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Outline
Recap Parts 1 & 2 (chapter 1)
2:12 —The problem verse
Recap 2:1–11
Rest of the passage 2:12–30
The message for us
Philippians 1
I thank my God every time I remember you.
I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you
For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart...
For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:12–13 ESV
Therefore, my beloved,
as you have always obeyed, so now,
not only as in my presence but much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
for it is God who works in you,
both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Questions
“work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,”
What does “salvation” mean?
What does “fear and trembling” mean?
Individuals or Community?
“keep working on your individual health and wholeness”
“keep working at achieving spiritual health within your community”
All the verses before and after are about community
Philippians 2:1-11
Phil 2:12–13 updated
…keep working at achieving spiritual health within your community
with fear and trembling,
for it is God who works in you,
both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
“fear and trembling”
phobou & tromou
“awe and wonder”
Visitors to the empty tomb (Mark 16:8)
Slaves that realize that Jesus himself is their real master (Eph 6:5)
Here: Awe and wonder at what Jesus is creating in our community
“With awe and wonder, keep working at achieving spiritual health within your community”
Philippians 2:12-30
Outline
Recap Parts 1 & 2 (chapter 1)
2:12 —The problem verse
Recap 2:1–11
Rest of the passage 2:12–30
The message for us
John 17:18–23
Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world…
“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,
that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one —
I in them and you in me — that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
…keep working at achieving spiritual health within your community, for God himself is the one working in you, both the desire and the effort, for his own delight.
Philippians 2
Complete my joy by having the same mind & heart
having the same love, united in soul
in one mind & heart
not from rivalry or conceit
but in humility counting others
more important than yourselves.
Each of you should be concerned
not only about your own interests,
but also the interests of others.
May this mind & heart be in you that was in Christ Jesus