"The Holy Spirit is in us; He is working in us, and empowering us, giving us the ability...This is the New Testament teaching - 'Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.We have to do so. But note the accompaniment - 'Because it is God that worketh in you. Both to will and to do of His good pleasure'! The Holy Spirit is working in us 'both to will and to do.' It is because I am not left to myself, it is because I am not 'absolutely hopeless,' since the Spirit is in me, that I am exhorted to work out my own salvation with fear and trembling." Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Pursuit of Holiness, Jerry Bridges
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