Philippians Chapter 3:15 - Chapter 4:9 - Corps - 03-01-1984
PHILIPPIANS 3:15-21 – 4:1-9 Last week the last four verses 3:1l-14, are the great athletic analogy that set before us what a believer should do. And it all started with the new birth, where the race began and you start toward the out-resurrection from among the dead, the gathering together of the Church. Now we are in the race running. 3 : 15 perfect. [Aram. gmur]. Perfect; mature. [Gr. teleios]. Perfect; mature; fully initiated. Same word in v. 12. That is with a new body as a fully mature, perfected one. That perfection is talking about the return when you reach the finish line. But now it is talking about those who are fully mature, initiated ones, not that we have reached that goal yet, the high calling, but we are fully mature, initiated ones today. Two different usages of that word: 1. Referring to growing up in Christ today. The faithful in Christ Jesus, committed, sold out, lives stand for that one body and endeavor to maintain that unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. The ones Paul could make known the mystery. 2. The full maturity you receive when Christ returns, when you get a new body. To check out this difference see Ephesians 4:13, “...a perfect man”, the perfection you get when Christ returns. I Corinthians 2:6, “...among them that are perfect”, we speak the mystery. The fully initiated ones, mature ones, those who have grown up in Christ, the faithful ones. You would teach the mystery to the fully initiated ones. So Romans, Corinthians, and Galatians might talk about it, but it doesn’t tell you what the mystery is until Ephesians. be thus minded. To think those thoughts. otherwise. [Gr. heterōs]. With a long “o” because it is an adverbial form. Means otherwise; of a different kind. The thoughts he has been talking about is striving toward the goal for the prize of the high calling. That is where you keep your thoughts on that goal. And if you think otherwise could mean a lot of things in your unrenewed mind, contrary to striving toward that perf
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Tweet Topic: Logospedia,LP Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: 03-01-1984 Walter J. Cummins graduated from the Power for Abundant Class in 1962. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Ohio State University in 1968 and his Master of Education degree in Secondary School Administration in 1978 from Wright State University. He was ordained to the Christian by The Way International in 1968. He has studied at The Way International under Victor Paul Wierwille and K.C.Pillai. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he was director of the Research department of the Way International and served as assistant to the president. AUDIO