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If you guys would please turn to Philippians chapter 2 as we continue our journey on the

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perseverance of the saints.

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Like I said, many times we think about perseverance from just the perspective of making it through.

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But God perseveres us not only in His return and being with Him.

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We persevere every day in His faithfulness to His people.

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He brings us through.

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So today we're going to be dealing with the issue of the mind of Christ, Philippians chapter

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2 verse 1 through 11.

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I think a lot of times we read verses 1 through 11 and we kind of take what's being said here

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in a very, we miss the picture I think.

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So I'm hoping as we go through this it will clarify a little bit more about His faithfulness.

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And you see Christ from a much more holy perspective is the term I want to think about.

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So principle number one, principle number one, to be in spirit and in one mind we must

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have the mind of Christ.

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So let's pray.

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Father I want to thank you so much for your word.

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Thank you for your faithfulness.

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Thank you for the truth.

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Help us Lord as we go through Philippians 2, 1 through 11 that we see you and we understand

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you and your character and the truth of this passage for your glory in Jesus' name, amen.

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To be one in spirit and one in mind we must have the mind of Christ.

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You can't be in unity with each other.

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You can't be in one mind with one another unless we have the mind of Christ.

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You must understand Christ's mind.

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You must understand Him.

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Encouragement, comfort, fellowship, affection, and sympathy must come from being united and

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having the mind of Christ, okay?

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Philippians chapter 2, verse 1 and 2.

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So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in

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the spirit, any affection and sympathy, make my joy complete or make my joy, complete my

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joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one

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mind.

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That's what the ESV says here.

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Interesting enough, in order for us to kind of grasp what Paul is saying here to the church

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of Philippi, we've got to go back a little bit.

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So I want you to go to chapter 1.

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Now I want you to hear, see if you hear the same idea of what he's going to be clarifying

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in chapter 2, in verse 27.

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Chapter 1, verse 27, only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ,

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so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm

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in one spirit with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel.

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And not frightened in anything by your opponents.

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This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation and that from God.

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For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ, you should not only believe

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in him, but also suffer for his sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and

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now hear that I still have.

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So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in

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the spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the

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same love, being in full of cord and of one mind.

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You see why he would continue this conversation.

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He's really just repeating again, verse 27, that if we are living in a life that is in

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a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, when he comes, he wants to make sure that they

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are in one spirit with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel.

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So if there is any encouragement in Christ and any comfort from love and any participation

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in the spirit, any affection and sympathy for our suffering, then complete my joy by

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being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full of cord and of one mind.

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You see the thought here.

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A lot of times we read chapter 2 and we think it's got this own little thought.

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No, he's just carrying on a thought that he's saying, if we're going to suffer, let us do

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it with joy.

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Let us have the attitude that Christ had.

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And he clarifies this in verses 5 all the way down to 11.

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So I want you to hear something here.

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This whole idea of being of one mind and being united comes from the same attitude by which

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Christ had when he was one in oneness with the Father in heaven.

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That's what he's implying here.

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I want you to kind of see this.

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Doesn't mean that Christ stopped being one with the Father and one with the Spirit.

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He did not stop being one with the Father and one with the Spirit.

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I and the Father are one.

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That's what Jesus said.

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But it's this idea that he was willing to do something in order for him to bring to

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us what we needed, desperately needed.

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Now, so if there's any encouragement in Christ, comfort, participation, affection, and sympathy,

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he says complete my joy by being of the same mind.

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This word mind is the word understanding.

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That's what this word mind is.

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This word mind is actually used several times in a couple of verses.

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So he's saying make my joy complete by being of the same understanding, having the same

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understanding of Christ.

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How can we be united if we don't understand Christ, if we look at Christ differently because

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of our denominations, if we look at Christ differently because we're not willing to submit

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to the full counsel of his word because we think we're right or they're right, then the

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whole point is there's no way we can be united in the Spirit of God because we're not united

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for the purpose of Christ.

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We're united for our own ideologies.

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So we have to be united in Christ.

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Understanding his word is the final authority in all things.

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Now, that's the first thing.

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First word is the mind.

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There means understanding.

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Having the same love.

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This word love is agape, and it literally just means brotherly love.

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Isn't that interesting?

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It's not gapo.

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This is agape, love for the brotherhood, love for the brothers of the faith, brothers and

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sisters of the faith.

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So I want you to see this.

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Complete my joy by being of the same understanding, having brotherly love, and then he says being

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in full accord and of one mind.

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Now, what's interesting, if you're in accord with something and you're of one mind with

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something, it means you're in harmony.

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So this word mind here is to be harmonious.

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Very important to understand this because in the ESV, it uses two words here that literally

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mean to be harmonious.

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According, be in full accord, and one mind.

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Have we ever thought about what it means to be harmonious, to be in harmony with Christ

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and with his word and with myself?

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That I'm in full accord with him, that I'm in one mind with him.

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Why ESV translators chose to use full accord and of one mind makes I don't understand because

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the translation literally means harmonious.

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But it makes sense when you think about the word harmonious here.

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But if I'm going to have the same understanding as Paul concerning Christ, if I'm going to

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have the same brotherly love as Christ has for us, then I'm going to be in harmony with

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him and his people.

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Makes sense.

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Principle number two, the mind of Christ is to live selfless and humble, to please God

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and to love him supremely.

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There's a term out here, out there in the world that John Piper coined called Christian

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hedonism.

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Hedonism.

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Hedonism means that everything that pleases me makes me happy, I will do.

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Christian hedonism is this idea that I will find my full pleasure and desires in him.

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Have we thought about Christian hedonism?

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Everybody's a hedonist.

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We all love something dearly.

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Christian hedonism is loving God supremely.

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Christian hedonism, biblical, here we go.

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Love God with all your heart and obey him in everything.

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Or he is your true pleasure and joy in all things you desire to please him.

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Or God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, John Piper.

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Or only be very careful to observe the command, the commandment and the law that Moses, the

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servant of the Lord commanded you to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways

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and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all of your heart

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and with all of your soul.

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Joshua 22, 5.

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And as he said to him, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all

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your soul, with all your mind.

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This is the greatest and first commandment.

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And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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Jesus, Matthew 22, 37 through 39.

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So Christian hedonism is a biblical truth.

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How many times have we really thought about that?

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Well that's what we end up reading in Philippians chapter 2 verse 34, this idea of Christian

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hedonism, that I'm not living to please myself but I'm living to please him.

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That my full pleasure, my full joy, everything that I have in my entire being is to love

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him supremely.

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And it's seen in what Paul says here in verses 3 through 4, which is the opposite of that.

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Look what he says, do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit.

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In other words, it's not about you.

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But in humility, count others more significant than yourselves.

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Let each of you look not only to his own interest but also to the interest of others.

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There it is, Christian hedonism in practice.

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Have we ever thought about that?

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So when you think about your life, how much of you are you willing to sacrifice?

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Are you really willing to be a hedonist when it comes to Christ?

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Is he your full pleasure in everything you need and desire?

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Nothing else matters in life.

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We live for him and him alone, not for our temporary pleasures.

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And God in his goodness and faithfulness reaches down because he loves us and does for us.

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Christian hedonism, what an amazing thought.

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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

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Love that term, the John Piper states.

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Third principle, to love God supremely, you must have the mind of Christ.

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You cannot love God like Jesus loves the Father unless you have the mind of Jesus.

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Romans 12 verse 2, do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal

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of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and

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acceptable and perfect.

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A lot of times we think about having this mind, that this renewing of the mind is something

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that I actually, that actually I do on my own.

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It's this transformation in Christ.

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But be transformed by the renewal of your mind.

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Transformation can only come by Christ and renewal can only come from Christ.

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Now how do we prove this out?

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Philippians chapter 2 verse 5 through 7.

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Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in Christ Jesus.

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Have you ever thought about that?

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It's like how do I have the mind of Christ?

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You already have it, it's yours.

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Think about that.

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How do I learn to live this Christian life?

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You already have it, it's in Jesus.

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Well I don't know if I want to go that direction.

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I think my ways are a little bit easier.

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I think I got this figured out.

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How many of you guys can say you got this thing figured out?

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I don't think any of you guys got this thing figured out.

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Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in Christ Jesus who though he was in the form

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of God did not count equality with God something to be grasped but emptied himself by taking

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the form of a servant being born in the likeness of man.

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This verse, these verses are so distorted in many teachings for a lot of us it's frustrating.

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It's frustrating.

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I mean because many of us have read this and go see Jesus emptied himself.

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It's not the word.

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I don't know if there's a good translation there in the English.

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It could have just actually said it the way it should have been said because Jesus did

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not empty himself of anything.

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You're like but that's not what it says.

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Remember it's English.

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English kind of messes up everything sometimes.

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So let's look what it says here.

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Have this mind.

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Cherish the same views or strive for.

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In other words when we are cherishing the same views as Christ if we're striving to

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have the mind of Christ which is among yourselves which we have in Christ that kind of makes

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a little bit more sense.

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So it says cherish the views of Christ strive for the mind of Christ among yourselves.

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Are you striving to have the mind of Christ among yourselves.

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How much of Christ do you want to be like.

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How much of you does Christ have and people go well I give him my heart but does he have

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your mind because he can't have your heart if he doesn't have your mind.

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People take we take the opposite.

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He has my heart but he doesn't have your thoughts but he has my heart.

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He doesn't have your actions.

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He has my heart but he has my love.

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But how much do you think about the person you love.

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Now for some of you who probably sit next to the person that you love the most.

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I remember when I met my wife I couldn't stop thinking about her.

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Like why are you always on my mind.

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Always on my mind you know.

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That's what it means that we that our minds are fully on God all the time.

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I think about him I like I think about him all night.

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I woke up for 430 this morning.

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I'm like why can't I sleep.

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He's on my mind.

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You're on my mind.

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So strive for the mind of Christ which is yours.

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It's yours you already have it.

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The mind of Christ is there for you.

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Not only does he live in you in the person of the Holy Spirit it's written for you.

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You want the mind of Christ it's right here.

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I just dropped something that's alright.

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Okay now let's keep reading here.

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Look what it says here.

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Who though he was in the form of God.

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This word it means that he existed as God.

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He always was God always was God always will be God.

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That's what this literally means.

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Now think about that.

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Not that he was in the form of God but that he actually exists and existed as God.

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He always was existing.

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That's what this means.

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So if we are striving for the mind of Christ which is ours in Christ Jesus and we can have

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it then Jesus who has always existed as God did not deem anything a prize or anything

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to be held fast to or to retain in quality and in quantity.

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In other words his godness was not something that he demanded that he retain full total

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uttered unrestricted power.

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No he covered that in the skin in the body.

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Now I want you to think about this this word to be grasps or to not to count equality with

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God something to be grasped that term there literally means to deem anything a prize to

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be held fast to or retained in quantity or quality.

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In other words it's not something he demanded.

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Now if I'm going to do this I need all of it.

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No what it means is he willingly veiled it.

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He veiled it.

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If you have any questions about that read the gospel.

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How in the world could a God who was omniscient when scripture says that Jesus knew what was

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in them and in their heart why would we think that that's not a God character.

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If he emptied himself of these things how could he know what's in man's heart.

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If he says I'm the resurrection and the life and he raises a man from the dead then how

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in the world if he is the power of the resurrection the resurrection himself if he emptied himself

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of it how in the world did he do it.

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It's an oxymoron it makes no sense.

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Of course he veiled it.

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He used it when it was necessary and used it to the quantity and quality that was necessary.

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Trust me if God was to be here in his full unadulterated power we would not be existing.

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He even veils himself now.

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The only reason why the earth is not destroyed is because he's choosing not to destroy it.

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We always try to make Jesus more human than he is divine when he is fully divine and fully

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human.

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Well now he's fully divine in a resurrected body which is kind of amazing.

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We'll get on that another day.

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This word emptied.

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This word emptied means to cause a thing to be seen to be seen to be empty.

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That's literally what this word emptied means.

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It's to make it look like it's empty but it's not.

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Doesn't that make more sense now?

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Because that's literally what the word means.

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Look it up in your BLB.

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I'm not going to give you all the Greek words today.

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It's too many.

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Literally translation.

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Calls the thing to be seen to be seen to be empty.

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It's not empty but it looks like it is.

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So he calls himself to be seen as empty by taking on the form of a slave.

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Dulos.

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It's the one I gave you.

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Why do I use this word Dulos?

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The slave term.

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Some translations have bond servant.

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No.

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It's not what it means here.

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He was a slave.

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The lowest of the low.

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You cannot get more low than what Jesus brought himself down to be.

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A slave.

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A slave to the Father.

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A slave for our sake.

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He even slaved over his own disciples.

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I'm going to wash your feet.

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No.

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You shouldn't wash my feet.

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Wash my whole body.

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Yeah.

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I don't have enough water for you buddy.

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Right?

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I mean it's kind of nice that Peter would say don't wash everything.

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But the point is Jesus became a slave even to his servants.

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Even to the slaves.

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And he was born, being born in the likeness of man.

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He was born looking like a sinful people.

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Now do you see, you grab the concept of the mind of Christ here.

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Why Paul uses these terms that we should strive for and cherish the same views as Christ.

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We should not consider ourselves more highly, not think of ourselves more highly than we

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ought to think.

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No.

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He was God.

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And yet, even though he existed as God, he didn't deem it as a thing to hold onto, a

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prize that he must contend for.

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But he caused himself to be seen as empty.

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So you didn't really see the divinity of Christ if you were to just watch him walk by you.

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What you would see in the divinity of Christ is the work of Christ.

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Jesus says, judge me by my works.

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You've seen what I've done.

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You've seen the divinity.

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And they still rejected him.

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Isn't that amazing?

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Here we go.

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Fourth principle.

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The mind of Christ requires a heart of sacrifice.

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Romans chapter 12 verse 1.

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I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies as a

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living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

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Isn't that interesting?

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One of the most important Bible verses that you can use to clarify and understand Philippians

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chapter 2 verse 5 through 11 is Romans 1 and 2.

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Romans 12, 1 and 2.

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So the first part you see here is the sacrifice, the mind of Christ, having this understanding

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that I must die to myself.

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I must be transformed and changed.

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And my transformation and change by the renewing of my mind is to have the mind of Jesus, is

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to strive for those things.

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And if I have the mind of Christ, then my heart should be sacrificed.

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I should sacrifice everything that I have.

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Philippians chapter 2 verse 8.

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And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point

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of death, even death on the cross.

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If God of all creation put on flesh to die, how much more should you die?

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Not for me, but for him.

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How much are you willing to sacrifice on the altar as a living sacrifice every day that

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you're literally alive and walking and well?

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What are you willing to give, surrender for Christ?

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If he gave us his all, how much more should you give?

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That's the point.

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That's what he's saying here.

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So I appeal to you, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies as a living

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sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

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If Christ did it, why aren't you?

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I mean, it's pretty simple.

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What's the scripture say?

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We must deny ourselves, take up a cross daily and follow him.

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Last principle.

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God the Father exalts the Son because of this reality, because of them, because of his mind,

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because of the mind of Christ, because of his attitude, because of his commitment, because

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of what he was, where his heart was, because of everything he is, his commitment to honoring

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the Father.

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Christ's commitment to honor the Father and to do the Father's will brings glory to the

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Godhead.

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Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

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so that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth

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and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

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Guess what?

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Even though we have the mind of Christ, even though we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice,

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even though we are being transformed by the renewing of our mind and committed to walking

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in the mind of Christ, there is only one thing.

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There's only one person, let me say it this way, that deserves this kind of exaltation

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and it's not you.

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It's him.

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Only one receives this honor and God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that

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is above every name, that at the name of Yahshua, every knee should bow.

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Trust me, every knee will bow.

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Every single person.

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And that day will come hopefully soon.

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So God, Christ has given us an example.

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If you want to have the mind of Christ, strive for it.

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Strive to know it.

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Let me say it that way.

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We have it, it's yours.

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Strive.

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Look out your salvation.

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Don't hold on to anything that you would consider as a prize, but in the same way, surrender

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your entire life to him and be a slave as he was.

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That's the mind of Christ.

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So I want to leave you with this last thing.

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So if there's any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in

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the spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the

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same love, being in full accord and of one mind, be harmonious.

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Commit your ways to him.

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Lord, we thank you and praise you for your faithfulness and goodness.

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Thank you for our time together.

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Lord, as we sing this last song for your honor and glory, I pray that we really reflect on

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the realities and the truths of having your mind and that we walk in the newness of life

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for your glory.

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Amen.