Philippians - Verse-by-Verse Biblical Exegesis

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eality of divine guardianship. Even in the surrealistic circumstances of combat you will embrace the plan of God rather than seek escape. If you are still alive, God has a purpose for your life. Leave self-recrimination behind and continue to fulfill your spiritual destiny! Once any sin or failure has been cited and, therefore forgiven, the believer must not revisit the sin. He must isolate the sin, forget the sin, and keep moving in the spiritual life. The springing up of reaction to a previously forgiven sin has two devastating results. The first is the believer’s potential for causing trouble for himself by relapsing into reversionism. Trouble is self-induced misery. The second is that many are defiled. Others in your periphery, under your influence, may too be drawn into reversionism. (R.B. Thieme, Jr.) Satan loves to get us saints grieving over sins that have been forgiven and forgotten by God! He knows that our pace in life’s race will be slackened. (K. Wuest) Philp. 3:13 Brethren (Voc. Address; fellow believers), as for me (Subj. Nom.), I evaluate (logi,zomai, PMI1S, Aoristic, Deponent; mathematical calculation, reasoning, drawing a conclusion; objective self-evaluation) myself (Acc. Appos.) as not yet (neg. adv.) having attained (katalamba,nw, Perf.AInf., Consummative, Future time, Intended Result; "reached the objective") it (USG status). However (adversative), one thing (Subj. Nom.) is (ellipsis) for sure (affirmative; certain indeed): on the one hand (contrast), I am constantly (completely) forgetting (evpilanqa,nomai, PMPtc.NSM, Gnomic & Durative, Telic, Deponent; caring nothing about a thing) the things (Acc. Dir. Obj.) which (Acc. Gen. Ref.) lie behind (Adv. Place; the part of the footrace which has already been covered; the testing, suffering, and discipline while in reversionism), and on the other hand (contrast), pursuing vigorously the objective (evpektei,nomai, PMPtc.NSM, Pictorial, Telic, Deponent; straining & stretching towards the finish line) ahead (Adv. Place; towards the front, USG status). WHO Philippians 3:13 avdelfoi, evgw. evmauto.n ou;pw logi,zomai kateilhfe,nai\ e]n de, ta. me.n ovpi,sw evpilanqano,menoj toi/j de. e;mprosqen evpekteino,menoj VUL Philippians 3:13 fratres ego me non arbitror conprehendisse unum autem quae quidem retro sunt obliviscens ad ea vero quae sunt in priora extendens me LWB Philp. 3:14 I keep on advancing [from supergrace B] towards the goal [ultrasupergrace], for the prize [reward] of the upward [heavenly] station in life [ruling & reigning in the Millennium as a winner believer] from God [Who designed the plan] in Christ Jesus. KW Philp. 3:14 Bearing down upon the goal, I am pursuing on for the prize of the call from above of God which is in Christ Jesus.
KJV Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. TRANSLATION HIGHLIGHTS Paul keeps on advancing (Progressive Present tense) in the spiritual life, through momentum testing into spiritual autonomy. He knows exactly where he is going and how to get there. His goal is to pass evidence testing and then enter ultra-supergrace status (Latin: the destination). His reward will be a victor’s wreath or crown. The prize will be given by the Supreme Umpire. He will also receive an upward or heavenly station in life during the Millennium (Latin: super vocation). This high calling is reserved for winner believers only, the metachoi, who will rule and reign with Christ Jesus for a thousand years. God the Father issued the plan and it was worked out in Christ Jesus by the filling of the Holy Spirit. Those who succeed in the plan and become winners will receive an inheritance of special blessings above and beyond that of loser believers; loser believers were distracted from God’s plan at some stage in their spiritual life. Loser believers reject God’s precise protocol plan for the Church Age and either substitute a false plan of their own or became carnal and live with no plan at all. REVELANT OPINIONS Positive volition becomes an asset in itself, a driving force in the mature believer’s life. Confidence in God enables him to squarely and honestly face his own questions as an essential part of being receptive to truth. Doctrine fills all the compartments of his soul, including his subconscious, so that he develops the instincts of grace, of gratitude, of true worship. Because of practice in learning and applying doctrine, he has his senses trained to discern good and evil (Heb. 5:14). He stretches forward, extending his stride like a runner with the goal in sight. He loves and desires truth. The increasing desire to know and worship God propels the potential winner toward his spiritual destiny. He is still free; he still has his old sin nature; he can still turn aside into error or indifference. But after his positive volition strengthens into a functioning secondary asset, his frame of reference and his conscience operate in favor of truth. He has forward momentum. Negative volition would go against his grain. (R.B. Thieme, Jr.) Paul says he was running on, with his eyes fixed straight ahead on the tape which marks the winning post. Here is our test. Are we speeding or laggard? Is our gaze concentrated on the one final object? (R.A. Ward) The object of Paul's continuous pursuit is the prize, not the calling itself ... he focuses on the end of the race rather than its beginning … The noun κλησισ, like its cognate verb καλεω, frequently refers to God's initial and effective call to salvation through the Gospel: it is a summons to (1) enter the kingdom, (2) enter Christ's peace, (3) enter into fellowship with Christ, (4) to be conformed to the image of Christ, (5) to receive salvation, and (6) to receive eternal life ... This unusual use of “calling” by Paul may have been to correct Jewish Christian opponents (or those influenced by them), who made claims about their exalted status believing that an upward call to heavenly existence was attained in this life. The apostle by contrast asserts that “the upward calling” is the prize that lies at the end of the race. (P.T. O'Brien) Paul refused to get excessively bogged down in his circumstances, difficult though they were. He, instead, lived with the purposeful
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Philippians Benjamin W. Brodie Sept
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[perfect integrity & scale of value
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is: from Bible doctrine], if there
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as a student-teacher [apprentice],
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objective [the pinnacle of spiritua
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Philp. 4:10 Now I have received gre
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Church founding is the work of God.
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paramount importance, both to Paul
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thinking is sucked into his mind (
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deacons. KJV Philippians 1:1 Paul a
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himself more or less exclusively to
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city as a whole. I would go so far
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he was in prison. “Fellowship in
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depends on how you translate the Fu
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faith and to grow in holiness, God
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ule too absolutely. If one article
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Remember when I said Paul was think
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virtue love? Yes, but he is piling
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one enters fully into this entire c
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extremely rich and abundant (PASubj
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always be ready for action, to inst
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time and eternity. Spiritual maturi
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REVELANT OPINIONS For Paul the goal
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itself and its Messiah Christ were
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WHO Philippians 1:14 kai. tou.j ple
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TRANSLATION HIGHLIGHTS Paul again c
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words is to regard the opposition t
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their conduct and speech in public.
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apartment to live in, and attorney
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the Lord gives him more years to li
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face-to-face with Christ. So either
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spiritual autonomy, which is the ne
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united with him in death. In one se
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said to enter Sheol or Hades. After
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Philp. 1:24 Yet (adversative, post-
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KW Philp. 1:26 In order that your r
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Present tense), holding their groun
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doom] for them, but for you, delive
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side. The Constative Aorist tense p
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Murray) Foreknowledge means that sa
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(an Attributive article refers back
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conditional clause is a protasis of
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is always room for more! If the Phi
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KJV Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be
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affairs. It is the selfish, preoccu
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KW Philp. 2:6 Who has always been a
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VUL Philippians 2:6 qui cum in form
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He laid aside the form of God. In s
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conversation. (P. O’Brien) Philp.
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REVELANT OPINIONS It is not at the
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continue their experiential sanctif
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Paul gives the Philippians their "e
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long as we are in fellowship with H
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undertaken in the strength that the
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to be disputed. This greatly adorns
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jaws of (the sin unto) death ... Un
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But as you might guess by the posit
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from his personal love for God, for
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The "all things" cannot be complete
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LWB Philp. 4:15 Now you Philippians
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VUL Philippians 4:16 quia et Thessa
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Paul counters these vicious accusat
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material needs. (P. O’Brien) God
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(Acc. Dir. Obj.). WHO Philippians 4
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Philippians, W.B. Harrison Philippi
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