Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Philippians 2:12-13
DISCOURSE: 2147GOD ASSISTS THE DILIGENTPhilippians 2:12-13. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.THERE is no person, however eminent his attainments in religion may be, who does not need to be exhorted and urged to press forward. The Philippians, in the judgment of the Apostle, had had “the good work begun in them;” yea, they had “obeyed the word while he was with them,” and had made a still greater... read more
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Philippians 2:9-11
DISCOURSE: 2146THE EXALTATION OF CHRISTPhilippians 2:9-11. 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.WE are told by an inspired Apostle, that the great scope of the prophecies related to “the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that... read more