SUNDAY, 31ST DECEMBER, 2023.
Author:
PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer
TOPIC: WORK OUT YOUR OWN
SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING
MEMORIZE: “Beloved, when I
gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful
for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for
the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” Jude 1:3.
“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.” Philippians
2:12-13.
EXPOSITION:
Apostle Paul, in our today’s dose
of devotion, exhorts the Philippians Church ad of course, all Christians, to be
diligent and be of seriousness in the Christian course: Work out your own
salvation. It is the salvation of our souls (1 Peter 1:9 “Receiving
the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.”), and our
eternal salvation (Heb 5:9 “And being made perfect, he became the author
of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.”), and contains
deliverance from all the evils sin had brought upon us and exposed us to, and
the possession of all good and whatsoever is necessary to our complete and
final happiness.
It concerns us above all
things to secure the welfare of our souls: whatever becomes of other things,
let us take care of our best interests. It is our own salvation, the salvation
of our own souls. It is not for us to judge other people; we have enough to do
to look to ourselves; and, though we must promote the common salvation (Jude
1:3 “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common
salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye
should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the
saints.”) as much as we can, yet we must upon no account neglect our
own.
We are required to work out
our salvation. The word signifies working thoroughly at a thing, and taking
true pains. We must be diligent in the use of all the means which conduce to
our salvation. We must not only work at our salvation, by doing something now
and then about it; but we must work out our salvation, by doing all that is to
be done, and persevering therein to the end. Salvation is the great thing we
should mind, and set our hearts upon; and we cannot attain salvation without
the utmost care and diligence. He adds, With fear and trembling,
that is, with great care and circumspection:
Trembling for fear lest you
miscarry and come short. Be careful to do everything in your work with God in
the best manner, and fear lest under all your advantages you should so much as
seem to come short, - “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left
us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” Heb 4:1. Fear is a great guard and
preservative from evil.
PRAYER POINT: Lord,
help me to retain my salvation in you till I see you face to face in your glory
in Jesus name.
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