IN CHRIST Gal 4:19 My little children, for whom I am again suffering birth pangs until Christ is completely and permanently formed within you. Work out ( cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete ) your own Salvation with reverence and awe and trembling ( self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the Name of Christ. Not in your own strength for it is God Who is all the while 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 delight. For we Christian are the true circumcision, who worship God in ( our ) spirit And by the Spirit of God and exult and glory and pride ourselves In Jesus Christ, and put no confidence or dependence [ on outward privileges and physical advantages and external appearances. Phil 2:12-13, 3:3.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:17:32 +0000