(7) Liberty is but a devil's chain without Christ. Sanctifying.III. There is a wide difference between a system and a Saviour, between abstract truth and a living, loving person. (c)Let the Word of God be familiar to you (Colossians 3:16; John 5:39; Deuteronomy 6:6-9). The word κερδησω is put in opposition to the loss he had incurred, and means that there was enough in Christ to compensate him.I. (4) This interest is a most enriching interest — "All things are yours. (3) Worldly pleasure. (1) You are in earnest as regards the end with reference to which you estimate what is gain (ver. (4) Self-righteousness, a house built on sand as Paul found it. Yes, but his experience was the same as that of all other Christians in whom we find the good work begun but not completed. What would you do without Christ if you were to meet with —1. Buchanan, B. D.)The necessity of letting go every false confidenceJ. (2) Saints in heaven are only like the lilies wearing a glory for which they never toiled. (2) Be not subjects in name add by profession only (Colossians 1:10).III. Do they wish to know better? (3) Worldly pleasure. Conclusion: 1. We gain a ransom for our souls.2. ITS NATURE.1. (2) To those of you who have some of it — grow in it. Its certainty. HOW MUCH THIS GAIN EXCELS ALL OTHER.1. (1) Christ Himself is the object of it. (6) Domestic and social relations are great mercies, but we must part from them. A believer cannot always say, "Christ is mine"; but he can say "I am His" (Psalm 119:94).2. Looking up he saw, in his dream, Christ standing on the edge, and saying, "Let go the twig and I will save you." Christ is a friend that will help in all cases. (2) Consider what you are without Him. (Canon Miller. At length he felt the branch slipping, and, in the utter desperateness of his despair, he let go the branch — when, lo! SUBSTITUTES FOR CHRIST. The Christian in this has "the consolation of Israel," and has more left in Christ than he has lost; but the worldling loses all without compensation.3. All these figures had their substance in their great Antitype. Remember the rich fool! Buchanan, B. D.The practical applications and uses of this knowledge are as important as its direct and immediate influence on the mind. Temporary. Would that every anxious soul would go and do like wise!(J. Clarkson, B. D.)The excellency of the knowledge of Christ in the excellence of its subjectJ. Christ, however, is not an external teacher, but He is in me and I in Him, and so I have power to obey His law.II. This is true in regard to worldly knowledge; much more to heavenly.I. (2) Men are gainers, lose what they will for Christ.2. It is the essence of all gospel truth.2. There is a wide difference between a system and a Saviour, between abstract truth and a living, loving person. But Christ must be really and earnestly sought as well as desired.3. Have what they will they will count they have nothing while they have not Christ.4. (2) Men are gainers, lose what they will for Christ.2. (4)Saints on earth. It is to get Him to be ours and enjoy Him. "We are no scholars" is often only an excuse for negligence and indifference. Appropriating. Are wisdom and knowledge valuable? Human knowledge does not sanctify, it often pollutes, and there is also a knowledge of Christ which leaves us in sin and under condemnation. CHRIST HIMSELF IS MOST EXCELLENT, THEREFORE THIS KNOWLEDGE IS EXCELLENT KNOWLEDGE.1. COMPREHENSIVENESS. Christ is appropriated as gain. Christ is our treasury and storehouse, from whence we fetch all our supplies (1 Corinthians 1:30).5. (2)This interest is the one thing necessary.All things must go for necessaries (Matthew 6:25). So identified with the TRUTH, that when he gained Him he gained the highest knowledge.II. Ignorance is not the mother of devotion.2. The spiritual astronomy, which points to Christ as the Morning Star, gives a directory also to guide our course amidst the storms and tempests of that voyage in which we are all embarked. The Christian hath the kingdom of God within him. Where will the splendour of human science be then?2. Many kinds of knowledge have no direct influence on character or conduct, but in this knowledge, all that is useful in truth is blended with whatever is beautiful in morals, and both are so represented that no man can be familiarized with the Bible without being elevated. Winslow, D. D.)The excellency of Christian knowledgeJ. Buchanan, B. D.The practical applications and uses of this knowledge are as important as its direct and immediate influence on the mind. (2) Men are gainers, lose what they will for Christ.2. (7) Liberty is but a devil's chain without Christ. WHAT IS INVOLVED IN THIS.1. Do we possess it? Daille. It —1. He is the fountain of life.1. Had not Paul won Him already? (Canon Miller. What would you do without Christ if you were to meet with —1. ITS TENDENCY IS TO GENERATE LIVELY HOPE, AND FILL THE SOUL WITH PEACE AND JOY.V. Let the light that shines in your minds shine in your lives (John 7:17). (4) All things besides Christ cannot make a man happy, but Christ can. Daille. THE MANNER IN WHICH THE APOSTLE DELIVERS HIMSELF ON THIS GREAT SUBJECT.1. I see an instant end of the weary attempt to amend the old position, and a way wonderfully open for the immediate occupying of a new one.2. (2) His character, also, and office and work (1 Corinthians 2:2; John 1:14). He was not halting between two opinions. Buchanan, D. D.Knowledge is one of the most valuable of all attainments. In the gospel we get not only perfect precepts, but the motive union with Christ. Who can make a blind man understand colours, or a deaf man sounds. 2. Christ was painted in hieroglyphics and read by the Jews in all their ceremonial observances. Remember that St. Paul did not write these words in the first fervour and flush of a new conversion. Do away with these, and scriptural revelation becomes chaos.2. (4) Self-righteousness, a house built on sand as Paul found it. To take a lower view of Him is to degrade His dignity and destroy His atonement. )Winning ChristW. There is much implied in your perceiving this. S. Candlish, D. D.is perfect security and consummate blessedness. Admiration. They were purchased with precious blood (1 Peter 1:19); they are wrapped up in precious promises (2 Peter 1:4).3. As the loadstone draws iron, so does Christ the sinner.4. By comparison. (3) Angels are all servants. The devil.Conclusion:1. Hence it follows that religion must of necessity embrace the highest kind of knowledge, and the knowledge of Christ is that of "God manifest in the flesh," exemplifying the perfections of the Divine character, fulfilling the purposes of the Divine mind. Abide in your refuge.2. (3) Worldly pleasure. )Winning ChristW. He awoke. Lynch. He looked into the black yawning gulf beneath, and again cried out for help. (3) We must wrestle and win as those do who strive for the mastery (Ephesians 6:12-14). (4) Our personal interest in Christ is the ground of our comfort and confidence (Habakkuk 3:18; Luke 1:17). Paul had just enumerated several things, whose possession, while he was without Christ, gave him a certain sort of pleasure.II. This is to be done by faith alone.4. That you may win Him He sends forth His servants with invitations; He offers His blessings gratuitously; He throws a thousand impediments in your downward course, so that you may go to Him.IV. It was but a dream of the night. The call of Abraham, etc., all stand connected with the designs of providence in regard to the spiritual interests of mankind. (3) Angels are all servants. Fiducial. His are unsearchable riches.4. (c)Fix the eye of your souls upon Him (Exodus 37:9). The least practical kind of knowledge is useful, if it raise the mind above those sordid tendencies to which ignorance is allied; but the knowledge of geometry is the more valuable by reason of its many useful applications to mechanical arts; and astronomy itself, the sublimest of all the sciences, by reason of the aids which it affords to the practical art of navigation. The devil.Conclusion:1. Proofs and illustrations. The possession of it stander in inseparable connection with the salvation of the soul. Christ is in us the hope of glory. The devil.Conclusion:1. The transcendent excellency of Christ is proved.1. As he was failing he grasped a little branch of some bush that was growing halfway down. The devil.Conclusion:1. That which was before St. Paul was not Christianity but Christ. (2) He is commensurate to the desires of the soul, which all the creatures combined are not. (2) Our duties (Hebrews 5:9). The Provider and the channel of the Holy Spirit, by whose power alone we become living souls. What an instance of the influence of Divine grace I He had been Christ's bitterest foe. (3) An interest in Christ is the best interest you can have in the world.(T. But this knowledge is easily attained, and he who increaseth it increaseth joy (Psalm 119:72, 162; Jeremiah 15:16).Conclusion: Is this knowledge so excellent, then?1. "In Me ye shall have peace."6. Clarkson, B. D.Even as a poor beggar discovering a rich mine or some vast treasures, is ready to leap for joy that he has found that which will make him rich forever; he casts away his former rags, he despises his former poor and wooden furniture, for he has discovered that which will enrich him and make his condition plentiful; so the soul to whom the Lord has made this rich, this excellent discovery of Christ, he has found a mine more precious than gold, and larger than all the face of the earth; he casts off the rags of his own righteousness; his former accomplishments are now but as a beggar's furniture; his heart is full of joy; he says, Rejoice, O, my soul; rejoice with me, my friends, for I have discovered the unsearchable riches of Christ.(D. (2)All together. Some reasons. The ungodly have no part in Him. But Christ must be really and earnestly sought as well as desired.3. Alexander, D. D.)I. SUBSTITUTES FOR CHRIST. He could feel the branch giving way. Here we see the prophecy fulfilled, "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree," etc.2. Would that every anxious soul would go and do like wise!(J. (3) Worldly reputation depend, upon the uncertain thoughts of others and may be easily stained; but the Christian shall shine with eternal honour. "In Me ye shall have peace."6. He is our ransom from the wrath of God, and so you have somewhat whereby to appease your guilty fears (Colossians 1:14).2. Innumerably more excellencies than are in all creatures together are in Christ alone, for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.IV. What so great as a kingdom? But there is no doubt as to Christ's personality, the lustre of His Deity, the efficacy of His atonement, etc. There can be no faith in or love to Jesus without it. David and St. Paul are to us more than historic characters; we are admitted into the inner workings of their hearts. General grace must be made particular. Have you committed your soul unto Him?3. Grotius said, "I have destroyed life, laboriously doing nothing. Christ is gained when we get an interest in Him and in His benefits (1 Corinthians 1:9; Hebrews 3:14). Every good gift comes from God, but this especially (2 Corinthians 4:6; Isaiah 54:13). THE BELIEVER'S SAFETY in it against —1. It is in all its parts knowledge for us. )Willinghood lightening sacrificeJ. Buchanan, D. D.)Christ Jesus duly prizedT. At length he felt the branch slipping, and, in the utter desperateness of his despair, he let go the branch — when, lo! Remember that St. Paul did not write these words in the first fervour and flush of a new conversion. (b)Lay a good groundwork in the principles of the knowledge of Christ, otherwise you will but build in the air (Hebrews 6:1). (a)Make all your other knowledge subservient to this. THE MANNER IN WHICH THE APOSTLE DELIVERS HIMSELF ON THIS GREAT SUBJECT.1. No person or thing is to be compared with Him. Be about them what they will, if Christ be not in them they will count them loathsome.5. This is the theme in which he prays that believers may be well instructed (Ephesians 1:16-19; Ephesians 3:14-19.)I. In what respect?(1)Singly. ITS TRANSCENDENT EXCELLENCY.1. (4) All things besides Christ cannot make a man happy, but Christ can. We should endeavour to extend it to as many of our fellow creatures as we can reach.(A. COMPREHENSIVENESS. Mere uninfluential knowledge of Christ will only aggravate the sinner's doom. (3) Faith is included (Isaiah 53:11; Psalm 9:10).II. Man's desire is to be happy, and nothing outside of Christ is necessary to this end, for with Christ man may be happy and lack every earthly blessing (Philippians 4:13). And there is this distinction. What is our gain without Christ?2. What is the danger of losing Christ?7. (1) Men on earth; the greatest one His vassals, the best only good through Him. He that hath the Son hath life.5. It should be our constant and vigorous effort to increase in it daily.2. For defence, that I may meet every adversary.2. THE GRAND SCOPE OF THE APOSTLE. He was conscientious, earnest, and ecclesiastically all that could be required. (1) Christ is willing to receive you. Looking at the terrible abyss below, he could not. )The superfluosness of the lawJ. In what respect?(1)Singly. (5) A hasty inconsiderate profession of religion from whatever motive.2. In a worldly man's hands it is as a razor in the hands of a child — "The prosperity of fools destroys them."2. )LinksPhilippians 3:8 NIVPhilippians 3:8 NLTPhilippians 3:8 ESVPhilippians 3:8 NASBPhilippians 3:8 KJVPhilippians 3:8 Bible AppsPhilippians 3:8 ParallelPhilippians 3:8 Biblia ParalelaPhilippians 3:8 Chinese BiblePhilippians 3:8 French BiblePhilippians 3:8 German BiblePhilippians 3:8 CommentariesBible Hub. There is a great distinction between all human morality and the morality of the gospel. Have you committed your soul unto Him?3. Boston, D. D.)I. (5)His enemies.2. IT IS INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH OUR JUSTIFICATION. (Matthew 13:45-46). Buchanan, D. D.)The relation of the knowledge of Christ to the gospel schemeJ. Apprehending Him as —(1) Christ, i.e., His nature and offices — the anointed Prophet, Priest, and King. How thoroughly He meets our case. WHAT IS MEANT BY WINNING CHRIST.1. USES.1. T. Lynch.If we rightly reject the world it is because, in the pure processes of our spirit, we have taken from it its nutriment. HOW MUCH THIS GAIN EXCELS ALL OTHER.1. Thompson. So it is with those who have only a speculative knowledge of Christ. (a)The creatures want sufficiency; but Christ is completely satisfactory (Psalm 73:25). THAT IT HAS A TRANSFORMING AND ASSIMILATING EFFECT ON ALL WHO BELIEVINGLY CONTEMPLATE IT. The excellency of Christ naturally fires gracious hearts, because —(1)All their hopes are in Him, and(2)all their desires.II. (f) The Christian's portion is but an earnest. ALL THINGS ARE BUT LOSS IS COMPARISON WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE.1. With affection, counting all things loss and dung. Every kind of knowledge is useful in its place; for it is to the mind what light is to the eyes; but this exceeds all other. "(2) But this has also a moral reference, being quickened in Christ from the death of sin to the life of righteousness. WHAT GAIN WE HAVE IN HAVING CHRIST.1. Clarkson, B. D.When we are in the dark we are glad of candlelight, and glow worms will make a fair show in our eyes; but when the sun is risen and shines in his full strength, then candlelight seems needless or offensive, and the worms that glittered in the dark, made no better show than other vermin. Buchanan, D. D.Knowledge is one of the most valuable of all attainments. But he gave up everything to come as you must come, an empty handed, empty hearted sinner to Christ. (2)All together. Manton, D. D.)Winning ChristT. He is the fountain of life.1. Christianity is not only to be believed, but felt (1 Peter 2:3). It is a knowledge of Christ Jesus as —1. Man's desire is to be happy, and nothing outside of Christ is necessary to this end, for with Christ man may be happy and lack every earthly blessing (Philippians 4:13). To take a lower view of Him is to degrade His dignity and destroy His atonement. Would that every anxious soul would go and do like wise!(J. "Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out." (e) The Christian hath a far better right to his little, for it comes by covenant and not simply by common providence. The saving knowledge of Christ differs not in kind, but degree, from heaven's happiness (John 17:8).II. (1)Perfectly, without a shadow of imperfection. To persuade you to get Christ. They have made a good choice that have received Christ.3. The transcendent excellency of Christ is proved.1. (5) A hasty inconsiderate profession of religion from whatever motive.2. Clarkson, B. D.)The excellency of the knowledge of Christ in the excellence of its subjectJ. All these figures had their substance in their great Antitype. THOSE WHOSE GRAND OBJECT IS TO WIN CHRIST, WILL COUNT ALL BUT DUNG THAT COMES IN COMPETITION WITH THIS BARGAIN. He is the Creator, and as the creator of a thing, must be greater than the thing created, so the knowledge of Christ must be superior to that of nature.2. There must be a good deal of pains to get it, a good deal of care to keep it; the more we know the more it seems to us remains to be known, and the folly and misery of man the more apparent. (7) Liberty is but a devil's chain without Christ. That all the knowledge of Christ that brings not to Him is but splendid ignorance according to the Word.2. WHAT IS IMPLIED IN THIS KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST. A believer cannot always say, "Christ is mine"; but he can say "I am His" (Psalm 119:94).2. In view of the end for which I once pressed then I now perceive Christ to be gain. It often happens with new converts that their impressions and resolutions are like the early blossoms of spring, which perish in the bitter winds. There he hung and cried for help. It is —(1) Spiritual (Ephesians 1:17; John 6:63). Here Bacon and Butler had to lie their dying heads.(O. Have what they will they will count they have nothing while they have not Christ.4. The apostle had won Christ already, but he would win a full enjoyment of Him.2. He that hath the Son hath life.5. Have you ever felt your need of Him, sought Him, received Him? And, therefore, viewing what was in Christ as in comparison with Judaism, Paul felt that the old forms and types and usages were now as the refuse which the spirit had put away on receiving for itself, and appropriating for its full health and growth and nutriment, Christ's revelation.(T. (e) The Christian hath a far better right to his little, for it comes by covenant and not simply by common providence. It is indispensable for the formation of character and the regulation of conduct. Buchanan, B. D.)The necessity of letting go every false confidenceJ. (2) Those who strive not to communicate this knowledge. Are power and strength? )The excellency of the knowledge of ChristJosiah Redford.If the soul be without knowledge it is not good. Sanctifying.III. Inquiry. Lynch. Concerning moral and religious truth men have been most uncertain, and have bewildered themselves in endless speculations. )The great prizeL. To count Him gain in opposition to what Paul once counted gain. This coming from Paul awakens —1. The only uncertainty is that which man's depraved nature invents.3. So identified with the TRUTH, that when he gained Him he gained the highest knowledge.II. Christ was typically seen in Melchesidec, King of Salem; in the binding of Isaac as a sacrifice; in the persecution of Joseph. He is our ransom from the wrath of God, and so you have somewhat whereby to appease your guilty fears (Colossians 1:14).2. But unblessed of God it is delusive and borders close on misery. F. B. Tinling, B. A.Men who have made the greatest sacrifices for the cause of Christ have hardly been conscious of them. What is our gain without Christ?2. "(a) The Christian hath more in possession than the greatest on earth. )LinksPhilippians 3:8 NIVPhilippians 3:8 NLTPhilippians 3:8 ESVPhilippians 3:8 NASBPhilippians 3:8 KJVPhilippians 3:8 Bible AppsPhilippians 3:8 ParallelPhilippians 3:8 Biblia ParalelaPhilippians 3:8 Chinese BiblePhilippians 3:8 French BiblePhilippians 3:8 German BiblePhilippians 3:8 CommentariesBible Hub. (5) We must trade and win as merchants do (Mark 10:22).2. No person or thing is to be compared with Him. THE DREADFULNESS OF LOSING THIS PRIZE. As gain for lie is God 's favour that we are made heirs of eternal life ( Romans 14:9.. Boston, D. 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