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Read: Philippians 1:19-26 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. . . . My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. (vv. 21, 23) As Paul thought through his circumstances and the possible results of his trial, his perspective was not restricted to time-bound outcomes. Paul’s reading glasses may have been looking at the door of his prison house, but his distance lenses were looking at the door of heaven. When he writes of his “deliverance” (v. 19), the Greek word he used is soterian, which is most often translated as “salvation.” Paul understood his personal salvation as “deliverance”—deliverance from sin and its consequences through forgiveness in Christ, deliverance from a life that is constrained and narrow to one that is “abundant and free” in Christ, and deliverance from this