<html><head></head><body><div><div><div><div><br></div>Philippians 1;19-21<div><br></div><div><b>19. &nbsp;Yes, and I shall rejoice. &nbsp;For I know that through your prayers and help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,</b></div><div><b>20. &nbsp;as is my eager expectation and&nbsp;hope that I shall not be ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.</b></div><div><b>21. &nbsp;For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>The carnal flesh reads verse 19 and thinks Paul hope of <i>“deliverance” </i>means escape from being executed&nbsp;by the Romans. &nbsp;That is not at all what Paul is meaning by the word <i>“deliverance”.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>True deliverance which Paul is referring to,&nbsp;is deliverance from the sin of apostasy, (denying Christ and the Gospel). &nbsp;His desire is to make the ‘good confession’, and k<span>eep&nbsp;his Confirmation Vow to <i>“suffer all, even death, rather than be ‘untrue’ to God,&nbsp;Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. &nbsp;</i>Notice the tern, <i>“remain </i><u>true</u>”,</span></div><div><span>this is ‘marriage speak’. &nbsp;Apostasy, is spiritual adultery.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Earthly marriage vows are only for, <i>“as long as you&nbsp;both shall live.”</i>&nbsp; But the Confirmation Vow is forever and ever.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Notice finally, that Paul puts <u>no</u>&nbsp;confidence in his own flesh. &nbsp;His entire hope for remaining true to God rests in the <i>“prayers”</i>&nbsp;of the saints and <i>“the Spirit of Jesus Christ”. “I can do all things <u>in him</u>&nbsp;who strengthens me.” </i>(Philippians 4;13). &nbsp;<i>“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives <u>in me</u>; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” &nbsp;</i>(Galatians 2;20) &nbsp;</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>When Paul says, <i>“For me to live is Jesus Christ, and to die is gain.” </i>(v. 21) he is teaching us that our&nbsp;entire regenerate being exists completely <u>in Christ.</u>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To think of our existence as being in some way separate,&nbsp;distinct, or apart from Christ is sin and pride and false thinking. &nbsp;The new man takes his entire existence, his thoughts, emotions, and actions from, in, and through&nbsp;Christ, and he gives all glory for all good works done in the flesh to Christ. &nbsp;All ‘self’ apart from Christ, all in</span><span>dependence is error. &nbsp;The two have been made one.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Death for us is the culmination, fulfillment, and entrance into perfect participation in the divine nature, no longer troubled by the old-man, the sin nature, the independent ‘self’. &nbsp;</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Prayer: &nbsp;Merciful Father, grant us ever increasing awareness of our oneness You have given us&nbsp;with You and Jesus&nbsp;by the Holy Spirit. &nbsp;Deliver us from self and self reliance. &nbsp;Bless us to walk only <i>“by the Spirit” </i>we pray in Jesus, Amen.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Love,</span></div><div><span>Dad/Baba/Eric</span></div><div><span>Grandpa Pickle Pastor</span></div><div><span>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”</span></div><div><br><br><div><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&amp;c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&amp;af_sub1=Acquisition&amp;af_sub2=Global_YMktg&amp;af_sub3=&amp;af_sub4=100000604&amp;af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>


Philippians 1;19-21
19.  Yes, and I shall rejoice.  For I know that through your prayers and help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,20.  as is my eager expectation and hope that I shall not be ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.21.  For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
The carnal flesh reads verse 19 and thinks Paul hope of “deliverance” means escape from being executed by the Romans.  That is not at all what Paul is meaning by the word “deliverance”.
True deliverance which Paul is referring to, is deliverance from the sin of apostasy, (denying Christ and the Gospel).  His desire is to make the ‘good confession’, and keep his Confirmation Vow to “suffer all, even death, rather than be ‘untrue’ to God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Notice the tern, “remain true”,this is ‘marriage speak’.  Apostasy, is spiritual adultery.
Earthly marriage vows are only for, “as long as you both shall live.”  But the Confirmation Vow is forever and ever.
Notice finally, that Paul puts no confidence in his own flesh.  His entire hope for remaining true to God rests in the “prayers” of the saints and “the Spirit of Jesus Christ”. “I can do all things in him who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4;13).  “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”  (Galatians 2;20)  
When Paul says, “For me to live is Jesus Christ, and to die is gain.” (v. 21) he is teaching us that our entire regenerate being exists completely in Christ.   To think of our existence as being in some way separate, distinct, or apart from Christ is sin and pride and false thinking.  The new man takes his entire existence, his thoughts, emotions, and actions from, in, and through Christ, and he gives all glory for all good works done in the flesh to Christ.  All ‘self’ apart from Christ, all independence is error.  The two have been made one.
Death for us is the culmination, fulfillment, and entrance into perfect participation in the divine nature, no longer troubled by the old-man, the sin nature, the independent ‘self’.  
Prayer:  Merciful Father, grant us ever increasing awareness of our oneness You have given us with You and Jesus by the Holy Spirit.  Deliver us from self and self reliance.  Bless us to walk only “by the Spirit” we pray in Jesus, Amen.
Love,Dad/Baba/EricGrandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”

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