1 Coríntios 9
John Phillips · Citado em PreceptAustin
1 Coríntios 9
Phillips - Every competitor in athletic events goes into serious training. Athletes will take tremendous pains - for a fading crown of leaves. But our contest is for an eternal crown that will never fade.
1 Coríntios 9
Phillips - I run the race then with determination. I am no shadow-boxer, I really fight!
1 Coríntios 9
Phillips - I am my body's sternest master, for fear that when I have preached to others I should myself be disqualified.
1 Coríntios 9
Phillips - 9:24 - Do you remember how, on a racing-track, every competitor runs, but only one wins the prize? Well, you ought to run with your minds fixed on winning the prize!
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Phillips: Do you remember how, on a racing-track, every competitor runs, but only one wins the prize? Well, you ought to run with your minds fixed on winning the prize! (
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Phillips: Every competitor in athletic events goes into serious training. Athletes will take tremendous pains - for a fading crown of leaves. (
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Phillips: I run the race then with determination. I am no shadow-boxer (
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Phillips writes that adelos "means that Paul was in the arena with a clear understanding of the conditions and the object in view. He knows what he is up against. He is determined to be a winner. He makes no apology for his desire to win the prize. Many Christians do not seem to have this understanding. They take a casual, indifferent, lackadaisical attitude toward the Christian life. They are easily distracted. A shower of rain is all it takes to keep them home. A cottage at the beach can occupy their whole summer. A concert, Jimmy's ballgame, the chance for a free game of golf is all it takes to divert them from the things that really count. They are not in the race to win. All they are doing is playing games. (Phillips, John: Exploring the Bible Series: An Expository Commentary) David Lowery makes the point that "Paul’s dictum of becoming “all things to all men” (1Co 9:22) could have been construed as the aimless capitulation of an unprincipled man. But it was just the opposite! Every move made in the course of his race was calculated to further his pursuit of the prize (cf. Php 3:13-note, Php 3:14-note). Every blow struck was meant to land squarely on his opponent and send him reeling from the contest (cf. Ep 6:12; Jas 4:7). To achieve this, Paul would not let his body master him (cf. 1Co 6:12); sometimes he denied even its demand for rightful privileges and pleasures (1Co 8:9) for a greater good (1Co 10:33). (Walvoord, J. F., Zuck, R. B., et al: The Bible Knowledge Commentary. 1985. Victor) One of the clearest statements by Paul regarding his definite aim is in his letter to the Philippians in which his passion is… that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Php 3:10-11-note, Php 3:12-13-note, Php 3:14-note) Vine makes the excellent point that "Where Christ is the absorbing object of our heart’s devotion, and of all our energies and activities, we are sure to be “running” in such a way as to receive all that the Lord will delight to bestow upon us in the Day to come. Thomas Carlyle said that "The man without purpose is like a ship without a rudder" and so too is a Christian "runner" without direction and purpose. William
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Phillips: I really fight! I am my body's sternest master, for fear that when I have preached to others I should myself be disqualified. (
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Phillips - Paul is not advocating the medieval practice of self-flagellation. He is using figurative language and illustrating the need for constant moral and physical discipline. The possibility he systematically fought was the possibility of his body getting the upper hand. Paul gives us a parallel picture of what it means to "buffet one's body" in Romans 6 writing… Therefore do not let sin reign (present imperative =command + negative particle = "Stop letting the Sin continue to reign in your physical body") in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. (Ro 6:12-14) Comment: Paul is commanding the saints in Rome to stop letting Sin reign as "king" which is diametrically opposed to Paul's affirmation that he makes his body his slave. Adam