Pail spoke only to a believing body in Christ
We are GOD's workmanship created in CHRIST JESUS unto good works which GOD prepared in advance that we should walk in
The scripture you quoted above (Philippians 2:12?
What is the second line of that scripture?
What does Philippians 2:13 say but
"for it is GOD who worketh in you to will and to do HIS good pleasure'
Not all are in CHRIST JESUS
One would have to believe THE GOSPEL first
If you would like to take this further, then lets do a word study.
Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to
do of his good pleasure.
What is His good pleasure?
2Th 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and
fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
His goodness is His pleasure, and what is His goodness
Rom 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Rom 15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are
full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Goodness is food and the food that fuels faith is the food of righteousness:
Mat 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Jer 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
This food is to learn to do God's will and this is SPIRITUAL food, and the Spirit has a characteristic of fear and trembling that comes to those who learn and do the will of God:
Jer 33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth,
which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and
they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
Remember, faith comes by hearing, and hearing from the Word of God.
According to Jeremiah, the goodness of God is the grain, wine, and oil.
Jer 31:12
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Paul warned in Romans that if the Gentiles did not continue in His goodness, that they would be cut off:
The grain, wine, and oil, is the goodness of God. The prophet Joel said that they would be Cut Off:
Joe 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
Joe 1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Without grain, wine, and oil, there can be no grain offering and drink offering.
I hope your still following me here, and maybe I will stop here for questions if you want? Because this is critical to understand.
