{"product_id":"2940013360167","title":"PEFECT YET PRESSING AND OTHER TALKS","description":"\"I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus; let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded.\" Phil. 3:14, 15. Perfect, yet pressing. How is that?\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh,\" says some one, \"I thought when we were perfect, there was nothing beyond -- that we hadgot to the end of the thing. How can there be anything beyond perfection?\"\u003cbr\u003eWell, one thing is positive: here is St. Paul's experience, whether you or I can explain it or not in which he said he was perfect, and that there were others like him. \"Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect.\" That is where the apostle professed perfection, and yet, in the preceding verse, he says: \"I press.\"\u003cbr\u003eNow, go back a little to verses 12 and 13, where he says he is not yet perfect. The plain, common sense meaning of the whole passage is this: There is a sense in which we are not perfect and a sense in which we are perfect. \"Oh,\" says, some one, \"I do not expect to be perfect until I get to heaven!\" Neither do I, in the sense you mean -- perfected in a resurrected body. A thing is perfect when it answers the purpose for which it was intended. A perfect watch is not a perfect steam engine. The apostle says positively that he is perfect, and that others with him are perfect.","brand":"Jack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145562374384,"sku":"2940013360167","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013360167_p0.jpg?v=1763580133","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013360167","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}