The Jews would be quite sure that they were workers of righteousness. He has stopped his attempts to placate God with this kind of righteousness and has turned away from his own efforts of becoming righteous through the law to the righteousness that God gives through faith in Christ. 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. The apostle is here contributing to that which shall never pass away, and hence begins with the "saints in Christ Jesus" as such. Paul has just said that he came to the conclusion that all his Jewish privileges and attainments were nothing but a total loss. His worship is love of God and service of men. Need it be said that it has not the less its own proper office on that account? Yet we may follow, and seek conformity unto His death; but there was that in His death on the cross which could be His alone. This joyful resurrection the apostle pressed towards. Though he wist not to choose what between the two before, when the need of souls rises before him, he says that he shall live, and is not yet going to die. He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. You may be perfectly sure of an answer when you make known your requests: therefore let it be with thanksgiving. It is a description that might almost do for Christ himself, so high is the standard for those that belong to Christ. They had little enough even to eat. The word he uses for reaching out (epekteinomenos, G1901) is very vivid and is used of a racer going hard for the tape. Himself the striking witness to the contrary, he looked for nothing less in the saints he so dearly loved. "It pleased God," wrote the father, "not to cut him off in his sins. And what is the result? "My joy and crown," "my dearly beloved." He, accordingly, shews more fully, how great the riches of Christ, because we obtain and find all things in him. Separate Line. 4. All of this background that put me in a high standing as far as the law is concerned I counted loss for Christ. The great feast of Purim, which was observed every year with such rejoicing, commemorated the deliverance of which the Book of Esther tells, and the central figure of that story was Mordecai, a Benjaminite. I was circumcised when I was eight days old: I am of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin: I am a Hebrew, born of Hebrew parents. In His name all must bow. They want to tell you that you ought to be prosperous, you ought to be successful, you ought to be living in luxury, you are God's child, you ought to be indulging your flesh. ", And this nearness of Christ I take simply to be the blessed hope here made a practical power. Anastasis sometimes signifies the future state. "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. You know, there are many people in the world tonight who have never had the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord. Their true and constant progress was what the apostle had before his own soul in prayer for them, instead of coolly giving up the saints, as if the new nature must grow feebler day by day as if the things of the world must overcome faith, and the things which are seen outweigh those which are unseen and eternal. Paul, Timothy, Silas (and perhaps Luke) first visited Philippi in Greece during Paul's second missionary journey from Antioch, which . The story of the beginning of that sign is in Genesis 17:9-10. Give me the power," and we are so power-hungry. The apostle cautions the Philippians against judaizing false teachers, and renounces his own former privileges. The righteousness which is of God God's method of justifying sinners through faith in his Son. 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. Will it be said that this is what the apostle felt, and did, and suffered in the freshness of his first acquaintance with Christ? Whence our grace comes--from our being apprehended of Christ Jesus. Faith is the ordained means of actual interest and saving benefit in all the purchase of his blood. That which is holy must never be given to dogs ( Matthew 7:6). He desired not anything for himself, but only what should abound to their account in the day of Jesus Christ. "I want to hang on to the flesh. 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." But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. 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. Paul's use of the words selfishness and conceit suggests three ideas: Rivalry or party spirit must go! Paul fell on the ground, and there the Lord spoke to him and said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Worship God as El Elyon: the Lord Most High. Did he want more for himself? The only boast of the Christian is not in what he has done for himself but in what Christ has done for him. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you. 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. As it was a true though distressing part for Christ to judge religious evil, something akin could not be absent here; but at the same time it was by no means a prominent characteristic of Christ's task here below far from it. Paul said, "No, I came out of that. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. In the days of the early Church it is quite often used to describe martyrs. His yoke is easy, and His burden light. Oh, how honourable, how sweet and precious, to have bonds in Christ! Howard, in every case reference is made to the faith of an individual, never to faith in an individual. This will be, no doubt, at the end of the journey: the faithful win Christ where He is. There were tens of thousands of them in Rome; and in Alexandria there were more than a million. "My desire is to know Him, and to be found in Him." 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.". It was by this name that the Jews called the Gentiles. And now she was in her senior year. John Nelson was one of Wesley's most famous early preachers. But if a man is to be in special relationship with God, something far more is needed than a mark in his body. Hence there are two things that are to be observed here. The fact of being "in Christ," having "put on Christ," and his life being "hidden in Christ" are expressions of his faith in Christ and his relationship to Him; therefore, they will enable him to stand righteous and justified before God in judgment. "Rejoice in the Lord alway." "Your joy," said Jesus, "no one will take from you" ( John 16:22). It was not some sudden fit, if one may so say, nor was it the influence of passing circumstances. All rights reserved worldwide. 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. It is Paul's claim that he knew Judaism at its most intense and even fanatical heat. "Our conversation is in heaven; from whence we wait for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour" for this is the true meaning of it. If this line of interpretation is correct, then the apostle is asserting that the righteousness he possesses is based on Christs faithful obedience to the Father (OBrien 399-400). Why, then, is it so in the next instance? Verse 9. Few preachers would dare to make the appeal with which Paul begins this section. But Paul is willing to follow Jesus to the cross. For Paul here makes a comparison between two kinds of righteousness. Like the song said, "Mercy drops round us are falling, but for the showers we plead." It is a thing more important in practice than many suppose. The Christian awaits the coming of Christ, at which everything will be changed. According to G.A. Who have had more mournful proofs of the danger of putting saints practically in the place of Christ? Hence it is that, although doctrine is sparse, if not almost excluded, nevertheless what little appears comes in as ancillary to the main purpose. the love of Christ everywhere! They regarded circumcision in itself as being enough to set them apart specially for God. Christ was Son of God in a sole and supreme sense. city of refuge which he desires to flee into and be found in. Details Select delivery location In stock. It is not at all as the objects of the gospel, but as having fellowship with it, their hearts bound up and identified with all the trials and difficulties that the gospel was sustaining in its course throughout the world. 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. There is no epistle that so abounds in joy. To that thought he now returns and defines more closely what he means. 10 I want to know Christyes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. The MacArthur New Testament Commentary series continues to be one of today's top-selling commentary series. And so, it is an established righteousness. You run until you ache and you think you can't go anymore, but you keep going. Oh that the Lord might make it true of His own! 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. We do not tire of the foods which are the essentials of life. And, let me observe, it is not merely that Christ is my life. "Beware of evil workers; beware of the concision. There are those who are living after their flesh. Start for FREE. Quite suddenly Paul's accent changes to that of warning. And, therefore, even in circumstances where joy would seem to be impossible and there seem to be nothing but pain and discomfort, Christian joy remains, because not all the threats and terrors and discomforts of life can separate the Christian from the love of God in Christ Jesus his Lord ( Romans 8:35-39). That which men call by this name is really the trial of what flesh is under law much more than experience of Christ. They were bonds in Christ; how then could he be impatient under them? They were going to have the senior prom. Observe here, 1. Hence he says, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." One of the problems of persevering is living long enough to have all kinds of suffering. 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. There is not one of these things but may in itself become the veriest snare; and so much the more dangerous because each looks fair. I love that phrase. But you can always rejoice in the Lord, because He is above circumstances. But she went down to the dime store and picked out the best that she could afford, bought a simplicity pattern. 7 and u the peace of god, v which surpasses all understanding, will Now here we have what is present; so that the passage presents some difficulty to souls because of intermingling the present with the future. Energy is not the best or highest aspect of Christianity. And this puts the doctrine, as far as there is doctrine in the epistle, in a very clear light. Faith is called knowledge, Isaiah 53:11. It is plain, then, that inPhilippians 2:1-30; Philippians 2:1-30 the great spring of power is the love and the glory of Him who came down; who, even when He did so come, went down still lower, where none could accompany Him. This purpose is the greatest of all. . There is, however, a sure and only divine standard: as far as we have attained, our call is to walk in the same path. He was a Pharisee. "Faith is the very opposite of human works; it is the reception of Gods work by those who acknowledge the futility of their own efforts to attain righteousness." (186) For here that saying (187) is admirably in point I had been lost, if I had not been lost. But as the verb , while it has a passive termination, has an active signification, and means to recover what you have voluntarily given up, (as Budaeus shews by various examples,) I have not hesitated to differ from the opinion of others. He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. These he represents as so directly opposed to each other, that they cannot stand together. Dikaiosune ( G1343) is always difficult to translate in Paul's letters. every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11. and every tongue should confess. 10 I want to know Christyes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, or are there mingled ways and mixed motives? I endeavour to get more grace and do more good, and never think I have done enough: If that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." He was totally, completely ostracized by those who were once his compatriots, those whom he once shared with. My actions they may, but not my faith in Him. In affliction, in prison, everywhere. An attempt will be made to discuss the merits of each position. It was seen laid in the grave of Christ. Hence the conflict is never with internal evil, but rather with Satan. How gladly would he be a libation upon the sacrifice of their faith! I was so moved, I was so touched by the Spirit of God upon my life." Let this be your mind, let's walk by these rules. Paul claims that there was no demand of the Law which he did not fulfil. "* Clearly we here look out of the world and into a state to come, when we have the consummation of our hopes and the end of the journey. There are two levels on which we can understand this passage. In other words, "I experienced it thirty years ago, and I had a turn-around in my life, and all of the past legalism and legal relationship with God, and all of those endeavors in my own flesh, the works of my flesh, I counted loss. As Boice explains, it covers most of the major doctrines of the Christian faith and is at the same time extremely practical. Philippians 3:1-11. So he brings before them another remarkable feature of it their fellowship; and this fellowship too with the gospel. Gods love and forgiveness start us on a new plane and guide us in the new path (Robertson 192.). It is worth noting in the passing that Bengel, one of the greatest interpreters of scripture who ever lived, translates this in a different way: "Become fellow-imitators with me in imitating Jesus Christ," but it is far more likely--as nearly all other interpreters are agreed--that Paul was able to invite his friends, not simply to listen to him, but also to imitate him. This has its most weighty place elsewhere; but when it is a question of experience, the end cannot be here. (Read all of Philippians 3) Attaining to the Power of the Resurrection. He was Jehovah, equal with God the Father. Enough has been already said above, before I even knew of his reasoning, to prove how unfounded it is in every point of view. Enemies of the Cross. ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. ( Psalms 69:9). Here Paul rounds upon these Jewish teachers who were seeking to undo his work. They are a burden that cause us to groan ( 2 Cor. Inspirational Bible Verses and Scripture Quotes. She couldn't buy a dress, but she really didn't have much money to buy very good material. And thus the name dog the Jews began to apply to the Gentiles. Is this the life that is practically exercised? And thus it was the power of the Spirit of God that gave him to look out in the midst of all that he passed through day by day, that all, whatever it might be, should be done to Christ, and so too all by Christ, the Holy Ghost working it, so to speak, in his soul to give him simply and settledly in everything that occurred an opportunity of having Christ Himself as the substance of his living and serving, no matter what might come in the course of duty. 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. Why should women expose, themselves? There were not very many Pharisees, never more than six thousand, but they were the spiritual athletes of Judaism. It is not a question of acceptance in Christ. Habitually, indeed throughout this epistle, we find the word " me," and a very different "me" from the "me" of Romans 7:1-25. 2. For his was a heart deeply sensible of love, and consequently he was not one that had sought either to make the saints dependent upon him, and still less did the apostle depend on the saints for anything that was the fruit of grace in them. It is his state and experience every day, as to which his hope was that in nothing he should be ashamed; "but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ. No doubt the new creation is essentially neither male nor female; it is not a race perpetuated in a fleshly way; but all things are of God and in Christ. THE ONLY TRUE CIRCUMCISION ( Php_3:2-3 continued), (iii) Lastly, he calls them, the party of mutilation. Otherwise, the experience is invalidated.I really am not so much interested in what happened to you thirty years ago, twenty years ago, or ten years ago. differently] minded, this also will God reveal to you." 3:1 As for what remains, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. He calls them three things, carefully chosen to throw their claims back upon themselves. BibliaPlus. It is no rule, but an evasion. They were more obedient in his absence than in his presence. As citizens of heaven we keep in communication with our native home. What Does "Inerrant" Mean, and Is the Bible Inerrant? "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." 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. Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary Examples of this construction are in Romans 3:3, "the faithfulness of God," and in Romans 4:12, "the faith of Abraham." The excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.I think that we have to be the most blessed and privileged people in the world. But supposing it possible to be clothed with the righteousness of the law, he would not have it now. Paul in early life depended on his compliance with the laws of God as he understood them, and supposed that he was safe. Better not make them known to men; it is a dangerous snare. It is something that I could have never made for myself, but it was given to me by Lady Bountiful. He has not only put aside religious ceremonies and national status, but he considers that all things in which he might boast are worthless. The basic thought of this passage is the uselessness of Law and the sufficiency of knowing Christ and accepting the offer of God's grace. And they are not really going ahead in life at all, because they are so involved in the past. What the happiness of heaven is: it is to apprehend that for which we are apprehended of Christ. Observe, A Christian's calling is a high calling: it is from heaven, as its original; and it is to heaven in its tendency. He cautions them against judaizing seducers ( ver 1-3) and proposes his own example: and here he enumerates the privileges of his Jewish state which he rejected ( ver 4-8 ), describes the matter of his own choice ( ver 9-16 ), and closes with an exhortation to beware of wicked men, and to follow his example, ver 17-21. Nor is there any ground for the cavil of Papists, that all this must be restricted to ceremonies. 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. Whoever they were, Paul reminds them of one great truth: "Our citizenship," he says, "is in heaven." Is it because he truly is righteous? The effect of their teaching was to take men further away from God instead of to bring them nearer to him. 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. 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. Only we must always walk according to that standard which we have already reached. 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. They had been manifesting their mindful love for the apostle, who on his part was certainly not forgetful of its least token. I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be [not rejoicing here, but] the less sorrowful." Now this righteousness the apostle desired to have, and be found in; and this he says not, as supposing that a person may be found in Christ, and yet not have his righteousness; nor as if he himself had not this righteousness, and an interest in it; but to show his value for it, and his desire to be continually exercising faith on it, and the trust and confidence he placed in it; well knowing that in this he was safe and secure from all condemnation; this would answer for him in a time to come; being found in this he should not be naked nor speechless, and should have a right and an admission into the kingdom and glory of Christ Jesus. He will reach it only on the day when Christ returns and raises the righteous from death. Not having mine own righteousness Here we have a remarkable passage, if any one is desirous to have a particular description of the righteousness of faith, and to understand its true nature. What does Philippians 3:9 mean? And therefore, "whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." I more than anybody else. 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. This is salvation in truth. In Philippians 3:1-21 there is no coming down from glory in the power of divine love, resulting in His exaltation by and for the glory of God the Father after a new sort. What is there that you can rightly plead but Christ's own name? 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. 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