Workout your salvation with fear and trembling..... Philippians 2:12-13 NIV [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 2:12-13 Amplified Bible (AMP) 12 Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, [a]with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ). 13 [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while [b]effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and [c]delight. Philippians 2:12-13 KJV [12] Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. [13] For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. There are many longtime believers who use excuses of working it out as using free will sin to grow from it.......there are going to be no excuses on judgement day. It says work it out your salvation with fear and trembling. How would you work it out? Through studying scriptures and using everyday life circumstance to whom this day I choose to serve? So does it come down to maturity? Or does it come by being obedient as in love with God through Christ. It says in verse 13 that it is God in us to do will and to do good pleasure (to act according to Gods will in order to Gods purpose. Using an excuse to sin free willing and call that his will and his purpose? Or is he leading us to repentance? Much love, work it out personally! The Love of Christ and the gift of grace would never lead you to sin, it leads us to freedom from the law manifesting obedience producing what is righteous. ALL IN
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