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there will be no hope of a resurrection -- from which we
~an
never come to life again.
Man
can kill our bodies but he can do no more.
We have already reckoned our
l~ves
dead upon
b~ptism.
The new life we now live
rs-by
the
?iith
of
Jesus Christ in us .
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For
ye
are dead, and your life. is
hid with Christ
1n
God" (Col.
3: 3).
Jesus brings out
the great importance of the fact that the first or
natural life (soul) of a Christian is already perished.
There is nothing of
that
life which remains for men to kill
That
is why Jesus declared
that
man
can ld.ll
the
body~
but
not the soul or life. We are figuratively
dead already -- our physical way of life is cruc1£1ed.
But the lite or Christ in ua can't be touched
by
man;
he
canno~l
it because it
is
Chr1st
1
s
very
own life.
Although the original word for "eternal life
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is
rrom.
another Greek wordJ
Jesus
uses psuche -- soul or material
life -- because Christ
is
living His life in our ·material
bodies.
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