![]() No one comes to the Father except through me.” Read More Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. Read on your preferred digital device, including smart phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. Take a 1-minute survey to join our mailing list and receive a free ebook in the format of your choosing. Get a free copy of the ebook ‘Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die’ by telling us a little bit about yourself! Even the desire (“to will”) to do what is good comes from God but he also works in the believer to generate actual choices of the good, so that the desires result in actions. both to will and to work for his good pleasure. But as Philippians 2:13 demonstrates, these works are the result of God’s work within his people. The Philippians’ continued obedience is an inherent part of “working out” their salvation in this sense. In Philippians 2:12 Paul means “salvation” in terms of progressively coming to experience all of the aspects and blessings of salvation. While Philippians 2:12 may seem to suggest salvation by works, it is clear that Paul rejects any such teaching (cf. ![]() They can rejoice in God’s empowering presence even as they work hard at living responsible Christian lives. Rather, it is God’s love and enabling grace that will see them through: it is God who works in you. But while God’s justice is a cause for sober living (“fear and trembling”), it is not as though Paul wants the Philippians to be anxious that they can never be good enough to merit God’s favor. They cannot be content with past glories but need to demonstrate their faith day by day as they nurture their relationship with God. 2:8) in the past and should continue to do so as they work out their salvation with fear and trembling. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Free gift is the opposite of something one deserves, which fits Paul’s earlier emphasis on justification by grace alone, through faith alone (trusting in Christ for justification see Rom. Wages implies that the punishment for sin is what one has earned and what one deserves. Those who give themselves to sin will die both physically and eternally, whereas Christians are assured of eternal life. Romans 6:23įor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. All commentary sections adapted from the ESV Study Bible. Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.This article is part of the Key Bible Verses series. “Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven, a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’ Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the Lord your God. ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
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