philippians 3:11 14 commentary

How can they say . It is not our laying hold of Christ first, but his laying hold of us, which is our happiness and salvation. But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. As Paul saw it, the Christian is the athlete of Christ. Philippians 3:1114: When Should I Forget My Past? Vital to the understanding of this passage is the correct interpretation of the Greek word teleios ( G5046) which occurs twice, rendered by the Revised Standard Version as Perfect in Php_3:12 and as mature in Php_3:15 . How lovely that even such a man should speak, not merely of his own prayers, but of theirs, turning all to such account. 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." Paul describes his impressive He was Jehovah, equal with God the Father. But the (trace of Christ wrought in them all; and that was the great joy and delight of the apostle's heart. This epistle is therefore eminently instructive to those who could not have an apostle with them. How the text got gradually changed from the most correct form (not correction) in the early Uncials has been explained. Then, as to our practical every-day expectation, "the Lord is at hand." 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." 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." 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. First of all He emptied Himself, becoming a slave and a man; and having thus come down, so as to take His place in the likeness of men, He, found in figure as a man, humbled Himself, becoming obedient even to the lowest point of degradation here below. There is no epistle that so abounds in joy. I am not an extortioner, and the other things. And having determined then what is right and what is wrong, I may then seek to always do that which is right. 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. The particular, electing love of God from before the foundation of the world is the reason why anyone becomes a Christian. Their sympathies, drawn out by the afflictions of the apostle in his work, were the workings of the Holy Spirit in their souls at least the instincts of a life that was of Christ, and that judged in view of Him, and not according to appearances. ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. Already knowing Jesus as his Savior, he now desires to know Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we look for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Check out our other commentaries: Genesis 19:8-10 meaning (3:11 22) Maps and Charts. I must, first of all, set the standard: what constitutes righteousness? 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). Other Scripture points to the judgment seat of Christ as the time when God will make this distinction, not the resurrection. 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. The Christian places his confidence only in the mercy of God and in the love of Jesus Christ. His own place toward them was but to serve them in love. "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. But all in heaven and on earth shall be in reconciliation with God and headed up in Christ, with whom the Church shall share the unbounded inheritance. What the happiness of heaven is: it is to apprehend that for which we are apprehended of Christ. What he means by forgetting the things that are behind is, that we should not think of any progress we may have made in following Christ, that we should lose sight of everything calculated to give us self-satisfaction. And observe, too, that the apostle felt the value of others' prayers. He was a Pharisee. THE ONLY TRUE CIRCUMCISION ( Php_3:2-3 continued), (iii) Lastly, he calls them, the party of mutilation. It was in the body that Christ rose and it is this body which he sanctifies ( 1 Corinthians 6:13 ff.). Christ was "without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation." 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. Having died and risen with Christ, he wants to go on and experience in reality what this means - death to sin and selfish desires, and a new life of constant victory through the living power of the risen Christ within him. It was so with the apostle. This is interesting, for it must mean that Paul had written other letters to the Philippians which have not survived. It was the exact reverse in good of what the Galatians were in evil, for they had been cordial and bright when the apostle was with them; but directly his back was turned, their hearts were alienated. 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. There were not very many Pharisees, never more than six thousand, but they were the spiritual athletes of Judaism. That is a wonderful thought. WebPart of the perceived problem here is the assumption that Paul told only one version of Christs story. What he means is: "Anyone who has come to be mature in the faith and knows what Christianity is must recognize the discipline and the effort and the agony of the Christian life." Let me look at another as he is in Christ. Had He not been God in His own being and title, it would have been no humiliation to be a servant, nor could it be indeed a question of taking such a place. Observe, [1.] She couldn't buy a dress, but she really didn't have much money to buy very good material. When the state or kind of resurrection is meant to be expressed, the anarthrous form is requisite, as we see in verse 24 of this very chapter, and regularly so. Now, immediately after telling them to rejoice in the Lord, he is warning them about the false teachers. You listen to John Piper. 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. Select a Passage. They are enemies to the cross of Christ, not to Christ Himself, but to that aspect of suffering with Him,". (ii) To that end Paul says two things. He was made Lord and Christ. No one denies this, which is, or ought to be, no new thing for a Christian. Pastor Mark Schlamann. It is all judged, and its religious form not least, by Christ "Though," says he, "I might also have confidence in the flesh. 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. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Paul has just attacked the Jewish teachers and insisted that it is the Christians, not the Jews, who are the truly circumcised and covenant people. It is always the power of Satan that is in view here. What looks and sounds better than the saints of God? And so they go back to the past, and they pick up the failures of the past, and they are discouraged to try anything in the future. He no longer existed. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. So he says, "Out of my experience I tell you that the Jewish way is wrong and futile. Now, circumcision is only a sign in the flesh, something done to a man's body. We are not to suppose that, because we are men, we monopolise all the gifts of Christ. 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. The problem with this view is the unusual word used for the resurrection (Gr. 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. (ii) Our only boast is in Jesus Christ. It was not some sudden fit, if one may so say, nor was it the influence of passing circumstances. "Reaching forth to those things which are before, I press," and the word in the Greek is agonizo. 26 December 2021 AM Philippians 3:13-14 Scott Childs. It is plain, then, that inPhilippians 2:1-30; Philippians 2:1-30 the great spring of power is the love and the glory of Him who came down; who, even when He did so come, went down still lower, where none could accompany Him. I just can't do it. She gave it her best. 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. victory over the foe. 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. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. 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. Let me press this, because alas! WebBible Commentaries; Philippians 3:1-11; Philippians 3:1-11. They were going to have the senior prom. Thus the true bearing of the passage is, that from the first the eye of faith is fixed steadily on the end of the journey. Paul could say not only, "Listen to my words," but also, "Follow my example." There may be sins within your heart that have long resisted control. But now the apostle was shut out from every labour apparently. This the apostle had his eye upon; this he would attain. 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. (i) He had been circumcised when he was eight days old. (i) It means to know the power of his Resurrection. I made it myself." There are those who are living after their flesh. The apostle's aim in these actings: I press towards the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,Philippians 3:14; Philippians 3:14. And this ground is one which always brings in the strength of the Holy Ghost, as it is based on God's mighty work of redemption. "My joy and crown," "my dearly beloved." When the Jews wished to stress their special relationship to God in its most unique sense it was the word Israelite that they used. He has not yet reached perfection, regardless of what the Judaizing opponents may have claimed for themselves. The only boast of the Christian is not in what he has done for himself but in what Christ has done for him. (3.) Yet these were evidently physical experiences, not spiritual realities. He was in prison, long shut out from that which had been his joyful service, though in constant toil and suffering for so many years. 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. But this is not the character of Christian joy. Every man is grasped by Christ for some purpose; and, therefore, every man should all his life press on so that he may grasp that purpose for which Christ grasped him. He puts it as a matter left for him to judge of and decide by Christ. Now, Paul said in his Roman epistle, "I know in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good thing." There is a righteousness provided for us in Jesus Christ, and it is a complete and perfect righteousness. There are a lot of people running the race just to say, "Well, I ran in the race." After all it was better for Christ to choose, not for him. Of the two, the converse would be more intelligible; but my conviction is that both the Lord and His apostle used similar and correct phraseology, as did the Holy Spirit elsewhere. And therefore, "whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." But such things as I could humanly reckon as profits, I came to the conclusion were all loss for the sake of Jesus Christ. Paul himself did not hope to attain it through his own merit and righteousness, but through the merit and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Let your moderation go along with it, because along with this joy there might be a certain enthusiastic spirit that would hinder calm judgment. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself." Press On! Such experience is both a real and a precious boon. The very fact, or way of putting it, supposes Him to be a divine person. "if I live in the flesh, it is worth my while." Paul said, "One receives the prize, and you run to obtain." Click on the different category headings to find out more. Christ held it forth; nay, more, He was it. But she went down to the dime store and picked out the best that she could afford, bought a simplicity pattern. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already If the Christian really walks with Christ, he walks with joy. (i) He says that he is trying to grasp that for which he has been grasped by Christ. 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? What is it that brings us into the blessed fellowship that we enjoy? And now she was in her senior year. Hey, wait a minute, Paul; I want to get off at the last stop. 's critical, scholastic, and exegetic manner. He must have a certain kind of mind and heart and character. Not only do we have the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, but we have the privilege of gathering together and studying the word of God together. He has not only put aside religious ceremonies and national status, but he considers that all things in which he might boast are worthless. Whence our grace comes--from our being apprehended of Christ Jesus. Let all of you who have graduated in the school of Christ have the same attitude of mind to life. 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. Paul evidently expected that the Rapture could happen before he died (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. Paul had been so zealous a Jew that he had tried to wipe out the opponents of Judaism. What are you going to do when you pass the guy?" "That is why God apprehended you; He has a glorious plan and a purpose for your future. 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. It is not achieved by any man but given by God; not won by works but accepted in trust. To abound in love is far from declension. b. I don't want to see it nailed to the cross. I forget those things which are behind.A lot of people make the mistake of trying to live in the past. WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. While the exact nature of that reward is unclear here, it can generally be understood as a sort of abundance of life. 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. There is a certain indestructibility in Christian joy; and it is so, because Christian joy is in the Lord. 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. 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. There was victory to his faith by the grace of God. Yet we may follow, and seek conformity unto His death; but there was that in His death on the cross which could be His alone. Nothing but the righteousness that was of God as its source satisfied him. 3:17-21 Brothers, unite in imitating me, and keep your gaze on those who live, as you have seen us as an example. 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. Videos. To know Christ is not to be skilled in any theoretical or theological knowledge; it is to know him with such intimacy that in the end we are as united with him as we are with those whom we love on earth and that, as we share their experiences, so we also share his. Impossible that He could be made Jehovah. Most preachers begin with the serious handicap that they have to say, not, "Do as I do," but, "Do as I say." 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). Hey, this is a pretty good pedigree. Much akin to Pauls straining toward what is ahead; this racers concentration on That which is holy must never be given to dogs ( Matthew 7:6). Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. Father, I would that those who You have given to me, to be with me here, would also share with me in the Kingdom. "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.". Here and there at strategic military centres the Romans set down their colonies. And there comes that second wind, then it seems like you can go forever. So he tells them that he always thus remembered them for their "fellowship with the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that he who hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.". They were more obedient in his absence than in his presence. Our citizenship isn't here. What the apostle's actings were under this conviction. He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. And many people have never experienced the power of the resurrected life, because they have shied away from the fellowship of the suffering and of the crucified with Christ life. Nothing, then, would the apostle have done in strife or vain-glory; "' but in lowliness of mind each esteeming other better than themselves." And he answered, "Who art thou, Lord that I may serve thee?" Paul suffered much for the cross of Christ at the hands of Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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.". "Beware of evil workers; beware of the concision. If he left this world, he would be with Christ; if he lived longer in this, world, Christ was with him. It is the cry of the Psalmist: "Zeal for thy house has consumed me." It was a dynamic power which operated in the life of the individual Christian. He is author of. And mark, it is not the anticipation of light with Christ in heaven, but His light now while He is in heaven shining on the heart, and on the circumstances of the pathway here below. Does he question the assurance of his salvation? Therefore, do what you like with it; since it is evil anyhow it makes no difference what you do with it. I had it made as far as the law was concerned." 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." A better translation would be "if somehow" (NASB margin) or "and so, somehow" (NIV). So tender, so delicate is his sense, that he would not spare what was needful if there had been any want of thought, but at the same time he hastens to make whatever apology love could suggest. Their end is destruction: their god is their belly; that in which they glory is their shame. In short, he was so living Christ, that it was only a question of Christ here, and of Christ there. 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. As citizens of heaven we keep in communication with our native home. Beware of doers." He says that the Lord will circumcise their hearts to make them love him ( Deuteronomy 30:6). It was seen laid in the grave of Christ. WebPhilippians 3:14 Once a man or woman has trusted the Lord Jesus as Saviour, he embarks on a race through life to the finishing post. And so, too, he could now read and interpret all things in that bright light around him. Though he wist not to choose what between the two before, when the need of souls rises before him, he says that he shall live, and is not yet going to die. The moment you look at what He is made, then it is to the glory of Him who thus exalted Him. And that is in the glorious liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that relationship that we can now have with God apart from the law. So Paul says that in the Christian life we must forget every past achievement and remember only the goal which lies ahead. Download Commentary. Notwithstanding, it has been already explained that the man has a relative place as the image and glory of God, being set in a remarkable position between God and the woman in matters of outward decorum. The internal evidence ( i.e. It is Christ, and Christ only, that thus disposes of grief and pressure. 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. And to be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but the righteousness which is of God, through faith. Who they were is not certain. 165-77, for refutation of the partial rapture view.] The logical progression in Pauls thought in Philippians 3:10-11 was from suffering to death to resurrection. So, the exhortation in the scripture is always that of rejoicing in the Lord. The great saving truths of Christianity do not change; and we cannot hear them too often. What then are the signs of that real circumcision? Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Who have had more palpable witness that service may become the object rather than Christ? In Philippians 3:1-21 it is not the display of intrinsic affection in Christ, or the gracious dispositions of Christ in the saints. Indeed he esteemed others better than himself. 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. And with a lot of people, there is just a lot of bad experiences in the past. Christ was surely blameless in the highest sense, as His ways were harmless, "holy, harmless, undefiled," as it is said elsewhere. Hence he says, "We look for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour: who shall change our vile. The reason why we can all say it tonight is because we are all here. A burning zeal for God was the hall-mark of Jewish religion. That is to say, he was not only an Israelite; he belonged to the elite of Israel. The other is what suits it, but a conferred position. "Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain" ( Genesis 4:1). 1. "The noun translated resurrection is an unusual double compound word used only here in the New Testament. Eternal life is the gift of God (Romans 6:23), but it is in Christ Jesus; through his hand it must come to us, as it is procured for us by him. What is right and what is wrong? So it is true with us. Oh, how honourable, how sweet and precious, to have bonds in Christ! 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." WebPhilippians 3:11-14 Meaning and Commentary INTRODUCTION TO PHILIPPIANS 3 In this chapter the apostle cautions the Philippians against false teachers, whom he describes Paul has just said that he came to the conclusion that all his Jewish privileges and attainments were nothing but a total loss. Does not our love fervently flame towards heaven? (Spurgeon). I just can't rise above it. So the apostle lets them know that he owned their hearty love; "not," he says, "because I desire a gift." He did not make a mistake. But still, that is not enough to bring a man an entrance into the kingdom of heaven.Now, here they were going around and trying to tell the Gentile believers that you had to keep the law to be righteous. 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. And as he headed out towards Damascus, he was going out with threatenings of murder against the believers. This separates from all, and judges the best of man to be dung, as the former conforms the heart after His love. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. And the problem is that they are constantly going back and going over those bad experiences. It stays there. WebSunday, February 26, 2023 Living Hope Christian Church, Inc. will broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube beginning at 11:00 am. Paul did not express doubt by this statement; he asserted a fact. Hence I am inclined to retain . There is nothing so unaffectedly humble as real faith, and, above all, that character of faith which lives on Christ, and which consequently lives Christ. (ii) As far as the Law went, he was a trained Pharisee. The righteousness which is of Christ through faith. It was so as to the Corinthians; nay, it was not wholly wanting for the Galatians, though that which they allowed imperilled the foundations of grace and faith. Such a Jew would speak the language of the country in which he lived but also the Hebrew which was his ancestral language. They nevertheless seem to have been disheartened, even distanced, from their faith by Pauls imprisonment. It is not a question of acceptance in Christ. as a popular and familiar mode of expression (suitable to the persons addressed), according to which the expressions . (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. Nor was he in that which he was about to write without deep feeling; but he had learned Christ for all; and this is the key-note of the epistle from the first, though only uttered distinctly at the last. Consequently we must look for another explanation of this verse. Oh that the Lord might make it true of His own! We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. I hold the record and my name is on the record books, and all." No saints are outside the danger. 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