The word if can be translated as since: Since I will attain to the resurrection from the dead is the In Hebrew the verb is yada' ( H3045) and in Greek it is translated by ginoskein ( G1097) . The Philippian congregation was generally a wonderful group of people. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. Peritemnein ( G4059) means to circumcise; katatemnein means to mutilate, as in Leviticus 21:5, which describes forbidden self-mutilation, such as castration. If he desired for them that they should be without one stumble till the day of Christ, it was the purpose to which grace had girded up his own loins. They say, that in training for the Olympics, you have got to go till it hurts, and you have to work yourself through the pain. Who, when He comes, He is going to change our bodies, that they might be fashioned like His own glorious image. Not our keeping hold of Christ, but his keeping hold of us, is our safety. When Paul stated that he was of the tribe of Benjamin, it was a claim that he was not simply an Israelite but that he belonged to the highest aristocracy of Israel. The author of Exalting Jesus in Luke is Thabiti M. Anyabwile Philippians - Ryan Kelly 2014-07-31 The book of Philippians challenges Christians to remember their true identity as citizens of Gods kingdom, especially when faced with difficult circumstances and painful trials. He is not condemning Judaism from the outside. And there Paul was converted. They said that, since grace was wide enough to cover every sin, a man could sin as he liked and not worry; it would make no difference to the all-forgiving love of God. For, in point of fact, through this epistle salvation is seen as going on from first to last, and not yet complete, being never viewed as such till the conflict with Satan is altogether closed. WebPhilippians 3 Leaving Law and Pressing On to Jesus A. Of the two, the converse would be more intelligible; but my conviction is that both the Lord and His apostle used similar and correct phraseology, as did the Holy Spirit elsewhere. Accordingly, this being not so directly the subject of the epistle though a Very important part of it, it comes in parenthetically in a large measure, not now in any wise as a question of truth or development of the mystery of Christ, as we saw in Ephesians 3:1-21, but, nevertheless, as a parenthesis; for he resumes afterwards the internal side again, as we shall see inPhilippians 4:1-23; Philippians 4:1-23. You see, Jesus could not experience the power of the resurrection until the cross. It may be remarked here, that from an expression often misunderstood in Philippians 2:1-30 it might seem as if the apostle wished somehow to weaken their confidence. But it is working through it, but it is agonizing. And do count them but dung [as refuse], that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith ( Philippians 3:8-9 ): Now, Paul had excelled in the righteousness in the law. a really inaccurate mode. But Paul didn't stop there did he? To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. In other words, "Give it all you have got.". He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. Because he lives, we shall live also; his victory is our victory. 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." And rather than resting in the past, what God has done, let's look forward to what God wants to do. So these Gnostics taught that gluttony and adultery and homosexuality and drunkenness were of no importance because they affect only the body which is of no importance. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & What seemed to some the death of the gospel was in point of fact distinctly for the furtherance of it. The effect of it usually on the individual who has obtained such a thing: I keep the rules; I never do anything wrong; I always do what is good; I am a doo bee; I am just living by these righteous standards. It was the natural cry of man, "Spare yourself from suffering." Again and again he speaks of it ( Acts 22:2-21; Acts 26:4-23; 1 Corinthians 15:8-10; Galatians 1:13). [Note: Idem, "Raised to Run," Grace Evangelical Society News 6:8 (August 1991):2.]. But the Rapture is not an event that Christians need to strive to attain. Paul said, "I have not yet apprehended that for which I was apprehended. The passive shines in Christ coming down; the active is realized by the eye that is fixed on Christ, who is actually in glory. But supposing it possible to be clothed with the righteousness of the law, he would not have it now. "How can they say they are a child of God? You think you are going to drop, but you keep going. Paul said. "I want to hang on to the flesh. What looks and sounds better than the saints of God? They exist; they are there. Paul makes a conscious effort to keep his eyes on the prize promised to him by God. Christ was "without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation." B. 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." Thus, as at the beginning of the chapter, there was the energy that went out against the evil workers, with a religious mind after the flesh, so now there is the energy that bursts forth against those that were misusing Christianity, making it an earthly system, setting their mind on things here below, under the name of the Lord Jesus; and between the two, is set forth the positiveness, if one may so speak, of Christ Himself. We do not tire of the foods which are the essentials of life. I. Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we look for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There was evidently energy among these Philippians. Yet these shall bow, no less than those in heaven, or on earth. 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. (1-2) Warning against the influence of legalistic "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.". For, let me ask, what is our title to communion? Hey, this is a pretty good pedigree. WebPhilippians 3 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. This is lost in the idea of labouring in it. For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus." What might you and I have thought of such? I had everything going for me as far as righteousness from the law. Not the passive side of the Christian as being in the world, but the active comes before us. Hence he calls upon them, as one that could not be with them to help them in the conflict, to work out their own salvation. there is no small tendency whenever people know the gospel well, if this be all, to settle down, thinking they have nothing more to do with the matter. It is not only his reckoning in the first fervour of love for the Saviour. So that you could share with Him the eternal glories of His kingdom. In 1756 a letter came to John Wesley from a father who had a prodigal son. Because of that, righteousness nearly always for Paul has the meaning of a right relationship with God. 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. Who they were is not certain. As citizens of heaven we keep in communication with our native home. Paul had discovered that a right relationship with God is based not on Law but on faith in Jesus Christ. 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. Israel was the name which had been specially given to Jacob by God after his wrestling with him ( Genesis 32:28). Jesus is Jehovah, although a man; consequently the bowing in that name to the glory of God the Father does not occur to the apostle. What then? (c) It is the guarantee that in life and in death and beyond death the presence of the Risen Lord is always with us. c. The Lord Jesus Christ: The title Lord was also applied to the Roman Caesar. If he left this world, he would be with Christ; if he lived longer in this, world, Christ was with him. 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.". The real circumcision is not a mark in the flesh; it is that true worship, that true glory, and that true confidence in the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Many times the worst thing you can do is share with your friends what the Lord has laid upon your heart to do. I don't know about this suffering bit. Nothing less would be in keeping with such a high position. 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. It speaks of believers who were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. All believers will be resurrected, but there is a better one for those who endure. But with the Philippians there was increased jealousy for Christ. Another view is that Paul was hoping that he would persevere faithfully in his quest to know Christ until he died. But he said he cast that over for the knowledge of Jesus Christ. "If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection from the dead. To the confession of His Lordship is added "to the glory of God the Father." Strange way of God! This is the righteousness whose source is in God; it is also by faith of Christ, and not through the law, which, of course, would have man's righteousness if it could. So Paul proves to these Jews that he has the right to speak. In Philippians 3:1-21 it is not the display of intrinsic affection in Christ, or the gracious dispositions of Christ in the saints. Not the passive side of the Christian as being in the world, but the active comes before us. If the past experience has not been translated into the present, then it really has no value at all. I just" And living in the past, and being destroyed in the past, and can't go ahead because they are looking backward. Men whose whole minds are earthbound! There is no more common device of Satan than to seek the destruction of the power of testimony by the allowance of evil insinuations against him who renders it. 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). No man knew better from personal experience what Jewish religion was at its highest and most demanding. victory over the foe. 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. At any rate they endured the conflicts of the gospel in its earlier days at Philippi. The apostle would remind us that even he "must watch and pray continually to abide in the fellowship of Christs sufferingfor only in that way the glorification with Christwill be attained" (Silva 193, quoting J.J. Muller). 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. "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." He passionately longs to reach the final destination and, in no way presuming upon the grace of God, presses on towards that goal (OBrien 413). Now, immediately after telling them to rejoice in the Lord, he is warning them about the false teachers. Consequently we must look for another explanation of this verse. There was another way which would best prove it to his heart; it was not something future secured to Paul in his need, which would be the way of nature, not of love or faith. Indeed Paul did. (ii) Here also Paul sets down what we might call the necessity of repetition. Real circumcision is devotion of heart and mind and life to God.". But whatever might be their own proper joy, whatever might be their delight in that which God works in the church, they had full and simple-hearted fellowship with His good news. 661.] It is the proof that his promise to be with us always to the end of the world is true. However, one is correct in understanding that these words express his humble expectation and hope (1 Corinthians 15:20; 2 Corinthians 5:1). b. You can check these in your browser security settings. To abound in love is far from declension. But tomorrow, some nut pulls in front of me on the freeway and then blocks and traps me, and I may shake my fist and honk my horn, and say, "Get off the road, you fool." (3.) 1. We may enjoy the "fancy things" at meat times, but it is the basic foods on which we live. When you are pressing towards the mark. 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. The apostle drops entirely his official status in addressing the saints at Philippi. It is the cry of the Psalmist: "Zeal for thy house has consumed me." And thus the name dog the Jews began to apply to the Gentiles. Returning, however, to the women Evodia and Syntyche, they had devoted themselves to an exceedingly happy and prized service. Unless there were long periods when he never put pen to paper there must have been many more letters which are now lost. 26 December 2021 AM Philippians 3:13-14 Scott Childs. The trouble is not that of seeing its meaning; the trouble is that of finding one English word which covers all it includes. The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. The Lord has laid down their places respectively with distinctness. The word signifies the resurrection in general, both of the just and unjust; may signify that of the blessed only. Now, Paul recognized something that is very important for all of us to recognize who have been apprehended by Jesus Christ. what than the testimony for God? For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ." Christ was so truly before his heart, that in fact there was no self left unjudged to warp the choice. As far as his zeal and according to the righteousness that is in the law, he was blameless. Select a Passage. He knew that the only way to peace was to abandon the way of human achievement and accept the way of grace. (ii) He was of the race of Israel. (ii) To that end Paul says two things. "if I live in the flesh, it is worth my while." A man must always have a care that he is not himself guilty of the sins of which he accuses others. It is not our laying hold of Christ first, but his laying hold of us, which is our happiness and salvation. "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. "Your joy," said Jesus, "no one will take from you" ( John 16:22). What a God is ours, so to treat that which, connected with the world, Christ Himself calls "unrighteous mammon!" WebPhil 3:12-14 (NIV) These verses flashed through my mind last night as I watched the intense focus of an Olympic competitor in the downhill slalom race compete for the gold. Re 2:10, "crown of life." And he answered, "Who art thou, Lord that I may serve thee?" This disperses all clouds from the soul. No teacher must find it a trouble to go over and over again the great basic truths of the Christian faith; for that is the way to ensure the safety of his hearers. John Gill John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:1. 165-77, for refutation of the partial rapture view.] Thus we know how on approaching Rome Paul was lifted up and comforted, as he saw those who came to greet him. The keynote of the epistle is rejoice, and he said. What the happiness of heaven is: it is to apprehend that for which we are apprehended of Christ. It means full-grown in contradistinction to undeveloped; for example, it is used of a full-grown man as opposed to an undeveloped youth. "Let your moderation be known unto all men. That there was all this abundantly in these saints he did not doubt; they had just shown him the fruit of love personally. Like any good teacher, Paul was never afraid of repetition. 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. in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. "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. I hold the record and my name is on the record books, and all." We are then made conformable to his death when we die to sin, as Christ died for sin, when we are crucified with Christ, the flesh and affections of it mortified, and the world is crucified to us, and we to the world, by virtue of the cross of Christ. The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. Far from him was the vanity of being the man first to preach Christ in the great metropolis. A holy fear of coming short is an excellent means of perseverance. Jeremiah speaks of the uncircumcised ear, the ear that will not hear the word of God ( Jeremiah 6:10). 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. 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." If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. I can't believe what they did to me. Of course, the enemy would have desired above all and at any cost to lower such an one as the apostle Paul in the loving esteem of God's saints, more particularly where all had been sweet and happy; but, notwithstanding every effort, grace hitherto had prevailed, and these saints at Philippi felt the more for the apostle when he was a prisoner. To know Christ means that we share the way he walked; we share the Cross he bore; we share the death he died; and finally we share the life he lives for evermore. Modern editors of value, however differing in their system of recension agree in the ancient as against the received reading; so Scholz, Lachmann, Tischendorf, Ellicott, Alford, Tregelles, Wordsworth, etc. The Old Testament uses to know of sexual intercourse. All here below was plunged under the sentence of death through Adam's sin; and God's word could but seal it till redemption. Let us then try to see what Paul thinks about when he speaks about righteousness. The one thing that suits is to pursue the glory before him, till he is in the same glory along with Christ. Paul sets down two very important things. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. You may be perfectly sure of an answer when you make known your requests: therefore let it be with thanksgiving. He always looks there in Philippians. That was a common name by which the Jews referred to the Gentiles: the gentile dogs. In by far the most of them it does not signify what we might call abstract perfection but a kind of functional perfection, adequacy for some given purpose. We have not yet attained, are not already perfect; there is still much wanting in all our duties, and graces, and comforts. 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. Energy is not the best or highest aspect of Christianity. In Php_3:15 he again uses teleios ( G5046) and says that this must be the attitude of those who are teleios ( G5046) . But in truth it may betray itself in doctrine and practice in various shapes. 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. He is just about to send Timothy from himself that he might know about them. There is nothing assuredly right, on the other hand, where Christ is not the object of the soul. One cannot overlook the amazing strength with which he speaks even of his affections. Would God in this case let His servant be so long kept away from the gospel or the church? Through the wonderful sight of the love of Christ, this answered the question to his faith, leaving all circumstances entirely aside. If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it. The point is this. Even in the ends of the earth they remained unshakeably Roman. Close. To suffer for the faith is not a penalty, it is a privilege, for thereby we share the very work of Christ. Here was a picture the Philippians could understand. Paul himself did not hope to attain it through his own merit and righteousness, but through the merit and righteousness of Jesus Christ. "They really did me wrong. It is our progress then that we are to forget. All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. Hence, says he, "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Is it too much to say that many a groan would have gone forth from us that are here? We cannot know everything that Paul meant by this phrase; but the Resurrection of Christ is the great dynamic in at least three different directions. When, under Rehoboam, the kingdom had been split up, ten of the tribes went off with Jeroboam and Benjamin was the only tribe which remained faithful with Judah ( 1 Kings 12:21). 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. Now the saint that has Christ Himself before him looks abroad with desires according to the activity of divine love. DWELLER ON EARTH BUT CITIZEN OF HEAVEN ( Php_3:17-21 ). The resurrected life always follows the crucified life. He said he was blameless. THE ONLY TRUE CIRCUMCISION ( Php_3:2-3 continued), (iii) Lastly, he calls them, the party of mutilation. "I beseech Evodia, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. 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. Within the Church there were two sets of people to whom these accusations might apply. "Yea," said he, "and I count all things but loss." Many hence have wrongly gathered that they were preachers. 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. Don't you know that Christians don't have to suffer? He is author of. 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). He must be conformed to his Master in all things; and this was one of them. Now, circumcision is only a sign in the flesh, something done to a man's body. But let us not be turned aside, and think that it is merely a question of believing and of knowing our place secure; but let us live of that very Christ who is our life. They are stagnating now. 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. v. There is a significant contrast between the citizens of earth as described in Philippians 3:18-19 and the citizens of heaven as described in Philippians 3:20-21. b. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. Next, not only did he exhort them not to be terrified by the power of Satan, which is itself an evident and solemn sign of perdition to those that oppose the saints of God; but he calls on them to cast out the sources of disunion among themselves; and this he does in the most touching way. A Hebrew was a Jew who was not only of pure racial descent but who had deliberately, and often laboriously, retained the Hebrew tongue. Such was the apostle's faith. All believers will be resurrected and have joy forever. 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? Includes commentary, questions, and applications on Philippians 3:1 When God does not interpose, men are apt to allow reflections and reasonings. Not so. Timothy was very dear to him, and was then with him; but he is going to part with the one that was so much the more valued by him in his solitariness and sorrow because of his circumstances at Rome. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. "That I may win Christ," therefore he says; "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law." WebOther Commentaries. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is or are there mingled ways and mixed motives? "My desire is to know Him, and to be found in Him." They are living in the past, the past glories. So he tells them that he always thus remembered them for their "fellowship with the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that he who hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.". 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