exanastasin, lit. 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. He was as desirous to know the power of Christ's death and resurrection killing sin in him, and raising him up to newness of life, as he was to receive the benefit of Christ's death and resurrection in his justification. This epistle is therefore eminently instructive to those who could not have an apostle with them. And they are not really going ahead in life at all, because they are so involved in the past. 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. He passionately longs to reach the final destination and, in no way presuming upon the grace of God, presses on towards that goal (OBrien 413). or are there mingled ways and mixed motives? Thank God for the experiences, but they are not valid unless they are translated into the immediate, present relationship, and I do count them but loss. For whom I have suffered the loss of all things ( Philippians 3:8 ). This is the only allusion, as far as I know, to flesh in this epistle, but it is flesh in its religious form, and not as a source of evil lusts and passions. It is of great use in the Christian course to keep our eye upon heaven. It is not legal experience, for which you must turn to the chapter spoken of inRomans 7:1-25; Romans 7:1-25, the only bit of a saint's experience under law, as far as I know, that the New Testament affords (certainly in the epistles). 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. But in it and beyond it all there was joy. 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. What might you and I have thought of such? "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.". I just" And living in the past, and being destroyed in the past, and can't go ahead because they are looking backward. It is not at all a question of ecclesiastical order, in which naturally the chief guides would have front rank. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. I agonizo towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God.Paul said, "Don't you realize that they that run in a race run all, only one receives the prize, so run that you may obtain." It might have been thought that so much the more would Paul need his love and services. Let us then try to see what Paul thinks about when he speaks about righteousness. Not that there were not difficulties; there were many. In His name all must bow. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. They regarded circumcision in itself as being enough to set them apart specially for God. Father, I would that those who You have given to me, to be with me here, would also share with me in the Kingdom. Let's not just sit back and rest, let's press forward to what God has for us in the future. Now he proceeds to give his reason. Like the song said, "Mercy drops round us are falling, but for the showers we plead." He is God equally with the Father. Close. This were to spoil all, because it would please the flesh. 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). This is nothing to be surprised at. The NASB translators captured this idea when they rendered this phrase "the resurrection from among the dead." They are out there, there are many of them. The peace which God has in everything He will communicate to keep you in everything; and not only so, but the heart, being free from care, will enter into what pleases Him. You see, Jesus could not experience the power of the resurrection until the cross. He is just about to send Timothy from himself that he might know about them. 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. WebPhilippians 3 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Their end is destruction: their god is their belly; that in which they glory is their shame. But if a man is to be in special relationship with God, something far more is needed than a mark in his body. Another view is that Paul was hoping that he would persevere faithfully in his quest to know Christ until he died. This place throughout is one of promoting, enlarging, deepening, and purifying the experience of the saints themselves in that which filled his own heart with joy in the Lord. He says to them, "In your proud self-righteousness, you call other men dogs; but it is you who are dogs, because you shamelessly pervert the gospel of Jesus Christ." 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. And they were a sort of a hated animal. I mean, you have got to give it every effort, working through pain, beyond the pain threshold. It is the forming of the heart with the affections and the judgments of the Lord. It was God the Father that made Him Lord and Christ, but God the Father never made Him Jehovah. But the Rapture is not an event that Christians need to strive to attain. Paul sets down two very important things. Is it agreeing to differ? Remembering that, we try to paraphrase this passage and to set down, not so much what Paul says, as what was in his mind. We may see the depth of this word from a fact of Old Testament usage. because he. "Let your moderation be known unto all men;" that is, the meekness and gentleness which bends to the blow, instead of resisting it in the spirit that ever asserts its rights and fights for them. (i) He had been circumcised when he was eight days old. The resurrection is the ultimate goal for all Christians. 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." If you read any Greek, you can pick up on the play on words. He says that the Lord will circumcise their hearts to make them love him ( Deuteronomy 30:6). Their very name means The Separated Ones. The history of the Jews had dispersed them all over the world. So Paul says that in the Christian life we must forget every past achievement and remember only the goal which lies ahead. 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. "So Paul, he had done his best to clothe himself in righteousness by works, but then he came in to that glorious knowledge of Jesus Christ, and, "No longer," he said, "to be found in my own righteousness, which is of the law, my own making, my own work, but I will gladly exchange that for the glorious righteousness which God has accounted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ." He lives a focused life. Little probable is it that the reading, . 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). Many times the worst thing you can do is share with your friends what the Lord has laid upon your heart to do. But now the apostle was shut out from every labour apparently. The apostle is here contributing to that which shall never pass away, and hence begins with the "saints in Christ Jesus" as such. Do with them as you will, they still defy you But if you will hand over the conflict to Jesus, He will subdue them; He will bring them under his strong, subjecting hand. I have no confidence in the flesh. 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. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. In Php_3:15 he again uses teleios ( G5046) and says that this must be the attitude of those who are teleios ( G5046) . But it frequently happened that they forgot their own language. He takes the very name the Jewish teachers would have applied to the impure and to the Gentiles and flings it back at themselves. He had been born in the Gentile city of Tarsus, but he had come to Jerusalem to be educated at the feet of Gamaliel ( Acts 22:3) and was able, for instance, when the time came, to speak to the mob in Jerusalem in their own tongue ( Acts 21:40). But then Paul updates his experience. Differences there may be among the saints, and especially when we come to the question of experience. The lad had found a joy which not even the scaffold could take away. The Greek phrase is ten exanastasin ten ek nekron. WebPhilippians 3 Leaving Law and Pressing On to Jesus A. The Scotchman, too, wherever he may be, remembers the land of brown heath and shaggy wood. And the Irishman, too, let him be where he will, still thinks the Emerald Isle the first gem of the sea. But they recognized that it was the best that she could do.About that time, Lady Bountiful walked in the door. Not our keeping hold of Christ, but his keeping hold of us, is our safety. He did feel it. 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. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again. It is perfectly possible for him to observe all the outward observances of religion and yet have hatred and bitterness and pride in his heart. 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. I want to know Him, I want to know the power of the resurrection, but yet, I want to know the fellowship of the sufferings and the cross. 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