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3 min · ActiveChristianity. “For 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.”. Philippians 3:18. Usually, it isn’t the knowledge that Christ was crucified for us on Calvary that people are enemies of. The truth is that I become an enemy of the cross of Christ ...
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Mar 21, 2022 · The cross is of supreme importance (Galatians 6:14), and there is no neutrality in response to the cross. In sorrow, Paul describes the destiny of these enemies of the cross. “Even weeping,” Paul warns that the end of these people is destruction (Philippians 3:18). Believers are called to a life of self-denial to follow Christ: “Whoever ...
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2. He particularly admonishes them to follow him and to mark those ministers who walk as he does; also to shape their belief and conduct by the pattern they have received from him. Not only of himself does he make an example, but introduces them who similarly walk, several of whom he mentions in this letter to the Philippians. The individuals whom ...
5. In what respect he was a pattern or example to them, he has made plain; for instance, in the beginning of this chapter, in the third verse and following [Phl 3:9], he says: “For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh: though I myself might have confidence even in ...
12. The thing seems incredible, and I would not have believed it myself, nor have understood Paul’s words here, had I not witnessed it with my own eyes and experienced it. Were the apostle to repeat the charge today, who could conceive that our first, noblest, most respectable, godly and holy people, those whom we might expect, above all others, to...
20. The apostle makes his accusation yet more galling with the words “whose god is their belly.” Thus you hear how human righteousness, even at its best, extends no higher than to service of the sensual appetites. Take all the wisdom, justice, jurisprudence, artifice, even the highest virtues the world affords, and what are they? They minister only...
23. With the believers in Christ, them who have their righteousness in him, there should follow in this life on earth the fruits of upright living, in obedience to God. These fruits constitute the good works acceptable to God, which, being works of faith and wrought in Christ, will be rewarded in the life to come. But Paul has in mind the individua...
25. Meantime, while we walk in the faith of his righteousness, he has patience with the poor, frail righteousness of this earthly life, which otherwise is but filth in his sight. He honors our human holiness by supporting and protecting it during the time we live on earth; just as we honor our corrupt, filthy bodies, adorning them with beautiful, c...
31. Therefore we are no longer citizens of earth. The baptized Christian is born a citizen of heaven through baptism. We should be mindful of this fact and walk here as if native there. We are to console ourselves with the fact that God thus accepts us and will transplant us there. Meantime we must await the coming again of the Saviour, who is to b...
34. Think of the honor and the glory Christ’s righteousness brings even to our bodies! How can this poor, sinful, miserable, filthy, polluted body become like unto that of the Son of God, the Lord of Glory? What are you—your powers and abilities, or those of all men, to effect this glorious thing? But Paul says human righteousness, merit, glory and...
The fact that they did not know Christ caused him much grief. His tears were probably not only for the souls that were lost, but also the fact that Christianity counted so many enemies. Even today, believers are called to pray for our enemies (Matthew 5:44), and care for sinners (James 5:20), in the hope that God will turn their hearts towards ...
For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, who live as enemies of the cross of Christ [rejecting and opposing His way of salvation], Christian Standard Bible For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Holman Christian Standard Bible
These “enemies of the cross of Christ” “shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. But while we speak of these people, it becomes us to be very tender, for the apostle says, “of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping.”.
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Dec 13, 2011 · This call to pay attention to those who follow the Savior was apparently necessary for the Philippians due to some negative examples in Philippi. Based on today’s passage that warns about the enemies of the cross of Christ (v. 18), we can conclude that there were professing Christians in Philippi who perverted the gospel by their approval of sin.
