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Jul 10, 2023 · His message was constant: “Jesus Christ and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). He brought the message of Christ’s sacrifice to kings, soldiers, statesmen, priests, and philosophers, Jews and Gentiles, men and women. He would preach to literally anyone who would listen. “To live is Christ” means that we imitate the example of Christ ...
- Philippians 1
Paul “pleaded with,” “encouraged,” and “urged” the...
- To Die is Gain
Philippians 1:21 says, “For to me, to live is Christ and to...
- Philippians 1
- How Can Christ Be in Us?
- 8 Verses That Reveal Christ Is in Us
- Seeing in God’s Word That Christ Lives in Us
Christ is the holy God incarnated as a man, and we are fallen sinners. So how can Christ live in us? To accomplish His desire to dwell within mankind, God took some tremendous steps. First, God Himself became a man named Jesus Christ. This man, Jesus, lived a genuine human life on this earth, yet without sin. In His living, His actions and His spea...
Although many verses reveal the wonderful truth that Christ is in His believers, we’ll highlight just eight here. 1. ‘But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness.’ — Romans 8:10 We human beings were created by God with a body on the outside and a soul and spirit on the inside. Our spi...
We encourage you to get into these eight verses, and others like them, with the help of the notes and cross-references in the New Testament Recovery Version. God’s Word can give us a proper and solid understanding of this precious truth, that Christ lives in us, and help us to realise about ourselves, just as Paul exhorted the Corinthians, that Chr...
Jul 10, 2023 · Philippians 1:21 says, “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” In order to understand Paul’s words, we must first look at the context. The book of Philippians is a letter from the apostle Paul to the church in Philippi. In the epistle, Paul encourages the church, gives them advice, prescribes the life Christians should lead ...
Jan 11, 2024 · As Christ’s disciples, we imitate His character and, in doing so, provide life models worthy of imitation (Philippians 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 3:2–4). And, as we imitate Christ and become more like Him in all we do, we are genuinely free (Romans 12:1–2; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 4:14–16, 22–24).
The goal for all Christians is to come to a place where we live only to magnify the Lord Jesus Christ, and say with Paul, ‘for me to live is Christ’. Hebrews 10.5-7 quotes from the Old Testament (Psalms 40) about the Lord Jesus Christ, a body you have prepared for me… , 'Behold, I have come-- In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God.'
"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Philippians 1:21). Paul declares that the focus, the reason, for everything he does while alive on earth is to glorify Jesus and make Him known. He further states his anticipation of being with Jesus in heaven after he dies—gain. "To live is Christ" clearly defines Paul, and should define all ...
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Dec 13, 2017 · And the other one is “and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:20–21). So, “to live is Christ and to die is gain” are two ways of Paul’s magnifying Christ with his body. So what we want to know is how is Christ magnified in Paul’s life, because that’s what he’s aiming at in this text. Fruitful Labor. To live is Christ.
