Discussion for 28 September 2014

PHILIPPIANS 2:1-13

¹If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, ²make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. ³Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. ⁴Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. ⁵Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 

⁶   who, though he was in the form of God, 
          did not regard equality with God 
          as something to be exploited, 
⁷   but emptied himself, 
          taking the form of a slave, 
          being born in human likeness. 
     And being found in human form, 
⁸        he humbled himself 
          and became obedient to the point of death — 
          even death on a cross.

⁹   Therefore God also highly exalted him 
          and gave him the name 
          that is above every name, 
¹⁰  so that at the name of Jesus 
          every knee should bend, 
          in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 
¹¹  and every tongue should confess 
          that Jesus Christ is Lord, 
          to the glory of God the Father.

¹²Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; ¹³or it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

For Consideration

-In verse 12 Paul says we need to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Why would we shake and be afraid of being like Christ for our own salvation?