There is no epistle that so abounds in joy. What looks and sounds better than the saints of God? Proud member When God entered into his special covenant with Abraham, circumcision was laid down as its eternal sign. If this be borne in mind a large part of the difficulty that some have found completely disappears. "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.". But you will never know the life of the resurrected Christ until you have experienced the fellowship of the sufferings. While the exact nature of that reward is unclear here, it can generally be understood as a sort of abundance of life. 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. "That I may know him." So what do I do? Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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. Paul claims that not only was he a Jew who had retained his ancestral religion, but he had also devoted his whole life to its most rigorous observance. Christian worship is not a thing of ritual or of the observation of details of the Law; it is a thing of the heart. I might attain unto - I may come to, or may secure this object. This is interesting, for it must mean that Paul had written other letters to the Philippians which have not survived. Instead of this a song of joy and thanks comes from the blessed man of God at Rome; for, as he says here, "Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will. We may request cookies to be set on your device. It is right that the patriot should love his country. He had a work for you to fulfill. Whatever he needed, love is never itself but in unselfish action and suffering. We must think rather of the conflict of the gospel: there was often for all concerned disgrace, and pain, and scorn. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous ( Philippians 3:1 ). Even in the ends of the earth they remained unshakeably Roman. In affliction, in prison, everywhere. 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. 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. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. The way to that fellowship is through righteousness, through the kind of life and spirit and attitude to himself which God desires. Does this content our hearts? The apostle does call for "fear and trembling" on the part of the saints in that chapter; but there is not an atom of dread or doubt in it. That he might be found in him (Philippians 3:9; Philippians 3:9), as the manslayer was found in the city of refuge, where he was safe from the avenger of blood, Numbers 35:25. shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." The one thing that suits is to pursue the glory before him, till he is in the same glory along with Christ. He can lose all things, and he can lose all people, but he can never lose Christ. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Copyright - Enduring Word       |      . The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. Nothing but the righteousness that was of God as its source satisfied him. As he who runs a race never takes up short of the end, but is still making forwards as fast as he can, so those who have heaven in their eye must still be pressing forward to it in holy desires and hopes, and constant endeavours and preparations. WebIt is consciousness contemplating its riches, counting its gains. the dead. ] All rights reserved. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is the efficient cause, for this the apostle had attained to; unless the consummation of that spiritual life, in perfect holiness, should be intended, than which nothing was more desirable by him; nor in a representative sense, for this also he enjoyed in Christ his head, being risen with him, and in him, when he rose from the dead; but in a literal sense and designs not the general resurrection of the just and unjust, which he believed; for he knew that everyone must, and will attain to this, even Pharaoh, Judas, and the worst of men; but the special and particular resurrection of the righteous, the better resurrection, which will be first, and upon the personal coming of Christ, and by virtue of union to him, and in a glorious manner, and to everlasting life and happiness: and when the apostle says, "if by any means" he might attain to this, it is not to be understood as if he doubted of it, which would be inconsistent with his firm persuasion, that nothing should separate him from the love of God, and with his full assurance of faith, as to interest in Jesus Christ; but it denotes the difficulty of attaining it, since through various afflictions and great tribulations a believer must pass, before he comes to it; and also the apostle's earnest desire of it, and strenuous endeavour for it; not caring what scenes of trouble, or sea of sorrow what fiery trials, severe sufferings, or cruel death he went through, so be it he obtained as he believed he should, the glorious and better resurrection; he counted not his life dear to himself, he loved it not unto death, having in view the blissful and happy state after it. The tribe of Benjamin had a special place in the aristocracy of Israel. Close. But it is quite certain that they lived gluttonous and immoral lives and used their so-called Christianity to justify themselves. What a word, and how calculated to make us ashamed! 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. 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. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. Their end is destruction: their god is their belly; that in which they glory is their shame. The apostle's aim in these actings: I press towards the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,Philippians 3:14; Philippians 3:14. It is Christ, and Christ only, that thus disposes of grief and pressure. And so, this body will be changed, and I will receive a new body like His, fashioned like His glorious image, according to that power of the Spirit that raised Him from the dead. And one day when I am sitting, looking up in Jesus' face, just overwhelmed by His glory and love, I will turn to the fellow next to me, and I will say, "I finally have apprehended that for which I was apprehended. But with the Philippians there was increased jealousy for Christ. You see, someone else already tried that and it just doesn't work." John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & that is miserable to God, we can go on delighting in the goodness of God, as well as in its fruits. There is no doubt that Paul is here speaking to the antinomians. 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. She couldn't buy a dress, but she really didn't have much money to buy very good material. It is of great use in the Christian course to keep our eye upon heaven. And there Paul was converted. They identified themselves, therefore, with all who were declaring it throughout the world. No man knew better from personal experience what Jewish religion was at its highest and most demanding. 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. 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. The Gnostics were heretics who tried to intellectualize Christianity and make a kind of philosophy out of it. The disciples found it difficult to handle when Jesus started talking about the suffering that he was to experience, and Peter cried out, "Lord, be that far from thee." What they did seems a much more proper thing, in my judgment, for a woman. It was in the body that Christ rose and it is this body which he sanctifies ( 1 Corinthians 6:13 ff.). They thought they were working good, but in fact they were working evil. 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. He has not attained this "perfection" as is evident from verses 12-16. But Paul said. And they are not really going ahead in life at all, because they are so involved in the past. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. As citizens of heaven we keep in communication with our native home. 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. "And not on him only, but on me also," (what a difference is made when love interprets!) or are there mingled ways and mixed motives? [Note: Saucy, p. The story of the beginning of that sign is in Genesis 17:9-10. But how can this be unless the heart is perfectly at ease as to itself? We shall see the importance of this elsewhere. So tender, so delicate is his sense, that he would not spare what was needful if there had been any want of thought, but at the same time he hastens to make whatever apology love could suggest. He has written His word not to perplex, but to enlighten. This glorious resurrection, and perhaps peculiarly glorious in the case of martyrs, is that to which St. Paul aspired. He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. "Well, where did you place?" This is the unfailing secret of it all the true source of humility in service. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. The use of the preposition ek twice in the phrase, the first usage being in exanastasin, suggests a resurrection out from a group not resurrected. Because suddenly, you see, I am on a little spiritual pinnacle, and I can begin now to judge everybody else who doesn't live by the same standards of holiness by which I live. Is this the life that is practically exercised? The Jews would be quite sure that they were workers of righteousness. Soul (14+ yrs) CY (11-14 yrs) Epic Explorers (kids) Universal Editions; Promotional materials; Translations; Booklets and tracts; Books; Shop by Type; Evangelistic Books; So he reaches forth, epekteinomenos--stretched himself forward, bearing towards his point: it is expressive of a vehement concern. Teleios ( G5046) in Greek has a variety of interrelated meanings. I speak of Christian love, of course. 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. You can have these things of your flesh, you know. 26 December 2021 AM Philippians 3:13-14 Scott Childs. 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. Jesus roamed the earth as an outcast, didn't seek to possess any things of the earth. Hence he says, "We look for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour: who shall change our vile. 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. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. the scope of the context) is as decidedly for as the weightiest external witnesses. Suddenly upon meeting Christ, all that he counted as important to him up to that point in his life, all of his religious credits, all of the religious background, he said lost for Christ. They are enemies to the cross of Christ, not to Christ Himself, but to that aspect of suffering with Him,". Himself the striking witness to the contrary, he looked for nothing less in the saints he so dearly loved. 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. We may see the moral harmony of that lot with his testimony, and how suitable it seems that he, who was above all men identified with the gospel of the glory of Christ, should be a prisoner, and nothing but a prisoner in Rome. II. They contributed to his. Then, as to our practical every-day expectation, "the Lord is at hand." The reason why we can all say it tonight is because we are all here. Paul claims not only to be a pure-blooded Jew but one who still spoke Hebrew. Father, I would that those who You have given to me, to be with me here, would also share with me in the Kingdom. Unless there were long periods when he never put pen to paper there must have been many more letters which are now lost. THE ATTAINMENTS OF PAUL ( Php_3:4-7 continued). May it be so with us! " Pastor Mark Schlamann. 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. Wherever he taught, the Jews followed him and tried to undo his teaching. 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. "The prize" is "the crown of righteousness" (1Co 9:24; 2Ti 4:8). They turned Christian liberty into unchristian licence and gloried in giving their passions full play. In fact, he had gone beyond. The Lord Jesus not only comes down into the place of servant in love among men, but goes down into the last fortress of the enemy's power. That he might know Christ (Philippians 3:10; Philippians 3:10): That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings. They shared the conflict of the gospel; they partook of the reproach that covered those who preached it. WebPhilippians 3:11-14 King James Version 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Practical Bible study on Philippians 3:1-11. Paul said. Through the wonderful sight of the love of Christ, this answered the question to his faith, leaving all circumstances entirely aside. Nevertheless, energy there is, and this assuredly judges what is contrary to Christ. "That I may win Christ," therefore he says; "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law." Paul said, "I have not yet apprehended that for which I was apprehended. There would be no question of his being a part of such a resurrection." Webpresents an easy reading, practical and friendly commentary. the love of Christ everywhere! because he. In Revelation the word dog stands for those who are so impure that they are debarred from the Holy City ( Revelation 22:15). He lives a focused life. The Philippian congregation was generally a wonderful group of people. Knowing him here is believing in him: it is an experimental knowledge of the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, or feeling the transforming efficacy and virtue of them. Thus the true bearing of the passage is, that from the first the eye of faith is fixed steadily on the end of the journey. "My joy and crown," "my dearly beloved." It was a dynamic power which operated in the life of the individual Christian. 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. And, let me observe, it is not merely that Christ is my life. It is not Paul's aim to know about Christ, but personally to know him. 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. advert as at Romans 4:16, and elsewhere to the state of the persons in question, that state or kind of resurrection unto life of those who have died in the Lord, and whose resurrection will be a resurrection unto life and glory, their bodies being raised incorruptible, and both body and soul united for ever with the Lord. When that event takes place God will snatch Christians out from among the spiritually dead (unbelievers). And as he headed out towards Damascus, he was going out with threatenings of murder against the believers. So he says here, "For the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung." It is interesting that Paul turns it around and uses it of those teachers that would seek to put the believers back under the law. So he could settle now about his life and death. WebPhilippians 3 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. A prisoner he was; and such is all that Scripture tells about him there. Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. Notwithstanding, it has been already explained that the man has a relative place as the image and glory of God, being set in a remarkable position between God and the woman in matters of outward decorum. He says, "All my life I have been trying to get into a right relationship with God. When they returned from the exile, it was from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah that the nucleus of the reborn nation was formed ( Ezra 4:1). Looking to the Lord, as it is the life-breath of love, so it adds to the value of brotherly kindness in its season. You look at a Bible text on the screen. They really mean, this is worth my while, a well-known phrase in Latin too. He desired to win Christ; and an unspeakable gainer he would reckon himself if he had but an interest in Christ and his righteousness, and if Christ became his Lord and his Saviour: That I may win him; as the runner wins the prize, as the sailor makes the port he is bound for. And now she was in her senior year. The expression intimates that we have need to strive for him and after him, and that all is little enough to win him. The internal evidence ( i.e. Many hence have wrongly gathered that they were preachers. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ ( Philippians 3:7 ). We are kept by his mighty power through faith unto salvation,1 Peter 1:5. "Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation" (he would turn it again to practical profit as to others): "because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.". We know well that as men have sarcastically said, gratitude is a kind of fishing for fresh favours. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. Paul had discovered that a right relationship with God is based not on Law but on faith in Jesus Christ. 1Pe 5:4, "a crown of glory that fadeth not away." What you cannot do, He can. (Meyer), 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. Every man is grasped by Christ for some purpose; and, therefore, every man should all his life press on so that he may grasp that purpose for which Christ grasped him. When Christ laid hold of us, it was to bring us to heaven; and to apprehend that for which he apprehended us is to attain the perfection of our bliss. Or it alludes to a judicial appearance; so we are to be found of our Judge in peace, 2 Peter 3:14. Now, Paul was a classic example of what Jesus was referring to. As far as he was concerned, therefore, why could he choose? What is right and what is wrong? He looks upon himself to be in a state of imperfection and trial: Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect,Philippians 3:12; Philippians 3:12. In common language it was popularly derived from kusi (compare G2965) ballomena ( G906) , which means that which is thrown to the dogs; and in medical language it means excrement, (dung, as the King James Version translates it). 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. To that thought he now returns and defines more closely what he means. "I want to know him; I want to know him completely." But this is not the character of Christian joy. His desire above all was that Christ's name might go forth. 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. Let me think of myself as one that is serving Him (oh, how feebly and failingly!) There is nothing so unaffectedly humble as real faith, and, above all, that character of faith which lives on Christ, and which consequently lives Christ. The lad had found a joy which not even the scaffold could take away. 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. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. And all of my good record down the tube and the righteousness is erased. He is one who has his joy exclusively from and in Christ. Is there the struggle of the old with the appearance sometimes of the new? Breaking Down the Key Parts of Philippians 3:14. (i) He sets down what we might call the indestructibility of Christian joy. The NIV is more paraphrastic, translating a Greek word with any number of English synonyms to make the English translation more readable. Not the passive side of the Christian as being in the world, but the active comes before us. "Our conversation is in heaven; from whence we wait for the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour" for this is the true meaning of it. 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. Another, less likely, possibility is that Paul meant faithful Christians will experience a better resurrection than unfaithful believers. So, the exhortation in the scripture is always that of rejoicing in the Lord. And so they go back to the past, and they pick up the failures of the past, and they are discouraged to try anything in the future. ), . The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord our righteousness, Isaiah 45:24; Jeremiah 23:6. 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). 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). But having deigned to become a servant, He goes down lower still. It is part of the verb ginoskein ( G1097) , which almost always indicates personal knowledge. It was not a reference to a kindly family pet, but it was a reference to those mean wild dogs that roamed Israel. Because this is going to bring him an estrangement from his cronies back in Jerusalem that he has been going around with.Paul is writing this epistle to the Philippians some thirty years after the Damascus road experience. 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). He will reach it only on the day when Christ returns and raises the righteous from death. He was born and circumcised a Jew and trained to be a zealous law-abiding Pharisee, but he found that trying to do good by keeping laws could not make the guilty sinner acceptable to God. What he means is: "Anyone who has come to be mature in the faith and knows what Christianity is must recognize the discipline and the effort and the agony of the Christian life." iv. This is what gives force to our affections, and rivets them on Christ. 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. 3:1 As for what remains, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. The excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.I think that we have to be the most blessed and privileged people in the world. Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. He has not yet reached perfection, regardless of what the Judaizing opponents may have claimed for themselves. In 1756 a letter came to John Wesley from a father who had a prodigal son. Hence he thus opens, "Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown." Christ was "without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation." Paul has already spoken of the surpassing value of the knowledge of Christ. 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." This was now among the last outpourings of the apostle's heart, as he himself had almost arrived at the end of his active labours, if indeed it was not absolutely their end. (i) It means to know the power of his Resurrection. *There is no reasonable doubt that the received text is wrong, followed by the Authorised Version ("of," instead of "from" the dead). 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