I don't want to see it nailed to the cross. What you cannot do, He can. (Meyer), 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. Bengel hesitated; but Dr. Wells in this, as in many other instances, showed his sound judgment and quiet courage in rejecting the common text, and adopting that which has by far the best authorities. Here the King James Version is dangerously misleading. There is His own personal glory; and this first. After all it was better for Christ to choose, not for him. "Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain" ( Genesis 4:1). "My bonds in Christ," he says, "are manifest in all the palace." 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. 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. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness." Let this be your mind, let's walk by these rules. Thus the two things are repeated the past judgment and the present power: "and do count them but dung, that I may, win Christ." 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. I tried it for so long. They were going to have the senior prom. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect ( Philippians 3:11-12 ): It is sort of sad that so many people seem to feel that they have attained, or they have achieved their spiritual walk, and they sort of sit on little pedestals, little ivory towers. Fee's commentary on Paul's letter to the church in Philippi. If he desired for them that they should be without one stumble till the day of Christ, it was the purpose to which grace had girded up his own loins. But still, that is not enough to bring a man an entrance into the kingdom of heaven.Now, here they were going around and trying to tell the Gentile believers that you had to keep the law to be righteous. "For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ." 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? People lived and died without ever having heard of Jesus Christ our Lord. It is perfectly possible for a man to go through an elaborate liturgy and yet have a heart that is far away from God. They went in. "Rejoice in the Lord alway." There are those who are living after their flesh. So here at the beginning he simply takes the place of servant with Timothy, owning all the saints as well as the officials in their place: "To all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons." He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. It has been hard for you to kick against the pricks." Many hence have wrongly gathered that they were preachers. 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? When the Jews wished to stress their special relationship to God in its most unique sense it was the word Israelite that they used. Let us see to it that we walk according to the place which God has given us. "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. I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead: Paul has discussed in these verses the concepts of justification and sanctification, and now he speaks of the believers glorification. They demanded that they be circumcised and they keep the law of Moses in order to be saved, which Paul called the perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ.It is interesting that these people usually referred to the Gentiles as dogs. Generally the NASB is more literal, translating a Greek word with the same English word wherever the Greek word occurs. 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. In this chapter the apostle cautions the Philippians against false teachers, whom he describes as evil men, and exhorts them to walk as they had him, and other faithful ministers for an example. 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? 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). Indeed Paul did. This is interesting, for it must mean that Paul had written other letters to the Philippians which have not survived. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. I would like to know Him in the power of His resurrection. Philippi was a Roman colony. Why go in the way of crowds of soldiers or civil officers? She just sort of caught her breath when she saw it, it was just such a glorious gown.Lady Bountiful, being very astute, noticed that she gasped at that one. I. In 48 B.C. (a) It is the guarantee of the importance of this life and of this body in which we live. If you read any Greek, you can pick up on the play on words. NIV I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. 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. Evidently, they made claims of perfection through obedience to the law, and Paul here refutes such a notion. Paul finishes with the Christian hope. Paul evidently expected that the Rapture could happen before he died (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). They were those who denied that there was any law at all in the Christian life. 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. Indeed that which had drawn out the epistle was the proof that the trying circumstances of the apostle had but called out their affections. And now as he had Christ before his soul, in this way the gospel itself, he can feel, is only promoted so much the more. 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. 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!" "For they all seek their own." In Philippians 3:1-21 it is not the display of intrinsic affection in Christ, or the gracious dispositions of Christ in the saints. Not the passive side of the Christian as being in the world, but the active comes before us. There was but one spring of power even Christ. Even he who knew them well marvelled that they were so soon shifting, not only from him, but from the gospel, after he left them. This joyful resurrection the apostle pressed towards. Paul said, "I have not yet apprehended that for which I was apprehended. He is one who has his joy exclusively from and in Christ. in sorrow? Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. (iii) As far as zeal went, he had been a persecutor of the Church. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself." 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." And so looking back to the past, oftentimes, we look at our failures and we are discouraged from trying to go on. This is, accordingly, what flows forth in praise from himself, and in calling out praise from other hearts. 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). It was a necessary duty sometimes as things are on the earth, but nothing more; and so it is still. Grace Evangelical Society Newsletter, November 1987, p. Paul is talking about their demands that the Gentiles be circumcised to be saved. Jesus had to empty Himself to become a servant. Once you are right about Christ, you are right about everything while He is before you. "They really did me wrong. 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. They began with the principle that from the beginning of time there had always been two realities--spirit and matter. The trouble is not that of seeing its meaning; the trouble is that of finding one English word which covers all it includes. there is no small tendency whenever people know the gospel well, if this be all, to settle down, thinking they have nothing more to do with the matter. 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). 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." Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. As far as the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, Paul had it. This is what the Lord intended for me, to be with Him in His kingdom, to share with Him His glory. And with a lot of people, there is just a lot of bad experiences in the past. 4. "Hey, I tried it before. The point is this. We must think rather of the conflict of the gospel: there was often for all concerned disgrace, and pain, and scorn. You see, Jesus could not experience the power of the resurrection until the cross. And there Paul was converted. 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. Beware of dogs ( Philippians 3:1-2 ). Salem Media Group. notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached." Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. As far as he was concerned, therefore, why could he choose? John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & 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. 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. 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. Little probable is it that the reading, . In God there is ample supply. admits that the external testimony is quite in its favour, though it is hard to see what he means by the internal evidence being in this case denied; for he suggests himself that may have been a correction proceeding from those who thought that the sense which the context requires, "the resurrection from the dead," could not be extracted from . I have no confidence in the flesh. but for you it is safe. Reason and sense are out of the question, though reason must reject a creature's becoming God. what than the testimony for God? But such things as I could humanly reckon as profits, I came to the conclusion were all loss for the sake of Jesus Christ. Here Paul rounds upon these Jewish teachers who were seeking to undo his work. Suddenly upon meeting Christ, all that he counted as important to him up to that point in his life, all of his religious credits, all of the religious background, he said lost for Christ. Paul claims not only to be a pure-blooded Jew but one who still spoke Hebrew. As he went on, the cheerfulness and composure of his countenance were amazing to all the spectators." ", And now there is the most lovely picture of Christ again; for it is always Christ here, and this again practically. Julius Caesar was declared to be the universal savior of mankind. It then became a common title for the ruling Caesar. 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 ). We may see the moral harmony of that lot with his testimony, and how suitable it seems that he, who was above all men identified with the gospel of the glory of Christ, should be a prisoner, and nothing but a prisoner in Rome. But it is quite certain that they lived gluttonous and immoral lives and used their so-called Christianity to justify themselves. Paul means something when he applies the title to Jesus in the context of citizenship. "I can do all things," as he says elsewhere, "through him that strengtheneth me." For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ." "Yea," said he, "and I count all things but loss." There are a lot of people running the race just to say, "Well, I ran in the race." "In nothing," says he, "terrified by your adversaries [this is the other side]: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. "The prize" is "the crown of 2. Observe, The apostle was as ambitious of being sanctified as he was of being justified. himself had been sick? We do not speak of standing in Christ now, but of their allotted services. Paul himself did not hope to attain it through his own merit and righteousness, but through the merit and righteousness of Jesus Christ. This filled Paul with sunshine; and he would have others to enjoy the same bright light which the name of Christ cast on every object. However elsewhere in his writings he was very confident that God would resurrect him and all believers (e.g., Romans 8:11; Romans 8:23; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Corinthians 15:12-57; 2 Corinthians 4:14; 2 Corinthians 5:1-5; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Timothy 2:18). Paul says, "You Jews think that you are circumcised; in point of fact, you are only mutilated.". There were in the Church at Philippi men whose conduct was an open scandal and who, by their lives, showed themselves to be the enemies of the Cross of Christ. Impossible that anything done by other saints should turn to one's acceptance any more than what is done by himself The apostle uses salvation throughout his letter to the Philippians (nor is it confined to this scripture only) in the sense of the complete and final triumph over all the power of Satan. This is wholly distinct from His own intrinsic eternal glory. "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. 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. They regarded circumcision in itself as being enough to set them apart specially for God. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. J. 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." . This is a claim that Paul makes more than once ( Acts 22:3; Acts 23:6; Acts 26:5). He has not attained this "perfection" as is evident from verses 12-16. You listen to John Piper. Don't you know that Christians don't have to suffer? And Jesus said, "Get thee behind me, Satan, you offend me." 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 had put all, as it were, into the hands of Christ, who had Himself given him His own comfort about it. (c) It is the guarantee that in life and in death and beyond death the presence of the Risen Lord is always with us. But while he was on his way, just before arriving in Damascus about noontime, there came a light from heaven brighter than the noonday sun. This epistle is therefore eminently instructive to those who could not have an apostle with them. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it doesn't yet appear what we are going to be, but we know when He appears, we are going to be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is" ( 1 John 3:2 ). 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. Observe, [2.] Surely he, most of all, must have felt the change the heart that took in the Gentiles, that swept the circle of lands from Jerusalem to Illyricum, that yearned over Spain, ever going out farther and farther, boundless in his desires for the salvation of souls. The Lord knew exactly what He intended for you to do. ( Psalms 69:9). Philippians 3:1114 May 18, 2019. The rite of water baptism is really not a physical rite, but a spiritual experience. 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. He must have felt that he had been setting a high challenge before the Philippian Church. Paul does not want his readers to misunderstand what he has just said. Like, another apostle (2 John 1:8) he does not hesitate to blend with all this an appeal to their hearts for his own service in their well-being. Such did, such was, Christ. I found it no better than skubala ( G4657) ." The fitter we grow for heaven the faster we must press towards it. He is my Lord." Check out our other commentaries: Genesis 19:8-10 meaning (3:11 22) Maps and Charts. And mark, it is not the anticipation of light with Christ in heaven, but His light now while He is in heaven shining on the heart, and on the circumstances of the pathway here below. Not so. They identified themselves, therefore, with all who were declaring it throughout the world. I believe that a woman shines most where she does not appear. The Old Testament uses to know of sexual intercourse. He has not only put aside religious ceremonies and national status, but he considers that all things in which he might boast are worthless. Wherever he taught, the Jews followed him and tried to undo his teaching. That isn't a real representative of You. At the same time, God's word is to me plain as to the manner in which the gifts are to be exercised. The Lord is at hand." Christian worship is not a thing of ritual or of the observation of details of the Law; it is a thing of the heart. The real circumcision is not a mark in the flesh; it is that true worship, that true glory, and that true confidence in the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Through the wonderful sight of the love of Christ, this answered the question to his faith, leaving all circumstances entirely aside. "That I may know him." The word he uses for reaching out (epekteinomenos, G1901) is very vivid and is used of a racer going hard for the tape. 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. 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. Whoever they were, Paul reminds them of one great truth: "Our citizenship," he says, "is in heaven." 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. ", Finally, he calls them again to rejoice, and now with more emphasis than ever. 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. All who believe shall surely shine in His glory; and the universal creation, which, belonging to Him as His inheritance, He will share with His own, shall be reconciled and delivered in due time. And what is this but the unfolding of the truth in the heart and in the ways of the Christian? 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. 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. His only pride is that he is a man for whom Christ died. Need it be said that it has not the less its own proper office on that account? 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. But this Christian joy enables a man to accept even them with a smile. If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of. He like other Christians lives in the overlap of the ages; he, too, stands between the "already" and the "not yet", and consummated salvation is not yet his. Faithful believers only will obtain this out-resurrection and have abundance of joy forever. "I have attained, I have achieved. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. Far from him was the vanity of being the man first to preach Christ in the great metropolis. We are not to suppose that, because we are men, we monopolise all the gifts of Christ. Such is the thought that the apostle had before his soul of that which became the Christian. It is called the resurrection of the just, and the resurrection of life (John 5:29), and they are counted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead,Luke 20:35. The critical reading he owns has force and propriety; but he does "not see why . 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. "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." 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). This is what he calls "salvation." 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. This is what he did, and accordingly this is the source, not merely of a firm faith and confidence as to the issue, but of present joy and all-overcoming power. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision ( Philippians 3:2 ). This is not the same as to say that he was a true Israelite. Thus he anticipates the removal of the last trace of the first Adam; he looks for our being brought fully, even as to the body, into the likeness of the Second Man, the last Adam. Righteousness is a gift that God gives to those who have faith in Christ (8-9).But Paul does not stop there. It is not sentiment, but a genuine feeling, thus "looking not each at his own things, but each also at the things of others." The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely," nor was this all, but "supposing to add affliction to my bonds.". Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. If this be borne in mind a large part of the difficulty that some have found completely disappears. . They cannot gain righteousness before a holy God. And he said, "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus." WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. He had experienced it at its highest point; and he knew that it was nothing compared with the joy which Christ had given. 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. Looking to the Lord, as it is the life-breath of love, so it adds to the value of brotherly kindness in its season. Yet they were the witnesses of Christ whom God had put forth at the close; for it was manifestly of Him. In Php_3:15 he again uses teleios ( G5046) and says that this must be the attitude of those who are teleios ( G5046) . It was also what he carried up to the moment of writing to the Philippians as ardently as ever. WebMatthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:9-14. He persecuted the church. So, let this be your mind, let this be your attitude, follow me. Teleios ( G5046) in Greek has a variety of interrelated meanings. You watch his pen draw out meaning. Be of good cheer. This separates from all, and judges the best of man to be dung, as the former conforms the heart after His love. what than the ministry of Christ? Who have had more palpable witness that service may become the object rather than Christ? "Being made conformable to his death:" this too is clearly in the world now. Paul said, "One receives the prize, and you run to obtain." "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus," feeling, judgment, everything, guarded and governed by this precious peace of God. I am interested in what is your relationship tonight with the Lord. 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. That is a wonderful thought. 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. We do not tire of the foods which are the essentials of life. "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise [ i.e. Codd. (ii) To that end Paul says two things. But it frequently happened that they forgot their own language. The very fact, or way of putting it, supposes Him to be a divine person. It is not a question of acceptance in Christ. 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. In praise from himself, and Paul here refutes such a notion let 's walk by rules! 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