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 ]