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. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. It is not love growing less but more, and this abounding in intelligence and knowledge, which could not be looked for in saints just beginning their career. There were those who distorted the Christian doctrine of grace. To rise with the saints; to enter with them into the blessedness of the heavenly inheritance, was an object that the apostle thought was worth every effort which could he made. WebThe true people of God, whom Paul calls the true circumcision, are not those who have carried out a ceremony to put a mark in their bodies, but those who have received new life from Christ through an inward spiritual change (3:1-3). I was so moved, I was so touched by the Spirit of God upon my life." It was not simply something which had happened to Jesus, however important it was for him. Therefore, do what you like with it; since it is evil anyhow it makes no difference what you do with it. Here, accordingly, it is not the outgoings of love, but the zeal that burns indignantly as to what dishonours the Lord. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. So he reaches forth, epekteinomenos--stretched himself forward, bearing towards his point: it is expressive of a vehement concern. I forget those things which are behind.A lot of people make the mistake of trying to live in the past. "I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity." and have no confidence in the flesh ( Philippians 3:3 ). Christian joy made Wesley able to accept the great blows of life, and also to greet the lesser discomforts with a jest. She laid the thing out, carefully cut it out, but she really had never sewn anything before. It was the natural cry of man, "Spare yourself from suffering." It is not at all a question of ecclesiastical order, in which naturally the chief guides would have front rank. but for you it is safe. what than the testimony for God? So Paul proves to these Jews that he has the right to speak. Who have had more palpable witness that service may become the object rather than Christ? 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. In Philippians 3:1-21 there is no coming down from glory in the power of divine love, resulting in His exaltation by and for the glory of God the Father after a new sort. It was such an one, truly the servant of Jesus Christ, and so much the more their servant because His, even their servant for Jesus' sake it was such an one that wrote from Rome to the tried saints at Philippi. Julius Caesar was declared to be the universal savior of mankind. It then became a common title for the ruling Caesar. [Paul] also speaks positively in verses 1214 of what he is doing in light of the incompleteness of his spiritual journey. Oh that the Lord might make it true of His own! In the context he had been speaking of suffering and dying with Him. Jesus wasn't resurrected until he first went to the cross. The Old Testament uses to know of sexual intercourse. Yea [not and], I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labour with me." Select a Passage. And Jesus said, "Get thee behind me, Satan, you offend me." Christ was surely blameless in the highest sense, as His ways were harmless, "holy, harmless, undefiled," as it is said elsewhere. But how can you attain the resurrection of the dead unless you, first of all, have died? (a) It is the guarantee of the importance of this life and of this body in which we live. 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. Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. But then Paul updates his experience. In point of fact the Ishmaelites could trace their descent to Abraham, for Ishmael was Abraham's son by Hagar; the Edomites could trace their descent to Isaac, for Esau, the founder of the Edomite nation, was Isaac's son; but it was the Israelites alone who could trace their descent to Jacob, whom God had called by the name of Israel. Of the two, the converse would be more intelligible; but my conviction is that both the Lord and His apostle used similar and correct phraseology, as did the Holy Spirit elsewhere. Christ was Son of God in a sole and supreme sense. And she was so excited over the fact that she had been able to labor and work and make her way through college and was going to be graduating. The apostle does call for "fear and trembling" on the part of the saints in that chapter; but there is not an atom of dread or doubt in it. "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." i. Jesus really can subdue all things. Father, I would that those who You have given to me, to be with me here, would also share with me in the Kingdom. It was so with the apostle. What then are the signs of that real circumcision? THE ONLY TRUE CIRCUMCISION ( Php_3:2-3 continued), (iii) Lastly, he calls them, the party of mutilation. 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. It is because the world was created out of this flawed matter that sin and evil are in it. This commonly is apt to give occasion for strife as well as vain-glory. 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). ( Judges 5:14; Hosea 5:8). Hence it is that, although doctrine is sparse, if not almost excluded, nevertheless what little appears comes in as ancillary to the main purpose. The true people of God, whom Paul calls the true circumcision, are not those who have carried out a ceremony to put a mark in their bodies, but those who have received new life from Christ through an inward spiritual change (3:1-3).To support this statement, Paul refers to his own experience. WebPhilippians 2:1-5. His own place toward them was but to serve them in love. What they did seems a much more proper thing, in my judgment, for a woman. So far Paul has been stating the privileges which came to him by birth; now he goes on to state his achievements in the Jewish faith. Reason and sense are out of the question, though reason must reject a creature's becoming God. 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. Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? It is not achieved by any man but given by God; not won by works but accepted in trust. I am interested in what is your relationship tonight with the Lord. WebJamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 14. high callingliterally, "the calling that is above" (Ga 4:26; Col 3:1): "the heavenly calling" (Heb 3:1). He says, "All my life I have been trying to get into a right relationship with God. The apostle had his heart upon heaven as his happiness: If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead,Philippians 3:11; Philippians 3:11. in this relationship, and it is an easy thing to esteem others better than myself. 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. No man knew better from personal experience what Jewish religion was at its highest and most demanding. The use of the preposition ek twice in the phrase, the first usage being in exanastasin, suggests a resurrection out from a group not resurrected. I found it no better than skubala ( G4657) ." "Being confident," he therefore says, "of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work will perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ, even as it is meet for me to think this of you all." WHAT IT MEANS TO KNOW CHRIST ( Php_3:10-11 ). (i) He was a Hebrew born of Hebrew parents. B. Lightfoot translates it: "Vie with each other in imitating me." Paul has just said that he came to the conclusion that all his Jewish privileges and attainments were nothing but a total loss. "Our conversation is in heaven; from whence we wait for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour" for this is the true meaning of it. But they recognized that it was the best that she could do.About that time, Lady Bountiful walked in the door. b. The Philippian congregation was generally a wonderful group of people. 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. Robert Wilkin, the writer quoted above, later changed his view and adopted the "spiritual resurrection view. It was surely the best that she could do. (iii) As far as zeal went, he had been a persecutor of the Church. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Nothing less would be in keeping with such a high position. It is not that you have failed, perhaps, or broken down in some particular. A prisoner he was; and such is all that Scripture tells about him there. Close. So he tells them that he always thus remembered them for their "fellowship with the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that he who hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.". WebPhilippians 3:14 ESV I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. Why? When the Jews wished to stress their special relationship to God in its most unique sense it was the word Israelite that they used. I do not say that the fruits of the loving service of any one of them will be forgotten there; nor that even glory will not bear the impress of that which has been really of the Holy Ghost here. He knew that the only way to peace was to abandon the way of human achievement and accept the way of grace. . And what did the apostle do with all this roll of fleshly advantages? This epistle treats of daily sorrows and difficulties, yet does it manifestly overflow with joy, which all the dangers, sufferings, and trials only made the more triumphant and conspicuous. ( 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 ), When Jesus comes again, we will each experience a metamorphosis. 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. As far as he was concerned, therefore, why could he choose? If, then, they really loved him, "If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if there be any comfort of love, any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies," he would venture to seek another proof of it. because he. John Not that all shall be delivered and centred in Him, but that all must bow. But he said those things which were so important to me, those things for which I lived. There is nothing so high as that which we all have been made in our blessed Lord. 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. This is, accordingly, what flows forth in praise from himself, and in calling out praise from other hearts. And then he uses a contrasting Greek word, and it is a play on Greek words. This epistle is therefore eminently instructive to those who could not have an apostle with them. 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. He gave him time to repent; and not only so, but a heart to repent." Here I am, you know, come and I will teach you. and mark them which walk so as ye have us for your ensample [example]. He had done everything that he was supposed to do according to the law to be righteous. It was seen laid in the grave of Christ. But as the model was turning around, her eye caught the ticket with the price tag $4,295.00. 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. In other words, "Here I am, I am chained in prison, but I don't find it hard to write this to you. Let us see to it that we walk according to the place which God has given us. The very language Paul uses to describe the Law--excrement--shows the utter disgust for the Law which his own frustrated efforts to live by it had brought him; and the joy that shines through the passage shows how triumphantly adequate he found the grace of God in Jesus Christ. And this is true from the first moment of our career as God's children. It was the teaching of Paul that we are saved by grace alone, that salvation is the free gift of God, that we can never earn it but can only humbly and adoringly accept what God has offered to us; and, further, that the offer of God is to all men of all nations and that none is excluded. He had experienced it at its highest point; and he knew that it was nothing compared with the joy which Christ had given. And so, too, he could now read and interpret all things in that bright light around him. 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. Hence we see the great importance of this truth. Does this content our hearts? No; but "because that ye had heard that he had been sick." The Alexandrian, Vatican, Sinai, Clermont, and St. Germain Uncials, supported by some ten cursives, very many versions, and the chief Greek and Latin ecclesiastical writers read . Whence our grace comes--from our being apprehended of Christ Jesus. 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. 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. He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. They nevertheless seem to have been disheartened, even distanced, from their faith by Pauls imprisonment. He is my Lord." You can have these things of your flesh, you know. 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. The Lord apprehended me, but when He did, He had a purpose in mind. He like other Christians lives in the overlap of the ages; he, too, stands between the "already" and the "not yet", and consummated salvation is not yet his. What you cannot do, He can. (Meyer), 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. Now, circumcision is only a sign in the flesh, something done to a man's body. advert as at Romans 4:16, and elsewhere to the state of the persons in question, that state or kind of resurrection unto life of those who have died in the Lord, and whose resurrection will be a resurrection unto life and glory, their bodies being raised incorruptible, and both body and soul united for ever with the Lord. It is all judged, and its religious form not least, by Christ "Though," says he, "I might also have confidence in the flesh. They regarded circumcision in itself as being enough to set them apart specially for God. In rich measure did the apostle live thus himself it was the one thing he did; and he would have the saints to be living in it too. In the Bible the dog always stands for that than which nothing can be lower. And, let me observe, it is not merely that Christ is my life. This was now among the last outpourings of the apostle's heart, as he himself had almost arrived at the end of his active labours, if indeed it was not absolutely their end. WebExodus 3:13-14 meaning. John Gill John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:1. I must, first of all, set the standard: what constitutes righteousness? Why, it was gain. Because so many times, they say, "Well, you really can't do that. "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ." His yoke is easy, and His burden light. It was not that he wanted more. I had it made as far as the law was concerned." Paul suffered much for the cross of Christ at the hands of The word if can be translated as since: Since I will attain to the resurrection from the dead is the It was to Israel that they in the most special sense traced their heritage. Nevertheless, energy there is, and this assuredly judges what is contrary to Christ. There is not one of these things but may in itself become the veriest snare; and so much the more dangerous because each looks fair. "Beware of the concision.". Hence the conflict is never with internal evil, but rather with Satan. So he could settle now about his life and death. (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. Such is the meaning here. Observe, [2.] 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. We must think rather of the conflict of the gospel: there was often for all concerned disgrace, and pain, and scorn. That was a common name by which the Jews referred to the Gentiles: the gentile dogs. I just did a dumb thing, I ran through a red light and hit somebody and I am being sued for a million dollars. Television would cause you to think that that is all retired baseball and football players do is just hang around the bars drinking lite beer, talking about the past. When the distinction of the resurrection of the just from that of the unjust got lost in Christendom, and all were merged in the error of one general indiscriminate resurrection, one can understand that people would not feel the impropriety of substituting for (for as to , of which Dr. B. speaks, it exists in no document whatever). 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. The passive shines in Christ coming down; the active is realized by the eye that is fixed on Christ, who is actually in glory. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. A holy fear of coming short is an excellent means of perseverance. "Yea," said he, "and I count all things but loss." He was Jehovah, equal with God the Father. He was totally, completely ostracized by those who were once his compatriots, those whom he once shared with. At any rate they endured the conflicts of the gospel in its earlier days at Philippi. Will it be said that this is what the apostle felt, and did, and suffered in the freshness of his first acquaintance with Christ? I am rejoicing here, in the Lord." Timothy was very dear to him, and was then with him; but he is going to part with the one that was so much the more valued by him in his solitariness and sorrow because of his circumstances at Rome. WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. To a Jew zeal was the greatest quality in the religious life. 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). Changes will take effect once you reload the page. "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. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. That isn't a real representative of You. Who, when He comes, He is going to change our bodies, that they might be fashioned like His own glorious image. It is not our laying hold of Christ first, but his laying hold of us, which is our happiness and salvation. He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. Let us not mistake in this; let us not be driven from it by a too common misuse. 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. The power of the resurrection follows the fellowship of the suffering and the cross. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already And so, this body will be changed, and I will receive a new body like His, fashioned like His glorious image, according to that power of the Spirit that raised Him from the dead. "You know, if you only had enough faith, you could be jetting across the United States also in your own Lear Jet." If anyone has reason to think that he has grounds for confidence in his human heritage and attainments, I have more. But Paul was certain that the only kind of righteousness there is comes from casting oneself freely upon the grace of God. 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. Let all of you who have graduated in the school of Christ have the same attitude of mind to life. Within the Church there were two sets of people to whom these accusations might apply. Sweet and wondrous word to say that Christ is our life; but the question is, how are we living? On my account, God writes righteous.Now, the problem of being righteous by my efforts, by my works, I may be doing right, I may have lived all of my life up to this point by the rules, having never violated, sailing along in good shape, and there is written across my name, righteous. But you can always rejoice in the Lord, because He is above circumstances. Now, immediately after telling them to rejoice in the Lord, he is warning them about the false teachers. And the problem is that they are constantly going back and going over those bad experiences. And now she was in her senior year. He does so, not because he is arrogant or self-righteous, for he knows the struggles and difficulties that are inevitable to enter the kingdom. Only we must always walk according to that standard which we have already reached. They are always looking at their past and doing nothing now. Thus, then, he prays for them, and to this end, not that they might become more intelligent merely not that they might grow more able to discourse of divine things, though I doubt not that there would be growth in these respects also; but all here has an eminently practical form, "that ye may approve things that are more excellent; that ye may be pure and without offence till the day of Christ." This is illustrated in several instances. When you are pressing towards the mark. Now, Paul was a classic example of what Jesus was referring to. In such places the citizens were mostly soldiers who had served their time--twenty-one years--and who had been rewarded with full citizenship. 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. "Now, if Paul believed in one general resurrection at the end in which all people, the saved and lost, would participate, it is difficult to understand his use of this language in relation to his personal participation. How gladly would he be a libation upon the sacrifice of their faith! He says that the Lord will circumcise their hearts to make them love him ( Deuteronomy 30:6). We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. The lad had found a joy which not even the scaffold could take away. ". There was another party of Gnostics who held a different kind of doctrine. He will reach it only on the day when Christ returns and raises the righteous from death. He pressed towards the mark. The keynote of the epistle is rejoice, and he said. in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. ", Blessed is this confidence in Christ, and wondrous are His ways! They had so much the more to do because Christ had done all for their souls. "To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." All Christians living and dead will be caught up when it occurs. This is open to the heart now. 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.". The one therefore, I say, is the passive side of the Christian; the other is his activity. A martyr is said to be perfected by the sword, and the day of his death is said to be the day of his perfecting. Who would have expected that the timid man Nicodemus, and the honourable councillor Joseph of Arimathea, would have been brought out at the very time when even the apostles themselves had fled trembling with fear? You know, there are many people in the world tonight who have never had the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord. So when Paul uses the word in Php_3:12 , he is saying that he is not by any means a complete Christian but is for ever pressing on. Once a person has been born again they are to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Beware of dogs ( Philippians 3:1-2 ). It was not so with the Philippians. But then, worse than that, this judgmental spirit. How can they say . And so, it is an established righteousness. cannot but be conqueror, more than conqueror, where the heart is filled with Christ. that a saint should decline. 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. In the Christian life there is no room for a person who desires to rest upon his laurels. When they returned from the exile, it was from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah that the nucleus of the reborn nation was formed ( Ezra 4:1). For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness." That he might be found in him (Philippians 3:9; Philippians 3:9), as the manslayer was found in the city of refuge, where he was safe from the avenger of blood, Numbers 35:25. He was never ashamed to confess his shame and to tell men that once he had hated the Christ whom now he loved and sought to obliterate the Church which now he served. He is God equally with the Father. As far as the Law goes, I was a Pharisee: as for zeal, I was a persecutor of the Churches: as for the righteousness which is in the Law, I was beyond blame. J. 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