Genesis 20:3-13. 3But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
Genesis 20:3-13. 3But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the
Genesis 2:17. but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of
Proverbs 30:14. those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from
Proverbs 30:12. There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth. Over the course of four verses,
Union with Christ allows us to fight against our own resentment of God and “sinners,” and our resistance of God’s fierce attack against our remaining self-righteousness, as he replaces it with the righteousness of Jesus.
“To live is Christ” means every loss in life is the opportunity for glorious gain. The gaining of a deeper knowledge and a fuller feeling of the love of God in Christ. This is the great contradiction of Christianity, the paradox of the gospel. Gaining is losing, but losing is gaining. Gaining Christ.