Lesson 13

Will you trust Me?”

The Challenge of living the FAITH-REST LIFE

 

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Future tense (Ph-3) Part of the blessed hope

This is the glorification phase where we are face to face with Him in a resurrection body like Christ's.

 

- 1 Jn 3:2;  1 Cor 15:42-44

So the immediate context of Phil 2 is dealing with salvation, looking at if from the aspect of its present ongoing process, as we live our lives day by day after salvation.

 

 

- The concept is not to shake with fear;  but the idea is to be nervous and trembling from a strong desire to do what is right. 

 

 

Divine enablement for living phase 2, the Christian life  2:13 

 

 

 

What Paul is saying here is that God is the source of the power, the enablement to fulfill our responsibilities as believers.

 

 

*** REM: God never demands anything of us w/o providing the means the power to execute fully those demands.

 

"...both to will and to work for His good pleasure.."

 

 

 

 

These result in the believer accomplishing "...His good pleasure..."

 

 

All volitional choices are then being molded by the will of God and the resulting actions of the believer then take place out of obedience to God.

 

 

 

The only way we will KNOW the WILL of God, or as Paul is saying here that our will and desires will be the same as those of God is if we know the Word of God because it is through His Word that we learn what He desires for us.

 

 

 

 

We must remember that the spiritual vitality, energy, and power in our life as a believer is related to the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in the life.