WebHe was naturally grateful to the Philippians, but more so to God who had worked such kindness through the Philippians. No teacher must find it a trouble to go over and over again the great basic truths of the Christian faith; for that is the way to ensure the safety of his hearers. Don't you know that Christians don't have to suffer? 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. If then, matter is essentially evil, the body is essentially evil and will remain evil whatever you do with it. According to Jewish belief, circumcision was ordained upon Israel as sign and symbol that they were the people with whom God had entered into a special relationship. And thus it was the power of the Spirit of God that gave him to look out in the midst of all that he passed through day by day, that all, whatever it might be, should be done to Christ, and so too all by Christ, the Holy Ghost working it, so to speak, in his soul to give him simply and settledly in everything that occurred an opportunity of having Christ Himself as the substance of his living and serving, no matter what might come in the course of duty. To the saints it will be indeed a resurrection, a return to bliss, and life, and glory; while the resurrection of the wicked is a rising from the grave, but a return to a second death. Salem Media Group. What the happiness of heaven is: it is to apprehend that for which we are apprehended of Christ. So, let this be your mind, let this be your attitude, follow me. That was a common name by which the Jews referred to the Gentiles: the gentile dogs. The resurrection is the ultimate goal for all Christians. But so it is; and thus the food of faith becomes the poison of unbelief. The supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus shows itself in dependence, and this expresses itself therefore in prayer to God. It is a description that might almost do for Christ himself, so high is the standard for those that belong to Christ. WebPhilippians 3:14 Once a man or woman has trusted the Lord Jesus as Saviour, he embarks on a race through life to the finishing post. Word Format PDF Format. WebIt is consciousness contemplating its riches, counting its gains. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. It does not matter how unlike they may be, or how opposed; it does not matter what vessels of shame and misery they may have been now; "He is able to subdue all things unto himself.". By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. The more one enjoys Christ here, the more one wants to be with Him there. It is perfectly possible for a man to go through an elaborate liturgy and yet have a heart that is far away from God. The fitter we grow for heaven the faster we must press towards it. What might you and I have thought of such? And now, follow me as an example, live by this rule, because there are those who don't live by this rule. And thus the name dog the Jews began to apply to the Gentiles. 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). And the righteousness is accounted to me by my faith in Him. The critical reading he owns has force and propriety; but he does "not see why . There were those who distorted the principle of Christian liberty. I mean, you have got to give it every effort, working through pain, beyond the pain threshold. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. Furthermore the resurrection he said he hoped to attain was still future whereas he had already experienced spiritual resurrection with Christ to newness of life (Romans 6:1-11; Galatians 2:20). shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. But Paul forgot the things which were behind so as not to be content with present measures of grace: he was still for having more and more. They had separated themselves off from all common life and from all common tasks in order to make it the one aim of their lives to keep every smallest detail of the Law. It often happens that men can stand the great sorrows and the great trials of life but are undone by what are almost minor inconveniences. 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." Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. I can do all things through him who strengtheneth me." As he who runs a race never takes up short of the end, but is still making forwards as fast as he can, so those who have heaven in their eye must still be pressing forward to it in holy desires and hopes, and constant endeavours and preparations. 3:1 As for what remains, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. The trial is to keep that joy undimmed in the midst of the difficulties and sorrows that every day may bring. "That I may know him." Already knowing Jesus as his Savior, he now desires to know 26 December 2021 AM Philippians 3:13-14 Scott Childs. "What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ." She laid the thing out, carefully cut it out, but she really had never sewn anything before. "I want to know him; I want to know him completely." The dogs were the pariah dogs, roaming the streets, sometimes in packs, hunting amidst the garbage dumps and snapping and snarling at all whom they met. And so, when He is finished with me here, this robe of flesh I will drop and rise to seize the everlasting prize and shout while passing through the air. (iii) It means to be so united with Christ that day by day we come more to share in his death, so that finally we share in his Resurrection. We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. It is needless to recount the comments on these words. In Hebrew the verb is yada' ( H3045) and in Greek it is translated by ginoskein ( G1097) . Does this content our hearts? Who have had more mournful proofs of the danger of putting saints practically in the place of Christ? It is not sentiment, but a genuine feeling, thus "looking not each at his own things, but each also at the things of others." To abound in love is far from declension. I blew it. When the revival swept England the son was in York jail. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord ( Philippians 3:1 ). In the context he had been speaking of suffering and dying with Him. The peace which God has in everything He will communicate to keep you in everything; and not only so, but the heart, being free from care, will enter into what pleases Him. It was this that so cheered the apostle's heart in his loneliness often, in his desertion sometimes, when the sight of a brother would have given fresh courage to his heart. 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. The scriptures affirm clearly the assurance of salvation; yet: Paul wants to impress upon us the difficulties, struggles, and hindrances that attend the believers life. They are enemies to the cross of Christ, not to Christ Himself, but to that aspect of suffering with Him,". So this is Paul's answer to the Jewish teachers. Julius Caesar was declared to be the universal savior of mankind. It then became a common title for the ruling Caesar. "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 Philippians were extremely giving towards Paul, both when he was with them (Acts 16:15, 16:32-34) and when he was apart from them (2 Corinthians 8:1-7, 9:1-4, and 11:9). And so the rule of the Christian life is: forgetting those things which are behind, and pressing for those things which are before, or reaching for those things which are before, pressing towards the mark. Surely there must have been something seriously wrong to judge in him! The resurrection of the dead. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more [If anyone might have something to boast in the flesh. You run until you ache and you think you can't go anymore, but you keep going. His language comes from the world of war and athletics and emphasizes the strenuous nature of his efforts to fulfill his vocation. Spirit, they said, is altogether good; and matter is altogether evil. 3:2-3 Be on your guard against the dogs; be on your guard against the evil workers; be on your guard against the party of mutilation; for we are the truly circumcised, we who worship in the Spirit of God; we whose proud boast is in Jesus Christ, we who place no confidence in merely human things. As he tells them, fruit that might abound to their account was all that his heart really yearned after. . Had He not been God in His own being and title, it would have been no humiliation to be a servant, nor could it be indeed a question of taking such a place. But now the apostle turns to the use that he makes of so blessed a pattern, "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence." In fact, he had gone beyond. "Our conversation is in heaven; from whence we wait for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour" for this is the true meaning of it. "That I may win Christ, and be found in him" where not a vestige of self remains, but all will be Christ, and nothing but Christ. It should be "the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.". The righteousness through faith in Christ, my faith in Jesus doesn't waver. "Not," says he, "that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am," this is the great design of the epistle; it was not truth that was made known simply, but experience that was grown into "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. WebPhilippians 3:1214. In Philippians 3:1-21 it is not the display of intrinsic affection in Christ, or the gracious dispositions of Christ in the saints. If he left this world, he would be with Christ; if he lived longer in this, world, Christ was with him. He takes the very name the Jewish teachers would have applied to the impure and to the Gentiles and flings it back at themselves. The Lord is at hand." The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. It is something that I could have never made for myself, but it was given to me by Lady Bountiful. "So Paul, he had done his best to clothe himself in righteousness by works, but then he came in to that glorious knowledge of Jesus Christ, and, "No longer," he said, "to be found in my own righteousness, which is of the law, my own making, my own work, but I will gladly exchange that for the glorious righteousness which God has accounted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ." but for you it is safe. 2.]. Therefore, do what you like with it; since it is evil anyhow it makes no difference what you do with it. When first he tasted it, he found it so sweet that he cared for none other. He was totally, completely ostracized by those who were once his compatriots, those whom he once shared with. Select a Passage. How heartily the Germans sing of the dear old fatherland; but they cannot, with all their Germanic patriotism, they cannot beat the genial glow of the Britons heart, when he thinks of his fatherland too. That is, they want still to live after the flesh so bad, that the idea of being crucified with Christ, the death of the old life, the death of the old man, the death of the old flesh life, is irritating to them. This construction is probably insignificant, but perhaps Paul is distinguishing the resurrection of the body from the spiritual resurrection that occurs at baptism. WebPhilippians 3:1-11 Bible Study Commentary And Questions. #1 I press on. WebSunday, February 26, 2023 Living Hope Christian Church, Inc. will broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube beginning at 11:00 am. "They really did me wrong. And this is true from the first moment of our career as God's children. Let me think of myself as one that is serving Him (oh, how feebly and failingly!) No man knew better from personal experience what Jewish religion was at its highest and most demanding. With us the dog is a well-loved animal, but it was not so in the East in the time of Jesus. She called the model over that they might look at it more closely and feel the texture of the material, and obviously she was very impressed with it. It is worth noting in the passing that Bengel, one of the greatest interpreters of scripture who ever lived, translates this in a different way: "Become fellow-imitators with me in imitating Jesus Christ," but it is far more likely--as nearly all other interpreters are agreed--that Paul was able to invite his friends, not simply to listen to him, but also to imitate him. Once a person has been born again they are to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. What you cannot do, He can. (Meyer), 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. But with the Philippians there was increased jealousy for Christ. They were more obedient in his absence than in his presence. Hence he calls upon them, as one that could not be with them to help them in the conflict, to work out their own salvation. Paul was probably speaking of the Rapture. He therefore puts all his energy into his efforts to reach this goal, just as a runner strains every muscle to reach the finishing line and gain the prize (12-14).Mature Christians will have the attitude to life that Paul has just outlined. This is wholly distinct from His own intrinsic eternal glory. There were in the Church at Philippi men whose conduct was an open scandal and who, by their lives, showed themselves to be the enemies of the Cross of Christ. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. Who, when He comes, He is going to change our bodies, that they might be fashioned like His own glorious image. (ii) Here also Paul sets down what we might call the necessity of repetition. Paul could say not only, "Listen to my words," but also, "Follow my example." No saints are outside the danger. Now I do count them, thirty years later, I still count them loss. all the dead, as a class. He thus takes a common place with his beloved son in the gospel. Hence it is that, although doctrine is sparse, if not almost excluded, nevertheless what little appears comes in as ancillary to the main purpose. . "You remember Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, chapter 5 of Matthew, said, "Except your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven." And so accordingly His servant says here, "If I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour.". 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. "I beseech Evodia, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. It would be the equivalent in England of saying that he came over with the Normans or in America that he traced his descent to the Pilgrim fathers. There is no more common device of Satan than to seek the destruction of the power of testimony by the allowance of evil insinuations against him who renders it. 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. 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