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. [Note: W. E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, 1:86.] WebOther Commentaries. And Jesus said, "Get thee behind me, Satan, you offend me." But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. 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. He always looks there in Philippians. You can check these in your browser security settings. 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. In the Christian life there is no room for a person who desires to rest upon his laurels. WebBible Commentaries; Philippians 3:1-11; Philippians 3:1-11. One possibility is that Paul was thinking of his spiritual co-resurrection with Christ. That is to say, he was not only an Israelite; he belonged to the elite of Israel. Yet these shall bow, no less than those in heaven, or on earth. Whatever he needed, love is never itself but in unselfish action and suffering. WebThe allusion is to the white line, or mark, which the runners in the Olympic games made up to, and to which he that came first received the prize; and by which the apostle intends the Lord Jesus Christ, who is ( skopov) , "the scope", or "mark", of all the thoughts, purposes, and counsels of God, to which they all aim, and in which they all It was not because of their own personal interest, though this was great and fresh, but they loved that it should go forth. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ( Philippians 3:8 ): Paul the apostle is on his way to Damascus to persecute the church. (ii) To that end Paul says two things. Such is the sense of it here. "I make this judgment of the case; I thus reason with myself." He gave him time to repent; and not only so, but a heart to repent." all the dead, as a class. The NASB translators captured this idea when they rendered this phrase "the resurrection from among the dead." But tomorrow, some nut pulls in front of me on the freeway and then blocks and traps me, and I may shake my fist and honk my horn, and say, "Get off the road, you fool." The word if can be translated as since: Since I will attain to the resurrection from the dead is the He is at Rome, where he desired to be, no doubt, but which he had never expected to visit as one in bonds. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already What then are the signs of that real circumcision? It is right that the patriot should love his country. "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. Hebrews 11:35 is instructive here. One morning Wesley had preached with great effect: "As we returned, Mr. Wesley stopped his horse to pick the blackberries, saying: 'Brother Nelson, we ought to be thankful that there are plenty blackberries; for this is the best country I ever saw for getting a stomach, but the worst I ever saw for getting food!'" And you can become a phony, because, you know, you set your own standards; you live by your own rules. How truly he accounted himself less than the least of them! 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). Have we that one blessed person as the hope, motive, beginning, end, way, and power of all that occupies us from day to day? I tried it for so long. Dikaiosune ( G1343) is always difficult to translate in Paul's letters. The other is what suits it, but a conferred position. 11:24-28). Why did the Lord apprehend you? 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." He did not make a mistake. People lived and died without ever having heard of Jesus Christ our Lord. Because he lives, we shall live also; his victory is our victory. 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. The words that Paul used seem to indicate that he was thinking of a resurrection from among those who were dead. It is incumbent upon us, as Christians, to rise out of our despondencies. 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. Forgetting the things which are behind, reaching forth for those things which are before, pressing towards that mark, be thus minded. And so, too, he could now read and interpret all things in that bright light around him. There is no necessity and where is the epistle that more thoroughly disproves the thought of any necessity? It is not simply intellectual knowledge, the knowledge of certain facts or even principles. And if anyone is otherwise minded in any way, this too God will reveal to him. 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. Obviously this out-resurrection is something which is capable of many degrees depending on the measure of ones faithfulness. 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. So, she decided that she would make for herself a new dress for the senior prom. WebHe was naturally grateful to the Philippians, but more so to God who had worked such kindness through the Philippians. A prisoner he was; and such is all that Scripture tells about him there. Let me think of myself as one that is serving Him (oh, how feebly and failingly!) But whatever might be their own proper joy, whatever might be their delight in that which God works in the church, they had full and simple-hearted fellowship with His good news. In Philippians 3:1-21 it is not the display of intrinsic affection in Christ, or the gracious dispositions of Christ in the saints. *There is no reasonable doubt that the received text is wrong, followed by the Authorised Version ("of," instead of "from" the dead). When he received Jesus Christ, as far as they were concerned, he was dead. So the people whom Paul attacks may have been the clever Gnostics who produced specious arguments to justify their sinning or they may have been misguided Christians who twisted the loveliest things into justification for the ugliest sins. but for you it is safe. 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. To know Christ means that we share the way he walked; we share the Cross he bore; we share the death he died; and finally we share the life he lives for evermore. He desired to win Christ; and an unspeakable gainer he would reckon himself if he had but an interest in Christ and his righteousness, and if Christ became his Lord and his Saviour: That I may win him; as the runner wins the prize, as the sailor makes the port he is bound for. 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. It was from the tribe of Benjamin that the first king of Israel had come ( 1 Samuel 9:1-2), and it was no doubt from that very king that Paul had been given his original name of Saul. 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). (a) It is the guarantee of the importance of this life and of this body in which we live. The name of Christ Himself is the true centre of the saints; unto this the Spirit gathers. 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. forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before ( Philippians 3:13 ), We haven't seen anything yet. 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. They really mind the earthly things. He therefore puts all his energy into his efforts to reach this goal, just as a runner strains every muscle to reach the finishing line and gain the prize (12-14).Mature Christians will have the attitude to life that Paul has just outlined. differently] minded, this also will God reveal to you." Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord our righteousness, Isaiah 45:24; Jeremiah 23:6. Far from it. In other words, "Here I am, I am chained in prison, but I don't find it hard to write this to you. (iii) We place no confidence in merely human things. But life is more than simply being born into Gods family. Jeremiah speaks of the uncircumcised ear, the ear that will not hear the word of God ( Jeremiah 6:10). If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of. And all of my good record down the tube and the righteousness is erased. He must have felt that he had been setting a high challenge before the Philippian Church. There is a sinful forgetting of past sins and past mercies, which ought to be remembered for the exercise of constant repentance and thankfulness to God. Brothers, I do not count myself to have obtained; but this one thing I do--forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out for the things which are in front, I press on towards the goal, in order that I may win the prize which God's upward calling in Christ Jesus is offering to me. After being here near three weeks, one morning about three o'clock Mr. Wesley turned over, and, finding me awake, clapped me on the side, saying: 'Brother Nelson, let us be of good cheer: I have one whole side yet, for the skin is off but on one side!'" How rich and full he was of the goodness of the God he had proved so long and could recommend so well! The word signifies the resurrection in general, both of the just and unjust; may signify that of the blessed only. Reason and sense are out of the question, though reason must reject a creature's becoming God. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. I hold the record and my name is on the record books, and all." They want to tell you that you ought to be prosperous, you ought to be successful, you ought to be living in luxury, you are God's child, you ought to be indulging your flesh. I. And what is this but the unfolding of the truth in the heart and in the ways of the Christian? Paul himself did not hope to attain it through his own merit and righteousness, but through the merit and righteousness of Jesus Christ. WebPhilippians 2:1-5. 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. I am not an extortioner, and the other things. In Revelation the word dog stands for those who are so impure that they are debarred from the Holy City ( Revelation 22:15). Philippians 3:4b-14. But Paul the apostle said, "Look, I don't consider that I have attained; I don't look at myself as being perfect, the work of the Lord is not yet complete in me.". 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. Let your moderation go along with it, because along with this joy there might be a certain enthusiastic spirit that would hinder calm judgment. He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. There is no getting to heaven as our home but by Christ as our way. The supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus shows itself in dependence, and this expresses itself therefore in prayer to God. ", And now there is the most lovely picture of Christ again; for it is always Christ here, and this again practically. Here the object seems to be to make its difference from legal obedience more felt the contrast with the law more complete. We shall see the importance of this elsewhere. The moment you look at what He is made, then it is to the glory of Him who thus exalted Him. "I can do all things," as he says elsewhere, "through him that strengtheneth me." 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. It is not our laying hold of Christ first, but his laying hold of us, which is our happiness and salvation. According to Jewish belief, circumcision was ordained upon Israel as sign and symbol that they were the people with whom God had entered into a special relationship. that a saint should decline. (i) He was a Hebrew born of Hebrew parents. Nevertheless, energy there is, and this assuredly judges what is contrary to Christ. This is what the Lord intended for me, to be with Him in His kingdom, to share with Him His glory. [Note: See John F. Walvoord, Philippians, pp. And they are not really going ahead in life at all, because they are so involved in the past. "The prize" is "the crown of righteousness" (1Co 9:24; 2Ti 4:8). If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. But having deigned to become a servant, He goes down lower still. I just" And living in the past, and being destroyed in the past, and can't go ahead because they are looking backward. Love does not calculate these costs and dangers, but goes calmly forward, come what will, trouble, scorn, or death. A martyr is said to be perfected by the sword, and the day of his death is said to be the day of his perfecting. This is the object set before us inPhilippians 3:1-21; Philippians 3:1-21. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. You know, oftentimes it is extremely difficult to rejoice in circumstances. "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). His language comes from the world of war and athletics and emphasizes the strenuous nature of his efforts to fulfill his vocation. Righteousness is a gift that God gives to those who have faith in Christ (8-9).But Paul does not stop there. WebSunday, February 26, 2023 Living Hope Christian Church, Inc. will broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube beginning at 11:00 am. What is there that you can rightly plead but Christ's own name? Codd. On my account, God writes righteous.Now, the problem of being righteous by my efforts, by my works, I may be doing right, I may have lived all of my life up to this point by the rules, having never violated, sailing along in good shape, and there is written across my name, righteous. 3:4-7 And yet it remains true that I have every ground of confidence from the human point of view. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. Next, not only did he exhort them not to be terrified by the power of Satan, which is itself an evident and solemn sign of perdition to those that oppose the saints of God; but he calls on them to cast out the sources of disunion among themselves; and this he does in the most touching way. This is the more important, because such fear is the main weapon of Satan. They went in. WebPhilippians 3 Leaving Law and Pressing On to Jesus A. It is the cry of the Psalmist: "Zeal for thy house has consumed me." But Paul is willing to follow Jesus to the cross. There is real power, there is strength from God that works in the saint; but the feelings of Christ, the mind of Christ morally, is better than all energy. All here below was plunged under the sentence of death through Adam's sin; and God's word could but seal it till redemption. 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. It was not a decision made in a moment of impulse, but one by which I still stand fast.". But, Lady Bountiful, seeing her interest in it, said to the clerk, wrap it up and have it sent to the car.When she got back to the dorm, she went into her room and she carefully unwrapped this dress, put it on; it fit perfectly. But the day is coming when every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth." Himself the striking witness to the contrary, he looked for nothing less in the saints he so dearly loved. Christ was Son of God in a sole and supreme sense. And with a lot of people, there is just a lot of bad experiences in the past. There are those who are living after their flesh. When first he tasted it, he found it so sweet that he cared for none other. WebPhilippians 3:14 ESV I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. The Lord is at hand." He is exalting Christ. Soul (14+ yrs) CY (11-14 yrs) Epic Explorers (kids) Universal Editions; Promotional materials; Translations; Booklets and tracts; Books; Shop by Type; Evangelistic Books; It is true that Paul frequently plotted Christs story around the motifs of death and resurrection, a scheme he most likely inherited from Such things only prevented him from trusting in Christ (4-7). They were bonds in Christ; how then could he be impatient under them? The Christian awaits the coming of Christ, at which everything will be changed. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are [really] the enemies of the cross of Christ ( Philippians 3:17-18 ): You know, there are a lot of people who talk a lot about Jesus Christ but are enemies of the cross of Christ. Surely there must have been something seriously wrong to judge in him! Fee's commentary on Paul's letter to the church in Philippi. And why should our Lord adopt a correct form to the Sadducees (Luke 20:1-47 repeated inActs 4:1-37; Acts 4:1-37), and Paul an incorrect one to the Philippians? And so, this body will be changed, and I will receive a new body like His, fashioned like His glorious image, according to that power of the Spirit that raised Him from the dead. It was the teaching of Paul that we are saved by grace alone, that salvation is the free gift of God, that we can never earn it but can only humbly and adoringly accept what God has offered to us; and, further, that the offer of God is to all men of all nations and that none is excluded. And did feel rather sorry for her. Phinehas had saved the people from the wrath of God, and been given an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God ( Numbers 25:11-13). Thus we see here the power of a risen and a heavenly Christ, not now treated doctrinally as in 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 or 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 and elsewhere, but as that which bears on the Christian for the constant experience of every day. We love him because he first loved us,1 John 4:19. "I'll show you a mystery, we are not going to all sleep, but we are all going to be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of any eye. And they were kind to her, they said, "Oh, that is nice," but they did notice the imperfections in it. [Note: Bob Wilkin, "Philippians 3:11: Is Our Resurrection Certain?" 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." But since he now belongs to Christ, he believes that perfection is the only goal he can aim at. This epistle is therefore eminently instructive to those who could not have an apostle with them. I just can't do it. In fact, I think sometimes it is impossible to rejoice in circumstances. The true Christian worships God, not with outward forms and observances, but with the true devotion and the real sincerity of his heart. Such did, such was, Christ. This last is but a confirmation of the same truth. To that thought he now returns and defines more closely what he means. (See Romans 1:4.) Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.". Close. It was a dynamic power which operated in the life of the individual Christian. ", And this nearness of Christ I take simply to be the blessed hope here made a practical power. Give me the power," and we are so power-hungry. It was due to His humiliation and obedience; and so it is here treated. The great saving truths of Christianity do not change; and we cannot hear them too often. We now heard what the apostle renounced; let us now see what he laid hold on, and resolved to cleave to, namely, Christ and heaven. "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. He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things [because their minds are always on earthly things] ( Philippians 3:19 ). It should be "the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.". 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. WebHe was naturally grateful to the Philippians, but more so to God who had worked such kindness through the Philippians. And, accordingly, why should one be a prey to care, if this be really so? This is what gives force to our affections, and rivets them on Christ. If I could, I would have done it a long time ago," and looking back I am discouraged of trying to go ahead.Or, on the other hand, a person looks back and glories in their victories of the past, and they are resting on their accolades. ", Blessed is this confidence in Christ, and wondrous are His ways! Paul said, "I have not yet apprehended that for which I was apprehended. They declared that they were within the grace of God and that, therefore, it did not matter what they did; God would forgive. Unless there were long periods when he never put pen to paper there must have been many more letters which are now lost. His opponents might have attempted to say, "But you are a Christian and do not know what you are talking about; you do not know what it is to be a Jew." His only pride is that he is a man for whom Christ died. They are living in the past, the past glories. They really mean, this is worth my while, a well-known phrase in Latin too. What they did seems a much more proper thing, in my judgment, for a woman. 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? The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. Yes, the power of the resurrection, but you know, you can never know the power of the resurrection until you have, first of all, know the cross. This is the great value of Christian experience. There was evidently energy among these Philippians. He did feel it. 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. The apostle would remind us that even he "must watch and pray continually to abide in the fellowship of Christs sufferingfor only in that way the glorification with Christwill be attained" (Silva 193, quoting J.J. Muller). 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." 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. I more than anybody else. Does he question the assurance of his salvation? Our citizenship isn't here. Generally the NASB is more literal, translating a Greek word with the same English word wherever the Greek word occurs. So he could settle now about his life and death. (c) It is the guarantee that in life and in death and beyond death the presence of the Risen Lord is always with us. What is it that brings us into the blessed fellowship that we enjoy? 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. "Let your requests be made known unto God." 3:12-16 Not that I have already obtained this, or that I am already all complete but I press on to try to grasp that for which I have been grasped by Jesus Christ. I had everything going for me as far as righteousness from the law. Now, Paul recognized something that is very important for all of us to recognize who have been apprehended by Jesus Christ. Thus then he writes, telling them, "I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel." Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. 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. You may be perfectly sure of an answer when you make known your requests: therefore let it be with thanksgiving. Christ was surely blameless in the highest sense, as His ways were harmless, "holy, harmless, undefiled," as it is said elsewhere. 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. The futility of a relationship with God based on the principle of law. Oh that the Lord might make it true of His own! He calls them three things, carefully chosen to throw their claims back upon themselves. WebPhilippians 3:11. We do not tire of the foods which are the essentials of life. They had so much the more to do because Christ had done all for their souls. Paul claims not only to be a pure-blooded Jew but one who still spoke Hebrew. What the apostle's actings were under this conviction. Now, having seen Christ, if he could even bring his own righteousness into heaven, he would not. Joy should be the normal state of the Christian. That is a wonderful thought. The Jew placed his confidence in the physical badge of circumcision and in the performance of the duties of the Law. Long, long before this, the great teachers and the great prophets had seen that circumcision of the flesh is by itself not nearly enough and that there was needed a spiritual circumcision. After a dead dog! 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. I have transcribed this note at length, because it is a fair sample of Dr. This is open to the heart now. In such places the citizens were mostly soldiers who had served their time--twenty-one years--and who had been rewarded with full citizenship. 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. as a popular and familiar mode of expression (suitable to the persons addressed), according to which the expressions . Indeed that which had drawn out the epistle was the proof that the trying circumstances of the apostle had but called out their affections. Such a Jew would speak the language of the country in which he lived but also the Hebrew which was his ancestral language. 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