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Last Week Review
The title of our study of Philippians is Joy in Jesus and I think rightly so.
There are specific issues Paul addresses in this epistle but the primary thing that stand’s out and is mentioned time and time again is Paul’s joy, specifically his joy in Christ.
Christ was the ultimate gain for Paul.
He was (and still is) supremely valuable to Paul as well as us.
Death to Paul was gain because death meant that he would be with Jesus.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
We looked last week at chapter 3 verse 8 which reads:
He states he “suffered the loss of all things… in order that I may gain Christ.”
We talked about what he lost.
Really it was life as Paul knew it.
His whole life and worldview changed when he was converted to Christ.
He lost his comfortable status as a Pharisee, likely many friends, his social standing, and certainly many privileges he enjoyed.
Basically he lost himself.
He lost himself yet gained Christ. That’s a pretty good trade.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.
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Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
We discussed how Paul and all of mankind becomes justified, or declared righteous, before God.
This is the doctrine of justification and is a central teaching of the gospel.
We talked about how through faith alone in Christ alone is how we receive the gift of salvation and how it is Christ righteousness, no our own, that we are credited with through faith.
The believer will stand before God credited with Christ’s righteousness.
In the gospel, and on the cross, Christ takes our guilt and our debt, and imputes (transfers) His righteousness to us.
Christ is our substitute both in the sinless, righteous, life he lived, and also our substitute in His death.
He died in our place but also lived in our place.
In verses 10-16 Paul shifts from looking back to the cross, and back from his conversion and looks forward.
He looks forward to what lies ahead.
I mentioned earlier in our study that I believe Paul expected to be with the Lord soon and there is an emotional weight to this letter that I believe is unique.
Paul had no shortage of persecution throughout the years in his ministry throughout Asia and Europe.
The nearness of death was something that surely weighed on Paul’s mind on a daily basis.
Perhaps Paul had a more imminent sense of his death.
How much did that effect Paul’s thinking, I don’t know, but the amount of ground he covered would do anything to suggest he didn’t hide, no, he pushed on always.
Introduction to What Lies Ahead
This section in Philippians is one of Paul’s most intimate portions of the New Testament.
His relationship with Christ was of supreme value.
He treasured Christ above all.
Philippians 3:i8
Knowing Christ was worth the loss of all things.
And we could say that gaining Christ required the loss of all things.
Anything that stood between him and union with Christ is counted as rubbish the forsaken or lost.
To receive Christ it to turn from everything that is in opposition to Christ.
Christ isn’t just an upgrade to our lives.
He isn’t an accessory.
He is Lord and He has preeminence over all things.
To be converted to Christ requires repentance.
REPENTANCE—There are three Greek words used in the New Testament to denote repentance.
(1.)
The verb metamelomai is used of a change of mind, such as to produce regret or even remorse on account of sin, but not necessarily a change of heart.
This word is used with reference to the repentance of Judas (Matt.
27:3).
(2.) Metanoeo, meaning to change one’s mind and purpose, as the result of after knowledge.
This verb, with (3.) the cognate noun metanoia, is used of true repentance, a change of mind and purpose and life, to which remission of sin is promised.
Evangelical repentance consists of (1) a true sense of one’s own guilt and sinfulness; (2) an apprehension of God’s mercy in Christ; (3) an actual hatred of sin (Ps.
119:128; Job 42:5, 6; 2 Cor.
7:10) and turning from it to God; and (4) a persistent endeavour after a holy life in a walking with God in the way of his commandments.
The true penitent is conscious of guilt (Ps.
51:4, 9), of pollution (51:5, 7, 10), and of helplessness (51:11; 109:21, 22).
Thus he apprehends himself to be just what God has always seen him to be and declares him to be.
But repentance comprehends not only such a sense of sin, but also an apprehension of mercy, without which there can be no true repentance (Ps.
51:1; 130:4).
True repentance is no small thing, and as we just read, it begins in the mind.
It’s an internal transformation of thought.
It brings a whole new disposition.
One’s will is changed.
Your affections and desires are changed.
Verses 7-11 is a real life illustration of Paul’s repentance.
Question: Have you repented?
Have we seen God in such a way, and conversely ourselves, that we have turned to Him and turned from anything that is in opposition to Him?
As we’ve said, we are saved, or justified, by faith alone, in Christ alone.
So why now am I adding repentance?
True biblical faith, that faith that saves us, includes repentance.
It’s really 2 sides of the same coin.
One can’t truly trust Jesus and trust ourselves, our sin, and our unholy desires.
They don’t go together.
Think of faith and repentance as an ‘about face’.
Union with Christ (Vv 10-11)
When I say union with Christ what I mean and what I’m referring to is our oneness.
We are to be conformed to His image and that’s what I mean.
Our union with Him is our identification with Him.
We find our identities in Christ and thus live as such.
Think of a marriage, it is a union.
It’s a coming together.
Verse 10 - Paul says “that I may know Him”
We’ve mentioned before but this ‘knowing’ is more than just intellectual awareness.
It is an intimate relationship, or a very close relationship.
To know someone is different than just knowing about someone.
This is Paul’s most passionate longing (1:20–23); he speaks not merely of greater mental awareness, but of deepened personal union.
The following two clauses explain how knowing Christ is presently experienced.
He points out the efficacy and nature of faith—that it is the knowledge of Christ, and that, too, not bare or indistinct, but in such a manner that the power of his resurrection is felt
Question: What does it mean to know the power of Christ’s resurrection?
As stated,the resurrection of Christ was an act of God’s power.
It was a display of God’s power.
So how do we know the power of His resurrection in practical ways?
What does this look like in everyday life?
galations 2:21
galatians 2:20
Our lives, if we are in Christ and have been crucified with Him as Paul puts it, are a display of God’s resurrecting power.
We know the power of Christ’s resurrection, and experience it, by living transformed lives.
Think about baptism, what is displayed or portrayed in the believers baptism?
It’s a picture of dying, being buried, and then resurrected to newness of life.
And the public display of this is really an announcement of our union with Christ.
Our everyday lives are to be a display of a resurrected life.
We haven’t experienced a physical/bodily resurrection yet, which Paul clarifies that in just a few verses, but spiritually we have been raised to newness of life.
So we can know Christ deeper through living transformed lives, lives of suffering for His sake.
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