The Jew placed his confidence in the physical badge of circumcision and in the performance of the duties of the Law. Now I do count them, thirty years later, I still count them loss. 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. In point of fact the Ishmaelites could trace their descent to Abraham, for Ishmael was Abraham's son by Hagar; the Edomites could trace their descent to Isaac, for Esau, the founder of the Edomite nation, was Isaac's son; but it was the Israelites alone who could trace their descent to Jacob, whom God had called by the name of Israel. They were rather miserable, but that does not stop you from rejoicing in the Lord. That he might be conformable unto him, and this also is meant of his sanctification. But it is quite certain that they lived gluttonous and immoral lives and used their so-called Christianity to justify themselves. This were to spoil all, because it would please the flesh. "Beware of evil workers; beware of the concision. I found it no better than skubala ( G4657) ." Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, [and] let us mind the same thing ( Philippians 3:15-16 ). It is always the power of Satan that is in view here. He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. Should any at present think differently, they will soon come to agree, if they allow God to teach them. It is not only his reckoning in the first fervour of love for the Saviour. The old life, you know, I accounted loss. But the day is coming when every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth." What is the Spirit now doing? He would have one who begins with Christ to (so on with Christ, have nothing but Christ before his eyes, and pursue this path without a stumble till the day of Christ. 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. Why did the Lord apprehend you? So he could settle now about his life and death. They had been manifesting their mindful love for the apostle, who on his part was certainly not forgetful of its least token. The word concision comes from a Greek word, which means mutilators. We need to draw from God, the spring and the only supplier of power that can resist the devil; but, at the same time, that we have the devil to resist in His power is a conviction that may well demand "fear and trembling;" and this, lest in such a conflict we should let in anything of self, which would at once give a handle to the devil. The peace which God has in everything He will communicate to keep you in everything; and not only so, but the heart, being free from care, will enter into what pleases Him. ", Blessed is this confidence in Christ, and wondrous are His ways! But not the righteousness which God has accounted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. Christ was surely blameless in the highest sense, as His ways were harmless, "holy, harmless, undefiled," as it is said elsewhere. Obviously this out-resurrection is something which is capable of many degrees depending on the measure of ones faithfulness. Who, when He comes, He is going to change our bodies, that they might be fashioned like His own glorious image. "That is why God apprehended you; He has a glorious plan and a purpose for your future. Peritemnein ( G4059) means to circumcise; katatemnein means to mutilate, as in Leviticus 21:5, which describes forbidden self-mutilation, such as castration. He is just about to send Timothy from himself that he might know about them. and the fellowship of his sufferings ( Philippians 3:10 ). There is a pun in the Greek which is not transferable to English. The very fact, or way of putting it, supposes Him to be a divine person. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory." Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. "The prize" is "the crown of righteousness" (1Co 9:24; 2Ti 4:8). 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. You know, oftentimes it is extremely difficult to rejoice in circumstances. I might attain unto - I may come to, or may secure this object. The Apostle John says, "Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure" (1 John 3:3). Next follow various exhortations, as to be of the same mind with the apostle in pressing after spiritual and heavenly things, to which he exhorts those that had a greater knowledge of them than others; and who, though otherwise minded, the apostle was persuaded would have, the same revealed to them, Php 3:15, and both he exhorts, according to their different attainments, to walk by the same rule and mind the same thing, Php 3:16, and to be followers of him, and of them that walked after his example, Php 3:17, giving this as a reason, because there were men who walked otherwise, to the grief of him, to the dishonour of Christ, and to their own shame and destruction, whom he describes as sensual and earthly minded men, Php 3:18,19, and to engage them to follow him, and others, and not such persons, he draws a character of them opposite unto them; that whereas the minds of those others were carnal and earthly, their minds were spiritual and heavenly; their conversation was in heaven, and they were waiting for Christ from hence, Php 3:20, and the blessedness they expect from him then, is the resurrection of their bodies, which is illustrated by the efficient cause of it, Christ; the subject of it, their vile bodies, as in this lifts, and in the grave; the exemplar and pattern of it, the glorious body of Christ; and the means by which it will be effected, the energy and power of Christ, who is omnipotent, Php 3:21. "Not," says he, "that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am," this is the great design of the epistle; it was not truth that was made known simply, but experience that was grown into "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Paul said, "One receives the prize, and you run to obtain." In a certain sense too he could not, and in another he would not choose. To support this statement, Paul refers to his own experience. When that event takes place God will snatch Christians out from among the spiritually dead (unbelievers). Thank God for the experiences, but they are not valid unless they are translated into the immediate, present relationship, and I do count them but loss. The Philippian congregation was generally a wonderful group of people. 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. And it is an interesting period in church history where those who are indulging their flesh look upon it as spiritual superiority. She couldn't buy a dress, but she really didn't have much money to buy very good material. But now the apostle was shut out from every labour apparently. It is the proof that his promise to be with us always to the end of the world is true. May it be so with us! " But this Christian joy enables a man to accept even them with a smile. It is ignorance and absurdity to answer such scriptures by the text, that in Christ there is neither male nor female. And I may pull over to the side of the freeway and decide not to pass him so that I won't be a bad witness, and bow my head and say, "God, I am sorry. For there are many who behave in such a way--I have often spoken to you about them, and I do so now with tears--that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ. Or is it, on the settled judgment of the old as altogether and only self and sin, that we are habitually manifesting Christ? WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. 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. 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. He was willing to do any thing, or suffer any thing, that he might attain that resurrection. He had a work for you to fulfill. 3:4-7 And yet it remains true that I have every ground of confidence from the human point of view. 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. 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. Does he question the assurance of his salvation? It was God the Father that made Him Lord and Christ, but God the Father never made Him Jehovah. In this passage the key-word is righteousness. 1. 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. But in it and beyond it all there was joy. Observe, A Christian's calling is a high calling: it is from heaven, as its original; and it is to heaven in its tendency. This was now among the last outpourings of the apostle's heart, as he himself had almost arrived at the end of his active labours, if indeed it was not absolutely their end. The Jews would be quite sure that they were workers of righteousness. But supposing it possible to be clothed with the righteousness of the law, he would not have it now. Preaching and teaching and studying the side-issues may be attractive, and these have their place, but the fundamental truths can neither be spoken nor heard too often for the safety of our souls. Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer. Joy should be the normal state of the Christian. 165-77, for refutation of the partial rapture view.] Another view is that Paul was hoping that he would persevere faithfully in his quest to know Christ until he died. But how can this be unless the heart is perfectly at ease as to itself? He says to them, "In your proud self-righteousness, you call other men dogs; but it is you who are dogs, because you shamelessly pervert the gospel of Jesus Christ." It is important to note the verb which he uses for to know. Philippians 3:1114 May 18, 2019. 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 is a righteousness provided for us in Jesus Christ, and it is a complete and perfect righteousness. 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. WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. Hence I am inclined to retain . cannot but be conqueror, more than conqueror, where the heart is filled with Christ. "Let's not get too," Paul said, "involved in the world. Forgive me, Lord. "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." 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). The critical reading he owns has force and propriety; but he does "not see why . The Jew in essence trusted himself ; the Christian in essence trusts God. They were "manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; and many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by, my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness." Then he uses two vivid pictures. There is a sinful forgetting of past sins and past mercies, which ought to be remembered for the exercise of constant repentance and thankfulness to God. It is incumbent upon us, as Christians, to rise out of our despondencies. The Lord has laid down their places respectively with distinctness. Let us be humbled on account of our sins. When Saul is seeking to take his life, David's demand is: "After whom do you pursue? ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. There is always danger of these, and the more so where there is activity among souls. At any rate, such is the picture that the Holy Spirit gives of him there. 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. 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. And they were a sort of a hated animal. This understanding of exanastasin would point to the resurrection of believers that will result in Christians rising from among the unbelieving dead, those who are dead in their trespasses and sins. It is by faith in his blood,Romans 3:25. F and G, by manifest error, read , and this seems to have been corrected (or rather corrupted) in order to make sense into (omitting ) in K and L and the mass of cursives. i. It was surely the best that she could do. "You know, if you only had enough faith, you could be jetting across the United States also in your own Lear Jet." a. There was evidently energy among these Philippians. 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. Whatever the case, all should make sure that they do not slip back from the standard of practical holiness they have already reached (15-16). I don't know about this suffering bit. Philippians 3:14. , one thing) viz. I do. , the things that are behind) even the very part of the course that has been finished. ) that is literally, extending myself over. Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we look for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & 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. (ii) He calls them evil workers, workers of evil things. Enough has been already said above, before I even knew of his reasoning, to prove how unfounded it is in every point of view. Word Format PDF Format. What God was interested in is that my heart was circumcised, that I had the heart after the Spirit, and not after the flesh. Verse 11. "Let your requests be made known unto God." exanastasin, lit. The apostle does call for "fear and trembling" on the part of the saints in that chapter; but there is not an atom of dread or doubt in it. WebIt is consciousness contemplating its riches, counting its gains. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. What then are the signs of that real circumcision? 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 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? 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? Is this your measure of the love of Christ? The logical progression in Pauls thought in Philippians 3:10-11 was from suffering to death to resurrection. He knew well how much they might be tried by the report of his own imprisonment, and no deliverance coming as yet. He esteemed men better than himself. The verb katavtao ("attain") means to come to, to arrive at, or to attain to something. That which men call by this name is really the trial of what flesh is under law much more than experience of Christ. And so, it is an established righteousness. 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. "All that time, Mr. Wesley and I lay on the floor: he had my greatcoat for a pillow, and I had Burkitt's notes on the New Testament for mine. Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. The righteousness through faith in Christ, my faith in Jesus doesn't waver. He is my Savior. Reason and sense are out of the question, though reason must reject a creature's becoming God. Not the passive side of the Christian as being in the world, but the active comes before us. Beware of dogs ( Philippians 3:1-2 ). For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. 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. In Revelation the word dog stands for those who are so impure that they are debarred from the Holy City ( Revelation 22:15). You can check these in your browser security settings. Philippians 3:11 by Grant Richison| Jan 16, 1996| Philippians| 5 comments Read Introduction to Philippians If, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. In English, Paul appears to doubtthat he will rise from the dead. Nevertheless, energy there is, and this assuredly judges what is contrary to Christ. The hope of the Christian is that the day will come when his humanity will be changed into nothing less than the divinity of Christ, and when the necessary lowliness of mortality will be changed into the essential splendour of deathless life. that is miserable to God, we can go on delighting in the goodness of God, as well as in its fruits. At this point Paul repeats warnings that he gave the Philippian church some time earlier concerning Judaisers. There is always cause to rejoice in the Lord. 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. This was very dear to him, let God use whom he would. Whoever they were, Paul reminds them of one great truth: "Our citizenship," he says, "is in heaven." Thus we know how on approaching Rome Paul was lifted up and comforted, as he saw those who came to greet him. Roman dress was worn; Roman magistrates governed; the Latin tongue was spoken; Roman justice was administered; Roman morals were observed. If Paul had not attained to perfection (who had reached to so high a pitch of holiness), much less have we. 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. (ii) It means to know the fellowship of his sufferings. In 1756 a letter came to John Wesley from a father who had a prodigal son. ), . Much akin to Pauls straining toward what is ahead; this racers concentration on John Piper @JohnPiper. "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ." In such places the citizens were mostly soldiers who had served their time--twenty-one years--and who had been rewarded with full citizenship. "Well, where did you place?" 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. Now the saint that has Christ Himself before him looks abroad with desires according to the activity of divine love. that a saint should decline. 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? He was as desirous to know the power of Christ's death and resurrection killing sin in him, and raising him up to newness of life, as he was to receive the benefit of Christ's death and resurrection in his justification. To rise with the saints; to enter with them into the blessedness of the heavenly inheritance, was an object that the apostle thought was worth every effort which could he made. "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. If then, matter is essentially evil, the body is essentially evil and will remain evil whatever you do with it. 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. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. But if a man is to be in special relationship with God, something far more is needed than a mark in his body. 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. 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. Christian joy made Wesley able to accept the great blows of life, and also to greet the lesser discomforts with a jest. 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. "Let your requests," whatever they may be, "be made known unto God;" and not only so, but "with thanksgiving." Abraham and those saints of the Old Testament, the scripture said, confessed that they were just strangers and pilgrims on this earth, that they were looking for the city which hath foundations whose maker and builder is God. The supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus shows itself in dependence, and this expresses itself therefore in prayer to God. 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. It describes the man who is going flat out for the finish. He had done everything that he was supposed to do according to the law to be righteous. [Paul] also speaks positively in verses 1214 of what he is doing in light of the incompleteness of his spiritual journey. It is the personal experience of another person. Close. "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. So unbelief interprets, but most assuredly it is wrong. Dr. S. T. Bloomfield indeed (Addit. Therefore, do what you like with it; since it is evil anyhow it makes no difference what you do with it. Changes will take effect once you reload the page. 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. 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. J. Strange way of God! Who can understand why it should be "suitable to the persons addressed," on Dr. B's showing? 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. Hence it is that, although doctrine is sparse, if not almost excluded, nevertheless what little appears comes in as ancillary to the main purpose. Already knowing Jesus as his Savior, he now desires to know Do with them as you will, they still defy you But if you will hand over the conflict to Jesus, He will subdue them; He will bring them under his strong, subjecting hand. Sweet and wondrous word to say that Christ is our life; but the question is, how are we living? Dikaiosune ( G1343) is always difficult to translate in Paul's letters. This verse does not contain a purpose clause, as the NASB translation "in order that" implies. So Paul proves to these Jews that he has the right to speak. 1. However there is no other Scripture that teaches a difference in the resurrection of faithful and unfaithful believers. THE ATTAINMENTS OF PAUL ( Php_3:4-7 continued). Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. But Paul is willing to follow Jesus to the cross. The scriptures affirm clearly the assurance of salvation; yet: Paul wants to impress upon us the difficulties, struggles, and hindrances that attend the believers life. Nothing but the righteousness that was of God as its source satisfied him. This verb indicates the most intimate knowledge of another person. With us it is far otherwise; and only as we live on Christ do we remove, as it were, from the enemy's hand that which would furnish him abundant occasion. Philippians 4:1-23 is founded on both. Grace Evangelical Society Newsletter, November 1987, p. And he answered, "Who art thou, Lord that I may serve thee?" Therefore, says Paul, it is the Christians who are the truly circumcised. 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. You see for yourself whether the meaning is really there. Unless there were long periods when he never put pen to paper there must have been many more letters which are now lost. Far from him was the vanity of being the man first to preach Christ in the great metropolis. For Paul the Resurrection was not simply a past event in history, however amazing. But the Rapture is not an event that Christians need to strive to attain. WebPhilippians 3:11-14. (3.) "This robe of flesh I will drop and rise to reap the everlasting prize." It will be observed that there is no such thing in the first instance as "to the glory of God," when we hear of all bowing in the name of Jesus. Because he lives, we shall live also; his victory is our victory. How can they say . "Let your moderation be known unto all men. WebFee's commentary on Paul's letter to the church in Philippi. Another, less likely, possibility is that Paul meant faithful Christians will experience a better resurrection than unfaithful believers. God never can fail; and the very trials that would seem to crush all hope for the glory of Christ on the earth are the precise occasions in which God proves that after all it is He alone who triumphs, while man always fails even if he be an apostle. His worship is love of God and service of men. He had experienced it at its highest point; and he knew that it was nothing compared with the joy which Christ had given. The great feast of Purim, which was observed every year with such rejoicing, commemorated the deliverance of which the Book of Esther tells, and the central figure of that story was Mordecai, a Benjaminite. This the apostle had his eye upon; this he would attain. The things that he had believed to be his glories were in fact quite useless. All these things Paul might have claimed to set down on the credit side of the balance; but when he met Christ, he wrote them off as nothing more than bad debts. "Let me be found in Christ, that I may attain the resurrection of the dead, be found a believer in him, and interested in him by faith," Observe. Who have had more palpable witness that service may become the object rather than Christ? Let this be the end of everything; before you get to the end of it, and when you do get to the end of it, rejoice in the Lord.. In any case, indeed, to the Christian, death is gain; but he could best say it who could say, "To me to live is Christ," who could say it not merely as the faith of Him, but as a matter of simple, unconstrained, spontaneous enjoyment of Christ in practical ways. The way to that fellowship is through righteousness, through the kind of life and spirit and attitude to himself which God desires. You watch his pen draw out meaning. 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. 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