Category Archive: Philippians

May 01

The Gospel If (1 Corinthians 15.1-2)

As I study to preach on Philippians 3.11-21, I am struck by the conditional language of Philippians 3.11, where Paul wrote that he might attain the resurrection from the dead. And even though he also wrote about his confident expectation that his body would be transformed like the glorious body of His resurrected Lord (see …

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May 01

“If Possible” – The Conditionality of Philippians 3.11

In Philippians 3, the apostle Paul used a very strange phrase when writing of his hope of his personal resurrection from the dead. …that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection …

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