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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
WOW!
Ok, please explain what that scripture is talking about.
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Notice the context Paul is using when he spoke of dying daily.
1 Cor 15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
The subject is resurrection. In verse 29 Paul asks if there is no resurrection then why are people getting baptized.
Then he ask another question for those who think there is no resurrection. And this is where that verse comes into play.
Why are preachers like Paul standing in jeopardy, risking their necks, every hour if there is no resurrection?. And in that point, he then says he dies daily. And how does he die daily? Its' related to standing in jeopardy very hour, but he actually notes how he dies daily in the next verse. Verse 32 says he fought with beasts at Ephesus.
So sandwiched between stating he stood in jeopardy every hour and fighting with beasts at Ephesus, Paul says He died daily. The dying daily is the jeopardy he put his life in everyday he got up to preach, knowing full well THAT MIGHT BE THE DAY HE DIES. It's a manner of speaking the idea that he accepted the fact he could die each day he proceeded to minister.
He actually used the same kind of language in
2 Cor 4.
2 Cor 5:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Notice he called the tribulations and persecution to be the experience of bearing in his body the DYING of Jesus. He said he was delivered to death for the Lord's sake by experiencing the troubles he faced as a preacher.
THAT is what he meant by dying daily in
1 Cor 15.
He meant that if there was no resurrection, then he would not die daily... in other words, he would not risk his neck by preaching, knowing he could be killed for it, and he eventually was! If there was no resurrection and hope after this life, then he would treat this life so preciously he would not risk a cell in his body. But he knew this life is not the deal! And he did not care if he would die, since HE REALLY believed in the next life. You do not do that if you don't really believe in a resurrection.
So, the jeopardy they faced every hour was the daily dying he spoke about.
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