The other is what suits it, but a conferred position. As far as his zeal and according to the righteousness that is in the law, he was blameless. Paul was writing letters from A.D. 48 to A.D. 64, sixteen years, but we possess only thirteen. Let your every contact with the world be just as light as possible." But so it is; and thus the food of faith becomes the poison of unbelief. And (we pray!) If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. ( Judges 5:14; Hosea 5:8). But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. This is what the Lord intended for me, to be with Him in His kingdom, to share with Him His glory. "if I live in the flesh, it is worth my while." There it was an unhappy "me," though distinct from the flesh: "O wretched man that I am" Here it would be, O happy man that I am! Hence he says, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." [Note: Saucy, p. Is this your measure of the love of Christ? And they are not really going ahead in life at all, because they are so involved in the past. He must retrieve the glory of God in that very death which confessedly had brought the greatest shame on God outwardly. Anything I do for myself is a waste of time and effort. His opponents might have attempted to say, "But you are a Christian and do not know what you are talking about; you do not know what it is to be a Jew." 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). And God then imputes to me, or accounts to me, righteousness. And if anyone is otherwise minded in any way, this too God will reveal to him. There is no doubt that Paul is here speaking to the antinomians. Far from losing sight of our past ways, it is a very wholesome thing indeed to remember them: we are never safe in forgetting what we are and have been. He means the Lord, really, personally, at hand; as he had said in the end of the last chapter, that this was what we look for. It is the proof that his promise to be with us always to the end of the world is true. That is to say, he was not only an Israelite; he belonged to the elite of Israel. Nothing, then, would the apostle have done in strife or vain-glory; "' but in lowliness of mind each esteeming other better than themselves." It often happens that men can stand the great sorrows and the great trials of life but are undone by what are almost minor inconveniences. How truly he accounted himself less than the least of them! This is illustrated in several instances. It is not that you have failed, perhaps, or broken down in some particular. It is not love growing less but more, and this abounding in intelligence and knowledge, which could not be looked for in saints just beginning their career. 10-11 I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. Let us uphold the glory of His person, but, nevertheless, let us not forget how the apostle's picture of the saint resembles the Master! That is, they want still to live after the flesh so bad, that the idea of being crucified with Christ, the death of the old life, the death of the old man, the death of the old flesh life, is irritating to them. It shows us grace practically in different measures and forms. Now we all know that when a man is carried on the top of the wave, when the winds fill the sails and all goes prosperously, when hearts are gladdened in sorrow, when one witnesses the joy of fresh deliverance from day to day, it is a comparatively easy thing. 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. So unbelief interprets, but most assuredly it is wrong. For, let me ask, what is our title to communion? Now here we have what is present; so that the passage presents some difficulty to souls because of intermingling the present with the future. This epistle is therefore eminently instructive to those who could not have an apostle with them. "Let your moderation be known unto all men. It seems strange that if Paul wanted to distinguish between faithful and unfaithful believers here he would use the resurrection to do so. It is no rule, but an evasion. But the weakest of saints (how much more this greatest of the apostles!) The only boast of the Christian is not in what he has done for himself but in what Christ has done for him. Yea [not and], I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labour with me." He was too much bent on what was before to be occupied with calling to mind what was behind him; it must have impeded him in the race. And so looking back to the past, oftentimes, we look at our failures and we are discouraged from trying to go on. And I just dedicated my life completely to the Lord. 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. Spirit, they said, is altogether good; and matter is altogether evil. 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. Here, accordingly, it is not the outgoings of love, but the zeal that burns indignantly as to what dishonours the Lord. 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). "For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state." He was resurrected in a new body, patterned after the old yet equipped and fitted for heaven. Who would have expected that the timid man Nicodemus, and the honourable councillor Joseph of Arimathea, would have been brought out at the very time when even the apostles themselves had fled trembling with fear? It should be "the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.". He had put all, as it were, into the hands of Christ, who had Himself given him His own comfort about it. When that event takes place God will snatch Christians out from among the spiritually dead (unbelievers). "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. Let us be humbled on account of our sins. The logical progression in Pauls thought in Philippians 3:10-11 was from suffering to death to resurrection. They are out there, there are many of them. And they were kind to her, they said, "Oh, that is nice," but they did notice the imperfections in it. Check out our other commentaries: Genesis 19:8-10 meaning (3:11 22) Maps and Charts. 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. Does not our love fervently flame towards heaven? (Spurgeon). To me," may each say truly, "to live is Christ.". "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise [ i.e. He had learned practically what Christ is, and what He does, and what He can enable even the least to do, (as he says himself, "less than the least of all saints,") and so much the more, because the least in his own eyes. In every town and in every city and in every country there were Jews. 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. Such experience is both a real and a precious boon. They are stagnating now. And mark, it is not the anticipation of light with Christ in heaven, but His light now while He is in heaven shining on the heart, and on the circumstances of the pathway here below. I can do all things through him who strengtheneth me." There was victory to his faith by the grace of God. I have no confidence in the flesh. The resurrection is the ultimate goal for all Christians. "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." Not so Paul. Oh, it is a blessed thing, that in the midst of the sorrows of this world, the Holy Spirit knows how thus to blend the name of Christ, as the sweetest balm, with the sorrow, however bitter, and to make the very memory of the grief pleasant because of Christ, who deigns to let Himself into it all. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are [really] the enemies of the cross of Christ ( Philippians 3:17-18 ): You know, there are a lot of people who talk a lot about Jesus Christ but are enemies of the cross of Christ. A Hebrew was a Jew who was not only of pure racial descent but who had deliberately, and often laboriously, retained the Hebrew tongue. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Whatever he needed, love is never itself but in unselfish action and suffering. 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. This is what gives force to our affections, and rivets them on Christ. But such things as I could humanly reckon as profits, I came to the conclusion were all loss for the sake of Jesus Christ. The very fact, or way of putting it, supposes Him to be a divine person. But with the Philippians there was increased jealousy for Christ. We know well that as men have sarcastically said, gratitude is a kind of fishing for fresh favours. Paul describes his impressive You watch his pen draw out meaning. You can also change some of your preferences. If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. What the happiness of heaven is: it is to apprehend that for which we are apprehended of Christ. Now, Paul was a classic example of what Jesus was referring to. The passive shines in Christ coming down; the active is realized by the eye that is fixed on Christ, who is actually in glory. Would God in this case let His servant be so long kept away from the gospel or the church? "And the fellowship of his sufferings" again and certainly a present thing, not relating to heaven. 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.". 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. This is the great value of Christian experience. 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. But with the Philippians there was increased jealousy for Christ. They were more obedient in his absence than in his presence. 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. Paul said, "No, I came out of that. In Hebrew the verb is yada' ( H3045) and in Greek it is translated by ginoskein ( G1097) . 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. A holy fear of coming short is an excellent means of perseverance. Paul had discovered that a right relationship with God is based not on Law but on faith in Jesus Christ. He puts it as a matter left for him to judge of and decide by Christ. ", Only he desires that their conversation should be as it became the gospel of Christ. Comment: Amazing, transforming grace, is able to change a At any rate, such is the picture that the Holy Spirit gives of him there. While the exact nature of that reward is unclear here, it can generally be understood as a sort of abundance of life. WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. The NASB translators captured this idea when they rendered this phrase "the resurrection from among the dead." Was this all the apostle had to say? John Piper @JohnPiper. WebPhilippians - (NIV Application Commentary) by Frank S Thielman (Hardcover) $26.99When purchased online Out of Stock About this item Specifications Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up Number of Pages: 256 Genre: Religion + Beliefs Sub-Genre: Biblical Commentary Series Title: NIV Application Commentary Format: Hardcover Publisher: Zondervan Academic Thus easily do we fall into error, because the human mind likes to have either one thing or another, and thus avoid all difficulty in Scripture, having each squared according to our notions. 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. All error is founded on a misuse of a truth against the truth. Our citizenship. The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. 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. Hers is a more delicate place than that which becomes the man, and one which a man attempting it would awkwardly fill. Now, circumcision is only a sign in the flesh, something done to a man's body. It was not some sudden fit, if one may so say, nor was it the influence of passing circumstances. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is "Our conversation is in heaven; from whence we wait for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour" for this is the true meaning of it. And you can become a phony, because, you know, you set your own standards; you live by your own rules. The great saving truths of Christianity do not change; and we cannot hear them too often. We may see the depth of this word from a fact of Old Testament usage. But then this monumental statement. He must be conformed to his Master in all things; and this was one of them. The reason why we can all say it tonight is because we are all here. This separates from all, and judges the best of man to be dung, as the former conforms the heart after His love. admits that the external testimony is quite in its favour, though it is hard to see what he means by the internal evidence being in this case denied; for he suggests himself that may have been a correction proceeding from those who thought that the sense which the context requires, "the resurrection from the dead," could not be extracted from . and have no confidence in the flesh ( Philippians 3:3 ). Skubala has two meanings. Wednesday of Fifth Sunday in Lent Our Savior/Redeemer Pettibone/Woodworth, ND: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 cold and nakednessbesides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches" (2 Cor. That isn't a real representative of You. Teleios ( G5046) in Greek has a variety of interrelated meanings. all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love. It is not at all a question of what one has here. But out of the midst of bitter experience he had learned Christ, as even he had never known Him before. In short, he was so living Christ, that it was only a question of Christ here, and of Christ there. Generally the NASB is more literal, translating a Greek word with the same English word wherever the Greek word occurs. It is not Paul's aim to know about Christ, but personally to know him. I might attain unto - I may come to, or may secure this object. It is the cry of the Psalmist: "Zeal for thy house has consumed me." The dogs were the pariah dogs, roaming the streets, sometimes in packs, hunting amidst the garbage dumps and snapping and snarling at all whom they met. 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. So the apostle lets them know that he owned their hearty love; "not," he says, "because I desire a gift." But while a man is quite unfit to do a woman's work, can it be doubted that a woman brings no honour to herself, or to the Lord, by attempting to do a man's task? 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. It is hard to rejoice in circumstances. The history of the Jews had dispersed them all over the world. 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. 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. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord our righteousness, Isaiah 45:24; Jeremiah 23:6. And Paul writes. There were not very many Pharisees, never more than six thousand, but they were the spiritual athletes of Judaism. As Paul saw it, the Christian is the athlete of Christ. So he says, "Out of my experience I tell you that the Jewish way is wrong and futile. The Christian awaits the coming of Christ, at which everything will be changed. Paul fell on the ground, and there the Lord spoke to him and said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" The word if can be translated as since: Since I will attain to the resurrection from the dead is the Strange way of God! In His name all must bow. "I make this judgment of the case; I thus reason with myself." And they were a sort of a hated animal. To suffer for the faith is not a penalty, it is a privilege, for thereby we share the very work of Christ. The past has been glorious, it has been exciting to see what God has done, but you know, I am more excited about what God is going to do.So. And she saw this young girl, modeling her dress and she said, "Would you mind going with me?" He calls the Judaisers dogs because they like to cut the flesh of people; that is, they insist that they must circumcise Gentiles before those Gentiles can be saved. This is interesting, for it must mean that Paul had written other letters to the Philippians which have not survived. But, Lady Bountiful, seeing her interest in it, said to the clerk, wrap it up and have it sent to the car.When she got back to the dorm, she went into her room and she carefully unwrapped this dress, put it on; it fit perfectly. After a dead dog! Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. He was for a considerable time a prisoner. It had always been so, as the apostle gives us to learn. But to one cut off from such work it was, in appearance at least, a heavy burden and an immense trial; but Christ changes all for us. Paul sets down two very important things. WebScholars who interpret Phil 2:6-11 as an early Christian hymn point out that it contains a rich vocabulary, a number of poetic elements (e.g., parallelism, paradox, climax), and that, with only one or two small changes, it can stand alone as an independent composition. And so, it is an established righteousness. To support this statement, Paul refers to his own experience. "My joy and crown," "my dearly beloved." It was the teaching of Paul that we are saved by grace alone, that salvation is the free gift of God, that we can never earn it but can only humbly and adoringly accept what God has offered to us; and, further, that the offer of God is to all men of all nations and that none is excluded. And then he uses a contrasting Greek word, and it is a play on Greek words. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. 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. And what is this but the unfolding of the truth in the heart and in the ways of the Christian? "I beseech Evodia" (we may just notice the true form in passing; Euodias sounds like a man's name, whereas here it is really a woman). The critical reading he owns has force and propriety; but he does "not see why . Nevertheless, God will surely teach His own, and knows how to clear up what is hidden from them. 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. "I can do all things," as he says elsewhere, "through him that strengtheneth me." He would have them realize the solemnity of the strife that is going on. They were rather miserable, but that does not stop you from rejoicing in the Lord. i. Jesus really can subdue all things. in sorrow? From one point of view it looked as if Christianity was a grim job. [Note: W. E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, 1:86.] "Finally," says he, "my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. 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. Has it not been the rock on which many a gallant bark has made shipwreck? Witnesses, prosecutors, judges, emperor, everybody, became, in point of fact, nothing to him. There is a pun in the Greek which is not transferable to English. For what believer would deny that, however close the conformity, there is always that dignity and perfection which is proper to Christ, and exclusively His? At this point Paul repeats warnings that he gave the Philippian church some time earlier concerning Judaisers. The way to that fellowship is through righteousness, through the kind of life and spirit and attitude to himself which God desires. Real circumcision is devotion of heart and mind and life to God.". 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? It is not only his reckoning in the first fervour of love for the Saviour. This is certainly what the apostle here puts before these saints. 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. 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. (i) He says that he is trying to grasp that for which he has been grasped by Christ. You will never get into a right relationship with God by your own efforts in keeping the Law. But his spirit was as bright as ever, his joy perfectly fresh, deep, and flowing. He forgot himself in the gospel. And at this point we also say, "Ya, ya, power, I want power. Paul had been so zealous a Jew that he had tried to wipe out the opponents of Judaism. WebPhilippians 2:1-5. b. There is therefore not the slightest ground to countenance the rather dangerous idea, that the apostle did not employ a phrase analogous to the correct one which is found elsewhere in the New Testament, and adopted "a popular and familiar mode of expression," i.e. ", And what is it that gave such a hope to one that owns himself the chief of sinners and less than the least of all saints? He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. Other Scripture points to the judgment seat of Christ as the time when God will make this distinction, not the resurrection. They nevertheless seem to have been disheartened, even distanced, from their faith by Pauls imprisonment. This joyful resurrection the apostle pressed towards. "Let your moderation be known unto all men;" that is, the meekness and gentleness which bends to the blow, instead of resisting it in the spirit that ever asserts its rights and fights for them. The new body, the building of God not made with human hands, the eternal house that God has created for my spirit. It is not one who cherished a trust in the Lord's fidelity spite of what was visible. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. Not that there were not difficulties; there were many. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Robert Wilkin, the writer quoted above, later changed his view and adopted the "spiritual resurrection view. "They really did me wrong. Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless." 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. Hence that which judged and put aside religion after the flesh, righteousness after the law, all that was now left completely and for ever behind, and the saint is set on the road that nothing can satisfy him but being in the same glorious condition with Christ Himself. Here Paul rounds upon these Jewish teachers who were seeking to undo his work. Heaven is called here the mark, because it is that which every good Christian has in his eye; as the archer has his eye fixed upon the mark he designs to hit. Select a Passage. "Help them" (says he) "with Clement also, and with my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life. He has not only put aside religious ceremonies and national status, but he considers that all things in which he might boast are worthless. He knew well how much they might be tried by the report of his own imprisonment, and no deliverance coming as yet. Then, as to our practical every-day expectation, "the Lord is at hand." 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