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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Philippians 2:5 KJV/Philippians 2
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importance to us both in its teaching and its help in understanding the nature and purpose of God: we must not confuse that with the teaching before us; to obtain the prize,conformity to His death is necessary. Paul has already spoken in this strain before; he says:--"Always bearing about in the body the dying (`deadness', see Rom. 4: 19) of Jesus,that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body"
(II Cor. 4: 10).The death of Christ is a wide term. From one aspect it stands alone, none can enter into fellowship with Him. In the capacity of the bearer of sin that sacrificial death would lose its saving power were it possible for even one to aspire to fellowship in it. But the death of Christ has other aspects; such a passage as I John 3: 16 will illustrate this:--"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay our lives for the brethren."In this aspect the believer is called upon to be "conformed".
Again, Eph. 5: 2 presents another aspect of that death with which we may have fellowship:--"Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet smelling Saviour."Phil. 4: 18 uses the same words in reference to the kindly acts of the Philippians inm
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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2:5&version=KJV
The Berean Expositor
Volume 7 - Page 110 of 133
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importance to us both in its teaching and its help in understanding the nature and purpose of God: we must not confuse that with the teaching before us; to obtain the prize,conformity to His death is necessary. Paul has already spoken in this strain before; he says:--"Always bearing about in the body the dying (`deadness', see Rom. 4: 19) of Jesus,that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body"
(II Cor. 4: 10).The death of Christ is a wide term. From one aspect it stands alone, none can enter into fellowship with Him. In the capacity of the bearer of sin that sacrificial death would lose its saving power were it possible for even one to aspire to fellowship in it. But the death of Christ has other aspects; such a passage as I John 3: 16 will illustrate this:--"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay our lives for the brethren."In this aspect the believer is called upon to be "conformed".
Again, Eph. 5: 2 presents another aspect of that death with which we may have fellowship:--"Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet smelling Saviour."Phil. 4: 18 uses the same words in reference to the kindly acts of the Philippians inm
http://levendwater.org/the berean expositor/BE_Vol_07/page0110.htm
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