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Credit where credit is due
We’ve all been riveted by the tragic story unfolding in New Mexico.
A worker on the set of a movie being filmed in New Mexico died when an apparently loaded gun was fired.
We all wonder how this could happen on a movie set.
There are safety features and protocols for having guns on movie sets.
It hasn’t been sorted out.
But it has been almost as tragic to follow all of the finger pointing.
The blame game has begun.
Who gets the credit, or in this instance, who gets the blame?
We all love credit when things go well.
When something goes wrong, we’re looking to shift credit elsewhere.
A college football star recently was interviewed after running for a record number of yards in a football game last week.
The running back looked spectacular on some of his moves in running all over the field.
But it was interesting.. he noted that he could not have had his record performance if the offensive line hadn’t been creating some pretty big holes for him to run through.
Who gets the credit for the record performance?
Some would say the running back.
The running back is giving credit to the big guys up front who make it possible.
We all want credit.
We spend a lot of time and energy making sure we get credit when we think we’ve earned it.
What happens when you don’t get credit for doing something well at work or at school or at play?
Disappointment.
That is natural.
Bitterness?
That can be a problem.
If we have done well at something, we naturally want credit.
There are areas of the law that protect credit, making sure that a songwriter gets credit or an author gets credit for something they created.
We are all looking for credit.
Problems show up though, when we begin taking credit for things that are not ours to take credit for.
Have you ever worked with someone who always seems to be stealing the credit for good stuff happening in the company or office?
Seems like there’s always “that guy”.
But that problem is at the heart of our text today.
Who gets the credit for your salvation?
I think we’d all agree here at The Table that we cannot take credit for our salvation.
Time and time again in the Bible we’re told that our salvation and redemption is not our doing.
But then there’s this question: who gets the credit for the good works we do?
When we give our nextdoor neighbor a hand with the lawn, who gets the credit for that nice gesture?
Who gets the credit for our salvation and who gets the credit for our good works is at the heart of the Reformation.
Today is Reformation Day.
It was 504 years ago today that Martin Luther nailed a piece of paper to the Wittenberg Door.
Luther wanted a public debate over these questions.
His answer to “who gets the credit?”
changed the course of an entire continent almost overnight.
Denominations, church bodies, even nations have argued and fought over the question of “who gets the credit?”
The question is so fundamental to all sorts of other questions in life, this isn’t a matter left to the academics sitting in seminary halls or church offices.
This has to do with everyday life.
Our text today is one of those texts in the Bible that has seen a lot of controversy and argument.
We’re not going to go down those roads.
This passage in the book of Philippians answers the question as to who gets the credit, but does it in a way that we’re left with more questions.
And that’s OK.
But some of the issue is, we come at this text all wrong.
We come to the text looking for credit for our good works, and Paul the writer is saying, that’s not the real focus.
In fact, the way this reads, I’m guessing someone in the church to whom he is writing is looking for credit, and Paul’s like, “wrong emphasis, bro.”
In fact, it’s not about credit.
It’s about delight.
We are in chapter 10 of “Delight!
Discipleship as the Adventure of Loving and Being Loved”, the book by Justin Rossow.
I hope you are making your way through this book.
There are a lot of great study questions at the end of each chapter.
He does a really good job of helping us see Delight throughout the entire Bible in a very easy reading format.
In chapter 10, Pastor Rossow spends some time unpacking for us the entire story of this church that Paul is writing to in Philippi.
We are not going to cover all of what he covers… I encourage you to read chapter 10 this week.
Work.
Work.
Work.
In our text this morning that Marco just read, Paul is writing to a church much like ours in a city called Philippi.
And he’s talking about work.
Work.
Work.
Work.
This church did not get off the ground like a lot of other churches that Paul planted on his missionary trips.
Paul’s habit was to go into a city and go right to the synagogue.
This pattern shows up all over the book of Acts.
Paul’s heart is for his fellow Jews and so, he would go into the synagogue and talk about the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Typically, the members of the synagogue weren’t all that interested in having a visiting rabbi talk about Jesus and his resurrection and Paul would be kicked to the curb.
And he would give the same message to non-Jews or Gentiles… and their response would be a little more accepting and pretty soon, there’s a church plant going.
Philippi didn’t have a synagogue.
But they did have a gathering where Jews and Jewish proselytes were meeting.
So Paul went down to the river.
He meets a lady named Lydia, a successful businesswoman in Philippi, and Lydia and her friends soon make up the nucleus of the church plant in Philippi.
Paul now writes this letter to that church, some time later.
Paul is in jail in Rome for preaching the gospel.
This church has been very helpful to Paul and his gospel work.
They have been his partners in the gospel.
But Paul hear’s about some issues and so he sends them this letter.
And along the way, he has some things to say about the question of salvation and works.
In fact, he’s going to use the word “work” 3 times.
But he’s going to frame it in a way that leads to Delight.
Here’s the first thing he says in Philippians 2:12:
Christian Standard Bible (Chapter 2)
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Paul has already given them some things to work on.
Love each other, be united, don’t be selfish.
We find out as we continue reading this letter that there were some in this church who were having a hard time getting along, even though they had been great partners with Paul in the gospel.
So… love each, be united, don’t be selfish, all things they need to hear.
But before he continues with this kind of encouragement, he says “work out your salvation”.
Loving, being united, not being selfish… this involves work.
It involves effort.
It involves engagement.
This church has been given salvation in Christ, something he has also mentioned.
Jesus, the One Promised to come and save His people has done exactly that.
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