We must work out our salvation because of:-ģ. I proceed now to the reasons enforcing this holy sweat and industry about salvation, and they are three. God hath enacted a law in Paradise, that no man should eat of the tree of life, but only in the sweat of his brows. Secondly, it implies a uniting and rallying together all the powers of our souls that we may attend the business of salvation. Sloth is a pillow on which many have slept the sleep of death. These words in the text, "work out," imply two things. When estate, friends, life cannot be made sure, let this be made sure: The original Greek signifies to study, or beat the brains about a thing. There is a parallel Scripture to this: "Give diligence to make your calling and election sure" (2 Pet. The great God hath put us into the world as into a vineyard, and here is the work He hath set us about, the working out of salvation. The proposition is this: It should be a Christian's great work to be working out his salvation. I shall speak principally of the first two, and draw in the other briefly in the application. I proceed now to the exhortation, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling," which words do branch themselves into these three particulars:-įirst, the act, work out secondly, the object, your own salvation thirdly, the manner in which we should work it out, with fear and trembling. The words are a grave and serious exhortation, needful, not only for those Christians who lived in the apostle's time, but may fitly be calculated for the meridian of this age wherein we live.
"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." - Philippians 2:12 If there be anything excellent, it is salvation if there be anything necessary, it is working out salvation if there be any tool to work with, it is holy fear.
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