"Reaching forth to those things which are before, I press," and the word in the Greek is agonizo. Let this be your mind, let's walk by these rules. We have not yet attained, are not already perfect; there is still much wanting in all our duties, and graces, and comforts. Codd. The happiness of heaven is here called the resurrection of the dead, because, though the souls of the faithful, when they depart, are immediately with Christ, yet their happiness will not be complete till the general resurrection of the dead at the last day, when soul and body shall be glorified together. Enough has been already said above, before I even knew of his reasoning, to prove how unfounded it is in every point of view. There was another way which would best prove it to his heart; it was not something future secured to Paul in his need, which would be the way of nature, not of love or faith. Most preachers begin with the serious handicap that they have to say, not, "Do as I do," but, "Do as I say." While the exact nature of that reward is unclear here, it can generally be understood as a sort of abundance of life. It is not meant that there are no difficulties, but that Christ makes the burden light and all happy to the praise of God's grace; whereas any other means or measure detracts from His glory and draws attention to self. "How can they say they are a child of God? He says that he proposes to write things to them that he has written before. If you read any Greek, you can pick up on the play on words. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. Generally the NASB is more literal, translating a Greek word with the same English word wherever the Greek word occurs. "Well, where did you place?" WebSunday, February 26, 2023 Living Hope Christian Church, Inc. will broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube beginning at 11:00 am. In 48 B.C. I just did a dumb thing, I ran through a red light and hit somebody and I am being sued for a million dollars. The word is amemptos ( G273) , and J. Why should women expose, themselves? The Lord apprehended me, but when He did, He had a purpose in mind. He had learned practically what Christ is, and what He does, and what He can enable even the least to do, (as he says himself, "less than the least of all saints,") and so much the more, because the least in his own eyes. For whom I have suffered the loss of all things ( Philippians 3:8 ). It was so as to the Corinthians; nay, it was not wholly wanting for the Galatians, though that which they allowed imperilled the foundations of grace and faith. However elsewhere in his writings he was very confident that God would resurrect him and all believers (e.g., Romans 8:11; Romans 8:23; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Corinthians 15:12-57; 2 Corinthians 4:14; 2 Corinthians 5:1-5; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Timothy 2:18). What he means is: "Anyone who has come to be mature in the faith and knows what Christianity is must recognize the discipline and the effort and the agony of the Christian life." But while he was on his way, just before arriving in Damascus about noontime, there came a light from heaven brighter than the noonday sun. 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!" If he left this world, he would be with Christ; if he lived longer in this, world, Christ was with him. There is no getting to heaven as our home but by Christ as our way. With us the dog is a well-loved animal, but it was not so in the East in the time of Jesus. Such is the sense of it here. The old life, you know, I accounted loss. It is interesting that Paul turns it around and uses it of those teachers that would seek to put the believers back under the law. "Again I say, Rejoice." Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect ( Philippians 3:11-12 ): It is sort of sad that so many people seem to feel that they have attained, or they have achieved their spiritual walk, and they sort of sit on little pedestals, little ivory towers. Anastasis sometimes signifies the future state. 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. Let us then try to see what Paul thinks about when he speaks about righteousness. Impossible that He could be made Jehovah. There was the very reverse in Paul's case. body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself." Once you are right about Christ, you are right about everything while He is before you. Then he turns to what had drawn out the epistle. [Note: W. E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, 1:86.] 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. But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. "Don't know what is going to happen tomorrow, so hey, I will jump this ship and get on this one and I will gladly throw overboard the old life, with the struggle and the effort in my flesh, in order to live this new life after the Spirit, believing and trusting in Jesus Christ, to do for me what I really can't do for myself. When the Lord apprehended us, and you can all look back in your own life to that point where the Lord apprehended you, where He said, "I have chosen you and ordained you that you should be my disciple," and we turn to follow Jesus Christ. But in truth it may betray itself in doctrine and practice in various shapes. According to the true meaning it is not others, but those very sisters that he commends to Epaphroditus in desire for their blessing, "which labour with me in the gospel [or seeing that they shared the conflict of the gospel with me]." (c) It is the guarantee that in life and in death and beyond death the presence of the Risen Lord is always with us. It was not merely their calling in Christ, their being Christians, that was before him, but a walk as it became the gospel of Christ. Faith is the ordained means of actual interest and saving benefit in all the purchase of his blood. "Let your requests be made known unto God." ", Only he desires that their conversation should be as it became the gospel of Christ. II. Another, less likely, possibility is that Paul meant faithful Christians will experience a better resurrection than unfaithful believers. 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 having determined then what is right and what is wrong, I may then seek to always do that which is right. Peritemnein ( G4059) means to circumcise; katatemnein means to mutilate, as in Leviticus 21:5, which describes forbidden self-mutilation, such as castration. "The noun translated resurrection is an unusual double compound word used only here in the New Testament. Philippi was a Roman colony. "My bonds in Christ," he says, "are manifest in all the palace." 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. He is God equally with the Father. exanastasin, lit. He says that they had happened rather for the furtherance of the gospel, "so that my bonds in Christ are manifest;" for this is the way in which he looks at it "my bonds in Christ." In this chapter the apostle cautions the Philippians against false teachers, whom he describes as evil men, and exhorts them to walk as they had him, and other faithful ministers for an example. 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. But the moment he has Christ before him thus, he judges according to the affections of Christ, and he looks at the need of saints here below. He had got a better righteousness, and he desired nothing so much as to be found in Christ, having that which is through faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. "Let your moderation be known unto all men. He always looks there in Philippians. They are stagnating now. all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love. They exist; they are there. But he said those things which were so important to me, those things for which I lived. Brothers, I do not count myself to have obtained; but this one thing I do--forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out for the things which are in front, I press on towards the goal, in order that I may win the prize which God's upward calling in Christ Jesus is offering to me. This separates from all, and judges the best of man to be dung, as the former conforms the heart after His love. (i) We worship in the Spirit of God; or, we worship God in the Spirit. WebIt is consciousness contemplating its riches, counting its gains. In Him, we, know, who was the perfect model in the same warfare, which He fought single-handed, conquering for God's glory and for us, the prince of this world came, and had nothing in Him, absolutely nothing. He "became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. It is always the power of Satan that is in view here. They say, that in training for the Olympics, you have got to go till it hurts, and you have to work yourself through the pain. In the days of the early Church it is quite often used to describe martyrs. Is this the life that is practically exercised? How could any murmur who believed they were really bonds in Christ? But not the righteousness which God has accounted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. The Jew in essence trusted himself ; the Christian in essence trusts God. Therefore, do what you like with it; since it is evil anyhow it makes no difference what you do with it. Word Format PDF Format. notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached." His goodness can even take this up and thus make it fragrant even to Himself. He is not condemning Judaism from the outside. I. What is right and what is wrong? It is part of the verb ginoskein ( G1097) , which almost always indicates personal knowledge. We must think rather of the conflict of the gospel: there was often for all concerned disgrace, and pain, and scorn. In any case, indeed, to the Christian, death is gain; but he could best say it who could say, "To me to live is Christ," who could say it not merely as the faith of Him, but as a matter of simple, unconstrained, spontaneous enjoyment of Christ in practical ways. Christian joy made Wesley able to accept the great blows of life, and also to greet the lesser discomforts with a jest. That he might be conformable unto him, and this also is meant of his sanctification. True experience is still the great theme which the apostle has in hand here as well as in his own personal history. As we are just now, our bodies are subject to change and decay, illness and death, the bodies of a state of humiliation compared with the glorious state of the Risen Christ; but the day will come when we will lay aside this mortal body which we now possess and become like Jesus Christ himself. Because He was interested in the heavenly kingdom. He was so loyal a Jew that he had never lost the Hebrew speech; he was not only a religious Jew, he was a member of their strictest and the most self-disciplined sect; he had had in his heart a burning zeal for what he had thought was the cause of God; and he had a record in Judaism in which no man could mark a fault. He can lose all things, and he can lose all people, but he can never lose Christ. Verses 1-21. It wasnt long after the time of Paul that Christians were martyred for refusing to call Caesar Lord, claiming that Jesus was the only Lord. What a God is ours, so to treat that which, connected with the world, Christ Himself calls "unrighteous mammon!" 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. ", "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." Many different commentaries state that of all the groups that Paul wrote to, Phillipi was probably the best of them all. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. Paul had certain people that seemed to follow him wherever he went, trying to pervert that which he taught of the grace of God, especially the Jewish legalizers who sought to bring the people back to a legal relationship with God, putting them under the law. You may be perfectly sure of an answer when you make known your requests: therefore let it be with thanksgiving. Proud member Now, when the Lord apprehended us, He had in His mind a plan and a purpose for each of our lives. I want to know Him, I want to know the power of the resurrection, but yet, I want to know the fellowship of the sufferings and the cross. The archangel is at best but a servant; the highest creature, far from having to stoop in order to become a servant, can never rise above that condition. Then he uses two vivid pictures. Their affections were right. . " The internal evidence ( i.e. It is of great use in the Christian course to keep our eye upon heaven. That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection ( Philippians 3:10 ). In Philippians 3:1-21 it is not the display of intrinsic affection in Christ, or the gracious dispositions of Christ in the saints. Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer. 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. Does this content our hearts? There was evidently energy among these Philippians. Nor was he in that which he was about to write without deep feeling; but he had learned Christ for all; and this is the key-note of the epistle from the first, though only uttered distinctly at the last. Otherwise, the experience is invalidated.I really am not so much interested in what happened to you thirty years ago, twenty years ago, or ten years ago. 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. in this relationship, and it is an easy thing to esteem others better than myself. It just doesn't work. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.". Because he lives, we shall live also; his victory is our victory. But life is more than simply being born into Gods family. The futility of a relationship with God based on the principle of law. Every phrase in this catalogue of Paul's privileges has its special meaning; let us look at each one. If the past experience has not been translated into the present, then it really has no value at all. They don't want to hear it; they are enemies of that message. And what did the apostle do with all this roll of fleshly advantages? The hope and prospect of it carried him with so much courage and constancy through all the difficulties he met with in his work. 3. "But my God shall supply all your need." Himself the striking witness to the contrary, he looked for nothing less in the saints he so dearly loved. Thank God for the experiences, but they are not valid unless they are translated into the immediate, present relationship, and I do count them but loss. He must be conformed to his Master in all things; and this was one of them. Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. Thus the two things are repeated the past judgment and the present power: "and do count them but dung, that I may, win Christ." 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. This is what brings him, if one may so say, into the dilemma of love. He had papers from the high priest that empowered him to throw in prison those who believed in Jesus Christ. 10-11 I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. And they were a sort of a hated animal. Accordingly, from the very starting-point, we are prepared for a difference of tone and character. Here we see One who is in glory, and on whom the eye of the believer is set; and accordingly the judgment of evil is from the side of heaven. (Compare Ephesians 1:1-23 and Colossians 1:1-29) But all, even these in hell, must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. The problem with this view is the unusual word used for the resurrection (Gr. And he said, "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus." In His name all must bow. The fellowship of His sufferings.Our flesh always rebels against suffering. Accordingly, this being not so directly the subject of the epistle though a Very important part of it, it comes in parenthetically in a large measure, not now in any wise as a question of truth or development of the mystery of Christ, as we saw in Ephesians 3:1-21, but, nevertheless, as a parenthesis; for he resumes afterwards the internal side again, as we shall see inPhilippians 4:1-23; Philippians 4:1-23. A prisoner he was; and such is all that Scripture tells about him there. In this we hear of difference; and scripture does not obliterate but contrariwise asserts it, and treats the practical denial of it as a scandal brought in by Corinthian headiness. Suddenly upon meeting Christ, all that he counted as important to him up to that point in his life, all of his religious credits, all of the religious background, he said lost for Christ. And so, it is an established righteousness. Soul (14+ yrs) CY (11-14 yrs) Epic Explorers (kids) Universal Editions; Promotional materials; Translations; Booklets and tracts; Books; Shop by Type; Evangelistic Books; It cannot be till the Christ is risen according to the pattern of Christ Himself. This seems to me the real meaning, which the margin gives rightly. The Lord has laid down their places respectively with distinctness. "lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. It was a necessary duty sometimes as things are on the earth, but nothing more; and so it is still. worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus ( Philippians 3:3 ). And yet, that is what God has imparted to me through faith, my faith that He has given to me, in Jesus Christ.Paul goes on. Let me think of myself as one that is serving Him (oh, how feebly and failingly!) 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. The apostle drops entirely his official status in addressing the saints at Philippi. That was a thing which he never forgot. When we are resurrected, we will have the same type of body that Jesus Himself had when he was resurrected. He pressed towards the mark. and have no confidence in the flesh ( Philippians 3:3 ). 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. Have rather that spirit which counts nothing as a right to be claimed, but all one has as gifts of grace to be freely used in this world, because one has Christ in view. "Let me be found in Christ, that I may attain the resurrection of the dead, be found a believer in him, and interested in him by faith," Observe. Yet there is not one of these things that has not become the ruin of souls; and there are none that ought to know this better than those I am addressing this night. At any rate, such is the picture that the Holy Spirit gives of him there. But since he now belongs to Christ, he believes that perfection is the only goal he can aim at. He makes it clear that he continues to pursue his goal just as a runner might continue to run in order to receive the prize at the end of the race. He knew well how much they might be tried by the report of his own imprisonment, and no deliverance coming as yet. And Paul writes. Paul claims that there was no demand of the Law which he did not fulfil. However there is no other Scripture that teaches a difference in the resurrection of faithful and unfaithful believers. 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." In short, he was so living Christ, that it was only a question of Christ here, and of Christ there. 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). There is nothing so high as that which we all have been made in our blessed Lord. This disperses all clouds from the soul. The Apostle John says, "Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure" (1 John 3:3). Paul did not express doubt by this statement; he asserted a fact. And that is in the glorious liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that relationship that we can now have with God apart from the law. ( 1 Samuel 24:14, compare 2 Kings 8:13; Psalms 22:16; Psalms 22:20). What a word, and how calculated to make us ashamed! The writer of Exodus speaks of uncircumcised lips ( Exodus 6:12). WebPhilippians 3 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Paul had been so zealous a Jew that he had tried to wipe out the opponents of Judaism. "I'll show you a mystery, we are not going to all sleep, but we are all going to be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of any eye. Dikaiosune ( G1343) is always difficult to translate in Paul's letters. John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Long, long before this, the great teachers and the great prophets had seen that circumcision of the flesh is by itself not nearly enough and that there was needed a spiritual circumcision. He puts it as a matter left for him to judge of and decide by Christ. Philippians 3:1. But then Paul updates his experience. 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. WebExodus 3:13-14 meaning. None can have interest or benefit by it but those who come off from confidence in themselves, and are brought heartily to believe in him. But unfortunately, since then, a lot of those things that they counted loss at that point, they picked back up, so that they are encumbered again. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Why, it was gain. after a flea!" So what Paul says is, "If you have nothing to show but circumcision of the flesh, you are not really circumcised--you are only mutilated. Not only was an utterly wrong spirit indulged in the work itself, and toward others engaged actually in it; but even as to the apostle, shut out from such service, a desire to pain and wound was not wanting. Thus the very suffering which unbelief might interpret wrongly, and regard as a severe chastening, and so cause the heart to be cast down, instead of taking comfort before God, the suffering for Christ's sake is a gift of His love, as much a gift as the believing in Christ for the salvation of the soul. Paul suffered much for the cross of Christ at the hands of 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. He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. So, then, Paul claims that from his birth he was a God-fearing, Law-observing Jew; that his lineage was as pure as Jewish lineage could be; and that he belonged to the most aristocratic tribe of the Jews. and here I am in my little pompous righteous throne, judging everybody else who isn't living by my standards. It is a blessed and refreshing picture even in thought. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again. WebHe was naturally grateful to the Philippians, but more so to God who had worked such kindness through the Philippians. Hers is a more delicate place than that which becomes the man, and one which a man attempting it would awkwardly fill. 3:8 ) lesser discomforts with a jest became obedient unto death, the. You do with all this roll of fleshly advantages wipe out the epistle duty! 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