The world’s philosophy says LIVE FOR SELF. The Lord wants us to live a godly and spiritually productive happy life. The apostle Paul said, “ For me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). We bear fruit when Christ lives His life in and through us (Jn 15:5 Gal 2:20). That is the essence of God’s plan – we are saved to bear fruit created in Christ Jesus for good works (Eph 2:10). Every genuine child of God wants to be used by God to accomplish His purposes in the world - Jesus said, “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples” (Jn 15:8). To be used of God one must understand the essence of who he now really is, and how it is that God can use him. The individual who “dies to self” understands that God created him for a reason that he is a part of God’s plan for the world. he no longer continues to arrange the world around himself. he is no longer the center of his own little universe.
As such, the individual is no longer concerned with “his own will or happiness,” because he is no longer in the picture. Printable pdf Version of this Study The essence of a being's "existence" has to do with the fact that he is a "living reality" - if one no longer has or the functions of vitality, they are said to “no longer exist.” So, the essence of “death” is the absence of “life” – therefore when one dies “one ceases to exist.” To carry the argument into the spiritual realm, when someone “ spiritually dies to self,” self ceases to exist – that is, SELF IS NO LONGER THE REASON FOR ONE’S EXISTENCE.
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