CHAPTER 10
NO CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH.
Philippians 3:1 (R.V.)
THE third chapter contains the portion of this Epistle in which,
perhaps, one is hardest put to it to keep pace with the writer. Here
he gives us one of his most remarkable expositions of true Christian
religion as he knew it, and as h... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 11
THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST.
Philippians 3:8 (R.V.)
MR. ALEXANDER KNOX, in a letter to a friend, makes the following
remark: "Religion contains two sets of truths, which I may venture to
denominate ultimate and mediatory: the former refer to God as an
original and end; the latter to the Wor... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 12
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.
Philippians 3:9 (R.V.)
RIGHTEOUSNESS is a term which is applied in different ways. Often it
denotes excellence of personal character. So used, it suggests the
idea. of a life whose manifestations agree with the standard by which
lives are tried. Sometimes it... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 13
RESURRECTION LIFE AND DAILY DYING.
Philippians 3:10
WE have still other aspects to consider of that "gain" which the
Apostle descried in Christ, for the sake of which he had cast so much
away.
To prize the righteousness of faith was an element in the true
knowledge of Christ; but it wa... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 14
CHRISTIAN LIFE A RACE.
Philippians 3:12 (R.V.)
VARIOUS passages in this Epistle suggest that the Apostle's Philippian
friends or some of them were relaxing in diligence; they were failing
perhaps to lay to heart the need of progress, less sensitive than they
ought to be to the impulse o... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 15
ENEMIES OF THE CROSS.
Philippians 3:18 (R.V.)
THE New Testament writers, and not least the Apostle Paul, are wont to
bring out their conception of the true Christian life by setting it
vividly in contrast with the life of the unspiritual man. They seem to
say: "If you really mean to say... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 16
OUR CITY AND OUR COMING KING.
Philippians 3:20 (R.V.)
To live amid the things, of earth, and in constant converse with them,
a life in the power of Christ's resurrection, and in the fellowship of
His sufferings, was the Apostle's chosen course; in which he would
have the Philippians to... [ Continue Reading ]