And so, she put it on and she walked out in the dorm where the other girls were and she said, "Look girls, this is my new dress for the prom. "Probably the best illustration I have heard of this particular passage is the story of the young girl who came from very poor circumstances, but was diligent and worked hard to work her way through college. Hebrews 11:35 is instructive here. Word Format PDF Format. that a saint should decline. Not our keeping hold of Christ, but his keeping hold of us, is our safety. "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.". And (we pray!) 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. You run until you ache and you think you can't go anymore, but you keep going. The NASB translators captured this idea when they rendered this phrase "the resurrection from among the dead." WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. Like any good teacher, Paul was never afraid of repetition. They regarded circumcision in itself as being enough to set them apart specially for God. He associates Timothy with himself, not merely, as elsewhere, himself apostle and Timothy in some other relation, but here conjointly "Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ." 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. It may be remarked here, that from an expression often misunderstood in Philippians 2:1-30 it might seem as if the apostle wished somehow to weaken their confidence. There are two chief stages of His humiliation flowing out of His perfect love. He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. Don't you know that Christians don't have to suffer? "What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ." This chapter then looks for the working of the gracious feelings of Christ Himself in the Christian individually, showing us, first, the fulness of them all in Christ in contrast with the first Adam. What the apostle's actings were under this conviction. WebFor we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit ( Philippians 3:3 ), Paul was constantly emphasizing that the physical rites had no value except there be a In effect Paul is saying that the Christian must forget all that he has done and remember only what he has still to do. 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. Fee's commentary on Paul's letter to the church in Philippi. It is incumbent upon us, as Christians, to rise out of our despondencies. (i) It means to know the power of his Resurrection. It was this that so cheered the apostle's heart in his loneliness often, in his desertion sometimes, when the sight of a brother would have given fresh courage to his heart. (iii) He was of the tribe of Benjamin. I tried it for so long. The trouble is not that of seeing its meaning; the trouble is that of finding one English word which covers all it includes. I would like to know Him in the power of His resurrection. But then Paul updates his experience. 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. Let your every contact with the world be just as light as possible." And so accordingly His servant says here, "If I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour.". Knowing him here is believing in him: it is an experimental knowledge of the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, or feeling the transforming efficacy and virtue of them. I have no confidence in the flesh. He had no theory that first love must necessarily wane and cool down, but the very reverse. His yoke is easy, and His burden light. "The prize" is "the crown of righteousness" (1Co 9:24; 2Ti 4:8). He is my Lord." This is the only allusion, as far as I know, to flesh in this epistle, but it is flesh in its religious form, and not as a source of evil lusts and passions. Supposing, for instance, we mingle with Christ knowledge or intelligence about this truth or that practice, does it not give a necessary prominence to certain distinctive points, which so far must make Christ of less account? When God entered into his special covenant with Abraham, circumcision was laid down as its eternal sign. Another, less likely, possibility is that Paul meant faithful Christians will experience a better resurrection than unfaithful believers. Surely there must have been something seriously wrong to judge in him! But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord ( Philippians 3:1 ). 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. Was this all the apostle had to say? The true Christian worships God, not with outward forms and observances, but with the true devotion and the real sincerity of his heart. (3.) Hence he thus opens, "Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown." 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 effect of it usually on the individual who has obtained such a thing: I keep the rules; I never do anything wrong; I always do what is good; I am a doo bee; I am just living by these righteous standards. When the Jews wished to stress their special relationship to God in its most unique sense it was the word Israelite that they used. For his sake I have had to undergo a total abandonment of all things, and I count them as nothing better than filth fit for the refuse heap, that I may make Christ my own, and that it may be clear to all that I am in him, not because of any righteousness of my own, that righteousness whose source is the Law, but because of the righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, the righteousness whose source is God and whose basis is faith. What looks and sounds better than the saints of God? How gladly would he be a libation upon the sacrifice of their faith! And, let me observe, it is not merely that Christ is my life. One possibility is that Paul was thinking of his spiritual co-resurrection with Christ. 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. We shall see the importance of this elsewhere. Such is the force of the exhortation. And he answered, "Who art thou, Lord that I may serve thee?" And He said, "I am Jesus. 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. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hence I am inclined to retain . So he could settle now about his life and death. I blew it. Timothy shared the unselfishness of the apostle's heart. But you can always rejoice in the Lord, because He is above circumstances. All human achievement had to be laid aside, in order that he might accept the free grace of Christ. All of this background that put me in a high standing as far as the law is concerned I counted loss for Christ. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. 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. I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be [not rejoicing here, but] the less sorrowful." The Jew placed his confidence in the physical badge of circumcision and in the performance of the duties of the Law. Is this the life that is practically exercised? Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. According to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself: This is possible only because the God we serve is omnipotent. They were looking for the eternal kingdom of God. . He looks upon himself to be in a state of imperfection and trial: Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect,Philippians 3:12; Philippians 3:12. 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. It was the natural cry of man, "Spare yourself from suffering." To me," may each say truly, "to live is Christ.". 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. He means the Lord, really, personally, at hand; as he had said in the end of the last chapter, that this was what we look for. How rich and full he was of the goodness of the God he had proved so long and could recommend so well! Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. WebSunday, February 26, 2023 Living Hope Christian Church, Inc. will broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube beginning at 11:00 am. And do count them but dung [as refuse], that I may win Christ, 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 ( Philippians 3:8-9 ): Now, Paul had excelled in the righteousness in the law. Philippians 4:1-23 is founded on both. 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. Hence he thus opens, "Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown." All these things Paul might have claimed to set down on the credit side of the balance; but when he met Christ, he wrote them off as nothing more than bad debts. 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. Changes will take effect once you reload the page. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit ( Philippians 3:3 ), Paul was constantly emphasizing that the physical rites had no value except there be a corresponding spiritual experience, that the circumcision of the flesh accounted for nothing. This glorious resurrection, and perhaps peculiarly glorious in the case of martyrs, is that to which St. Paul aspired. "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. And if anyone is otherwise minded in any way, this too God will reveal to him. With us the dog is a well-loved animal, but it was not so in the East in the time of Jesus. It was not so with the Philippians. No one denies this, which is, or ought to be, no new thing for a Christian. Nothing less would be in keeping with such a high position. The lad had found a joy which not even the scaffold could take away. But it is quite certain that they lived gluttonous and immoral lives and used their so-called Christianity to justify themselves. There is but one title, there can be no sufficient ground but the name of Christ Christ known and confessed in the Holy Ghost; and where He is simply before us, the progress is most real, if not always easy and sensible. 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. 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. I had everything going for me as far as righteousness from the law. 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. ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. The Apostle John says, "Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure" (1 John 3:3). (i) He says that he is trying to grasp that for which he has been grasped by Christ. In Philippians 3:1-21 it is not the display of intrinsic affection in Christ, or the gracious dispositions of Christ in the saints. 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. But this Christian joy enables a man to accept even them with a smile. 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. It expresses expectation. There was victory to his faith by the grace of God. [Note: W. E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, 1:86.] There is no epistle in the New Testament which gives so little space to the development of. This understanding of exanastasin would point to the resurrection of believers that will result in Christians rising from among the unbelieving dead, those who are dead in their trespasses and sins. Paul sets out three. When Paul stated that he was of the tribe of Benjamin, it was a claim that he was not simply an Israelite but that he belonged to the highest aristocracy of Israel. It is not at all as the objects of the gospel, but as having fellowship with it, their hearts bound up and identified with all the trials and difficulties that the gospel was sustaining in its course throughout the world. It may well be that one of our faults is our desire for novelty. "Reaching forth to those things which are before, I press," and the word in the Greek is agonizo. Such is the sense of it here. Our citizenship isn't here. "They really did me wrong. It is always the power of Satan that is in view here. Once a person has been born again they are to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is 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 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. The great feast of Purim, which was observed every year with such rejoicing, commemorated the deliverance of which the Book of Esther tells, and the central figure of that story was Mordecai, a Benjaminite. The fellowship of His sufferings.Our flesh always rebels against suffering. The past is translated into the present. 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. We have not yet attained, are not already perfect; there is still much wanting in all our duties, and graces, and comforts. They argued that a man could not be called complete until he had experienced everything that life had to offer, both good and bad. His goodness can even take this up and thus make it fragrant even to Himself. In Php_3:21 it speaks about our vile body. Press On! But that power displays itself not in our strength, or wisdom, or any conferred resources. For Paul the Resurrection was not simply a past event in history, however amazing. There is a pun in the Greek which is not transferable to English. 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. This is nothing to be surprised at. He is able even to subdue all things to Himself and accomplish something as amazing as the resurrection of our bodies after the pattern of Jesus resurrection. I like the power, but I don't like the suffering. The very fact, or way of putting it, supposes Him to be a divine person. 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 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. Their gift to him was "an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God." Hey, this is a pretty good pedigree. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already He met Christ on the Damascus road. For them there was the possibility of the same kind of persecution, and even the same kind of death, as threatened himself. "I beseech Evodia, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. Their mind isn't after the Spirit and after the things of the Spirit, they are more concerned and interested in the types of cars they drive and the things of the flesh and the earthly things, than they are the things of the Spirit. One cannot overlook the amazing strength with which he speaks even of his affections. The history of the Jews had dispersed them all over the world. 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. Faith is the ordained means of actual interest and saving benefit in all the purchase of his blood. Jesus roamed the earth as an outcast, didn't seek to possess any things of the earth. Again and again Paul returns to the thought that when the Christian has to suffer, he is in some strange way sharing the very suffering of Christ and is even filling up that suffering ( 2 Corinthians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 4:10-11; Galatians 6:17; Colossians 1:24). They were bonds in Christ; how then could he be impatient under them? 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. 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." It can be a very dangerous thing.On the other hand, I can recognize that I have a problem with sin, with myself, with my flesh. (b) It is the guarantee of the life to come ( Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:14 ff.). This is one of the main features of our chapter. "lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. This is our conformity to his death. [Note: Idem, "Raised to Run," Grace Evangelical Society News 6:8 (August 1991):2.]. 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). When that event takes place God will snatch Christians out from among the spiritually dead (unbelievers). But if not, what then? In this passage the key-word is righteousness. Christ was so truly before his heart, that in fact there was no self left unjudged to warp the choice. "If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection from the dead. We do not speak of standing in Christ now, but of their allotted services. He puts it as a matter left for him to judge of and decide by Christ. But the Rapture is not an event that Christians need to strive to attain. Paul has just attacked the Jewish teachers and insisted that it is the Christians, not the Jews, who are the truly circumcised and covenant people. because he. 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. Now he proceeds to give his reason. He did feel it. If then, matter is essentially evil, the body is essentially evil and will remain evil whatever you do with it. 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. Paul warns that they are there, they were there in Paul's day; they are there today. Moreover the term "out-resurrection" seems to stress separation from others at the time of resurrection rather than separation from others following resurrection. A Hebrew was a Jew who was not only of pure racial descent but who had deliberately, and often laboriously, retained the Hebrew tongue. Heaven is the prize of the high calling; to brabeion--the prize we fight for, and run for, and wrestle for, what we aim at in all we do, and what will reward all our pains. In other words, "I experienced it thirty years ago, and I had a turn-around in my life, and all of the past legalism and legal relationship with God, and all of those endeavors in my own flesh, the works of my flesh, I counted loss. That is to say, he was not only an Israelite; he belonged to the elite of Israel. Hence he says, "We look for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour: who shall change our vile. Proud member 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. Let all of you who have graduated in the school of Christ have the same attitude of mind to life. When I have been upset (because that is against my rules, never be upset) and so I am upset, I have to lie to myself and say, "I really wasn't upset, I was just indignant." Benjamin was the child of Rachel, the well-loved wife of Jacob, and of all the twelve patriarchs he alone had been born in the Promised Land ( Genesis 35:17-18). There is always danger of these, and the more so where there is activity among souls. "For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ." Consequently we must look for another explanation of this verse. The NIV is more paraphrastic, translating a Greek word with any number of English synonyms to make the English translation more readable. As citizens of heaven we keep in communication with our native home. 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. The internal evidence ( i.e. The moment you look at what He is made, then it is to the glory of Him who thus exalted Him. It is not only his reckoning in the first fervour of love for the Saviour. WebHe was naturally grateful to the Philippians, but more so to God who had worked such kindness through the Philippians. 661.] They were rather miserable, but that does not stop you from rejoicing in the Lord. Evidently, therefore, two glories of Jesus are referred to here. 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. Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Paul makes a conscious effort to keep his eyes on the prize promised to him by God. 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." 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. This is what he did, and accordingly this is the source, not merely of a firm faith and confidence as to the issue, but of present joy and all-overcoming power. The apostle drops entirely his official status in addressing the saints at Philippi. but so it was that thus the gospel, the glad tidings of His grace, should reach the highest quarters. He had put all, as it were, into the hands of Christ, who had Himself given him His own comfort about it. This construction is probably insignificant, but perhaps Paul is distinguishing the resurrection of the body from the spiritual resurrection that occurs at baptism. To him to live was Christ. WebIt is consciousness contemplating its riches, counting its gains. The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely," nor was this all, but "supposing to add affliction to my bonds.". 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