Servile vs Filial Fear and the Continued Study of Romans 4:13-25

EMAIL: Dear Ken and Marcus, Last week, you discussed Romans 4:4: “Now to one who works, his wages are not reckoned as a gift but as his due.” Recently someone pointed out Phil 2:12, “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” Could you compare and contrast these, and discuss how they relater to servile and filial fear? Thanks, Bob Romans 4:13-25 13: The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world,  did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.  14: If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs,  faith is null and the promise is void.  15: For the law brings wrath,  but where there is no law there is no transgression.  16: That is why it depends on faith,  in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants -- not only to the adherents of the law  but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all,  17: as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"  -- in the presence of the God in whom he believed,  who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.  18: In hope he believed against hope,  that he should become the father of many nations;  as he had been told, "So shall your descendants be."  19: He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body,  which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old,  or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.  20: No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God,  but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,  21: fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.  22: That is why his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness."  23: But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake alone,  24: but for ours also.  It will be reckoned to us  who believe in him that raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,  25: who was put to death for our trespasses  and raised for our justification.