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🗓️ 17 December 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Today in our New Testament plan we finished book 16 and in our full Bible plan we finished |
0:17.4 | book 55. |
0:19.5 | We first met the Philippians in act 16. |
0:22.0 | Here's a quick refresher. |
0:23.2 | Philippi is where Paul and Silas were arrested and God used that to save their |
0:27.2 | prison guard and his whole family. It's also where they met Lydia whose whole |
0:30.7 | family converted to Christianity, too. |
0:32.6 | And it's also where they met a demonized girl |
0:34.8 | and set her free from the demon and from slavery. |
0:38.0 | Today, Paul writes an encouragement filled letter |
0:40.0 | to the church here. |
0:41.0 | From day one, they've had a unique relationship with Paul. He |
0:44.1 | planted this church and he's watched it grow and he's confident that God will |
0:47.4 | finish what he started in them. He repeats this idea a few times in this short |
0:51.6 | letter. In one six he says he who began a good work in |
0:55.6 | you will bring it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus and in two twelve |
0:59.7 | through thirteen he says work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to |
1:06.1 | will and to work, for his good pleasure. |
1:09.4 | He indicates that God is the one doing the good works through them and even creating the desire in them to do those things. |
1:15.6 | And here's one important point of clarification. |
1:18.4 | Paul's words to work out their own salvation is not a call to figure out how to save yourself. If you could do that, you wouldn't |
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