ur God; we have waited for Him and He will save us. This is
the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His
salvation." The passage does not teach that only such will be caught
up who believe in His coming and look for Him.

And now, as so many believers seem to be troubled about the words of
the Apostle Paul in the third chapter of Philippians we give a short
word on that. The position of the epistle to the Philippians is
significant. Ephesians speaks of the glories of the church, what every
believer and the company of believers, the one body, is _in_ Christ.
Colossians acquaints us with the glory of Him who is the Head of the
body, Christ. Philippians stands between the two and shows the
believer in Christ with the life of Christ in him, living Christ and
pressing towards the glory. It is the epistle of experience. In the
third chapter the energy of this life in the believer is seen. Paul,
of course, knew that he belonged to that glory. He had absolute
certainty about the first resurrection. But this divine energy in him
presses forward. It is in full harmony with what God's grace has made
him. All in him wants to get there, where the grace of God in Christ
had placed him once and for all. The life of Christ in him reaches out
for that place and when he says, "By any means," he gives us to
understand nothing shall hinder him, may the cost be what it will, he
wants to lay hold of all for which Christ has laid hold of him. He
reaches out after that goal, Christ in glory, because he knew he
belonged there.

Sir Robert Anderson gives a very helpful comment on Philippians iii:11
which we quote in connection with the above:

"If the commonly received exegesis of this passage be correct, we are
faced by the astounding fact that the author of the Epistle to the
Romans and of the fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians--the Apostle who
was in a peculiar sense entrusted with the supreme revelation of
grace--announced when nearing the close of his ministry that the
resurrection was not, as he had been used to teach, a blessing which
Divine grace assured to all believers in Christ, but a prize to be won
by the sustained efforts of a life of wholly exceptional saintship.

"Nor is this all. In the same Epistle he has already said, 'To me to
live is Christ, and to die is gain,' whereas, _ex hypothesi_, it now
appears that his chief aim was to earn a right to the resurrection, and
that death, instea