Philippians 2:12-14-18

(Philippians 2:12-14)

『 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. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.  Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 』

Here is what they face each other. From God's point of view 『For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure 』, From the believer's point of view『 work out your own salvation with fear and trembling 』. Today, many churches do not say this "two-way word," and say, "If you have faith, everyone is saved."

The Bible says that healing is also salvation. However, the Bible said, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." What the Bible says and what people say to believe are different. However, people say, "All are saved by faith." We must escape the false salvation in this contradiction. For 『Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling』 on 『own salvation with fear and trembling』

1 Corinthians 10:1-5 『 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;  And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat;  And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 』 Spiritual drink means the Holy Spirit. However, 『But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 』. It is not that they followed Christ, but that Christ followed them. Even if they drank spiritual food and drinks from Christ, it is not the motivation for salvation.

The Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthian Church and said, "Be careful and fear this." He describes the reasons for the destruction of Israel in 10:7-10 as idolatry, adultery, temptation, and resentment. So in 9:27, 『But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 』 After Paul preached the Gospel, he said, "I was careful that I would be abandoned." This means that he was not saying the confidence of his salvation, but he was afraid of being forsaken. Why did he say this? 1 Corinthians 2:2 『For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 』. Why does he say this to those baptized in the Corinthian church? There were many who were gifted in this church, so why doesn't he say the resurrection?

Paul saw the glory of Jesus in Damascus, and it is amazing how Paul said, "I decided not to know anything except the crucifixion." If we believe, we can eat the taste, drink a drink as divine as we believe, and experience the Holy Spirit. However, it is true that repentance is done only on the cross. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2:3, 『And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 』

In Thessalonians, he says that he came to you with power, love and great conviction. Why does he say this in the Corinthian church? Paul is trying to speak of his attitude toward repentance. Repentance is standing in fear before God. When Paul goes to 2 Corinthians, he talks about repentance. you sorry, though it were but for a season. Those who refused Paul left the church. In Chapter 7:10, 『For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Repentance has symptoms. In verse 11『 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 』

It is not that a person believes and accepts Jesus with an intellectual and sincere heart and says, "Come in me." The Lord is omnipresent. However, this applies when speaking of the Lord who created. The Lord was only in the tabernacle and temple. The Lord who saves believers is holy and does not share with sin on earth. And when Jesus died on the cross, the veil was removed. He is not there after this incident. The Lord dwells in those who repent and are regenerated by water and the Holy Spirit. So the believers became temples. To do so, the first part of the gospel is repentance. It is not trusting myself.

Today, people don't know what repentance is, so they think they are saved because they believe in Jesus without ever repenting. They think they are the owners, but saved. They think that everything that comes out of them is a fleshly thought, but born again. Life is Ishmael. We must preach the true gospel both inside and outside the church. Doing what I mean is proof that I have not repented. Why punish, grieve, and tremble from God? Because the Lord shines in the true light and shows that the repentant is under sin and under the law, he cannot bear it.

The church is where the Saints gather. The saints are those who repent and have been regenerated with water and the Holy Spirit. Otherwise it is not the church. There are many fake churches because many churches do not say repentance and do not repent, but they say they are saints. According to the apostle Paul's letter, each church has its own pattern of sin. Because they haven't repented. When a person repents, the Lord gives faith. However, many church people today say, "I believe, but repentance is difficult." Some people say, "Repentance must be helped by the Lord." Why did this false doctrine arise? It is not the repentance that the Lord helps, but the faith of the repentant. Repentance is all that a sinner can do. However, they cannot or cannot submit to repentance. They continue to live contradictory lives. Therefore, prayer does not answer. There is no fruit, it is just a religious life.

Today, many church people try to repent with the consequences of their actions. It is the fruit of sin. People must repent of the root of sin. In the root of sin are idols, adultery, resentment, anger, and temptation. Instead of repenting with the consequences of sin, we must repent of being sinful. The sinner must die. However, it is only Jesus who dies, and he remains the same. Why didn't people die with Jesus? Self-mastery must die on the cross. This is repentance.

Only then will the owner change. This can only be seen through the fruits of repentance. Who is the owner? All unrepentant dead deeds and dead words are dead fruits. The gospel of the dead is fruitless. What you need is "get out of your own judgment." Don't trust your own judgment. Those who do not repent commit their own judgmental errors. For those who do not repent are those who sit in God's place. It is a time when it is really necessary to take a look at what your condition is in the light of the Bible rather than comparing it with others.

The Lord said, "Strive to enter through the narrow door, and even if you seek to enter that day, there will be many who cannot." It must be remembered that the believer's thinking and the Lord's thoughts may be different.

 

(Philippians 2: 15-18)

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;  Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.  Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.  For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

The expression "harmless" means a state in which impurities are not mixed in all motives and processes. The Greek word for ``Akerai'' means that it is not mixed, which means ``pure''. It does not refer to the state of mind, but to a completely different being. People often think of being born again as a change of heart, but this does not mean a body (house) from the parents, but a body (house) from the God. So he became a different kind of person. Job 1:8『 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 』

It is said that God's harmless children are holy children. Holiness has the meaning of being destroyed before God. The dead are sanctified with Jesus Christ, who died on the cross. In Leviticus 1, "I am holy, so be ye holy too." This means that the old will die and be born again as new men. The life given to God is that the old is destroyed before God.

『Ye shine as lights in the world』This is the light spoken in Genesis 1:3. 『God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Because this world is in darkness, God shines light. Originally, the true light is Jesus Christ. In John 1:5, "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 』God sent Jesus Christ to the world of darkness to be a light. However, many people in the world do not know who Jesus is.

In John 1:9-13『 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 』

 

In Ephesians 5:8, 『For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 』. We were also in the dark, and because of Jesus Christ, our old man dies with Jesus Christ, and it becomes light in Christ. In John 12:35-36『 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. 』

Those who have entered into Christ will be able to shine the light. But before that, it was in darkness, so people could not shine. Jesus said, "You are the light of the world." Jesus did not say that there should be light to those who are in Christ, but declared that it is already light. We cannot become the light ourselves. However, many churches today pray, "Let's be light." or "Let it be light." We can't be light ourselves, we say, "Let's be light." If you are in Christ, you have become a light, but pray for it to be a light. In other words, it is the prayer of those who are not born again. Those born again in Christ have already became light.
In Matthew 5:16『 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 』 Here, "good works" is to bring those who have left God back to God. It will take human effort to change the world, but ultimately, giving glory to God is to bring back those who have left God. In Acts 26:17-18,『 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,  To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me..』

 『 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. 』God is glorified when you lead those in darkness to God. 『Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. 』In the Old Testament, there are other sacrifices offered in addition to the five. It is a sacrifice that pours the blood of the beast hot and gives it as if Kim is going to the sky. It means that the smell of the beast's blood rises to the sky. Grain was also given in this way.It is a ritual offering of wine poured on grain.
It is a memorial service that burns everything to God and pampers it.

Genesis 4:2-5『 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 』 Adam had two sons. Abel kept sheep. At that time, it was before Noah's Flood, so he could not eat sheep.

 

In Genesis 3:18-19『 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 』 Breeding sheep does not help Abel at all. Abel was born after Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden into the world. The clothes that the father is wearing were made by the death of the Lamb. Abel knew that the lamb's skin was the medium of reconciliation between God and Adam. So God received Abel's sacrifice.

In the New Testament, it is a worship service that denies self. Worship at church is becoming the same as Cain's sacrifice. The church chooses words that people will like. There are even cases where people who come out of the church say something they would like. The mind of the body and the mind of the Holy Spirit are enemies of one another. God doesn't accept these services.

When the priest enters the tabernacle, the first thing he meets is the bronze altar. The priest offers a sin offering on top of the burnt offering. Without a burnt offering, a sin offering cannot be given first. First, until the sacrifice is offered to God and becomes completely God's, God does not accept it. Because of Abel's shepherding, God received Abel's sacrifice. Even today, only those who live for God's things are sacrificed. While living on this earth, living a life of reconciliation between God and sinners is the only way of salvation. That would be the Lord Jesus Christ. Being Lord becomes a life of letting go of your mastery and entering into Jesus Christ. Whatever you do, it is important who is the owner. Are you living for yourself? Are you living for God? Cain gave part of what he was living for himself. So life and worship are the same.