Webpresents an easy reading, practical and friendly commentary. doctrine as this to the Philippians. And yet, that is what God has imparted to me through faith, my faith that He has given to me, in Jesus Christ.Paul goes on. And observe, too, that the apostle felt the value of others' prayers. He "became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. How rich and full he was of the goodness of the God he had proved so long and could recommend so well! How can they say . This separates from all, and judges the best of man to be dung, as the former conforms the heart after His love. Sweet and wondrous word to say that Christ is our life; but the question is, how are we living? The Bible teaches that God will resurrect all people, believers and unbelievers, if they have died (e.g., Daniel 12:2; Matthew 22:29-32; Luke 20:37-38; John 6:39-40; John 6:44; John 6:54; John 11:25; Acts 4:2; Acts 17:18; Acts 23:6; Acts 24:15; Hebrews 6:2; Revelation 20:4-6; Revelation 20:13). It is Christ, and Christ only, that thus disposes of grief and pressure. "You know, it is what I used to be, what I used to do. 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. Wednesday of Fifth Sunday in Lent Our Savior/Redeemer Pettibone/Woodworth, ND: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 cold and nakednessbesides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches" (2 Cor. They are stagnating now. . 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. It is of great use in the Christian course to keep our eye upon heaven. I had it made as far as the law was concerned." And they are not really going ahead in life at all, because they are so involved in the past. The tribe of Benjamin had a special place in the aristocracy of Israel. "Let your moderation be known unto all men. With Him you will be right about the gospel, right about the church, right about doctrine, walk, and service. It seems the church of the Philippians, though a faithful and flourishing church, was disturbed by the judaizing teachers, who endeavoured to keep up the law of Moses, Here was a picture the Philippians could understand. So he reaches forth, epekteinomenos--stretched himself forward, bearing towards his point: it is expressive of a vehement concern. Press On! "Laboured" gives a wrong sense. Oh, it is a blessed thing, that in the midst of the sorrows of this world, the Holy Spirit knows how thus to blend the name of Christ, as the sweetest balm, with the sorrow, however bitter, and to make the very memory of the grief pleasant because of Christ, who deigns to let Himself into it all. "For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ." It is not only his reckoning in the first fervour of love for the Saviour. You watch his pen draw out meaning. Paul has just said that he came to the conclusion that all his Jewish privileges and attainments were nothing but a total loss. (ii) To that end Paul says two things. In fact, I think sometimes it is impossible to rejoice in circumstances. 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. NASB I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. If then, matter is essentially evil, the body is essentially evil and will remain evil whatever you do with it. None can have interest or benefit by it but those who come off from confidence in themselves, and are brought heartily to believe in him. This, carefully remember, does not mean forgetting sins. "I want to hang on to the flesh. "The out-resurrection is a special reward which only faithful believers will receive. 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. ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead ( Philippians 3:10-11 ). Their happy and bright state in Christ did not dim their fellowship with the gospel. They were those who denied that there was any law at all in the Christian life. Whoever they were, Paul reminds them of one great truth: "Our citizenship," he says, "is in heaven." This counting on the Lord the apostle might have even where things were wrong. So he brings before them another remarkable feature of it their fellowship; and this fellowship too with the gospel. I. 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 And they were kind to her, they said, "Oh, that is nice," but they did notice the imperfections in it. Thus we know how on approaching Rome Paul was lifted up and comforted, as he saw those who came to greet him. Not the passive side of the Christian as being in the world, but the active comes before us. The word signifies the resurrection in general, both of the just and unjust; may signify that of the blessed only. In fact, he had gone beyond. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. 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. You will never get into a right relationship with God by your own efforts in keeping the Law. Through the wonderful sight of the love of Christ, this answered the question to his faith, leaving all circumstances entirely aside. We must think rather of the conflict of the gospel: there was often for all concerned disgrace, and pain, and scorn. But "that in nothing I shall be ashamed." 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. He is forgetting the things which are behind. The apostle had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. No wonder the apostle was grieved to think of differences among such women as these. (i) He sets down what we might call the indestructibility of Christian joy. Here the King James Version is dangerously misleading. should not of itself have the same sense as that conveyed, with more propriety of expression (and for that reason likely to be adopted in the early Uncial MSS. He and Wesley carried out a mission in Cornwall, near Land's End, and Nelson tells about it. Thus the two things are repeated the past judgment and the present power: "and do count them but dung, that I may, win Christ." Paul finishes with the Christian hope. Christian worship is not a thing of ritual or of the observation of details of the Law; it is a thing of the heart. "Rejoice in the Lord alway." Such was the apostle's faith. Thus the difference between reconciliation and subjection is manifest. Much akin to Pauls straining toward what is ahead; this racers concentration on I can't believe what they did to me. For his sake I have had to undergo a total abandonment of all things, and I count them as nothing better than filth fit for the refuse heap, that I may make Christ my own, and that it may be clear to all that I am in him, not because of any righteousness of my own, that righteousness whose source is the Law, but because of the righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, the righteousness whose source is God and whose basis is faith. Philippians 3:1114: Can I Really Have Assurance? 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). Oh, how honourable, how sweet and precious, to have bonds in Christ! Oh, what a shame. With us the dog is a well-loved animal, but it was not so in the East in the time of 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). So when Paul uses the word in Php_3:12 , he is saying that he is not by any means a complete Christian but is for ever pressing on. He can lose all things, and he can lose all people, but he can never lose Christ. Did he want more for himself? 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. "That I may win Christ, and be found in him" where not a vestige of self remains, but all will be Christ, and nothing but Christ. 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? There was another party of Gnostics who held a different kind of doctrine. Remembering that, we try to paraphrase this passage and to set down, not so much what Paul says, as what was in his mind. (ii) As far as the Law went, he was a trained Pharisee. Re 2:10, "crown of life." But our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, for he will refashion the body which we have in this state of our humiliation and make it like his own glorious body, by the working of that power of his whereby he is able to subject all things to himself. Love does not calculate these costs and dangers, but goes calmly forward, come what will, trouble, scorn, or death. How heartily the Germans sing of the dear old fatherland; but they cannot, with all their Germanic patriotism, they cannot beat the genial glow of the Britons heart, when he thinks of his fatherland too. 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. "Let your moderation be known unto all men," strengthened by this consolatory truth, "the Lord is at hand. I might attain unto - I may come to, or may secure this object. And so Paul says, "Beware of those who would mutilate your body, for we are of those who are circumcised in the spirit." At the same time, God's word is to me plain as to the manner in which the gifts are to be exercised. I have not yet accomplished that purpose. It is right that the patriot should love his country. Let me press this, because alas! Himself the striking witness to the contrary, he looked for nothing less in the saints he so dearly loved. For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body [or our body of humiliation], that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself ( Philippians 3:20-21 ). This was very dear to him, let God use whom he would. Differences there may be among the saints, and especially when we come to the question of experience. You can have these things of your flesh, you know. He must be conformed to his Master in all things; and this was one of them. Dikaiosune ( G1343) is always difficult to translate in Paul's letters. 87-88; and S. Lewis Johnson Jr., "The Out-Resurrection from the Dead," Bibliotheca Sacra 110 (1953):139-46; and Lightner, "Philippians," p. 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." Would God in this case let His servant be so long kept away from the gospel or the church? As a man knows the bliss of parental or wedded love only by having it, or as he knows the taste of wine only by drinking it, or the glory of music only by hearing it, and the brightness of the day only by seeing it, so we know Christ only by winning Him. He provides his own life as an example to the Philippians to follow as opposed to the false teachers. The Christian places his confidence only in the mercy of God and in the love of Jesus Christ. And that he ever was anything but a prisoner there, man at least cannot say. It can be a very dangerous thing.On the other hand, I can recognize that I have a problem with sin, with myself, with my flesh. InMatthew 23:1-39; Matthew 23:1-39 we have woe upon woe pronounced upon scribes and Pharisees, and so it is here. Hence it may be remarked that in the epistle to the Philippians it is not a question of lusts of the flesh; the flesh is not so much as named here, except in a religious way; not in its gross sins, as man would judge, but in its pretensions to religion. i. Jesus was not merely resuscitated from the dead in the same body. They began with the principle that from the beginning of time there had always been two realities--spirit and matter. No; it is practical. And all of my good record down the tube and the righteousness is erased. "Being confident," he therefore says, "of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work will perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ, even as it is meet for me to think this of you all." There is but one title, there can be no sufficient ground but the name of Christ Christ known and confessed in the Holy Ghost; and where He is simply before us, the progress is most real, if not always easy and sensible. Because so many times, they say, "Well, you really can't do that. 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. There were tens of thousands of them in Rome; and in Alexandria there were more than a million. I believe, therefore, that , especially if be supposed to be fetched (as Dr. B. says) from , is incompatible with , the one conveying the notion of a selected company, and the other of the dead universally. So, then, Paul claims that from his birth he was a God-fearing, Law-observing Jew; that his lineage was as pure as Jewish lineage could be; and that he belonged to the most aristocratic tribe of the Jews. WebPhilippians 3:14 Once a man or woman has trusted the Lord Jesus as Saviour, he embarks on a race through life to the finishing post. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. Why? It had always been so, as the apostle gives us to learn. (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. Consequently we must look for another explanation of this verse. Philippi was a Roman colony. I just" And living in the past, and being destroyed in the past, and can't go ahead because they are looking backward. What then? The supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus shows itself in dependence, and this expresses itself therefore in prayer to God. WebPhilippians - (NIV Application Commentary) by Frank S Thielman (Hardcover) $26.99When purchased online Out of Stock About this item Specifications Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up Number of Pages: 256 Genre: Religion + Beliefs Sub-Genre: Biblical Commentary Series Title: NIV Application Commentary Format: Hardcover Publisher: Zondervan Academic At this point Paul repeats warnings that he gave the Philippian church some time earlier concerning Judaisers. WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. Let us be humbled on account of our sins. Paul said. Does not our love fervently flame towards heaven? (Spurgeon). Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Not so: Christ is always better; and so says he, "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. There will be a resurrection of the unjust, who shall arise to shame and everlasting contempt; and our care must be to escape that: but the joyful and glorious resurrection of saints is called the resurrection, kat exochen--by eminence, because it is in virtue of Christ's resurrection, as their head and first-fruits; whereas the wicked shall rise only by the power of Christ, as their judge. Paul said, "I have not yet apprehended that for which I was apprehended. What he means by forgetting the things that are behind is, that we should not think of any progress we may have made in following Christ, that we should lose sight of everything calculated to give us self-satisfaction. "That" (says he, after he had exhorted the Philippians thus to stand,) "I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. If right here, we are at one, so to speak, with His present purposes. We are not to suppose that, because we are men, we monopolise all the gifts of Christ. So, let this be your mind, let this be your attitude, follow me. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Have rather that spirit which counts nothing as a right to be claimed, but all one has as gifts of grace to be freely used in this world, because one has Christ in view. He had put all, as it were, into the hands of Christ, who had Himself given him His own comfort about it. WebPhilippians 3:11. 661.] This he must wish for them, if he wished them well. c. The Lord Jesus Christ: The title Lord was also applied to the Roman Caesar. 3:10-11 My object is to know him, and I mean by that, to know the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while I continue to be made like him in his death, if by any chance I may attain to the resurrection of the dead. It will be observed that there is no such thing in the first instance as "to the glory of God," when we hear of all bowing in the name of Jesus. So Paul states his attainments. 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. Who have had more mournful proofs of the danger of putting saints practically in the place of Christ? John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & (ii) Our only boast is in Jesus Christ. But his spirit was as bright as ever, his joy perfectly fresh, deep, and flowing. He is also reaching out for the things which are in front. WebPhilippians 3:11-14 King James Version 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 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. 11:24-28). I love that phrase. He does so, not because he is arrogant or self-righteous, for he knows the struggles and difficulties that are inevitable to enter the kingdom. It is not our laying hold of Christ first, but his laying hold of us, which is our happiness and salvation. Our citizenship isn't here. Work hard at doing that which is right. Thus, some translate the phrase, "in the hope of" (Gpd), or "that is the way I can hope to" (JB), and "thus do I hope that" (NAB). 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. It was seen laid in the grave of Christ. And you can become a phony, because, you know, you set your own standards; you live by your own rules. The only safeguard of the saints, of those that love the truth and Himself, is simple subjection to the word of God to the whole truth He has revealed in scripture. Then he found himself a dead man condemned and powerless. But you can always rejoice in the Lord, because He is above circumstances. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. His only pride is that he is a man for whom Christ died. 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. There is great reason to think that the arose from those who thought it necessary to the sense, and did not see that it could be fetched from the in . Spirit, they said, is altogether good; and matter is altogether evil. 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. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord ( Philippians 3:1 ). And she saw this young girl, modeling her dress and she said, "Would you mind going with me?" And the righteousness is accounted to me by my faith in Him. And He said, "I am Jesus. Is this your measure of the love of Christ? (c) It is the guarantee that in life and in death and beyond death the presence of the Risen Lord is always with us. He is exalting Christ. It shows us grace practically in different measures and forms. The trial is to keep that joy undimmed in the midst of the difficulties and sorrows that every day may bring. Includes commentary, questions, and applications on Philippians 3:1 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." WebBible Commentaries Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary Philippians 3 11 Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary Philippians 3:11 If by any means - Implying, that he meant to make use of the most strenuous exertions to obtain the object. So, those things which we once gained, those things which were once so important to me, I counted loss, and I forget those things which are behind, because I am pressing forth for those things which are before. The Jews would be quite sure that they were workers of righteousness. (b) It is the guarantee of the life to come ( Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:14 ff.). The futility of a relationship with God based on the principle of law. Nevertheless, God will surely teach His own, and knows how to clear up what is hidden from them. 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. This has its most weighty place elsewhere; but when it is a question of experience, the end cannot be here. Select a Passage. 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). Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer. I hold the record and my name is on the record books, and all." They cannot gain righteousness before a holy God. When, under Rehoboam, the kingdom had been split up, ten of the tribes went off with Jeroboam and Benjamin was the only tribe which remained faithful with Judah ( 1 Kings 12:21). View Exodus on the Timeline. Therefore, says Paul, it is the Christians who are the truly circumcised. That is, the resurrection of those who, having died in the Lord, rise to glory and honour; and hence St. Paul uses a peculiar word which occurs no where else in the New Testament, . Nor was he in that which he was about to write without deep feeling; but he had learned Christ for all; and this is the key-note of the epistle from the first, though only uttered distinctly at the last. This is nothing to be surprised at. Philippians 3:11 by Grant Richison| Jan 16, 1996| Philippians| 5 comments Read Introduction to Philippians If, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. In English, Paul appears to doubtthat he will rise from the dead. Faith is the ordained means of actual interest and saving benefit in all the purchase of his blood. But it frequently happened that they forgot their own language. Enough has been already said above, before I even knew of his reasoning, to prove how unfounded it is in every point of view. There is no getting to heaven as our home but by Christ as our way. To rise with the saints; to enter with them into the blessedness of the heavenly inheritance, was an object that the apostle thought was worth every effort which could he made. ", And what is it that gave such a hope to one that owns himself the chief of sinners and less than the least of all saints? WebOther Commentaries. 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. So the apostle lets them know that he owned their hearty love; "not," he says, "because I desire a gift." "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.". They identified themselves, therefore, with all who were declaring it throughout the world. Therefore, they said, it was a man's duty to plumb the depths of sin just as much as to scale the heights of virtue. He is my Savior. The one thing that suits is to pursue the glory before him, till he is in the same glory along with Christ. Nevertheless, energy there is, and this assuredly judges what is contrary to Christ. Thus "forgetting those things which are behind" refers to the progress that we may make. I don't know about this suffering bit. "Let's not get too," Paul said, "involved in the world. [Note: E.g., Hawthorne, pp. "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.". 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already The more one enjoys Christ here, the more one wants to be with Him there. Whatever the case, all should make sure that they do not slip back from the standard of practical holiness they have already reached (15-16). John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. Why go in the way of crowds of soldiers or civil officers? (1.) Long, long before this, the great teachers and the great prophets had seen that circumcision of the flesh is by itself not nearly enough and that there was needed a spiritual circumcision. Our citizenship. 3:1 As for what remains, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. You know, there are many people in the world tonight who have never had the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord. Here, my entire life I have never done anything wrong, have been going by the rules, up till now. They joined with those who preached the truth and partook of their obloquy. True experience is still the great theme which the apostle has in hand here as well as in his own personal history. How truly he accounted himself less than the least of them! If you read any Greek, you can pick up on the play on words. and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. ( 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 ), When Jesus comes again, we will each experience a metamorphosis. How lovely that even such a man should speak, not merely of his own prayers, but of theirs, turning all to such account. It may be remarked here, that from an expression often misunderstood in Philippians 2:1-30 it might seem as if the apostle wished somehow to weaken their confidence. The Lord apprehended me, but when He did, He had a purpose in mind. No wonder Paul opted for the new righteousness, though he had done pretty good up until this point. I would like to know Him in the power of His resurrection. Paul had been so zealous a Jew that he had tried to wipe out the opponents of Judaism. "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. "I make this judgment of the case; I thus reason with myself." b. Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. And do count them but dung [as refuse], that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith ( Philippians 3:8-9 ): Now, Paul had excelled in the righteousness in the law. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. What might you and I have thought of such? (ii) Here also Paul sets down what we might call the necessity of repetition. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. This is a good example, by the way, of the characteristic difference between these two translations. No, the righteousness which I depend upon is that which is through the faith of Christ, not a legal, but evangelical righteousness: The righteousness which is of God by faith, ordained and appointed of God." ", "The spiritual resurrection view posits that the out-resurrection refers to the attainment of Christlike character in this life." God was pleased, even whilst the apostle was alive, to set him aside and to prove the power of faith where he was not. Close. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. 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." 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