"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — The Witness of the Apostle Paul — To Be Found In Him"

So, as we have seen, suffering with Christ is both Paul’s calling and his glory.  Amen.  And that involves and requires that he be conformed unto Christ’s death. This great work of God is given as our example as well so we also can possess day by day the power of his resurrection.  Today, to lay the foundation for verse 11, we will see that resurrection was promised to all saints from the beginning but that there would be in God’s redemptive plan different “orders” of resurrection and that ours is different from that of “kingdom” saints.  Our inheritance is in the heavenlies, not on this earth.  But what Paul reveals here in these words in Phil. 3:11 is a very special kind of resurrection which is not given to every believer under grace but only to those that meet the conditions, only to those, like Paul, who are “found” or discovered to be in Christ at the Judgment Seat of Christ, those that have “no righteousness of their own” but only that which is based on the “faith of Christ”.  May we be of that number, not “wood, hay or stubble”, but of a special character indeed and rewarded accordingly.  Amen.