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2 Corinthians 1:9-10 – Outliving Death
Paul wrote, “we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us” (2 Cor.1:9-10). Pardon me if this seems excessive, but if I understand Paul’s analogy, excessive is exactly his point. His divine rescue from a near-death experience, whether from persecution, disease, false teachers, nature, is comparable to the resurrection, both Jesus’ and at the end-time. Either Paul would have to trust in God for his resurrection after suffering death at this time, or else his deliverance was a type of resurrection. Either way, living or dying, Paul had to learn to trust God who had proved trustworthy through the resurrection of Jesus. The impossible God of Paul is the God of the impossible. So when we see or experience someone who through the grace of God outlives death, we are seeing a glimpse of the resurrection.
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