Having for one of its main objects deliverance from the power of sin and the promotion of universal holiness, it is fitted to cherish a love of practical godliness.2. J. Gloag, D. D.)The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsT. iii. As we cannot be partakers in Christ's atoning, He cannot partake of our sinful sufferings. (Anna Shipton. Fellowship with Christ's sufferings is the endless conflict of the believer's course, ever wearing and wearying Him. Silently it passes the bounds of the unseen land; and the gate which opens to admit it to this is a gate of tears and moans. If I throw a stone, I can ascertain the weight of the stone, the moment at which it leaves my hand, the distance of the spot at which it touches the ground. He bore the whole burden of human suffering. ITS REWARD.1. "That I may know Him" (Phil. As we cannot be partakers in Christ's atoning, He cannot partake of our sinful sufferings. (4)Life spiritual and eternal.3. By suffering as far as possible in His Spirit. What does the apostle mea George MacDonaldUnspoken SermonsEntire SanctificationBy Dr. Adam Clarke The word "sanctify" has two meanings. They gathered with Him round the supper table, and gazed into His sorrowful countenance, but could not understand the mystery of His sufferings. There is no spiritual value in depression. If you pride yourself on your family you can have no fellowship with Him who endured contempt as the carpenter's son. And thus we are partakers with Him, being called to suffer after His example. Sometimes it is a little irritation and provocation. Suffering the suffering of arduous effort, patient resignation, and trust when faith is tempted to fail.2. Shall the coming months be marked by a diligent, heart-searching application of "the rest of the oil," to the yet unoccupied possibilities of our life and service? Every heart knows its own bitterness. In the highest sense we cannot share Christ's sufferings, and, thank God, need not. No; in our Christian life, Christ is first and midst and last: and no mere moral strength or determination can be reckoned on as accessory to Him in his great work. )Fellowship with Christ's sufferingMusical Anecdotes.An intimate friend of Handel's called upon him just as he was in the middle of setting the words of "He was despised" to music, and found the great composer sobbing with tears, so greatly had this passage and the rest of his morning's work affected the master. But that principle is untrue and dangerous, unless carefully guarded. Let me enter into the fellowship of the sufferings of Jesus, that will make me hate sin. A. how sweet a cross it is to see a cross betwixt Christ and us; to hear our Redeemer say, at every sigh, and every blow, and every loss of a believer, "Half mine!"(S. (f) That without shedding of blood is no remission of sins. And do not be cast down that you have not received the fulness of blessing. What does the apostle mea George MacDonaldUnspoken SermonsEntire SanctificationBy Dr. Adam Clarke The word "sanctify" has two meanings. LET US ANALYSE THIS EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHING FEATURE OF CHRISTIAN ATTAINMENT. 11.--"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? So we know Christ if we pray to Him. )The fellowship of His sufferingsThe fellowship of Christ's sufferingsJ. 13, 14. TO HEAL CONSCIENCE. Does it not seem like a hollow mockery of the heart's great grief? In all ages and countries the human heart has had two questions to ask about it, which nothing but the resurrection can completely answer. Much of Christ's sorrow arose from unavoidable intercourse with the wicked. (1) These principles are (a) That Jehovah is a just and holy Being, and that evil cannot dwell with Him. Those who share the pains of Christ are entitled to His joys. If he loves overmuch, it is not love that suffers, but conscientiousness. His first coming has been to us salvation, and we are delivered from the wrath of God through him. I think not. Stowell, M. A.I. It is a law of organic life, that the lowest form of it has least power of suffering; the highest form of it most. Sometimes it is somebody Rev. Really the text means--our citizenship is in Heaven, we belong to the Eternal City. (1) In all their bitterness they were foreseen, whereas ours are hidden, and come in drops only. Raffles, D. D.)The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsW. We have seen how the Apostle was prepared to close his letter at the beginning of this chapter, and how that intention was swept away by the rush of new thoughts. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 15. This is essential to our taking full advantage of His riches and resources.III. And so sin does not die all at once. For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScripturePreparing to End'Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Yes, to those who have mistaken what religion is, to the selfish, the cowardly, and the slothful, whose religion is only a device for getting to heaven as comfortably as they can.II. Imputed guilt crushed Him; shall actual guilt bring to us. Terror on account of sin may throw over his soul its dark shadow, but this is not fellowship with Christ's sufferings.1. (1) "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do!" Ah no: there they were beneath His cross, scoffing at Him and aggravating His death pangs. Is it not worth while to get rid of this with all its grievous bondage?3. The first words of the text show that Paul was beginning to think of winding up his letter, and the preceding context also suggests that. 10-11 (R.V.). The knowledge transcends all other as to its importance. Do we anything but what he commanded us? )The knowledge of Christ a personal knowledgeDean Vaughan.The knowledge about which the apostle speaks is a personal knowledge. Paul has just been laying down a great principle--viz. Is this a gloomy view of religion? (1) Those who think of them as chiefly corporeal, or proceeding from the treatment of men, or from natural causes, cannot share this fellowship. But when in the depth of the valley of humiliation Christ was ever awake to each particular of His great load of woe, and when they offered Him the stupefying potion He put it from Him. But if He had only died, while we should have admired the unparalleled sacrifice, we should have mourned its uselessness. Psalm 118:27, is prophetic of the passion. W. Beecher.Suffering in human life is very widely vicarious. And yet, let us consider what it was that caused that cry: it was the dark shadow of imputed sin coming between His soul and God. "Made conformable" means being cast in the same form, being brought into such a community and likeness that one sketch, outline, shape, will represent both.I. Is it not too often so even with us? In its effect on our sanctification (John 7:39; John 16:7-8).4. They who shrank back from suffering that Peter who was ready to say, "That be far from Thee, Lord," and denied his Master that man gathers his fellows round him, and they lift up the voice of praise, rejoicing that they are counted worthy to suffer persecution for the sake of Christ. THERE ARE SENSES IN WHICH WE CAN HAVE NO COMMUNITY WITH OUR LORD IN HIS SUFFERINGS.1. Hugh Binning"But Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God," &C. Matth. it does not much matter about strenuous effort, if we are right at bottom it will all come Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Soul's Perfection'Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.'--PHIL. As we go to the ship to see friends depart, and leave them with cheers and benedictions, and wafted kisses; so, when a young spirit is about to be launched into this earthly life, one would think that troops of angels would attend it, and with hope and gladness see it on its way. The two are in different portions of His being. The resurrection was thus constantly before Christ's mind, because it was to be the warrant of His mission. 12. It extinguishes our love for the world.III. As the noblest expression of Divine love for man; as the infinitely meritorious price of our redemption; as the only safe ground of a trembling sinner's hope.2. The same loving, sympathizing spirit that was in Him must be in them. (3) It is the sum and substance of a believer's life (Philippians 1:21). All his desires, interests, objects, were swallowed up in the living to Christ's glory. No; in our Christian life, Christ is first and midst and last: and no mere moral strength or determination can be reckoned on as accessory to Him in his great work. Wait but a little while, my soul, wait for the Divine promise, and thou shalt have abundance of all good things Thomas A KempisImitation of ChristLinksPhilippians 3:10 NIVPhilippians 3:10 NLTPhilippians 3:10 ESVPhilippians 3:10 NASBPhilippians 3:10 KJVPhilippians 3:10 Bible AppsPhilippians 3:10 ParallelPhilippians 3:10 Biblia ParalelaPhilippians 3:10 Chinese BiblePhilippians 3:10 French BiblePhilippians 3:10 German BiblePhilippians 3:10 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)our fervent prayer against it;(3)our desire for sanctification;(4)our joyful anticipation of a sinless world.(A. In the temper and spirit of His death. If we heard the inward voice of conscience alone we might doubt whether there was really anything external which warranted it; if we witnessed the outward miracle alone we might see in it a mere wonder with no moral consequence. Not by entailing suffering on Himself, or courting it for its own sake. All the members of the body feel if one be afflicted, so do all the members of the body of Christ.II. Rutherford. (1) Love to God and man; the former because God s honour required vindication; the latter because man needed mercy. Is this a gloomy view of religion? (Musical Anecdotes. THE METHOD BY WHICH THIS IS BROUGHT ABOUT.1. Do we desire that the Lord may nerve us to participate in His sufferings? Iii. What is the shape that we must be like. Hugh Binning"But Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God," &C. Matth. (Dean Alford. And if in any thing ye shall be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you. If we would come nearer Christ we must have His sufferings. Religion does not consist in the use of means; the ordinances of religion are only the means of leading the soul to God and holiness, of being conformable to Christ's death.(R. He, the Captain of our salvation, was made "perfect through suffering." )The power of the resurrection in sorrowJ. W. Beecher.Suffering in human life is very widely vicarious. (1) God's light the light of the Divine purpose resting upon the problem of human life indicated the way that led to Calvary. Christ is risen, therefore "Seek those things that are above."V. LET US ANALYSE THIS EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHING FEATURE OF CHRISTIAN ATTAINMENT. Is he not repealing the statute and ordinance he had made in Israel? (e) That satisfaction must he given to the demands of the perfect law before transgressors can be admitted to mercy. Hugh Binning"But Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God," &C. Matth. Our sympathies are mighty, but the facts on which they are founded, and the persons they concern, are limited. By faith in them as real and efficacious, and by appropriating their fruits to ourselves. (3) "Woman, behold thy son! The Christian should be always pressing onwards to higher attainments of knowledge, faith, and holiness.(C. Without faith, the principles and motives which most powerfully prompt to holiness could not gain access to the mind: without holiness, there can be no genuine faith, for the graces of holiness are its effects and fruits.3. We are conformed to this when the Divine glory is the end of all our actions, and when we wage war against sin.3. No longer by the scourge, and the crown of thorns, and the cross but by mockery and scorn, by coldness and alienation, which in our present state of ripened social order are weapons as powerful as any outward persecution was then.2. But when in the depth of the valley of humiliation Christ was ever awake to each particular of His great load of woe, and when they offered Him the stupefying potion He put it from Him. The plant that struggles toward the light testifies that light is its proper element; the captive eagle that spreads its wings in vain testifies that its proper home is in the broad fields of air. Many of us have never thought enough about it to have one beyond keeping alive. It was in this sort of life that trouble met Him (2 Corinthians 6:5). "I Press Toward the Mark" (Phil. 2. There is 1. )Vicarious suffering commonH. If he had reproved Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. (4)Life spiritual and eternal.3. It was Paul's great desire, "That I may know Him," not about Him, not the mysteries of the wonderful world, of the deeper and higher teachings of God, but to enter into the Holy of Holies, where Christ is, where the Shekinah is shining and making the place glorious with the holiness of God, and then to enter into the secret of the Rev. How did He suffer? Now may God, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 10: 1864The Power of Christ Illustrated by the ResurrectionBeloved, how intimately is the whole of our life interwoven with the life of Christ! The Christian's chief employment should be to seek the kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof. By communion with Him through the channel of His sufferings His Divine humanity, hanging on the Cross, and commemorated in the sacrament.3. Fellowship in the result of His sufferings. Terror on account of sin may throw over his soul its dark shadow, but this is not fellowship with Christ's sufferings.1. Shall we dare to stretch out our trembling hand to grasp His cup?I. When I feel and know that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth me from sin I have the highest kind of this fellowship. Coley.Thuanus tells, that a Gallic lord being led forth to martyrdom in company with some equally faithful, though plebeian professors, saw that out of regard to his rank the officers put on him no chains, while each of his brethren bore them; upon which he cried, "Let me, I pray you, be clipped of none of my honours; I, too, for love of Jesus, would wear a chain!"(S. It is a token of God's mercy as well as our infirmity that we are benumbed by pain. They may be ignoble and puerile, or they may be worthy and great. (4)Life spiritual and eternal.3. M. H. H. Aitken, M. But what is hard to ascertain is the effect of the stone's passage through the air; the thousands of insects instantaneously disabled or destroyed by it; the radiation of disturbance caused by the displacement of the atmosphere, and extending, it may be, into regions which defy calculation. iii. Did they allow this ever lasting protest against the pollution, the selfishness, the hatefulness of sin before God, to be lifted up in peace? Coley.Thuanus tells, that a Gallic lord being led forth to martyrdom in company with some equally faithful, though plebeian professors, saw that out of regard to his rank the officers put on him no chains, while each of his brethren bore them; upon which he cried, "Let me, I pray you, be clipped of none of my honours; I, too, for love of Jesus, would wear a chain!"(S. It tends to relieve the burden of our sorrows.5. He smilingly replied, "They may kill me if they will love Jesus. Pope. And for this joy He endured the cross. When Christ had risen, men saw that the vileness, the curse, the stain, was the work of an alien and intrusive force which might be expelled, and in the might of that belief men for the first time rose in victory over those passions which had defiled the body.II. THE METHOD BY WHICH THIS IS BROUGHT ABOUT.1. The nearer we approach in like ness to Him, the more will His enemies treat us as they treated Him. The inseparable connection between faith and holiness. He exhorts them to be thus minded;17. and to imitate him,18. How may we know that we have His fellowship? They stood beside Him bravely for a moment in the garden, but when they saw Him bound and helpless when they expected miraculous power, they all forsook Him and fled. What is the shape that we must be like. What means this word? He carries its scars yet, and will carry them to his grave. Much of Christ's sorrow arose from unavoidable intercourse with the wicked. As Christ, the Captain of our salvation, resisted unto blood, striving against sin, so must we, and in the midst of the conflict remember that He is with you (1 John 4:4; 2 Kings 6:15-17). )Vicarious suffering commonH. W. Our Lord, then, dwells in Christians, and, as a consequence, the New Testament teaches us that the mysteries of His earthly life are reproduced, after a manner, in the Christian soul. He smilingly replied, "They may kill me if they will love Jesus. "PeopleBenjamin, Paul, PhilippiansPlacesPhilippiTopicsBecoming, Christ, Conformable, Conformed, Dead, Death, Die, Died, Fellowship, Pains, Power, Resurrection, Rising, Share, Sharing, SufferingsOutline1. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth January 27. As the noblest expression of Divine love for man; as the infinitely meritorious price of our redemption; as the only safe ground of a trembling sinner's hope.2. "I press toward the mark" (Phil. The Christian should need no such argument, for the very purpose of his existence is to be conformed to Christ, but this he cannot be without the fellowship of His sufferings. THE FELLOWSHIP of His sufferings. Suppose that as you wake up one morning, you find lying upon your pillow a precious love token from your unknown friend, and engraved with a tender inscription. The state of the world around them, drunkenness, Sabbath profanation, etc., must be peculiarly afflictive. Copyright 2002-2023 Got Questions Ministries. Not only as a Martyr, but as a Sin-bearer (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24). IN RELATION TO SIN. In the furnace of affliction the dross of earth is removed, passions are mortified; pride is humbled, and so our graces are confirmed and strengthened. What would the Lord be at? The first words of the text show that Paul was beginning to think of winding up his letter, and the preceding context also suggests that. Experience 1. WHY, AS BELIEVERS, WE SHOULD DESIRE THAT KNOWLEDGE MORE AND MORE. It is easier to apprehend a fact than to take the measure of its consequences, its practical meaning, its power. He smilingly replied, "They may kill me if they will love Jesus. In. We have thought much about what we have received. This being conformed to Christ's death is brought in, is carried on, is completed, by faith. (4) From spiritual distress. THE METHOD BY WHICH THIS IS BROUGHT ABOUT.1. Saith the Lord,"Isaiah i. )The power of Christ's resurrectionHomiletic Monthly.In it I. (3)Happy believers. The subject enters deeply into the essentials of Christian experience and life. But that principle is untrue and dangerous, unless carefully guarded. And when the soul of the Christian pines for the light, and its wings of faith and hope spread themselves, unable to bear him to the home he loves, it is a certain proof that there is a light, a freedom, and a blessedness in the place our Lord has gone to prepare, and he welcomes the pain as preparing him for the place. (d) He contemplates with delight at the foot of the Cross the harmony of the Divine attributes. We have thought much about what we have received. Lyth, D. D.)These sufferings may be considered in two ways.I. It was in this sort of life that trouble met Him (2 Corinthians 6:5). To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe. (d) He contemplates with delight at the foot of the Cross the harmony of the Divine attributes. For every creature God has provided its proper element, and for every desire its lawful gratification. This love, of course, passeth knowledge, and in a sense cannot be imitated; but still in the experience of its benefits we may be conformed to it and cherish a corresponding feeling towards God and man, by giving to our Creator and Redeemer the highest place in our affections and service, and by devoting ourselves to the welfare of mankind. Sometimes it is a little irritation and provocation. Can we suppose that that courage which has often borne on the sons of men to torture and ignominy, foreseen and chosen, was not present in Him? IN OUR SANCTIFICATION. What becomes of us when we drag ourselves into this comparison. All else is earthly and therefore transient; this affects the dearest and eternal interests of men.2. "I thought," said she, "the angels might have brought it; for some one seemed to say, pointing to the large heavy crown, 'I wore this for thee; wear thine for Me,'" and meekly she bent her head, and wore the wreath, and now she has laid it by for the crown which she wears. (Bishop Magee. 10). (4) From spiritual distress. Then he goes to Christ and lays it on the great burden-bearer and is helped (Psalm 28:7; Isaiah 43:2; 2 Corinthians 8:9-10). Every distress Christ witnessed was photographed on His soul. In the vision of the morning there appeared to her a minute crown twined here and there with thorns, and by the side of this tiny ensign of the Saviour's deep, abounding love, lay another crown, composed wholly of thorns, large murderous spines, such as doubtless composed the wreath of painful mockery that bound the brow of the Son of God. God will not have them. (d) He contemplates with delight at the foot of the Cross the harmony of the Divine attributes. Guthrie, D. D.Some two hundred years ago, there was a dark period of suffering in Scotland, when deeds of bloody cruelty were committed on God's people, not out done by Indian butcheries. "That I may know Him" (Phil. Whatever projects His followers may have formed for Him were defeated by it. What means this word? What is the shape that we must be like. Did they rest quiet? (5) "This day shalt Thou be with Me in Paradise." This being conformed to Christ's death is brought in, is carried on, is completed, by faith. 12. Nay, there is this compensation, that real suffering drives out imaginary, and where the lot is that of want or anguish the distresses of mere sentiment are excluded. )The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsS. For if I alone had all the solaces of this world, and were able to enjoy all its delights, it is certain that they could not endure long. The fact enshrines a thought. 1. The same pangs that shot through my Saviour's heart are become mine, and I am a partaker with Him. No advantage in life, nothing that tempts ordinary men can attract Him in comparison of this. As the wealth of the disciples was thrown into one fund, and distributed amongst all, so the wealth of sorrow which belonged to our great Head is thrown into one fund with all the sorrows of those who are His members, and we are partakers with Him of that which is no longer to us a source of loss, but, on the contrary, a perennial source of gain.
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