The smell of death runs through these verses. It talks about losing life. It talks about our cross. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. Jesus talks about losing our life even our soul.
Christians die daily.
We Die to self. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. In my ministry I have met and heard about many seriously handicapped people. Worral had been stricken with rheumatoid arthritis at age 15, and when I met him 30 years later, he was totally paralyzed except for one finger, could barely speak and was totally blind. But he had a string tied to that one mobile finger that could turn on a recorder.