Work-Out

In Philippians 2.12 Paul instructs the Philippian Christians to Work-Out.

Paul wants the Philippians to work-out their own salvation.

Good works do not bring us salvation nor do they help us maintain our salvation.

Salvation is all of Christ! All I have to do to be saved is to believe that Jesus Christ died in the cross, paying the penalty of all my sins.

We are not saved by Good works but we are created for Good Works. Eph 2.10

If you're a Christian God has prepared good works for you to do after your saved.

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

The Philippians had to work out the salvation that they already possessed.

When I go to the Gym, I go there to work out the muscles that I already possess.

It is good for me when I'm at the Gym to do some Cardio exercises. Cardio exercises are good for the heart muscles.

I don't go to the Gym to get a heart. I go to the Gym to exercise the heart I already possess.

Paul wanted the Philippians to work-out the salvation that they already possessed when they trusted Christ.

We know that when Paul wrote to the Philippians, that they were already believers in Christ. They already had salvation.