What does it mean? Experience teaches me my limits." Forgetting the things which are behind we press forward to the time when "we shall be ever with one another and with the Lord."(M. (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. Smiles, LL. A rule which God has made fundamental in the world, we must make so in individual life. And as that ship pursues her bent and often homeward course, it is an emblem to you every day you look at it, of the condition of the life of that man who has had the grace given him to say, "This one thing I do." And when the great crisis of his life came — the spring time of his conversion, a light exceeding the brightness of the noonday sun shone upon him; and in this warm genial atmosphere of grace, the germ of spiritual life unfolded itself within, and burst its wrappings. (2)That he forgot the sins he had committed.2. That we, in our holiest moments, do not feel self-complacent. The bud then dies, and the branch withers and becomes fit for the burning. He might have attempted other things, and did, but all with reference to this one purpose.2. "Be ye perfect." But amidst his fairest dreams by the ancestral waters, a great voice out of heaven spake to him of "a city which hath foundations, whose builder was God." An extending and improving influence on society.5. There is childhood, youth, manhood in Christian life. The one are not without remedy, the other not perfect. FROM THESE THOUGHTS WE MAY DRAW FRESH CONVICTIONS FOR THE REALIZATIONS OF THE SPIRITUAL CAPABILITIES OF OUR NATURE.1. The former stands for "being made conformable unto Christ's death," the latter for "attaining the resurrection;" or the mark is likeness to Christ, and the prize whatsoever glory and felicity God shall give besides. And if you stand there looking backwards instead of making the best of your way out of evil, the evil will catch you up. MAY FOSTER SELF-SATISFACTION AND PRIDE.1. 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. Again and again it would seem as if the men of Babylon, of Memphis, of Athens, and Rome must have said to themselves, "No more beyond." And Paul did not mean it in this sense. WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS WHICH PAUL LEFT BEHIND AND FORGOT.1. Not satisfied with any measure of past attainment, or service, or consecration, but continually reaching forth with ever-growing ardour. THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS BEFORE EVERY CHURCH. All men have not great talents: but all men may have great industry, and as talents are useless without diligence, one talent improved by honest labour will make a greater man than ten that rust unused.3. His life was in the stars. They lose the power of forgetting the things that are behind, because they are not reaching forth unto those things which are before. And that is the true temper for wider interests than our own. 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. On what principle is our personal life and thought conducted? And what is unity? "(5) And therefore that habit of living in the future should make us glad and confident. Stop long enough to say, "Thank God for that"; but do not pause to congratulate yourselves, or it may be soon undone. So the prize that Paul is pressing on to obtain is that life-transforming knowledge of Jesus Christ in the everyday. He also said that he know the secret of being short. MAY CAUSE DECLENSION. It becomes your special habit, which is all right, but it also tends to become your limit, which is wrong. While we derive inspirations of confidence from contemplating the grand law of the world's increasing progress, must we not see a stern rebuke upon every life not in harmony with this law?2. "Singleness of aim"Mr. A. often laughs at me," said Professor Henry once, in Princeton College Laboratory, "because I have but one idea. Past enjoyments.6. The white faces of the crowd around the course are seen as in a flash as he rushes past them to the winning post, and the parsley garland that hangs there is all that he is conscious of. Change Language {{#items}} {{local_title}} (1) Did we stand well in the past? But self-complacency is the mother of spiritual declension. Demosthenes was the prince of all earth's orators, not because God gave him a splendid voice, and exquisite grace of motion, but because eloquence was his one idea. Abraham was of this class. (1) They are apt to become food for complacency and every vain confidence. We shall never see the beauty of Christ without perceiving our own deformity. But although worthless as grounds of justification, they had their own value in training and fitting him for his work. The winter leaves having served their purpose, now dropped off, and the summer leaves of grace — the blossoms of holiness, the fruits of righteousness — had full liberty to grow and develop themselves.4. But in Christian life, every moment and every act is an opportunity for doing the one thing of becoming Christ-like. Perhaps at this moment you can honestly say, "I have overcome a fierce temper," "I have bestirred a naturally indolent spirit." is it in the advance of agriculture or manufactures? There is no limit in that respect, and to take the past as proving it is to deny the power of God's gospel, the expansibility of the soul, and the promise of the Divine Spirit.2. Every day is full of a most impressive experience. These winter leaves must fall off, when the vernal season of grace has come, and we who were dead in trespasses and sins are made alive unto God.2. A. Paul's mark was the highest that ever loomed up before a human soul.IV. So absorbed is the soul in this one idea that it becomes the master passion of life; and the world, the flesh, and all things else cease to have any attraction.3. (2) Said the popes to those who saw a purer Church and truth attainable, "No more beyond, except the fire for those who would disturb our established order." As a lad he was bent on scholarship, and won honours at the feet of Gamaliel; as a member of the Jewish Church by his prodigal ability he soon placed himself beyond parallel. You can eat and drink to it, and do whatever you do to it.2. D.)The racer as charioteerArchdeacon Farrar.St. In his unconverted state, there were many things on which he prided himself — the scenes and associations of his youth, the eager sympathies of his opening intellect, and his ardent affection for the polity and religion of his fathers. — is it in the increase of the quantity of material productions? Past enjoyments.6. F. Pentecost, D. D.)Life's contests and prizesP. There are certain things we shall never be able to do, but it says nothing about the limits in our line of things. (2)You must look to gain ground, and grow from grace to grace. F. Pentecost, D. D.I. "If any man love father or mother more than Me," etc.III. He who would be a great artist must not follow low models. (Lord Macaulay. Such practice, moreover, will be as charming as my neighbour's flute is intolerable.(C. Ecclesiastes 1:5). )Practice necessary to perfectionC. The translation must be made; I am bound for the wilderness, and shall not return till my task is finished." If you want to be blessed you must be good; if you want to get to heaven you must be like Christ.3. The unrest born of the contrast between these two marks man off from the happy contentment of the brutes beneath him, and the happy peacefulness of the angels of God. He cannot do so. On what principle is our personal life and thought conducted? Oh, there is something more and higher than all this and these. Maclaren, D. D.)Christian perfectionH. PLACING THE PAST IN ITS TRUE LIGHT. Nor would it be well if it could. 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. There is strength in forgetting; "let the dead bury their dead." He has a purpose that scholar of Erfurt. Maclaren, D. D.)The importance of a high aimF. The winter leaves or bud scales of a tree leave behind them when they drop off a peculiar mark or scar on the bark, just as the summer leaves do when they fall. (2) Antinomians by imagining that the law is abolished, and that sin is not sin in the saints. Life on earth is not an end, but a means — a state of discipline and preparation for something higher and nobler beyond, and is therefore transitory in its duration. That complacency can be reached by many roads. D. Hoge, D. D.I once crossed the "Warm Spring Mountain" in the early morning. )The onward movement of the soulPaxton Hood.Man is the creature of the same senses; he beholds the same sun, the same streams, and flying clouds; youth succeeds to infancy, and the festival of nature is followed by decay. Continued demerit calls for continued mercy.2. The preaching of the gospel to every creature.III. )Look not at the pastJ. Modern men have said this, and prophesied dire results from setting up of power instead of hand looms, sewing machines instead of needles, locomotives instead of coach horses. Then he must not sit down as if rooted to a place. Maclaren, D. D.The future for the young, we say, the present for the middle-aged, the past for the old. Nearly every figure by which Christians are described implies this. Continued demerit calls for continued mercy.2. On every branch a series of these scars, in the shape of rings closely set together, may be seen, indicating the points where each growing shoot entered on the stage of rest. 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. It is the want of this that makes the life of so many weak, uncertain, capricious. But in spring, the buds, stimulated by the unwonted sunshine, begin to open at their sharp extremities. If a racer were to pass most of his fellows, and then look round and rejoice over the distance covered he must lose the race. "(Sir T. F. Many lives are wrecked at this point, just because they wilt not settle and go to some definite work. So said the English kings of the seventeenth century to the uprising spirit of liberty. And so was it with St. Paul. Vaughan, M. A.The secret of all moral force, of all spiritual success, of all reality, is concentration. 2. Let no inferior aim lull us to unfaithful indolence with its soothing prospects. On every branch a series of these scars, in the shape of rings closely set together, may be seen, indicating the points where each growing shoot entered on the stage of rest. The peace that we trust in will vanish in sorrow. 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. Were we to forget past knowledge, ours would be the ignorance of infancy; if past experiences were obliterated, our imbecility would be that of idiocy. The former stands for "being made conformable unto Christ's death," the latter for "attaining the resurrection;" or the mark is likeness to Christ, and the prize whatsoever glory and felicity God shall give besides.2. The winner might also be awarded with a statue of themselves, a poem, or even money. Death.5. Were we to forget past knowledge, ours would be the ignorance of infancy; if past experiences were obliterated, our imbecility would be that of idiocy. Maclaren, D. D.There may have been floating in the apostle's mind, combined with the image of the racer, some remembrance of the old story in the Book of Genesis about Lot's wife. H. Spurgeon.A neighbour near my study persists in practising upon the flute. He has passed through, and these are His footprints. Then my heart was cleaving to the Lord, and filled with His fulness." There is no limit in that respect, and to take the past as proving it is to deny the power of God's gospel, the expansibility of the soul, and the promise of the Divine Spirit.2. And so it will be in the eternal summer above. Every civilized region has risen out of barbarism, and we see the barbarian spirit in stagnant conservatism resisting improvement. They are not, indeed, to be dropped as mere bud scales, as mere means to an end — for they are the basis upon which all the subsequent efforts of the spiritual life are to be made. But the world moved on to "forget the things behind," etc. The past is done with us, let us have done with it, and in putting off the old let us put on the new. What a petty world such a man must live in; under what a low sky he must walk; in what, a muggy atmosphere he must breathe. Many lives are wrecked at this point, just because they wilt not settle and go to some definite work. They emerge from the sea which has swallowed up so much else. (4)Wandering minds.(R. A. After the Lord has shown Himself to the eye of faith, they seem unable to let this matter rest. The sun was just rising. H. )Devotion to a single purpose essential to successC. W. Robertson, M. He forgot them in the sense of neglecting them. Maclaren, D. D.)The danger of looking backA. 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. We must remember the failures and sins of the past in order to magnify the mercy that forgave.Conclusion:1. The word Paul uses here for prize, brabeion, is also an athletic term. There is no point on that happy voyage, beyond which icy cliffs and a frozen ocean forbid a passage; but before us, to the verge of our horizon of today, stretch the open waters; and when that furthest point of vision lies as far astern as it now gleams ahead, the same boundless sapphire sea will draw our yearning desires, and bear onwards our advancing powers.(A. Every mineral is not a diamond. )The memory of past sorrows not to obliterate the appreciation of present merciesM. Macmillan, LL. He lived only to sweep, as with a roused tempest, over all the AEolian sympathies of the human heart. (1) Enthusiasts reach it by sheer intoxication of excitement. ARE NOT THE LESSONS OF SUCH A LIFE VERY BROAD AND INTELLIGIBLE.1. Before the Church, therefore, is — 1 The real, conscious, manifested unity of all its members. 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. W. Alexander, D. D.We are like one sailing down rapid stream, intensely anxious as to the issue of our voyage, and fearful of the dangers which await us, and yet turning our backs on both, and trying to derive encouragement from gazing at that portion of our course already past, and every moment growing less and less visible. None of them ever entertained more than one great aim or purpose of being. His life was in the stars. This is the only satisfactory evidence that religion exists at all. It is the spirit in which, not the work at which, we work that makes life one. They are apt to weaken you. He takes the world as he finds it, and leaves it as he found it. E. Jenkins, LL. These winter leaves must fall off, when the vernal season of grace has come, and we who were dead in trespasses and sins are made alive unto God.2. We must follow out his figure. It is so with man; he is the subject of a succession of events, that which hath been is now and shall be. When the law of development will not work, the law of decay and dissolution is the only one that will. If the aim of life were to do something, then, as in an earthly business, except in doing this one thing the business would he at a standstill. Many lives are wrecked at this point, just because they wilt not settle and go to some definite work. (Lord Macaulay. Rich young ruler.1. Nay, the very vicissitudes of the seasons, day and night, heat and cold, affecting us variably, and producing exhilaration or depression, are so contrived as to conduce towards the being which we become, and decide whether we shall be masters of ourselves, or whether we shall be swept at the mercy of accident and circumstance, miserably susceptible of merely outward influences. That purpose is the Reformation. Absolute assurance of forgiveness.3. "This one thing I do."1. The material system of nature will some day be dissolved. Let us, with eye and hand flung forward, "stretch out towards the things that are before," and imitate that example — not in the fierce whirl of excitement, indeed, but in fixed regard to, and concentrated desire of, the mark and the prize.(A. Then there is to be a distinct recognition of moral perfection as our conscious aim, and our efforts are allowably stimulated by the hope of the fair reward it ensures. At length the wish was accomplished; and the domain, alienated more than seventy years before, returned to the descendants of its old lords, and when his public life was closed forever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die. Those who, like yourself, desire to do everything in one day, do nothing to the end of their lives, while others who steadily adhere to one pursuit find that they have accomplished their purpose. He, too, did other things; he trained his servants, commanded his household after him, etc. Those who, like yourself, desire to do everything in one day, do nothing to the end of their lives, while others who steadily adhere to one pursuit find that they have accomplished their purpose. There was only one problem. 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. TO MAKE LIFE, AS IT OUGHT TO BE, ONE, THE GREAT REQUISITE IS TO HAVE ONE FIXED AIM. There must be a double leaf fall from the soul as well as from the tree. But above the horizontal sea, three or four mountain peaks projected themselves like islands dotting the expanse. The branch of a tree puts forth bud after bud in its gradual growth anal enlargement. We can only be cheerful while we forget. AS REGARDED HIS OWN IMPROVEMENT. TO MAKE LIFE, AS IT OUGHT TO BE, ONE, THE GREAT REQUISITE IS TO HAVE ONE FIXED AIM. Maclaren, D. D.)The importance of a high aimF. You say, "I shall never be any better. 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. The Israelites fondly recollected the fleshpots of Egypt, and there are Christians who dispute with themselves whether in the sensitive jealousy of their first love they did not make too many sacrifices for their Master. And so the beautiful blossoms of grace must be left behind. Conversion, justification, and peace are the first principles of the doctrine of Christ. Victories achieved; temptations resisted elated Samson to his hurt. The most popular resolutions people make are weight loss, improving finances,… An increasing ministration to the whole body of Christ.6. Every mineral is not a diamond. There is no point on that happy voyage, beyond which icy cliffs and a frozen ocean forbid a passage; but before us, to the verge of our horizon of today, stretch the open waters; and when that furthest point of vision lies as far astern as it now gleams ahead, the same boundless sapphire sea will draw our yearning desires, and bear onwards our advancing powers.(A. The little child is telling what he intends when he is a man. Multitudes of Christians are content just to be saved — to get inside the heavenly gate. D.)The racer as charioteerArchdeacon Farrar.St. You see him! Of attainments. So of all things physical and intellectual. Wadsworth. He died to his former self and all its experiences, and lived a new life in Jesus. But the day does come when the form should be lost to us in the reality, the letter lost in the spirit. how civilization leans on morality? Thus it is with the memories of past sorrows. Nor of regenerated men only is the thought true — of all men who retain amid their moral ruins some lines of the mutilated Divine image — is this a characteristic. "The power of a single aimC. But these words of sublime hopefulness are from "Paul the Aged."I. Philippians 3:14 in the Parallel Bible; Philippians 3:14 in the Thematic Bible; Philippians 3:14 Cross References; Philippians 3:14 Treasury of Scripture Knowing; Philippians 3:14 Sermons; Philippians 3:14 Prayers; Philippians 3:14 Images; Philippians 3:14 … )Paul reached forth to the things before.I. That purpose is the discovery of truth, for in an old library he has stumbled on a Bible. )Concentration the secret of dispatchS. He finds the pen too slow, hence his types and cylinders scatter libraries. A rule which God has made fundamental in the world, we must make so in individual life. HOW THE GREAT PRIZE IS TO BE WON. "The power of a single aimC. )The nobility of a single aimA. All that he had acquired, he laid on the altar.3. Baxendale. Continued demerit calls for continued mercy.2. The bud then dies, and the branch withers and becomes fit for the burning. Old forms ceased to have any hold upon his affections and homage. 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 things that are beforeS. "If any man love father or mother more than Me," etc.III. D.A Frenchman hit off in a single phrase the characteristic quality of the inhabitants of a particular district, in which a friend of his proposed to settle and buy land. God gives him opportunities. The man who calculates with even a tincture of discontent what he has suffered for Jesus, has never seen the Cross.2. THERE ARE THINGS BEFORE EVERY CHRISTIAN towards which he is proceeding. THE GLORY OF GOD IS THE RIGHT END OF MAN, because —1. Remembered griefs are prophetic of coming joys. Admire our apostle as —I. M. Punshon, LL. Habits are like fences, very good to guard the soul from sudden incursions of trespassers, but very bad when the trunk has grown up and presses against their stubborn rings. no unusual thing to see branches in Christ whose spiritual life is so weak that their growth is at a standstill. Few knew more of Christ than Paul, yet he considered his attainments but as the first steps in a path of ever-unfolding discovery. (Principal Tullock. In whatever respect we feel that we are offenders against the law of Divine perfection revealed in Christ let us be more active. We ought to be reaching forward, to be like Jesus. )Things behindJ. 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. In our conversion we must separate ourselves from the associations of our unregenerate state, and count those things that were gain to us, loss, so that we may be found in Christ. Of course the figure is not strictly applicable to the reality. 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. Our highest condition is not the attainment of perfection, but the recognition of heights above us as yet unreached. how civilization leans on morality? He lived only to sweep, as with a roused tempest, over all the AEolian sympathies of the human heart. So far as relates to our worldly condition, our constant endeavour for betterment as the necessity of an undecaying life. How she throws aside the seaweed and the waves — how straight amidst the currents she holds her bow — how she strains upon her way, and goes resolutely to her point! A conversation with an unbeliever, the perusal of a book, the pressure of a besetting sin, disturbs their assurance, and they go over the old ground. If the end were in man he would usurp God's place. 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. Our highest condition is not the attainment of perfection, but the recognition of heights above us as yet unreached. His fellow disciples are not left to infer that his path is accessible to no traveller but himself, He preaches to sinners as the chief of sinners, to Christians as a fellow citizen; the race and fight were his no less than theirs.I. MAY CAUSE DECLENSION. D.)The racer as charioteerArchdeacon Farrar.St. "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three."2. An increasing ministration to the whole body of Christ.6. And as the young green leaves within expand in the genial atmosphere, the services of the bud scales, or covering leaves, are no longer needed, and by and by they roll away, and fall one by one from the tree, strewing the ground beneath till it looks like a threshing floor. You can eat and drink to it, and do whatever you do to it.2. Then my heart was cleaving to the Lord, and filled with His fulness." No bounds can be set to it. Budgett. Death.5. There were many things by which his spiritual life was nourished and guarded — which had to be blotted out if he would go on to perfection. A man may determine to have nothing to do with anything not essentially religious.2. Nor herein was Paul's experience anomalous. There is a sense, indeed, in which we cannot forget the things that are behind, strive as we may. (3)You must do all things with all your might. They lose the power of forgetting the things that are behind, because they are not reaching forth unto those things which are before. 2. A definite prospect of duty opens up within which the man must work, and find his happiness in working. 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. 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. )The memory of past sorrows not to obliterate the appreciation of present merciesM. 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