In other words, "Give it all you have got.". WebComplete Concise He cautions them against judaizing seducers (v. 1-3) and proposes his own example: and here he enumerates the privileges of his Jewish state which he Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. 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. doctrine as this to the Philippians. 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. None can have interest or benefit by it but those who come off from confidence in themselves, and are brought heartily to believe in him. Living in the past, there is always that danger of discouragement, which shuts off initiative for the future. 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. 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. In Hebrew the verb is yada' ( H3045) and in Greek it is translated by ginoskein ( G1097) . But it frequently happened that they forgot their own language. This is a claim that Paul makes more than once ( Acts 22:3; Acts 23:6; Acts 26:5). (3.) By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. And what is the true divine rule? We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. Nevertheless, energy there is, and this assuredly judges what is contrary to Christ. To suffer for the faith is not a penalty, it is a privilege, for thereby we share the very work of Christ. Skubala has two meanings. In by far the most of them it does not signify what we might call abstract perfection but a kind of functional perfection, adequacy for some given purpose. I don't know about this suffering bit. B. ". In Php_3:21 it speaks about our vile body. "My desire is to know Him, and to be found in Him." The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord our righteousness, Isaiah 45:24; Jeremiah 23:6. 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.". To that thought he now returns and defines more closely what he means. And they were kind to her, they said, "Oh, that is nice," but they did notice the imperfections in it. When he received Jesus Christ, as far as they were concerned, he was dead. (a) It is the guarantee of the importance of this life and of this body in which we live. Accordingly he prays for them, that as they had shown this true and unabated love for himself as Christ's servant, so their love might abound yet more and more, and this too in knowledge and in all judgment. "That I may know him." It is the same in Greek thought; the dog stands for everything that is shamelessly unclean. All error is founded on a misuse of a truth against the truth. Otherwise, the experience is invalidated.I really am not so much interested in what happened to you thirty years ago, twenty years ago, or ten years ago. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. Check out our other commentaries: Genesis 19:8-10 meaning (3:11 22) Maps and Charts. #1 I press on. 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. Hence we see the great importance of this truth. WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. 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. "Beware of the concision.". (i) He was a Hebrew born of Hebrew parents. They demanded that they be circumcised and they keep the law of Moses in order to be saved, which Paul called the perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ.It is interesting that these people usually referred to the Gentiles as dogs. 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. But it is better for you to lose your character, than for Christ through you to lose His; for you are responsible to display the character of Christ. Through the wonderful sight of the love of Christ, this answered the question to his faith, leaving all circumstances entirely aside. 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. Surely there must have been something seriously wrong to judge in him! Not that there were not difficulties; there were many. She gave it her best. 87-88; and S. Lewis Johnson Jr., "The Out-Resurrection from the Dead," Bibliotheca Sacra 110 (1953):139-46; and Lightner, "Philippians," p. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. How lovely that even such a man should speak, not merely of his own prayers, but of theirs, turning all to such account. Again and again Paul returns to the thought that when the Christian has to suffer, he is in some strange way sharing the very suffering of Christ and is even filling up that suffering ( 2 Corinthians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 4:10-11; Galatians 6:17; Colossians 1:24). And any moment I could lose it. 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 Paul, he had done his best to clothe himself in righteousness by works, but then he came in to that glorious knowledge of Jesus Christ, and, "No longer," he said, "to be found in my own righteousness, which is of the law, my own making, my own work, but I will gladly exchange that for the glorious righteousness which God has accounted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ." Yet these were evidently physical experiences, not spiritual realities. Habitually, indeed throughout this epistle, we find the word " me," and a very different "me" from the "me" of Romans 7:1-25. Not so: Christ is always better; and so says he, "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. That which men call by this name is really the trial of what flesh is under law much more than experience of Christ. He was Jehovah, equal with God the Father. I have not yet accomplished that purpose. It had always been so, as the apostle gives us to learn. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is the efficient cause, for this the apostle had attained to; unless the consummation of that spiritual life, in perfect holiness, should be intended, than which nothing was more desirable by him; nor in a representative sense, for this also he enjoyed in Christ his head, being risen with him, and in him, when he rose from the dead; but in a literal sense and designs not the general resurrection of the just and unjust, which he believed; for he knew that everyone must, and will attain to this, even Pharaoh, Judas, and the worst of men; but the special and particular resurrection of the righteous, the better resurrection, which will be first, and upon the personal coming of Christ, and by virtue of union to him, and in a glorious manner, and to everlasting life and happiness: and when the apostle says, "if by any means" he might attain to this, it is not to be understood as if he doubted of it, which would be inconsistent with his firm persuasion, that nothing should separate him from the love of God, and with his full assurance of faith, as to interest in Jesus Christ; but it denotes the difficulty of attaining it, since through various afflictions and great tribulations a believer must pass, before he comes to it; and also the apostle's earnest desire of it, and strenuous endeavour for it; not caring what scenes of trouble, or sea of sorrow what fiery trials, severe sufferings, or cruel death he went through, so be it he obtained as he believed he should, the glorious and better resurrection; he counted not his life dear to himself, he loved it not unto death, having in view the blissful and happy state after it. It has the preposition ek (meaning from or out of) added to the ordinary word for resurrection" (Loh and Nida 106). As it was a true though distressing part for Christ to judge religious evil, something akin could not be absent here; but at the same time it was by no means a prominent characteristic of Christ's task here below far from it. What is the Spirit now doing? There is something which ought to be made known unto men, namely, the not fighting for your rights. I forget those things which are behind.A lot of people make the mistake of trying to live in the past. It was such an one, truly the servant of Jesus Christ, and so much the more their servant because His, even their servant for Jesus' sake it was such an one that wrote from Rome to the tried saints at Philippi. By this claim Paul makes it clear that he is not an Ishmaelite, for the Ishmaelites were circumcised in their thirteenth year ( Genesis 17:25), nor a proselyte who had come late into the Jewish faith and been circumcised in manhood. Paul describes his impressive But Paul didn't stop there did he? Here, accordingly, it is not the outgoings of love, but the zeal that burns indignantly as to what dishonours the Lord. Paul has not yet reached it. The Philippian congregation was generally a wonderful group of people. . He had to divest himself of every human claim of honour that he might accept in complete humility the mercy of God in Jesus Christ. "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ." Dr. S. T. Bloomfield indeed (Addit. He knew that the only way to peace was to abandon the way of human achievement and accept the way of grace. There is His own personal glory; and this first. Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? This seems to me the real meaning, which the margin gives rightly. 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. Pauls yearning is for complete oneness with Christ. Grace Evangelical Society Newsletter, November 1987, p. So Paul states his attainments. WebPhilippians 3:1-11 Bible Study Commentary And Questions. "The noun translated resurrection is an unusual double compound word used only here in the New Testament. They stubbornly refused to be assimilated to the nations amongst whom they lived; they retained faithfully their own religion and their own customs and their own laws. 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. Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. Paul felt that when Christ stopped him on the Damascus Road, he had a vision and a purpose for Paul; and Paul felt that all his life he was bound to press on, lest he fail Jesus and frustrate his dream. WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. Now here we have what is present; so that the passage presents some difficulty to souls because of intermingling the present with the future. There is always cause to rejoice in the Lord. So, let this be your mind, let this be your attitude, follow me. 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." There are two chief stages of His humiliation flowing out of His perfect love. But it is working through it, but it is agonizing. They nevertheless seem to have been disheartened, even distanced, from their faith by Pauls imprisonment. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous ( Philippians 3:1 ). 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). A burning zeal for God was the hall-mark of Jewish religion. What some people wouldn't give for the opportunity of gathering with us.He said. 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. 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. "Help them" (says he) "with Clement also, and with my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life. He is my Lord." What is right and what is wrong? The problem with this view is the unusual word used for the resurrection (Gr. 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. "What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ." This is certainly what the apostle here puts before these saints. "This shall turn," says he, "to my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. 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. But as the model was turning around, her eye caught the ticket with the price tag $4,295.00. If anyone has reason to think that he has grounds for confidence in his human heritage and attainments, I have more. He is just about to send Timothy from himself that he might know about them. Who can understand why it should be "suitable to the persons addressed," on Dr. B's showing? I had everything going for me as far as righteousness from the law. b. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. 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. There is not even the allowance of the possibility of their turning aside from the bright career both of possessing a Saviour they knew, and of enjoying Him increasingly. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Christian joy made Wesley able to accept the great blows of life, and also to greet the lesser discomforts with a jest. There are those who are living after their flesh. And Paul writes. There is a Rabbinic saying, "The nations of the world are like dogs." WebOther Commentaries. 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of 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? Had he occupied himself with the persons that were so preaching the gospel, how disconsolate he must have been! 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. It is not the Lord at hand to succour one now and here from time to time. (i) He sets down what we might call the indestructibility of Christian joy. "Beware of evil workers; beware of the concision. The Philippian congregation was generally a wonderful group of people. The reason why we can all say it tonight is because we are all here. As far as his zeal and according to the righteousness that is in the law, he was blameless. WebPhilippians 3:1214. But Paul said. Like, another apostle (2 John 1:8) he does not hesitate to blend with all this an appeal to their hearts for his own service in their well-being. But he said he cast that over for the knowledge of Jesus Christ. "That" (says he, after he had exhorted the Philippians thus to stand,) "I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. 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. This is, accordingly, what flows forth in praise from himself, and in calling out praise from other hearts. It expresses expectation. WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. 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 has regarded his life on earth, particularly his former life as a Pharisee, as garbage compared to the life he now attains to, the life of knowing Christ. He is author of. 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. J. Here we see One who is in glory, and on whom the eye of the believer is set; and accordingly the judgment of evil is from the side of heaven. I am rejoicing here, in the Lord." The rite of water baptism is really not a physical rite, but a spiritual experience. Nevertheless, God will surely teach His own, and knows how to clear up what is hidden from them. "To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." In affliction, in prison, everywhere. 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." I might attain unto - I may come to, or may secure this object. Download Commentary. 2. In 48 B.C. Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 661.] Again, Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended (Philippians 3:13; Philippians 3:13), ou logizomai. Differences there may be among the saints, and especially when we come to the question of experience. Now, Paul said in his Roman epistle, "I know in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good thing." The name of Christ Himself is the true centre of the saints; unto this the Spirit gathers. And do count them but dung [as refuse], that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith ( Philippians 3:8-9 ): Now, Paul had excelled in the righteousness in the law. For them there was the possibility of the same kind of persecution, and even the same kind of death, as threatened himself. WebFee's commentary on Paul's letter to the church in Philippi. 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. We may see the depth of this word from a fact of Old Testament usage. 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 incumbent upon us, as Christians, to rise out of our despondencies. Oh, is it not awful to think, that the best proof of the love of Christ and of His glory is the very ground which the base heart of man turns into a reason for denying both His love and His glory? 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? 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. It is a blessed and refreshing picture even in thought. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith." Paul said. all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love. They were those who denied that there was any law at all in the Christian life. being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead ( Philippians 3:10-11 ). The archangel is at best but a servant; the highest creature, far from having to stoop in order to become a servant, can never rise above that condition. Moreover the term "out-resurrection" seems to stress separation from others at the time of resurrection rather than separation from others following resurrection. Oh, it is a blessed thing, that in the midst of the sorrows of this world, the Holy Spirit knows how thus to blend the name of Christ, as the sweetest balm, with the sorrow, however bitter, and to make the very memory of the grief pleasant because of Christ, who deigns to let Himself into it all. . Epaphroditus was his fellow-servant, and indeed more than that "my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. He said he was blameless. And so yes, I want to know the power of the resurrection, but if I am to experience that, I have got to, first of all, experience the fellowship of the suffering, the death on the cross, the death to my old self, my old nature. You see for yourself whether the meaning is really there. Christ was so truly before his heart, that in fact there was no self left unjudged to warp the choice. 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. And they were a sort of a hated animal. Now he proceeds to give his reason. And the problem is that they are constantly going back and going over those bad experiences. The apostle drops entirely his official status in addressing the saints at Philippi. 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. (i) We worship in the Spirit of God; or, we worship God in the Spirit. It is not simply intellectual knowledge, the knowledge of certain facts or even principles. No one denies this, which is, or ought to be, no new thing for a Christian. It is what enabled him to look at the saints, as he called them to look at one another, esteeming others, as he says, better than themselves. He has not yet reached perfection, regardless of what the Judaizing opponents may have claimed for themselves. Already knowing Jesus as his Savior, he now desires to know Changes will take effect once you reload the page. Supposing, for instance, we mingle with Christ knowledge or intelligence about this truth or that practice, does it not give a necessary prominence to certain distinctive points, which so far must make Christ of less account? WebPhilippians 2:1-5. But then Paul updates his experience. Nothing less would be in keeping with such a high position. 165-77, for refutation of the partial rapture view.] You can have these things of your flesh, you know. (i) It means to know the power of his Resurrection. 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. And God then imputes to me, or accounts to me, righteousness. 's critical, scholastic, and exegetic manner. "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.". 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. Instead of occupying oneself with all one hears that would cast down, now that we have committed all. Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. Hence he says, "We look for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour: who shall change our vile. 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 degree to which we are faithful to use our talents, treasures, gifts, abilities, resources, and opportunities in life to please Him is the degree to which we will obtain this out-resurrection abundance of life." Little probable is it that the reading, . should have been altered to . The happiness of heaven is here called the resurrection of the dead, because, though the souls of the faithful, when they depart, are immediately with Christ, yet their happiness will not be complete till the general resurrection of the dead at the last day, when soul and body shall be glorified together. I just can't rise above it. It is not that you have failed, perhaps, or broken down in some particular. "Our conversation is in heaven; from whence we wait for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour" for this is the true meaning of it. Probably Paul meant that he hoped he would live to experience the Rapture, the "out-resurrection from among the dead," before he died. 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. Not so. To abound in love is far from declension. But Paul is willing to follow Jesus to the cross. According to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself: This is possible only because the God we serve is omnipotent. There was victory to his faith by the grace of God. advert as at Romans 4:16, and elsewhere to the state of the persons in question, that state or kind of resurrection unto life of those who have died in the Lord, and whose resurrection will be a resurrection unto life and glory, their bodies being raised incorruptible, and both body and soul united for ever with the Lord. 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. I mean, if you can be saved by works, if you can be saved by your own efforts, if you can be saved by keeping the law, then Paul said, "Hey, I am ahead of the pack. 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). And thus it was the power of the Spirit of God that gave him to look out in the midst of all that he passed through day by day, that all, whatever it might be, should be done to Christ, and so too all by Christ, the Holy Ghost working it, so to speak, in his soul to give him simply and settledly in everything that occurred an opportunity of having Christ Himself as the substance of his living and serving, no matter what might come in the course of duty. Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body: Our Savior can do and will do something that no Caesar can. Real circumcision is devotion of heart and mind and life to God.". He like other Christians lives in the overlap of the ages; he, too, stands between the "already" and the "not yet", and consummated salvation is not yet his. WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. 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