Philippians 3:9 - Forerunner Commentary

Philippians 3:9

7 But ^awhat things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.

8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss ^afor the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

9 and be found in Him, not having ^amy own righteousness, which is from the law, but ^bthat which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

10 that I may know Him and the ^apower of His resurrection, and ^bthe fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

11 if, by any means, I may ^aattain to the resurrection from the dead.

Pressing Toward the Goal

12 Not that I have already ^aattained, or am already ^bperfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have¹ apprehended; but one thing I do, ^aforgetting those things which are behind and ^breaching forward to those things which are ahead,

14 ^aI press toward the goal for the prize of ^bthe upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Therefore let us, as many as are ^amature, ^bhave this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, ^cGod will reveal even this to you.

16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already¹ attained, ^alet us walk ^bby the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

Our Citizenship in Heaven

17 Brethren, ^ajoin in following my example, and note those who so walk, as ^byou have us for a pattern.

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You ought to be able to see that this series of verses makes attaining the resurrection of the dead as the first priority in life. Paul says from his own experience that, "Everything else is rubbish" by comparison. It is not merely being raised to life that is of super-importance because as we have already seen, others have been raised to life from the dead before. What is important is the kind of life that lies beyond being raised to life, but we cannot have that quality of life except by means of the resurrection Jesus went through and Paul writes it of such a priority right now.

We are going to look at something here that is very important to Christianity. Paul says, "That I may be found in Him," it means "in union with." In the Bible's descriptive language, it portrays actually being inside of, in, that is what the word "in" means.

Excerpted from The Resurrection From the Dead by John W. Ritenbaugh

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