Even in dying, he means, I will not have died, for I have life in myself ... as long as Christ is with me, even though death may overtake me, still I live, and in this present life, not this, but Christ is my life ... That life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, so I say in that state also, "I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20). Such ought a Christian to be! ... The word "life" is very significant, beloved, as also is the word "death." There is this life of the body, there is the life of sin, as he himself elsewhere says, "But if we died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?" (Romans 6:2). "Our citizenship," he says, "is in heaven" (Philippians 3:20).
