Work Hard And Work Humbly To Take Steps To The Right - Big Picture Christian Life (Part 7)

Luke 14:25-27, 33 25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple… 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:25-27, 33 25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple… 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. Philippians 2:12-13 • Command – “work out your own salvation” Philippians 2:12-13 • Not “works” salvation • Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Philippians 2:12-13 • Not “works” salvation • Romans 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness. Philippians 2:12-13 • Theological Explanation – “for it is God who works in you” Both “human” and “divine” working Psalm 127:1 Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labour in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. Both “human” and “divine” working I Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Both “human” and “divine” working Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Both “human” and “divine” working Colossians 1:29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. Both “human” and “divine” working Leviticus 20:7-8 Sanctify yourselves and be holy…I am the Lord who sanctifies you.