23/02/2025 – Evening Service: Work out your own salvation (part 5)

Bible Readings:

Romans 7 – 8:18

Sermon Outline:

Philippians 2:12–13 (NKJV)

¹²Therefore, my beloved, as you 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;

¹³for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Five pionts of sanctification
I Work out not work at
II God works in us, so that we can work out our own sanctification
III The attitude is that of fear and trembling
IV The aim is to be well pleasing to God
V To will and to do

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God’s first gift to man is the ability not to sin

Augustine

Grant what you command,
Command what you will.

Augustine

“There we shall be still, and see
We shall see and we shall love
We shall love and we shall praise”
“Behold, what will be, in the end, without end!
For what is our end but to reach
That kingdom which has no end”

Augustine, City of God

The bride eyes not her garment
But her bridegroom’s face
I will not gaze at glory
But on my king of grace
Not at the crown he giveth
But on his pierced hand
The Lord is all the glory
Of Immanuel’s land.

Samuel Rutherford