PHILIPPIANS PART 5 Work out your salvation Philippians

PHILIPPIANS PART 5 Work out your salvation

Philippians 2: 12 -13 12. Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13. For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Philippians 2: 14 -15 14. Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15. So that you may become blameless and pure, "children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. " Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.

The Greek word for work out is κατεργάζομαι Its translated katergazomai which means to work in order to bring something to completion or fulfillment

1. We must posses salvation before we can work it out

Philippians 1: 6 Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

2 Corinth 5: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation: the old has gone the new has come.

1. We must posses salvation before we can work it out 2. Salvation from the start to finish is God’s work

Ephesians 2: 8 -9 8. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God 9. not by works, so that no one can boast.

John 1: 12 -13 12 “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13 Children who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ”

John 15: 16 “You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit”

1. We must posses salvation before we can work it out 2. Salvation from the start to finish is God’s work 3. Salvation always has practical relational implications

Philippians 2: 14 -15 14. Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15. So that you may become blameless and pure, "children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. " Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.

Matt 5: 14&16 14 you are the light of world… 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. ”