Keys to a Life of Spiritual Impact Philippians 2:12-13 November 15, /23/2015 1

1. The Key of Example 5/23/2015 2

Phil 2:12 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling 5/23/2015 3

1 Peter 2:21 21 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, 5/23/2015 4

2. The Key of Vision 5/23/2015 5

Phil 2:12 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling 5/23/2015 6

Phil. 1:4-6 4 always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all, 5in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now. 5/23/2015 7

Phil. 1:27 27 Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; 5/23/2015 8

3. The Key of Integrity 5/23/2015 9

Phil 2:12 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling 5/23/

Phil. 3: Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 5/23/

5/23/ Cor. 9: Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. 25Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 12

5/23/ Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; 27but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified. 13

1 Cor. 15:58 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. 5/23/

2 Peter 1:10 10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; 5/23/

4. The Key of Consequence 5/23/

Phil 2:12 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling 5/23/

Ps. 2:11 11 Worship the LORD with reverence And rejoice with trembling. 5/23/

Ps. 119: My flesh trembles for fear of You, And I am afraid of Your judgments. 5/23/

Isa. 66:2 2 "For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being," declares the LORD "But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word. 5/23/

5. The Key of Dependence 5/23/

Phil 2:13 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 5/23/

Jer. 31:33 33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 5/23/

2 Cor. 3:5 5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, 5/23/

Gal. 2:20 20"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. 5/23/

6. The Key of Influence 5/23/

Phil 2:13 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 5/23/

Ps 119:36 36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies And not to dishonest gain. 5/23/

1 Kings 8: "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant. 57 "May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us, 58 that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. 5/23/

5/23/ "And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires, 60 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no one else. 61"Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day." 30

2 Thess. 1: To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power, 12so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 5/23/

7. The Key of Purpose 5/23/

Phil 2:13 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 5/23/

Heb. 13: Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, 21equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. 5/23/