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Broaden Your Scope, MInd your Cross
Intro: Surgical Illustration, Sacrifice and setting the example
Name: Dr. Evan O’Neil Kane- 1921
Like most great physicians of great experience, Dr. Evan Oneil Kane had become preoccupied with a particular facet of medicine.
His strong feelings concerned the use of general anesthesia in major surgery.
He believed that most major operations could and should be performed under a local anesthetic, for, in his opinion, the hazards of a general anesthesia outweighed the risks of the surgery itself.
For example, Kane cited a surgical candidate who had a history of heart trouble.
In some cases a surgeon may be reticent to operate, fearing the effects of the anesthesia on the heart of the patient.
And some patients with specific anesthesia allergies never awakened.
Kane’s medical mission was to prove to his colleagues once for all the viability of local anesthesia.
It would take a great deal of convincing.
Many patients were understandably squeamish at the thought of “being awake while it happens.”
Others feared the possibility of anesthesia wearing off in the middle of surgery.
To break down these psychological barriers, Kane would have to find a volunteer who was very brave, a candidate for major surgery who would be willing to accept only local anesthesia.
In his distinguished thirty-seven years in the medical field, Kane had performed nearly four thousand appendectomies.
So this next appendectomy would be routine in every way except one.
Dr. Kane’s patient would remain awake throughout the surgical procedure under a local anesthesia.
The operation was scheduled for a Tuesday morning.
The patient was prepped, wheeled into the operating room, and the local anesthesia was administered.
Kane began as he had thousands of times before, carefully dissecting superficial tissues and clamping blood vessels on his way in.
Locating the appendix, the sixty-year-old surgeon deftly pulled t up, excised it, and bent the stump under.
Through it all the patient experienced only minor discomfort.
The operation had been a success.
The patient rested well that night.
In fact, the following day his recovery was said to have progressed better than most postoperative patients.
Two days later, the patient was released from the hospital to recuperate at home.
Kane had proved his point.
The risks of general anesthesia could be avoided in major operations.
The potential of local anesthesia had been fully realized, thanks to the example of an innovative doctor and a very brave volunteer.
This took place is 1921.
Dr. Kane and the patient who volunteered had a great deal in common.
They were the same man.
Dr. Kane, to prove the viability of local anesthesia, had operated on himself.
(This was from Paul Aurandt, More of Paul Harvey’s, the rest of the story.)
For the good of Mankind, Dr. Kane made a sacrifice and subjected himself to the risks that he was asking others to take.
In our text today, Paul explains how Jesus did the same for us.
What we learn is that Jesus does not ask us to do anything he didn’t do himself.
We don’t serve a God who sits up in Heaven barking orders at us.
Do this, Do that!
Serve here, serve there!
Sacrifice for me!
No! We have a God who chose to become a man on earth.
Jesus lived sinlessly, Served Selflessly, Died Sacrificially and Rose Triumphantly!
We don’t have a God that demands, DO!
We have a Savior that gently says, Follow!
We have a savior who gently says, “Follow.”
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Jesus is not talking about a physical cross.
He is talking about the battle for the heart and the battle for the mind.
Our decisions have huge consequences.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could see into the mind of Christ, to get a glimpse his attitude about His journey to the cross?
Well actually, we can!
The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write about it in his letter to the Philippians.
This passage is believed to be a hymn of the early church.
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Before we get to the part of the passage about Jesus example, we need to make sure we get the context of the passage first.
So first a brief recap
In chapter one Paul gave us four ways to be attractive for the Gospel of Christ:
1. Remember who we are, we are Citizens of Heaven on Earth.
2. Remember what Jesus Christ did.
3. Have a single mind or be laser focused on spreading the Gospel of Christ.
4. Be unquestionably Christian by having convincing conduct and courageous confidence.
Now we move into chapter two.
If chapter one was about having a single mind, chapter 2 is about having a submissive mind.
If chapter one was about laser focused, chapter two is about being “OTHERS” focused.
Now we move into chapter two.
If chapter one was about having a single mind, chapter 2 is about having a submissive mind.
If chapter one was about being laser focused, chapter two is about being “OTHERS” focused.
We must broaden out scope.
In chapter 2, Paul gives the Philippian church one more way they can be Unquestionably Christian so we be attractive for the Gospel of Christ: by having a submissive mind or living for others rather than for one self.
Tonight we will study about unity and discuss 1-4.
But this morning I want us to focus on .
Four Characteristics of a Submissive mind
(Military-not weak!)
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It thinks of others rather than self.
Philippians 2.5-7
1. Thinks of others rather than self:
a. Grasped…
b.
FORM=Outward expression of an inward quality.
Jesus is God…
i.
ii.
Ill: Einstein.
Theory of unity
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Image of the invisible God.
v. “The outward expression of the inward nature of God.”
vi. he was willing to let it go for the sake of others.
c. : emptied himself
i. Emptied himself=Voluntarily laid aside His privileges.
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When he left heaven he laid these aside, he did not cease to be God or less than God but laid them aside.
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Jesus was willing to accept the loss of privileges for others.
iv.
Albert Einstein: Great deal of insight into life, wise person, not a believer, he saw the real issues of very clearly.
v. Happiness: “Well-being and happiness never appear to me as an absolute aim.
I am inclined to consider such aims as that of a pig.” “Only a life lived for others is worth living.”
2. It Serves .
became a bondservant.
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