in the greek, your salvation is written as a way in which you own it. (your already saved)
working out is working out the power you have been given based on the fact your saved.
Fear and trembling, Paul feared all the time he would do something which would cause his light to stop shining (his message null and void) he would be an unqualified teacher (no one would listen to him)
What it does not mean? Paul never feared losing salvation, he said over and over, to be absent from this body is to be present with God, and that was his desire.. and hope.
We need to let Paul speak for himself:
[SUP]6 [/SUP]who “will render to each one according to his deeds”:
[SUP]7 [/SUP]eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; [SUP]8 [/SUP]but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,
[SUP]9 [/SUP]tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;
[SUP]10 [/SUP]but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]For there is no partiality with God.
(Romans 2:6-11)
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity;
but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. (Romans 11:22)
[SUP]2 [/SUP]by which also
you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
(1 Corinthians 15:2)
[SUP]22 [/SUP]in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—
[SUP]23[/SUP]if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast,
and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.
(Colossians 1:22-23)
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
(Philippians 2:12)
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine.
Continue in them,
for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you. (1 Timothy 4:16)
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves,
that Jesus Christ is in you?—
unless indeed you are disqualified. (2 Corinthians 13:5)