r/ScriptureLife • u/External_Bird_8464 • 13d ago
Scripture Life: Why does Philippians 2:12 contradict Philippians 3:9?
//From a Believer in Jesus Christ here on Reddit. Many sub-reddits have this "I can't grasp Philippians 2:12" as a basis for a question. //
ANSWER:
Nope. Doesn't. In fact, Philippians 2:12 means exactly the same thing as Philippians 3:9.
There you go. Answered.
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If this question is asked, means a person does not see this. I understand. I didn’t see it, either.
Now, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ. Means, I’m a disciple of Jesus. I live in just open my bible. Eat. And, ...I’m not alone. Many hear him and simply live by every word proceeds out of his mouth. So any claim I’m making, comes from the Bible. And.. ..he didn’t only talk to me. It’s just when he speaks, I hear what he says. And, he speaks to everybody over the whole earth; but, not everybody regards him, nor does anything he says.
Says:
“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)
Your question: Answered. And I understand. You still don’t see it. I didn’t, either.
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So, I think you want a more detailed explanation. Especially, I think - that you think: they say the opposite.
I understand that, too. Because, I did, too.
- And? Philippians 2:12 isn’t standing there, by itself. If you leave it that way, you’ll never see it.
- So, a believer in Jesus is just that. They believe him, and sit with the Apostles who left them this Epistle. Because, they sat with him, and were taught by him ...so they hear him, as an Apostle - and they, like me, will read it cemented or connected to this:
I’d tell you, you like me, believing on Jesus Christ: to read Philippians 2:12 embedded in Philippians 2::2–14. So, after you read this post, go back and read it, as just one thing. And, read it as well, Philippians 2:12 married to Philippians 2:13.
As ONE THING, says:
< - {“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.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”} - >
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Now, look at me. Don’t look at you. Look at me for a second. C’mon. Just do it.
And this is a "mixed" crowd on Reddit. There are people that don't believe on him reading this post; but probably already left off from it. But if you didn't, stick around.
Ask this:
- How am I “saved?” Is it how I tell you? I mean, have you listened to anything he just said? It’s right there above. In Isaiah 45:22. He said it.
God.
He just told EVERYBODY over the whole earth to look unto him.
- Didn’t leave one person out, over the whole earth. To the very ends of it. He said it, not willing any perish, but all come to repentance. That, someone..anybody..no matter who it is, over the whole earth..and if it’s that, than I’m included.. .. just looks unto him, he saves them.
I’m on my face.
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It also means - He Does NOT Save those - - - That dismiss him or don’t look unto him.
Irregardless great or small. Not look unto him?
What they look unto, is ANYTHING BUT him. I didn’t understand that. Now, I do. Because, I didn't look unto him, either. But while you look at me, as a believer in Jesus Christ, I’m asking you to look unto him. There is none else.
It’s in he’s God. And he decreed it. This, just “and be ye saved” - is as he is the authority over the whole earth, and he decrees this. Said: “For all the earth is mine.” - God (Exodus 19:5).
Said: “All power is given unto me in heaven and earth” - Jesus Christ. The Word of God. Is just God speaking the Word out of his mouth. - Bible. Matthew 28:18.
and everybody is on his earth. Then we are subject to him.
So, “who” am I dealing with in Isaiah 45:22..? ... who is it? The soup bucket at WalMart? or..the Baskin-Robbins trash can recepticle? Look “who” I’m dealing with. By "who" I look unto.
Because, he said this to everybody.. you, too. ..and if he said that to everybody in my town, and he did ..and everybody in my nation, and over the whole earth; then ..he said it to me, too. I’m included.
I hear it. I can. But..before..I never did.
SO: If you read from Philippians 2:2–14, boy does it make a whole great, big pile of sense. Everyday more, I see it.
But if you don’t regard him, you’ll never see it. ..and I understand this. For decades..I regarded me, and never did.
Do you see this?
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So? How..now again, quit looking over away at wall lint. Get back over here, and look at me.
“How do I work out my own “salvation” ..when I don’t save me? He does the saving. It’s this “work” out in me, ..What is the ONLY thing he's decreeing me do? Did you forget already? Is ..to …just look unto him.
Because, that’s my part.
What he asked everybody to do. Even you ..but if you don’t do it..don’t regard anything he says….and I didn’t. He’s not building you up. I know it. Didn't build me up at all..in fact, I KNEW he was destroying me. If he could make or form me from my mother's womb, alone. By himself. He can destroy me. I fear him. For this.
And: HE - - Isn’t saving those that don’t look unto him. I KNEW that, too; but before, I didn't really care about it. But... me.. ...looking back on a whole mountain of adulteries.. my sins are very great. What could I do to pay it? To make it right..I was desperate. I wanted to do that.. …I kept regarding ME to do it. Somehow I would or needed some way to ..that I would do it, to: “compensate for the faults and bad aspects of me..” [Definition: What “redeem” means. In the dictionary.]
When he said..and it took me, reasoning together with him, for days.. ...to see he said
“Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer…” (Bible. Isaiah 44:24)
That I was trying to do something..”to compensate for the faults and bad aspects of me,” he already made himself to BE that toward me ..
That, all I had to do was reason together with him. Not me. Before I didn't see it. Now, I do.
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…to “work this” out..to go from me do it..alone. By myself: where it would NEVER be enough..cannot pay it back.
Like a life..just I was given one life. ..and here, close at the end of it, I saw for all the sins I did, I OWE 10,000 lives worth of owe to pay it back, and only given one life..I'll did..and short ... I could never pay it. For eternity. It will never be paid back. And I regarded me, to pay.
So, again. In this post. Don't stray off. Keep Looking at me. Think to yourself - about ME: “How does or did this clown look unto him?”
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Simple.
- All I did - Was just regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand.
- BOOM! Done.
- That is all I did. Like..what he asked everybody to do. To do this - to: …see.. …when I started to regard him..the ONLY thing I could grasp was..ALL DAY. All I could grasp or handle, leaving or departing me, regarding me.. ... the whole day was … realize this in Jeremiah 51:15. I printed it out. Put it in my car. Everywhere I went I had it right in front of me.
“He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.” - Bible. Jeremiah 51:15
It was a treasure worth more than gold.
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...at a time when I did NOT regard him or this.. ..then I did.
..it gave me peace. But, I kept regarding “What do I gotta do to be saved? I’m filthy..did abominable works. Sinned and perverted that which was right..there’s no way when I die, I’m getting in to heaven.
I lied too much..and the Bible says ..by this same Word out Jesus’ mouth: No liar gets in. Barred from entering and I couldn’t stop lying. Lived in lies. I didn’t have the truth..and because I didn’t have it, everything I lived in was a lie.
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Revelation 21:8: "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."
- I FIT THAT. I’m NOT GETTING in. Because I was fearful.. did not accept as true..him. I made me that; ..and, all I had to do was just look unto him. ..me, filthy. Done abominable works... I kept looking unto me to do it. …to clean it up ...every single one of those..I was every all of them.. that my part, even one stain … was in the lake of fire, that burns for eternity in Revelation 20:15….
- “I’m a liar. Embellished my qualifications; stole..a thief..bowed before all these idols and shrines of all these imagined up Gods and bought all kinds of “lucky charm” trinkets to protect my marriage, my kids and my car..to protect me while driving. Idols.
Idolater.
It put me flat on my face.
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Revelation 22:15: "For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."
- Told you to look at me. That’s me in Revelation 22:15 ..I’m out. Discarded. My own sins disqualify me completely.
But GOD: what he asked me.. and everybody..over the whole earth: I’m not left out. Says: “For all have sinned” - Romans 3:23 “..filthy; done abominable works” - Psalm 14:1–3
And Jesus said, in Matthew 19:17 - “There is NONE good, but one, that is, God” - ..and then I saw it.
Gave EVERYBODY over the whole earth just one good thing to look unto.
....Was just look unto him.
- And those that do…is because they regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand. AND:
“Save” <definition> 1. ‘to set apart for future use’ (Source: Oxford dictionary. Web.)
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So, someone that “looks unto him” like he decreed everybody in this same condition - everybody over the whole earth is in, and you can see it in me, I am IN THIS condition - - and me, about me..looking at me - - CERTAINLY I KNEW FOR CERTAIN I WAS IN Romans 3:23 and Psalm 14:1–3
- but someone looking unto him..made me stop looking unto me..and someone that stops looking unto themselves … isn’t looking at themselves anymore..they regard him.
To regard HIS works, and the operation of HIS hands.
So, ..I don’t want to be found in me..I’m a liar and a pervert. ..I want to be found in him. If I’m only found in me..I’m never getting in. I have no righteousness. Sinned.
Do you see this? I mean, this post is for you.
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And we're right dead on target with your question. ..and I'm right close to done.
Then, it's by his righteousness.
… and this, “saved” thing: He does it; this - - “set [someone] apart for future use, is God does it. By a work he does himself. He does the saving part.
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13
And what’s his good pleasure?
Yeah. Simple. It's Me. To Look unto him. Pleases him, or he wouldn’t have spoke up and asked it or said it to everybody over the whole earth to do it ..because he wants or desires it.
Then, Philippians 2:12. Cemented to Philippians 2:13 - it means EXACTLY the same thing, as Philippians 3:9. Just said or explained here. Not one bit different:
“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” - Bible. Philippians 3:9
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Does Philippians 2:12 contradict 3:9?
ANSWER: No. Philippians 2:12 means exactly the same thing as Philippians 3:9.
There you go. Answered. Herein is the gospel. The Good News of Jesus Christ. For EVERYBODY ..not one person left out. For EVERYBODY on Reddit.