servant for Christ Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 Paul is convinced that the work of grace that God began in the Philippians at conversion will be divinely continued " until the day of Jesus Christ". That is, the Lord will keep working in these believers until Jesus returns to earth, at which point He will finish His work, bringing it to completion. This speaks of the Christian's eternal security. For God had a purpose in view when He began His saving work in the Philippians, and that purpose will neither be abandoned nor unrealized. The basis of Paul's confidence was God's faithfulness. We can expect God to do this for us because God has a purpose for us and because of God's faithfulness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimmy Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 Paul expects God to continue His work in the Philippian believers until it's completion. All believers in Christ Jesus have the assurance of everlasting salvation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charisbarak Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 help them grow God alone has the power to do this The Lord Jesus Christ We are His--He will grow us & complete what He starts in us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelbaby Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Q3. Paul knows God had begun a good work in the Philippians and expects God to carry out His plan to completion. Paul expects God to do this because God has declared us to be His Saints and has made us righteous The basis Paul thinks God will do this for us is that we have the wonderful assurance of God's involvement in our salvation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithj77 Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Q3. (1:6) What does Paul expect God to do for the Philippians believers? Why does he expect God to do this? What is the basis of Paul's confidence? On what basis can we expect God to do this for us Paul expects, no is confident, that God will complete the work he has started in the believers. Paul is saying that God, who began a good work in you meaning the Philippians, but also us today, epiteleō, "to finish something begun, end, bring to an end." While it doesn't say directly why Paul believes this we know that is confidence comes from another because the Greek verb peithō, is in the past participle. It means, "be so convinced that one puts confidence in something." Only God could confidence Paul of this. We are able to know that God will finish the work he began because we are his saints and slaves. He has made us holy for his purpose. God is so so God.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abram motswana Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 MA Motswana Q3 Paul expected GOD to finish what He started with Philippians (Us Believers) Since they (Us)accepted JESUS as their/our saviour. Paul wanted GOD to be involved in their/our spiritual growth(life) and their/our salvation. GOD is a faithful He is not a person that can lie. He has promises us. Paul knew and understand also believed in GOD. GOD will continue to finish what he started in our life's and His promises. So that we can be knowledgeable,grow spiritually matured in our christens life's as believers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ange Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 3.1 Paul expects God to bring the good work that He'd begun in the Philippians to completion. 3.2 God had started it, so it was His place to bring it to its end. 3.3 Paul's confidence is based on the fact that God would never begin a work that He couldn't finish. 3.4 The basis on which we can expect God to do it for us is His grace and love for us. God loves us, and since He began a good work in us, then we know that that which He began in us is the best for us. We know that that's what He wills for us. The neat thing is that He began it, and only He can bring it to completion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selie Visa Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 Paul expects God to complete the good work that he has started with the Philippians. Paul expects this from God because on their own they will not be able to bring the good work to completion. Paul is confident of this because he knows that when God starts a project he always complete it. God's work started in our lives the moment we believed. But we may get weary or discouraged. We need God's grace to help us grow spiritually and carry on the good work until Christ's return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey felipe Posted May 4, 2016 Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 Q3. (1:6) What does Paul expect God to do for the Philippian believers? Why does he expect God to do this? What is the basis of Paul's confidence? On what basis can we expect God to do this for us? Answer: Paul expect God to finish the work that he started in the Philippian believers. God chose them to become His sons and daugters and though they are not perfect, God will mold them, teach them, instruct and love them until Gods perfect time and eventually the eternal salvation God promised them. Answer: Because Paul understand and believed that whatever God started, He will also complete it. Answer: Paul basis of confidence is Gods faithfulness to His promises. Answer: Praise be to God because He is a faithfull God, and that faithfulness is my basis that God will also do this for us that no matter what, He will always keep His promised to those who believe Him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Beenleigh Posted May 7, 2016 Report Share Posted May 7, 2016 God began a good work in the Philippians and will carry it on toward completion. Our salvation and eternal destiny depends on God Himself. Once God has begun a work in man , the latter by no means remains passive. God never does anything by halves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royk Posted May 7, 2016 Report Share Posted May 7, 2016 Q3. (1:6) What does Paul expect God to do for the Philippian believers? Why does he expect God to do this? What is the basis of Paul's confidence? On what basis can we expect God to do this for us? Paul knows that God will not leave undone His work on each Philippian for the rest of their lives. He know this because of the Bible's promise, the promise of God's word. We were made to worship and glorify God in everything we do. That is why we are still here, there is something for us to do today. We need to be open and resdy to do this when the moment arrives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCservant Posted May 29, 2016 Report Share Posted May 29, 2016 Q3. (1:6) What does Paul expect God to do for the Philippian believers? Why does he expect God to do this? What is the basis of Paul's confidence? On what basis can we expect God to do this for us? The Lord will work in us - teaching, guiding, correcting, transforming, us until the day of Christ. It is the purpose and will of God to do this. The power of the Holy Spirit will accomplish God's work in us. We can expect this of God, because Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charis.Shalom Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 Paul founded the church at Philippi , one of the first in which there was no synagogue, and thus a relatively small Jewish influence in the work. At that time, the message was really all that Paul could give the people there--no promise of a congregation, or of standing in the community, or a community of congregations which the people could engage with and identify with or beautiful facilities. So all of the promise of what churches would "grow up" to become was there--and that is what he expected the churches to one day become--sound, solid bodies equipping its people about the salvation by grace through Jesus Christ. His personal expectation was driven by his understanding about the work of Christ--something that he learned while away at Arabia (see Galatians)--and perhaps understood better than almost every other person at that time. Just as the other apostle spent 3 years with Christ, he too spent 3 years with Christ in seclusion. And, he anchored this understanding of Jewish things and their fulfillment by Christ with continual prayer for all of the believers he had encountered between Jerusalem and Rome. Paul had a drive and hunger to understand the things of God--he was a Hebrew among Hebrews and a Pharisee who had an understanding of the covenant God had made and kept with Israel--and of the Messiah, who came to establish the New Covenant. We can have what Paul had--but this does require intimate study of God's Word and allowing it to conform us to the image of Christ. God, Who has started a work in us, will be faithful to complete it. Amen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen11 Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 On 3/14/2005 at 1:58 PM, Pastor Ralph said: Q3. (1:6) What does Paul expect God to do for the Philippian believers? Why does he expect God to do this? What is the basis of Paul's confidence? On what basis can we expect God to do this for us? He depends on God to see them through. Because he believes that "He who began a good work in you Philippians will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Belief in God, His living word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kupnsaucer1 Posted December 1, 2017 Report Share Posted December 1, 2017 Paul expect God to complete what He has begun when we trusted Jesus to be our Savior. This is both to individual Christians and to the Philippian church, but to the church He is saying He lead people to start the church in Philippi and He will continue to work through the people there until He comes back. He is encouraging them to grow in Christ collectively and indidvidually. His confidence is in God to do what He says He will do. We can trust Him to work in us as we partner with Him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulhoward Posted December 15, 2019 Report Share Posted December 15, 2019 Q3. (1:6) What does Paul expect God to do for the Philippian believers? Why does he expect God to do this? What is the basis of Paul's confidence? On what basis can we expect God to do this for us? the good work He began is our trusting in Christ. This He will keep on doing until we are competed at the end of our life. We have to keep looking to God to complete it and NOT to ourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krissi Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 Paul expects God to sanctify the individual believer who wishes to be closer to Him. Each individual Christian must pull himself toward God; God responds by coming into that believer's heart in a bigger or fuller way. This is His yet-completed, good work. It's also our responsibility. We have to do our part which is to draw closer to Him, or to want to draw closer to Him. Even when our motives are mixed, He teases out the good and amplifies it. I'm not sure why God should be expected to do this for us. That's like asking why he created us, allowed our fall from perfection, and then came up with a plan to save us afterward. It's too big to think about, thus best left on the side of our intellectual plate. We only should rest in the conviction that He really did choose to save us from a predicament of our own making and will continue to do this until His plan has completely unfolded at the end of time. He began the good work in us with Christ's death and resurrection. Before that, he began the good work through the prophets and in His revelation, both general and specific. His good work has been in process as soon as we were created. What has to be explained, at least to my pea brain, is why He had to work in the first place. Why evil? Why sin? As an aside, the fact that EVERY letter in the New Testament is written to a group doesn't negate it's applicability to the individual -- my hunch is that Paul envisions the church as a collection of individual Christians, not as an amorphous mass who move in unison in the process of sanctification. Perhaps this is what you were saying and I read you incorrectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marquita Lawson Posted August 14, 2022 Report Share Posted August 14, 2022 Paul is confident that God, who began a good work in the Philippians, will carry it on to completion. God is faithful and true to His word. God has declared us to be His saints and is very involved in our salvation. We can expect God to do this for us because we sincerely live for Christ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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