Philippians 3:19

“whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things”

“Whose end is perdition”: God does not mess around with such people. God has no tolerance for the child of God, who can look at the sacrifice of Christ and yet continue to live for self and continue to engage in habitual sin. “End”: Their final lot. Yes, people will end up in hell, forever (Matthew 25:41). Note: They do not begin in hell and then work off their sins, their final destiny or "end" is hell. “Perdition”: The idea of the word perdition (destruction) is not loss of being (annihilation), but rather, loss of well-being, or eternal ruin. Most certainly, hell is. place of conscious suffering (Mark 9:43; Luke 16:24). “Whose god is the belly”: “A figure for serving self” (Jackson p. 73). “For their appetites are their God” (TCNT). “Sensuality in food, drink, sex then as now mastered some men” (Robertson pp. 456-457). “They conceive of no higher good than the satisfaction of their bodily appetites” (Hawthorne p. 165). Whose ultimate concern is for themselves and their physical needs and desires.

“And whose glory is in their shame”: “They are proud of what they should be ashamed of” (Tay). Compare with Romans 6:21. “They pride themselves upon those indulgences which are really their disgrace. Their boasted liberty is bondage to lust” (Erdman p. 128). “Shame”: Nothing much has changed. Today we hear even religious people professing their "liberation" from what they claim are terrible, backward and oppressive requirements found in the Bible (Titus 3:3; 2 Peter 2:18). “Who mind earthly things”: “They are absorbed in earthy matters” (Gspd). “This world is the limit of their horizon” (Phi). “They are concerned with values which pass away, having neither divine origin or eternal quality” (Hawthorne p. 167). Compare with Colossians 3:2; Colossians 3:5; Colossians 3:8; Matthew 6:32. People whose heart is tethered to the things of this world (Matthew 6:21; Matthew 6:24; Mark 4:19). Jackson observes, “The apostle Paul did not entertain that phoney, ecumenical philosophy that is characteristic of so many religionists of this day. To some, practically anything at all that sails under the banner ‘Christianity' is to be benevolently endorsed” (p. 72).