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Introduction
Christian Unity Through Personal Humility (1-4)
Christ’s Humility Brings Unity (5-11)
One of the main components of my role is to help us understand the Word of God in its context and to apply it to our lives and situations today.
One of the fears that I’ve heard expressed over the past week is, “Oh no, here we go again - unrest in the church.”
Maybe it hasn’t been here, but you’ve had an experience at a church where there has been unrest, tension, strife.Few things bring it to the front more than when a staff member leaves.
The fear is that there is a potential for:
disunity
division
rumors
suspicion
mistrust
We have three options:
feed into it
ignore it and hope it goes away
confront it, hold it up to the Word of God, and make the necessary changes in our lives based on what we find.
(I’d like to submit that few churches will survive and no church will survive if we go with options 1 or 2)
These have been my questions over the past week:
How do we avoid situations of unrest and potential disunity?
How can we walk through situations of unrest in a way that honors Jesus and makes the church attractive to the world?
will give us the answer to these questions and will do so in the very context of unrest in a church body.
In addition, what we will find today in the passage will apply not only to the (this) church, but to our marriages, our families, literally ANY relationship.
First thing we need to recognize is that the church is not perfect - it’s filled with imperfect people.
“The church is perfect - then people show up”
THIS church is not perfect.
If you are here today and not perfect you are in good company.
If you are here today and you are perfect you are a liar and so then not perfect and in good company.
I am not perfect.
I have weaknesses.
I have blindspots.
If I have not disappointed you yet, just wait.
I will disappoint you at some time.
I’m not OK with it.
Just like I am not OK with my imperfections as a husband, or a father, or a friend.
When God reveals to me through His Word or a trusted believer an area of sin or an area where I am not like Christ, I make it my aim to confess, repent, and change.
Good news: perfection is not necessary for unity - humility is.
The second thing we need to be aware of as we look at the passage today is that those who need to hear this message the most are you and me.
disunity
division
rumors
While the church is never perfect because it is filled with imperfect people,
potential for disunity,
suspicion
mistrust
Our temptation and tendency is to apply this passage and message to someone other than ourselves.
We’re definitely OK in this area, but we know someone who really should be listening to the message.
(wife to the husband in the car: “I hope you were listening to the pastor today.”)
This is why you’ll find a piece of tinfoil in your worship guide.
It’s not to wrap a small baked potato.
It’s the most reflective item I could find to fit in the worship guide.
You might want to place it in your Bible here in to remind you that:
Unity in the church - unity and peace in any relationship - begins with a Bible and Mirror.
Unity in the church (and any relationship of believers) is essential if we are going to 1) display Christ, 2) accomplish his mission.
phil 2:1-
ILLUST - a tug-of-war spends a lot of energy but accomplishes very little.
I’m afraid many churches have the same problem.
They spend a lot of thought, words, time, and energy in relational tugs-of-war and end up neither displaying Christ nor moving forward on his mission.
When this happens the world scoffs and Satan giggles.
So, how do we avoid these situations of potential disunity and how do we walk through them when they arise?
The Key is found in .
In the verses building up to verse five, Paul makes his case for unity through humility, and in verses 6-11 he gives us the ultimate example of unity through humility.
Main idea of is verse 5:
That’s it - The Mind of Christ.
There are two imperative verbs in the first eleven verses of chapter two:
One is when Paul calls on the church to complete his joy by being unified through humility, and the other is here when he calls the church to do so by having the mind of Christ.
and one is
The Body of Christ should have the Mind of Christ.
**So what is the Mind of Christ and how do we have it?
The problem with humility is that it is a trait we all seem to have in a static state.
Philippians 2:1
SO,
(Therefore,)
There is a shift of a stand against external realities to a stand with internal unity.
Four Demands for Unity (1)
(expressed through the main nouns)
Because we are in Christ.
(Encouragement in Christ)
Since we belong to Christ we belong to each other.
We have more in common with another believer with whom we are at odds than we are with our best friend who does not know Jesus.
Encouragement = paraklesis = come alongside to help
We will all be in one big church in heaven.
Because of the love of God.
(Comfort from love)
We were made a part of the family of God through an unwarranted, selfless love (agape), what right do we have to show anything different?
Because of the community of the Spirit.
(Participation in the Spirit)
koinonia - We share in the Spirit.
Not any one of us has all of the Spirit.
We need each other to fully express the Spirit.
More than that, the
Neither you nor I corner the market on the Spirit.
As we speak to others, we need to remember that the Spirit can speak through them if they are a believer.
We share in the Spirit.
Because tender hearts and mercy are marks of a true believer.
(Affection and Sympathy)
Affection = ‘inward parts’ - guts.
and sympathy = pity, mercy
‘roots and fruits’ - affection is the seat and sympathy is reaching from the seat to make a change.
A true believer will not be cruel
Paul is essentially saying, “If these things are true (and they are). .
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