What looks and sounds better than the saints of God? "Let your requests," whatever they may be, "be made known unto God;" and not only so, but "with thanksgiving." 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). 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. Nevertheless there is that which is suited only to the conditions of time; there is that which, given here, survives all change. Paul evidently expected that the Rapture could happen before he died (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). This is a good example, by the way, of the characteristic difference between these two translations. They are circumcised, not with the outward mark in the flesh, but with that inner circumcision of which the great law-givers and teachers and prophets spoke. This is but a poor human resource, as unworthy of the saints as of the truth of God, who would not have us to wink at any mistake. should have been altered to . Moreover the term "out-resurrection" seems to stress separation from others at the time of resurrection rather than separation from others following resurrection. All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. He provides his own life as an example to the Philippians to follow as opposed to the false teachers. Jesus is Jehovah, although a man; consequently the bowing in that name to the glory of God the Father does not occur to the apostle. And as he headed out towards Damascus, he was going out with threatenings of murder against the believers. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind." Following the Jewish Law does not make anyone right in Gods eyes; only faith in Christ does that. He said he was blameless. 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. You know, oftentimes it is extremely difficult to rejoice in circumstances. He is exalting Christ. 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. 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. 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." Now, immediately after telling them to rejoice in the Lord, he is warning them about the false teachers. WebHe was naturally grateful to the Philippians, but more so to God who had worked such kindness through the Philippians. A Hebrew was a Jew who was not only of pure racial descent but who had deliberately, and often laboriously, retained the Hebrew tongue. 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." But he had himself gone through the trial; he had weighed it all; he had brought it into the presence of God. They argued that a man could not be called complete until he had experienced everything that life had to offer, both good and bad. Work hard at doing that which is right. WebPhilippians 3:14 ESV I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. And he answered, "Who art thou, Lord that I may serve thee?" Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. 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. Our citizenship. Proud member And all of my good record down the tube and the righteousness is erased. Let us not mistake in this; let us not be driven from it by a too common misuse. How heartily the Germans sing of the dear old fatherland; but they cannot, with all their Germanic patriotism, they cannot beat the genial glow of the Britons heart, when he thinks of his fatherland too. Hence he says, "We look for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour: who shall change our vile. This disperses all clouds from the soul. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. Men whose whole minds are earthbound! But if not, what then? 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. It is not the Lord at hand to succour one now and here from time to time. He adds further (Philippians 3:13; Philippians 3:13): This one thing I do (this was his great care and concern), forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before. But you will never know the life of the resurrected Christ until you have experienced the fellowship of the sufferings. May it be so with us! " The Resurrection of Christ is the guarantee that this life is worth living and that the physical body is sacred; it is the guarantee that death is not the end of life and that there is a world beyond; it is the guarantee that nothing in life or in death can separate us from him. People lived and died without ever having heard of Jesus Christ our Lord. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. (3.) WebBible Commentaries Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary Philippians 3 11 Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary Philippians 3:11 If by any means - Implying, that he meant to make use of the most strenuous exertions to obtain the object. The great characteristic of these colonies was that, wherever they were, they remained fragments of Rome. (i) He sets down what we might call the indestructibility of Christian joy. 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." As far as the Law goes, I was a Pharisee: as for zeal, I was a persecutor of the Churches: as for the righteousness which is in the Law, I was beyond blame. It is not Paul's aim to know about Christ, but personally to know him. The Jew placed his confidence in the physical badge of circumcision and in the performance of the duties of the Law. ", Only he desires that their conversation should be as it became the gospel of Christ. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. Videos. There are a lot of people running the race just to say, "Well, I ran in the race." Paul did not express doubt by this statement; he asserted a fact. 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. The keynote of the epistle is rejoice, and he said. When they returned from the exile, it was from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah that the nucleus of the reborn nation was formed ( Ezra 4:1). He passionately longs to reach the final destination and, in no way presuming upon the grace of God, presses on towards that goal (OBrien 413). It was a necessary duty sometimes as things are on the earth, but nothing more; and so it is still. What God was interested in is that my heart was circumcised, that I had the heart after the Spirit, and not after the flesh. They weren't looking for a place, and so they roamed the earth, as outcast, not possessing of the earth. The lad had found a joy which not even the scaffold could take away. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more [If anyone might have something to boast in the flesh. Other people would have merely thought of or seen bonds under the Roman emperor, the bonds of that great city that ruled over the kings of the earth. (Compare Ephesians 1:1-23 and Colossians 1:1-29) But all, even these in hell, must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. In 48 B.C. (iii) As far as zeal went, he had been a persecutor of the Church. being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead ( Philippians 3:10-11 ). Such experience is both a real and a precious boon. ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. But then, worse than that, this judgmental spirit. There were not very many Pharisees, never more than six thousand, but they were the spiritual athletes of Judaism. So what do I do? (1-2) Warning against the influence of legalistic He has not attained this "perfection" as is evident from verses 12-16. No; but "because that ye had heard that he had been sick." And Paul writes. 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. This is nothing to be surprised at. Israel was the name which had been specially given to Jacob by God after his wrestling with him ( Genesis 32:28). Hence I am inclined to retain . The name of Christ Himself is the true centre of the saints; unto this the Spirit gathers. The Gnostics were heretics who tried to intellectualize Christianity and make a kind of philosophy out of it. Again, Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended (Philippians 3:13; Philippians 3:13), ou logizomai. 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. 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? 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." Here the King James Version is dangerously misleading. He says that the Lord will circumcise their hearts to make them love him ( Deuteronomy 30:6). It is his own personal experience; and this is the reason why we have "I" so often here. 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. 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. Every teacher must be more anxious to listen to God than to propagate his own opinions or he, too, will run the risk of being a worker of evil, even when he thinks that he is a worker of righteousness. As he tells them, fruit that might abound to their account was all that his heart really yearned after. In front of people they can act very holy and sanctified and excited and exhilarated in the things of the Lord, but when they get away from the stage, they can have filthy mouths; they can tell dirty jokes, they are living a two-faced life. And though I may have a fleshly rite, if my heart was after the things of the flesh, then what happened to me physically has no bearing upon my relationship with God at all.The same can be said of any of the other rites that we have within the church. 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. Yet they were the witnesses of Christ whom God had put forth at the close; for it was manifestly of Him. Who they were is not certain. "You remember Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, chapter 5 of Matthew, said, "Except your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven." So this is Paul's answer to the Jewish teachers. Christian joy made Wesley able to accept the great blows of life, and also to greet the lesser discomforts with a jest. You can have these things of your flesh, you know. Once you are right about Christ, you are right about everything while He is before you. 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). So he reaches forth, epekteinomenos--stretched himself forward, bearing towards his point: it is expressive of a vehement concern. Had he not been God, he could not have been our righteousness; the transcendent excellence of the divine nature put such a value upon, and such a virtue into, his sufferings, that they became sufficient to satisfy for the sins of the world, and to bring in a righteousness which will be effectual to all that believe. I found it no better than skubala ( G4657) ." 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. I have no confidence in the flesh. And you can become a phony, because, you know, you set your own standards; you live by your own rules. The NASB translators captured this idea when they rendered this phrase "the resurrection from among the dead." (ii) He calls them evil workers, workers of evil things. 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. 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. Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. "For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me. Paul was probably speaking of the Rapture. It expresses expectation. But it is working through it, but it is agonizing. There was evidently energy among these Philippians. Paul said. The true Christian worships God, not with outward forms and observances, but with the true devotion and the real sincerity of his heart. He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. A holy fear of coming short is an excellent means of perseverance. Returning, however, to the women Evodia and Syntyche, they had devoted themselves to an exceedingly happy and prized service. The word if can be translated as since: Since I will attain to the resurrection from the dead is the The Greek phrase is ten exanastasin ten ek nekron. 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. THE ONLY TRUE CIRCUMCISION ( Php_3:2-3 continued), (iii) Lastly, he calls them, the party of mutilation. 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. It just doesn't work. So he brings before them another remarkable feature of it their fellowship; and this fellowship too with the gospel. Christian worship is not a thing of ritual or of the observation of details of the Law; it is a thing of the heart. [Note: Idem, "Raised to Run," Grace Evangelical Society News 6:8 (August 1991):2.]. Witnesses, prosecutors, judges, emperor, everybody, became, in point of fact, nothing to him. There is no necessity and where is the epistle that more thoroughly disproves the thought of any necessity? It was this that so cheered the apostle's heart in his loneliness often, in his desertion sometimes, when the sight of a brother would have given fresh courage to his heart. Salem Media Group. of Hence the conflict is never with internal evil, but rather with Satan. Why did the Lord apprehend you? How can they say . I believe, therefore, that , especially if be supposed to be fetched (as Dr. B. says) from , is incompatible with , the one conveying the notion of a selected company, and the other of the dead universally. 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. 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. When Saul is seeking to take his life, David's demand is: "After whom do you pursue? The passive shines in Christ coming down; the active is realized by the eye that is fixed on Christ, who is actually in glory. "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ." What the happiness of heaven is: it is to apprehend that for which we are apprehended of Christ. The expression intimates that we have need to strive for him and after him, and that all is little enough to win him. I am forestalling the plan of God. 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. 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. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it doesn't yet appear what we are going to be, but we know when He appears, we are going to be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is" ( 1 John 3:2 ). WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. Habitually, indeed throughout this epistle, we find the word " me," and a very different "me" from the "me" of Romans 7:1-25. And, accordingly, why should one be a prey to care, if this be really so? Here, accordingly, it is not the outgoings of love, but the zeal that burns indignantly as to what dishonours the Lord. But it is quite certain that they lived gluttonous and immoral lives and used their so-called Christianity to justify themselves. (i) He had been circumcised when he was eight days old. It describes him with eyes for nothing but the goal. But such things as I could humanly reckon as profits, I came to the conclusion were all loss for the sake of Jesus Christ. Its basis is that the Christian lives for ever in the presence of Jesus Christ. Let me look at another as he is in Christ. Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. WebPhl 3:1-3. 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. a. What might you and I have thought of such? I just" And living in the past, and being destroyed in the past, and can't go ahead because they are looking backward. "Your joy," said Jesus, "no one will take from you" ( John 16:22). So Paul states his attainments. I am sure he wasn't rejoicing in the circumstances themselves. No wonder the apostle was grieved to think of differences among such women as these. "That I may win Christ," therefore he says; "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law." Because suddenly, you see, I am on a little spiritual pinnacle, and I can begin now to judge everybody else who doesn't live by the same standards of holiness by which I live. (ii) He was of the race of Israel. Paul has not yet reached it. His language comes from the world of war and athletics and emphasizes the strenuous nature of his efforts to fulfill his vocation. I just can't rise above it. 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. That he might know Christ (Philippians 3:10; Philippians 3:10): That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings. 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. This is one of the main features of our chapter. 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. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. 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. 87-88; and S. Lewis Johnson Jr., "The Out-Resurrection from the Dead," Bibliotheca Sacra 110 (1953):139-46; and Lightner, "Philippians," p. We expect to eat bread and to drink water every day; and we must listen again and again to the truth which is the bread and the water of life. It is not at all a question of what one has here. Observe, A Christian's calling is a high calling: it is from heaven, as its original; and it is to heaven in its tendency. The great saving truths of Christianity do not change; and we cannot hear them too often. In such places the citizens were mostly soldiers who had served their time--twenty-one years--and who had been rewarded with full citizenship. It was not so with the Philippians. This place throughout is one of promoting, enlarging, deepening, and purifying the experience of the saints themselves in that which filled his own heart with joy in the Lord. It is no trouble to me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe. Now, Paul recognized something that is very important for all of us to recognize who have been apprehended by Jesus Christ. Nothing but the righteousness that was of God as its source satisfied him. He no longer existed. If by any means: The expression "If by any means" or "If in some way" seems to hint at doubt or uncertainty in Pauls mind that he would take part in the resurrection. "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. It is something that I could have never made for myself, but it was given to me by Lady Bountiful. He is my Lord." Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord ( Philippians 3:1 ). If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.". WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. (c) It is the guarantee that in life and in death and beyond death the presence of the Risen Lord is always with us. This counting on the Lord the apostle might have even where things were wrong. This will not detract for an instant from the perfect enjoyment of Christ, but rather promote it so much the more, making it more evidently and always pure grace even in glory. It is interesting that Paul turns it around and uses it of those teachers that would seek to put the believers back under the law. 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. He is my Savior. Julius Caesar was declared to be the universal savior of mankind. It then became a common title for the ruling Caesar. Again and again he speaks of it ( Acts 22:2-21; Acts 26:4-23; 1 Corinthians 15:8-10; Galatians 1:13). I tried it for so long. This is proper to give us measures in all our service, and to quicken us every step we take; and it is of God, from whom we are to expect it. But having deigned to become a servant, He goes down lower still. The very language Paul uses to describe the Law--excrement--shows the utter disgust for the Law which his own frustrated efforts to live by it had brought him; and the joy that shines through the passage shows how triumphantly adequate he found the grace of God in Jesus Christ. The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. But the (trace of Christ wrought in them all; and that was the great joy and delight of the apostle's heart. Are we living out that life which we have? The problem with this view is the unusual word used for the resurrection (Gr. 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. There is the present joy of Christ; but this does not content the soul. 4. But that power displays itself not in our strength, or wisdom, or any conferred resources. The lad was condemned to death for his misdeeds; and the father's letter goes on: "His peace increased daily, till on Saturday, the day he was to die, he came out of the condemned-room, clothed in his shroud, and went into the cart. It had always been so, as the apostle gives us to learn. Joy should be the normal state of the Christian. (ii) It means to know the fellowship of his sufferings. Energy is not the best or highest aspect of Christianity. 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. But it gives us also the effect of Christ in the saints eventually of Paul himself, of Timothy, of Epaphroditus, and indeed of the Philippian saints. And so the rule of the Christian life is: forgetting those things which are behind, and pressing for those things which are before, or reaching for those things which are before, pressing towards the mark. 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