Malcolm Cox

‘One Thing I Do’ Last week’s lesson was on Philippians 3:13-14. Below are a few extra notes. ‘Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal’ We never get to the point where we have fully obtained all that God has in mind for our growth. Paul does not want his readers to get the impression he has ‘arrived’, nor that he is in despair at the gap between himself and Christ. He optimistically and faithfully continues to press on. What is the ‘all this’? Righteousness, resurrection from the dead, something else? ‘Paul means to say that he does not lay claim to having fully grasped the meaning of Christ at this point in his experience.’ WBC ‘but I press on’ Imagine movement, leaning forward and stretching. The word is used of the hunter going after their prey.  ‘Jesus took hold’ Jesus took hold of Paul on the Damascus road. Since then he has continued to press on towards greater Christ-likeness.  He has not fully grasped this, but he presses on to grasp what is his to grasp because