TO LIVE IS CHRIST

PHIL 1:21 REFERENCES AND HELPS



PHIL 1:21 For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.



What does it mean to live as a Christian?

Rom 1:17 The just shall live by faith

2 Cor 5:7 For we walk by faith, and not by sight

Rom 10:17 Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God

Matt 4:4 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Luke 4:4, Duet 8:3)

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Phil 13:10 That I might know him...



*Living by faith in what God said leads you to not walk in the flesh

Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

2 Cor 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

Gal 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live In the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.



*He be magnified in my body

Rom 7:24 Who shall deliver me from the body of this death

Rom 6:6 Old man is crucified

Rom 6:12 Let not sin reign in your mortal body

Rom 8:13 Mortify the deeds of the body

1 Cor 6:20Glorify God in your body

Rom 8:23 Redemption of our body



*He be glorified: 1 Cor 6:18-20

18 Fornication = Sin against your own body

19 Your body = Temple of the Holy Ghost

20 Glorify God in your body

Col 1:16 You = created for him

2 Thes 1:12 Name of our Lord be glorified in you

Rom 1:21 Glorified not as God neither were thankful



*He be lifted up: John 12:32

Draw all men to himself

John 8:28 When lifted up = know I am he

John 3:14 As Moses lifted serpent / Son of Man lifted

2 Cor 5:20-21 Exalt and proclaim what happen on that cross when he was lifted up (Death, Burial, Resurrection)



*His life be manifested: 2 Cor 4:10-18



2 Cor 4:10 That the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body.

2 Cor 4:11 Life manifested in our mortal flesh

2 Cor 4:16 Inward man renewed day by day

How? Rom 6:11 Recon dead to sin / Alive unto God

Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefor reign in you mortal body

Rom 6:13 Yield yourselves unto God as alive from the dead

Rom 6:19-22 Yield your members as servants to righteousness.



*He be preached: Phil 1:14-18

Rom 1:15-16 Ready to preach Power of God --- Salvation

2 Cor 4:5 We preach not ourselves

Acts 4:12 None other name under heaven whereby we must be saved

1 Cor 1:23 Christ crucified

Gal 2:21 If righteousness cometh by the law Christ is dead in vain



*He be represented: 2 Cor 5:20-21

20 We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: be ye reconciled to God.

Phil 2:15-16 Blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke,... ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life