WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION

WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION

I will tell you how you ‘work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’, as I understand it. I think it is in the acceptance of death, that is, that in Christ God has in grace brought death in upon the man that offended, and reconciliation to God is in the acceptance of that great truth. We must not revive the offender, and I think it is in that way we ^[p. 311] work out our own salvation with fear and trembling; the offender has to be kept practically in the place of death, because God has, by the work of the cross, condemned the offender in the One who stood in his place.

I understand the glory of God to indicate the completeness of moral perfection in display. The moral perfections of God are all proportionate and harmonious. Every attribute of God has come into display; all is set forth in the face of Jesus Christ, and in that light I am to walk down here in the will of God in the midst of imperfection.