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Sermon 4
Series: A Beautiful Hope in a Desperate World
Sermon title: Work it out!
Intro:
One raw winter night a man heard an irregular thumping sound against the kitchen storm door.
He went to a window and watched as tiny shivering sparrows, attracted to the evident warmth inside, beat in vain against the glass.
Touched, the farmer bundled up and trudged through fresh snow to open the barn for the struggling birds.
He turned on the lights, tossed some hay in a corner, and sprinkled a trail of saltine crackers to direct them to the barn.
But the sparrows, which had scattered in all directions when he emerged from the house, still hid in the darkness, afraid of him.
He tried various tactics: circling behind the birds to drive them toward the barn, tossing cracker crumbs in the air toward them, retreating to his house to see if they’d flutter into the barn on their own.
Nothing worked.
He, a huge alien creature, had terrified them; the birds could not understand that he actually desired to help.
He withdrew to his house and watched the doomed sparrows though a window.
As he stared, a thought hit him like lightening from a clear blue sky: if only I could become a bird-one of them-just for a moment.
Then I wouldn’t frighten them so.
I could show them the way to warmth and safety.
At the same moment, another thought dawned on him.
He had grasped the whole principle of the Incarnation.
A man’s becoming a bird is nothing compared to God’s becoming a man.
The concept of a sovereign being as big as the universe He created, confining Himself to a human body was-and is-too much for some people to believe.
–Paul Harvey.
Transition: Last week we read in Philippians chapter 2 about the example of Christ’s sacrifice for us.
Paul used the mind of Christ as the perfect example of the submissive mind.
We concluded last week with a discussion of Christ’s death and resurrection and how that same death and resurrection power is meant for all Christians now as we pick up our cross and die to self, daily.
This is just one more way that Paul has given us to be Unquestionably Xn so Jesus shines out of our lives and we attract people to the gospel of Christ, which is our Christ given mission till he returns.
We started a few weeks ago looking at these ways in verse 27.
We read: Only you etc… Then List them all
Ways to Shine: To attract the lost to the gospel of Jesus Christ:
· Remember who we are, we are citizens of heaven.
· Remember what Jesus Christ did.
· Have a single mind or be laser focused to spread the gospel of Christ
· Be unquestionably Christian by having convincing conduct and showing courageous confidence.
· Have a submissive mind, the mind of Christ.
In today’s passage Paul calls all of this activity, “working out our salvation.”
Look at
Therefore= Look back the previous section.
Christ’s example.
As you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but much more in my absence- Refers back to verse 1.27.
This was Paul’s way of tying this whole section together.
Work out your own salvation.
This morning I would like to focus on this:
The who, what, how, where, and why of “work out your salvation.”
Who?
v.12 “My beloved” Letter is written to Christians and to a church.
Also- Notice- “YOUR OWN.”
He does not mean we are not to be involved in other peoples lives but what he is saying, no one can do the work for you.
You have to do the work.
So many Christians have been spoon fed all their life and they wonder why their faith is so weak.
They sit and listen to someone teach the Word but never read and study it for themselves.
They talk alot about prayer but rarely do the work of prayer each day.
They want to be served by the church but they have not take time to serve others.
They sit soak and sour.
Some people have just never realized that coming to church is not really about themselves and what they can get out of it.
Though it does offer many benefits.
It is about the mission of the gospel and what each of us can do to reach the lost.
It takes work to live the Christian life and each of us is responsible for our own work.
Of course we help each other but that another topic.
What?
v 12. “Salvation”- What is he talking about here?
Did Paul just say we have to work for our salvation?
No!
He said work OUT your salvation.
But what does that mean?
Aren’t we saved by grace?
- Your salvation is from God.
Paul wrote,
But he also wrote the next verse:
Its critical here to remind ourselves of the three stages of salvation found in the bible.
They are all called salvation sometimes so it can be confusing.
a. Justification and Regeneration.
There are two things happening at the same time and they happen at the moment someone accepts the Gospel message and makes Jesus their Lord.
The three phases of Salvation
1. Regeneration and Justification.
Salvation-three parts
2.
3.
The moment someones gives their life to Christ-
Regeneration - In an instant, the Holy Spirit makes us a new creation and comes to live inside us.
We experience the resurrection power of Christ in us as we are resurrected.
Our Spirit was dead in sin but it is resurrected.
Our bodies will resurrect later.
ESV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Justification -Past event.
“I was saved (justified) when I was 8 years old.”
Declared innocent by God.
Guarantees Heaven.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
The guilt is taken off of us and placed on to Christ.
Christ is both the just and the justifier for those who believe and receive.
So someone may ask, “Do I have to work to keep my salvation.”
The Bible says, “NO!”
You have been born again, you can not become unborn.
You are a new creation, the old is gone.
You can’t be come an old creation now.
You have been resurrected, you can’t be unresurrected.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
o Give hand illustration.
o Flat White illustration
But we have remaining sin, we still live this life in our old bodies.
But one day we will experience the final resurrection and will be glorified.
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