"Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Philippians 2:12-13).
What we have been processing is how to walk in this relationship with God where he is always working things into us, and we are always working them out. To help us with that, we are looking at other statements of God's will in this letter to the churches. As we consider each exhortation, we are looking at how God will be working those things into us so we have the will to do them, and then put them into practice with our "work". The more we recognize the things he has already said about his will, the better we can work out these aspects of our salvation with fear and trembling, or reverence and awe.
Here is the Sunday morning message where we connected Philippians 2:3-4 with this theme. This passage states, "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others." In this message we explore how to work these things out together, knowing that God is most certainly working to have us will and work these things into (or out of) the life of the church.
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