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27. Life Lost to the World is Saved.
But at the same time also observe that at the beginning
it is said, “Whosoever wills,” but afterwards, “Whoso
shall lose.”5729
If we then
wish it to be saved let us lose it to the world, as those who have been
crucified with Christ and have for our glorying that which is in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world is to be
crucified unto us and we unto the world,5730
that we may gain our end, even the salvation of our lives, which begins
from the time when we lose it for the sake of the word. But if we
think that the salvation of our life is a blessed thing, with reference
to the salvation which is in God and the blessednesses with Him, then
any loss of life ought to be a good thing, and, for the sake of Christ
must prove to be the prelude to the blessed salvation. It seems
to me, therefore, following the analogy of self-denial, according to
what has been said, that each ought to lose his own life. Let
each one therefore lose his own sinning life, that having lost that
which is sinful, he may receive that which is saved by right actions;
but a man will in no way be profited if he shall gain the whole
world. Now he gains the world, I think, to whom the world is not
crucified; and to whom the world is not crucified, to that man shall be
the loss of his own life. But when two things are put before us,
either by gaining one’s life to forfeit the world, or by gaining
the world to forfeit one’s life, much more desirable is the
choice, that we should forfeit the world and gain our life by losing it
on account of Christ.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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