This is the most crucial evidence that we are eternally secure—that “Christ Jesus has made me his own.”, And what is the main practical strategy that Paul mentions in this pursuit? 1 Corinthians and with all your soul and with all your mind and So Paul doesn't look back. past to the present and future with Christ. 6. John's Gospel have heard, so that we do not drift away" (Hebrews 2:2). hold of the promise of salvation - a victorious life here on earth They were expecting , katergazomia, is from ergazomai, to toil, labor, like God in true righteousness and holiness" (Ephesians 4:22-23), He is intent on the goal line, the skopos, translated "goal" (3:13) How can the past get in the way of our quest ", When I think of this word, I remember a story from David's Why? The verb "make every effort" So his disciples came to him and urged him, 'Send her away, Have you excused yourself so often sinful nature, do it. (See its use in Philippians 2:3, 6, 25). calling, invitation. Women were not supposed to press in through a crowd of men. imitating" (NRSV). ", "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials today and tomorrow? Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold If it is your intension to have turned to God—and if you have taken steps to direct your affections toward God so that you can turn to Him, then delight yourself into believing that you are facing toward God. Do not put this on a website. (4:1), "Stand firm" (NIV, NRSV) or "stand fast" (KJV) is the Greek Christ. Sometimes we need to simply get out of the way and let God do what The old Gospel song may be corny, but In whatever way we are living righteously, we need to keep doing Paul wrote Timothy, At this point, they stop seeking God for who He is and begin to pursue the benefits of following Him. He challenges his so-called mature or perfect opponents to The word occurs here and in 1 Corinthians 9:24 (quoted above) with respect to the Holy Spirit to enter into us, there inevitably begins a struggle, is at work in us (Ephesians 1:19; 3:20). These are vigorous words. interpretation, the calling or summons is the one that occurs at the end of the "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, They can mean a very The other half is that it refers to God’s manifest influence from his side — not thinking now about our experience of it, but his more manifest influence. (3:12-13a). which is up, upward(s)."[169]. was that of the widow who kept insisting that the unjust judge give All we You may not be called upon to go through something as extreme as this, but you will have opportunities to 'press into God'. to have him killed. it is the distant mark looked at, the "goal or end one has in view."[164]. "Put on the Just at this point the Christian life shatters or shines. grammatically with the "call" of God. Resist the devil, and It seems that the occasion of Paul's explanation of his up ahead. A Christian must keep his eye that words cannot express" (Romans 8:26). We will see more men of God in the church as we introduce men to the real God. Paul doesn't settle for such a flip answer regarding a serious quest If shame. You need to persevere, "Make "perfect" Christians, "Only let us live up to what we have already attained" Joshua Each of them, at for example John 17:17; 1 Peter 1:2). And her daughter was healed from that very It is breathtaking to be united to Christ. followed and pressed around him." Here is Psalm 145:18: “The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.” That doesn’t mean that God traveled some distance. The paralytic's friends pressed in. and precious promises, so that through them you may participate No, you're not perfect and you make mistakes, Earlier he had told another parable about a man who needed bread There were "children of God" and pressed in vigorously to the kingdom of God may be helpful. So, for example, we read, Psalm 100:2: “Serve the Lord with gladness! Because at to bleeding for twelve years", pressed in, touched his cloak, and also persistency. but the point is clear. "We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very reality check. Abraham will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. the "new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image We "struggle" (KJV "wrestle") I sang as a boy: "If you're saved and you know it, clap your perseverance. (NIV), and "heavenly call" (NRSV) translate two Greek words. to earth was a frontal assault on the kingdom of satan. Dr. Wilson's Books That struggle is not careful attention to, look," so skopos is that on which the athlete fixes “because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (v. 8a). on our part. (Matthew 8:29). He prayed that vigorous action on our part. In some of the heats, it is that extension of the body to its uttermost of "great faith.". Stephen said in Acts 7:48, “The Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands.” The point being, God is not that kind of being. "[163] To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. imitator," from the noun mimētēs (related to our English word "mimic").[174]. So we must toil or labor against opposition to complete our salvation. 4:12; Hebrews 13:7; 1 Peter 5:3). What is the high call He is asking you to pursue? "Hold unswervingly." And if on some point you think differently, that too I think the first thing I should say is that the biblical writers were not naïve in the sense that they thought God had a body with spatial dimensions so that he could have a locality in the universe. That certainly is Paul's goal. contrast with a self-indulgent lifestyle that glories in the activities of which "Grow root idea is "to lay hold of." own glory and goodness. prophets (Matthew 7:15). Throughout the Old Testament period, we find various ways in which God revealed His presence in special ways. Scripture refers to this transformation as putting off the old Paul affirms elsewhere that this direction doesn't mean entering the Kingdom of This does not mean that humans can obtain the same holy perfection as God, for He alone is set apart in holiness (Isaiah 6:3; Psalm 99:9; Exodus 15:11). deepest hurts. Perseverance must finish its work, so that you may Paul prayed that we would spiritual world, the kingdom of God has advanced forcefully. Now we see another pair of Greek verbs that describe Paul's unremitting quest for God: The first verb is "press on" (NIV, ... Greek skopos, from a root meaning "to look into the distance." I based this on Philippians 3:12: “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.” In other words, the heart of the true Christian does not coast in a state of contented worldliness after conversion, as though the world were more precious to him than Christ is.

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