Hey, church family, it is Devo Time.

If you got your Bibles, we're going to pick it up in Philippians chapter 2.

As you know, we're just walking word by word through the book of Philippians.

And we're going to pick it up where we left off in verse 12. He says, therefore, now again,

anytime you get a conjunction like that, it helps you study the Bible if you see what the

therefore is therefore. And so basically what he's saying is, all right, therefore, since now,

we have all agreed because of what Christ has done for us, because Christ set us the

example that he treated us as very, very valuable, even though he is the most valuable.

Even he set us an example by emptying himself, so we're not going to be full of ourselves,

we're going to empty ourselves, we're going to be unified around the gospel because we're going to treat each other as if they're

more significant than us. And because at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow in heaven and on earth

and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father, since all of that

is true, therefore, my beloved, don't pass by this word too fast. First of all, remember last

week, remember Paul's heart towards the Philippians. He calls them the beloved, which is a very important word.

In fact, it's God's title for us in 1 John. We're called the beloved. And you know what it means

to be beloved? That means that we have, that it means that we are to be loved, that everything that he is going to instruct us in

is not to try to attain the love of God, but it's an out of an overflow of the fact that God

has already loved us. Do you see the difference? Therefore, since Jesus is high and lifted up,

my beloved, as you have always obeyed,

so now, not only as in my presence, but much more in my absence,

work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Now, that doesn't mean that we work for our salvation. When he uses this

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