Let's not just sit back and rest, let's press forward to what God has for us in the future. 146-47.] Check out our other commentaries: Genesis 19:8-10 meaning (3:11 22) Maps and Charts. 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." This epistle treats of daily sorrows and difficulties, yet does it manifestly overflow with joy, which all the dangers, sufferings, and trials only made the more triumphant and conspicuous. It is interwoven with practical appeal, and indeed the chief development of doctrine (namely, in the second chapter) forms a ground of exhortation. "That I may win Christ," therefore he says; "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law." To support this statement, Paul refers to his own experience. When God does not interpose, men are apt to allow reflections and reasonings. He had no theory that first love must necessarily wane and cool down, but the very reverse. It was the teaching of these Jews that, if a man wished to be saved, he must earn credit in the sight of God by countless deeds of the law; and, further that salvation belonged to the Jews and to no one else, and that, before God could have any use for him, a man must be circumcised and, as it were, become a Jew. Not seldom do they begin to question whether it can be possible that such a one is really of value to the church of God. 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. In such places the citizens were mostly soldiers who had served their time--twenty-one years--and who had been rewarded with full citizenship. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision ( Philippians 3:2 ). 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 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. What looks and sounds better than the saints of God? Once a person has been born again they are to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. If the Christian really walks with Christ, he walks with joy. That is a wonderful thought. 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). He always looks there in Philippians. I might attain unto - I may come to, or may secure this object. Impossible that He could be made Jehovah. The Apostle John says, "Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure" (1 John 3:3). Should any at present think differently, they will soon come to agree, if they allow God to teach them. "That is why God apprehended you; He has a glorious plan and a purpose for your future. 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. He pressed towards the mark. You can get into a right relationship with God only by taking Jesus Christ at his word, and by accepting what God himself offers to you.". Yet there is not one of these things that has not become the ruin of souls; and there are none that ought to know this better than those I am addressing this night. It is a blessed and refreshing picture even in thought. 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. The rite of water baptism is really not a physical rite, but a spiritual experience. There is always danger of these, and the more so where there is activity among souls. The cross was essential and necessary for Him to experience the power of the resurrection. 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. But his spirit was as bright as ever, his joy perfectly fresh, deep, and flowing. 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.". "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus," feeling, judgment, everything, guarded and governed by this precious peace of God. *There is no reasonable doubt that the received text is wrong, followed by the Authorised Version ("of," instead of "from" the dead). 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. This will be, no doubt, at the end of the journey: the faithful win Christ where He is. It is the forming of the heart with the affections and the judgments of the Lord. All error is founded on a misuse of a truth against the truth. WebPhilippians 3:1214. And as he headed out towards Damascus, he was going out with threatenings of murder against the believers. For God had made the world full of life; He "saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good," and Satan apparently won the victory over Him in it. Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we look for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The history of the Jews had dispersed them all over the world. For the prize of the high calling. Yes. Because you can drive a Cadillac, and you can live on Lido Island. In modern speech that would mean that the body is an utterly evil and horrible thing; but vile in sixteenth-century English still retained the meaning of its derivation from the Latin word vilis which in fact means nothing worse than cheap, valueless. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. Who, when He comes, He is going to change our bodies, that they might be fashioned like His own glorious image. He associates Timothy with himself, not merely, as elsewhere, himself apostle and Timothy in some other relation, but here conjointly "Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ." If any other" carrying on the same thought of the flesh "if any other man thinketh that he hath matter of trust in the flesh, I more. I can be honest with myself. In 48 B.C. "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." Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. "Not having my own righteousness, which is of the law; not thinking that my outward observances and good deeds are able to atone for my bad ones, or that by setting the one over against the other I can come to balance accounts with God. Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. Joy should be the normal state of the Christian. "How can they say they are a child of God? He forgot himself in the gospel. He must have a certain kind of mind and heart and character. "Filled," says he, "with the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ;" for it is all supposed to be fruit, not isolated fruits here and there, but as a whole, which adds greatly to the strength of it. DWELLER ON EARTH BUT CITIZEN OF HEAVEN ( Php_3:17-21 ). I just can't rise above it. WebPhilippians 3 Leaving Law and Pressing On to Jesus A. He breaks it completely, becomes conqueror for ever, wins the title for God's grace to deliver righteously every creature, save only those who, far from receiving Christ, dare to reject Him because of that very nature which He took on Him, and that infinite work on the cross which had caused Him suffering to the utmost in working all out for the glory of God. "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.". 1. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind." The lad had found a joy which not even the scaffold could take away. They were going to have the senior prom. It shows us grace practically in different measures and forms. 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. Then Paul urges his followers to continue the Christian race as they have been taught. The Message Update. WebPhil 3:10-11 (NIV) In our verses for today, the apostle Paul yearns for an experiential knowledge of Christ Jesus. Generally the NASB is more literal, translating a Greek word with the same English word wherever the Greek word occurs. But with the Philippians there was increased jealousy for Christ. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. (ii) He was of the race of Israel. [Note: See John F. Walvoord, Philippians, pp. The Philippians were extremely giving towards Paul, both when he was with them (Acts 16:15, 16:32-34) and when he was apart from them (2 Corinthians 8:1-7, 9:1-4, and 11:9). This is wholly distinct from His own intrinsic eternal glory. WebBible Commentaries; Philippians 3:1-11; Philippians 3:1-11. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is It was to Israel that they in the most special sense traced their heritage. Their end is destruction: their god is their belly; that in which they glory is their shame. 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. Hence he says, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." It had been the commandment of God to Abraham: "He that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you" ( Genesis 17:12); and that commandment had been repeated as a permanent law of Israel ( Leviticus 12:3). (i) He says that he is trying to grasp that for which he has been grasped by Christ. Thus he anticipates the removal of the last trace of the first Adam; he looks for our being brought fully, even as to the body, into the likeness of the Second Man, the last Adam. It is something that I could have never made for myself, but it was given to me by Lady Bountiful. In 1756 a letter came to John Wesley from a father who had a prodigal son. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. There would be no question of his being a part of such a resurrection." There were those who distorted the principle of Christian liberty. 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. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. When the Lord apprehended us, and you can all look back in your own life to that point where the Lord apprehended you, where He said, "I have chosen you and ordained you that you should be my disciple," and we turn to follow Jesus Christ. In this passage the key-word is righteousness. Dr. S. T. Bloomfield indeed (Addit. 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. The Lord apprehended me, but when He did, He had a purpose in mind. In rich measure did the apostle live thus himself it was the one thing he did; and he would have the saints to be living in it too. There is no question that there will be differences of rewards at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:12-15). It might have been thought that so much the more would Paul need his love and services. Because I may blow my horn and shake my fist, but the Spirit will say, "Hey, don't you remember you have got a fish emblem on the back of your car? Such is the thought that the apostle had before his soul of that which became the Christian. The apostle is here contributing to that which shall never pass away, and hence begins with the "saints in Christ Jesus" as such. But then this monumental statement. Let your every contact with the world be just as light as possible." He is at Rome, where he desired to be, no doubt, but which he had never expected to visit as one in bonds. 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. His worship is love of God and service of men. 287.]. The more one enjoys Christ here, the more one wants to be with Him there. However elsewhere in his writings he was very confident that God would resurrect him and all believers (e.g., Romans 8:11; Romans 8:23; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Corinthians 15:12-57; 2 Corinthians 4:14; 2 Corinthians 5:1-5; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Timothy 2:18). Why? So Paul says that in the Christian life we must forget every past achievement and remember only the goal which lies ahead. God, I thank you that I am so good," that pride and self-righteousness. Let me think of myself as one that is serving Him (oh, how feebly and failingly!) b. But then Paul updates his experience. That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection ( Philippians 3:10 ). When Saul is seeking to take his life, David's demand is: "After whom do you pursue? You think you are going to drop, but you keep going. There were in the Church at Philippi men whose conduct was an open scandal and who, by their lives, showed themselves to be the enemies of the Cross of Christ. The point Paul is making here is similar to that in Romans 8:17, which says, "we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him." ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. This is the great value of Christian experience. In Revelation the word dog stands for those who are so impure that they are debarred from the Holy City ( Revelation 22:15). 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. Such did, such was, Christ. Hence he says, "We look for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour: who shall change our vile. Now, Paul was a classic example of what Jesus was referring to. 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). "Well, I didn't finish it, but I ran in it." Oh, grave where is thy victory?" 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. [Note: Bob Wilkin, "Philippians 3:11: Is Our Resurrection Certain?" Observe, [2.] Because He was interested in the heavenly kingdom. The Lord Jesus not only comes down into the place of servant in love among men, but goes down into the last fortress of the enemy's power. Comment: Amazing, transforming grace, is able to change a For, let me ask, what is our title to communion? WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. The things that happened to him he could therefore judge calmly and clearly. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord ( Philippians 3:1 ). What is it that brings us into the blessed fellowship that we enjoy? It is not the Lord at hand to succour one now and here from time to time. In the Bible the dog always stands for that than which nothing can be lower. 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. and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Whoever they were, Paul reminds them of one great truth: "Our citizenship," he says, "is in heaven." I have transcribed this note at length, because it is a fair sample of Dr. This is not the same as to say that he was a true Israelite. He was a Pharisee. "Let your requests be made known unto God." They really mean, this is worth my while, a well-known phrase in Latin too. all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love. There was another party of Gnostics who held a different kind of doctrine. Paul had been so zealous a Jew that he had tried to wipe out the opponents of Judaism. The reason why we can all say it tonight is because we are all here. They were looking for the eternal kingdom of God. He will reach it only on the day when Christ returns and raises the righteous from death. Therefore he intreated them to "do all things without murmurings and reasonings, that they might be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom they shone as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life." He is regarded as the true adversary, working, of course, by human means; but none the less is it his power. 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." 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. Paul was probably speaking of the Rapture. If anyone has reason to think that he has grounds for confidence in his human heritage and attainments, I have more. Through the wonderful sight of the love of Christ, this answered the question to his faith, leaving all circumstances entirely aside. Nothing but the righteousness that was of God as its source satisfied him. 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. So far Paul has been stating the privileges which came to him by birth; now he goes on to state his achievements in the Jewish faith. His being out of sight rather made the remembrance of his words and ways the more distinct, and imparted a chastened earnestness to their desires of pleasing the Lord. (i) He sets down what we might call the indestructibility of Christian joy. And so, she put it on and she walked out in the dorm where the other girls were and she said, "Look girls, this is my new dress for the prom. And what is this but the unfolding of the truth in the heart and in the ways of the Christian? 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. He lives a focused life. Robert Wilkin, the writer quoted above, later changed his view and adopted the "spiritual resurrection view. There is something which ought to be made known unto men, namely, the not fighting for your rights. I have no confidence in the flesh. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. 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. They are always looking at their past and doing nothing now. Therefore, says Paul, it is the Christians who are the truly circumcised. Unless there were long periods when he never put pen to paper there must have been many more letters which are now lost. 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. If he left this world, he would be with Christ; if he lived longer in this, world, Christ was with him. He is God equally with the Father. There may be sins within your heart that have long resisted control. The logical progression in Pauls thought in Philippians 3:10-11 was from suffering to death to resurrection. And she was so excited over the fact that she had been able to labor and work and make her way through college and was going to be graduating. And one day when I am sitting, looking up in Jesus' face, just overwhelmed by His glory and love, I will turn to the fellow next to me, and I will say, "I finally have apprehended that for which I was apprehended. The Bible teaches that God will resurrect all people, believers and unbelievers, if they have died (e.g., Daniel 12:2; Matthew 22:29-32; Luke 20:37-38; John 6:39-40; John 6:44; John 6:54; John 11:25; Acts 4:2; Acts 17:18; Acts 23:6; Acts 24:15; Hebrews 6:2; Revelation 20:4-6; Revelation 20:13). Such is the meaning here. There is no epistle that so abounds in joy. "Now, the fact that we are sitting here tonight, we can all say the same thing, "I am not yet apprehended that for which I was apprehended." 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. This was precisely what he desired when a Jew. 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." [Note: E.g., Hawthorne, pp. Philippians 3:1. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. 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. (See Romans 1:4.) And it is sad when a person is resting in the past, not pressing ahead. "For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ." And so, too, he could now read and interpret all things in that bright light around him. 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. Is there the struggle of the old with the appearance sometimes of the new? This separates from all, and judges the best of man to be dung, as the former conforms the heart after His love. 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. He means the Lord, really, personally, at hand; as he had said in the end of the last chapter, that this was what we look for. The great basic problem of life is to find fellowship with God and to be at peace and in friendship with him. 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. If then, matter is essentially evil, the body is essentially evil and will remain evil whatever you do with it. They nevertheless seem to have been disheartened, even distanced, from their faith by Pauls imprisonment. Their happy and bright state in Christ did not dim their fellowship with the gospel. WebThe true people of God, whom Paul calls the true circumcision, are not those who have carried out a ceremony to put a mark in their bodies, but those who have received new life from Christ through an inward spiritual change (3:1-3). 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. 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? The tribe of Benjamin had a special place in the aristocracy of Israel. And the problem is that they are constantly going back and going over those bad experiences. Paul claims not only to be a pure-blooded Jew but one who still spoke Hebrew. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. This is what gives force to our affections, and rivets them on Christ. We do not speak of standing in Christ now, but of their allotted services. For we can all understand joy in believing; we can readily feel how natural is joy to the Christian who dwells on his eternal portion. John Gill John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:1. 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. "Being made conformable to his death:" this too is clearly in the world now. "Again I say, Rejoice." Have we that one blessed person as the hope, motive, beginning, end, way, and power of all that occupies us from day to day? They had been manifesting their mindful love for the apostle, who on his part was certainly not forgetful of its least token. This is what brings him, if one may so say, into the dilemma of love. Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer. The way to that fellowship is through righteousness, through the kind of life and spirit and attitude to himself which God desires. 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. 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. Faith is called knowledge, Isaiah 53:11. 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