The passive shines in Christ coming down; the active is realized by the eye that is fixed on Christ, who is actually in glory. The Lord knew exactly what He intended for you to do. Was this all the apostle had to say? Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. Because so many times, they say, "Well, you really can't do that. But how can you attain the resurrection of the dead unless you, first of all, have died? 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. It was not that he wanted more. He is exalting Christ. Here was a picture the Philippians could understand. Observe, The apostle was as ambitious of being sanctified as he was of being justified. Within the Church there were two sets of people to whom these accusations might apply. 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). If right here, we are at one, so to speak, with His present purposes. He puts it as a matter left for him to judge of and decide by Christ. Philippians 3:1114: Can I Really Have Assurance? all the dead, as a class. 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. There were in the Church at Philippi men whose conduct was an open scandal and who, by their lives, showed themselves to be the enemies of the Cross of Christ. 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. In such places the citizens were mostly soldiers who had served their time--twenty-one years--and who had been rewarded with full citizenship. It is something that I could have never made for myself, but it was given to me by Lady Bountiful. So, let this be your mind, let this be your attitude, follow me. 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. Their true and constant progress was what the apostle had before his own soul in prayer for them, instead of coolly giving up the saints, as if the new nature must grow feebler day by day as if the things of the world must overcome faith, and the things which are seen outweigh those which are unseen and eternal. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness." Will it be said that this is what the apostle felt, and did, and suffered in the freshness of his first acquaintance with Christ? Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. Thus fervour of desire for others is the happy index of this whenever coupled with adequate knowledge of ourselves. I just can't do it. "The noun translated resurrection is an unusual double compound word used only here in the New Testament. With Him you will be right about the gospel, right about the church, right about doctrine, walk, and service. Oh, what a shame. They became Greek-speaking of necessity because they lived and moved in a Greek environment. 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. "That I may know him." Close. Here I am, you know, come and I will teach you. For his was a heart deeply sensible of love, and consequently he was not one that had sought either to make the saints dependent upon him, and still less did the apostle depend on the saints for anything that was the fruit of grace in them. At any rate, such is the picture that the Holy Spirit gives of him there. Paul has just said that he came to the conclusion that all his Jewish privileges and attainments were nothing but a total loss. It was not thus that the true-hearted Philippians felt; and spiritual feeling is worth more than all reasoning. And she thought, "Oh my, I didn't dream anything could cost that much." He was a Pharisee. But Paul is willing to follow Jesus to the cross. They were more obedient in his absence than in his presence. The word is amemptos ( G273) , and J. Did he want more for himself? The keynote of the epistle is rejoice, and he said. The Gnostics were heretics who tried to intellectualize Christianity and make a kind of philosophy out of it. (iii) We place no confidence in merely human things. And what is the result? Differences there may be among the saints, and especially when we come to the question of experience. The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. I don't want to see it nailed to the cross. Paul had discovered that a right relationship with God is based not on Law but on faith in Jesus Christ. No; but "because that ye had heard that he had been sick." Their gift to him was "an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God." There is a pun in the Greek which is not transferable to English. "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 God then imputes to me, or accounts to me, righteousness. The righteousness which is of Christ through faith. that a saint should decline. the scope of the context) is as decidedly for as the weightiest external witnesses. Once you are right about Christ, you are right about everything while He is before you. 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. Even, therefore, if you could have (what is impossible) ever so much real spiritual knowledge along with Christ, who would so much as notice these acquisitions in comparison with Christ? "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. Nevertheless, God will surely teach His own, and knows how to clear up what is hidden from them. They went in. Now, because she had spent all of her money on tuition, and just getting by, on her books, and everything else, she really didn't have much money. 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. But Paul didn't stop there did he? 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. Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer. ", And this nearness of Christ I take simply to be the blessed hope here made a practical power. 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. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory." How could any murmur who believed they were really bonds in Christ? 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? In other words, "Here I am, I am chained in prison, but I don't find it hard to write this to you. Impossible that He could be made Jehovah. 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 no longer existed. I hold the record and my name is on the record books, and all." They said that, since grace was wide enough to cover every sin, a man could sin as he liked and not worry; it would make no difference to the all-forgiving love of God. 3:4-7 And yet it remains true that I have every ground of confidence from the human point of view. Love feels acutely nothing so much; but it triumphs. With all of my efforts I could never come up to that. 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. His only pride is that he is a man for whom Christ died. Spirit, they said, is altogether good; and matter is altogether evil. In affliction, in prison, everywhere. Hence he says, "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. In God there is ample supply. 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. Nothing less would be in keeping with such a high position. Such a Jew would speak the language of the country in which he lived but also the Hebrew which was his ancestral language. Why? The hope of the Christian is that the day will come when his humanity will be changed into nothing less than the divinity of Christ, and when the necessary lowliness of mortality will be changed into the essential splendour of deathless life. His intent is to bring to mind the resurrection, not of "all who are in the grave," but more specifically, the resurrection of the saved (1 Thessalonians 4:16). 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. When it is used of offerings, it means without blemish and fit to offer God. In Philippians 3:1-21 it is not the display of intrinsic affection in Christ, or the gracious dispositions of Christ in the saints. Not the passive side of the Christian as being in the world, but the active comes before us. The futility of a relationship with God based on the principle of law. (Compare Ephesians 1:1-23 and Colossians 1:1-29) But all, even these in hell, must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. The only boast of the Christian is not in what he has done for himself but in what Christ has done for him. 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. We do not tire of the foods which are the essentials of life. (iii) He was of the tribe of Benjamin. He was as desirous to know the power of Christ's death and resurrection killing sin in him, and raising him up to newness of life, as he was to receive the benefit of Christ's death and resurrection in his justification. Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Philippians 3 .Again, remember that the background of this epistle, Paul is chained to a Roman soldier in Rome, in prison, writing to the Philippians. Then he turns, not to doctrine after this opening, but to circumstances, to circumstances, however, illumined with Christ The most ordinary details are taken out of their own pettiness (though it is really a little mind which counts them petty), and are made simple and genuine, and this through Christ Jesus intermingled with them. Paul has already spoken of the surpassing value of the knowledge of Christ. 3:1 As for what remains, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. There is no question that there will be differences of rewards at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:12-15). 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. John Gill John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:1. There is nothing assuredly right, on the other hand, where Christ is not the object of the soul. 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. We now heard what the apostle renounced; let us now see what he laid hold on, and resolved to cleave to, namely, WebPhilippians - (NIV Application Commentary) by Frank S Thielman (Hardcover) $26.99When purchased online Out of Stock About this item Specifications Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up Number of Pages: 256 Genre: Religion + Beliefs Sub-Genre: Biblical Commentary Series Title: NIV Application Commentary Format: Hardcover Publisher: Zondervan Academic It was due to His humiliation and obedience; and so it is here treated. 2.]. (i) He says that he is trying to grasp that for which he has been grasped by Christ. People lived and died without ever having heard of Jesus Christ our Lord. WebComplete Concise He cautions them against judaizing seducers (v. 1-3) and proposes his own example: and here he enumerates the privileges of his Jewish state which he WebContext Summary Philippians 3:111 warns Christians about the influence of false teachers, particularly those who add legalism on top of the gospel. However, one is correct in understanding that these words express his humble expectation and hope (1 Corinthians 15:20; 2 Corinthians 5:1). "This robe of flesh I will drop and rise to reap the everlasting prize." This is certainly what the apostle here puts before these saints. Other Scripture points to the judgment seat of Christ as the time when God will make this distinction, not the resurrection. Paul claims that there was no demand of the Law which he did not fulfil. This is, accordingly, what flows forth in praise from himself, and in calling out praise from other hearts. notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached." Practical Bible study on Philippians 3:1-11. The resurrection is the ultimate goal for all Christians. 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). Paul was writing letters from A.D. 48 to A.D. 64, sixteen years, but we possess only thirteen. But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. This is illustrated in several instances. Why did the Lord apprehend you? When it is used of Christians, it often means baptized persons who are full members of the Church, as opposed to those who are still under instruction. For such conflict we need the power of the Lord and the whole armour of God. Paul makes a conscious effort to keep his eyes on the prize promised to him by God. B. Lightfoot translates it: "Vie with each other in imitating me." There is no doubt that Paul is here speaking to the antinomians. He is not condemning Judaism from the outside. Let me think of myself as one that is serving Him (oh, how feebly and failingly!) But if a man is to be in special relationship with God, something far more is needed than a mark in his body. They declared that they were within the grace of God and that, therefore, it did not matter what they did; God would forgive. "You remember Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, chapter 5 of Matthew, said, "Except your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven." The name of Christ Himself is the true centre of the saints; unto this the Spirit gathers. This is the more remarkable because it is so intensely practical. 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. Julius Caesar was declared to be the universal savior of mankind. It then became a common title for the ruling Caesar. But the Rapture is not an event that Christians need to strive to attain. His desire above all was that Christ's name might go forth. "Well, I didn't finish it, but I ran in it." We need to draw from God, the spring and the only supplier of power that can resist the devil; but, at the same time, that we have the devil to resist in His power is a conviction that may well demand "fear and trembling;" and this, lest in such a conflict we should let in anything of self, which would at once give a handle to the devil. The effect upon the individual is usually pride and the developing of a judgmental attitude.As the Pharisee who went in before the Lord and said, "Father, I thank you that I am not as other men. Indeed Paul did. Energy is not the best or highest aspect of Christianity. c. The Lord Jesus Christ: The title Lord was also applied to the Roman Caesar. 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. There may be sins within your heart that have long resisted control. Now, Paul recognized something that is very important for all of us to recognize who have been apprehended by Jesus Christ. How the text got gradually changed from the most correct form (not correction) in the early Uncials has been explained. The Jews would be quite sure that they were workers of righteousness. "if I live in the flesh, it is worth my while." For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. There are those who are living after their flesh. "My joy and crown," "my dearly beloved." This is proper to give us measures in all our service, and to quicken us every step we take; and it is of God, from whom we are to expect it. A man must always have a care that he is not himself guilty of the sins of which he accuses others. This disperses all clouds from the soul. Hebrews 11:35 is instructive here. 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. In other words, "Give it all you have got.". He is forgetting the things which are behind. InMatthew 23:1-39; Matthew 23:1-39 we have woe upon woe pronounced upon scribes and Pharisees, and so it is here. Fee's commentary on Paul's letter to the church in Philippi. You may be perfectly sure of an answer when you make known your requests: therefore let it be with thanksgiving. "In nothing," says he, "terrified by your adversaries [this is the other side]: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. Paul claims that not only was he a Jew who had retained his ancestral religion, but he had also devoted his whole life to its most rigorous observance. But not the righteousness which God has accounted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. It was in the body that Christ rose and it is this body which he sanctifies ( 1 Corinthians 6:13 ff.). Timothy shared the unselfishness of the apostle's heart. Select a Passage. I am rejoicing here, in the Lord." He always looks there in Philippians. And so the rule of the Christian life is: forgetting those things which are behind, and pressing for those things which are before, or reaching for those things which are before, pressing towards the mark. because he. In fact, he had gone beyond. Now I do count them, thirty years later, I still count them loss. Furthermore the resurrection he said he hoped to attain was still future whereas he had already experienced spiritual resurrection with Christ to newness of life (Romans 6:1-11; Galatians 2:20). And now as he had Christ before his soul, in this way the gospel itself, he can feel, is only promoted so much the more. For whom I have suffered the loss of all things ( Philippians 3:8 ). Hers is a more delicate place than that which becomes the man, and one which a man attempting it would awkwardly fill. The Christian places his confidence only in the mercy of God and in the love of Jesus Christ. and mark them which walk so as ye have us for your ensample [example]. Philippians 3:1. The word concision comes from a Greek word, which means mutilators. All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. 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. If he left this world, he would be with Christ; if he lived longer in this, world, Christ was with him. 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. "This shall turn," says he, "to my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." Once a person has been born again they are to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Like, another apostle (2 John 1:8) he does not hesitate to blend with all this an appeal to their hearts for his own service in their well-being. And at this point we also say, "Ya, ya, power, I want power. And whereas these judaizing teachers were for drawing them off from Christ, and weakening their joy and glorying in him, he exhorts them in the first place to rejoice in Christ, Php 3:1, and to beware of them, whom he describes as dogs, as evil workers, as the concision, Php 3:2, and opposes to them the characters of real saints, who are truly what they vainly boasted of, really circumcised persons in a Gospel sense, spiritual worshippers of God, joyful believers in Christ, and such as placed no confidence in outward things, Php 3:3, This the apostle illustrates in his own case, who had as much reason for trusting in such things as any man whatever, Php 3:4, of which he gives an enumeration in several particulars, Php 3:5,6, upon which he passes his judgment, and shows of what account, and in what esteem they were with him before, and now; that formerly they were reckoned gain, but now loss, Php 3:7, and which he explains as referring to every thing short of Christ, and in comparison of the knowledge of him, and which he preferred to everything; and this he confirms by his willingness to suffer the loss of all things for him; his ends in which were, that he might win him, and be found in him, without his own righteousness, that legal one the false teachers extolled, and with the righteousness of God which faith receives, and is the only justifying one; and that he might know more of him, feel more of his power, have more fellowship with him, and conformity to him, Php 3:8-10. 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