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0:00 Today's topic is have the mind of Christ, Philippians chapter 2 verses 5 to verse 11. Story was told of a reporter who went to0:12 ask the famous conductor, Leonard Bernstein. And Leonard Bernstein was asked this question, what is the most difficult instrument to play in an0:23 orchestra? And without any hesitation, he said, second fiddle. Because this is what he went on to explain. I can always get plenty of violinists to0:35 play the first violin, but to play the second violin with as much enthusiasm and passion, it is very hard. And this is the key church, you and I,0:47 we need to understand. People always probably would look at the person who is standing on stage and performing, but they don't know that it takes numerous people working behind the0:58 scenes, willing to play that second fiddle to be able to do that for that person. Whether it's an orchestra, whether it's a church, whether it's a family or whether it's a business,1:10 there are hundreds, there are thousands of people behind the scenes that make it work. So you and I, we need to pay attention to this. The mindset that they have in order to play the1:22 second fiddle and not only play it, but also do it with joy and without complaining and without getting any credit, it takes a certain kind. And that's the kind that apostle1:34 Paul has in mind in Philippians chapter 2. Philippians chapter 2 is a passage of scripture where he deals with only 1 issue, the mindset of a believer. And he is saying this1:46 because the mindset of a believer should be to enhance unity in the family, enhance unity in the church and wherever they are in a community. They could not be
1:57 divisive, they cannot have their own personal ambition and conceit and therefore as a result, have a mindset that is seeking after their own interest. But rather they should have a mindset which is
2:09 a mindset of humility where they prefer others, they count others better than themselves and they look out for the interest of others. And that is the mindset he is dealing with in chapter 2. But
2:21 today, I want to take you to verse 5 to verse 11 because he's giving you an example of the mindset in the life of Christ, that Jesus had the same mindset. Now why do I talk about the
2:33 mindset here? Because I already established this in my previous sermon, but if you've just joined us, let me give you the context. Philippians chapter 2 and verse 2, the bible says this in verse 2,
2:45 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of 1 mind. In this passage, the word in Greek is repeated at least
2:56 twice. And Paul coins a unique word, which is full accord, which also means unity. In other words, have the same mind, have the same mind. In other
3:08 words, have that 1 mind, that 1 soul being 1 spirited, having that like mindedness is what Paul is talking about. And that mindset is what he addresses. So the same word
3:20 is repeated 3 times in this short passage because in verse 5, this is how he introduces it. He says, have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus. In other words,
3:32 have this have this mindset, have this attitude, have this way of thinking. What way of thinking? Which is yours in Christ Jesus, which can also be written as,
3:44 which was in Christ Jesus. In other words, this is the mindset that was in Jesus. So he's giving you an example of the mindset. What is the mindset? Mindset he already established in verse 3 and verse
3:56 4. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility. So the mindset is clothed with humility. It is not a mindset of agreeing with anything and everything, but it's a
4:08 mindset of humility. That means with humility, you think others better than yourselves. Not only that, in verse 4 he says that you will look out for the interest of others. In other words, you will
4:19 prefer others, you will give your life to serve others, you will sacrifice yourself for others. So he's talking about selfless mindset, a sacrificial mindset,
4:31 a service mindset and that is the mindset and he wants to give you an example. So from verse 5 all the way to verse 11, he gives you the mindset of Christ.
4:44 3 things that I want you to pay attention to about Jesus' mindset. Jesus' mindset is 1 of lowliness shown in his service. Love shown in his
4:55 sacrifice and lordship shown in his significance. That's the mindset Paul wants you to embrace. First, it's the lowliness shown in his service. It is the
5:07 attitude of lowliness shown in his voluntary service. Verse 6 and verse 7, look at what it says. Who, meaning Jesus Christ, though he was in the form of
5:19 God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped. But emptied himself, verse 8, by taking the form of a servant
5:30 being born in the likeness of men. Twice it talks about this 1 word, form. I want you to pay attention to a couple of Greek words that I am going to give you.
5:43 The first Greek word is, it is the word for form. It is the word for essential nature. It is the word for the nature, the
5:54 essence, the real essence. And that is the word here, he was in the form of God. It means that Jesus was God. Jesus is God, yesterday, today and
6:06 forever. He was fully God in existence in heaven. But the bible says, he did not count equality with God a thing to be
6:17 grasped. Even though Jesus was fully God, he did not want to grasp it. In other words, he didn't want to hold on to it. He didn't want to keep clutch,
6:29 grasping it. Why? Because that's what the context is. Listen to me carefully. The world's culture is this. The world's culture
6:41 is, let's grab whatever we can. If we can gain power, if we can gain control, let's do whatever we can to get our own interest first, secure our own interest. And that is the culture of the
6:52 world, but that's not the culture of Christ. The mindset of Christ is he climbs down even though he is God, he didn't consider, he didn't count equality with God a thing to
7:04 be grasped. That means it's counter cultural. Cultural thinking is you grasp it, you grab it, but counter cultural, that's the mindset of Christ. I want you to capture this. The word
7:16 is the word essence, Right? And that's exactly what Jesus was talking about here. Here, he did not grasp it. Why is this important? Do you know in the Garden
7:28 of Eden, the Satan came to Adam and Eve and said, God has created you as human beings but if you eat this, you will become like God.
7:40 And man partook of that fruit that he was not supposed to partook. Why? So that he can grasp something that he is not. He can become like God. Listen to me
7:51 carefully. Man tries to grab something. That's the way man is. Why? Because he was tempted by Satan. How did Satan become Satan? He was of angel that was a worship leader
8:03 in heaven, but then he wanted to be like God. So he was grasping something that he was not. And therefore he became Satan, Lucifer, isn't it? The same thing. The whole culture
8:15 is about grasping, but what Jesus is modeling for us is he didn't grasp his lowliness. He was willing to give up his position, his exalted position as God and he was willing to take
8:27 the form of a servant. The word there is the word doulos, form of a slave being born in the likeness of men. Wow,
8:39 what a voluntary service. And that is the attitude of lowliness we see in God. I want you to pay attention to this because C. S. Lewis, the
8:50 British thinker and writer, he talks about the doctrine of the incarnation as emphatically at the center of Christianity that God came
9:02 down. He wrote a book called Miracles and in that there is a chapter called Great Miracles and the greatest miracle and this is what he writes there. In the Christian story, God
9:13 descends to re ascend. He comes down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity, down to the very roots and seed bed of the humanity
9:25 which he himself created. But he goes down to come up again and brings ruined sinners up with him. Once 1 has the picture of a strong
9:36 man stooping lower and lower to get himself underneath some great complicated burden, he must stoop in order to lift, but he must almost disappear under the Lord before
9:48 he incredibly straightens his back and marches off with the whole mass swaying on his shoulders. This doctrine of incarnation is the central truth of
10:00 Christianity. God becoming man. Did he exist as God? Yes. And did he take the form of servant? Yes. But did he stop being
10:12 God? No, he was God. He is God. He was fully God and he is fully man. I want you to capture this. So his attitude of loneliness is shown in 2
10:23 things, in what he gave up and what he took on. Let's look at what he gave up. This is what he gave up. He gave up certain things in order to become man
10:36 in the likeness of men. So what did he give up? Did he give up being God? No. Jesus was always God and always will be God. Go with me to John chapter 14 and Jesus explains this in
10:48 verse 8, when Philip said to him, Lord show us the father and it is enough for us. And what was Jesus' reply? Verse 9 he says, Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long and you
10:59 are still, do not know me Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the father. How can you say show us the father? If you have seen me, you have seen the
11:11 father. But you know what, when Jesus was walking on the earth, if you see him, he looked in the form of a man. He was, he does, he didn't look like he was God incarnate, isn't
11:23 it? I want you to think about this. It's like if you walk into the streets and say for example, a general in the army, most revered man in the
11:34 army. And he takes off his general clothes and he just adorns the civilian clothes and he is coming out in his T shirt and jeans and his sneakers and he is
11:46 walking on the streets. When you look at him, can you recognize that this is a general? Probably not, just like anybody else. The same thing, if you were living in Palestine at the time and you watch
11:58 Jesus walking in the streets, you won't pay attention to him thinking that, oh, here's the son of God. He will look ordinary like everybody else. But he took that form of a
12:10 servant. So I want you to think about this, what is the difference between him being fully God and fully man? That's the key. There are 2 words that in the Greek I want you to capture. 1 is the word where we said,
12:21 it's the word mophet. It's the second word, schema. Schema means the appearance. He had the appearance of man. In other words, he also took the nature of man, but at the same time, he also had
12:33 the nature of God. Both lived together with him. And both lived in unity in in him, in union in him, in perfect
12:45 harmony in him. He was fully God and fully man. Maybe I'll let me explain this in another way. Imagine you are going to have a kenosis experience,
12:57 emptying yourself experience. How? Imagine that you, your soul comes out of your body. That means you shed your body, your external flesh is all gone. Now you only
13:09 have your nature, which is your soul, your nature as a human being. And now imagine if you are putting your nature and you want to enter into the body of a dog.
13:21 That means you want to now become 1 of the dogs, right? So you have your nature is now entered dog. But you also will have the dog nature. You will have both the natures
13:33 inside of you. But with your current nature as a human being, you can speak, you can think, you can rationalize and you can make decisions. But as a dog, you won't be able to
13:45 speak, you can only bark. And you will make decisions based on instinct. Both coexist internally. There are some limitations where you won't be able
13:57 to use the the the nature of a human being inside there. There will be some limitations because you are using it through the body of a dog. In the same manner, I want you to catch this
14:08 picture. Jesus was fully God, but there were some things that he had to set aside. That is what it means that he emptied himself. He emptied himself means he set
14:20 aside certain things, but he didn't certainly did not set aside his deity. Because if he set aside his deity, he cannot die for us. His sin, his sacrifice will be null and
14:32 void. The only reason why his sacrifice was acceptable for our sin is because he was fully God. But at the same time, he was also fully man because he endured
14:44 the shame. He endured the cross. He endured the suffering. He endured the pain and God cannot die but Jesus died. You know why? Because he was also fully man. I want you to catch this picture.
14:56 He was fully God and fully man. So whenever you read this word kenosis, you need to conjure up this image that he, God, God, Jesus is the
15:08 God man. He was fully God and fully man. And that is the sacrifice he had to make. But as Jesus was fully God, he had to let go of certain things in order for him to take the likeness
15:20 of men. What were some of the things he had to let go? What did he give up? His attitude of loneliness is shown in what he gave up. What did he give up? Firstly, he gave up his glory.
15:32 Look at this in John chapter 17 in verse 5. Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. Jesus set aside his glory.
15:44 In other words, his glory was veiled. The human beings could not see the glory of God in him while he was walking on the face of the earth. But 3 disciples saw it 1 day. In the mount
15:56 of transfiguration, God just unveiled the glory a little bit. He shown the glory of Jesus. They could not see, they were frightened. Listen, that glory he had set aside. The second
16:08 thing is Jesus gave up his honor. The Bible says in Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 3, he was despised and rejected by man. A man of sorrows acquainted with grief as 1 from whom
16:20 men hide their faces. He was despised and we esteemed him not. Listen, he was not a person whom the people readily accepted. They despised him, they spat on him, they rejected
16:32 him, they shamed him, they dishonored him. And Jesus endured all of that. Why? Because he gave up his honor. Thirdly, he gave up his riches.
16:44 It says in second Corinthians chapter 8 and verse 9. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor
16:56 so that you by his poverty might become rich. I want you to circle that, yet for your sake. For your sake and my sake, Jesus who was rich became poor. In
17:08 other words, through his poverty, you and I can be restored in relationship with God and today we can enjoy the blessing of the Lord. That is what it is. He emptied himself, emptied
17:20 of the riches that belong to him, the honor that belong to him, the glory that belong to him. Finally, he gave up the right to exercise his rights. He gave up his rights. 1
17:32 of the core things that Jesus, as God, he set aside the independent exercise of his godly authority.
17:44 He set aside his right to use his right. And that is what happened. That's why even on the day when they came to Aristem in Garden of Gethsemane,
17:56 Peter took a sword and cut off the ear of 1 of the soldiers. What did Jesus do? Jesus said to Peter, Peter, if I want help, I can call the legions of angels to come and help
18:08 us. In other words, Jesus had all that all that right to to to demand the angels come and rescue him, but he didn't. He gave up his rights. The
18:19 exercise of his authority. And this is exactly what I want you to catch because you and I, we need to see that this is what Paul is trying to help us see it. If you want to
18:31 live with the mindset of Jesus, if you want to work towards unity in the household, unity in the church of Jesus Christ, unity in wherever God brings you, how do you do that? You gotta have that mindset that was in
18:42 Jesus. Though he was God, he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but rather he emptied himself and he took the form of a
18:54 servant in the likeness of human being. Why? Because he came to serve us. So he took the lowliness of position. Now think about this
19:06 church. How many places marriages will be restored? How many marriages will be restored if people know how to humble themselves and take the position of
19:17 loneliness? You know in preparation for the sermon, I was just typing on Google to see what are some of the ridiculous reasons people give for divorce. Some
19:29 ridiculous reasons. In Japan, a woman asked for divorce from her husband because the husband did not enjoy the movie Frozen as much as she did.
19:44 This is what happens. A man submitted a divorce paper towards his wife because he didn't want to eat her tuna casserole anymore.
19:55 A 99 year old Italian man filed for divorce for his 96 year old wife, after 60 years of marriage,
20:08 because the letters she had kept, which she wrote 60 years ago to her lover. All these things are People will come and
20:19 fight for their rights. People will they they want to have the first place. They want to do this. But listen to me carefully. If we take the posture of humility, there will be
20:31 reconciliation. If we take the posture that is lowly in position, God can intervene. And that is exactly what Paul is trying to address here. He says to the 2 ladies in chapter 4
20:43 and verse 2, I entreat your dear and syntyche. What? To agree in the Lord, to have the mindset. What is the mindset? The certain way of thinking. The certain way of thinking is to take the lowly
20:55 position. Hallelujah. And if you can do that, you will follow the example of Christ and that is what Christ did. He did not grasp anything, but rather he took the form of a servant to truly
21:07 become a servant among us. As I said, that word servant is the word doulos. It's the word for slave. When Jesus was walking on the earth, he actually said to his disciples, go with me
21:19 to Luke chapter 22 and verse 27. He was explaining to them who is greater. He said for who is greater, the 1 who reclines a table or the 1 who serves? You think about this,
21:31 You walk into a mansion, there is a rich person who is your host and he reclines on the table and he has wait staff around him. So who is greater he
21:42 says? Is it the man who is serving or the man who is being served? Who is greater? But you know what Jesus said, is it not the 1 who reclines at table? Of course, they will all say yes, the 1 who reclines on table and
21:53 someone is waiting on him, that man must be greater. But you know what Jesus said, but I am among you as the 1 who serves. Jesus came as a servant. Jesus came to leave an
22:05 example for us as a servant. He came humbly to serve us. He emptied himself, gave up his position of rights. He gave up certain things in order to take the position of lowliness and the likeness of
22:17 people so that he can serve us. Mark chapter 10 and verse 45, the bible says, the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a
22:29 ransom for many. He came to serve and to give his life. This is the key that you and I, we need to capture. Many times we forget that this Jesus that we talk about,
22:41 he is the 1 who created everything. As fully God, he's the 1 who created. The bible says in John chapter 1 and verse 3, all things were made through him. Without him was not
22:52 anything made that was made. Does that make sense? Everything that you see in this world was made through him. Not only that, Colossians chapter 1 and verse 16, the
23:04 bible says. Colossians 1 16, for by him all things are created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all
23:16 things were created through him and for him. I want you to circle that. It is for Jesus that all these things were created. It was created through him and for him.
23:28 But even though he's the owner of everything, do you know when he lived on earth, he owned nothing? While he was on earth, he was a servant of
23:40 all. That's why he had to borrow everything in his life. He had to borrow a woman's womb to be birthed. He had to borrow a manger where he was born. He had to
23:52 borrow a boat from where he would preach his sermons. He had to borrow an animal to ride into the city of Jerusalem. He had to borrow a womb, a
24:04 tomb where he would be buried. He owned nothing, everything he had to borrow. Yet he had the right for everything, yet he did not exercise that right. He did not exercise the right for
24:15 his entitlement. Instead, he set this set it aside. For who? For you and for me. If Jesus left us a model, this is a model. He says, I have come to take that loneliness
24:27 of position in the likeness of people. Why? So that I can serve them. Hallelujah. I pray that every husband will take that posture in the household. I
24:39 pray every wife will take that posture in the household. I pray that every parents will take that posture with their children in the household. And I pray every church member will take that posture with the church
24:49 leadership because if we are here together, take that mindset of Christ and we say we are here to serve 1 another. I tell you what, we will get along. There will be a unity. That is exactly what Paul was saying.
25:01 That is an attitude of humility that comes from Christ and because of who Christ is, he showed it to us that if he can let go
25:13 and take a humble posture, how much more you and me. The second point from here is Jesus' mindset is 1 of lowliness shown in his service, but now
25:25 love shown in his sacrifice. It is the ascendancy of love shown in his vicarious sacrifice. I want you to grab this. Verse 8, the bible says, and being found in
25:37 human form. See in the Greek, already said to you there are 2 words for form, 1 is morphe and the other 1 is schema. Here, being found in human form is the word
25:48 schema. That means God, fully God. Jesus is fully God and fully man. As fully man, he was born as a baby. So when he was a baby, he had the schema of a baby. The form, the
26:00 appearance of a baby. And as he grows older, he has the form of an adult. Being found in human form, now the bible says, he
26:12 humbled himself, circle that. He humbled himself, there was a love that was shown in his sacrifice. How? He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a
26:24 cross. Couple of things I want you to pay attention to because he not only empty himself, but here the bible says he humbled himself. Being
26:36 God, he humbled himself to become form of man, form of a servant. But not only that was a humiliation, it was a humiliation. See, for you to become a dog, it's
26:48 humiliation. For an infinite God to become a man, a finite man, that is humiliation in itself. But yet Jesus willingly, voluntarily came in the form of a
26:59 likeness of a servant. Servant took the form of a servant. Why? He wanted to show love to you and and he wants to reach out to you. That's what he did. But here the bible says, he humbled himself. So not
27:11 only God became man, that was humiliation enough, but he also became obedient to the point of death. So God becoming
27:23 man was already a humiliation, but man going through suffering. Jesus went through suffering, being despised, being being
27:35 flogged, you know, being beaten up. All those things that he endured, the humiliation, being spat upon, being called names. Wow, he endured all of that. But then he
27:47 died the death of a criminal. To die for God to be, for God to die. You know, it's unthinkable. That is why the bible says in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus was
27:58 crying out to the father because his sweat became drops of blood. Why? Because as eternal being, God.
28:10 Now having the form of man, he now has to willingly lay down his life and die. See, death cannot come and lay hold of him. He has
28:22 to voluntarily die because he's fully God. At the same time, he's also fully man. But you know what he said? He was willing to go through that. Wow. I want you to pay attention to this. The bible
28:34 says he humbled himself. Not only he humbled himself from the point where he came from God becoming man, but from the man he suffered, from the suffering he died as a criminal
28:46 and not only died as a criminal, the bible says, even the death on a cross. Wow. Why is even a death on a cross specifically mentioned?
28:58 For many of us, cross is like a symbol that people, they wear it even in their chains and they showcase. But it's like walking around with an electric chair
29:10 or walking around with a rope from which people hang themselves. Listen, it's an execution, but this is the worst kind of execution. The Jewish people will never
29:21 desire anyone, even their worst enemies to be executed like this, but they wanted this for Jesus. And the bible says in Deuteronomy that if anyone who is hung on a tree, they are cursed of
29:33 God. That's why it's the worst form to die and the bible says he humbled himself. How did he humble? He humbled himself to becoming a form of a man, but then he humbled himself to suffer and then to die as a criminal,
29:44 but not only die as a criminal, but the worst kind of death, which has the most excruciating pain, the death on a cross. And the bible says Jesus went through all this, for what
29:56 purpose? Just to establish how much he loves you and how much he loves me. So I want you to see this picture, his ascendancy of love is shown in 2 things, in
30:08 his unforced submission and in his unmatched sacrifice. What is his unforced submission? He humbled himself. You and I, we need to
30:20 humble ourselves. See the bible never says, go humble your wife. Go humble your children. You and I cannot humble another person. You can humiliate another person but
30:32 you can never bring that attitude of humility, humble themselves. We need to humble ourselves first. We model the humility that we design others by becoming humble first.
30:44 That's why you first. Jesus, others and you. If you put Jesus first and then others, then you will take that posture of humility and you will humble yourself. If
30:56 a husband can do that, marriage will be saved. If a wife can do that, marriage will be saved. If a children can do that, there will be peace in the household. If parents can do that, the children will not be exasperated.
31:07 Listen to me carefully. If everyone in the church can do that, I humble myself. Listen to me, in this this day and age,
31:19 everybody is entitled to their rights and they fight for that. If if it's not just personal rights, it's the political rights, it's the people group that you belong to and you push that agenda.
31:31 Or you collectively gather a few people who are thinking the same things and then you push your agenda. But the bible says that's how the world behaves. But how you and I behave
31:42 is that we have an unforced submission. We humble ourselves and that is what Jesus did. A story was
31:54 told of a prince who fell in love with a peasant maiden. And this girl, she's poor, she's in the village, but this
32:06 prince fell in love with her. So he was thinking about how can I woo her? How can I make her fall in love with me? So he thought about a couple of things. Maybe I should bring her
32:18 into the palace. And when she comes into the palace, she will see all the beautiful splendor and then she will be impressed and she'll fall in love. Then he thought, but that will be
32:30 of disadvantage. What if she falls in love with the splendor first? And therefore as a result, she has to love me. So then he decided, maybe I'll go to her village. Maybe I'll go with all the
32:42 chariots and and all my entourage and then show and then call her to come how much I love her. But then he decided against it. He realized even that would not be of
32:54 any use because she will fall in love with the splendor. So this is what he finally decided. He said, I'm gonna go into that village as a villager, as a woodsman. I'm
33:06 gonna just go there and work in the farms and continue to work and be among them as 1 of the villagers and then get to know this girl and get this girl to know me and she will fall in love with me and when she
33:18 does, then I will reveal to her who I am. This is exactly what Jesus did. He loves you that much. He loved you that much that he humbled himself.
33:30 He went through the process of humiliation. Why? Because he loves you. He loved you that much that he said, I cannot live without you. That he set aside his rights. He set
33:42 aside his glory. He set aside his own honor. He took the form of the liken of men, the form of a servant and came searching for you and me. That is how much he loves us. If we
33:53 do know the love of God, oh wow. Nothing else will matter. You know, in response to this kind of love, you know what God requires from us? That we never doubt him, church.
34:06 That we never say to him, I can't trust you. And don't have any fear in your life. Because if you truly understand this love, fear won't be part of your life. And if you do have fear, that means you're
34:18 doubting his love. So come to that place where you can boldly recognize, he loves me. Hallelujah. He loved me, he gave himself for me. He humbled himself,
34:29 an unforced submission. Secondly, it's an unmatched sacrifice. What is the unmatched sacrifice? He died the death of a criminal, but not only did he die,
34:41 even to the point of dying on a cross. That is wow. The bible says, many maybe someone will die for a
34:53 righteous 1. But for a wicked 1, who will die? Jesus did. While we were still sinners, Jesus died for us. Endured the shame, endured the punishment.
35:05 In his book, Love of God, Oswald Chambers writes this, our Lord did not say to his disciples, I have had a most successful time on earth. I have
35:17 addressed thousands of people and been the means of their salvation. Now you go and do the same kind of thing. Instead, you know what Jesus said, if I
35:29 then, your Lord and master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash at 1 another's feet. So Jesus did not ask us to go and and bring the masses and
35:41 preach to the masses and do all that. That's how successful I am, you should be successful too. He didn't say that. Instead of worried, he said, I washed your feet. Now you go do wash other people's feet. In other words,
35:52 I came to serve, you go and serve. But you know the interesting thing that this author observes is this. He says, we will wash the heathen's feet. We will wash the feet in the
36:03 slums. But fancy washing my brother's feet, my wife's feet, my husband's feet. No, we won't. Listen, you are willing to wash someone else's feet,
36:15 but your own neighbor, your own relative, your own husband, your wife, your children, your brother in Christ, or you won't. You know why?
36:27 We have pride. See true humility is where Jesus submitted himself. He humbled himself and he was willing to die all the way on the cross.
36:39 Accursed is he who hangs on a tree so that the blessing of God can come upon you and me. The bible says to the husband, husband love your wife even as Christ loved the church and
36:51 gave himself completely for the church. Jesus died to make the church look good. Husband, are you willing to die to make your wife and your family look good?
37:02 Listen, you won't do it if you are if you are so self centered, so ambitious, and selfish ambition and conceit plagues you. But
37:14 if you have humility of heart, that's what Paul is saying, that you will be able to embrace that. Hallelujah. Jesus, the bible says in Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 2, who for the joy
37:26 that was set before him endured the shame. What was the joy that was set before Jesus? It's you and me. You and me are the children that are born as a result of his
37:38 sacrifice. He's the seed that was planted. God planted 1 son as a seed and he now got sons as harvest. And Jesus was that 1 seed. And Jesus
37:50 endured the shame, suffered through the cross. Why? He saw the joy of the redemption of mankind and that is the reason why he was willing to go through that. So you and I, we need to come back to recognize the unmatched
38:01 sacrifice of Jesus. Thirdly, the mindset of Jesus is this, lowliness shown in his service, love shown in his sacrifice, but now lordship shown in his
38:13 significance. It's the authority of lordship shown in his victorious significance. Look at verse 9 all the way to verse 11, let's read it together. Therefore God has highly exalted him
38:25 and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. Verse 10, so that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in
38:36 heaven and on earth and under the earth. And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the father. Hallelujah. I want you to think about this.
38:49 Therefore, verse 9. So verse 6 all the way to verse 8, it was the pain that Jesus had to go through. But from verse 9 to verse 11, it's the gain that
39:01 Jesus received. From verse 6 to verse 8, it's the humiliation that Jesus had to endure. But verse 9 to verse 11 is the exaltation that follows humiliation.
39:13 God is the 1 who exalts the humble. And here in the life of Jesus, Paul addresses and he says, if you humble yourself, you empty yourself, you humble yourself and you take the form of a servant and you serveShow more
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