philippians 3:11 14 commentary

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? Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. WebPhilippians 3:14 ESV I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Had it been a question of his apostolic dignity, this could not have been; but an apostle even could, and did, and loved to, take the place of one that served others whom he viewed directly in their relationship to Christ. They exist; they are there. "Oh, I had such a glorious experience, the Lord met me in such a powerful way. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is the efficient cause, for this the apostle had attained to; unless the consummation of that spiritual life, in perfect holiness, should be intended, than which nothing was more desirable by him; nor in a representative sense, for this also he enjoyed in Christ his head, being risen with him, and in him, when he rose from the dead; but in a literal sense and designs not the general resurrection of the just and unjust, which he believed; for he knew that everyone must, and will attain to this, even Pharaoh, Judas, and the worst of men; but the special and particular resurrection of the righteous, the better resurrection, which will be first, and upon the personal coming of Christ, and by virtue of union to him, and in a glorious manner, and to everlasting life and happiness: and when the apostle says, "if by any means" he might attain to this, it is not to be understood as if he doubted of it, which would be inconsistent with his firm persuasion, that nothing should separate him from the love of God, and with his full assurance of faith, as to interest in Jesus Christ; but it denotes the difficulty of attaining it, since through various afflictions and great tribulations a believer must pass, before he comes to it; and also the apostle's earnest desire of it, and strenuous endeavour for it; not caring what scenes of trouble, or sea of sorrow what fiery trials, severe sufferings, or cruel death he went through, so be it he obtained as he believed he should, the glorious and better resurrection; he counted not his life dear to himself, he loved it not unto death, having in view the blissful and happy state after it. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. The Lord apprehended me, but when He did, He had a purpose in mind. And (we pray!) a. But Paul the apostle said, "Look, I don't consider that I have attained; I don't look at myself as being perfect, the work of the Lord is not yet complete in me.". "Not," says he, "that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am," this is the great design of the epistle; it was not truth that was made known simply, but experience that was grown into "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 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, To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous ( Philippians 3:1 ). Timothy shared the unselfishness of the apostle's heart. Verse 11. See 1 Thessalonians 4:6-18.". The futility of a relationship with God based on the principle of law. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. But not the righteousness which God has accounted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. 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. For this corruption must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality and then will be brought to pass the saying, Oh, death where is thy sting? 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. Nothing less would be in keeping with such a high position. Many different commentaries state that of all the groups that Paul wrote to, Phillipi was probably the best of them all. 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. 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. That is a wonderful thought. At any rate, such is the picture that the Holy Spirit gives of him there. Yet we may follow, and seek conformity unto His death; but there was that in His death on the cross which could be His alone. Perhaps he meant he wanted to experience suffering for Christs sake and was even willing to die for Him to arrive at his resurrection in a manner that would enable him to face His master unashamed. 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). WebPhilippians 3:11. We do not speak of standing in Christ now, but of their allotted services. "That I may win Christ," therefore he says; "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law." 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? They weren't looking for a place, and so they roamed the earth, as outcast, not possessing of the earth. 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. 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). Their affections were right. ( 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 ), When Jesus comes again, we will each experience a metamorphosis. This was very dear to him, let God use whom he would. (See Romans 1:4.) ( Judges 5:14; Hosea 5:8). He too in love still keeps up the servant-character, and gives them as it were the Christ-character. It was surely the best that she could do. He is one who has his joy exclusively from and in Christ. For the prize of the high calling. "I want to hang on to the flesh. 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. A man must always have a care that he is not himself guilty of the sins of which he accuses others. Whoever they were, Paul reminds them of one great truth: "Our citizenship," he says, "is in heaven." 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 . This is a claim that Paul makes more than once ( Acts 22:3; Acts 23:6; Acts 26:5). It was also what he carried up to the moment of writing to the Philippians as ardently as ever. But how can you attain the resurrection of the dead unless you, first of all, have died? And he answered, "Who art thou, Lord that I may serve thee?" As far as the Law goes, I was a Pharisee: as for zeal, I was a persecutor of the Churches: as for the righteousness which is in the Law, I was beyond blame. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord ( Philippians 3:1 ). The point is this. You know, oftentimes it is extremely difficult to rejoice in circumstances. Then, as to our practical every-day expectation, "the Lord is at hand." Re 2:10, "crown of life." out-resurrection). Not having my own righteousness, my works through the law, but now the righteousness which is of God by faith, that righteousness which is imputed to those who believe, that righteousness that Abraham had when God imputed his faith for righteousness.Now, I can endeavor to be righteous before God by my own works and efforts. Heaven is called here the mark, because it is that which every good Christian has in his eye; as the archer has his eye fixed upon the mark he designs to hit. It is the forming of the heart with the affections and the judgments of the Lord. ", He loves, we see, to couple with the relationship to himself what was related to them. Far from him was the vanity of being the man first to preach Christ in the great metropolis. 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. 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 provides his own life as an example to the Philippians to follow as opposed to the false teachers. The summons of the writer of Deuteronomy is: "Circumcise the foreskin of your heart and be no longer stubborn" ( Deuteronomy 10:16). That there was all this abundantly in these saints he did not doubt; they had just shown him the fruit of love personally. There are two Greek verbs which are very like each other. 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. Does not our love fervently flame towards heaven? (Spurgeon). But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. "Let your moderation be made known unto men." 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. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, [and] let us mind the same thing ( Philippians 3:15-16 ). He will reach it only on the day when Christ returns and raises the righteous from death. When Saul is seeking to take his life, David's demand is: "After whom do you pursue? Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. She called the model over that they might look at it more closely and feel the texture of the material, and obviously she was very impressed with it. 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. Were on a mission to change that. "My bonds in Christ," he says, "are manifest in all the palace." "Laboured" gives a wrong sense. As far as he was concerned, therefore, why could he choose? Who have had more mournful proofs of the danger of putting saints practically in the place of Christ? WebJamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 14. high callingliterally, "the calling that is above" (Ga 4:26; Col 3:1): "the heavenly calling" (Heb 3:1). For we can all understand joy in believing; we can readily feel how natural is joy to the Christian who dwells on his eternal portion. 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). Their very name means The Separated Ones. I can do all things through him who strengtheneth me." See for instance Philippians 3:1-21. How gladly would he be a libation upon the sacrifice of their faith! It is no trouble to me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe. This is the more remarkable because it is so intensely practical. When the state or kind of resurrection is meant to be expressed, the anarthrous form is requisite, as we see in verse 24 of this very chapter, and regularly so. 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. Paul says, "You Jews think that you are circumcised; in point of fact, you are only mutilated.". Let all of you who have graduated in the school of Christ have the same attitude of mind to life. "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." He is at Rome, where he desired to be, no doubt, but which he had never expected to visit as one in bonds. He says that he proposes to write things to them that he has written before. It was to Israel that they in the most special sense traced their heritage. "Your joy," said Jesus, "no one will take from you" ( John 16:22). Had he occupied himself with the persons that were so preaching the gospel, how disconsolate he must have been! You think you are going to drop, but you keep going. This is what brings him, if one may so say, into the dilemma of love. To the confession of His Lordship is added "to the glory of God the Father." "Again I say, Rejoice." Is He really so far from any of those that call upon Him? And so looking back to the past, oftentimes, we look at our failures and we are discouraged from trying to go on. Moreover the term "out-resurrection" seems to stress separation from others at the time of resurrection rather than separation from others following resurrection. He did feel it. 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). WHAT IT MEANS TO KNOW CHRIST ( Php_3:10-11 ). With us the dog is a well-loved animal, but it was not so in the East in the time of Jesus. Anything I do for myself is a waste of time and effort. Includes commentary, questions, and applications on Philippians 3:1 WebPhl 3:1-3. There is no epistle in the New Testament which gives so little space to the development of. 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. 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. As far as the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, Paul had it. Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. He must have felt that he had been setting a high challenge before the Philippian Church. Nevertheless, God will surely teach His own, and knows how to clear up what is hidden from them. But if a man is to be in special relationship with God, something far more is needed than a mark in his body. "Don't know what is going to happen tomorrow, so hey, I will jump this ship and get on this one and I will gladly throw overboard the old life, with the struggle and the effort in my flesh, in order to live this new life after the Spirit, believing and trusting in Jesus Christ, to do for me what I really can't do for myself. With all of my efforts I could never come up to that. Such was the apostle's faith. Not only was an utterly wrong spirit indulged in the work itself, and toward others engaged actually in it; but even as to the apostle, shut out from such service, a desire to pain and wound was not wanting. It is ignorance and absurdity to answer such scriptures by the text, that in Christ there is neither male nor female. There is the present joy of Christ; but this does not content the soul. This he must wish for them, if he wished them well. It is what enabled him to look at the saints, as he called them to look at one another, esteeming others, as he says, better than themselves. The Gnostics were heretics who tried to intellectualize Christianity and make a kind of philosophy out of it. The name of Christ Himself is the true centre of the saints; unto this the Spirit gathers. Indeed Paul did. 3:2-3 Be on your guard against the dogs; be on your guard against the evil workers; be on your guard against the party of mutilation; for we are the truly circumcised, we who worship in the Spirit of God; we whose proud boast is in Jesus Christ, we who place no confidence in merely human things. We do not tire of the foods which are the essentials of life. In effect Paul is saying that the Christian must forget all that he has done and remember only what he has still to do. (ii) Here also Paul sets down what we might call the necessity of repetition. By this claim Paul makes it clear that he is not an Ishmaelite, for the Ishmaelites were circumcised in their thirteenth year ( Genesis 17:25), nor a proselyte who had come late into the Jewish faith and been circumcised in manhood. The one therefore, I say, is the passive side of the Christian; the other is his activity. His goodness can even take this up and thus make it fragrant even to Himself. On my account, God writes righteous.Now, the problem of being righteous by my efforts, by my works, I may be doing right, I may have lived all of my life up to this point by the rules, having never violated, sailing along in good shape, and there is written across my name, righteous. We must carefully remember throughout all this epistle that "salvation" never means acceptance. All rights reserved. This is our conformity to his death. It is part of the verb ginoskein ( G1097) , which almost always indicates personal knowledge. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. ( Psalms 69:9). It has been hard for you to kick against the pricks." They were going to have the senior prom. Observe, His care to be found in Christ was in order to his attaining the resurrection of the dead. Philippi was a Roman colony. In God there is ample supply. "Let your requests be made known unto God." Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith." b. In the Christian life there is no room for a person who desires to rest upon his laurels. The expression intimates that we have need to strive for him and after him, and that all is little enough to win him. Pauls yearning is for complete oneness with Christ. Paul was probably speaking of the Rapture. For such conflict we need the power of the Lord and the whole armour of God. I had it made as far as the law was concerned." It was not that he wanted more. They thought they were working good, but in fact they were working evil. "For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me. He had no theory that first love must necessarily wane and cool down, but the very reverse. This verse does not contain a purpose clause, as the NASB translation "in order that" implies. 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. 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. Hence he desired that their conversation should be as became such zeal; "that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.". We have not yet attained, are not already perfect; there is still much wanting in all our duties, and graces, and comforts. Paul felt that when Christ stopped him on the Damascus Road, he had a vision and a purpose for Paul; and Paul felt that all his life he was bound to press on, lest he fail Jesus and frustrate his dream. and mark them which walk so as ye have us for your ensample [example]. He thus takes a common place with his beloved son in the gospel. Not that there were not difficulties; there were many. If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. So Paul states his attainments. It was the teaching of these Jews that, if a man wished to be saved, he must earn credit in the sight of God by countless deeds of the law; and, further that salvation belonged to the Jews and to no one else, and that, before God could have any use for him, a man must be circumcised and, as it were, become a Jew. But his spirit was as bright as ever, his joy perfectly fresh, deep, and flowing. This will not detract for an instant from the perfect enjoyment of Christ, but rather promote it so much the more, making it more evidently and always pure grace even in glory. There is nothing so unaffectedly humble as real faith, and, above all, that character of faith which lives on Christ, and which consequently lives Christ. In such places the citizens were mostly soldiers who had served their time--twenty-one years--and who had been rewarded with full citizenship. Every phrase in this catalogue of Paul's privileges has its special meaning; let us look at each one. The lost must bow; the devils must bow; the lake of fire must own the glory of Him who has power to cast them there, as it is said, "unto the glory of God the Father." But that power displays itself not in our strength, or wisdom, or any conferred resources. 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. The cross was essential and necessary for Him to experience the power of the resurrection. "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. (ii) As far as the Law went, he was a trained Pharisee. There is a righteousness provided for us in Jesus Christ, and it is a complete and perfect righteousness. There was the very reverse in Paul's case. There would be no question of his being a part of such a resurrection." Why, then, is it so in the next instance? 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. "For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ." victory over the foe. There is always danger of these, and the more so where there is activity among souls. Paul finishes with the Christian hope. Here, my entire life I have never done anything wrong, have been going by the rules, up till now. That was a common name by which the Jews referred to the Gentiles: the gentile dogs. "I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity." And, at best, I can develop a self-righteousness. But all in heaven and on earth shall be in reconciliation with God and headed up in Christ, with whom the Church shall share the unbounded inheritance. 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). 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