To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. Luke described the city called Philippi as a *Roman ‘*colony’(Acts 16:12). The Immortality of the Soul: Paul visited Philippi again onhis third journey (Acts 20:1-6). Many of God’s people do not believe that he can make them what he means to make them, or, at least, they act as if they did not believe that he can. Philippians 3:1. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. I've bolded a few quotes that stood out to me. The word, "finally" here, indicates that this is summing up the things he had said to them in the last chapter. Philippians 3:2. - Oscar Cullmann, Immortality of the Soul - by Kaufmann Kohler, Technical Terms and Usages Preclude Innate Immortality - Froom, The Development of the Doctrine of Immortality from the Apostolic Fathers to Augustine, The Doctrine of Immortality in the Early Church. But you know what? Philippians 3:3. Each of us must walk in the light we have. Some of the churches had developed severe problems, and Paul’s letters had focused on dealing with the problems. The Immortality of the Soul: A Protest - Joseph Agar Beet D.D. However prettily they may talk, if they are workers of evil, beware of them.” By their fruits ye shall know them.” Their speech may be clever, but if their lips be unclean, beware of them. As a *Roman *colony, itscitizens possessed the same rights and laws as those who lived in Italy. 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. The very high value that the apostle Paul set upon the Savior, is most palpable, when he speaks of winning Him. Convinced that this was a God-given vision, Paul and his companions set sail for Macedonia and settled in Philippi, where they started a church, beginning with the conversion of Lydia (Acts 16:11-15). Paul thinks that to be righteous by faith is infinitely better than all the righteousness that can come by works and ceremonies. Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Illustrations are indexed by theme, enabling you to quickly find a fitting observation, whether you're searching by topic or verse. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, Philippians 3:10-12. The Nature of Man - Dualistic or Holistic? Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church - Paul Washer - Video, The Bible Without Comment - William E. Cox, Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman, Everybody Loves Jesus: The Culture Cherishes a Counterfeit Christ, Historian David Barton on Jon Stewart Show, Hollywood's War on Traditional Values - Video, Homosexuals Brainwashing Our Children in Elementary Schools, The Homosexual Propaganda Campaign in America, The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (Hays Code), The New England Primer - First Elementary School Textbook - 1777, What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts, Why Does Socialism Always Fail? They are not, apparently, conscious of what their privileges really are, and are living far below where they might live in the happy enjoyment of peace and power and usefulness. Philippians 3:2. According to the letter of the law, he was a diamond of the first order; yet see what a different verdict he gives after grace has opened his eyes. In these words, Paul expressed his love for the Philippian believers. Identify the subjects (reading cycle #3). Philippians 3:1-14 New King James Version (NKJV) All for Christ. If they have not made their due impression upon you already, perhaps they will do so when they are repeated in your hearing. Philippians 3:2. Philippians 3:4. Pauland Silas, with Timothy and Luke, established the church there after theycrossed from Asia into Europe (Acts 16:12-40). The worst enemies that the cross of Christ has are the enemies inside the professing church of Christ. Joy should be the normal state of the Christian. If God has given you one form of perfection, press onward to a much higher form of perfection. The Spurgeon Commentary: Philippians makes Spurgeon’s content accessible—there’s no longer a need to comb through many volumes looking for one nugget of wisdom. === Sample: Philippians 1:1-5 === Philippians 1 1-2. This is a translation point, not a conclusion, since 44 verses remain in this book. Philippians 3:19. You know that it is a very easy thing, or it ought to be a very easy thing, for some people to be humble, for they have nothing to be proud of, but here is a man who had much of which he might have been proud. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. What a happy religion is ours in which it is a duty to be happy! If they have not made their due impression upon you already, perhaps they will do so when they are repeated in your hearing. Sermons that are part of our on-line collection are hotlinked to the index pages. Jesus Christ—Unique Savior or Average Fraud? Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Philippians 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have laid hold of it. The eagle’s motto is, “Higher, Higher!” Let it be your motto too. Beware of the concision. You perhaps suppose that Paul’s present satisfaction arises out of a consciousness of personal perfection, but it is not so. The Nature Of The Death Threatened As The Penalty Of Sin - Edward White, The Penalty of Death for Disobedience - Froom, Traditionalism and the (Not So) Second Death - Chris Date, Biblical Examples of Everlasting Destruction, Destroyed For Ever: An Examination of the Debates Concerning Annihilation and Conditional Immortality, Eternal Destruction Is Decreed Doom of Wicked - Leroy Edwin Froom, Further Biblical Support for Everlasting Destruction, The Destruction of the Finally Impenitent - Clark H. 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Shelly w/ audio, A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness - Jeremiah Burroughs. Yet doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, 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, Everything else must go in order to secure that. Gender Revolution - What are they teaching your kids? Why I Don't Have a Television - John Piper, Why People Find the Bible Difficult - A. W. Tozer, Your Life is Like the Morning Fog - James P. Shelly, A Challenge to Unscriptural Traditions and Practice - Video, Are Seminaries Legitimate? The men who have abandoned all confidence in themselves, the men who have come to rely upon Christ alone, the men who “rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh,” those who care not for outward rites and ceremonies, but who worship God in the spirit, — these are the true circumcision. Philippians 3:7-9. “I want to lay hold of that for which Christ has laid hold of me. Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.). So that, if anybody could have boasted of what he was by birth, what he was by profession, what he was by the display of religious zeal, Paul could have boasted as boldly as anyone could, for in all those respects he was second to nobody. 3209 A SERMON PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 1910, DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON “That I may win Christ.” — Philippians 3:8. Seek continually to rise. 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