[John Leland 1789]

“SCRIPTURE CLEARLY SAYS WE MUST work out OUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING including listening”

Interesting how that by capitalization you marginalized two important words. Perhaps the emphasis should be like this:

” . . . WORK OUT your own salvation with fear and trembling.

I have salvation (it became “my own” by faith) as a free gift of grace. Daily I am, by His grace, WORKING OUT that salvation. Work out does not mean figure-out or obtain, but it means EXERCISE! People to to a gym to WORK OUT (exercise). The verse is about Christian growth and sanctification before a Holy God. The people addressed by Paul are already believers; already regenerated (Tius 3:5).

[Quix]

I agree with your points.

except that for most folks . . . the things I do not capitalize in a sentence end up more highlighted to their minds. LOL.

Thanks thanks.

[Marysecretary]

Ah, good insight. I like that definition of work out. Never thought of that before.