Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Philippians 3:10
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10. That I may know him —experimentally. The aim of the "righteousness" just mentioned. This verse resumes, and more fully explains, "the excellency of the knowledge of Christ" ( :- ). To know HIM is more than merely to know a doctrine about Him. Believers are brought not only to redemption, but to the Redeemer Himself. the power of his resurrection —assuring believers of their justification ( Romans 4:25 ; 1 Corinthians 15:17 ), and raising them up spiritually with Him, by virtue of their identification with Him in this, as in all the acts of His redeeming work for us ( Romans 6:4 ; Colossians 2:12 ; Colossians 3:1 ). The power of the Divine Spirit, which raised Him from literal death, is the same which raises believers from spiritual death now ( Ephesians 1:19 ; Ephesians 1:20 ), and shall raise their bodies from literal death hereafter ( Ephesians 1:20- : ). the fellowship of his sufferings —by identification with Him in His sufferings and death, by imputation; also, in actually bearing the cross whatever is laid on us, after His example, and so "filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ" ( Ephesians 1:20- : ); and in the will to bear aught for His sake ( Matthew 10:38 ; Matthew 16:24 ; 2 Timothy 2:11 ). As He bore all our sufferings ( 2 Timothy 2:11- : ), so we participate in His. made conformable unto his death —"conformed to the likeness of His death," namely, by continued sufferings for His sake, and mortifying of the carnal self ( Romans 8:29 ; 1 Corinthians 15:31 ; 2 Corinthians 4:10-12 ; Galatians 2:20 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-11" class="com-number"
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