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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:13

THE DEAD PAST‘Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.’ Php_3:13 What had the Apostle in mind when he spoke of forgetting the things which are behind? If you read the chapter you will be at no loss to understand his meaning. He is describing his own circumstances as one who had wonderfully changed his place. To a man so loyal and affectionate as his writings prove St. Paul to have been, the breach with old comrades must have been... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:19

EARTHLY THINGS‘Who mind earthly things.’ Php_3:19 Every circumference is generated from a centre; every life must have its pivot. I. God is the one true centre of our life.—It has been said, ‘God’s centre is everywhere; His circumference nowhere.’ If you and I refuse to take God as the central thought, the innermost idea of our life, we are convicted of thrusting Him from His rightful position. Our life becomes an inharmonious disadjusted thing; its activities become distracted, fragmentary.... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20

HEAVEN‘For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.’ Php_3:20 What is heaven? That is a question to which the Church can give a partial, though as yet necessarily an incomplete, answer. I. We turn, then, to the words of Jesus Christ.—And here it is important to remark that, when He spoke of heaven, He was careful to use such language as is figurative or analogical. But while it is true that our Lord’s words respecting heaven must be... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20-21

LOOKING FOR THE SAVIOUR‘For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; Who shall change our vile body, 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.’ Php_3:20-21 There are many important truths which concern us all contained in these words of St. Paul. Just notice what we have in these words. This Apostle tells us we are to look for Him from heaven.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:1

Paul Now Gives Two Examples Of Men Who, Like Himself, Have The Mind That Is In Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:19 to Philippians 3:1 ). Having expressed his own willingness to be ‘poured out as a libation’ in the furtherance of the salvation and blessing of the Philippians, thus demonstrating that he was willing to fulfil the injunction to have the mind that was in Christ Jesus, Paul now gives two examples of fellow-workers who also readily tread that way, the first being Timothy, who is the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:2

‘Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision,’ The rapid change of subject without introduction was probably designed to wake up those who were hearing his words read out, as they were listening, and may possibly have begun to flag. It was a warning against the activities, either of the Jews, or of the Judaisers. The Jews may well have been seeking to win over the Philippian church on the grounds that Paul was a Jew, (although a little misguided), and that they were... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:2-9

A Warning To Beware Of The Judaisers, Who Taught That Salvation Was Through the Works Of The Law, Is Backed Up From Paul’s Experience In Which He had Discovered That All Such Efforts Were In Vain (Philippians 3:2-9 ). The passage appears to commence abruptly because Paul moves into his subject without preparation. But we may see this as an intentional way of shocking them into taking notice. In it he warns them against the Jews/Judaisers in no uncertain terms. Having rejected their Messiah... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:3

‘For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.’ The position of such people is now seen as in contrast with those who make up the true Israel (‘the Circumcision’), who are detectable not by the mutilation of their flesh, but by a recognition of the fact that that they worship by the Spirit of God (rather than by dead ritual), glory in the true Messiah Jesus, and have no confidence in fleshly achievement. Such... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:4

‘Though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more,’ Paul then points out that if it came to ‘works of self-righteousness’, then when he was a Jew he had had far more to rely on as making him acceptable to God than their present visitors, for he had been a Jew from his earliest days, and circumcised as such, had been of pure descent and training, and as a Pharisee had been as zealous after works of righteousness as it... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:5

‘Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews,’ Paul now lists the things that had marked him off as ‘perfect’ in the eyes of the Jews. He had been properly circumcised at the right time, he could trace his descent backwards to prove that he was a genuine true-born Israelite (which, in spite of their best efforts, comparatively few Jews could do), he was a recognised member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the tribes which had preserved its... read more

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:13

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:19

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20-21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:1

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:2

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:2-9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:3

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:5

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