Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. 2. 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? And so, too, he could now read and interpret all things in that bright light around him. The NIV translators simply translated it "the resurrection from the dead.". He is regarded as the true adversary, working, of course, by human means; but none the less is it his power. And this is true from the first moment of our career as God's children. And there is not now merely His riches of grace, but he looks forward into the glory where he was going, and can say, "My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.". 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.. Paul had been so zealous a Jew that he had tried to wipe out the opponents of Judaism. 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. (i) "Beware of the dogs," he says. Impossible that anything done by other saints should turn to one's acceptance any more than what is done by himself The apostle uses salvation throughout his letter to the Philippians (nor is it confined to this scripture only) in the sense of the complete and final triumph over all the power of Satan. In this chapter the apostle cautions the Philippians against false teachers, whom he describes as evil men, and exhorts them to walk as they had him, and other faithful ministers for an example. This was very dear to him, let God use whom he would. 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. There was evidently energy among these Philippians. "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. So here he says, "I came to that conclusion--and I still think so. Paul sets out three. WebPhilippians 3 Leaving Law and Pressing On to Jesus A. She gave it her best. This is not the same as to say that he was a true Israelite. Instead of occupying oneself with all one hears that would cast down, now that we have committed all. Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things [because their minds are always on earthly things] ( Philippians 3:19 ). Superficially this verse seems to suggest that Paul had some doubt about the certainty of his resurrection. Such things only prevented him from trusting in Christ (4-7). Had it been a question of his apostolic dignity, this could not have been; but an apostle even could, and did, and loved to, take the place of one that served others whom he viewed directly in their relationship to Christ. If this be borne in mind a large part of the difficulty that some have found completely disappears. "Beware of the concision.". This is certainly what the apostle here puts before these saints. In such places the citizens were mostly soldiers who had served their time--twenty-one years--and who had been rewarded with full citizenship. What a God is ours, so to treat that which, connected with the world, Christ Himself calls "unrighteous mammon!" Their happy and bright state in Christ did not dim their fellowship with the gospel. It is not our laying hold of Christ first, but his laying hold of us, which is our happiness and salvation. In the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, part of the torture of Lazarus is that the street dogs annoy him by licking his sores ( Luke 16:21). It was in the body that Christ rose and it is this body which he sanctifies ( 1 Corinthians 6:13 ff.). what than the testimony for God? You see, Jesus could not experience the power of the resurrection until the cross. 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. 2.]. I am sure he wasn't rejoicing in the circumstances themselves. They nevertheless seem to have been disheartened, even distanced, from their faith by Pauls imprisonment. Living in the past, there is always that danger of discouragement, which shuts off initiative for the future. He must have a certain kind of mind and heart and character. Have we that one blessed person as the hope, motive, beginning, end, way, and power of all that occupies us from day to day? "A lot of people testify of an experience that they had in Christ years ago. b. This is wholly distinct from His own intrinsic eternal glory. WebPhil 3:10-11 (NIV) In our verses for today, the apostle Paul yearns for an experiential knowledge of Christ Jesus. In this we hear of difference; and scripture does not obliterate but contrariwise asserts it, and treats the practical denial of it as a scandal brought in by Corinthian headiness. No further discipline and no further effort were necessary. The idea is that a man's Christian maturity cannot go beyond martyrdom. How rich and full he was of the goodness of the God he had proved so long and could recommend so well! But all in heaven and on earth shall be in reconciliation with God and headed up in Christ, with whom the Church shall share the unbounded inheritance. "Being made conformable to his death:" this too is clearly in the world now. It is no rule, but an evasion. He was willing to do any thing, or suffer any thing, that he might attain that resurrection. No; but "because that ye had heard that he had been sick." The point is this. Now she walks back out where all of the girls are waiting, and she said, "Look girls," and as they gasp in amazement at the glory and the beauty of the dress, she said, "This is something that I could have never purchased for myself. 3:17-21 Brothers, unite in imitating me, and keep your gaze on those who live, as you have seen us as an example. He must retrieve the glory of God in that very death which confessedly had brought the greatest shame on God outwardly. But out of the midst of bitter experience he had learned Christ, as even he had never known Him before. Thus fervour of desire for others is the happy index of this whenever coupled with adequate knowledge of ourselves. He is author of. Christ was Son of God in a sole and supreme sense. It is his own personal experience; and this is the reason why we have "I" so often here. And to be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but the righteousness which is of God, through faith. So, let this be your mind, let this be your attitude, follow me. So he brings before them another remarkable feature of it their fellowship; and this fellowship too with the gospel. worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus ( Philippians 3:3 ). The Lord has laid down their places respectively with distinctness. The resurrection of the dead. But it is working through it, but it is agonizing. "For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ." Love feels acutely nothing so much; but it triumphs. "How can they say they are a child of God? He like other Christians lives in the overlap of the ages; he, too, stands between the "already" and the "not yet", and consummated salvation is not yet his. You listen to John Piper. 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. Nevertheless there is that which is suited only to the conditions of time; there is that which, given here, survives all change. He did feel it. That is to say, he will never glory in any of his achievements or use them as an excuse for relaxation. If, then, they really loved him, "If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if there be any comfort of love, any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies," he would venture to seek another proof of it. But the (trace of Christ wrought in them all; and that was the great joy and delight of the apostle's heart. I can be honest with myself. 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. 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. 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. Is this the life that is practically exercised? When he received Jesus Christ, as far as they were concerned, he was dead. As we are just now, our bodies are subject to change and decay, illness and death, the bodies of a state of humiliation compared with the glorious state of the Risen Christ; but the day will come when we will lay aside this mortal body which we now possess and become like Jesus Christ himself. The logical progression in Pauls thought in Philippians 3:10-11 was from suffering to death to resurrection. Phinehas had saved the people from the wrath of God, and been given an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God ( Numbers 25:11-13). 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. Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. WebBible Commentaries; Philippians 3:1-11; Philippians 3:1-11. Now, Paul was a classic example of what Jesus was referring to. If the past experience has not been translated into the present, then it really has no value at all. John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. And they were kind to her, they said, "Oh, that is nice," but they did notice the imperfections in it. 4. It would be mere independence of Christ if he could have stood without a single flaw, as blameless, in fact, as in a certain sense outwardly he was under the law, until the Spirit of God gave him to see what he was in God's mind. But his spirit was as bright as ever, his joy perfectly fresh, deep, and flowing. Includes commentary, questions, and applications on Philippians 3:1 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. I. But while he was on his way, just before arriving in Damascus about noontime, there came a light from heaven brighter than the noonday sun. and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Now, because she had spent all of her money on tuition, and just getting by, on her books, and everything else, she really didn't have much money. He has a plan for your life now, and we should be as Jesus, who said, "I must be about my Father's business." There are two chief stages of His humiliation flowing out of His perfect love. We are not to suppose that, because we are men, we monopolise all the gifts of Christ. In 1756 a letter came to John Wesley from a father who had a prodigal son. When God entered into his special covenant with Abraham, circumcision was laid down as its eternal sign. As a man knows the bliss of parental or wedded love only by having it, or as he knows the taste of wine only by drinking it, or the glory of music only by hearing it, and the brightness of the day only by seeing it, so we know Christ only by winning Him. This is the great value of Christian experience. So he says, "Out of my experience I tell you that the Jewish way is wrong and futile. Within the Church there were two sets of people to whom these accusations might apply. There is really no value to say I counted those things loss for Christ thirty years ago, if in the meantime I have picked them back up and I am encumbered with them again. 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. 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). Then he found himself a dead man condemned and powerless. Their mind isn't after the Spirit and after the things of the Spirit, they are more concerned and interested in the types of cars they drive and the things of the flesh and the earthly things, than they are the things of the Spirit. We know well that as men have sarcastically said, gratitude is a kind of fishing for fresh favours. Yet these shall bow, no less than those in heaven, or on earth. "lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. 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. 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. 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. Paul has just said that he came to the conclusion that all his Jewish privileges and attainments were nothing but a total loss. For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body [or our body of humiliation], that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself ( Philippians 3:20-21 ). Give me the power," and we are so power-hungry. "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. You will never get into a right relationship with God by your own efforts in keeping the Law. WebPhilippians 3:1214. "I want to know him; I want to know him completely." God was pleased, even whilst the apostle was alive, to set him aside and to prove the power of faith where he was not. Here, accordingly, it is not the outgoings of love, but the zeal that burns indignantly as to what dishonours the Lord. 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. That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection ( Philippians 3:10 ). No, the righteousness which I depend upon is that which is through the faith of Christ, not a legal, but evangelical righteousness: The righteousness which is of God by faith, ordained and appointed of God." "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." It was not that he wanted more. They argued that a man could not be called complete until he had experienced everything that life had to offer, both good and bad. It was a necessary duty sometimes as things are on the earth, but nothing more; and so it is still. So Paul proves to these Jews that he has the right to speak. The tribe of Benjamin had a special place in the aristocracy of Israel. 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. You run until you ache and you think you can't go anymore, but you keep going. Let nobody suppose me to insinuate that a woman is not in place when exercising, according to the Scripture, any gift God has given her. It is not only his reckoning in the first fervour of love for the Saviour. They turned Christian liberty into unchristian licence and gloried in giving their passions full play. "You see, the angel doesn't have to erase the righteousness and then rewrite it, or whatever. Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. In short, he was so living Christ, that it was only a question of Christ here, and of Christ there. They really mean, this is worth my while, a well-known phrase in Latin too. In His name all must bow. And what is this but the unfolding of the truth in the heart and in the ways of the Christian? Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. 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. Why, it was gain. All who believe shall surely shine in His glory; and the universal creation, which, belonging to Him as His inheritance, He will share with His own, shall be reconciled and delivered in due time. "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." It has the preposition ek (meaning from or out of) added to the ordinary word for resurrection" (Loh and Nida 106). 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. Press On! A Hebrew was a Jew who was not only of pure racial descent but who had deliberately, and often laboriously, retained the Hebrew tongue. In Him, we, know, who was the perfect model in the same warfare, which He fought single-handed, conquering for God's glory and for us, the prince of this world came, and had nothing in Him, absolutely nothing. It was not simply something which had happened to Jesus, however important it was for him. His goodness can even take this up and thus make it fragrant even to Himself. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. "Reaching forth to those things which are before, I press," and the word in the Greek is agonizo. Now, when the Lord apprehended us, He had in His mind a plan and a purpose for each of our lives. They shared the conflict of the gospel; they partook of the reproach that covered those who preached it. (iii) He was of the tribe of Benjamin. Not so: Christ is always better; and so says he, "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 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 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). To know Christ means for him certain things. 3:10-11 My object is to know him, and I mean by that, to know the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while I continue to be made like him in his death, if by any chance I may attain to the resurrection of the dead. This is where at least some of the Jews made the mistake. Timothy shared the unselfishness of the apostle's heart. 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, says he, "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Righteousness is a gift that God gives to those who have faith in Christ (8-9).But Paul does not stop there. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. that is miserable to God, we can go on delighting in the goodness of God, as well as in its fruits. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. The supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus shows itself in dependence, and this expresses itself therefore in prayer to God. There were not very many Pharisees, never more than six thousand, but they were the spiritual athletes of Judaism. 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. 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. This verb indicates the most intimate knowledge of another person. And it is sad when a person is resting in the past, not pressing ahead. Unless there were long periods when he never put pen to paper there must have been many more letters which are now lost. 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. But then this monumental statement. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory." And this ground is one which always brings in the strength of the Holy Ghost, as it is based on God's mighty work of redemption. When first he tasted it, he found it so sweet that he cared for none other. Israel was the name which had been specially given to Jacob by God after his wrestling with him ( Genesis 32:28). Let all of you who have graduated in the school of Christ have the same attitude of mind to life. But here is the proper experience of a Christian. The reason why we can all say it tonight is because we are all here. Hence I am inclined to retain . And did feel rather sorry for her. 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. 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. I more than anybody else. They stubbornly refused to be assimilated to the nations amongst whom they lived; they retained faithfully their own religion and their own customs and their own laws. We love him because he first loved us,1 John 4:19. The things that he had believed to be his glories were in fact quite useless. Be of good cheer. They regarded circumcision in itself as being enough to set them apart specially for God. (ii) As far as the Law went, he was a trained Pharisee. The Christian awaits the coming of Christ, at which everything will be changed. Observe, The best men in the world will readily own their imperfection in the present state. "That I may win Christ," therefore he says; "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law." It is not the physical experience that saves, it is the spiritual: the death to the old nature and the old man in my heart, the reckoning of myself to be dead, and living that new life in the resurrected Lord. I forget those things which are behind.A lot of people make the mistake of trying to live in the past. She laid the thing out, carefully cut it out, but she really had never sewn anything before. It was God the Father that made Him Lord and Christ, but God the Father never made Him Jehovah. They joined with those who preached the truth and partook of their obloquy. They are living in the past, the past glories. 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. WebPhilippians 3:11. By calling himself an Israelite, Paul stressed the absolute purity of his descent. Is it agreeing to differ? But if not, what then? Again, Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended (Philippians 3:13; Philippians 3:13), ou logizomai. There is no getting to heaven as our home but by Christ as our way. 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. And he answered, "Who art thou, Lord that I may serve thee?" 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. We haven't yet scratched the surface of the work that needs to be done in the hearts and lives of the people of Orange County, in Southern California, across the United States. The Lord is at hand." If by any means - Implying, that he meant to make use of the most strenuous exertions to obtain the object. One of the elements of heavenly happiness will be the calm and settled knowledge of all that we have been here below. Every phrase in this catalogue of Paul's privileges has its special meaning; let us look at each one. Don't you know that Christians don't have to suffer? WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. The Old Testament uses to know of sexual intercourse. God, I thank you that I am so good," that pride and self-righteousness. Hence he says, "We look for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour: who shall change our vile. 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. "I have attained, I have achieved. Whatever he needed, love is never itself but in unselfish action and suffering. "Be anxious [or be careful] for nothing; but in everything" this is the resource "in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Teleios ( G5046) in Greek has a variety of interrelated meanings. b. But he said those things which were so important to me, those things for which I lived. Such was the apostle's faith. How truly he accounted himself less than the least of them! There would be no question of his being a part of such a resurrection." Jesus had to empty Himself to become a servant. They declared that they were within the grace of God and that, therefore, it did not matter what they did; God would forgive. The apostle had his heart upon heaven as his happiness: If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead,Philippians 3:11; Philippians 3:11. Have rather that spirit which counts nothing as a right to be claimed, but all one has as gifts of grace to be freely used in this world, because one has Christ in view. There is real power, there is strength from God that works in the saint; but the feelings of Christ, the mind of Christ morally, is better than all energy. 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. 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. It is no trouble to me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe. With Him you will be right about the gospel, right about the church, right about doctrine, walk, and service. They identified themselves, therefore, with all who were declaring it throughout the world. "Again I say, Rejoice." 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