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INTRO
If you were here last week you experience our price is right esque pastor appreciation moment where grills kept getting wheeled up front.
I can’t thank you all enough for the Blackstone.
Cooking on a Griddle has been a ton of fun.
Whipped up some chicken fried rice for our c-group.
So good.
Think about a meal.
Not the McDonalds you tried reheating in the air-fryer.
Bury that one.
No think about a delicious meal.
A feast.
Think about a time when you had an amazing meal.
A steak dinner, thanksgiving.
An unforgettable meal.
That’s where we are today.
We have before us a feast.
This is one of the richest most poignant passages in the new testament.
This is known as the Christ Hymn.
A passage that was sung in the early church and has been a theological beacon for the incarnation of Jesus.
But for us as we head to this passage we have to remember why Paul is bringing this hymn up in the first place.
If we go back to the beginning of chapter 2 we see that Paul is calling the Philippians to have the mind of Christ.
He is calling them out from the disunity that was happening in the church.
He is saying, “Hey guys get your eyes off of yourselves and live like you believe in Jesus.”
It’s a challenging call.
Look at verse 3
Philippians 2:3 (ESV)
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
That is such a challenging word from Paul.
It hits us because if we are honest we all struggle with Pride.
Some theologians speculate that pride is really at the root of all sin.
Think of how selfish we can be.
Just the other night I remember sitting down and my wife, tired from caring for a toddler all day, meeting with women cleaning our house making dinner, doing the dishes.
She is bundled in her blanket with the rain outside and she is just so cozy.
I sit down and she says, “hey can you get me water.”
How do you think I responded?
Oh yeah babe I know you're tired, I want to consider you over me, sorry I didn't ask if you needed anything.
PSSSSSH I wish.
No I just did the ole deep sigh.
And complained that I had just sat down.
Uh huh.
You’ve all done it.
Think about it, we all struggle with pride we do.
Y’all we all struggle.
We all think too highly of ourselves.
A study was done where people were shown an image of themselves.
There were three images.
One was the actual image, unaltered…#nofilter
Then you have one that was photoshopped to make the subject look good.
So taking away blemishes, whitneing teeth, etc.
The finally there was an image that altered to make the person look ugly.
So what happened?
Well 90% of people would say that the ugly image was altered.
The real image, they would say was also altered and that the good looking photoshop was the real image.
We like to think of ourselves highly.
We do.
Jesus though he humbles himself.
Paul now shifts the focus from challenge to an example.
He tells us that we should put on the mind of Christ.
Then he give us the grand example of Jesus.
Here is what I want to call you today Coram Deo.
This is the big idea:
BIG IDEA: Put on the mind of Christ.
A mind-set of selfless love lived for the glory of God.
Put on the mind of Christ.
We are going to see this drama unfold in three acts.
It starts with the height from which our king descended.
I.
The Height (v.5-6)
Philippians 2:5–6 (ESV)
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
This is an absolutely wild concept.
What is happening here is Paul is pointing to the fact that Jesus is God.
He is showing us the triune nature of our three in one God.
The grandeur of mystery that should stir in us wonder.
A more accurate reading would be who though he was in form God.
The word means he had the same essence of God.
That he is God, he is divine.
This follows the pattern of scripture.
Look at John 1 with me.
John 1:1–3 (ESV)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Then down at verse 14.
John 1:14 (ESV)
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jesus created the world.
He was there when the cosmos were spun from a word of power.
He was in the highest of highs.
Here is the thing he didn’t come to earth thinking we’d all just get it.
He knew this was mystery.
But that wording in verse 6 is saying he didn't use his divinity to his advantage.
That is wild.
We use connections all the time.
“Oh the owner is a friend of mine.”
In our world we flaunt status.
But not our God, he stooped down in humility.
Do you know the concept of humility was so foreign from greek and roman culture that historians think Paul may have coined the term in greek.
Jesus was willing to step down from the grandeur of his glory.
What about us?
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