What looks and sounds better than the saints of God? 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. 4. Christ was surely blameless in the highest sense, as His ways were harmless, "holy, harmless, undefiled," as it is said elsewhere. But Paul didn't stop there did he? I found it no better than skubala ( G4657) ." Looking to the Lord, as it is the life-breath of love, so it adds to the value of brotherly kindness in its season. It is of great use in the Christian course to keep our eye upon heaven. The supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus shows itself in dependence, and this expresses itself therefore in prayer to God. I can be honest with myself. But his spirit was as bright as ever, his joy perfectly fresh, deep, and flowing. The question is at once settled as a matter of faith. It was not thus that the true-hearted Philippians felt; and spiritual feeling is worth more than all reasoning. He takes the very name the Jewish teachers would have applied to the impure and to the Gentiles and flings it back at themselves. As citizens of heaven we keep in communication with our native home. Probably Paul meant that he hoped he would live to experience the Rapture, the "out-resurrection from among the dead," before he died. 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). Paul warns that they are there, they were there in Paul's day; they are there today. InMatthew 23:1-39; Matthew 23:1-39 we have woe upon woe pronounced upon scribes and Pharisees, and so it is here. "Let your requests," whatever they may be, "be made known unto God;" and not only so, but "with thanksgiving." To know Christ means for him certain things. Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? "Don't know what is going to happen tomorrow, so hey, I will jump this ship and get on this one and I will gladly throw overboard the old life, with the struggle and the effort in my flesh, in order to live this new life after the Spirit, believing and trusting in Jesus Christ, to do for me what I really can't do for myself. Another view is that Paul was hoping that he would persevere faithfully in his quest to know Christ until he died. But, it might be argued, that was a snap decision, perhaps later to be regretted and reversed. WebContext Summary Philippians 3:111 warns Christians about the influence of false teachers, particularly those who add legalism on top of the gospel. 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). If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Does this content our hearts? 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. It is Paul's claim that he knew Judaism at its most intense and even fanatical heat. "Beware of evil workers; beware of the concision. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory." He was Jehovah, equal with God the Father. 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 Christ was so truly before his heart, that in fact there was no self left unjudged to warp the choice. The Christian awaits the coming of Christ, at which everything will be changed. Considering that he had not already attained, and had not apprehended, he pressed forward: "I follow after (Philippians 3:12; Philippians 3:12), dioko--I pursue with vigour, as one following after the game. But now he adds, "That I may know him" (speaking of entrance by faith into communion with Christ)" that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection." Paul said, "One receives the prize, and you run to obtain." No one denies this, which is, or ought to be, no new thing for a Christian. He is encouraged to keep moving towards this goal by his knowledge that final victory over sin, suffering and death is certain (10-11).Paul knows that he will not reach perfection in this life. Differences there may be among the saints, and especially when we come to the question of experience. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. There is His own personal glory; and this first. Hey, this is a pretty good pedigree. Dikaiosune ( G1343) is always difficult to translate in Paul's letters. No further discipline and no further effort were necessary. He pressed towards the mark. [Note: Saucy, p. The dogs were the pariah dogs, roaming the streets, sometimes in packs, hunting amidst the garbage dumps and snapping and snarling at all whom they met. They were "manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; and many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by, my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. NASB I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. That he might be conformable unto him, and this also is meant of his sanctification. 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. This epistle treats of daily sorrows and difficulties, yet does it manifestly overflow with joy, which all the dangers, sufferings, and trials only made the more triumphant and conspicuous. The things that happened to him he could therefore judge calmly and clearly. "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). Why, then, is it so in the next instance? The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. Philippians 3:1114: When Should I Forget My Past? Therefore, they said, it was a man's duty to plumb the depths of sin just as much as to scale the heights of virtue. Does not our love fervently flame towards heaven? (Spurgeon). differently] minded, this also will God reveal to you." But the practical ways and spirit of the Philippians were the living evidence not only of life, but, so to speak, of vigorous health in Christ. I want to know Him, I want to know the power of the resurrection, but yet, I want to know the fellowship of the sufferings and the cross. We worship God in the spirit.Jesus said, "God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.". It was God the Father that made Him Lord and Christ, but God the Father never made Him Jehovah. Paul had been so zealous a Jew that he had tried to wipe out the opponents of Judaism. Do with them as you will, they still defy you But if you will hand over the conflict to Jesus, He will subdue them; He will bring them under his strong, subjecting hand. (a) It is the guarantee of the importance of this life and of this body in which we live. The very language Paul uses to describe the Law--excrement--shows the utter disgust for the Law which his own frustrated efforts to live by it had brought him; and the joy that shines through the passage shows how triumphantly adequate he found the grace of God in Jesus Christ. How gladly would he be a libation upon the sacrifice of their faith! The reason is, in my judgment, perfectly beautiful. 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. WebFee's commentary on Paul's letter to the church in Philippi. "Help them" (says he) "with Clement also, and with my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life. the love of Christ everywhere! That he might know Christ (Philippians 3:10; Philippians 3:10): That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings. should not of itself have the same sense as that conveyed, with more propriety of expression (and for that reason likely to be adopted in the early Uncial MSS. WebOther Commentaries. The idea is that a man's Christian maturity cannot go beyond martyrdom. "Again I say, Rejoice." It is the forming of the heart with the affections and the judgments of the Lord. a. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. I can't get over that. For Paul the Resurrection was not simply a past event in history, however amazing. Annotations in loc.) You listen to John Piper. It is right that the patriot should love his country. J. 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." When the revival swept England the son was in York jail. As a man knows the bliss of parental or wedded love only by having it, or as he knows the taste of wine only by drinking it, or the glory of music only by hearing it, and the brightness of the day only by seeing it, so we know Christ only by winning Him. This is the object set before us inPhilippians 3:1-21; Philippians 3:1-21. For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body [or our body of humiliation], that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself ( Philippians 3:20-21 ). I tried it for so long. Far from losing sight of our past ways, it is a very wholesome thing indeed to remember them: we are never safe in forgetting what we are and have been. What then are the signs of that real circumcision? Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. There was another way which would best prove it to his heart; it was not something future secured to Paul in his need, which would be the way of nature, not of love or faith. No man knew better from personal experience what Jewish religion was at its highest and most demanding. They identified themselves, therefore, with all who were declaring it throughout the world. He esteemed men better than himself. What you cannot do, He can. (Meyer), 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. Teleios ( G5046) in Greek has a variety of interrelated meanings. what than the testimony for God? It is his own personal experience; and this is the reason why we have "I" so often here. WebBible Commentaries; Philippians 3:1-11; Philippians 3:1-11. Peritemnein ( G4059) means to circumcise; katatemnein means to mutilate, as in Leviticus 21:5, which describes forbidden self-mutilation, such as castration. Are we living out that life which we have? 3:17-21 Brothers, unite in imitating me, and keep your gaze on those who live, as you have seen us as an example. (i) He sets down what we might call the indestructibility of Christian joy. Because he looks at Jesus, not in His own personal right and glory, where necessarily all must bow, but rather at Him in His official place as Lord the place He has righteously acquired as man. It is true that Paul frequently plotted Christs story around the motifs of death and resurrection, a scheme he most likely inherited from If the Christian really walks with Christ, he walks with joy. Their affections were right. (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. I forget those things which are behind.A lot of people make the mistake of trying to live in the past. 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. 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. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. "Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain" ( Genesis 4:1). He says that he proposes to write things to them that he has written before. This verb indicates the most intimate knowledge of another person. Paul could say not only, "Listen to my words," but also, "Follow my example." all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love. The old life, you know, I accounted loss. People lived and died without ever having heard of Jesus Christ our Lord. With us the dog is a well-loved animal, but it was not so in the East in the time of Jesus. It is no trouble to me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe. It had always been so, as the apostle gives us to learn. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. But now the apostle was shut out from every labour apparently. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision ( Philippians 3:2 ). 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. He did not forget, but meant what he said. Better not make them known to men; it is a dangerous snare. It was in the body that Christ rose and it is this body which he sanctifies ( 1 Corinthians 6:13 ff.). 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. 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." Not having my own righteousness, my works through the law, but now the righteousness which is of God by faith, that righteousness which is imputed to those who believe, that righteousness that Abraham had when God imputed his faith for righteousness.Now, I can endeavor to be righteous before God by my own works and efforts. 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. Following the Jewish Law does not make anyone right in Gods eyes; only faith in Christ does that. 3. That he might be found in him (Philippians 3:9; Philippians 3:9), as the manslayer was found in the city of refuge, where he was safe from the avenger of blood, Numbers 35:25. I more than anybody else. They began with the principle that from the beginning of time there had always been two realities--spirit and matter. True experience is still the great theme which the apostle has in hand here as well as in his own personal history. The one thing that suits is to pursue the glory before him, till he is in the same glory along with Christ. "That I may know him." These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. In 48 B.C. She couldn't buy a dress, but she really didn't have much money to buy very good material. There were not very many Pharisees, never more than six thousand, but they were the spiritual athletes of Judaism. The word if can be translated as since: Since I will attain to the resurrection from the dead is the Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. At the same time, God's word is to me plain as to the manner in which the gifts are to be exercised. 1Pe 5:4, "a crown of glory that fadeth not away." The Philippians were extremely giving towards Paul, both when he was with them (Acts 16:15, 16:32-34) and when he was apart from them (2 Corinthians 8:1-7, 9:1-4, and 11:9). "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." It seems strange that if Paul wanted to distinguish between faithful and unfaithful believers here he would use the resurrection to do so. 287.]. No saints are outside the danger. I must, first of all, set the standard: what constitutes righteousness? (c) It is the guarantee that in life and in death and beyond death the presence of the Risen Lord is always with us. Paul had certain people that seemed to follow him wherever he went, trying to pervert that which he taught of the grace of God, especially the Jewish legalizers who sought to bring the people back to a legal relationship with God, putting them under the law. He had no theory that first love must necessarily wane and cool down, but the very reverse. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament. Preaching and teaching and studying the side-issues may be attractive, and these have their place, but the fundamental truths can neither be spoken nor heard too often for the safety of our souls. But how can this be unless the heart is perfectly at ease as to itself? Our citizenship. In modern speech that would mean that the body is an utterly evil and horrible thing; but vile in sixteenth-century English still retained the meaning of its derivation from the Latin word vilis which in fact means nothing worse than cheap, valueless. It is the imbuing of the Christian with that which is life everlasting, but the life that he is now living by "the faith of the Son of God, who loved him and gave himself for him." "The one preach Christ of contention supposing to add affliction to my bonds: but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus," feeling, judgment, everything, guarded and governed by this precious peace of God. When he received Jesus Christ, as far as they were concerned, he was dead. Then he turns to what had drawn out the epistle. John You see for yourself whether the meaning is really there. There were those who distorted the principle of Christian liberty. It does not matter how unlike they may be, or how opposed; it does not matter what vessels of shame and misery they may have been now; "He is able to subdue all things unto himself.". Thus "forgetting those things which are behind" refers to the progress that we may make. Skubala has two meanings. 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. 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? 10-11 I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. But the weakest of saints (how much more this greatest of the apostles!) In affliction, in prison, everywhere. He adds further (Philippians 3:13; Philippians 3:13): This one thing I do (this was his great care and concern), forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before. Why? But such things as I could humanly reckon as profits, I came to the conclusion were all loss for the sake of Jesus Christ. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. That is, they want still to live after the flesh so bad, that the idea of being crucified with Christ, the death of the old life, the death of the old man, the death of the old flesh life, is irritating to them. should have been altered to . Paul has just said that he came to the conclusion that all his Jewish privileges and attainments were nothing but a total loss. Oh that the Lord might make it true of His own! It is still going on. Is it too much to say that many a groan would have gone forth from us that are here? What a word, and how calculated to make us ashamed! The lost must bow; the devils must bow; the lake of fire must own the glory of Him who has power to cast them there, as it is said, "unto the glory of God the Father." It has the preposition ek (meaning from or out of) added to the ordinary word for resurrection" (Loh and Nida 106). Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Copyright - Enduring Word       |      . "For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ." If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more [If anyone might have something to boast in the flesh. I am the one who would]: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless ( Philippians 3:4-6 ). Therefore, says Paul, it is the Christians who are the truly circumcised. He must have a certain kind of mind and heart and character. We haven't yet scratched the surface of the work that needs to be done in the hearts and lives of the people of Orange County, in Southern California, across the United States. The keynote of the epistle is rejoice, and he said. Many different commentaries state that of all the groups that Paul wrote to, Phillipi was probably the best of them all. It expresses expectation. And with a lot of people, there is just a lot of bad experiences in the past. The history of the Jews had dispersed them all over the world. They contributed to his. 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. Returning, however, to the women Evodia and Syntyche, they had devoted themselves to an exceedingly happy and prized service. Such a Jew would speak the language of the country in which he lived but also the Hebrew which was his ancestral language. B. (1.) I believe, therefore, that , especially if be supposed to be fetched (as Dr. B. says) from , is incompatible with , the one conveying the notion of a selected company, and the other of the dead universally. There are two chief stages of His humiliation flowing out of His perfect love. He is my Lord." 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. It is not the dread of losing the Saviour of their souls, but because they felt for His name; "for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure." Give me the power," and we are so power-hungry. This is the more important, because such fear is the main weapon of Satan. He is exalting Christ. I believe that a woman shines most where she does not appear. And they are not really going ahead in life at all, because they are so involved in the past. He calls the Judaisers dogs because they like to cut the flesh of people; that is, they insist that they must circumcise Gentiles before those Gentiles can be saved. As he had said elsewhere before, so he says here, "Be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. He makes it clear that he continues to pursue his goal just as a runner might continue to run in order to receive the prize at the end of the race. This is the more remarkable because it is so intensely practical. We do not speak of standing in Christ now, but of their allotted services. We have not yet attained, are not already perfect; there is still much wanting in all our duties, and graces, and comforts. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ ( Philippians 3:7 ). They had separated themselves off from all common life and from all common tasks in order to make it the one aim of their lives to keep every smallest detail of the Law. They are stagnating now. When we are resurrected, we will have the same type of body that Jesus Himself had when he was resurrected. "Jesus" is His own name, His personal name. If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of. 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. WebPhilippians 3:1-11 Bible Study Commentary And Questions. However, one is correct in understanding that these words express his humble expectation and hope (1 Corinthians 15:20; 2 Corinthians 5:1). But now the apostle turns to the use that he makes of so blessed a pattern, "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence." Nothing, then, would the apostle have done in strife or vain-glory; "' but in lowliness of mind each esteeming other better than themselves." 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. All error is founded on a misuse of a truth against the truth. 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