CCXXI. Things Before.
PHIL. iii. 13. "Things which are before." I. THERE are certain things before every Christian. There is no growth before a self-deceiver, there is no growth in imitations; but before…
CCXX. Pressing to the Mark.
PHIL. iii. 13, 14. "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things…
CCXIX. Progress.
PHIL. iii. 13, 14. "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, for- getting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those…
CCXVIII. Paul’s Desire.
PHIL. iii. 10, 11. "That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any…
CCXVII. The Power of the Resurrection.
PHIL. iii. 10. "That I may know the power of His resurrection." THE power of His resurrection may signify the power which effected it, or the power of the fact…
CCXVI. False and True Grounds of Trust.
PHIL. iii. 7, 8. "But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of…
CCXV. The Things of Christ.
PHIL. ii. 21. "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's." THE first thought that strikes one is the alarming possi- bility that a man's own…
CCXIV. Obedient unto Death.
PHIL, ii. 8. "And became obedient unto death" THERE lies a distinction, entirely borne out in the original, in that word "became." It is not Christ was obedient unto death,…
CCXIII. Paul’s hesitation between Life and Death.
PHIL. i. 21-25. "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet…
CCXII. Love Abounding in Knowledge.
PHIL. i. 9. "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge." THE apostle does not say, "I pray that your knowledge may abound…