An Attitude Like Christ

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Philippians 2:1 NIV
1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
Philippians 2:2–4 NIV
2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
Philippians 2:5 NIV
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Relationships with others is focus here - be like Christ
Philippians 2:6 NIV
6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
Must understand this to be talking about His divine nature…His preeminance - that fact that He existed before He came...
So, in the flesh, He is still God...
But He chose not to use that fact to His own advantage..
I want to look at some comparison to Adam…There is speculation as to whether Paul was thinking of Adam here, but it is interesting so let’s pull it out
So, Jesus was the very nature of God, yet did not use that to his advantage..
Whereas Adam was fully human, but was made in the image of God
Genesis 1:26 NIV
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So, Adam was made in the image of God and Jesus existed as God or “in very nature God,”
Then satan comes to Adam with the lie:
Genesis 3:5 NIV
5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
So, Satan tempts Adam with becoming “like God”
Where, Jesus, as we continue reading, takes on human nature while “emptying Himself..” or
Philippians 2:7 NIV
7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Adam was tempted with being like God, where Jesus set that aside...
Jesus then became obedient to death to reverse the curse given through the fall of Adam
Philippians 2:8 NIV
8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
Note here:
John 10:18 NIV
18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
Jesus willingly laid His life down!
No one took His life…He gave it!
Jesus chose to go to the cross for us...
And sometimes we can’t even give people the benefit of the doubt...
Btw, random side trail…kind of...
1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Adam, as far as we know, would have lived forever, but became disobedient to God by trying to become like Him...
Whereas Jesus became obedient to death, being like a human, so that we could live forever again...
And, because of this...
Philippians 2:9 NIV
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
The position that Adam was trying to achieve in being like God was fully accomplished by Jesus and He is the name above every name...
Philippians 2:10 NIV
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Every knee will bow....
Philippians 2:11 NIV
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
and every tongue will confess...
Notice it is not just the Christians…or those who believe...
It is every knee will bow...
We get a choice…we will bow either in awe of the majesty and glory of God, or in condemnation and recognition of who the king is...
And, for some of us, we might just realize that it isn’t us!
Let’s wrap this up where we started
Philippians 2:5 NIV
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
So again, this is the mindset that we should have in our relationships with each other....
So, which one will we choose to be like?
Adam - like god having power, authority, status, and knowing everything....aka being right?
Or like
Jesus - humility, obedience, doing what is right, doing what it takes to get the job done for the benefit of others?
Maybe I am stretching it a bit....
Okay, but Paul says this attitude of Jesus is the attitude that we should have in our relationships....
So, we don’t use our status with God to our advantage...
We humble ourselves and serve others...
We lay our lives on the line, if that is what it calls for
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