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Philippians 3:15 (KJV)  “Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.”
The word “perfect” here means “Specifically of persons meaning full age, adulthood, full grown.  In the NT, in knowledge of the truth”  as given in 1 Corinthians 2:6, 13:10; here Philippians 3:15 and Hebrews 5:14:  “in Christian faith and virtue (Eph 4:13)”   Strongs #5046 (II). 
Paul is speaking to those within the body who have matured spiritually to be able to not only believe but with that believing, being able to understand, comprehend and then exercise, by faith that to the glory of God.  Most agree that we are not to twist and defame the “Word” but are to rightly divide the word of truth.
I have of recent come across many if not most who will explain their position by relying on a commentary or what some man has said.  I have found them then to be:  “unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”  2 Peter 3:18.  Most of those who think that they are in Christ have only learned how to parrot what others have said and have failed to believe God in what He has written through Paul for us today: “Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.” 1 Corinthians 4:16,  “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.”  1 Corinthians 11:1; “Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.”  Philippians 3:17;  are instructed to follow Paul’s lead unto salvation.  For good reason then it is written: “ In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.”  Romans 2:16.  That gospel was given to Paul, how?:  “But I certify you brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.  For I neither received it of man, neither was taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.”  Galatians 1:11-12.  What is that gospel received from Paul?”  “Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;  By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that He arose again the third day according to the scriptures.”  1 Corinthians 15:1-4
    Not that I follow Paul for salvation but too salvation, a huge difference in: “the dispensation of the grace of God.”  What saith the scripture?:  “Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”  Philippians 4:9.  Did the Holy Spirit lead Paul to write that to deceive us or is it still God’s Word and direction?  

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