The Humility of Jesus
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If you know Jesus, pursue unity
If you know Jesus, pursue unity
Philippians
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Unity comes from humility
Unity comes from humility
Philippians 2.3
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Humility comes from considering Jesus
Humility comes from considering Jesus
Jesus did not cling to his divinity
Jesus did not cling to his divinity
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,
Jesus added to himself humanity
Jesus added to himself humanity
Philippians 2.7
but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Jesus died
Jesus died
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2.8
Exaltation follows humiliation
Exaltation follows humiliation
Philippians 2.9
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.