Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11) Because Jesus was obedient to God, even to dying on the cross, through the most brutal death possible, God highly exalted Him. It was not a little and n

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. (Philippians 2:12) Paul was not writing to Christians to tell them to work for their salvation. That would contradict everything else he wrote in his epistles. What he was communicating was something far more powerful: you and I are called to work out what is already in us. The Greek word for “work" here is katergaz

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. (Hebrews 9:15-17) A will does not take legal e