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Php 2:12a [Amplified Classic]
Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent...

Php 2:12b [Amplified Classic]
...work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ).

Php 2:13 [Amplified Classic]
[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia.com
The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.

Human Power
It is the fingerprint of sinful man. Believers are called to depend on God’s grace (ala ); however, sinful man (unbelievers and sinning believers) depends on his own strength to solve problems.

FAITH

Does the end justify the means?

Ro 14:23b
For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Lk 6:26
“Woe to you, when all people speak well of you...”

Symptomatic Man
Wealth breeds human power. Human power breeds bullying. Bullying is merely a symptom like the rest; it’s borne of a lack of faith (“whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.” - Ro 14:23b).

People love idols!!!

Human Power
It is the fingerprint of sinful man. Believers are called to depend on God’s grace; however, sinful man (unbelievers and sinning believers) depends on his own strength to solve problems.

FAITH

Ro 14:23b
For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Symptomatic Man
Wealth breeds human power. Human power breeds bullying. Bullying is merely a symptom like the rest; it’s borne of a lack of faith (“whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.” - Ro 14:23b).

Symptomatic Man
What symptoms of corruption due to wealth/power have you seen in the following?
• Politicians
• Religious leaders, pastors, priests, etc.
• Business leaders
• Family dynasties, kings, queens, etc.
• Hollywood actors
• You