54th CMF Annual Conference 2017

1. ‘Work out your salvation
with fear and trembling’
Living a life “King size”

2. Letter to Philippians
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. Philippians 2:12- 13
(2:1-18)

3. Octavian and Mark Antony

4. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a
man of Macedonia was standing there, urging
him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and
help us.” And when Paul had seen the vision,
immediately we sought to go on into
Macedonia, concluding that God had called us
to preach the gospel to them. Acts 16:9,10

6. The difference
• Pax Romana vs Shalom
• Temporal vs Eternal
• Roman empire vs “Ends of
the earth”
• Order imposed vs Salvation
worked out

7. • Great salvation Hebrews
2:3
• Context and the Magnitude

8. • 2Cor 5:18-20
• “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself
through Christ and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to
himself in Christ, not counting men’s sin against them.

9. •God’s mandate
•It is from and of God
•God is working
•4 epochs- Creation, The Fall,
Redemption, and Future
Consummation.

10. •4 epochs- Creation, The Fall, Redemption,
and Future Consummation

11. Creation
• Good
• Perfect relationship
• Productive stewardship

12. The fall
• Death and decay
• Futility of man’s
effort
• Suffering

13. Redemption and future
consummation
• Abraham, Israel
• Jesus
• The cross
• The new heaven and the new
earth
• The stage on which God is
continuing his work of
restoration for the new earth
and heaven is the present world

14. God’s mission- restoring relationship
• Intimate and serving relation with God
• Just, healthy and righteous relation with ourselves and our
communities
• Loving relationship with others
• Just relationship with nature and resources

15. Purpose higher than us
• Story of reconciling the world to
himself
• Transcends our sorrows
• Take part in the adventure

16. Great Salvation
“World evangelization
requires the whole church to
take the whole Gospel to the
whole world”

17. Great Salvation:
Worked out
Inclusive: Open to every
willing believer
Comprehensive: All people,
problem and conditions
Wholistic: Integration and
proclamation

18. ‘There is not one centimetre of human existence to which Christ
who is Lord of all does not say, “That’s Mine!”’
Abraham Kupyer

20. Wess Stanford
I know Wesley, but the more I wrote and thought
about it, the more the story I had to erase. You see
son, those people sent me to Africa to the spiritual things
like preach the gospel and translate the scriptures,they
would’t understand my spending 3 weeks deep in the mud
digging a well in Kashongo”

21. Work out your salvation
• Characteristic
• Scope

22. • What does salvation mean to you?
• What do you need to do attain
salvation?
• What is the scope / character of
your salvation?

23. What does salvation mean to
you?
• Ticket to heaven?
• My relationship with God,
my holiness primarily?
• Coworkers with
reconciliation ministry of
God- both for me and for the
“whole world” 2 Corinthians
5:18-20

24. • What do you need to do attain salvation?
• For by grace you have been
saved through faith. And this
is not your own doing; it is
the gift of God, not a result of
works, so that no one may
boast. Eph 2:8-9

25. What is to work out?
• Do the things which shows that you are saved.
• For we are his workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in them. Eph 2;10
• Dead man alive

26. Character and scope of salvation?
Freedom Captive
Look up Look in
To good work To earn salvation
Watch for what God is
doing
My life matters
• No condemnation
• Martin Luther King
Gives you freedom

27. Martin Luther (1483-1546)
• Studied law but
became a monk
• Realized that ‘the just
shall live by faith.’
Romans 1:17
• Ninety five theses and
the Wittenberg church
door
• “Here I stand , I can
do no other. God help
me . Amen.” Babylonian captivity

28. Expands your horizon
• I am not
making a
Medical
College - I
am building
kingdom of
God

29. Eric Liddell (1902-1945)
• Olympic champion
1924
• Missionary to China
• “In the dust of defeat
as the laurels of
victory there is glory
to be found if one
has done his best”
Allows you to enjoy

31. It streches you to your full potential
• “You never more
better than when
you in full stretch
for God”- George
Whitfield
Thomas Chettan

32. Gives you purpose in life

33. People of relevance
• Schools
• Hospitals
• Mental asylum
• Leprosy
sanitorium

34. Fear and Trembling
• Conformity- Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed
• Compromise- Colossians 2:8 See that no one takes you captive
• Comparison - Galatians 6:4 Each one test their own action
• Commendation: Galatians 1:10 Not trying to approval of man
• Confidence and competence -John 15:5 apart from me you can do
nothing
Humility and Love
Good and faithful servant enter my rest

35. Good and faithful servant enter my
rest

36. Questions
1.How would you/ others define your
salvation?
2. What is the difference between Salvation-
Working in and Salvation – working out?
3. What are some of the warnings,
encouragements and guidelines that you
received from the session on campus
romance?