Summary

In this sermon we continue our exposition of Philippians, A Beautiful Mind where we are exploring what it means to live and an through the mind of Christ. Here Paul moves to the very practical imperative of telling the Philippian Christians to live “work out their faith with fear and trembling. In this sermon, Pastor Todd Murphy focuses on our identity in Christ and how that identity is that for working out out salvation as a member of God?s people. Working out our salvation that Paul refers to here is not a means of being in Christ. With this we turn to vs. 13 where Paul clarifies this historic point of biblical and Reformed theology by asserting “for it is God who works in you, both to will and to do his good pleasure. Through this we learn that our assurance of being in Christ and possessing salvation comes not through our working itself, much less success at it, but it is the desire, that is the hunger and thirst for righteousness that assures us that Christ is working in and through us.

About the Speaker

Pastor Todd Murphy | Lead Pastor

Todd came to the faith at the age of 19 after growing up in the skateboarding indie-punk culture of the 80’s. He lives with his beautiful wife Christine and six healthy boys, Judah, Anson, Keegan, Aiden, Cailan, and Rowan in a suburb of Providence. Todd is an accomplished Bible teacher with an BA in Biblical studies and MA in Hebrew Bible studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has also taught biblical studies for the department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University, and is the author of the Pocket Dictionary for the Study of Biblical Hebrew (InterVarsity Press, 2003). When not writing, preaching or teaching, he can often be found playing Xbox with his sons or surfing with Judah. Once in a while you might even still catch him skateboarding.