GAIN!

June 7

GAIN!

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. — PHILIPPIANS 1:21

When the body dies, the inward man still lives. In today’s text,

Paul was talking about physical death — and he said it is gain.

That does away with the theory that when a man is dead, he’s dead like a dog, and that’s the end of it. There certainly

wouldn’t be any gain to that.

It also does away with the theory that when you die, you just float around like a cloud in the sky. There wouldn’t be any gain to that, either.

And it also does away with the theory of reincarnation. (That’s all it is — a theory! It’s certainly not scriptural.) Some people

think they will be born again into this life — that the next time they might be a cow, or a horse, or even a fly. There wouldn’t be

any gain to coming back as a cow — you might get eaten. If you were a mosquito, you might get squashed. How foolish people can become when they leave the Bible and get off into false teachings!

The truth is just as the Bible presents it: At physical death,

the born again believer — an eternal spirit being — departs to be with Christ, and that is gain!

Confession:

For “me” to live in this physical body is Christ. The life of Christ dwells within the real me — the man on the inside, the

eternal spirit being.