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How to Stay Saved

Many people treat salvation like a finish line, but the real challenge is learning how to stay saved. If you find yourself caught in a cycle of failing, feeling frustrated, and trying to fix your spiritual walk entirely on your own, you are carrying a burden you were never meant to carry alone. To learn more about The Feast of the Lord, visit us online at www.orangeburgchurch.com Made with ♥ in Orangeburg, SC Here are the author's notes from this week's message: How to Stay Saved *- One of the biggest lies people believe is that if we get saved, we’ll go to Heaven. *- The truth is, we must stay saved to go to Heaven. *- Too many people did not finish the race—they stopped pleasing God and went their own way. 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. Philippians 2:12 KJV *- work out: to do that from which something results; of man: make every effort to obtain salvation. (Here, the verb describes the believer’s responsible cooperation with God’s grace.) *- own: self *- salvation: The Christian sense of salvation/deliverance—the saving work of God brought to its intended outcome in the believer’s life. *- Paul is not saying: “Work for your salvation.” *- He is saying, in effect: “Carry your salvation through to its proper result.” *- And the very next verse prevents us from interpreting this as self-produced salvation: For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Philippians 2:13 KJV *- There are two workings: *- In verse 12, we work out. *- In verse 13, God works in. *- God’s inward working produces a willingness and a doing. As believers, we’re responsible for actively carrying out His divine work in obedient living because genuine obedience is the fruit of what God implanted. 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. Philippians 2:12 KJV *- fear: a profound respect and seriousness toward God that makes a person deeply concerned about faithfully obeying Him. *- It is also known as reverential fear. *- Such godly fear expresses humility, gratitude for redemption, and readiness to obey. *- trembling: used to describe the anxiety of those who completely distrust their ability to meet all of God’s requirements, but will unwaveringly do their utmost to fulfill their duty. *- Verse 12: I don't trust my ability to fulfill everything God requires. *- Verse 13: But I can trust God working in me, producing both the desire and the ability to do what pleases Him. *- So “trembling” isn't primarily trembling because God might destroy you. It is the profound realization: “I take my salvation so seriously that I don't trust myself to get it right without God.” *- Those who do not spend the needful time in prayer, reading and living the Word of God, congregating, and faithfully fellowshipping, as the early believers did, cannot allow God to fully work His salvation in their lives. Selfishness leads them to do things their own way while deceiving themselves into believing that God accepts their ways—living without fear and trembling. Lifework Assignment: *- Salvation is also defined as God’s deliverance of us from sin and its consequences, which we are responsible for carrying through to its intended completion in our lives—pleasing God. Therefore, let us present to God lives that remain sensitive to all He is working in us, with unwavering faithfulness to all He expects of us. Expected Behavior: *- Work out your own salvation—actively carrying God’s saving work within you into obedient action until it accomplishes its intended result—assured that He’s working in you the will to do and the ability to do all that pleases Him.

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Many people treat salvation like a finish line, but the real challenge is learning how to stay saved. If you find yourself caught in a cycle of failing, feeling frustrated, and trying to fix your spiritual walk entirely on your own, you are carrying a burden you were never meant to carry alone.

To learn more about The Feast of the Lord, visit us online at www.orangeburgchurch.com

Made with ♥ in Orangeburg, SC

Here are the author's notes from this week's message:

How to Stay Saved

*- One of the biggest lies people believe is that if we get saved, we’ll go to Heaven.
*- The truth is, we must stay saved to go to Heaven.
*- Too many people did not finish the race—they stopped pleasing God and went their own way.

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.
Philippians 2:12 KJV
*- work out: to do that from which something results; of man: make every effort to obtain salvation. (Here, the verb describes the believer’s responsible cooperation with God’s grace.)
*- own: self
*- salvation: The Christian sense of salvation/deliverance—the saving work of God brought to its intended outcome in the believer’s life.

*- Paul is not saying: “Work for your salvation.”
*- He is saying, in effect: “Carry your salvation through to its proper result.”
*- And the very next verse prevents us from interpreting this as self-produced salvation:

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13 KJV
*- There are two workings:
*- In verse 12, we work out.
*- In verse 13, God works in.
*- God’s inward working produces a willingness and a doing. As believers, we’re responsible for actively carrying out His divine work in obedient living because genuine obedience is the fruit of what God implanted.

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.
Philippians 2:12 KJV
*- fear: a profound respect and seriousness toward God that makes a person deeply concerned about faithfully obeying Him.
*- It is also known as reverential fear.
*- Such godly fear expresses humility, gratitude for redemption, and readiness to obey.

*- trembling: used to describe the anxiety of those who completely distrust their ability to meet all of God’s requirements, but will unwaveringly do their utmost to fulfill their duty.
*- Verse 12: I don't trust my ability to fulfill everything God requires.
*- Verse 13: But I can trust God working in me, producing both the desire and the ability to do what pleases Him.
*- So “trembling” isn't primarily trembling because God might destroy you. It is the profound realization: “I take my salvation so seriously that I don't trust myself to get it right without God.”

*- Those who do not spend the needful time in prayer, reading and living the Word of God, congregating, and faithfully fellowshipping, as the early believers did, cannot allow God to fully work His salvation in their lives. Selfishness leads them to do things their own way while deceiving themselves into believing that God accepts their ways—living without fear and trembling.

Lifework Assignment:
*- Salvation is also defined as God’s deliverance of us from sin and its consequences, which we are responsible for carrying through to its intended completion in our lives—pleasing God. Therefore, let us present to God lives that remain sensitive to all He is working in us, with unwavering faithfulness to all He expects of us.

Expected Behavior:
*- Work out your own salvation—actively carrying God’s saving work within you into obedient action until it accomplishes its intended result—assured that He’s working in you the will to do and the ability to do all that pleases Him.

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