Philippians 3:12-14 Turn the Page, It's a New Chapter

Continuing Toward Our Goal

12 I do not mean that I am already as God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal, but I continue trying to reach it and to make it mine. Christ wants me to do that, which is the reason he made me his. 13 Brothers and sisters, I know that I have not yet reached that goal, but there is one thing I always do. Forgetting the past and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I keep trying to reach the goal and get the prize for which God called me through Christ to the life above.

The Everyday Bible: New Century Version (Php 3:12–14). (2005). Thomas Nelson, Inc.

In chapter 1 of Dr. Tony Evans’ “No More Excuses”, he speaks about “hiding behind the past.” Pastor Evans desires to help men “step out from under the shadow of your past and stop letting it control your present and your future. His goal is to help men lay aside what happened yesterday as an excuse for what’s happening today.”

to forget (suppress) v. — to dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; to not recall information concerning some particular matter—‘to forget, to not recall

Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). In Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 347). United Bible Societies.

Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). In A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 254). University of Chicago Press.

Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). In A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 254). University of Chicago Press.

reaching forth - to strain ⇔ stretch out v. — to exert effort or energy to the utmost; conceived of as extending or stretching out to the full length.

to pursue (activity) v. — to carry out or participate in an activity.

press on - to move rapidly and decisively toward an objective, hasten, run, press on

Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). In A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 254). University of Chicago Press.

(present — The verb tense where the writer portrays an action in process or a state of being with no assessment of the action’s completion.)

Heiser, M. S., & Setterholm, V. M. (2013; 2013). Glossary of Morpho-Syntactic Database Terminology. Lexham Press.