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- Paul calls men not to take up some timeless ideal, not merely to believe in a divine being contemporary with him, but to believe in the Jesus who lived and died and now lives again. The contemporary Christ is one and the same as the Jesus of history. If it is not the same Jesus, then his gospel falls in ruins.
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Paul’s perspective on life and death is founded upon the bedrock certainty of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and from that, the certainty that all the dead will be raised—some to eternal life, and some to eternal torment.
Paul emphasizes that the message of the Gospel hinges on the resurrection. Preaching, or "κήρυγμα" (kerygma), in the early church was the proclamation of Jesus' death and resurrection. If Christ has not been raised, then the apostles' message is devoid of power and truth.
31 I die every day—yes indeed, by my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord! 32 If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit is it to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be ...
Feb 12, 2024 · When Paul said, “I die daily,” he reminded the church that he faced the possibility of death every time he strode into a new synagogue and proclaimed Christ to those who didn’t want to hear (Acts 17:2–5; 18:4).
The “sinful flesh” is nothing other than the “sinful body” (Rom. 6:6), the “body doomed to death” (Rom. 7:24). Thus in Rom. 8:3 Paul is saying simply that God sent his Son in the very form of fallen man, that is, as representative of fallen men.
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Jan 4, 2022 · Paul’s trust in Jesus never wavered. His faith was as solid on the day of his death as it had been the moment he first believed on the Damascus road (Acts 9:3). He was firm in his faith in the midst of the mob’s violence (Acts 16:22; 2 Corinthians 11:25; 1 Thessalonians 2:2).
