For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you
Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, when remember Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem. If we back up a couple of steps in his story from that entrance, we remember that Jesus “set his face toward Jerusalem” knowing full well what awaited him there. Even as people set palm branches in his path, he walked toward the cross. This radical obedience of Christ is paradigmatic for our own service for him: we lay down our lives for the sake of others. Giving up our “rights,” we lift others’ up.
(incidentally, Paul uses the above argument to preface a discussion about how the corinthian church should deal with their finances.)
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