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Illustration about the will to LIVE
Question - living for what?
In 1993, while fishing in St. Mary’s Glacier, Colorado, Bill Jeracki got his leg pinned under a boulder.
Snow was in the forecast, and he was without a jacket, a pack, or communication.
In a desperate attempt to survive, he used his flannel shirt as a tourniquet, and then used his fishing knife to cut off his own leg at the knee joint!
He used hemostats from his fishing kit to clamp the bleeding arteries.
He then crab-walked to his truck and drove himself to the hospital!
In 2003 Aron Ralston had a similar experience.
While hiking in Utah, a boulder fell and pinned his right arm.
After various attempts to get free, on the sixth day of being stuck there, he amputated his right forearm with a dull multi-tool.
Exhausted and dehydrated, he then rappelled down a 60-foot cliff and hiked eight miles before finding a Dutch family who guided him to a rescue helicopter.
He eventually made it to the hospital and survived.
He wrote an autobiography titled Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
An appropriate title!
What do these two stories teach us?
One writer summarizes: Aside from providing some basic tips for adventure recreation, they teach us that humans will do remarkable things in order to live.
We will spend money on the best doctors, take up disciplined eating habits, move to particular climates, and even cut off body parts to live.
But there’s a big question we must answer: What do you live for?
Compiled by Merida, Tony.
Exalting Jesus in Philippians (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary) (pp.
61-62).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
“The verse, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (v.
21)—perhaps the most often quoted line from Philippians, stands at the spiritual center of the paragraph before us—a section in which Paul dynamically affirms his joyous confidence in God.
May our consideration of Paul’s words from prison both ground and spike our confidence in Christ as we live through the difficulties of life.”
(Preaching the Word: Philippians—The Fellowship of the Gospel Chapter 6: Paul’s Joyous Confidence (Philippians 1:18b–26))
Text: Philippians 1:18b-26
verse 18b -
“...Yes, and I will rejoice,”
1. REJOICING / I Will Rejoice
I WILL REJOICE (I choose to rejoice, based on what I know…
I know you’re praying
I know the Holy Spirit is helping
I know this will turn out for my (final) deliverance
The Christian, however, is not a cork on the waters, carried along by the tide of circumstances.
He is a person in need of help from God if he is to sustain the pressures of life and live for Christ through them.
NOTE ABOUT REJOICING...
To rejoice you have to do more than just accept your circumstances.
You have to trust and be thankful
A great litmus test for trust is THANKSGIVING.
Grumbling = Leaning on your own understanding
NOTE about DELIVERANCE
Paul is throwing back to some of the language Job uses in Job 13.
What deliverance is he speaking exactly of?
Prison, Suffering, or his ultimate Salvation.
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2. EXPECTING
2. I AM HOPING / EXPECTING
Not to be ashamed
To be courageous
To honor Christ (in life or death)
HOPE -
To understand it, we must set aside our normal English usage of hope with its note of uncertainty, as in “I hope the Checkers will beat the San Francisco 49ers” or as with crossed fingers we say, “Let’s hope it won’t rain.”
In contrast to this, Biblical hope brims with certainty because it is based upon the fact that “God is God and has underwritten the future” (Bockmuehl).
Several weeks before Andrew Chong, a beloved physician and a former elder in the church I pastored for many years, passed away, he was taken to Northwestern Hospital in Chicago to have a stint cleared of blockage.
The procedure was invasive, and after some time the surgeon came out and indicated that he could not go on because there was too much bleeding.
He said, “You’d better get your family here.
He may not make it through the night.”
So all the children were rushed to Andrew’s bedside, where they gathered weeping and saying their good-byes.
Andrew had just come out of the anesthetic and was in intense pain and unable to speak.
Seeing his family’s distress, he made a curious motion with his finger, which they finally understood as a request for a pen.
Of late he had been unable to write in a straight line.
But now, very slowly and with intense deliberation, he wrote twelve words in a single column.
For to me
to live
is Christ
and
to die
is gain.
Andrew anchored the column with “Hallelujah.”
The writing of that last word took him a full minute as he made sure he spelled it correctly (always the precise surgeon).
And then he spoke: “Nothing has changed.
Nothing has changed.”
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3. READY
3. I AM READY
to live for Christ
to be with Christ for eternity
to do what’s best for His glory and mission
help you in your progress
stir you in your joy
To live is Christ?
Verse 23 will describe in more detail why “to die is gain,” but what does “to live is Christ” mean?
It means that Christ completely defines the meaning of life.
Galatians 2:20 gives further help:
All for Jesus!
All for Jesus!
All my being’s ransomed powers;
All my thoughts and words and doings,
All my days and all my hours.
MARY D. JAMES, “ALL FOR JESUS,” 1889
CALL FOR “SCALE” SLIDES” (DYING VS LIVING)
Paul is having to try and decide between RIGHT and RIGHT.
This is nearly impossible without walking by FAITH…Trusting and Relying on the Wisdom of God.
“SCALE” SLIDES” (DEPARTING VS REMAINING)
Going benefits Paul
Staying benefits the Church
“SCALE” SLIDES” (BEING WITH CHRIST VS WORK FOR CHRIST)
Which is better?
We would take our cues from Paul here and learn to lay down our lives for:
the sake of others,
the advance of Christ’s Kingdom,
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