Their salvation is, therefore, in the first instance, the work of God, not of themselves, and all spiritual life and demonstration of power in them is the fruit of the grace of God. And because this all is the work of God, the redeemed can in no other way “work out” their own salvation than with fear and trembling before God. This powerful inward working of God affects both the will and the work, the decision of the will and the practical deed. To will and to do is the fruit of God’s work in the
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