Experience the Christ
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Message Three
Experiencing Christ as Our Constant Salvation
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; For it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and reasonings，That you may be blameless and guileless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation………Phil.2:12-15.
Word of Appetizer
What kind of salvation it is in Philippians 2:12?
The salvation in Philippians 2:12 is not eternal salvation from God’s condemnation and from the lake of fire but the daily and constant salvation that is Christ as a living person; This practical, daily, moment-by-moment salvation results from taking the very Christ whom we live, experience, and enjoy as our inward as well as outward pattern; the constant salvation is one in which any believer is saved from ordinary things in common situations in his daily living.
Spiritual Burden
Now we need to carry out this salvation, to bring it to its ultimate conclusion, by our constant and absolute obedience with the inward motive of fear and the outward attitude of trembling—We have received God’s salvation, which has as its climax our being exalted by God in glory as the Lord Jesus was.
It is not that we by ourselves carry out our salvation but that God operates in us to do it; the only thing we need to do is to obey the inner operating, energizing God.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The salvation in Philippians 2:12 is not eternal salvation from God’s condemnation and from the lake of fire but the daily and constant salvation that is Christ as a living person; To work out our own salvation is to carry it out, to bring it to the ultimate conclusion.
The reason we need to obey always is that God operates in us; God operates in us both the willing and the working for His good pleasure.
Murmurings and reasonings frustrate us from carrying out our salvation to the fullest extent and from experiencing and enjoying Christ to the uttermost.
In the midst of the dark and corrupt world, which is usurped by Satan, our function is to shine as luminaries, holding forth the word of life.
Philippians 2:12-16 is a definition of living Christ in 1:19-21; Philippians 2:5-16 reveals the divine and rich provision for our constant salvation.
The Experience of Life
The God who operates in us as our subjective salvation is the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—the very God who is Christ in us and the Spirit in us ; It is not that we by ourselves carry out our salvation but that God operates in us to do it; the only thing we need to do is to obey the inner operating, energizing God. Murmurings and reasonings are due to disobedience to God; obedience to God slays all murmurings and reasonings.
Practice and Application
our function is to shine as luminaries, holding forth the word of life; To hold forth the word of life is to apply it, to present it, and to offer it to the world by living out Christ.
The only way to live Christ is to be saturated with the word of life; We need to pray-read the Word, receiving the word of God by means of all prayer and petition; We need to sing-read the Word, letting the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom by singing.
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline
Key Verses (1)
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.-Phil.2:12.
The salvation in Philippians 2:12
To work out our own salvation
I.The salvation in Philippians 2:12 is not eternal salvation from God’s condemnation and from the lake of fire but the daily and constant salvation that is Christ as a living person:
.This practical, daily, moment-by-moment salvation results from taking the very Christ whom we live, experience, and enjoy as our inward as well as outward pattern.
.whereas the constant salvation in 2:12 is one in which any believer is saved from ordinary things in common situations in his daily living.
II.To work out our own salvation is to carry it out, to bring it to the ultimate conclusion.
.Now we need to carry out this salvation, to bring it to its ultimate conclusion, by our constant and absolute obedience with the inward motive of fear and the outward attitude of trembling.
Key Verses (2)
For it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and reasonings.-Phil.2:13-14.
The reason we need to obey always is that God operates in us
God operates in us both the willing and the working for His good pleasure
Murmurings and reasonings frustrate us from carrying out our salvation to the fullest extent
.It is not that we by ourselves carry out our salvation but that God operates in us to do it; the only thing we need to do is to obey the inner operating, energizing God.
.The willing is within; the working is without; The good pleasure of God’s will is to operate in us so that we may reach the climax of His supreme salvation.
.Murmurings are of our emotion and come mainly from the sisters; reasonings are of our mind and come mainly from the brothers; Murmurings and reasonings are due to disobedience to God; obedience to God slays all murmurings and reasonings.
Key Verses (3)
That you may be blameless and guileless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as luminaries in the world, Holding forth the word of life, so that I may have a boast in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.-Phil.2:15-16.
For I know that for me this will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ……but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.-Phil.1:19-21.
our function is to shine as luminaries, holding forth the word of life
Philippians 2:12-16 is a definition of living Christ in 1:19-21
Philippians 2:5-16 reveals the divine and rich provision for our constant salvation
.Blameless describes our outward behavior, and guileless our inward character; to be guileless is to be simple, artless (not political), or innocent.
.In the midst of the dark and corrupt world, which is usurped by Satan, our function is to shine as luminaries, holding forth the word of life; To hold forth the word of life is to apply it, to present it, and to offer it to the world by living out Christ.
.The God who operates in us is the supplying Spirit; To shine as luminaries is to magnify Christ, and to hold forth the word of life is to live Christ; The only way to live Christ is to be saturated with the word of life.
.We have the Lord Jesus as our pattern; We have God operating in us We are God’s children, having God’s life and the divine nature; We are luminaries qualified to reflect the divine light of Christ; We have the word of life to hold forth, to present, to others.
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
D1
T1 To work out our own salvation（Phil.2:12）
(explain what is the difference between eternal salvation and daily salvation.)
T2 saved from a specific encounter in a particular situation and saved from ordinary things in common situations（Phil1:19;2:12）
( Illustrate the salvation which is mentioned in the two verses above is practical, daily, moment-by-moment salvation.)
D2
T1 To work out our own salvation is to carry it out, to bring it to the ultimate conclusion（Phil.2:12）
（Please explain that To receive salvation by faith is once for all; to carry it out is lifelong.）
T2 to obey the inner operating of God（Phil.2:12~13）
（Please explain that It is not that we by ourselves carry out our salvation but that God operates in us to do it.）
D3
T1 God’s operating is for His good pleasure.（Phil.2:13）
（Please explain that God operates in us both the willing and the working for His good pleasure.）
T2 We should do all things without murmurings and reasonings（Phil.2:14）
（Please explain that Murmurings and reasonings are due to disobedience to God; obedience to God slays all murmurings and reasonings.）
D4
T1 in order that we may become blameless and guileless, children of God without blemish（Phil.2:15）
(Illustrate what is the meaning of blameless、 guileless、 without blemish.)
T2 to hold forth the word of life（Acts.5:20，Phil.2:16）
（Please explain that To hold forth the word of life is to apply it, to present it, and to offer it to the world by living out Christ.）
D5
T1 Philippians 2:12-16 is a definition of living Christ in 1:19-21（Phil.2:12~16，19~21）
（Please explain that In these two portions of Philippians we have two lines）
T2 In order to magnify Christ and to live Christ, we need the bountiful supply of the Spirit（2Tim3:16，John.6:63）
（Please explain that This bountiful supply is stored in the Word with experience.）
D6
T1 letting the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom（Col.3:16）
（Please explain that we can receive the Word of God by singing with experience.）
T2 be filled in spirit with the word of Christ.（Col.3:16，Eph.5:18~19）
(Please explain that Ephesians 5:18-19 and Colossians 3:16 have the same goal—that we should have our spirit filled with the Word.)
