{"id":1132,"date":"2011-12-03T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:09","slug":"work-out-your-own-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Work out Your Own Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Phillip 2:12-16<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>When we regard Christian religion as a performance and not an experience, we lose the dynamic living faith and the Christian life, becomes a wearisome performance. The fog of unbelief seeps in and chokes our joy and confidence. &#8220;Christianity is full of joy, but it&#8217;s not a joy ride.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: &#8220;For it&#8217;s God who is at work within you.&#8221;<!--more--><\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;It&#8217;s God that&#8230;&#8221; God&#8217;s personality.<br \/>\n2. Gods presence &#8230; working through us.<br \/>\n3. God&#8217;s energy &#8230; Giving you the will.<br \/>\n4. God&#8217;s moral standard.<br \/>\n5. God helps to move the will.<br \/>\n6. God&#8217;s power. Power for the task.<br \/>\n7. God&#8217;s good pleasure.<br \/>\nWork out what he works in. What is He trying to work in you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: &#8220;Without Murmuring:&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Murmurings stand for ill-concealed, half-checked, and half-utterd complaints.<br \/>\n2. Disputes are murmerings come to surface in angry discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: &#8220;Lights in a dark place.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Our influence can be light or darkness. Dare we cast a shadow?<br \/>\n2. &#8220;We may shine amid the dark night which has rested on mankind ever since the sun went down on Calvary in blood-red skies.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;You hold in your hands the very word of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God works in us and gives us the power to do His work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip 2:12-16 When we regard Christian religion as a performance and not an experience, we lose the dynamic living faith and the Christian life, becomes a wearisome performance. The fog of unbelief seeps in and chokes our joy and confidence. &#8220;Christianity is full of joy, but it&#8217;s not a joy ride.&#8221; I: &#8220;For it&#8217;s God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}