not unto death, having in view the blissful and happy state after it. 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Next follow various exhortations, as to be of the same mind with the apostle in pressing after spiritual and heavenly things, to which he exhorts those that had a greater knowledge of them than others; and who, though otherwise minded, the apostle was persuaded would have, the same revealed to them, Php 3:15, and both he exhorts, according to their different attainments, to walk by the same rule and mind the same thing, Php 3:16, and to be followers of him, and of them that walked after his example, Php 3:17, giving this as a reason, because there were men who walked otherwise, to the grief of him, to the dishonour of Christ, and to their own shame and destruction, whom he describes as sensual and earthly minded men, Php 3:18,19, and to engage them to follow him, and others, and not such persons, he draws a character of them opposite unto them; that whereas the minds of those others were carnal and earthly, their minds were spiritual and heavenly; their conversation was in heaven, and they were waiting for Christ from hence, Php 3:20, and the blessedness they expect from him then, is the resurrection of their bodies, which is illustrated by the efficient cause of it, Christ; the subject of it, their vile bodies, as in this lifts, and in the grave; the exemplar and pattern of it, the glorious body of Christ; and the means by which it will be effected, the energy and power of Christ, who is omnipotent, Php 3:21. It is his own personal experience; and this is the reason why we have "I" so often here. Joy should be the normal state of the Christian. But while a man is quite unfit to do a woman's work, can it be doubted that a woman brings no honour to herself, or to the Lord, by attempting to do a man's task? "And the fellowship of his sufferings" again and certainly a present thing, not relating to heaven. The words that Paul used seem to indicate that he was thinking of a resurrection from among those who were dead. Living in the past, there is always that danger of discouragement, which shuts off initiative for the future. WebHe was naturally grateful to the Philippians, but more so to God who had worked such kindness through the Philippians. There is nothing so unaffectedly humble as real faith, and, above all, that character of faith which lives on Christ, and which consequently lives Christ. The great basic problem of life is to find fellowship with God and to be at peace and in friendship with him. This is nothing to be surprised at. ", Finally, he calls them again to rejoice, and now with more emphasis than ever. He desired not anything for himself, but only what should abound to their account in the day of Jesus Christ. Thus we know how on approaching Rome Paul was lifted up and comforted, as he saw those who came to greet him. This construction is probably insignificant, but perhaps Paul is distinguishing the resurrection of the body from the spiritual resurrection that occurs at baptism. It describes the man who is going flat out for the finish. And the young girl went outside, and there was a limousine chauffeur, and they went down to I. Magnum's, and the chauffeur took the car up. (i) He had been circumcised when he was eight days old. Work hard at doing that which is right. It may be remarked here, that from an expression often misunderstood in Philippians 2:1-30 it might seem as if the apostle wished somehow to weaken their confidence. Jesus is Jehovah, although a man; consequently the bowing in that name to the glory of God the Father does not occur to the apostle. This will not detract for an instant from the perfect enjoyment of Christ, but rather promote it so much the more, making it more evidently and always pure grace even in glory. God, I thank you that I am so good," that pride and self-righteousness. It is right that the patriot should love his country. He will reach it only on the day when Christ returns and raises the righteous from death. When God entered into his special covenant with Abraham, circumcision was laid down as its eternal sign. He is encouraged to keep moving towards this goal by his knowledge that final victory over sin, suffering and death is certain (10-11).Paul knows that he will not reach perfection in this life. Here, accordingly, it is not the outgoings of love, but the zeal that burns indignantly as to what dishonours the Lord. What he means by forgetting the things that are behind is, that we should not think of any progress we may have made in following Christ, that we should lose sight of everything calculated to give us self-satisfaction. It is the personal experience of another person. Benjamin was the child of Rachel, the well-loved wife of Jacob, and of all the twelve patriarchs he alone had been born in the Promised Land ( Genesis 35:17-18). Because this is going to bring him an estrangement from his cronies back in Jerusalem that he has been going around with.Paul is writing this epistle to the Philippians some thirty years after the Damascus road experience. He is exalting Christ. Yes. They went in. Need it be said that it has not the less its own proper office on that account? She couldn't buy a dress, but she really didn't have much money to buy very good material. ", Blessed is this confidence in Christ, and wondrous are His ways! No; it is practical. Therefore he intreated them to "do all things without murmurings and reasonings, that they might be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom they shone as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life." b. John Piper @JohnPiper. The Christian places his confidence only in the mercy of God and in the love of Jesus Christ. He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. The Resurrection of Christ is the guarantee that this life is worth living and that the physical body is sacred; it is the guarantee that death is not the end of life and that there is a world beyond; it is the guarantee that nothing in life or in death can separate us from him. When that event takes place God will snatch Christians out from among the spiritually dead (unbelievers). I want to hold on to the things of the flesh." The effect of their teaching was to take men further away from God instead of to bring them nearer to him. Paul finishes with the Christian hope. In Php_3:15 he again uses teleios ( G5046) and says that this must be the attitude of those who are teleios ( G5046) . But the day is coming when every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth." It is the cry of the Psalmist: "Zeal for thy house has consumed me." THE ONLY TRUE CIRCUMCISION ( Php_3:2-3 continued), (iii) Lastly, he calls them, the party of mutilation. [Note: See Gerald B. Stanton, Kept from the Hour, pp. Dr. S. T. Bloomfield indeed (Addit. Notwithstanding, it has been already explained that the man has a relative place as the image and glory of God, being set in a remarkable position between God and the woman in matters of outward decorum. There is but one title, there can be no sufficient ground but the name of Christ Christ known and confessed in the Holy Ghost; and where He is simply before us, the progress is most real, if not always easy and sensible. The word he uses for reaching out (epekteinomenos, G1901) is very vivid and is used of a racer going hard for the tape. It was the exact reverse in good of what the Galatians were in evil, for they had been cordial and bright when the apostle was with them; but directly his back was turned, their hearts were alienated. They really mind the earthly things. THE WORTHLESSNESS OF THE LAW AND THE VALUE OF CHRIST ( Php_3:8-9 ). From one point of view it looked as if Christianity was a grim job. I was circumcised when I was eight days old: I am of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin: I am a Hebrew, born of Hebrew parents. [Note: Idem, "Raised to Run," Grace Evangelical Society News 6:8 (August 1991):2.]. but for you it is safe. The disciples found it difficult to handle when Jesus started talking about the suffering that he was to experience, and Peter cried out, "Lord, be that far from thee." What might you and I have thought of such? Abraham and those saints of the Old Testament, the scripture said, confessed that they were just strangers and pilgrims on this earth, that they were looking for the city which hath foundations whose maker and builder is God. The apostle would remind us that even he "must watch and pray continually to abide in the fellowship of Christs sufferingfor only in that way the glorification with Christwill be attained" (Silva 193, quoting J.J. Muller). Hence he thus opens, "Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown." Annotations in loc.) For we can all understand joy in believing; we can readily feel how natural is joy to the Christian who dwells on his eternal portion. And so they go back to the past, and they pick up the failures of the past, and they are discouraged to try anything in the future. He had proved long the power and the joy of Christ for every day, and for every circumstance of it. One morning Wesley had preached with great effect: "As we returned, Mr. Wesley stopped his horse to pick the blackberries, saying: 'Brother Nelson, we ought to be thankful that there are plenty blackberries; for this is the best country I ever saw for getting a stomach, but the worst I ever saw for getting food!'" (1-2) Warning against the influence of legalistic And He said, "I am Jesus. His intent is to bring to mind the resurrection, not of "all who are in the grave," but more specifically, the resurrection of the saved (1 Thessalonians 4:16). 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