Walk With God. Be Conformed To His Word, Not This World.

Philippians 3:1

Furthermore, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write again repeatedly, is not irksome to me and is suited to confirm things to you.

Do you ever sit in your small group, synagogue, church, etc. and think, "Wow, how many times is he going to preach the same thing?" I have, especially in my youth. But, here, it shows that repeating the same things are important to concretely set God's precepts and teaching within our mind. Sin has caused our minds to degrade, over time. Re-emphasizing is necessary to maintain things.

Philippians 3:2

Discern for yourselves and look out for the men of impure minds. Discern for yourselves and look out for the evil men for hire. Discern for yourselves and look out for the false circumcised.

Here Paul is reminding us Y'shua's teachings, that Satan and his followers will infiltrate the assembly of Believers, the Remnant. Use the Word of God to discern for yourselves whether they are children of God or Satan. Keep in mind that Satan will infiltrate up to the highest positions, within the church. This includes the possibility of your Bible Teacher, Minister or even the Pope. They will project themselves as the True Circumcised, True Believers, The Remnant, but they are not. Let the Word of God be the litmus test.

Philippians 3:3 

For we are the true circumcised, serving the Spirit of God and glory in the Messiah Y’shua, trustingly, with no confidence in the flesh.

Those who consume and live the Word of God are the True Remnant, The True Circumcised. Again, the True Remant of God will serve the Spirit of God and relish and trust in Salvation, supplied by God, through his sacrifice, Y'shua/Jesus, not trusting in your own works.

Philippians 3:4-7

Although I possess a reliance (in terms of works towards salvation) in the flesh, if anyone else has an opinion to persuade reliance in the flesh, I have more...Circumcision of the Jews, on the eighth day after birth, of the nation of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, established by Mosaic Law, a Pharisee. Along the lines of zeal, a molestor of the assembly (Church) along the lines of righteousness, being acceptable to God, according to the Law, to become free from fault, defect or blame, but whatever was gained to me, those things are considered damaged goods, in the Messiah. Moreover, rather I deem all to be damaged goods in light of the supremacy of understanding the Messiah, my Lord, through whom I suffer loss of all goods and deem them worthless and detestable in order to gain favour and fellowship of the Messiah
Paul continues with the fallacy of trusting in the flesh. He shows here that if anyone boasts in their fleshly accomplishments, Paul can show them that, if you could boast or rely on your fleshly accomplishments, according to the Law, for salvation, he has a far better resume. However, whatever you deeds are, they are nothing but garbage in God's eyes. They have no salvational validity in the light of our saviors sacrifice. They also have no validity in gaining a relationship with God, through the Messiah, Y'shua/Jesus.

With that said, we have to bring up what your deeds are. If you are in the Messiah, your deeds are visible fruit, that reveals you relationship with God and His Word. That's it. Anything, outside the Messiah, is dead. James 2:14-26 tells us that Works without Faith are dead. Paul nails it perfectly in the follow verses.

Philippians 3:9-11

….and to find oneself in him, not possessing righteousness of my own with the Law, but that through faith in the Messiah, righteousness by way of God, on behalf of loyalty, allegiance and obedience, becoming one with him and the strength and power of his resurrection and fellowship, his confliction with his inner self made to conform until his death, in order to obtain the raising of the spiritually and physically dead.

I love these verses. If we live according to God's Word, not thinking we have our own salvation through the works of the Torah, the Law, we become Echad, one with God, through faith in the God supplied sacrificial offering of the Messiah. Becoming Ecad, one with God, will reveal itself in our works, in our loyalty, allegiance and obedience. Becoming Echad with God, we become one in his Strength and Fellowship.

We get a gem of information here. If we think we are alone in our temptations and struggle against Satan and Disobedience, Sin, then look where it says that Y'shua went through the same thing. 

"...his confliction with his inner self made to conform until his death"

You see Y'shua had the same battles within him, when he was here on earth. However, with the power of God's Spirit, he made his inner self conform, to God's Will, until the day he died. Can I get a Big Amen, on that. 

As Paul says here, Let's walk with God, through the Messiah, in order to receive the gift of Eternal Life, the raising of our Spirit and our Bodies, in the Day of the Lord.