In one of their many scuffles, as a ball of dull is kicked up, both of these guys always got lost in their dusty fights. When the dust finally settles, the roadrunner usually remained standing. To finalize today s teaching, the word for working out in Philippians two is exactly the same Greek word as having done all found in Ephesians chapter six. Here Paul commands us to work out, carry out, and accomplish absolutely everything to completion that pertains to our salvation, and that with utmost serious cautiousness. The verb tense is in the present middle, which simply means that the work must be our own.
Salvation never comes out magical passivity, laziness, pew sitting, and disobedience.
We must hear and find out what the Holy Spirit tells us to do, but the activity must be ours, and it must be constant and in perfect agreement with the voice of the Spirit through the rhema word of God.