Reading:
Philippians 1:19-26

What does that mean?

“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (21).

Wow, that’s a familiar verse!

The second part is clear enough, but what does that middle section mean?

“to live is Christ”

I know what…. I’ll see if my computer Bible has some helpful cross references….

Not many. But check these out:

“…Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death…” (Philippians 1:20).

“For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s” (Philippians 2:21).

“When Christ, who is our life…” (Colossians 3:4).

I thought of these as well:

“He that hath the Son hath life…” (1 John 5:12).

“…I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by…” (Galatians 2:20).

So…what do you think?

[The Scriptures say in Philippians 1:21 -- To live is Christ]
from Philippians 1:21

Reading:

Numbers 20:1-13

Welcome to the Sunday School lesson for August 16, 2009.

Here are my questions for now:

  1. What triggers my resistance, challenging-to-authority spirit?
  2. “Why have brought…into this wilderness?” — What are the right answers?
  3. When people question or challenge what I’m doing, what’s my response?
  4. Moses didn’t fully follow instructions, so why did God send water anyway?
  5. “Ye believed me not” — How was what Moses did disbelief?
  6. And why was Aaron punished along with him?
  7. What do I fall back on when I don’t understand God’s ways?
  8. “He was sanctified in them” — how so?

Answer any you wish in the comments below, but I’m particularly interested in your answers to 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8.

Thanks!

[The Scriptures say in Numbers 20:13 -- He was sanctified in them]
from Numbers 20:13