This week we start our worship with:
Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
This passage declares that “now as always Christ will be honored”. That will happen no matter what. And because that is his hope, Paul could then confidently say “I will not be at all ashamed”, even if death is his “deliverance”.
The prior verse to which this passage was saying “Yes”, expands Thai though to include the means:
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.
So as you walk into today, by whatever means or destination, if your hope is aligned with the honor of Jesus Christ you will not be ashamed.
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