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Strength For life
If we hekrd St mail say, “1 can do aU things," we would probobljr § think he was bragging. But if we ' heard a man like the Apostle Paul Say, "1 can do all things through Christ who gives me strength,” We would be forced to the conclusion that he knows what he is talking about.- Could a man endure stoning* at the hands of mobs, or be whipped on five separate occasions with 39 strokes of a lash, or suffer shipwreck and be adrift at sea, or be imprisioned, or face dangers from bandits, floods, Jews and Greeks, or know hunger and thirst, gj^jjiustioW, pain unless there was a new power in his life?
Paul sawrin his letter to the Galatian Chnsfians, “I am crucified with Christ. It is no longer I that live but Christ lives within me. ^ And die life I now live I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.” For, Paul and the early Christians it meant that their lives had been invaded by a new quality of life— the life of God himseif. The risen, i living Christ in the person of the Holy Spirit had come to live witfa. in them. ■ v
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