0750. "YET NOT I."

"YET NOT I."

In the New Testament Paul several times makes use of a corrective-"I, yet not I." Why? Was it a new Christian form of speaking he had not yet got into the habit of using? Hardly. Was it not rather a reminder to himself and others of the great change that had taken place; or better, a declaration that the "I" always remains, only by conversion with a wonderful plus-Christ. In Spiritism there is the extinction of personality-never in Christianity. Though Christ and I are separate personalities, by grace we become one, yet retaining our separate identity. The "I, yet not I":

I. Of Living, Gal_2:20

II. Of Service, 1Co_15:10

III. Of Offence, Mar_14:29

IV. Of Speaking, 1Co_7:10

V. Of Glorying, 2Co_12:5

Autor: James Smith