THAT WE SHOULD NOT TRUST IN THE SELF BUT IN GOD

9 YES, WE HAD THE SENTENCE OF DEATH ON OURSELVES, THAT WE SHOULD NOT TRUST IN OURSELVES BUT IN GOD WHO RAISES THE DEAD,
10 WHO DELIVERED US FROM SO GREAT A DEATH, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us.”
2 Corinthians 1:9,10 (NKJV)

At times God may allow unpalatable experiences in your lives, that you may not have confidence in yourself.
God wants believers to look up to Him for their needs to be met; for protection and safety, for help in every area of their lives:
1 I WILL LIFT MY EYES TO THE HILLS– FROM WHENCE COMES MY HELP?
2 MY HELP COMES FROM THE LORD, WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH” (Psalm 121:1,2 NKJV).

With little comfort, believers tend to forget God; allow apathy in their walk with Him, and they become lethargic in their services in the kingdom, which God does not want.
If this occurs, He permits challenges to touch our comfort; that we may wake up from our slumber, and look unto Him for help.

Apostle Paul said they had the sentence of death in themselves [he and his team]; that they might not trust in themselves, but in God who raises the dead.
If you as a believer trusts in the self, you may as well expect the sentence of death, that your trust may be shifted from the self to God.
Remember, God does not want believers in Christ Jesus to live independently of Him: “I AM THE VINE, YOU ARE THE BRANCHES. HE WHO ABIDES IN ME, AND I IN HIM, BEARS MUCH FRUIT; FOR WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING" (John 15:5 NKJV).

Note:
• God may permit the sentence of death in a believer's life to break his ego: “IN FACT, WE EXPECTED TO DIE. BUT AS A RESULT, WE STOPPED RELYING ON OURSELVES AND LEARNED TO RELY ON GOD, WHO RAISES THE DEAD" (2 Corinthians 1:9 NLT).

"INDEED, WE FELT WITHIN OURSELVES THAT WE HAD RECEIVED THE SENTENCE OF DEATH [and were convinced that we would die, but this happened] SO THAT WE WOULD NOT TRUST IN OURSELVES, BUT IN GOD WHO RAISES THE DEAD."
2 Corinthians 1:9 (Amps.)

• The sentence of death in question is about things that are terrible that would require only God to get you out of them.
There are challenges which you know if God does not help you out of them, you would be drowned by them. Such are called the sentence of death!
• It is after you might have gone through such things that your viewpoints about life will change, and you can then say like Paul and his team: “NOT THAT WE ARE SUFFICIENT OF OURSELVES TO THINK OF ANYTHING AS BEING FROM OURSELVES, BUT OUR SUFFICIENCY IS FROM GOD” (2 Corinthians 3:5 NKJV).

Remember, the purpose of the sentence of death is to keep you from trusting in yourself; your ability or whatever.

Peace in Jesus’ name.