Working out : Salvation

[Behold]

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Salvation, is Jesus on the Cross, dying for your sin.

You can't do that..... as its already completed for you, 2000 yrs ago, and its offered to "all who will believe".

So, lets look at this verse, written like this..

"Work out your Salvation, with awe and wonder", as that is a clarifier for you, Reader.

Now, here is how to understand the verse.

1.) Jesus is Salvation, and not you trying to do it.

Once you have received The "Gift of Salvation", then you are become born again by God, as the proof you have it.

And NOW, that you have Jesus, as your Redemption, living inside you, .. you are to uncover and discover what it means to have BECOME "a new creation IN Christ"

So, this discovering who you are, "in Christ", is how you "work out" what you have received. = "the GIFT of Salvation".
And once you do, if you do, then you have become this, as Paul teaches... "as many as BE Perfect", and that is not related to your behavior.
That is explaining and describing the end result of understanding what it means to have become born again, as This..

A.) "As JESUS is...... so are the born again... In THIS World".

 

[mailmandan]

Notice in Philippians 2:12 that Paul said to "work out" your salvation and NOT "work for" your salvation. When we "work out" at the gym, we exercise to develop our body that we already have and not to get a body. Farmers "work out" the land, not in order to get the land, but to develop the land they already have. In verse 13, Paul goes on to say, "for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure."

In regard to "fear and trembling," it pertains to a healthy fear of offending God through disobedience and a righteous awe and respect or reverence for Him. (Proverbs 1:7; Psalm 2:11; Psalm 34:9; Isaiah 66:2) Paul uses the same phrase "fear and trembling" in 2 Corinthians 7:15 in which he refers to Titus as being encouraged by the reception of him by the Corinthians "with fear and trembling," that is, with humility and respect for his position as a minister of Jesus Christ. In 1 Corinthians 2:3, we see that Paul himself came to the Corinthian church in "weakness and fear, and with much trembling" in regard to the huge responsibility and critical importance of the work in which he was engaged in.

 

[TedT]

Heb 12:
4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

“My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord,
and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves,
and He chastises every son He receives.”b

7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

10 Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness. 11 No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peacec to those who have been trained by it.