D. Hoge, D. D.)The sense in which the past cannot be forgottenM. D. Hoge, D. D.)The sense in which the past cannot be forgottenM. 1. Every mineral is not a diamond. Spurgeon. (3) There are two ideas in that notion of perfection. This is the language of a man who has laid aside forever the doubt of his acceptance with God, of Christ's ability to save, of his Master's constant presence and guiding spirit. We cannot forget our early griefs and bereavements. is it in the growth of a nation in the numbers of its population, or in its territory? If you would live a braced life everywhere you would find fixedness of thought in your devotions. She was whelmed in the fiery destruction that filled the air; and as the shower of ashes at Pompeii moulded themselves over the forms of the poor wretches that were smothered by them, and preserved till today the print of the very waves of their hair and the texture of their dress, "salt" was crusted round that living core, and she perished, because she wasted in trembling retrospect the flying moments which, rightly used, would have set her in safety.(A. We often find the former, e.g., God's mercies are to be remembered as a theme of gratitude; past sins to produce penitence; former history as ground of warning and hope (Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 8:2; Deuteronomy 9:7; Psalm 77:5; Psalm 103:2; Ezekiel 16:63). Such is only the case when a kind of sickness has come over human speculation. At every subsequent stage of our growth there must be the same process. He was not found asking, as clever writers now are, Is life worth living? (2) But the one sort do not all live where civilization prevails, nor do the others in lands where barbarism is dominant. )Look not at the pastJ. The means and the end will be one and the same. He has turnpikes and stage coaches, but he must level or tunnel the mountain, and lay a pavement of iron, and chain his ear to a horse of fire. Then my heart was cleaving to the Lord, and filled with His fulness." He has a purpose that scholar of Erfurt. Every day is full of a most impressive experience. There will be a constant unfolding of the fulness of immortal life from glory to glory; but there will be no loss of the processes and experiences through which the unfolding will take place. He may change, but there is no life in him, and therefore he cannot advance. (2) So with all the work we have done. Maclaren, D. D.What a noble thing any life becomes that has driven through it the strength of a uniting single purpose, like a strong shaft of iron bolting together the two tottering walls, of some old building!(A. The increase of itself.4. We live on food, the blood circulates through the frame; and all these motions return on themselves; but there is another motion in man, there is an onward movement — he is a being of religious instincts; and to foster and fan their flames is the end of all religious services and exercises. (J M. Whiton, Ph. H. Spurgeon.That was a grand action of old when he laid all his pressing engagements aside to achieve a purpose to which he felt a call from heaven. "Very well," said the general, "just let them remain where they are; the enemy's going to advance, and will spare you the trouble."(W. "The power of a single aimC. He was not found asking, as clever writers now are, Is life worth living? And if you stand there looking backwards instead of making the best of your way out of evil, the evil will catch you up. But not the means of growth and formative processes of the Christian character only, must be left behind and forgotten; the very ends, the growths themselves, must also be superseded. To win Christ was not to gain His favour simply, but to be conformed to His image.(E. no unusual thing to see branches in Christ whose spiritual life is so weak that their growth is at a standstill. But whatever they are, they are as nothing compared with what is before; and inasmuch as they are all of grace, we have nothing to glory of.5. Some do not see their opportunities because their eyes are shut: some see their opportunities but do not use them, because they are indolent or their talents rusty from long disuse.2. D.)Progress more than motionPaxton Hood.Progress is the great law of life, but by those even who say so, its principle is not always seen. He may change, but there is no life in him, and therefore he cannot advance. There is strength in forgetting; "let the dead bury their dead." Job spoke up for his innocence till the Lord revealed Himself. )Want of applicationS. M. Whiton, Ph. Thus it is with the memories of past sorrows. D. Hoge, D. D.Rivers do not grow shallower as they roll away from their sources, and so it has been well said, the heart's river ought not to be an exception. There is no growth before a hypocrite any more than there is in an artificial flower. (3) Having obtained faith in Jesus and adoption into God's family, they ought to give all diligence to add to their faith courage to confess it. Martin., D. King, LL. The world's building was prospective. He has a purpose that Augustine monk. What if I’m not happy? )Devotion to a single purpose essential to successC. A rule which God has made fundamental in the world, we must make so in individual life. )Devotion to a single purpose essential to successC. Unlike many in our day, who have cast the hope of the future away from them, we have something for which to work — the mark for the prize of the high calling. ARE NOT THE LESSONS OF SUCH A LIFE VERY BROAD AND INTELLIGIBLE.1. (J M. Whiton, Ph. (J M. Whiton, Ph. He would recover the estate which belonged to his fathers. You say, "I shall never be any better. But the world moved on to "forget the things behind," etc. So the scars of the heart heal over; and, indeed, however sorrowful and bitter a man's experiences, he must be a woeful and a miserable man who, in this world of great interests, can find nothing to talk of but his own griefs, the neglect he has received, the extortions and vexations by which he has suffered. A. Alexander, D. D.)Progress unlimited for the ChristianA. Away he went with his manuscripts, and prayed and laboured, and produced a work — the Latin — which will last as long as the world stands; on the whole, a most wonderful translation of Holy Scripture.(C. These things get behind, they pertain to the past, and are of it. The little child is telling what he intends when he is a man. To that supreme beauty our nature is capable of unlimited approach. D.)The racer as charioteerArchdeacon Farrar.St. "Forgetting," etc.1. It is only by growing that he can get rid of the things no longer essential; and what he cannot remove, except by a violent destructive wrench, will fall off easily, and of its own accord, when superseded and rendered effete by growth.3. But these means are not to be cherished as if they were the end. Nearly every figure by which Christians are described implies this. All that he had acquired, he laid on the altar.3. There is strength in forgetting; "let the dead bury their dead." King, LL. There is childhood, youth, manhood in Christian life. And so it is, alas! is it in the increase of the superior quality of material appliances? Maclaren, D. D.)LinksPhilippians 3:14 NIVPhilippians 3:14 NLTPhilippians 3:14 ESVPhilippians 3:14 NASBPhilippians 3:14 KJVPhilippians 3:14 Bible AppsPhilippians 3:14 ParallelPhilippians 3:14 Biblia ParalelaPhilippians 3:14 Chinese BiblePhilippians 3:14 French BiblePhilippians 3:14 German BiblePhilippians 3:14 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)Sins against conscience. Maclaren, D. D.)Christian perfectionH. Paul is like one of those eager charioteers of whom his guardsmen so often spoke to him when they had returned from the contests in the Circus Maximus, and joined their shouts to those of the myriads who cheered their favourite colours — leaning forward in his flying car, bending over the shaken rein and the goaded steed, forgetting everything — every peril, every competitor, every circling of the meta in the rear, as he pressed on for the goal by which sat the judges with the palm garlands that formed the prize. D.)Spiritual barbarismJ M. Whiton, Ph. Yonder friend is very humble, but if he were to boast of it there would be an end of it. You can eat and drink to it, and do whatever you do to it.2. As a child leans on a parent, and a wife on a husband, and a husband on a wife, and so at last all things lean on God; and well it is that it is so, for he can at any time take off the wheels of the most rapid chariot, He can break the wings of the proudest ambition, and He is, in fact, constantly saying, "Arise, this is not your rest. His one idea was a city. Many in answer to Christ's call say, "Suffer me first to — ." D. Hoge, D. D.Paul could not have meant that he literally forgot the past, for had he done so, both present and future would have been alike useless to him. As one must continue to the end.4. THERE ARE THINGS BEFORE EVERY CHRISTIAN towards which he is proceeding. This advice goes dead against much "experimental" Christianity; but it is wise for all that. Animal organism reads onward toward the image of God. The bud must burst, the flower blow, the nest foul. It is God's end: the end for which God is, for which He gave Christ, for which He does everything.IV. What a beautiful thing is unity, where all the attributes of God meet together in love; beautiful is the world of harmonies in the home where there is no jarring element, in the knit Church, in the man who, having learned the pervading power of the love of Jesus, says henceforth, "This one thing I do."I. How then about the far more important thing? It is vain to tell the believer to forget the things that are behind, to discard the preparatory means by which he advances in piety by a mere temporary effort of will. 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