Special note to Christ Church. Thank you for all the support and encouragement while I taught through the Book of Revelation. It was a life-changing event for me. I thought I understood God's sovereignty until i did a critical study of this letter. Amazing. Gut-punching. Grace. Fear. Love. Truth. Faithfulness. Eternal life in a New Heaven that is beyond human comprehension.

Maranatha!

Summary: It is Frank Thielman who provides a salient statement of the purpose of Philippians 3:1-11. He writes, “The overall purpose of 3:1-11 is to draw a comparison between the pre-Christian Paul and Paul’s Judaizing opponents and so to provide the Philippians with a theological rationale for rejecting the Judaizers as completely as Paul rejected his own past when he submitted to the gospel.” See Thielman, Frank. Philippians (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995), p. 173.