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Deny yourself so you may have eternal life
The second part of this passage talks of losing our earthly lives for the sake of gaining eternal life.
So if we want to gain eternal life, we should constantly live to deny ourselves and deny our lives for the sake of eternal life with God.
Deny yourself so others may have eternal life
Here Paul is writing to the Corinthian church that they experience death of what their life could be for the sake of preaching the gospel.
He gives many examples of how they are persecuted.
He then says in verse 12, “So then, death is at work in us, but LIFE IS AT WORK IN YOU.”
So as disciples of God, we not only just simply put to death what we want for the sake of growing in our relationship with God, but we put to death what we want so that others can experience eternal life.
If we can’t put to death our sinful desires, our earthly hopes and dreams, how could we ever let God use us to bring eternal life in others.
As disciples of God, we experience death so others can experience life.
Jesus literally died on the cross, was beaten and bruised, and tortured, so we could experience eternal life.
So our mission is to put to death the things that we want, even if they seem like good things at the time, so others can experience life.
We may put to death a hope or a dream we have, we may put to death a sin that we struggle with, we may put aside discomfort of not wanting to talk to others so we can share the gospel, and the list goes on.
So we not only “deny ourself and take up our cross” but we literally consider our lives as dead for the sake of eternal life in others.
2 Timothy 4
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