Author	Thread: Work Out Your Salvation With Fear and Trembling
dljrn04 View Profile History	Work Out Your Salvation With Fear and Trembling Posted : 12 Nov, 2012 12:29 PM If there be any thing excellent, it is salvation; if there be any thing necessary, it is working out salvation; if there be any tool to work with, it is holy fear; �Work out your Salvation with fear.� The words are grave and serious exhortation needful, not only for those Christians which lived in the apostles time, but may fitly be calculated for the meridian of this age we live in. The proposition is this, That it should be a Christian�s great work to be working out his salvation. 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 salvation; there is a parallel scripture to this, 2 Pet. 1. 10. �Give diligence to make your calling and election sure.� When estate, friends, life cannot be made sure, let this be made sure. The Greek signifies to study or beat the brains about a thing. Work out implies two things. First a shaking of spiritual sloth. Sloth is a pillow on which many have slept the sleep of death. Secondly it implies an uniting and rallying together all the powers of our souls that we may intend the business of salvation. God hath enacted a law in paradise, that no m an shall eat of the tree of life, but in the sweat of his brows. That which in the text called working, hath various appellations in Scripture. First sometimes it is called striving, Luke xii. 29. �Strive to enter in at the strait gate;� Strive as in an agony or bloody sweat. Secondly, sometimes it is called seeking. Matt. vi. 33. �seek ye first the kingdom of God; as a man that hath lost a treasure seeks diligently for it. We have lost salvation. Adam by eating of the tree of knowledge, lost the tree of life. Now seek, take David�s candle and lantern, and search for salvation. The work seek, as a learned writer notes, signifies to pursue a thing with inflamed desire as as a condemned man desires a pardon. �Thomas Watson�from The One Thing Necessary Post Reply
View Profile History	Work Out Your Salvation With Fear and Trembling Posted : 12 Nov, 2012 12:49 PM Hey sister, this article suggests that we can't just sit around on our ole' rusty dusty and claim "it is finished". We must actually work, strive, toil, sweat, labor to work out our own salvation. Don't you know that we are under grace? Why are you condemning us to work? :laugh: That's quite a yoke you are placing around everyone's neck, ain't it? :winksmile: rusty dusty - noun (black English) - a person�s butt0cks. Post Reply
dljrn04 View Profile History	Work Out Your Salvation With Fear and Trembling Posted : 12 Nov, 2012 04:02 PM :applause: rusty dusty, you are a hoot :) Post Reply
View Profile History	Work Out Your Salvation With Fear and Trembling Posted : 12 Nov, 2012 04:12 PM :winksmile: Post Reply
View Profile History	Work Out Your Salvation With Fear and Trembling Posted : 13 Nov, 2012 06:09 PM My feincee and I were studying this together and since you have no respect for what I believe it would not be practicle to express to you what our findings were. Right? Post Reply
View Profile History	Work Out Your Salvation With Fear and Trembling Posted : 14 Nov, 2012 02:36 PM It's okay to be wrong LTM. The issue is when you are wrong and corrected but still seem to not care. Post Reply