But now the apostle was shut out from every labour apparently. after a flea!" 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. And it is sad when a person is resting in the past, not pressing ahead. However exanastasis seems to be a very unusual word to use to describe the attainment of Christ-like character. WebThe true people of God, whom Paul calls the true circumcision, are not those who have carried out a ceremony to put a mark in their bodies, but those who have received new life from Christ through an inward spiritual change (3:1-3). Hey, wait a minute, Paul; I want to get off at the last stop. 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? He knew well how much they might be tried by the report of his own imprisonment, and no deliverance coming as yet. "For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me. They are out there, there are many of them. Hence he thus opens, "Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown." If I could, I would have done it a long time ago," and looking back I am discouraged of trying to go ahead.Or, on the other hand, a person looks back and glories in their victories of the past, and they are resting on their accolades. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. Oh, how honourable, how sweet and precious, to have bonds in Christ! "For they all seek their own." We can only guess who they may have been. And so, when He is finished with me here, this robe of flesh I will drop and rise to seize the everlasting prize and shout while passing through the air. Why? 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. 3:12-16 Not that I have already obtained this, or that I am already all complete but I press on to try to grasp that for which I have been grasped by Jesus Christ. We need to draw from God, the spring and the only supplier of power that can resist the devil; but, at the same time, that we have the devil to resist in His power is a conviction that may well demand "fear and trembling;" and this, lest in such a conflict we should let in anything of self, which would at once give a handle to the devil. Hence he says, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." The apostle loved to give God's place and value to everything; and here it is the mingling of Christ with the circumstances of every day. True experience is still the great theme which the apostle has in hand here as well as in his own personal history. Because he lives, we shall live also; his victory is our victory. 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. 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. It is not Paul's aim to know about Christ, but personally to know him. To the confession of His Lordship is added "to the glory of God the Father." Hence we see the great importance of this truth. ( Judges 5:14; Hosea 5:8). There is a certain indestructibility in Christian joy; and it is so, because Christian joy is in the Lord. And why should our Lord adopt a correct form to the Sadducees (Luke 20:1-47 repeated inActs 4:1-37; Acts 4:1-37), and Paul an incorrect one to the Philippians? But you can always rejoice in the Lord, because He is above circumstances. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times, 4 Ways the Parable of the Sower Encourages Spiritual Growth. This verb indicates the most intimate knowledge of another person. There is no necessity and where is the epistle that more thoroughly disproves the thought of any necessity? Oh, what a shame. It had been the commandment of God to Abraham: "He that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you" ( Genesis 17:12); and that commandment had been repeated as a permanent law of Israel ( Leviticus 12:3). 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. Because he looks at Jesus, not in His own personal right and glory, where necessarily all must bow, but rather at Him in His official place as Lord the place He has righteously acquired as man. 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. It was so as to the Corinthians; nay, it was not wholly wanting for the Galatians, though that which they allowed imperilled the foundations of grace and faith. It is all judged, and its religious form not least, by Christ "Though," says he, "I might also have confidence in the flesh. In other words, "Here I am, I am chained in prison, but I don't find it hard to write this to you. However, one is correct in understanding that these words express his humble expectation and hope (1 Corinthians 15:20; 2 Corinthians 5:1). and mark them which walk so as ye have us for your ensample [example]. According to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself: This is possible only because the God we serve is omnipotent. There is a sinful forgetting of past sins and past mercies, which ought to be remembered for the exercise of constant repentance and thankfulness to God. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. a. It is used to mean mature in mind and therefore means one who is qualified in a subject as opposed to a mere learner. 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. 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. in sorrow? Impossible that anything done by other saints should turn to one's acceptance any more than what is done by himself The apostle uses salvation throughout his letter to the Philippians (nor is it confined to this scripture only) in the sense of the complete and final triumph over all the power of Satan. Habitually, indeed throughout this epistle, we find the word " me," and a very different "me" from the "me" of Romans 7:1-25. In the context he had been speaking of suffering and dying with Him. Webpresents an easy reading, practical and friendly commentary. 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. Always, we must be able to translate the past experience into the present relationship if it is to be a valid experience at all. i. Thus we see here the power of a risen and a heavenly Christ, not now treated doctrinally as in 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 or 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 and elsewhere, but as that which bears on the Christian for the constant experience of every day. "You remember Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, chapter 5 of Matthew, said, "Except your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven." It is Paul's claim that he knew Judaism at its most intense and even fanatical heat. 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. 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. And He said, "I am Jesus. It was in the body that Christ rose and it is this body which he sanctifies ( 1 Corinthians 6:13 ff.). 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. They helped them, and in that sense "laboured" if you will. The problem with this view is the unusual word used for the resurrection (Gr. So here he says, "I came to that conclusion--and I still think so. The one therefore, I say, is the passive side of the Christian; the other is his activity. They had so much the more to do because Christ had done all for their souls. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. As Paul saw it, the Christian is the athlete of Christ. All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. You will never get into a right relationship with God by your own efforts in keeping the Law. And that he ever was anything but a prisoner there, man at least cannot say. Christ held it forth; nay, more, He was it. 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. 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.". "What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ." Spirit, they said, is altogether good; and matter is altogether evil. Not that all shall be delivered and centred in Him, but that all must bow. Proud member You may be perfectly sure of an answer when you make known your requests: therefore let it be with thanksgiving. Their end is destruction: their god is their belly; that in which they glory is their shame. The things that he had believed to be his glories were in fact quite useless. 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. Philippians 3:4b-14. Whatever you desire, just ask God, insist on God, command God. Observe, Those who think they have grace enough give proof that they have little enough, or rather that they have none at all; because, wherever there is true grace, there is a desire of more grace, and a pressing towards the perfection of grace. He had put all, as it were, into the hands of Christ, who had Himself given him His own comfort about it. Such a notion is unknown to scripture, and revolting to the spiritual mind. Anything I do for myself is a waste of time and effort. 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. Our citizenship. Yet these shall bow, no less than those in heaven, or on earth. Benjamin was the child of Rachel, the well-loved wife of Jacob, and of all the twelve patriarchs he alone had been born in the Promised Land ( Genesis 35:17-18). 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. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." 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. If, then, they really loved him, "If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if there be any comfort of love, any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies," he would venture to seek another proof of it. 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. 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. It is no trouble to me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. There were in the Church at Philippi men whose conduct was an open scandal and who, by their lives, showed themselves to be the enemies of the Cross of Christ. He said he was blameless. Was this all the apostle had to say? 4. This is open to the heart now. WebFor we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit ( Philippians 3:3 ), Paul was constantly emphasizing that the physical rites had no value except there be a He lives a focused life. But there are the things, or if you will, the persons under the earth which can never be delivered. I. Preaching and teaching and studying the side-issues may be attractive, and these have their place, but the fundamental truths can neither be spoken nor heard too often for the safety of our souls. Indeed he esteemed others better than himself. They began with the principle that from the beginning of time there had always been two realities--spirit and matter. Let this be the end of everything; before you get to the end of it, and when you do get to the end of it, rejoice in the Lord.. Paul said, "I have not yet apprehended that for which I was apprehended. Click on the different category headings to find out more. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord our righteousness, Isaiah 45:24; Jeremiah 23:6. Do with them as you will, they still defy you But if you will hand over the conflict to Jesus, He will subdue them; He will bring them under his strong, subjecting hand. Indeed that which had drawn out the epistle was the proof that the trying circumstances of the apostle had but called out their affections. Hence he speaks of the conflict which they once saw to be in him, and now heard to be in him. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is He has a plan for your life now, and we should be as Jesus, who said, "I must be about my Father's business." No one denies this, which is, or ought to be, no new thing for a Christian. But he said those things which were so important to me, those things for which I lived. The words, as they stand in the best MSS., are as follow: , to that resurrection which is of the dead. Epaphroditus was his fellow-servant, and indeed more than that "my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. The tribe of Benjamin had a special place in the aristocracy of Israel. That was a thing which he never forgot. This last is but a confirmation of the same truth. So Paul says that in the Christian life we must forget every past achievement and remember only the goal which lies ahead. I like the power, but I don't like the suffering. It was their view that to keep the Law's countless rules and regulations was to work righteousness. But it is better for you to lose your character, than for Christ through you to lose His; for you are responsible to display the character of Christ. Enough has been already said above, before I even knew of his reasoning, to prove how unfounded it is in every point of view. Alter and Matthaei followed according to their plan the manuscripts before them; but the latter was too good a scholar not to feel the difference, though he appears to impute it to a corrector for the sake of elegance in his second edition. To that thought he now returns and defines more closely what he means. Such is the force of the exhortation. But Paul said. 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. 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. It is a description that might almost do for Christ himself, so high is the standard for those that belong to Christ. And I just dedicated my life completely to the Lord. View Exodus on the Timeline. Oh, grave where is thy victory?" 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. WebPhilippians 2:1-5. But the practical ways and spirit of the Philippians were the living evidence not only of life, but, so to speak, of vigorous health in Christ. Such is the sense of it here. No saints are outside the danger. "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus," feeling, judgment, everything, guarded and governed by this precious peace of God. You run until you ache and you think you can't go anymore, but you keep going. Next follow various exhortations, as to be of the same mind with the apostle in pressing after spiritual and heavenly things, to which he exhorts those that had a greater knowledge of them than others; and who, though otherwise minded, the apostle was persuaded would have, the same revealed to them, Php 3:15, and both he exhorts, according to their different attainments, to walk by the same rule and mind the same thing, Php 3:16, and to be followers of him, and of them that walked after his example, Php 3:17, giving this as a reason, because there were men who walked otherwise, to the grief of him, to the dishonour of Christ, and to their own shame and destruction, whom he describes as sensual and earthly minded men, Php 3:18,19, and to engage them to follow him, and others, and not such persons, he draws a character of them opposite unto them; that whereas the minds of those others were carnal and earthly, their minds were spiritual and heavenly; their conversation was in heaven, and they were waiting for Christ from hence, Php 3:20, and the blessedness they expect from him then, is the resurrection of their bodies, which is illustrated by the efficient cause of it, Christ; the subject of it, their vile bodies, as in this lifts, and in the grave; the exemplar and pattern of it, the glorious body of Christ; and the means by which it will be effected, the energy and power of Christ, who is omnipotent, Php 3:21. This the apostle had his eye upon; this he would attain. Changes will take effect once you reload the page. "Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain" ( Genesis 4:1). 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. There was victory to his faith by the grace of God. No wonder the apostle was grieved to think of differences among such women as these. 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. Here I am, you know, come and I will teach you. I had it made as far as the law was concerned." 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. 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. 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. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. There were tens of thousands of them in Rome; and in Alexandria there were more than a million. Peritemnein ( G4059) means to circumcise; katatemnein means to mutilate, as in Leviticus 21:5, which describes forbidden self-mutilation, such as castration. The supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus shows itself in dependence, and this expresses itself therefore in prayer to God. Whoever they were, Paul reminds them of one great truth: "Our citizenship," he says, "is in heaven." 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." Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith." He says that they had happened rather for the furtherance of the gospel, "so that my bonds in Christ are manifest;" for this is the way in which he looks at it "my bonds in Christ." 12 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. The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. For whom I have suffered the loss of all things ( Philippians 3:8 ). But out of the midst of bitter experience he had learned Christ, as even he had never known Him before. If anyone has reason to think that he has grounds for confidence in his human heritage and attainments, I have more. Already knowing Jesus as his Savior, he now desires to know You can get into a right relationship with God only by taking Jesus Christ at his word, and by accepting what God himself offers to you.". ", Blessed is this confidence in Christ, and wondrous are His ways! To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament. The hope and prospect of it carried him with so much courage and constancy through all the difficulties he met with in his work. 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." Philippians 4:1-23 is founded on both. "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." "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.". In Revelation the word dog stands for those who are so impure that they are debarred from the Holy City ( Revelation 22:15). Has it not been the rock on which many a gallant bark has made shipwreck? I agonizo towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God.Paul said, "Don't you realize that they that run in a race run all, only one receives the prize, so run that you may obtain." But life is more than simply being born into Gods family. Because you can drive a Cadillac, and you can live on Lido Island. This is, accordingly, what flows forth in praise from himself, and in calling out praise from other hearts. "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). All we want is, that the eye of faith be a little open; but it is only Christ before the eye that keeps it open. It is by faith in his blood,Romans 3:25. Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? This filled Paul with sunshine; and he would have others to enjoy the same bright light which the name of Christ cast on every object. There are two chief stages of His humiliation flowing out of His perfect love. Dikaiosune ( G1343) is always difficult to translate in Paul's letters. "That I may win Christ," therefore he says; "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law." This is the more remarkable because it is so intensely practical. To know Christ means for him certain things. This is the great value of Christian experience. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect [would be complete], be thus minded [let this be in your mind] ( Philippians 3:14-15 ): Let this be the same rule for your life. But unfortunately, since then, a lot of those things that they counted loss at that point, they picked back up, so that they are encumbered again. What looks and sounds better than the saints of God? How lovely that even such a man should speak, not merely of his own prayers, but of theirs, turning all to such account. WebPhilippians 2:1-5. But while he was on his way, just before arriving in Damascus about noontime, there came a light from heaven brighter than the noonday sun. The apostle takes up, no doubt, the sweet affections of chapter 2, but then they are strengthened by the energy that Christ seen in glory imparts, as in chapter 3. What then are the signs of that real circumcision? It would be the equivalent in England of saying that he came over with the Normans or in America that he traced his descent to the Pilgrim fathers. "For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him." It describes the man who is going flat out for the finish. Paul does not want his readers to misunderstand what he has just said. (i) He was a Hebrew born of Hebrew parents. what than the ministry of Christ? And so accordingly His servant says here, "If I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour.". [Note: See Gerald B. Stanton, Kept from the Hour, pp. WebIt is consciousness contemplating its riches, counting its gains. Observe, The apostle was as ambitious of being sanctified as he was of being justified. There is always danger of these, and the more so where there is activity among souls. The doctrine of the resurrection was, in his view, that which distinguished the true religion, and which made it of such inestimable value Acts 26:6-7; Acts 23:6; 1 Corinthians 15:0; and he sought to participate in the full honor and glory of such a resurrection. This is certainly what the apostle here puts before these saints. There is no question that there will be differences of rewards at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Corinthians 3:12-15). Because so many times, they say, "Well, you really can't do that. Again and again Paul returns to the thought that when the Christian has to suffer, he is in some strange way sharing the very suffering of Christ and is even filling up that suffering ( 2 Corinthians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 4:10-11; Galatians 6:17; Colossians 1:24). "Yea," said he, "and I count all things but loss." So, the exhortation in the scripture is always that of rejoicing in the Lord. We are undone without a righteousness wherein to appear before God, for we are guilty. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. 287.]. The futility of a relationship with God based on the principle of law. So unbelief interprets, but most assuredly it is wrong. That is what is important. But supposing it possible to be clothed with the righteousness of the law, he would not have it now. But so it is; and thus the food of faith becomes the poison of unbelief. Now he proceeds to give his reason. It is right that the patriot should love his country. Such experience is both a real and a precious boon. It is always the power of Satan that is in view here. So, by the trial and error method, the redoing a lot of the seams and all, and the hem wasn't really straight, but it was a good effort. The idea is that a man's Christian maturity cannot go beyond martyrdom. As he had said elsewhere before, so he says here, "Be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. I hold the record and my name is on the record books, and all." *There is no reasonable doubt that the received text is wrong, followed by the Authorised Version ("of," instead of "from" the dead). Here, my entire life I have never done anything wrong, have been going by the rules, up till now. (iii) It means to be so united with Christ that day by day we come more to share in his death, so that finally we share in his Resurrection. 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