When Saul is seeking to take his life, David's demand is: "After whom do you pursue? No doubt the new creation is essentially neither male nor female; it is not a race perpetuated in a fleshly way; but all things are of God and in Christ. This is lost in the idea of labouring in it. 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. (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. It is not achieved by any man but given by God; not won by works but accepted in trust. But the day is coming when every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth." 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. Always, we must be able to translate the past experience into the present relationship if it is to be a valid experience at all. May it be so with us! " i. 287.]. He had done everything that he was supposed to do according to the law to be righteous. "Jesus" is His own name, His personal name. I have no confidence in the flesh. There was but one spring of power even Christ. Obviously this out-resurrection is something which is capable of many degrees depending on the measure of ones faithfulness. This verse does not contain a purpose clause, as the NASB translation "in order that" implies. Little probable is it that the reading, . He speaks as if they were in danger of missing it, and coming short of it. By all means let them be made known unto God. For them there was the possibility of the same kind of persecution, and even the same kind of death, as threatened himself. How gladly would he be a libation upon the sacrifice of their faith! We know well that as men have sarcastically said, gratitude is a kind of fishing for fresh favours. Wherever he taught, the Jews followed him and tried to undo his teaching. It is hard to rejoice in circumstances. How truly he accounted himself less than the least of them! 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. what than the testimony for God? The Old Testament uses to know of sexual intercourse. So Paul says that in the Christian life we must forget every past achievement and remember only the goal which lies ahead. "For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him." It is right that the patriot should love his country. There is no looking at Him as Saviour on the cross merely; but when He comes for us, there will be in the filial sense (as ever in our epistle) "salvation." 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. Does he question the assurance of his salvation? That is, the resurrection of those who, having died in the Lord, rise to glory and honour; and hence St. Paul uses a peculiar word which occurs no where else in the New Testament, . ", And this nearness of Christ I take simply to be the blessed hope here made a practical power. He was made Lord and Christ. See 1 Thessalonians 4:6-18.". As Paul saw it, the Christian is the athlete of Christ. They regarded circumcision in itself as being enough to set them apart specially for God. Consequently we must look for another explanation of this verse. He lives a focused life. So, by the trial and error method, the redoing a lot of the seams and all, and the hem wasn't really straight, but it was a good effort. 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. #1 I press on. Within the Church there were two sets of people to whom these accusations might apply. And what is this but the unfolding of the truth in the heart and in the ways of the Christian? Thus easily do we fall into error, because the human mind likes to have either one thing or another, and thus avoid all difficulty in Scripture, having each squared according to our notions. Such was the apostle's faith. 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. Already knowing Jesus as his Savior, he now desires to know WebHe was naturally grateful to the Philippians, but more so to God who had worked such kindness through the Philippians. "Let your moderation be known unto all men;" that is, the meekness and gentleness which bends to the blow, instead of resisting it in the spirit that ever asserts its rights and fights for them. "Be anxious [or be careful] for nothing; but in everything" this is the resource "in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God." should have been altered to . There was evidently energy among these Philippians. 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." "Help them" (says he) "with Clement also, and with my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life. In fact, he had gone beyond. And they were a sort of a hated animal. 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. Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body: Our Savior can do and will do something that no Caesar can. Paul did not express doubt by this statement; he asserted a fact. He is one who has his joy exclusively from and in Christ. Paul felt that when Christ stopped him on the Damascus Road, he had a vision and a purpose for Paul; and Paul felt that all his life he was bound to press on, lest he fail Jesus and frustrate his dream. Annotations in loc.) A Hebrew was a Jew who was not only of pure racial descent but who had deliberately, and often laboriously, retained the Hebrew tongue. But it gives us also the effect of Christ in the saints eventually of Paul himself, of Timothy, of Epaphroditus, and indeed of the Philippian saints. The hope and prospect of it carried him with so much courage and constancy through all the difficulties he met with in his work. It will be observed that there is no such thing in the first instance as "to the glory of God," when we hear of all bowing in the name of Jesus. In this passage the key-word is righteousness. The true Christian worships God, not with outward forms and observances, but with the true devotion and the real sincerity of his heart. In every town and in every city and in every country there were Jews. 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!" Thus, in both parts of the history of Christ, presented to us in no obscure contrast with the first Adam, we have first of all His own glory, who humbled Himself to become a servant. In the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, part of the torture of Lazarus is that the street dogs annoy him by licking his sores ( Luke 16:21). (ii) Here also Paul sets down what we might call the necessity of repetition. Who, when He comes, He is going to change our bodies, that they might be fashioned like His own glorious image. Wednesday of Fifth Sunday in Lent Our Savior/Redeemer Pettibone/Woodworth, ND: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 cold and nakednessbesides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches" (2 Cor. All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. 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). "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. I believe that a woman shines most where she does not appear. "I have attained, I have achieved. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. ". Close. WebOther Commentaries. If this be borne in mind a large part of the difficulty that some have found completely disappears. They cannot gain righteousness before a holy God. all the dead, as a class. So he brings before them another remarkable feature of it their fellowship; and this fellowship too with the gospel. WebPhilippians 3:11-14 King James Version 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. That he might be conformable unto him, and this also is meant of his sanctification. At the same time, God's word is to me plain as to the manner in which the gifts are to be exercised. 1. So Paul states his attainments. You watch his pen draw out meaning. "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.". All who believe shall surely shine in His glory; and the universal creation, which, belonging to Him as His inheritance, He will share with His own, shall be reconciled and delivered in due time. Paul was writing letters from A.D. 48 to A.D. 64, sixteen years, but we possess only thirteen. It has been hard for you to kick against the pricks." 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. shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For there are many who behave in such a way--I have often spoken to you about them, and I do so now with tears--that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ. And so looking back to the past, oftentimes, we look at our failures and we are discouraged from trying to go on. I can't believe what they did to me. "The noun translated resurrection is an unusual double compound word used only here in the New Testament. WebContext Summary Philippians 3:111 warns Christians about the influence of false teachers, particularly those who add legalism on top of the gospel. Hence he desired that their conversation should be as became such zeal; "that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.". I can be honest with myself. Will it be said that this is what the apostle felt, and did, and suffered in the freshness of his first acquaintance with Christ? So Paul proves to these Jews that he has the right to speak. How the text got gradually changed from the most correct form (not correction) in the early Uncials has been explained. 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. Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. So he says, "Out of my experience I tell you that the Jewish way is wrong and futile. B. Lightfoot speaks of "the dogs which prowl about eastern cities, without a home and without an owner, feeding on the refuse and filth of the streets, quarrelling among themselves, and attacking the passer-by.". Does not our love fervently flame towards heaven? (Spurgeon). 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. "You see, the angel doesn't have to erase the righteousness and then rewrite it, or whatever. To know Christ means that we share the way he walked; we share the Cross he bore; we share the death he died; and finally we share the life he lives for evermore. Nothing less would be in keeping with such a high position. Their happy and bright state in Christ did not dim their fellowship with the gospel. He has not yet reached perfection, regardless of what the Judaizing opponents may have claimed for themselves. Philippians 4:1-23 is founded on both. See for instance Philippians 3:1-21. 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. He is at Rome, where he desired to be, no doubt, but which he had never expected to visit as one in bonds. They turned Christian liberty into unchristian licence and gloried in giving their passions full play. It was due to His humiliation and obedience; and so it is here treated. Paul is insisting that to the end of the day the Christian life is the life of an athlete pressing onwards to a goal which is always in front. I. Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. 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. DWELLER ON EARTH BUT CITIZEN OF HEAVEN ( Php_3:17-21 ). You can have these things of your flesh, you know. Now, having seen Christ, if he could even bring his own righteousness into heaven, he would not. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. It had always been so, as the apostle gives us to learn. "Filled," says he, "with the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ;" for it is all supposed to be fruit, not isolated fruits here and there, but as a whole, which adds greatly to the strength of it. Here the King James Version is dangerously misleading. 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. The Message Update. Like any good teacher, Paul was never afraid of repetition. He had experienced it at its highest point; and he knew that it was nothing compared with the joy which Christ had given. It just doesn't work. After all it was better for Christ to choose, not for him. WebBible Commentaries; Philippians 3:1-11; Philippians 3:1-11. To me," may each say truly, "to live is Christ.". B. Lightfoot remarks that the verb memphesthai ( G3201) , from which it comes, means to blame for sins of omission. 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. If by any means - Implying, that he meant to make use of the most strenuous exertions to obtain the object. So the apostle lets them know that he owned their hearty love; "not," he says, "because I desire a gift." ", "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." The rite of water baptism is really not a physical rite, but a spiritual experience. what than the ministry of Christ? Thus fervour of desire for others is the happy index of this whenever coupled with adequate knowledge of ourselves. Yea [not and], I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labour with me." 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. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. 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. Thus, some translate the phrase, "in the hope of" (Gpd), or "that is the way I can hope to" (JB), and "thus do I hope that" (NAB). Not that all shall be delivered and centred in Him, but that all must bow. If by any means: The expression "If by any means" or "If in some way" seems to hint at doubt or uncertainty in Pauls mind that he would take part in the resurrection. He has not attained this "perfection" as is evident from verses 12-16. Such is the thought that the apostle had before his soul of that which became the Christian. Real circumcision is devotion of heart and mind and life to God.". WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. Next follow various exhortations, as to be of the same mind with the apostle in pressing after spiritual and heavenly things, to which he exhorts those that had a greater knowledge of them than others; and who, though otherwise minded, the apostle was persuaded would have, the same revealed to them, Php 3:15, and both he exhorts, according to their different attainments, to walk by the same rule and mind the same thing, Php 3:16, and to be followers of him, and of them that walked after his example, Php 3:17, giving this as a reason, because there were men who walked otherwise, to the grief of him, to the dishonour of Christ, and to their own shame and destruction, whom he describes as sensual and earthly minded men, Php 3:18,19, and to engage them to follow him, and others, and not such persons, he draws a character of them opposite unto them; that whereas the minds of those others were carnal and earthly, their minds were spiritual and heavenly; their conversation was in heaven, and they were waiting for Christ from hence, Php 3:20, and the blessedness they expect from him then, is the resurrection of their bodies, which is illustrated by the efficient cause of it, Christ; the subject of it, their vile bodies, as in this lifts, and in the grave; the exemplar and pattern of it, the glorious body of Christ; and the means by which it will be effected, the energy and power of Christ, who is omnipotent, Php 3:21. [Paul] also speaks positively in verses 1214 of what he is doing in light of the incompleteness of his spiritual journey. But out of the midst of bitter experience he had learned Christ, as even he had never known Him before. 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. There may be sins within your heart that have long resisted control. 3. Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer. So, she decided that she would make for herself a new dress for the senior prom. 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. Let this be the end of everything; before you get to the end of it, and when you do get to the end of it, rejoice in the Lord.. We must think rather of the conflict of the gospel: there was often for all concerned disgrace, and pain, and scorn. "To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." They are always looking at their past and doing nothing now. I. 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. By calling himself an Israelite, Paul stressed the absolute purity of his descent. 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. It is the apostle giving us what his heart was occupied with when he could not go forth in the activities of work, and when it seemed as if he had nothing to do. And God then imputes to me, or accounts to me, righteousness. the dead. ] This is a good example, by the way, of the characteristic difference between these two translations. They were going to have the senior prom. This separates from all, and judges the best of man to be dung, as the former conforms the heart after His love. Paul had been so zealous a Jew that he had tried to wipe out the opponents of Judaism. 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. 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 apostle takes up, no doubt, the sweet affections of chapter 2, but then they are strengthened by the energy that Christ seen in glory imparts, as in chapter 3. "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. 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