So we are not only permitted to sympathize with Christ as the Man of sorrows, but that, just as two partners in a firm are both joint possessors of the capital which belongs to the firm, so that wondrous wealth of sorrow which belonged to the Lord Jesus Christ, so far as it is a source of wealth, belongs in a measure to us, who are partners with Him. (3) "Woman, behold thy son! If we would rise into fellowship with His sufferings, it must be by stepping forward in the spirit of faith, even though it should be into a burning, fiery furnace. Christ helps His people to bear afflictions and keeps them from sinking under them. Would such reasoning help you to dry your scalding tears? (3) In capacity for suffering He surpassed us. But when He burst forth from the grave He proclaimed to men's senses as well as to their consciences that the real law which rules the world is moral and not material, and that the sun of God's righteousness, if it is at times overclouded in human history, is sure to reappear.II. And our Easter resurrection from sin will be no less real if it is His power by which we are rising (Revelation 3:1).2. Can we suppose that that courage which has often borne on the sons of men to torture and ignominy, foreseen and chosen, was not present in Him? "If we be dead with Christ, we shall also live with Him." IN WHAT SUFFERINGS CAN WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST?1. His whole life was one of persecution, beginning with His birth, closing only with His death. We shall DEDUCE FROM THE SUBJECT THOSE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SCHEME OF PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY IT IS FITTED TO UNFOLD. Coley. IN RELATION TO SIN. Terror on account of sin may throw over his soul its dark shadow, but this is not fellowship with Christ's sufferings.1. Those who look for His coming and forget His presence.6. (c) He adores and admires the holiness as well as the love of Jehovah. The plant that struggles toward the light testifies that light is its proper element; the captive eagle that spreads its wings in vain testifies that its proper home is in the broad fields of air. As a suitable pattern for imitation, which is the meaning here.I. This fellowship is an acquirement worthy of our highest ambition. (4) In the exercise of lively faith — do we give way to despair?II. "(2) They who limit the effect of these sufferings to their moral influence can have no fellowship with Him. Raffles, D. D.I. Did they allow this ever lasting protest against the pollution, the selfishness, the hatefulness of sin before God, to be lifted up in peace? Nor should we entirely dismiss such a theme without one look onwards. If we would come nearer Christ we must have His sufferings. ; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 2:5; Colossians 2:12). Raffles, D. D.)The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsW. "They were amazed" as Jesus went before them to Jerusalem, "and as they followed they were afraid." The inseparable connection between faith and holiness. Whence, then, does this fellowship date? Their hearts seem moved, but when persecution arises they walk no more with Him. His encounter with Jesus Christ had so profoundly changed him, … (b) He looks on man as a guilty being and on God as a righteous judge. The state of the world around them, drunkenness, Sabbath profanation, etc., must be peculiarly afflictive. "We have not a High Priest who cannot be touched," etc. Pope. To feel its power is to rise with Him and set our affections on things above. The Captain of our salvation was made perfect through them; so must we be. Sin is too strong for any resolve.2. In —(1)Unbelief. Raffles, D. D.I. Our enjoyment of the everlasting benefits of Christ's sufferings is dependent on this fellowship.2. His deep sympathy, sensitive tenderness, made Him feel the afflictions of others keenly.2. (3)Happy believers. BUT HERE WE TOUCH A POINT WHERE WE MAY ENTER INTO THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS. And as we enter into the fellowship of the sufferings of Jesus, our views of sin will become more keen and clear, and also bring along with them a more painful emotion than could otherwise be ours. It tends to relieve the burden of our sorrows.5. Belief that Christ is such a one as He is held out in the gospel to be. Even so, while there never was a time that the will of the Man Christ Jesus was opposed to the will of the Father, yet there was a time when its obedience was not completed, and thus He learnt obedience by the things which He suffered. Son, behold thy mother." No; in our Christian life, Christ is first and midst and last: and no mere moral strength or determination can be reckoned on as accessory to Him in his great work. In the motives which prompted to it. 2. How did He suffer? "LinksPhilippians 3:10 NIVPhilippians 3:10 NLTPhilippians 3:10 ESVPhilippians 3:10 NASBPhilippians 3:10 KJVPhilippians 3:10 Bible AppsPhilippians 3:10 ParallelPhilippians 3:10 Biblia ParalelaPhilippians 3:10 Chinese BiblePhilippians 3:10 French BiblePhilippians 3:10 German BiblePhilippians 3:10 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)the power of the fact itself, or —(3)the power with which Christ was endowed at it, and these words may include all.4. Our privilege of fellowship in the sufferings. In Christ's death, in its atoning efficacy and its necessity. "They were amazed" as Jesus went before them to Jerusalem, "and as they followed they were afraid." Paul wished to be raised in the scale of being, and he knew that he could not have Christ's holiness without Christ's sadness, His grace without His grief. The inseparable connection between faith and holiness. (4)Life spiritual and eternal.3. Whatever projects His followers may have formed for Him were defeated by it. Often in the course of mighty calamities the chief sufferer endures less than those who pity him. But when in the depth of the valley of humiliation Christ was ever awake to each particular of His great load of woe, and when they offered Him the stupefying potion He put it from Him. Their strength lies in their convergence. He was forsaken in order that you and I might not be forsaken. It tends to strengthen faith.3. As we cannot be partakers in Christ's atoning, He cannot partake of our sinful sufferings. Gives us a more intimate knowledge of things. The child lives upon its parent's life. "We have not a High Priest who cannot be touched," etc. (2) How strong were the cords with which Christ was bound! And when the soul of the Christian pines for the light, and its wings of faith and hope spread themselves, unable to bear him to the home he loves, it is a certain proof that there is a light, a freedom, and a blessedness in the place our Lord has gone to prepare, and he welcomes the pain as preparing him for the place. Uninterrupted prosperity has a prejudicial influence over our spiritual nature, and tempts us to forget God. How may we know that we have His fellowship? If you pride yourself on your family you can have no fellowship with Him who endured contempt as the carpenter's son.2. Having for one of its main objects deliverance from the power of sin and the promotion of universal holiness, it is fitted to cherish a love of practical godliness.2. When I first see Christ linked to me by the bonds of God's everlasting covenant, then faith begins its work within me; then, the first utter dislike to sin, as sin, is bred in my heart.3. But where were they meantime? Did they rest quiet? Like Paul, you must count all things loss. (Bishop Magee. It is only thus that we rise to true fellowship with the sufferings of Christ. But in all this there is lacking as yet the essential feature of a fellowship in Christ's sufferings. Take the voices which sound from the dying Son of Man. For every creature God has provided its proper element, and for every desire its lawful gratification. The pains of life are as various as bodies and souls. This being conformed to Christ's death is brought in, is carried on, is completed, by faith. What is the true value of this fact among the credentials of Christianity? Graham.I. Thank God our thirst shall never be what His was. Nay, the men who first realized the power of the resurrection, "gloried in tribulations." There was no cross in the garden; nor does the prospect of suffering explain the agony there; nor the endurance His cry. And yet, let us consider what it was that caused that cry: it was the dark shadow of imputed sin coming between His soul and God. Behind me lay AEgina, before me Megara; on my right I saw Piraeus, and on my left Corinth. Martin. If your object is applause, what communion can there be between you and "the despised and rejected of men"?(S. Many persons of affected sensibility feel a sort of delight in following Christ into the judgment hall and to Calvary who have no heart to make sacrifice for His service. )Vicarious suffering commonH. How did He suffer? (1) Paley makes a great mistake when he rests the whole case of Christianity upon the fact that the resurrection was so certain to its first preachers, that they willingly gave their lives to attest it. The fabric which its Divine Architect meant to rest upon a group of pillars cannot be safely rested, even by a man of genius, upon one. Did they rest quiet? Conformity to Christ's death is the deep calm of indifference to sin with all its allurements, ever setting in together with and over against the conflict. Shall we with the dread of death ever before us? God has made nothing for pain. (4) In the matter and form and nature of His suffering He surpassed us. HOW WELL WE KNOW JESUS AND HIS POWER,          II. Christ's death was a death unto sin. )The power of Christ's resurrectionCanon Liddon.In every occurrence there are to be considered the fact — that which actually occurs — and the consequences, actual or possible — what St. Paul calls "its power." And as we enter into the fellowship of the sufferings of Jesus, our views of sin will become more keen and clear, and also bring along with them a more painful emotion than could otherwise be ours. (3) From grief for sin. The disappointments in store for the conscience which is eagerly searching for clear traces of a law of right vigorously asserting itself are so frequent and so great, that men lose heart where heart and purpose are specially needful. This may be traced —1. )The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsDean Vaughan.I. By faith in them as real and efficacious, and by appropriating their fruits to ourselves. WHAT IS INTENDED BY THE POWER OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION. And do not be cast down that you have not received the fulness of blessing. Looking at all this might not Christ well say now, "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me."III. Often in the course of mighty calamities the chief sufferer endures less than those who pity him. Prepares for heaven. As a suitable pattern for imitation, which is the meaning here.I. By the cordial reception of the benefits secured to us by His sufferings in the exercise of a lively faith.(1)Pardon.(2)Purity. W. Raffles, D. D.I. As the noblest expression of Divine love for man; as the infinitely meritorious price of our redemption; as the only safe ground of a trembling sinner's hope.2. Guthrie, D. D.)The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsAnna Shipton.A dear suffering Christian on a bed of sickness, which has now proved the portal of heaven, shrank for a while from the prospect of prolonged anguish which opened before her. He carries its scars yet, and will carry them to his grave. How does this principle of sin manifest itself? But many have seen the first without being the holier, the second without being happier, and heard the third and yet went to perdition. How is human sorrow sanctified by such a revelation as this? And when the soul of the Christian pines for the light, and its wings of faith and hope spread themselves, unable to bear him to the home he loves, it is a certain proof that there is a light, a freedom, and a blessedness in the place our Lord has gone to prepare, and he welcomes the pain as preparing him for the place. IN OUR JUSTIFICATION.II. Like Paul, you must count all things loss. Suffering ceases to be sanctified when it is infected with mistrust.2. (b) That the Divine administration implies the punishment of sin as well as the reward of righteousness. (e) That satisfaction must he given to the demands of the perfect law before transgressors can be admitted to mercy. )The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsBishop Magee.It seems an awful wish that any mortal should dare to aspire to share the sufferings of the Man of sorrows; stranger still when we remember the actual sufferings of that mortal; stranger still that He should tell us to wish it for ourselves.I. This should teach us patience, watchfulness, continued looking unto Jesus. But when the Teacher whose voice pierces, rouses, quickens the conscience is accredited by an interference with the observed course of Nature, the combined evidence is in reason overwhelming.III. Shall we with the dread of death ever before us? They were distinct in kind from ours. (3) In capacity for suffering He surpassed us. I may not know all that God has revealed about the blood of Jesus, nor be able to satisfy a theologian, but just as I know that the sun gives me light, and food nourishment, so I may know that Christ's blood takes away sin.3. He was able to be an overcomer in trials,                c. He was able to lead a holy life,                d. He was able to accomplish the ministry to which he was called. In the highest sense we cannot share Christ's sufferings, and, thank God, need not. (4) "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" All the members of the body feel if one be afflicted, so do all the members of the body of Christ.II. There had been no resurrection for us without Christ's. In the ends for which He died. Many businesses issue periodic profit-and-loss statements Neat. And yet after frequent visits you may not know a man in the highest sense: you say to his wife, "Your husband never seems to suffer from depression, or to change." Rutherford.Oh! Terror on account of sin may throw over his soul its dark shadow, but this is not fellowship with Christ's sufferings.1. Our enjoyment of the everlasting benefits of Christ's sufferings is dependent on this fellowship. 1. No; in our Christian life, Christ is first and midst and last: and no mere moral strength or determination can be reckoned on as accessory to Him in his great work. How did He suffer? If He became sin for us we are the sinners. What is there in the saints which should die? Raffles, D. D.I. (6) "It is finished." The Christian should be always pressing onwards to higher attainments of knowledge, faith, and holiness.(C. The same pangs that shot through my Saviour's heart are become mine, and I am a partaker with Him. If He became sin for us we are the sinners. Suffering —1. As the noblest expression of Divine love for man; as the infinitely meritorious price of our redemption; as the only safe ground of a trembling sinner's hope.2. FOR INSPIRING WITHIN US THE HOPE OF GLORY. BUT HERE WE TOUCH A POINT WHERE WE MAY ENTER INTO THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS. Purifies the soul. Of this the natural man knows nothing. Acts 13:32; Hebrews 1:3-5).2. N. No. In this sense believers must be conformed to Christ. The risen form threw glorious light on the flesh, as completing the incarnation. It is a token of God's mercy as well as our infirmity that we are benumbed by pain. I have done so. Now we see what is meant by this fellowship. As Christ died to sin, passed out from the penalty and imputation of sin, He had no more to do with it. IV. Can we suppose that that courage which has often borne on the sons of men to torture and ignominy, foreseen and chosen, was not present in Him? Shall we with the dread of death ever before us? THERE ARE SENSES IN WHICH WE CAN HAVE NO COMMUNITY WITH OUR LORD IN HIS SUFFERINGS.1. Every heart knows its own bitterness. As the strongest and most endearing motive to holiness of life — "constraining us."3. Philosophy had not quite expended itself in these vapid platitudes, but the chief ground of comfort was reserved for the last. MEANS.1. Prepares for heaven. (d) He contemplates with delight at the foot of the Cross the harmony of the Divine attributes. In the ends for which He died. In the possession of the Spirit. Silently it passes the bounds of the unseen land; and the gate which opens to admit it to this is a gate of tears and moans. W. Beecher.Suffering in human life is very widely vicarious. He says: “I regard them … In His glory.II. Now we see what is meant by this fellowship. (3) But the belief of this is not everything, notwithstanding what doctrinal Pharisees may say. God never breaks His pledge to us,                b. Often in the course of mighty calamities the chief sufferer endures less than those who pity him. It is easier to apprehend a fact than to take the measure of its consequences, its practical meaning, its power. )Being made conformable unto His deathR. As the strongest and most endearing motive to holiness of life — "constraining us."3. They were distinct in degree. But if we suffer no great things on Christ's behalf, let us see at least that common life is lived in remembrance of Him, life's pleasures subordinated to His will, life's anxieties, sorrows, sicknesses, endured patiently in His strength.II. N. How does this principle die, so that we may be conformed to the death of Christ? If you pride yourself on your family you can have no fellowship with Him who endured contempt as the carpenter's son.2. Not by any mere strong action of the will — any acquired philosophical indifference to sin and temptation. Shall we with the dread of death ever before us? If your great aim is to be wealthy you can have no fellowship with the sufferings of Christ in His poverty.3. (2) "I thirst." Our privilege of fellowship in the sufferings. If your object is applause, what communion can there be between you and "the despised and rejected of men"?(S. In the ends for which He died. )Fellowship with Christ's sufferingMusical Anecdotes.An intimate friend of Handel's called upon him just as he was in the middle of setting the words of "He was despised" to music, and found the great composer sobbing with tears, so greatly had this passage and the rest of his morning's work affected the master. But here it is a real fellowship in positive pain to which he adverts.3. it is true that Christ has set all mourners an example; but "He also offered Himself without spot." Much was borne that we might not have to bear; but as I gaze at yonder cross I interpret the nature of our fellowship in the light of the next clause. These He could have broken, but there were other cords, and of how strong, that bound Him there. (2) From sympathy with the distressed. Fellowship in the result of His sufferings. It recedes, but only to return, and now, the sufferer gasping for breath, her death struggle is begun; and now for Margaret's trial, and her noble answer. This power may be observed —I. VII. You may escape them, but only by descending in the scale of being, just as a deaf man escapes the pain of discord, the palsied the pain of touch.4. Death had a sting, but it was not pain, nor shame; it was sin.II. 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