I.　The salvation in Philippians 2:12 is a constant and practical salvation that can be applied to our daily situations, especially to our family life and the church life:

A.　In order to stay together in the church life with saints of many different nationalities, dispositions, and personalities, we need a present and practical salvation—1 Cor. 12:13; Eph. 2:14-16.

B.　This is especially necessary if we are to experience the church not only locally, but also as the new man universally—Col. 3:10-11.

II.　Salvation here refers to salvation from murmurings, reasonings, blame, guile, blemishes, crookedness, and perverseness—Phil. 2:14-15:

A.　Murmurings are of our emotion and come mainly from the sisters; reasonings are of our mind and come mainly from the brothers.

B.　The natural married life is a life of murmurings and reasonings.

C.　We should do all things without murmurings and reasonings in order that we may become blameless and guileless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked, perverted, warped, and twisted generation—v. 15.

III.　Our salvation is not merely an action; it is a living Person, the Triune God Himself, operating in us—v. 13; 1:19; 4:23:

A.　The indwelling God energizes us from within as the source, power, strength, and energy for our constant salvation—Eph. 1:20; 3:20.

B.　God operates in us both the willing and the working for His good pleasure— 1:11; Col. 1:27, 29.

C.　The willing takes place in our will, indicating that God's operation begins from our spirit and spreads into our mind, emotion, will and eventually into our physical body—Rom. 8:4, 6, 11.

D.　The good pleasure of God's will (Eph 1:5) is to operate in us so that we may reach the climax of His supreme salvation—cf. Rom. 5:10, 17.