It is not that you have failed, perhaps, or broken down in some particular. Enough has been already said above, before I even knew of his reasoning, to prove how unfounded it is in every point of view. It is not the Lord at hand to succour one now and here from time to time. 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. No saints are outside the danger. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. For the prize of the high calling. 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. Such is the thought that the apostle had before his soul of that which became the Christian. They identified themselves, therefore, with all who were declaring it throughout the world. 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.". 1Pe 5:4, "a crown of glory that fadeth not away." The one thing that suits is to pursue the glory before him, till he is in the same glory along with Christ. Modern editors of value, however differing in their system of recension agree in the ancient as against the received reading; so Scholz, Lachmann, Tischendorf, Ellicott, Alford, Tregelles, Wordsworth, etc. b. This is interesting, for it must mean that Paul had written other letters to the Philippians which have not survived. I. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. InMatthew 23:1-39; Matthew 23:1-39 we have woe upon woe pronounced upon scribes and Pharisees, and so it is here. In Deuteronomy the Law brings together the price of a dog and the hire of a whore, and declares that neither must be offered to God ( Deuteronomy 23:18). We do not speak of standing in Christ now, but of their allotted services. Evidently, therefore, two glories of Jesus are referred to here. but for you it is safe. How could any murmur who believed they were really bonds in Christ? They are always looking at their past and doing nothing now. By calling himself an Israelite, Paul stressed the absolute purity of his descent. The resurrection of the dead. What is there that you can rightly plead but Christ's own name? Why, then, is it so in the next instance? I was so moved, I was so touched by the Spirit of God upon my life." God was pleased, even whilst the apostle was alive, to set him aside and to prove the power of faith where he was not. In Hebrew the verb is yada' ( H3045) and in Greek it is translated by ginoskein ( G1097) . How can they say . However, one is correct in understanding that these words express his humble expectation and hope (1 Corinthians 15:20; 2 Corinthians 5:1). "Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation" (he would turn it again to practical profit as to others): "because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.". Unless there were long periods when he never put pen to paper there must have been many more letters which are now lost. 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. But Paul said. It was seen laid in the grave of Christ. It is our progress then that we are to forget. For them there was the possibility of the same kind of persecution, and even the same kind of death, as threatened himself. ", Only he desires that their conversation should be as it became the gospel of Christ. (ii) Here also Paul sets down what we might call the necessity of repetition. We love him because he first loved us,1 John 4:19. Sweet and wondrous word to say that Christ is our life; but the question is, how are we living? And is there not evidently a path of unobtrusiveness (for the veil or sign of power on the woman's head is no vain figure) which most befits a woman? Thus we see here the power of a risen and a heavenly Christ, not now treated doctrinally as in 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 or 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 and elsewhere, but as that which bears on the Christian for the constant experience of every day. 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. Have we that one blessed person as the hope, motive, beginning, end, way, and power of all that occupies us from day to day? The Message Update. Thus the two things are repeated the past judgment and the present power: "and do count them but dung, that I may, win Christ." Has it not been the rock on which many a gallant bark has made shipwreck? Because so many times, they say, "Well, you really can't do that. Not so Paul. I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead: Paul has discussed in these verses the concepts of justification and sanctification, and now he speaks of the believers glorification. The rite of water baptism is really not a physical rite, but a spiritual experience. Paul says, "You Jews think that you are circumcised; in point of fact, you are only mutilated.". Nothing but the righteousness that was of God as its source satisfied him. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. The words that Paul used seem to indicate that he was thinking of a resurrection from among those who were dead. Thus we know how on approaching Rome Paul was lifted up and comforted, as he saw those who came to greet him. First of all He emptied Himself, becoming a slave and a man; and having thus come down, so as to take His place in the likeness of men, He, found in figure as a man, humbled Himself, becoming obedient even to the lowest point of degradation here below. If he left this world, he would be with Christ; if he lived longer in this, world, Christ was with him. 3:10-11 My object is to know him, and I mean by that, to know the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while I continue to be made like him in his death, if by any chance I may attain to the resurrection of the dead. There were tens of thousands of them in Rome; and in Alexandria there were more than a million. We are reminded that Paul wrote these words to strengthen and encourage a community he loved and who were already doing well in their life in Christ (see Philippians 1:3-11). "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ." They went in. And then he uses a contrasting Greek word, and it is a play on Greek words. He knew what it was to be a Jew in the highest sense of the term, and had deliberately abandoned it all for the sake of Jesus Christ. "My joy and crown," "my dearly beloved." They demanded that they be circumcised and they keep the law of Moses in order to be saved, which Paul called the perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ.It is interesting that these people usually referred to the Gentiles as dogs. "That is why God apprehended you; He has a glorious plan and a purpose for your future. There is no doubt that Paul is here speaking to the antinomians. #1 I press on. Hence he speaks of the conflict which they once saw to be in him, and now heard to be in him. I have not yet accomplished that purpose. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." Most preachers begin with the serious handicap that they have to say, not, "Do as I do," but, "Do as I say." All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. "I beseech Evodia" (we may just notice the true form in passing; Euodias sounds like a man's name, whereas here it is really a woman). I can't get over that. 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.". We know well that as men have sarcastically said, gratitude is a kind of fishing for fresh favours. Perhaps he meant he wanted to experience suffering for Christs sake and was even willing to die for Him to arrive at his resurrection in a manner that would enable him to face His master unashamed. 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. Another, less likely, possibility is that Paul meant faithful Christians will experience a better resurrection than unfaithful believers. It may well be that one of our faults is our desire for novelty. If I could, I would have done it a long time ago," and looking back I am discouraged of trying to go ahead.Or, on the other hand, a person looks back and glories in their victories of the past, and they are resting on their accolades. What might you and I have thought of such? Hence that which judged and put aside religion after the flesh, righteousness after the law, all that was now left completely and for ever behind, and the saint is set on the road that nothing can satisfy him but being in the same glorious condition with Christ Himself. But when I take the righteousness which is by Christ, it is an honest life, I can say, "Hey, I am not perfect, but I believe in Jesus Christ with all my heart. in sorrow? 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 to Israel that they in the most special sense traced their heritage. What is the Spirit now doing? Of course, the enemy would have desired above all and at any cost to lower such an one as the apostle Paul in the loving esteem of God's saints, more particularly where all had been sweet and happy; but, notwithstanding every effort, grace hitherto had prevailed, and these saints at Philippi felt the more for the apostle when he was a prisoner. Faith is called knowledge, Isaiah 53:11. WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. Hence I cannot but consider it a surprising error in Griesbach that he edited the received text in this place. And having determined then what is right and what is wrong, I may then seek to always do that which is right. They don't want to hear it; they are enemies of that message. Such was the apostle's faith. He knew that the only way to peace was to abandon the way of human achievement and accept the way of grace. 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. Yet they were the witnesses of Christ whom God had put forth at the close; for it was manifestly of Him. Looking to the Lord, as it is the life-breath of love, so it adds to the value of brotherly kindness in its season. That was a common name by which the Jews referred to the Gentiles: the gentile dogs. Why did the Lord apprehend you? His yoke is easy, and His burden light. Hence he at once begins, not with a doctrinal preparation after the introduction, but the introduction brings us as usual into the general spirit if not special object of the epistle. 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. . He desires for them, not anxiety about the issue of it, but true gravity of spirit, because of feeling that it is a question between God and the devil, and that we have to do with that struggle in the most direct way. It is always the power of Satan that is in view here. Should any at present think differently, they will soon come to agree, if they allow God to teach them. He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. Did he want more for himself? "Let your moderation be known unto all men. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. They thought they were working good, but in fact they were working evil. They nevertheless seem to have been disheartened, even distanced, from their faith by Pauls imprisonment. 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. This glorious resurrection, and perhaps peculiarly glorious in the case of martyrs, is that to which St. Paul aspired. But so it is; and thus the food of faith becomes the poison of unbelief. In this passage the key-word is righteousness. The futility of a relationship with God based on the principle of law. In other words, "Give it all you have got.". I speak of Christian love, of course. All we want is, that the eye of faith be a little open; but it is only Christ before the eye that keeps it open. The Christian places his confidence only in the mercy of God and in the love of Jesus Christ. "lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. 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. Accordingly he prays for them, that as they had shown this true and unabated love for himself as Christ's servant, so their love might abound yet more and more, and this too in knowledge and in all judgment. iv. 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. Much akin to Pauls straining toward what is ahead; this racers concentration on This is, accordingly, what flows forth in praise from himself, and in calling out praise from other hearts. Roman dress was worn; Roman magistrates governed; the Latin tongue was spoken; Roman justice was administered; Roman morals were observed. The reason why we can all say it tonight is because we are all here. The problem with this view is the unusual word used for the resurrection (Gr. This is illustrated in several instances. 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. Because you can drive a Cadillac, and you can live on Lido Island. Or it alludes to a judicial appearance; so we are to be found of our Judge in peace, 2 Peter 3:14. 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. The power of the resurrection follows the fellowship of the suffering and the cross. all the dead, as a class. In fact, I think sometimes it is impossible to rejoice in circumstances. Paul sets out three. J. It seems the church of the Philippians, though a faithful and flourishing church, was disturbed by the judaizing teachers, who endeavoured to keep up the law of Moses, Is He really so far from any of those that call upon Him? So he says, "Out of my experience I tell you that the Jewish way is wrong and futile. But all in heaven and on earth shall be in reconciliation with God and headed up in Christ, with whom the Church shall share the unbounded inheritance. "Therefore," says he, though I am in a strait betwixt two," as he had said before, "having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. I agonizo towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God.Paul said, "Don't you realize that they that run in a race run all, only one receives the prize, so run that you may obtain." This he must wish for them, if he wished them well. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. 's critical, scholastic, and exegetic manner. Word Format PDF Format. WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. Epaphroditus was his fellow-servant, and indeed more than that "my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. Whatever he needed, love is never itself but in unselfish action and suffering. A prisoner he was; and such is all that Scripture tells about him there. They turned Christian liberty into unchristian licence and gloried in giving their passions full play. 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. He was too much bent on what was before to be occupied with calling to mind what was behind him; it must have impeded him in the race. But it is better for you to lose your character, than for Christ through you to lose His; for you are responsible to display the character of Christ. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind." WebPhil 3:12-14 (NIV) These verses flashed through my mind last night as I watched the intense focus of an Olympic competitor in the downhill slalom race compete for the gold. WebSunday, February 26, 2023 Living Hope Christian Church, Inc. will broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube beginning at 11:00 am. His being out of sight rather made the remembrance of his words and ways the more distinct, and imparted a chastened earnestness to their desires of pleasing the Lord. ", And what is it that gave such a hope to one that owns himself the chief of sinners and less than the least of all saints? Oh, how honourable, how sweet and precious, to have bonds in Christ! Paul makes a conscious effort to keep his eyes on the prize promised to him by God. Why should such as they face the unmannerly officials that took advantage of the imperial government to treat with injury those identified with the gospel? Within the Church there were two sets of people to whom these accusations might apply. 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 they recognized that it was the best that she could do.About that time, Lady Bountiful walked in the door. And there comes that second wind, then it seems like you can go forever. See 1 Thessalonians 4:6-18.". "Let your requests," whatever they may be, "be made known unto God;" and not only so, but "with thanksgiving." He calls them three things, carefully chosen to throw their claims back upon themselves. This is what the Lord intended for me, to be with Him in His kingdom, to share with Him His glory. So here at the beginning he simply takes the place of servant with Timothy, owning all the saints as well as the officials in their place: "To all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons." We shall see the importance of this elsewhere. You watch his pen draw out meaning. The apostle is here contributing to that which shall never pass away, and hence begins with the "saints in Christ Jesus" as such. 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. 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. I love that phrase. Had he not been God, he could not have been our righteousness; the transcendent excellence of the divine nature put such a value upon, and such a virtue into, his sufferings, that they became sufficient to satisfy for the sins of the world, and to bring in a righteousness which will be effectual to all that believe. If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of. He says to them, "In your proud self-righteousness, you call other men dogs; but it is you who are dogs, because you shamelessly pervert the gospel of Jesus Christ." He puts it as a matter left for him to judge of and decide by Christ. He thus takes a common place with his beloved son in the gospel. Observe, The apostle was as ambitious of being sanctified as he was of being justified. 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. There are two Greek verbs which are very like each other. and have no confidence in the flesh ( Philippians 3:3 ). after a flea!" But "that in nothing I shall be ashamed." (ii) Our only boast is in Jesus Christ. 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. 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." The hope and prospect of it carried him with so much courage and constancy through all the difficulties he met with in his work. Love does not calculate these costs and dangers, but goes calmly forward, come what will, trouble, scorn, or death. He says, "All my life I have been trying to get into a right relationship with God. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Is there the struggle of the old with the appearance sometimes of the new? There are two chief stages of His humiliation flowing out of His perfect love. As far as his zeal and according to the righteousness that is in the law, he was blameless. Philippians 3:4b-14. And now, follow me as an example, live by this rule, because there are those who don't live by this rule. Christ was surely blameless in the highest sense, as His ways were harmless, "holy, harmless, undefiled," as it is said elsewhere. 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. The fellowship of His sufferings.Our flesh always rebels against suffering. No wonder Paul opted for the new righteousness, though he had done pretty good up until this point. "My desire is to know Him, and to be found in Him." Why should women expose, themselves? 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). He is not condemning Judaism from the outside. In by far the most of them it does not signify what we might call abstract perfection but a kind of functional perfection, adequacy for some given purpose. His own place toward them was but to serve them in love. What looks and sounds better than the saints of God? WebExodus 3:13-14 meaning. When the Jews wished to stress their special relationship to God in its most unique sense it was the word Israelite that they used. They are enemies to the cross of Christ, not to Christ Himself, but to that aspect of suffering with Him,". But if not, what then? Had he occupied himself with the persons that were so preaching the gospel, how disconsolate he must have been! It was so with the apostle. The words, as they stand in the best MSS., are as follow: , to that resurrection which is of the dead. 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. Hence it is that, although doctrine is sparse, if not almost excluded, nevertheless what little appears comes in as ancillary to the main purpose. When it is used of offerings, it means without blemish and fit to offer God. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. 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. But how can you attain the resurrection of the dead unless you, first of all, have died? Even he who knew them well marvelled that they were so soon shifting, not only from him, but from the gospel, after he left them. Its basis is that the Christian lives for ever in the presence of Jesus Christ. Such is the force of the exhortation. It just doesn't work. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. Paul sets down two very important things. It is the same in Greek thought; the dog stands for everything that is shamelessly unclean. There is therefore not the slightest ground to countenance the rather dangerous idea, that the apostle did not employ a phrase analogous to the correct one which is found elsewhere in the New Testament, and adopted "a popular and familiar mode of expression," i.e. I just can't rise above it. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord ( Philippians 3:1 ). When we are resurrected, we will have the same type of body that Jesus Himself had when he was resurrected. "The noun translated resurrection is an unusual double compound word used only here in the New Testament. "The out-resurrection is a special reward which only faithful believers will receive. But now the apostle was shut out from every labour apparently. But such things as I could humanly reckon as profits, I came to the conclusion were all loss for the sake of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament uses to know of sexual intercourse. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. 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. So this is Paul's answer to the Jewish teachers. "How can they say they are a child of God? For this corruption must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality and then will be brought to pass the saying, Oh, death where is thy sting? 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