Every Christian is called to work out his or her own salvation with dedication. With final salvation (glorification) as our goal, holiness is our inseparable disciplined lifestyle. Holiness is every Christian’s committed work.
While the sinner was racking up sin upon sin, the Savior was bearing up under the load of his sin until He carried it all to Calvary and paid down the sinner’s debt through His cross.
The Christian paradigm includes humility, ministry, and doxology. This was the very attitude in Christ (Phil. 2:6–7) and the very attitude Christians seek to obtain.
This psalm of praise not only expresses David’s own personal worship of the LORD but the global propagation of that worship, which begins personal, then generational then finally universal.
This book was written for our sakes to urge us to heed its warnings and be ready for the Lord. Jesus adds urgency with the echoes of “I am coming quickly.”
