Charles Spurgeon Commentary 2 Corinthians 4:11-14

"For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus` sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak; knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you." — 2 Corinthians 4:11-14 (ASV)

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death works in us, but life in you. We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise us up also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

There is no possibility of serving God well, especially under great trials and persecutions, without a deeply-rooted confidence in the truth of His gospel. Once you have a doubt concerning that, the strong sinews of our spiritual strength are gone. Once you begin to question the evidences of our holy religion, you cannot from then on serve God as you did before.

Oh, to be strengthened every day with might in the inner man; to feel that in our own experience, we continually have fresh proofs of the truth of the gospel, and that, whether we have trials or delights, we are thereby the more firmly rooted in faith, even as trees are rooted by both the March winds and the April showers.

And to be so rooted in faith that we grow into it and cannot be separated from it, because it has become a part of ourselves.

Religion is nothing to any of you unless it is woven into the very warp and woof of your being; it must go right into your very soul, and become a vital part of you, or else you have never received it in truth.