Section 8
We should offer nothing other than the word of life.
To hold forth the word of life is identical to living Christ. Whenever we live Christ, we hold forth the word of life. Once again we see that the book of Philippians is a book on the experience of Christ and a book also on living Christ. What Paul wrote in this Epistle is related to the expe rience of Christ and to living Christ.
I hope that we all shall be deeply impressed with the need to enjoy constant salvation in our practical life day by day. We need a salvation which we can term our own salvation. This sal vation saves us not from hell, nor even merely from sin, but from murmurings, reasonings, blame, guile, blemishes, crookedness, perverse ness, and darkness. When we experience this salvation, we spontaneously hold forth, present, apply, the word of life to those around us. This is to live Christ.
PARTICULAR SITUATIONS AND COMMON SITUATIONS
In Philippians 1 and 2 we see a constant sal vation that is, on the one hand, for a particular person in a particular situation and, on the other hand, for all believers in the common situations