Chapter 2
Philippians 2:1-11 “If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels of mercies, for you to fulfill my joy, that you be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind (this sounds like what is said in chapter 1 verse 27 and in Ephesians 4:3-7). Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves (this is the law of Love when properly applied and is our being in the kingdom as proclaimed by John the Baptist and Jesus, which is only acquired through Christ Jesus, which is the fruit of His righteousness being restored or grown within us). Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men (for a short while, for the sole purpose of acquiring our sin debit and the voice of that sin which resides in the flesh upon Himself): And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross*. Wherefore God also has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; That every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.”
*Because of the voice (lust for), sickness and all manner of disease is in our flesh and is only destroyed by the death of our flesh. Also all oaths, vows and contracts are made void and vain upon the death of our flesh, because they bind the flesh made of clay as a vessel to house mans true being. It is the true being which Redemption is designed and appointed to quicken, awaken make alive again (through death of this voice of sin). Because with it man communicates with his creator through the ontological essence of Christ when He is restored. To His first place as seen and known in Genesis 2:6-7, 21-24. It is upon this revelation that form the bases and stand point that Paul then tells the Philippian believers to stand strong in trusting faith to work out their own salvation, which he later defines as doing as he was also about doing, as an example. In the allowing God through the Spirit of Christ to work within and through him and them, His Will and good pleasure. Paul in his letter to Timothy in 2Timothy chapter 3 tells us of God's use of His word as our cutting reproof in verse 16 and from this we can look also at 1Timothy 6:11-12, and our standing as the Lord stood before His gentile accusers and Pilate in verses 13-16, as we have it worded somewhat differently here in Philippians.
Philippians 2:12-13 “Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling (this is not work as most suppose work to be, because it takes nerves of steel to stand or sit under God listening and disregarding mans well meaning intentions and sharp tongues criticism). For it is God which works in you both to Will and to do of His good pleasure.”
This
is our salvation, wherein He undertakes all for our good in His Truth
as heirs now within the kingdom of promise restored within and to
those who are willing to receive Him, through faith Who is Christ
Jesus. The Living Word of the Faithful One.
Philippians 2:14-18 “Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of Life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. Yes, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I take joy, and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.”
Here is repeated again the phrase "the day of Christ" or what could be called the day of Christ's Spirit having been restored, we have matured in His knowledge. And through it now acquiring His mind in clear perception of understanding of the mysteries of God.
Philippians 2:19-30 “But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. For I have no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's*. But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel. Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that you had heard that he had been sick. For indeed he was sick nigh to death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: Because for the work of Christ he was nigh to death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.”
*This is a profound statement made here by Paul as it describes our own church age situation as it also did his.
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