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He knew what it was to be a Jew in the highest sense of the term, and had deliberately abandoned it all for the sake of Jesus Christ. And so Paul says, "Beware of those who would mutilate your body, for we are of those who are circumcised in the spirit." He is regarded as the true adversary, working, of course, by human means; but none the less is it his power. They are living in the past, the past glories. But you can always rejoice in the Lord, because He is above circumstances. The keynote of the epistle is rejoice, and he said. ", "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." Paul is insisting that to the end of the day the Christian life is the life of an athlete pressing onwards to a goal which is always in front. That there was all this abundantly in these saints he did not doubt; they had just shown him the fruit of love personally. Then, as to our practical every-day expectation, "the Lord is at hand." 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. Oh, grave where is thy victory?" WebPhilippians 3:14 Once a man or woman has trusted the Lord Jesus as Saviour, he embarks on a race through life to the finishing post. It is not simply intellectual knowledge, the knowledge of certain facts or even principles. To support this statement, Paul refers to his own experience. Joy should be the normal state of the Christian. 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). You see, Jesus could not experience the power of the resurrection until the cross. It is not meant that there are no difficulties, but that Christ makes the burden light and all happy to the praise of God's grace; whereas any other means or measure detracts from His glory and draws attention to self. Therefore, says Paul, it is the Christians who are the truly circumcised. "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed." Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, [and] let us mind the same thing ( Philippians 3:15-16 ). "Finally," says he, "my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. The resurrected life always follows the crucified life. ), . He "became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. "I can do all things," as he says elsewhere, "through him that strengtheneth me." (iii) He was of the tribe of Benjamin. There were tens of thousands of them in Rome; and in Alexandria there were more than a million. Many different commentaries state that of all the groups that Paul wrote to, Phillipi was probably the best of them all. The Jew in essence trusted himself ; the Christian in essence trusts God. In fact, he had gone beyond. 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). Verses 1-21. WebPhilippians 3:8-11 meaning Paul considers religious practices and custom meaningless compared to the far better value of serving Jesus Christ through the obedience of faith. The point is this. Paul makes a conscious effort to keep his eyes on the prize promised to him by God. But as the model was turning around, her eye caught the ticket with the price tag $4,295.00. The great basic problem of life is to find fellowship with God and to be at peace and in friendship with him. a really inaccurate mode. 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 moment you look at what He is made, then it is to the glory of Him who thus exalted Him. It was their view that to keep the Law's countless rules and regulations was to work righteousness. And so looking back to the past, oftentimes, we look at our failures and we are discouraged from trying to go on. I can't get over that. Did he want more for himself? And God then imputes to me, or accounts to me, righteousness. They are always looking at their past and doing nothing now. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself." You think you are going to drop, but you keep going. It was surely the best that she could do. Pastor Mark Schlamann. And if anyone is otherwise minded in any way, this too God will reveal to him. He is referring to it, "The things which were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ, thirty years ago, on the road to Damascus." Philippians 4:1-23 is founded on both. The apostle takes up, no doubt, the sweet affections of chapter 2, but then they are strengthened by the energy that Christ seen in glory imparts, as in chapter 3. Hence he thus opens, "Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown." We shall see the importance of this elsewhere. Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Philippians 3 .Again, remember that the background of this epistle, Paul is chained to a Roman soldier in Rome, in prison, writing to the Philippians. And, let me observe, it is not merely that Christ is my life. There are two Greek verbs which are very like each other. They really mean, this is worth my while, a well-known phrase in Latin too. 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). The past is translated into the present. 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. But now he adds, "That I may know him" (speaking of entrance by faith into communion with Christ)" that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection." If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. And you can become a phony, because, you know, you set your own standards; you live by your own rules. Hence he desired that their conversation should be as became such zeal; "that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.". Even in the ends of the earth they remained unshakeably Roman. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. But then this monumental statement. 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. Nevertheless, energy there is, and this assuredly judges what is contrary to Christ. The Gnostics were heretics who tried to intellectualize Christianity and make a kind of philosophy out of it. And this puts the doctrine, as far as there is doctrine in the epistle, in a very clear light. These Philippians will not be less saints in heaven, where there can be no such charges as "bishops or deacons." "That I may win Christ, and be found in him" where not a vestige of self remains, but all will be Christ, and nothing but Christ. Resurrection -- If "raised" with Christ in baptism, we have a picture of also being "raised" at the resurrection. 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. "The prize" is "the crown of righteousness" (1Co 9:24; 2Ti 4:8). 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. Not that there were not difficulties; there were many. Not having my own righteousness, my works through the law, but now the righteousness which is of God by faith, that righteousness which is imputed to those who believe, that righteousness that Abraham had when God imputed his faith for righteousness.Now, I can endeavor to be righteous before God by my own works and efforts. This is our conformity to his death. 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). Yea [not and], I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labour with me." But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. The apostle loved to give God's place and value to everything; and here it is the mingling of Christ with the circumstances of every day. Let us see to it that we walk according to the place which God has given us. "For they all seek their own." (iii) It means to be so united with Christ that day by day we come more to share in his death, so that finally we share in his Resurrection. They cannot gain righteousness before a holy God. 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). What is the point of this? There is no question that there will be differences of rewards at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:12-15). The great characteristic of these colonies was that, wherever they were, they remained fragments of Rome. Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we look for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is not one who cherished a trust in the Lord's fidelity spite of what was visible. It describes the man who is going flat out for the finish. The power of the resurrection follows the fellowship of the suffering and the cross. Christ held it forth; nay, more, He was it. "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. The Philippian congregation was generally a wonderful group of people. And He said, "I am Jesus. I don't know about this suffering bit. And he said, "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus." They exist; they are there. What a God is ours, so to treat that which, connected with the world, Christ Himself calls "unrighteous mammon!" 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. "That I may win Christ," therefore he says; "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law." Nothing, then, would the apostle have done in strife or vain-glory; "' but in lowliness of mind each esteeming other better than themselves." "For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me. Father, I would that those who You have given to me, to be with me here, would also share with me in the Kingdom. But how can this be unless the heart is perfectly at ease as to itself? It was not a reference to a kindly family pet, but it was a reference to those mean wild dogs that roamed Israel. Such experience is both a real and a precious boon. (iii) We place no confidence in merely human things. There are those who are living after their flesh. So what Paul says is, "If you have nothing to show but circumcision of the flesh, you are not really circumcised--you are only mutilated. With us the dog is a well-loved animal, but it was not so in the East in the time of Jesus. In 48 B.C. Let us merely take up a single point of the primary ground of fitness for fellowship, which is often a difficulty with the saints. Paul sets down two very important things. No saints are outside the danger. But the day is coming when every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth." He counts all of the works of the past just wasted effort, refuse. The cross was essential and necessary for Him to experience the power of the resurrection. As the Christian has died with Christ, been buried with Him, been raised with Him, and now walks with Him, he will also be glorified together with Him. The lad had found a joy which not even the scaffold could take away. WebPhilippians 3:11. You can check these in your browser security settings. Probably Paul meant that he hoped he would live to experience the Rapture, the "out-resurrection from among the dead," before he died. Close. Who have had more mournful proofs of the danger of putting saints practically in the place of Christ? The problem with this view is the unusual word used for the resurrection (Gr. No wonder the apostle was grieved to think of differences among such women as these. Their very name means The Separated Ones. (ii) As far as the Law went, he was a trained Pharisee. Always, we must be able to translate the past experience into the present relationship if it is to be a valid experience at all. He is at Rome, where he desired to be, no doubt, but which he had never expected to visit as one in bonds. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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. It is by faith in his blood,Romans 3:25. This is not the same as to say that he was a true Israelite. One morning Wesley had preached with great effect: "As we returned, Mr. Wesley stopped his horse to pick the blackberries, saying: 'Brother Nelson, we ought to be thankful that there are plenty blackberries; for this is the best country I ever saw for getting a stomach, but the worst I ever saw for getting food!'" 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). Now, having seen Christ, if he could even bring his own righteousness into heaven, he would not. (i) We worship in the Spirit of God; or, we worship God in the Spirit. I am crucified with Christ, now I can experience the power of the resurrected life. So, the exhortation in the scripture is always that of rejoicing in the Lord. It was this which Paul sought - this for which he strove - this that was so bright an object in his eye that it was to be secured at any sacrifice. The Message Update. Philippians 3:1. "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." Remembering that, we try to paraphrase this passage and to set down, not so much what Paul says, as what was in his mind. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ ( Philippians 3:7 ). In short, he was so living Christ, that it was only a question of Christ here, and of Christ there. Yet they were the witnesses of Christ whom God had put forth at the close; for it was manifestly of Him. I tried it for so long. Men whose whole minds are earthbound! Far from him was the vanity of being the man first to preach Christ in the great metropolis. He must have felt that he had been setting a high challenge before the Philippian Church. 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. He met Christ on the Damascus road. Or is it, on the settled judgment of the old as altogether and only self and sin, that we are habitually manifesting Christ? This is the unfailing secret of it all the true source of humility in service. The logical progression in Pauls thought in Philippians 3:10-11 was from suffering to death to resurrection. It would be the equivalent in England of saying that he came over with the Normans or in America that he traced his descent to the Pilgrim fathers. 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 is able even to subdue all things to Himself and accomplish something as amazing as the resurrection of our bodies after the pattern of Jesus resurrection. That isn't a real representative of You. 's critical, scholastic, and exegetic manner. but so it was that thus the gospel, the glad tidings of His grace, should reach the highest quarters. Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. Generally the NASB is more literal, translating a Greek word with the same English word wherever the Greek word occurs. For, let me ask, what is our title to communion? But not the righteousness which God has accounted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. "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. I like the power, but I don't like the suffering. Thus, then, he prays for them, and to this end, not that they might become more intelligent merely not that they might grow more able to discourse of divine things, though I doubt not that there would be growth in these respects also; but all here has an eminently practical form, "that ye may approve things that are more excellent; that ye may be pure and without offence till the day of Christ." 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? How rich and full he was of the goodness of the God he had proved so long and could recommend so well! Now, when the Lord apprehended us, He had in His mind a plan and a purpose for each of our lives. 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. WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. 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. View Exodus on the Timeline. Benjamin was the child of Rachel, the well-loved wife of Jacob, and of all the twelve patriarchs he alone had been born in the Promised Land ( Genesis 35:17-18). Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. exanastasin, lit. I made it myself." And rather than resting in the past, what God has done, let's look forward to what God wants to do. Now I do count them, thirty years later, I still count them loss. "lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. What are you going to do when you pass the guy?" All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. The effect of their teaching was to take men further away from God instead of to bring them nearer to him. And it is an interesting period in church history where those who are indulging their flesh look upon it as spiritual superiority. "Your joy," said Jesus, "no one will take from you" ( John 16:22). This is the only allusion, as far as I know, to flesh in this epistle, but it is flesh in its religious form, and not as a source of evil lusts and passions. (b) It is the guarantee of the life to come ( Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:14 ff.). "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." To a Jew zeal was the greatest quality in the religious life. 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. 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. So unbelief interprets, but most assuredly it is wrong. There is a certain indestructibility in Christian joy; and it is so, because Christian joy is in the Lord. "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. But when I take the righteousness which is by Christ, it is an honest life, I can say, "Hey, I am not perfect, but I believe in Jesus Christ with all my heart. 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. We are undone without a righteousness wherein to appear before God, for we are guilty. The manner, too, in which these things happened seemed to make all as remote as possible from furthering the gospel; but here again he brings in Christ. *There is no reasonable doubt that the received text is wrong, followed by the Authorised Version ("of," instead of "from" the dead). (a) It is the guarantee of the importance of this life and of this body in which we live. Paul had been so zealous a Jew that he had tried to wipe out the opponents of Judaism. There is always danger of these, and the more so where there is activity among souls. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times, 4 Ways the Parable of the Sower Encourages Spiritual Growth. 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