Philippians 2:12-15
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. 14 Do
all things without murmurings and disputings: 15 That ye may be
blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a
crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
Work Out - katergázomai; to work. To work out; trans.
to bring about, accomplish, to carry out a task until it is finished.
Philippians 2:12-15 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, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness
against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and
discredit the name of Christ)
I.
WHO WE WERE.
1.
Born in
Sin.
Psalm
51:5
5 Behold, I was
brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
2.
Dead by one mans sin.
Romans
5:12
12 Therefore, just as
through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death
spread to all men, because all sinned.
3.
In Bad
Shape.
Ephesians
2:1-3
And you He made
alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which
you once walked according to the course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons
of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted
ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the
others.
4.
Cut off
from God’s Life.
Ephesians
4:17-19
17 This I say,
therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest
of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having
their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God,
because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their
heart.
5.
Cut off
from Covenants and Promises.
Ephesians
2:12-13
12 That at that
time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no
hope, and without God in the world.
6.
Blind Mind.
2 Corinthians
4:4
3 But even if our
gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose
minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light
of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on
them.
7.
Under
Power’s of Darkness.
Colossians
1:13
13 Who hath delivered
us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of
his dear Son:
8.
Enemies of God.
Romans
5:10
10 For if, when
we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much
more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
9.
Deserving
Death.
Romans
6:23
23 For the wages
of sin is death…
II. WHAT JESUS DID.
1.
Became Sin
for us.
2 Corinthians
5:21
21 For he
hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him.
Hebrews 9:28
28 So Christ was once offered to
bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
1 John 3:5
28 So Christ was once offered to
bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the
second time without sin unto salvation.
2. Became our Substitute.
Galatians
3:13
13 Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it
is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.
1 Peter 3:18
18 For Christ also hath once
suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.
3. Became our Mediator.
1 Timothy
2:5
5 For
there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 7:25
25 Wherefore he is able also to save
them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make
intercession for them.
4.
Shed
His Blood.
1 Peter
1:18
18 Forasmuch
as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and
gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But
with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without
spot.
5.
Took His
Blood before the Father.
Hebrews
9:11-14
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to
come, by
a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not
of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of
goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the
purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
6.
Gave us
All things for Life and godliness.
2 Peter 1:3-4
3 as His divine power has
given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the
knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.
7.
Changed our Heart.
Ezekiel
36:25-27
25 Then I will sprinkle
clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your
filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new
heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of
your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My
Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My
judgments and do them.
8.
Broke the
Power of Sin.
Romans
6:14
14 For sin shall not
have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
9.
Works in
us both desire and ability.
Philippians
2:13
13 for it is God who
works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure
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