We face a dilemma in our life—a confusing situation where we are pulled in two directions with two equally important or desirable choices. Our dilemmas can be small, like choosing between two colors of a dress, or larger, like a student trying to decide between becoming a software engineer or a doctor. We all face dilemmas.
In a way, a person’s dilemma reveals their character and maturity. One preacher gives an example of Adoniram Judson, the first American missionary sent overseas. He was an unusually godly man who went to a very hostile, primitive, and threatening country known then as Burma. During 14 years of continuous missionary effort in that difficult land, he contracted terrible diseases, his wife and children died there, and he was repeatedly put in jail. And yet, he was faithful to remain. He never left; he never quit. Because he saw all these trials coming from the sovereign plan of God in his life, he persevered.
It would have been easy for him to go back to America and even die soon, suffering with terrible pain from different diseases. It would have been easy to die and go to heaven, to live with Christ and all the people he loved, his wife and children, in heaven. He faced a dilemma. On one side, he longed to die and be with Christ and his beloved family. On the other side, he had so much of a gospel burden for the souls of the Burmese people who were in pagan darkness. Struggling between these two, he finally prayed, “Lord, please do not allow me to die in my suffering until I translate the entire Bible into the Burmese language and see a Burmese church with at least 100 Christians.” He pleaded with the Lord to let him live at least that long.
Every true saint faces this kind of dilemma. It actually comes from becoming more like Christ. You remember in the garden, He was in a kind of terrible dilemma. On one side, He had to drink this cup of wrath for sins, which was an abomination to His pure soul, so He prayed, “Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass.” But on the other side, unless He drank the cup, there would be no salvation for His people. Then He decided to drink the difficult cup. In our passage today in Philippians 1:22-26, we see Paul having a godly dilemma. It reveals the spiritual depth and maturity of this great man. Verses 5 are filled with very colorful, vivid, picture-like words. Let us see them.
We can look at this in two headings: Paul’s godly dilemma and his personal resolution to that dilemma.
Paul’s Godly Dilemma
We know the context: he is in jail, waiting for Caesar’s judgment on his case. It may result in his release or execution, but he is rejoicing in jail because he sees all the past events that happened to him led to the spread of the gospel. In the present, many believers are preaching the gospel with boldness because of his imprisonment, some doing so with wrong motives, and he sees the future and says, “I shall rejoice.” How can you always rejoice, Paul, with present chains rubbing your hand, knowing any minute your head may be cut off? He gave many reasons for his joy, but as a summary and the top secret for his joy, he gives the philosophy of his life in the glorious statement in verse 21: “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” He lived in a climate of faith in Christ, loving Christ, and devoted service to Christ. Christ was the essence of his life, his model, and his aim. He lived in Christ, for Christ, by Christ, and through Christ. Because he lived like that, death is a gain for him.
If we ourselves can see so much gain in dying as a Christian, with all the high revelation we have, how much Paul would assuredly see as gain. He knew the best thing would be to die and go to be with the Lord. So if we ask Paul, “Instead of all this suffering in jail, do you want to die and go to heaven?” He says, “I’m in a dilemma.” So let us see what Paul’s dilemma is.
In verse 23, he confesses his dilemma. The first option is described: “For I am hard-pressed between the two.” He is in a dilemma between two choices. To what extent? The word he uses, “hard-pressed,” shows his dilemma. “I am pressed between the two things.” This is a very vivid picture word, used in many ways. This is the word that is used in Luke 19 when Jesus is predicting the destruction of Jerusalem, and He says that the armies will “compass and press in upon the city on all sides.” The idea is of a city surrounded by a siege, with no supply of water or food, starving. How they long to be liberated! He feels like a man besieged in this body, living in this world, who wants to be delivered. The word is also used to imagine when one is struck between two big rocks, both coming closer and closer, squeezing. That is the picture.
So whatever this dilemma was, it was no light thing. It was an intense, inward, spiritual dilemma described in this vigorous word. “I am pressured between the two things.” So what are the two things that press Paul? What is the first thing?
The first thing is: “For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.” Notice another picture word, “desire,” which is a word that means a strong yearning. The word is most frequently used for hot lust in the wrong sense, an evil passion, but it can also be used in the good sense. It’s a compelling and unfulfilled desire. But it speaks of a conscious, intense desire and longing. For what? To die. There is a great yearning on one side to die. See how calmly, confidently, and beautifully he describes death. “What is death, Paul?” “To depart and to be with Christ.” You don’t see one slightest bit of fear or hesitation. He uses the beautiful word “depart.” He, as a tentmaker and missionary, would go from city to city, staying in a city temporarily by putting up a tent. When the work was done, he would dismantle the tent—untie the ropes, remove the tent pegs, pull them up, fold the tent—and “depart.” So now, his soul is camped in this temporary body-tent; at death, he will fold this flesh and leave this body to go to his eternal home. “Depart.” The word is also a sailor’s term. They stay at sea, sometimes putting down an anchor, but when they are ready to leave, they remove the anchor, and the ship “departs” and sails to another country. It is as if he is saying, “I am tired of sailing in the storms of life, and I am eager to remove my anchor and set sail on the sea to the glorious shore of eternity.” The word “depart” is to untie all the ropes that tie him to this earth, cut loose all connections, and leave. To go where? He says, “to be with Christ.”
Doing that, he says, is “far better.” This amazing phrase in the original is a triple comparative. It is not just good, not just better, but “far better.” It is so far beyond anything in this life. It is the best. He has an intense desire. Oh, how much he must yearn! If we ourselves, as ordinary believers, think heaven is so much better, it sometimes makes us yearn. What a glorious gain indeed it must be to one so prepared for death as he was! He lived for heaven and worked for a heavenly reward all his life, having lost everything on earth for that. The greatest reward waits for him. All his trials must have made him yearn for heaven more, especially now with no one with him in jail and suffering.
To get rid of sin, and sorrow, and temptation, and suffering of every kind; to have all the faculties of his soul perfected, all its capacities enlarged, all its wishes accomplished; to behold all the glory of his God and Savior! How much he loved Christ so deeply; Christ was his world, and he yearned to be with Christ. What is it to enjoy personal, intimate, complete, unhindered, eternal, conscious fellowship with Christ, and to join with all the hosts of heaven in songs of joy and triumph; and to enter upon a state of unalienable everlasting happiness? Well might he say, “This is far better,” for even his exalted happiness whilst on earth must fall infinitely short of such a state. Nothing is better than the best. He alone knows the intensity of that desire. He says on one side, “I have a deep, hot yearning for that.” That is the first side of his dilemma.
Now, what is the second pressure? “Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.” Another thing that pulls him is the need of the church. See how much he loves the church; their need presses him. It makes him want to remain. What will happen if he stays? Why, if he lives, what will he do? Go back to verse 22: “But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor.” If I am alive in the body, I will not live a useless, fruitless life. There will be labor that will bear fruit. That labor will be very useful for you. So when I think of how much gain death will be—I will be delivered from this body of death, perfectly sanctified, immediately in the presence of Christ—I desire to cut loose the ropes, fold my tent, depart and be with Christ. That’s exceedingly far better. And yet he thinks of the needs of all the churches and his dear Philippian church, which he planted and is now only approximately ten years old. It is a baby church. We’re 17 years old. Though older than them, we’re still a baby church.
He realizes the church needs his ministry in many ways as a growing church. They need to mature in Christ and have Christ’s mind and learn humility, as he will teach in chapter 2. They are facing some doctrinal dangers, which we will see in chapter 3:2, “beware of the dogs and the evil workers and the false circumcision.” There are some divisions, and some women are fighting. There are spiritual needs. If they are to grow, they need to learn not to worry, to be content, and not to allow the thorns of the world to choke the word. If they were going to have an impact on the world, if they were going to win people to Christ, they needed some strengthening and to mature as a church. They need his ministry, teaching, and guidance.
On one side, personally for him, there is his great, intense desire to depart and go to Christ. But his pastor’s heart cannot irresponsibly think of only how wonderful it will be for him personally without thinking of the needs of the beloved church, so he is pulled in another direction. So he says, “Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.” So he says at the end of verse 22: “yet what I shall choose I cannot tell.” “I do not know what I should choose.” I know God will decide the right thing. “If the choice was given to me, Paul, do you want to live or do you want to die? I don’t know what to choose. I am hard-pressed by these two.” “I am in a dilemma,” in Shakespeare’s language, “to be or not to be, to live or die, I don’t know.” He struggles to select between the two. These are not good versus bad desires; both are good. It’s not weak and strong desires; both are equally strong, so he is in a tug-of-war situation. We used to play this in school, two sides, boys and girls. I was very fat and small; they would fight to have me on their side. A line is drawn in the middle, and both sides pull on the rope. Sometimes the right group would pull, and other times the left group. That is how Paul is feeling, pulled in both directions. One rope is his personal love to be with Christ—he hopes this side wins. Another rope is tied to the needs of the Philippian and other churches—he hopes this side wins. So he is pulled in both directions.
What a wonderful dilemma: a man so in love with Jesus Christ and yet so committed to the loving of the church of Christ. He can’t even choose which way to go. That’s a devoted man. What maturity! How many have reached this level of maturity?
His Personal Resolution to that Dilemma
He comes to a resolution concerning that dilemma. He comes to a personal conviction. Although he has no direct revelation that he will be released, he has many reasons to think he will be released from this trial. Something inside gives him assurance based on the needs of the church and what is happening in the trial, based upon what he feels the Spirit of God is prompting in his heart. He comes to an inward resolution of the dilemma, and notice how he describes it: “And being confident of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith, that your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.”
Coming to a resolution, he is confident he will be released and will come to them. He expects two things to happen to them when he comes and stays with them. First, in verse 25, there will be the “progress of your faith.” Because of his coming to them and his continued ministry and teaching of God’s word, they will progress in faith and the joy that comes from faith. There will be spiritual growth. Isn’t that wonderful? Joy always grows in correspondence to faith. I keep telling people, “You want to be happier? Don’t run after the world; you will be more covetous, more sad, and more frustrated. Grow spiritually, grow in faith. The more you grow, the happier your life will become.” Advancing faith is accompanied by increasing joy. The more you grow in Christ, the more joy you experience.
In verse 26, as a result of this growth, “that your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.” The word is “boasting” in the NIV, and “your ample cause for glorifying Christ” in the ESV. The man again comes back to the life nerve of his life: all for the glory of Jesus Christ. “Your glorying of Jesus Christ may increase and abound.” The word means “overflow.” “Your glorying of Jesus Christ may overflow because of my coming to you. When I come to you and you grow spiritually and your joy increases, your glorying for me will overflow in Christ.”
So we see Paul’s dilemma, but then struggling with that, maybe prompted by the Holy Spirit, he was made to realize he would remain. Although he would be very happy to depart and be with Jesus, he wants to continue so they can progress in faith, grow in joy, and abound in glorifying Christ when he goes to them. When he realized this could be the will of God, his pressing mind was instantly assimilated to the mind and will of God. He was willing to bear more, suffer more, that he might do more; and to postpone his own enjoyment, even of heaven itself, that he might help others with his ministry.
What a man, what a man! Again and again, I am amazed at his maturity. “I rejoice. I don’t really care whether I’m in chains. I don’t care whether they are preaching with wrong motives. I don’t really care whether I die. I don’t really care whether I live. All I care about is that the gospel advances, that Christ is preached, that His name is glorified, and His church grows. That’s all I care about. With that heart, I can’t even make a choice. I long to be with Christ because I love Him so much, and that is far better, but for the good of His church, I can postpone my personal joy and bear the suffering longer.”
A question you may have: Did Paul get released? Yes, God answered his prayer. He was probably released around 63 A.D., probably before the burning of Rome in 64, or he would not have been released. He lived three or four years outside. Immediately after his release, he took another missionary journey to Asia Minor and on the way to Asia Minor, planted a church on the island of Crete, and left Titus to establish the churches and their leaders, according to Titus 1:5. He then went to Colossae, as he had referred to in Philemon 22, and then went to Ephesus. There he met Timothy and saw the horrible state of the church because of bad leaders. Paul cleaned out the two worst leaders in the church, Hymenaeus and Alexander, and then left Timothy there to set the rest of the church in order. He did not have much time; the man was on the run and had to go to other churches, so he left Timothy to do some of his work. From Ephesus, he went to Macedonia. It was from Macedonia that he wrote 1 Timothy and Titus, to help the leaders he left behind. While he was going to different places from there, he was again arrested and taken to Rome for his second imprisonment. This imprisonment was very brief and very severe. Everyone forsook him; Demas forsook him. Only Luke was with him. He knew he was going to die, and he writes his final letter, 2 Timothy, and asks Timothy to come to him in 2 Timothy 4. He was soon beheaded. We don’t know whether Timothy ever got there before he died.
So God gave him a few more years and a fruitful ministry. The man lived for Christ, lived for Christ consummately. The only dilemma of his life was whether to live or die. To die was to be with Christ; to live was to serve Christ. That’s all that matters. Paul sets that pattern for us. As we study this man, may the Holy Spirit transform us and make his example our goal as we grow in Christ.
Applications
We talk about becoming a godly man. Godliness is the goal of the Christian life. Behold the picture of a godly man. The Holy Spirit wants us to lift our heads from the low, immature, selfish lives we live and see the tremendous spiritual height of this man’s maturity and the profound spiritual commitment in his life. It’s little wonder that the Spirit of God used him to write as much of the New Testament as He did. You want to live a useful, fruitful life? It comes from growing in godliness and maturity. The reason God doesn’t bless us is because of our immaturity. There is nothing sadder in the Christian life than immaturity. Imagine someone who is 30 or 40 but still acts like a 5- or 10-year-old. That’s how spiritually we are. The Bible again and again rebukes us that we are still babies.
We have come to the end of one year. Have you thought about why God gives us time as believers in the world? Why did He give us 365 days in 2023? To grow in maturity. Hebrews says, “considering the time, you should have matured to be teachers, to eat meat, but you are still babies drinking milk and needing basic teaching.” Do you want to grow in maturity? Behold this man, a man who grew to the highest maturity in Christ. One example is worth more than a thousand words. He is set as an example for us to follow in serving Christ. Here is a painting of a truly godly man. What does it mean to be a godly, matured man or woman, boy or girl? What does it mean to truly be a man of God, a woman of God, or a boy or a girl after God’s own heart?
Let us learn from his three examples: maturity seen in his dilemma, maturity in his selflessness, and maturity seen in his fruitful labor.
Maturity in His Dilemma
What foolish dilemmas we have! It only shows our immaturity. For most unbelievers or nominal Christians, death is not a divine dilemma, but a terrible one! It is the opposite. There is no desire to die, but a great longing to live. For what? Not to labor, bear fruit, and serve others, but to continue to live selfish lives for the world, to love the world more, and to avoid death even in thought because of fear of the wrath that is waiting for them after death. Most people can’t make the choice based on those two things. Most people would say, “I want to stay.” Why? “Well, we want to build a new house. We want to see our children get married, see our grandchildren, go on a foreign trip.” Those are okay at a worldly level, but how long will we be stuck at this level? See a mature, godly man; those are not the things that were in Paul’s heart. How honorable to the Christian character! How worthy to be imitated by all Christians! His desire is to depart to be with Christ, but he will stay to serve God’s people, grow their faith and joy, and bring glory to Christ. What matters is that if he lives, he must glorify Christ and serve the church. “I only want to live to do fruitful labor and glorify Christ.”
May I say again to you: that ought to be our dilemma. We should be caught in a dilemma, not in the infantile immaturity of still struggling with what we will eat, drink, or wear. We’re still struggling with an undivided heart for Christ. We face a dilemma between Christ and family, Christ or my job/career/ambition, Christ and money, Christ and prestige, Christ and success, Christ and the world, Christ and our entertainment, and at the worst and lowest basic level of baby Christian life, Christ or my sin. How many years are we going to live at this low level? When are we going to mature to this level of godliness of dilemmas? It is a horrible thing to remain stagnant in growth. See, Paul was willing to postpone his great desire for what? He didn’t want Christians to stagnate at a low level. He wanted progress in faith, progress in knowledge of the Bible, progress in conscientious living, progress in victory over remaining sin, progress in evangelistic concern, and progress in ministry. Will we progress this year? Some of you have been believers for many years and show no indication of progressing in the Christian life.
But the dilemma that we ought to be caught in is the one Paul was caught in: to leave the world and be with Christ, or to serve His church here on earth. Are we so consumed with love for Christ that the deepest longing of our heart is to be with Him? But on the other hand, are we so consumed with the love of His church and the need of His church that the heart’s desire is also to be with them? And do we live in that tension and no other tension? I dare say this is not a category in our lives at all; it shows how low we are. Why is this not your state? Is it not because of retaining too much love of this world in your hearts? Is it not because of secret backslidings from God and your not meditating sufficiently on the glories of heaven? I think this example should shame our infant growth and push us to grow in Christian maturity in 2023. Our maturity is terrible. We are still struggling with our prayer lives and reading of the Bible. Years are going by: 10, 15, 20, 30. A new year is already here. Oh, we are still dwarfs. We still have dilemmas about what we will eat, what we will drink, and what about our future. May God challenge us with this example to grow in the Christian life.
Maturity in His Selflessness
You see, the whole dilemma focuses on these two issues. “To depart.” In that column, he could list innumerable advantages for himself. Just the negatives: no more jail, no more ministry burdens, no more traveling, no more teaching, no more efforts, no more struggling with the body of sin. And then the positives—how many gains—he says, “much more better.” But when he weighs the second column, “to remain” and “continue in the world,” there is zero benefit for him—more trouble, pain, and work. But he can see that it is “more needful for you,” the Philippian church. On one side, it is selfishly full of advantages, and on another side, it is a necessity for others. And how does he resolve the dilemma? He determines in his mind not based on how comfortable it will be for him, but how useful it will be for others. This is the soul and meaning of matured godliness. Godliness is not just godly praying and reading the Bible. In practical life, the godly person does not make decisions based on how comfortable, how difficult, or how adjustable it will be for him, but on how useful it will be for others.
That is the godliness he will teach in Philippians 2: “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.” Godliness is being selflessly consumed with a driving passion to meet the spiritual needs of the church, not thinking of oneself selfishly always. Oh, if each of us can learn this one lesson in the coming year, our church will be a different church in the new year. Do you know why most of you are not able to do anything for the church and other Christians? The reason some of you do not make much progress in maturity and godliness is a problem in your thinking process. You have drawn a circle around your life—your likes, dislikes, feelings, ambitions, your family, your wealth. You will run only around this desert. You have determined to live and protect your own selfish forest.
In your thinking process, for everything, if you think, “If I do this, it will be beneficial for me, my circle, my selfish forest,” you immediately do it. When there is a dilemma, you think, “If I do this, it will be beneficial, and if I do that, it will not be for me, but it will be needed and useful for others.” Your balance always falls on how beneficial or how difficult it will be for you and your circle. There is no room for consideration for others. Mark my words, as long as you stick to that kind of thinking, you will never be able to do anything for Christ or His church. All that you do will be for selfish reasons. You will never mature. And to be like Christ means that we seek not our own things, but the things of others.
You see how this has many applications. I will tell you, if you get your eyes off your own self-centered interests, a world of gospel ministry opportunities will open. If we just come out of our selfish desert/forest, how much ministry we can do for others!
This applies to our membership responsibilities. When attending church, what motivates your decision? “I have to come so far, I am not feeling good.” Or, “If I go to church, I can participate in church work and encourage members by my presence. It will be needed for the church.” This also applies to tithing and discipling others.
We need more preachers inside and outside the church. Why are we not having more in our church? Take preaching. “Okay, if I have to preach… many don’t come forward. Oh, this will take my time. I have to read, prepare, and think. I will lose my TV time, my Saturday rest time. I have to rack my brain.” But if you think, “Oh, how useful it will be for others, how it will grow their faith, and how Christ will be glorified,” which thought moves you more: the selfish one, or the glory of Christ and others’ benefit?
The same goes for all other ministries. When sharing the gospel, you may think, “Oh, if I have to share the gospel, I have to think about what I have to say, I have to pray for them, look for opportunities. They may reject me or insult me.” But you should be thinking, “Oh, God may use my preaching to save an eternal soul! How it will glorify God!” Can you see how selfishness rules you here?
If we had more preachers, we could get involved in church planting and supporting the baby churches that are struggling. We always desire to go to the two new baby churches in Panapatty, but we think it is risky for us to travel, lose sleep, preach there, and come back. We do not think about how useful it would be for them.
Oh, may God change our horrible thinking. A godly person does not think, “What will this do for me, my comfort, my happiness?” May this example help us come out of that forest of self. Paul had a strong desire to go to Christ, and all the weight was falling there, but when he realized that it was necessary for the Philippians, that’s all he needed to tip the scales in the direction of a desire to remain.
Behold his maturity to live only to be fruitful. There was no other purpose for him to live. “But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor.” Then verse 25 says, “Having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and abide with you so your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus.” If he lived, he would labor, and that labor would bring the fruit of their growth in faith and joy, and that would glorify Christ. That is why he lived. For Paul, being alive in this world was synonymous with “fruitful labor.” Fruitful work for Christ was synonymous with being alive in this world. He said it in verse 21, “For me to live is Christ.” For him, being alive in this world was to be engaged in fruitful work for Christ. What is fruitful work? It is work that will produce the fruit of saving souls, sanctifying saved souls from sin, and making souls like Christ by bringing the fruit of the Holy Spirit into their lives. This is the only eternal, fruitful work in the world. He recognizes that fruit comes from work; it comes from labor. It is a word for strenuous labor in God’s word, hard work which, under God’s blessing, would produce fruit for the Lord. No fruit comes spiritually automatically without labor.
Do you see your life like that? “I live for fruit-bearing labor in the church.” Until we die, those two words must be written over every day—”fruitful labor.” What am I doing for the Lord? How am I working for Him? What remarkable theological and spiritual excuses might I be devising for taking a back seat and doing nothing? Every rationale for idleness is from the pit. How can I be content to go on living as a saved man or woman without fruitful labor? “The fields are white for harvest,” says the Lord Jesus. “There are few laborers, and so pray!” Does the meaning of your life reflect that?
Why does he want to labor? “If I live, I will labor, and that labor will bring the fruit of your growth in faith and joy, and that will glorify Christ.” Again, it comes full circle to the driving purpose of his life. Again, in verse 20, he says, “Whether by life or death, I want to glorify Christ.”
So we see Paul’s maturity in his dilemma, his selfless decisions, and finally, his life’s meaning of fruitful labor.
“Pastor, how do we become like this?” Again, if we were to ask Paul, “How are you like this? How are we to obtain your blessed state of mind?” Paul’s simple answer is in verse 21: “For me to live is Christ.” If we get the principles of the Apostle rooted in our minds, we shall exhibit at least a measure of his holy practice in our lives.
Let us pray that God makes this a reality in our lives. Let us live in the climate of faith in Christ, love for Christ, and devoted service to Christ. Let us seek daily to maintain a deep sense of our gratitude and obligations to Christ, how infinitely glorious and valuable He is, that we may be constrained to live entirely for Him. Every morning, the first question should be, “What can I do for my Lord this day?” And in the evening, “Have I rendered to Him this day according to the benefits I have received from Him?”
For those of you who have not come to Christ, all this must be completely incomprehensible to you. Paul said, “For me to live is Christ.” He desires to live only for that. You all want to live. Why do you want to live? For some of you, if you’re honest, you’d have to say, “I want to live so as to have a further opportunity to fulfill my own carnal ambitions.” “I want to live long enough to prove to the world and to my fellow believers that I am somebody.” “I want to live to have a further opportunity to indulge my own sinful passions, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life.”
We saw Paul’s dilemma. What is your dilemma? It is always, “What will I eat, drink, or wear?” Let me tell you, the wrath of God comes on all those people who only live for those things. Because you were not created to live for that primarily. You were created with an eternal soul in the image of God, and man’s chief end is to glorify God. When you do not live for that, you live a lower, animal-like life. We live for God’s glory when we live for Christ; only then does your death become gain. Otherwise, your life becomes meaningless and your death is the greatest loss because you will lose your eternal soul in eternal hell for all eternity, suffering.
Paul was living like that, but God saved him. He can save you and make your life a meaningful, fruitful life and make your death a gain. Come to Jesus Christ today and believe in Him; you will be saved.
Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Bangalore 