Phil. 1:20-21 The Right Balance of Life and Purpose

PAUL=S PENDING EMANCIPATION - According to my earnest expectation and hope – Continuous Understanding of future hope  - apokardokian - anxious and persistent watching, a mind activity. (kara, meaning head, and kardokia, a sense of watching).

 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.  Psalms 62:5

 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.  Romans 8:18-19

 that in nothing will I be ashamed - Understanding of earthly purpose – aiscunqhsomai Fut Pass Ind – disfigured or dishonored.

 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.  Ps. 25:3

Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. Psalm 119:80

Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. Ps. 119:116

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.  1 Pet. 4:16

And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.  1 John 2:28

but that with all boldness as always - Cf. 1:13-14 - Understanding confidence in God.   Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?  2 Cor 2:14-16

so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body - 1:22-23 - Understanding the Greater purpose of God – megalunqhsetai – Fut  Pass – greatly honored or conspicuous.   But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.  Acts 20:24

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.  Romans 14:7-9

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you.  2 Cor 4:10-12

1:21 For to me to live is Christ - Understanding Present Purpose – to live life to its fullest, always seeing Christ in every issue and breath.

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: hat, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.  1 Cor 1:30-31

and to die is gain - Understanding God=s sovereign Design – a benefit

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 8:35-39

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 Cor 5:1

 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.  2 Cor 5:6-8