philippians 3:11 14 commentary
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. This disperses all clouds from the soul. It is the same in Greek thought; the dog stands for everything that is shamelessly unclean. Experiences are good. His being out of sight rather made the remembrance of his words and ways the more distinct, and imparted a chastened earnestness to their desires of pleasing the Lord. Why did the Lord apprehend you? Considering that he had not already attained, and had not apprehended, he pressed forward: "I follow after (Philippians 3:12; Philippians 3:12), dioko--I pursue with vigour, as one following after the game. 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." Next, not only did he exhort them not to be terrified by the power of Satan, which is itself an evident and solemn sign of perdition to those that oppose the saints of God; but he calls on them to cast out the sources of disunion among themselves; and this he does in the most touching way. They are living in the past, the past glories. What is the Spirit now doing? Then, as to our practical every-day expectation, "the Lord is at hand." Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body: Our Savior can do and will do something that no Caesar can. Real circumcision is devotion of heart and mind and life to God.". But the (trace of Christ wrought in them all; and that was the great joy and delight of the apostle's heart. 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. 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. (i) He sets down what we might call the indestructibility of Christian joy. out-resurrection). Christian joy made Wesley able to accept the great blows of life, and also to greet the lesser discomforts with a jest. Brothers, I do not count myself to have obtained; but this one thing I do--forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out for the things which are in front, I press on towards the goal, in order that I may win the prize which God's upward calling in Christ Jesus is offering to me. He met Christ on the Damascus road. "I'll show you a mystery, we are not going to all sleep, but we are all going to be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of any eye. We love him because he first loved us,1 John 4:19. No saints are outside the danger. They had so much the more to do because Christ had done all for their souls. By all means let them be made known unto God. Many times the worst thing you can do is share with your friends what the Lord has laid upon your heart to do. I am sure he wasn't rejoicing in the circumstances themselves. ( Psalms 69:9). There it was an unhappy "me," though distinct from the flesh: "O wretched man that I am" Here it would be, O happy man that I am! Of the two, the converse would be more intelligible; but my conviction is that both the Lord and His apostle used similar and correct phraseology, as did the Holy Spirit elsewhere. Not only do we have the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, but we have the privilege of gathering together and studying the word of God together. I had everything going for me as far as righteousness from the law. Their mind isn't after the Spirit and after the things of the Spirit, they are more concerned and interested in the types of cars they drive and the things of the flesh and the earthly things, than they are the things of the Spirit. Timothy shared the unselfishness of the apostle's heart. He was made Lord and Christ. At this point Paul repeats warnings that he gave the Philippian church some time earlier concerning Judaisers. 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. 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. "Filled," says he, "with the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ;" for it is all supposed to be fruit, not isolated fruits here and there, but as a whole, which adds greatly to the strength of it. He is just about to send Timothy from himself that he might know about them. *There is no reasonable doubt that the received text is wrong, followed by the Authorised Version ("of," instead of "from" the dead). And he said, "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus." And they were a sort of a hated animal. In such places the citizens were mostly soldiers who had served their time--twenty-one years--and who had been rewarded with full citizenship. Oh that the Lord might make it true of His own! "Now, if Paul believed in one general resurrection at the end in which all people, the saved and lost, would participate, it is difficult to understand his use of this language in relation to his personal participation. Philippians 3:4b-14. Certainly this is painful and humbling. Now he proceeds to give his reason. and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 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. Christ was so truly before his heart, that in fact there was no self left unjudged to warp the choice. There is no looking at Him as Saviour on the cross merely; but when He comes for us, there will be in the filial sense (as ever in our epistle) "salvation." Christian worship is not a thing of ritual or of the observation of details of the Law; it is a thing of the heart. A holy fear of coming short is an excellent means of perseverance. 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? The expression intimates that we have need to strive for him and after him, and that all is little enough to win him. Yea [not and], I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labour with me." Were on a mission to change that. His desire above all was that Christ's name might go forth. J. If anyone has reason to think that he has grounds for confidence in his human heritage and attainments, I have more. Paul was writing letters from A.D. 48 to A.D. 64, sixteen years, but we possess only thirteen. You may be perfectly sure of an answer when you make known your requests: therefore let it be with thanksgiving. 's critical, scholastic, and exegetic manner. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. In any case, indeed, to the Christian, death is gain; but he could best say it who could say, "To me to live is Christ," who could say it not merely as the faith of Him, but as a matter of simple, unconstrained, spontaneous enjoyment of Christ in practical ways. Yet these were evidently physical experiences, not spiritual realities. Nothing, then, would the apostle have done in strife or vain-glory; "' but in lowliness of mind each esteeming other better than themselves." This is the more remarkable because it is so intensely practical. He may perhaps think differently, but, if he is an honest man, God will make it plain to him that he must never relax his effort or lower his standards but must press towards the goal, until the end. Because so many times, they say, "Well, you really can't do that. Phinehas had saved the people from the wrath of God, and been given an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God ( Numbers 25:11-13). It is still going on. But now the apostle turns to the use that he makes of so blessed a pattern, "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence." It is not the physical experience that saves, it is the spiritual: the death to the old nature and the old man in my heart, the reckoning of myself to be dead, and living that new life in the resurrected Lord. In Deuteronomy the Law brings together the price of a dog and the hire of a whore, and declares that neither must be offered to God ( Deuteronomy 23:18). But he said those things which were so important to me, those things for which I lived. Philippi was a Roman colony. But that power displays itself not in our strength, or wisdom, or any conferred resources. 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. The very fact, or way of putting it, supposes Him to be a divine person. 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. This separates from all, and judges the best of man to be dung, as the former conforms the heart after His love. Their very name means The Separated Ones. 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." The NIV is more paraphrastic, translating a Greek word with any number of English synonyms to make the English translation more readable. 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. Comment: Amazing, transforming grace, is able to change a Dikaiosune ( G1343) is always difficult to translate in Paul's letters. He gave him time to repent; and not only so, but a heart to repent." cannot but be conqueror, more than conqueror, where the heart is filled with Christ. Then he turns, not to doctrine after this opening, but to circumstances, to circumstances, however, illumined with Christ The most ordinary details are taken out of their own pettiness (though it is really a little mind which counts them petty), and are made simple and genuine, and this through Christ Jesus intermingled with them. Verses 1-21. They said that, since grace was wide enough to cover every sin, a man could sin as he liked and not worry; it would make no difference to the all-forgiving love of God. In fact, he had gone beyond. "How can they say they are a child of God? While the exact nature of that reward is unclear here, it can generally be understood as a sort of abundance of life. 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. I must, first of all, set the standard: what constitutes righteousness? If by any means: The expression "If by any means" or "If in some way" seems to hint at doubt or uncertainty in Pauls mind that he would take part in the resurrection. 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). And that he ever was anything but a prisoner there, man at least cannot say. (Compare Ephesians 1:1-23 and Colossians 1:1-29) But all, even these in hell, must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Copyright - Enduring Word | . One possibility is that Paul was thinking of his spiritual co-resurrection with Christ. Not so. A burning zeal for God was the hall-mark of Jewish religion. If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it. Paul evidently expected that the Rapture could happen before he died (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). For whom I have suffered the loss of all things ( Philippians 3:8 ). At any rate, such is the picture that the Holy Spirit gives of him there. 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. It was God the Father that made Him Lord and Christ, but God the Father never made Him Jehovah. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ( Philippians 3:8 ): Paul the apostle is on his way to Damascus to persecute the church. 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. 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. Paul claims not only to be a pure-blooded Jew but one who still spoke Hebrew. 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. Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we look for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In effect Paul is saying that the Christian must forget all that he has done and remember only what he has still to do. 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. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. 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. Unless there were long periods when he never put pen to paper there must have been many more letters which are now lost. Don't you know that Christians don't have to suffer? The apostle drops entirely his official status in addressing the saints at Philippi. or are there mingled ways and mixed motives? There is nothing assuredly right, on the other hand, where Christ is not the object of the soul. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. "For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me. The Alexandrian, Vatican, Sinai, Clermont, and St. Germain Uncials, supported by some ten cursives, very many versions, and the chief Greek and Latin ecclesiastical writers read . 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. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, [and] let us mind the same thing ( Philippians 3:15-16 ). (iii) As far as zeal went, he had been a persecutor of the Church. There was evidently energy among these Philippians. Philippians 4:1-23 is founded on both. Philippians 3:1114: Can I Really Have Assurance? 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. The futility of a relationship with God based on the principle of law. But he had himself gone through the trial; he had weighed it all; he had brought it into the presence of God. This counting on the Lord the apostle might have even where things were wrong. This commonly is apt to give occasion for strife as well as vain-glory. 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.". And Paul writes. He is not condemning Judaism from the outside. They were those who denied that there was any law at all in the Christian life. "That I may win Christ," therefore he says; "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law." 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." I have not yet accomplished that purpose. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.". We cannot know everything that Paul meant by this phrase; but the Resurrection of Christ is the great dynamic in at least three different directions. His intent is to bring to mind the resurrection, not of "all who are in the grave," but more specifically, the resurrection of the saved (1 Thessalonians 4:16). Living in the past, there is always that danger of discouragement, which shuts off initiative for the future. 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. 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. ", Blessed is this confidence in Christ, and wondrous are His ways! I just did a dumb thing, I ran through a red light and hit somebody and I am being sued for a million dollars. WebPhl 3:1-3. The words, as they stand in the best MSS., are as follow: , to that resurrection which is of the dead. This the apostle had his eye upon; this he would attain. I more than anybody else. I was so moved, I was so touched by the Spirit of God upon my life." We are kept by his mighty power through faith unto salvation,1 Peter 1:5. 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. 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. He makes it clear that he continues to pursue his goal just as a runner might continue to run in order to receive the prize at the end of the race. If the Christian really walks with Christ, he walks with joy. Something that I could never purchase for myself, something that I could never do for myself. "Well, I didn't finish it, but I ran in it." When Saul is seeking to take his life, David's demand is: "After whom do you pursue? So he reaches forth, epekteinomenos--stretched himself forward, bearing towards his point: it is expressive of a vehement concern. This is not the same as to say that he was a true Israelite. All human achievement had to be laid aside, in order that he might accept the free grace of Christ. NASB I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. The words that Paul used seem to indicate that he was thinking of a resurrection from among those who were dead. I might attain unto - I may come to, or may secure this object. He "became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. and the fellowship of his sufferings ( Philippians 3:10 ). ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. as a popular and familiar mode of expression (suitable to the persons addressed), according to which the expressions . They went in. This is, accordingly, what flows forth in praise from himself, and in calling out praise from other hearts. Is it agreeing to differ? 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. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. The word signifies the resurrection in general, both of the just and unjust; may signify that of the blessed only. Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. 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? Indeed that which had drawn out the epistle was the proof that the trying circumstances of the apostle had but called out their affections. He no longer existed. There was another party of Gnostics who held a different kind of doctrine. There is a certain indestructibility in Christian joy; and it is so, because Christian joy is in the Lord. Already knowing Jesus as his Savior, he now desires to know No; but "because that ye had heard that he had been sick." 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. Furthermore the resurrection he said he hoped to attain was still future whereas he had already experienced spiritual resurrection with Christ to newness of life (Romans 6:1-11; Galatians 2:20). There are two chief stages of His humiliation flowing out of His perfect love. Anything I do for myself is a waste of time and effort. Our citizenship isn't here. In Revelation the word dog stands for those who are so impure that they are debarred from the Holy City ( Revelation 22:15). 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. All these things Paul might have claimed to set down on the credit side of the balance; but when he met Christ, he wrote them off as nothing more than bad debts. Paul says, "You Jews think that you are circumcised; in point of fact, you are only mutilated.". 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. 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. Paul means something when he applies the title to Jesus in the context of citizenship. Obviously this out-resurrection is something which is capable of many degrees depending on the measure of ones faithfulness. Hence he says, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. [Note: Idem, "Raised to Run," Grace Evangelical Society News 6:8 (August 1991):2.]. But tomorrow, some nut pulls in front of me on the freeway and then blocks and traps me, and I may shake my fist and honk my horn, and say, "Get off the road, you fool." "Being made conformable to his death:" this too is clearly in the world now. It was not because of their own personal interest, though this was great and fresh, but they loved that it should go forth. A waste of time and effort I press on toward the goal for the prize of the dead in paul. More paraphrastic, translating a Greek word with any number of English to. To repent. least can not say, where the heart after love... 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