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The way to up is down Part 1
Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ?
Any comfort from His love?
Any fellowship together in the Spirit?
Are your hearts tender and compassionate?
Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Don't be selfish; don't try to impress others.
Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
INTRODUCTION
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
INTRODUCTION
Good morning Southpointe!
We are starting a mini series this morning, on the way to up is down.
So I want to read another translation:
Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top.
Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead.
Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage.
Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
I know some people might be saying what planet are you from but that will not work in my world.
You don’t know what it is like where I work.
You don’t know what it is like where I go to school.
You don’t know what it is like in the world I have to live in.
But that is the words that would come out of unbelievers’ mouth.
Our scripture text is words that should come out of a believer’s mouth.
Now I know this will go against conventional wisdom about how we are supposed to succeed in life.
But this is what the Bible says.
The conventional wisdom is always look out for number one.
That is how the world works.
That maybe how the world works but that is not how the kingdom of God works.
I want you to think about this: One of the most self-centered groups of people that has ever lived is the baby boomers.
This is a narcissistic generation.
I am in that baby boomer group, and the sad thing is our parents are known as the greatest generation.
The generation that came through World War II and make such great sacrifices to give us the best life possible.
And they raised a bunch of crazed spoiled brats.
That baby boomer group think the world revolves around them.
But it doesn’t stop there that baby boomer generation has raised a generation of young people that are even more narcissistic that we are.
Now understand before you get offended that I am not saying that if you are a baby-boomer that who you are but I am saying that is the major of baby-boomer’s mentality.
There was a research done that reported that self-centeredness is on the rise.
The research deal with: Why today’s young Americans are more confident, assertive, entitled, and more miserable than every before.
It reporting about Narcissists tends to lack empathy reacting aggressively to criticism and favoring self-promotion over helping others.
The researchers trace this back to what they call the self-esteem movement that started in 1980’s making a effort to build self-confidence and it when to far.
Now we have a generation of people that feel entitled.
They feel the world owes them a living.
They feel the world should revolve around them.
What is so amazing to me, that the experts are finally catching up to what the Bible has always said.
It is not about You.
If you want to be happy than you can not be a self-absorbed person.
The first step to living a happy life:
Put the needs of others before yourself!
Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
Think for a moment of all of the great cultures and philosophies of the world.
It has always been about self.
Greece said, Be wise.
Know yourself.
Rome said, Be strong.
discipline yourself.
Education says, Be resourceful.
Expand yourself.
Psychology says, Be confident.
Assert yourself.
Materialism says, Be possessive.
Please yourself.
Humanism says, Be capable.
Believe in yourself.
Pride says, Be superior.
Promote yourself.
But Jesus Christ says, Be unselfish.
Humble yourself.
That is so different!
That seems like a recipe for disaster and failure in today’s culture.
Many will say, you are never going to get ahead or find any success by humbling yourself.
That is so different!
That seems like a recipe for disaster and failure in today’s culture.
Many will say, you are never going to get ahead or find any success by humbling yourself.
But what does the Bible says:
So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time He will lift you up in honor.
When we talk about someone who is humble, many think of that as a form of weakness.
But really that is right the opposite.
Humility is connected to meekness.
Jesus said this:
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Meekness definition is power under constraint.
Just to try to get a understanding here, if you see a person riding a horse, that horse is submitted his will to the rider.
That horse has enough power to resist the direction that the rider wants to go but because that horse has humbled himself.
That horse has put his power under constraint.
He has surrendered his will to the person riding him.
And in the same way when the Bible speaks of humility and meekness it means I surrender my will to the will of God.
Not my will but thy will be done.
So this is what being said: You want real success.
You want true happiness.
You want to experience a deep and abiding joy instead of fleeting happiness of this world.
It is following Jesus and loving others.
Now listen to this in Paul tells us to live as Christ.
Now here in chapter two Paul tells us to live for others, or put others before yourself.
So all this can be summed up in one word: JOY
Breaking that word Joy apart: Jesus, Others, Yourself.
Put Jesus first.
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