Hey, this is a pretty good pedigree. No teacher must find it a trouble to go over and over again the great basic truths of the Christian faith; for that is the way to ensure the safety of his hearers. The rite of water baptism is really not a physical rite, but a spiritual experience. The word concision comes from a Greek word, which means mutilators. But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. At the same time, God's word is to me plain as to the manner in which the gifts are to be exercised. Impossible that anything done by other saints should turn to one's acceptance any more than what is done by himself The apostle uses salvation throughout his letter to the Philippians (nor is it confined to this scripture only) in the sense of the complete and final triumph over all the power of Satan. 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. He was Jehovah, equal with God the Father. Here Paul rounds upon these Jewish teachers who were seeking to undo his work. Generally the NASB is more literal, translating a Greek word with the same English word wherever the Greek word occurs. They were looking for the eternal kingdom of God. Brethren, be followers together of me ( Philippians 3:17 ). And the righteousness is accounted to me by my faith in Him. It was not merely their calling in Christ, their being Christians, that was before him, but a walk as it became the gospel of Christ. For the prize of the high calling. He had been born in the Gentile city of Tarsus, but he had come to Jerusalem to be educated at the feet of Gamaliel ( Acts 22:3) and was able, for instance, when the time came, to speak to the mob in Jerusalem in their own tongue ( Acts 21:40). But you will never know the life of the resurrected Christ until you have experienced the fellowship of the sufferings. He must be conformed to his Master in all things; and this was one of them. And with a lot of people, there is just a lot of bad experiences in the past. in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Little probable is it that the reading, . It is the cry of the Psalmist: "Zeal for thy house has consumed me." Returning, however, to the women Evodia and Syntyche, they had devoted themselves to an exceedingly happy and prized service. It describes him with eyes for nothing but the goal. Not only was an utterly wrong spirit indulged in the work itself, and toward others engaged actually in it; but even as to the apostle, shut out from such service, a desire to pain and wound was not wanting. Many different commentaries state that of all the groups that Paul wrote to, Phillipi was probably the best of them all. This is wholly distinct from His own intrinsic eternal glory. And, let me observe, it is not merely that Christ is my life. You run until you ache and you think you can't go anymore, but you keep going. but for you it is safe. When it is used of offerings, it means without blemish and fit to offer God. His language comes from the world of war and athletics and emphasizes the strenuous nature of his efforts to fulfill his vocation. Such things only prevented him from trusting in Christ (4-7). Now we all know that when a man is carried on the top of the wave, when the winds fill the sails and all goes prosperously, when hearts are gladdened in sorrow, when one witnesses the joy of fresh deliverance from day to day, it is a comparatively easy thing. But let us not be turned aside, and think that it is merely a question of believing and of knowing our place secure; but let us live of that very Christ who is our life. When the Jews wished to stress their special relationship to God in its most unique sense it was the word Israelite that they used. 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. He would have them realize the solemnity of the strife that is going on. I forget those things which are behind.A lot of people make the mistake of trying to live in the past. But it frequently happened that they forgot their own language. being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead ( Philippians 3:10-11 ). "I want to hang on to the flesh. There is always cause to rejoice in the Lord. To me," may each say truly, "to live is Christ.". He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. This glorious resurrection, and perhaps peculiarly glorious in the case of martyrs, is that to which St. Paul aspired. Whatever the motives, whatever the manner, the Lord would surely deal with these in His own day; but, at any rate, Christ was now preached, and God would use this both for His own glory and for the salvation of souls. He would have one who begins with Christ to (so on with Christ, have nothing but Christ before his eyes, and pursue this path without a stumble till the day of Christ. Whatever you desire, just ask God, insist on God, command God. I just can't rise above it. WebIt is consciousness contemplating its riches, counting its gains. 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." 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. Press On! 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. ", "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." The critical reading he owns has force and propriety; but he does "not see why . 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. 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. in this relationship, and it is an easy thing to esteem others better than myself. 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. Had it been a question of his apostolic dignity, this could not have been; but an apostle even could, and did, and loved to, take the place of one that served others whom he viewed directly in their relationship to Christ. 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. Skubala has two meanings. View Exodus on the Timeline. but so it was that thus the gospel, the glad tidings of His grace, should reach the highest quarters. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Observe, His care to be found in Christ was in order to his attaining the resurrection of the dead. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Sit at my feet and learn." As he tells them, fruit that might abound to their account was all that his heart really yearned after. That which men call by this name is really the trial of what flesh is under law much more than experience of Christ. "I want to know him; I want to know him completely." There will be a resurrection of the unjust, who shall arise to shame and everlasting contempt; and our care must be to escape that: but the joyful and glorious resurrection of saints is called the resurrection, kat exochen--by eminence, because it is in virtue of Christ's resurrection, as their head and first-fruits; whereas the wicked shall rise only by the power of Christ, as their judge. With us it is far otherwise; and only as we live on Christ do we remove, as it were, from the enemy's hand that which would furnish him abundant occasion. 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. I can't believe what they did to me. all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love. You may be perfectly sure of an answer when you make known your requests: therefore let it be with thanksgiving. But since he now belongs to Christ, he believes that perfection is the only goal he can aim at. Let nobody suppose me to insinuate that a woman is not in place when exercising, according to the Scripture, any gift God has given her. 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. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. What then? Now he proceeds to give his reason. There is no epistle in the New Testament which gives so little space to the development of. Let me look at another as he is in Christ. "That I may win Christ, and be found in him" where not a vestige of self remains, but all will be Christ, and nothing but Christ. How lovely that this it was that pained him unselfish love! 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.". When God entered into his special covenant with Abraham, circumcision was laid down as its eternal sign. You can check these in your browser security settings. Hence he speaks of the conflict which they once saw to be in him, and now heard to be in him. He speaks as if they were in danger of missing it, and coming short of it. and have no confidence in the flesh ( Philippians 3:3 ). Few preachers would dare to make the appeal with which Paul begins this section. They were bonds in Christ; how then could he be impatient under them? They are enemies to the cross of Christ, not to Christ Himself, but to that aspect of suffering with Him,". But Paul said. He did not forget, but meant what he said. It was so with the apostle. Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer. The other is what suits it, but a conferred position. Accordingly, this being not so directly the subject of the epistle though a Very important part of it, it comes in parenthetically in a large measure, not now in any wise as a question of truth or development of the mystery of Christ, as we saw in Ephesians 3:1-21, but, nevertheless, as a parenthesis; for he resumes afterwards the internal side again, as we shall see inPhilippians 4:1-23; Philippians 4:1-23. Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. And rather than resting in the past, what God has done, let's look forward to what God wants to do. 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). . " This verb indicates the most intimate knowledge of another person. 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). However there is no other Scripture that teaches a difference in the resurrection of faithful and unfaithful believers. 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). 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." A man must always have a care that he is not himself guilty of the sins of which he accuses others. 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. Who have had more palpable witness that service may become the object rather than Christ? No wonder Paul opted for the new righteousness, though he had done pretty good up until this point. 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. I might attain unto - I may come to, or may secure this object. It may well be that one of our faults is our desire for novelty. Christ was so truly before his heart, that in fact there was no self left unjudged to warp the choice. Yet they were the witnesses of Christ whom God had put forth at the close; for it was manifestly of Him. This is our conformity to his death. It shows us grace practically in different measures and forms. The 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).To support this statement, Paul refers to his own experience. #1 I press on. there is no small tendency whenever people know the gospel well, if this be all, to settle down, thinking they have nothing more to do with the matter. Fee's commentary on Paul's letter to the church in Philippi. It has the preposition ek (meaning from or out of) added to the ordinary word for resurrection" (Loh and Nida 106). The resurrection of the dead - Paul believed that all the dead would be raised Acts 24:15; Acts 26:6-8; and in this respect he would certainly attain to the resurrection of the dead, in common with all mankind. He desired not anything for himself, but only what should abound to their account in the day of Jesus Christ. 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. I was circumcised when I was eight days old: I am of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin: I am a Hebrew, born of Hebrew parents. This is the more remarkable because it is so intensely practical. "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." "Let's not get too," Paul said, "involved in the world. Are we living out that life which we have? That which is holy must never be given to dogs ( Matthew 7:6). Now, Paul was a classic example of what Jesus was referring to. Hence we see the great importance of this truth. He breaks it completely, becomes conqueror for ever, wins the title for God's grace to deliver righteously every creature, save only those who, far from receiving Christ, dare to reject Him because of that very nature which He took on Him, and that infinite work on the cross which had caused Him suffering to the utmost in working all out for the glory of God. It was not some sudden fit, if one may so say, nor was it the influence of passing circumstances. 3:10-11 My object is to know him, and I mean by that, to know the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while I continue to be made like him in his death, if by any chance I may attain to the resurrection of the dead. Faithful believers only will obtain this out-resurrection and have abundance of joy forever. exanastasin, lit. The Jews would be quite sure that they were workers of righteousness. 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 the two things are repeated the past judgment and the present power: "and do count them but dung, that I may, win Christ." Who would have expected that the timid man Nicodemus, and the honourable councillor Joseph of Arimathea, would have been brought out at the very time when even the apostles themselves had fled trembling with fear? 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. "Let your requests," whatever they may be, "be made known unto God;" and not only so, but "with thanksgiving." I have no confidence in the flesh. The author of Exalting Jesus in Luke is Thabiti M. Anyabwile Philippians - Ryan Kelly 2014-07-31 The book of Philippians challenges Christians to remember their true identity as citizens of Gods kingdom, especially when faced with difficult circumstances and painful trials. Why, then, is it so in the next instance? They joined with those who preached the truth and partook of their obloquy. It has been hard for you to kick against the pricks." WebPhilippians 3 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. His desire above all was that Christ's name might go forth. We are then made conformable to his death when we die to sin, as Christ died for sin, when we are crucified with Christ, the flesh and affections of it mortified, and the world is crucified to us, and we to the world, by virtue of the cross of Christ. Love does not calculate these costs and dangers, but goes calmly forward, come what will, trouble, scorn, or death. Whence our grace comes--from our being apprehended of Christ Jesus. They may have been Gnostics. And she saw this young girl, modeling her dress and she said, "Would you mind going with me?" There is no more common device of Satan than to seek the destruction of the power of testimony by the allowance of evil insinuations against him who renders it. But then, worse than that, this judgmental spirit. I have transcribed this note at length, because it is a fair sample of Dr. victory over the foe. The real circumcision is not a mark in the flesh; it is that true worship, that true glory, and that true confidence in the grace of God in Jesus Christ. WebPhilippians 3:11-14 King James Version 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. The word he uses for reaching out (epekteinomenos, G1901) is very vivid and is used of a racer going hard for the tape. "Well, where did you place?" Paul had discovered that a right relationship with God is based not on Law but on faith in Jesus Christ. He is not condemning Judaism from the outside. I more than anybody else. Faith is called knowledge, Isaiah 53:11. He thus takes a common place with his beloved son in the gospel. You look at a Bible text on the screen. If by any means - Implying, that he meant to make use of the most strenuous exertions to obtain the object. Christ is the sovereign balm for every wound; and it was the apostle's joy, whatever men's spirit might be, not only to enjoy Christ himself, but that His name was being proclaimed far and wide by many lips, that souls might hear and live. Why should such as they face the unmannerly officials that took advantage of the imperial government to treat with injury those identified with the gospel? They declared that they were within the grace of God and that, therefore, it did not matter what they did; God would forgive. "Beware of the concision.". Differences there may be among the saints, and especially when we come to the question of experience. It is incumbent upon us, as Christians, to rise out of our despondencies. And she thought, "Oh my, I didn't dream anything could cost that much." It is our progress then that we are to forget. In point of fact the Ishmaelites could trace their descent to Abraham, for Ishmael was Abraham's son by Hagar; the Edomites could trace their descent to Isaac, for Esau, the founder of the Edomite nation, was Isaac's son; but it was the Israelites alone who could trace their descent to Jacob, whom God had called by the name of Israel. Nothing, then, would the apostle have done in strife or vain-glory; "' but in lowliness of mind each esteeming other better than themselves." (i) "Beware of the dogs," he says. It is because the world was created out of this flawed matter that sin and evil are in it. The manner, too, in which these things happened seemed to make all as remote as possible from furthering the gospel; but here again he brings in Christ. "For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state." So he says, "Out of my experience I tell you that the Jewish way is wrong and futile. You see, Jesus could not experience the power of the resurrection until the cross. If he left this world, he would be with Christ; if he lived longer in this, world, Christ was with him. 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. I just can't do it. 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. And as to Romans 4:17 (which was probably meant rather than 16), it has no bearing on the matter, as it is there merely a question of God's power displayed in quickening the dead, and calling things that are not in being as in being, and in no way distinguishing the resurrection of life from that of judgment. I must, first of all, set the standard: what constitutes righteousness? There is great reason to think that the arose from those who thought it necessary to the sense, and did not see that it could be fetched from the in . ), . 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." Real circumcision is devotion of heart and mind and life to God.". ", "The spiritual resurrection view posits that the out-resurrection refers to the attainment of Christlike character in this life." So here he says, "I came to that conclusion--and I still think so. 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. It should be "the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.". 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. When Saul is seeking to take his life, David's demand is: "After whom do you pursue? In this passage the key-word is righteousness. "How can they say they are a child of God? Dr. S. T. Bloomfield indeed (Addit. God never can fail; and the very trials that would seem to crush all hope for the glory of Christ on the earth are the precise occasions in which God proves that after all it is He alone who triumphs, while man always fails even if he be an apostle. I was so moved, I was so touched by the Spirit of God upon my life." . His worship is love of God and service of men. Let this be your mind, let's walk by these rules. We have only begun to see the work of God; we have only begun to see the glory of God poured out. Only we must always walk according to that standard which we have already reached. (i) It means to know the power of his Resurrection. We may see the moral harmony of that lot with his testimony, and how suitable it seems that he, who was above all men identified with the gospel of the glory of Christ, should be a prisoner, and nothing but a prisoner in Rome. In Hebrew the verb is yada' ( H3045) and in Greek it is translated by ginoskein ( G1097) . There was victory to his faith by the grace of God. Here I am, you know, come and I will teach you. 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. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. 3:1 As for what remains, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. Webpresents an easy reading, practical and friendly commentary. They contributed to his. The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. What is the point of this? He is my Savior. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. The history of the Jews had dispersed them all over the world. They regarded circumcision in itself as being enough to set them apart specially for God. "I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you," says he, after his usual salutation and wish, "always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy.". 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. God was pleased, even whilst the apostle was alive, to set him aside and to prove the power of faith where he was not. It is Paul's claim that he knew Judaism at its most intense and even fanatical heat. So when Paul uses the word in Php_3:12 , he is saying that he is not by any means a complete Christian but is for ever pressing on. Their affections were right. ". 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. So he could settle now about his life and death. See 1 Thessalonians 4:6-18.". But unfortunately, since then, a lot of those things that they counted loss at that point, they picked back up, so that they are encumbered again. So these Gnostics taught that gluttony and adultery and homosexuality and drunkenness were of no importance because they affect only the body which is of no importance. Observe, Those who think they have grace enough give proof that they have little enough, or rather that they have none at all; because, wherever there is true grace, there is a desire of more grace, and a pressing towards the perfection of grace. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I make this judgment of the case; I thus reason with myself." It is the only place in Scripture where the phrase means, not simply the righteousness of God in point of character, but the righteousness of God in point of source. I want to hold on to the things of the flesh." In the days of the early Church it is quite often used to describe martyrs. But you can always rejoice in the Lord, because He is above circumstances. And so, when He is finished with me here, this robe of flesh I will drop and rise to seize the everlasting prize and shout while passing through the air. of Philippians 3:14. , one thing) viz. 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