DISCOURSE: 2151 THE TRUE CHRISTIAN DELINEATED Philippians 3:3. _We are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh_. IT is much to be lamented that the nature of genuine Christianity is but little understood. An assent to the f... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2152 THE EXCELLENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST Philippians 3:7. _What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but toss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord_. MANKIND in general are agitated by various and cont... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2153 CHRIST, GAIN TO THE BELIEVER Philippians 3:8. _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 righteo... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2154 THE POWER OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION Philippians 3:10. _That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection_. MANY think that religion is not an object of choice, but rather of compulsion and constraint: and hence they frequently suggest to the godly, that the measure of piety to... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2155 HOLY AMBITION ENCOURAGED Philippians 3:13. _Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2156 OF FOLLOWING GOOD EXAMPLES Philippians 3:17; Philippians 3:20. _Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.…For our conversation is in heaven_. GREAT is the force of example, either to vitiate or improve the morals of those aroun... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2157 A WARNING TO THE EARTHLY-MINDED Philippians 3:18. _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: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly thing... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2156 OF FOLLOWING GOOD EXAMPLES Philippians 3:17; Philippians 3:20. _Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.…For our conversation is in heaven_. GREAT is the force of example, either to vitiate or improve the morals of those aroun... [ Continue Reading ]