This explains the unusual word Paul employed that appears only here in the Greek New Testament. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord our righteousness, Isaiah 45:24; Jeremiah 23:6. That is what is important. ( 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 ), When Jesus comes again, we will each experience a metamorphosis. The NIV translators simply translated it "the resurrection from the dead.". Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. 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 ( Psalms 69:9). The one therefore, I say, is the passive side of the Christian; the other is his activity. There would be no question of his being a part of such a resurrection." "All that time, Mr. Wesley and I lay on the floor: he had my greatcoat for a pillow, and I had Burkitt's notes on the New Testament for mine. We do not speak of standing in Christ now, but of their allotted services. While the exact nature of that reward is unclear here, it can generally be understood as a sort of abundance of life. "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). It is not the dread of losing the Saviour of their souls, but because they felt for His name; "for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure." It expresses expectation. Philippi was a Roman colony. Then, as to our practical every-day expectation, "the Lord is at hand." "I make this judgment of the case; I thus reason with myself." WebPhil 3:10-11 (NIV) In our verses for today, the apostle Paul yearns for an experiential knowledge of Christ Jesus. The summons of the writer of Deuteronomy is: "Circumcise the foreskin of your heart and be no longer stubborn" ( Deuteronomy 10:16). WebThe allusion is to the white line, or mark, which the runners in the Olympic games made up to, and to which he that came first received the prize; and by which the apostle intends the Lord Jesus Christ, who is ( skopov) , "the scope", or "mark", of all the thoughts, purposes, and counsels of God, to which they all aim, and in which they all Their end is destruction: their god is their belly; that in which they glory is their shame. Not that all shall be delivered and centred in Him, but that all must bow. THE WORTHLESSNESS OF THE LAW AND THE VALUE OF CHRIST ( Php_3:8-9 ). "lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. I am rejoicing here, in the Lord." This will be, no doubt, at the end of the journey: the faithful win Christ where He is. And that is in the glorious liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that relationship that we can now have with God apart from the law. i. But she went down to the dime store and picked out the best that she could afford, bought a simplicity pattern. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. It was God the Father that made Him Lord and Christ, but God the Father never made Him Jehovah. Philippians 3:1. This understanding of exanastasin would point to the resurrection of believers that will result in Christians rising from among the unbelieving dead, those who are dead in their trespasses and sins. The tribe of Benjamin had the place of honour in Israel's battle-line, so that the battle-cry of Israel was: "After thee, O Benjamin!" Here we see One who is in glory, and on whom the eye of the believer is set; and accordingly the judgment of evil is from the side of heaven. They were those who denied that there was any law at all in the Christian life. (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. Again and again he speaks of it ( Acts 22:2-21; Acts 26:4-23; 1 Corinthians 15:8-10; Galatians 1:13). It is all judged, and its religious form not least, by Christ "Though," says he, "I might also have confidence in the flesh. "This shall turn," says he, "to my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." This is the great value of Christian experience. And so yes, I want to know the power of the resurrection, but if I am to experience that, I have got to, first of all, experience the fellowship of the suffering, the death on the cross, the death to my old self, my old nature. WebPhilippians 3:11-14 King James Version 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Don't you know that Christians don't have to suffer? 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 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). (ii) As far as the Law went, he was a trained Pharisee. So, let this be your mind, let this be your attitude, follow me. 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). To me," may each say truly, "to live is Christ.". There were those who distorted the principle of Christian liberty. And if anyone is otherwise minded in any way, this too God will reveal to him. [Note: Saucy, p. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. He "became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 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. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. 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. This he must wish for them, if he wished them well. They may have been Gnostics. He has not only put aside religious ceremonies and national status, but he considers that all things in which he might boast are worthless. Fee's commentary on Paul's letter to the church in Philippi. He is my Lord." WebPhilippians 3:611 The New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. For 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 corresponding spiritual experience, that the circumcision of the flesh accounted for nothing. Here and there at strategic military centres the Romans set down their colonies. This is illustrated in several instances. They thought they were working good, but in fact they were working evil. No man knew better from personal experience what Jewish religion was at its highest and most demanding. However exanastasis seems to be a very unusual word to use to describe the attainment of Christ-like character. 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. You see for yourself whether the meaning is really there. J. And He said, "I am Jesus. Yea [not and], I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labour with me." He had papers from the high priest that empowered him to throw in prison those who believed in Jesus Christ. When the Lord apprehended us, and you can all look back in your own life to that point where the Lord apprehended you, where He said, "I have chosen you and ordained you that you should be my disciple," and we turn to follow Jesus Christ. I mean, if you can be saved by works, if you can be saved by your own efforts, if you can be saved by keeping the law, then Paul said, "Hey, I am ahead of the pack. 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. His worship is love of God and service of men. And he answered, "Who art thou, Lord that I may serve thee?" He provides his own life as an example to the Philippians to follow as opposed to the false teachers. The true Christian worships God, not with outward forms and observances, but with the true devotion and the real sincerity of his heart. and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. It is the only place in Scripture where the phrase means, not simply the righteousness of God in point of character, but the righteousness of God in point of source. They were looking for the eternal kingdom of God. Why should such as they face the unmannerly officials that took advantage of the imperial government to treat with injury those identified with the gospel? We are reminded that Paul wrote these words to strengthen and encourage a community he loved and who were already doing well in their life in Christ (see Philippians 1:3-11). 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. But he said he cast that over for the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Timothy shared the unselfishness of the apostle's heart. The words that Paul used seem to indicate that he was thinking of a resurrection from among those who were dead. Hey, wait a minute, Paul; I want to get off at the last stop. This is the unfailing secret of it all the true source of humility in service. So what do I do? And is there not evidently a path of unobtrusiveness (for the veil or sign of power on the woman's head is no vain figure) which most befits a woman? He forgot himself in the gospel. This epistle is therefore eminently instructive to those who could not have an apostle with them. (iii) As far as zeal went, he had been a persecutor of the Church. "How can they say they are a child of God? Let your moderation go along with it, because along with this joy there might be a certain enthusiastic spirit that would hinder calm judgment. Paul had discovered that a right relationship with God is based not on Law but on faith in Jesus Christ. When God does not interpose, men are apt to allow reflections and reasonings. I must, first of all, set the standard: what constitutes righteousness? And so, too, he could now read and interpret all things in that bright light around him. Christ held it forth; nay, more, He was it. That is to say, he will never glory in any of his achievements or use them as an excuse for relaxation. Reason and sense are out of the question, though reason must reject a creature's becoming God. 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). With all of my efforts I could never come up to that. Impossible that He could be made Jehovah. 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. 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. 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. Why, it was gain. "Not having my own righteousness, which is of the law; not thinking that my outward observances and good deeds are able to atone for my bad ones, or that by setting the one over against the other I can come to balance accounts with God. In effect Paul is saying that the Christian must forget all that he has done and remember only what he has still to do. It was a necessary duty sometimes as things are on the earth, but nothing more; and so it is still. Was this all the apostle had to say? A better translation would be "if somehow" (NASB margin) or "and so, somehow" (NIV). 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. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord ( Philippians 3:1 ). This construction is probably insignificant, but perhaps Paul is distinguishing the resurrection of the body from the spiritual resurrection that occurs at baptism. The verb katavtao ("attain") means to come to, to arrive at, or to attain to something. The hope of the Christian is that the day will come when his humanity will be changed into nothing less than the divinity of Christ, and when the necessary lowliness of mortality will be changed into the essential splendour of deathless life. 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. According to Jewish belief, circumcision was ordained upon Israel as sign and symbol that they were the people with whom God had entered into a special relationship. I mean, you have got to give it every effort, working through pain, beyond the pain threshold. From one point of view it looked as if Christianity was a grim job. He was Jehovah, equal with God the Father. Energy is not the best or highest aspect of Christianity. And the righteousness is accounted to me by my faith in Him. With us it is far otherwise; and only as we live on Christ do we remove, as it were, from the enemy's hand that which would furnish him abundant occasion. (i) He says that he is trying to grasp that for which he has been grasped by Christ. 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? You may be perfectly sure of an answer when you make known your requests: therefore let it be with thanksgiving. 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. WebPhilippians 3 Leaving Law and Pressing On to Jesus A. But then, worse than that, this judgmental spirit. 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. Faith is the ordained means of actual interest and saving benefit in all the purchase of his blood. May it be so with us! " And what is the result? "The one preach Christ of contention supposing to add affliction to my bonds: but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. There is no epistle in the New Testament which gives so little space to the development of. ", "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." They weren't looking for a place, and so they roamed the earth, as outcast, not possessing of the earth. 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. 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? He did feel it. 661.] ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before ( Philippians 3:13 ), We haven't seen anything yet. There are two Greek verbs which are very like each other. She laid the thing out, carefully cut it out, but she really had never sewn anything before. Strange way of God! Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. Dr. S. T. Bloomfield indeed (Addit. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Moreover the term "out-resurrection" seems to stress separation from others at the time of resurrection rather than separation from others following resurrection. I am crucified with Christ, now I can experience the power of the resurrected life. It was not a reference to a kindly family pet, but it was a reference to those mean wild dogs that roamed Israel. We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. The apostle had his heart upon heaven as his happiness: If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead,Philippians 3:11; Philippians 3:11. But it gives us also the effect of Christ in the saints eventually of Paul himself, of Timothy, of Epaphroditus, and indeed of the Philippian saints. 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. Because he lives, we shall live also; his victory is our victory. And having determined then what is right and what is wrong, I may then seek to always do that which is right. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. What the apostle's actings were under this conviction. (1-2) Warning against the influence of legalistic And with a lot of people, there is just a lot of bad experiences in the past. It was surely the best that she could do. Resurrection -- If "raised" with Christ in baptism, we have a picture of also being "raised" at the resurrection. Such is the thought that the apostle had before his soul of that which became the Christian. He says that the Lord will circumcise their hearts to make them love him ( Deuteronomy 30:6). 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. If then, matter is essentially evil, the body is essentially evil and will remain evil whatever you do with it. "Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain" ( Genesis 4:1). In point of fact the Ishmaelites could trace their descent to Abraham, for Ishmael was Abraham's son by Hagar; the Edomites could trace their descent to Isaac, for Esau, the founder of the Edomite nation, was Isaac's son; but it was the Israelites alone who could trace their descent to Jacob, whom God had called by the name of Israel. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. For there are many who behave in such a way--I have often spoken to you about them, and I do so now with tears--that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ. This chapter then looks for the working of the gracious feelings of Christ Himself in the Christian individually, showing us, first, the fulness of them all in Christ in contrast with the first Adam. The moment you look at what He is made, then it is to the glory of Him who thus exalted Him. "For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state." It is incumbent upon us, as Christians, to rise out of our despondencies. Paul does not want his readers to misunderstand what he has just said. What is right and what is wrong? "It pleased God," wrote the father, "not to cut him off in his sins. WebPhilippians 3:14 ESV I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Paul said, "No, I came out of that. And so accordingly His servant says here, "If I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour.". He therefore puts all his energy into his efforts to reach this goal, just as a runner strains every muscle to reach the finishing line and gain the prize (12-14).Mature Christians will have the attitude to life that Paul has just outlined. The trouble is not that of seeing its meaning; the trouble is that of finding one English word which covers all it includes. And so Paul says, "Beware of those who would mutilate your body, for we are of those who are circumcised in the spirit." All believers will be resurrected and have joy forever. But such things as I could humanly reckon as profits, I came to the conclusion were all loss for the sake of Jesus Christ. When God entered into his special covenant with Abraham, circumcision was laid down as its eternal sign. It is something that I could have never made for myself, but it was given to me by Lady Bountiful. 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. Paul says, "You Jews think that you are circumcised; in point of fact, you are only mutilated.". I had it made as far as the law was concerned." The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. It is the proof that his promise to be with us always to the end of the world is true. There was the very reverse in Paul's case. Oh, what a shame. He is regarded as the true adversary, working, of course, by human means; but none the less is it his power. We worship God in the spirit.Jesus said, "God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.". 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. All human achievement had to be laid aside, in order that he might accept the free grace of Christ. It is Paul's claim that he knew Judaism at its most intense and even fanatical heat. The things that happened to him he could therefore judge calmly and clearly. (ii) Our only boast is in Jesus Christ. It is not achieved by any man but given by God; not won by works but accepted in trust. Does he question the assurance of his salvation? 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. You will never get into a right relationship with God by your own efforts in keeping the Law. It is not that you have failed, perhaps, or broken down in some particular. And so the rule of the Christian life is: forgetting those things which are behind, and pressing for those things which are before, or reaching for those things which are before, pressing towards the mark. and have no confidence in the flesh ( Philippians 3:3 ). 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." This separates from all, and judges the best of man to be dung, as the former conforms the heart after His love. and here I am in my little pompous righteous throne, judging everybody else who isn't living by my standards. In His name all must bow. Joy should be the normal state of the Christian. But, it might be argued, that was a snap decision, perhaps later to be regretted and reversed. It is the imbuing of the Christian with that which is life everlasting, but the life that he is now living by "the faith of the Son of God, who loved him and gave himself for him." Let us merely take up a single point of the primary ground of fitness for fellowship, which is often a difficulty with the saints. If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it. 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. So, it is rather tragic, because these people are opposed to the life of sacrifice, self-denial, and yet, that is the first step that Jesus said was necessary to be a disciple of His; you have got to deny yourself and take up your cross and follow Him.And Paul said, "Follow me; you have me as your example. So, then, Paul is saying, "I found the Law and all its ways of no more use than the refuse thrown on the garbage heap to help me to get into a right relationship with God. He was totally, completely ostracized by those who were once his compatriots, those whom he once shared with. And they are not really going ahead in life at all, because they are so involved in the past. We love him because he first loved us,1 John 4:19. He knew that the only way to peace was to abandon the way of human achievement and accept the way of grace. WebPhilippians 3:11. They really mind the earthly things. They were more obedient in his absence than in his presence. WebBible Commentaries; Philippians 3:1-11; Philippians 3:1-11. The cross was essential and necessary for Him to experience the power of the resurrection. The lad was condemned to death for his misdeeds; and the father's letter goes on: "His peace increased daily, till on Saturday, the day he was to die, he came out of the condemned-room, clothed in his shroud, and went into the cart. All here below was plunged under the sentence of death through Adam's sin; and God's word could but seal it till redemption. As the Christian has died with Christ, been buried with Him, been raised with Him, and now walks with Him, he will also be glorified together with Him. 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. 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? 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. Who have had more palpable witness that service may become the object rather than Christ? Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory." It shows us grace practically in different measures and forms. 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. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. There is a pun in the Greek which is not transferable to English. If any other" carrying on the same thought of the flesh "if any other man thinketh that he hath matter of trust in the flesh, I more. Because He was interested in the heavenly kingdom. 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." They were rather miserable, but that does not stop you from rejoicing in the Lord. "I want to know him; I want to know him completely." (i) We worship in the Spirit of God; or, we worship God in the Spirit. The manner, too, in which these things happened seemed to make all as remote as possible from furthering the gospel; but here again he brings in Christ. 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. Again, Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended (Philippians 3:13; Philippians 3:13), ou logizomai. When the Jews wished to stress their special relationship to God in its most unique sense it was the word Israelite that they used. "And the fellowship of his sufferings" again and certainly a present thing, not relating to heaven. 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. 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. And he said, "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus." At any rate they endured the conflicts of the gospel in its earlier days at Philippi. As he went on, the cheerfulness and composure of his countenance were amazing to all the spectators." WebPhilippians 2:1-5. Pastor Mark Schlamann. Their sympathies, drawn out by the afflictions of the apostle in his work, were the workings of the Holy Spirit in their souls at least the instincts of a life that was of Christ, and that judged in view of Him, and not according to appearances. He persecuted the church. Only we must always walk according to that standard which we have already reached. Abraham and those saints of the Old Testament, the scripture said, confessed that they were just strangers and pilgrims on this earth, that they were looking for the city which hath foundations whose maker and builder is God. THE ONLY TRUE CIRCUMCISION ( Php_3:2-3 continued), (iii) Lastly, he calls them, the party of mutilation. 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