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Working out What’s Being Worked In
Philippians 2:12-13
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
Ever since God said, “let Us make mankind in our image,
in our likeness” (Genesis 1:26), the eternity He placed in our
hearts (Ecclesiastes
3:11)
keeps
us
yearning to draw
nearer to our Lord
(James 4:8)!
Though
God created us “a
little lower than the
angels and crowned
us with honor and
glory” (Hebrews 2:67) our attempts to
know and touch God
sometimes feal like an exercise in futility.
While we would like
to blame the lack of closeness to God as solely being the
inevitable by-product of living in a fallen world with so many
temptations, countless people like Simon Stylites who sat on top
of a pillar fifty feet high1 and the Egyptian hermit Anthony who
lived in the desert just to keep from having any contact with the
1
James Montgomery Boice, Philippians: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI:
Baker Books, 2000), 141.
2
James Montgomery Boice, Philippians: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI:
Baker Books, 2000), 141.
3
James Montgomery Boice, Philippians: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI:
Baker Books, 2000), 141.
world2 did not lead to holiness but merely proved that what was
learned on the mountaintops was of little value unless shared in
a community of love.3
While it is unlikely that a person knows
the Lord unless he/she “wants to extend the boundaries of the
Master’s kingdom,”4 how does one “become blameless and pure,
children of God without fault in a warped and crooked
generation” (Philippians 2:15),5 when the Bible states none of us
are righteous, not a single one (Romans 3:10-18)?
Obviously, it
must be possible to please God if not then why would He
command us to be holy as He is holy (1 Peter 1:16) and to let our
“shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and
glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16)?
The following sermon is going to examine
Philippians 2:12-13 to suggest that the call to
work out our salvation with fear and
trembling is not an exercise of futility but
one that is not only attainable but an
expectation from the Lord because He is the
one who works in us to will and act to fulfill
His purpose!
Apostle Paul masterfully explains that while salvation is
attainable only by faith in the atoning sacrifice of Christ,6 we are
C. H. Spurgeon, “Working out What Is Worked in,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit
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