To: annalex; Dr. Eckleburg; Quix; hosepipe
The sanctification passage:
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. - Philippians 2:12
This is what I have been calling "the walk" wherein our hopes turn into blessed assurance as all the doubts fall away, one by one, as we overcome - by Him - the rigorous trials of being yet in the flesh while alive in Him (Col 3:3). It is something we do with Him, personally and intimately, because by ourselves, we can do nothing:
I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. - John 15:5
To: Alamo-Girl; Dr. Eckleburg; Quix; hosepipe
This is what I have been calling "the walk" And I have been calling that very thing "work", and so does St. Paul who wrote the passage.
To: Alamo-Girl
Amen. Praise God for that.
And Holy Spirit's help in that.
7,148 posted on
01/20/2007 8:44:05 PM PST by
Quix
(LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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