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Bryon’s Favorites - Philippians 2:5-11 - “Jesus’ Example of Humility” · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle Talk. We are taking a one week break
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  from our study in Isaiah and we're just going over some of my
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  favorite passages of Scripture. It's a little bit of a busy
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  season for me personally and so wanted to, if you will have some
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  easy, easy passages that I could record through for this week
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  while I am gone at a pastors and wives couples retreat with
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  Samantha. It's our first kind of couples
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  thing that we have been to together and so praying for the
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  future that I really enjoy this great time and I'm looking
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  forward to see how the Lord will use it today.
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  We are in Philippians chapter 2 verses 5 through 11.
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  Philippians chapter 2, verses 5 through 11.
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  This is a letter from the Apostle Paul as well as his son
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  in the faith, Timothy, and they are writing to the church at
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  Philippi. This was a very special city
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  that was located kind of in the Greece, Macedonia region, but
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  had a ton of former Roman soldiers who were given land in
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  or around Philippi as a result of their military service.
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  So it was a very civically proud area.
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  You could think of it. You know, we're, we're pretty
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  close to DC here. And so we even have some
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  different people that serve in the armed forces, several people
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  within even my church at Tabernacle that have family
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  members that serve. And so it's a very civically
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  proud area. And this was one of the first
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  places on the European continent that Paul and Timothy had served
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  and and ministered. God specifically calling them
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  there. They were there, they preached.
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  God was doing some cool things. They were arrested and they were
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  imprisoned. They were beaten, which Paul was
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  not allowed to be beaten as a result of him being a Roman
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  citizen. He had Silas with him.
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  Timothy was also there. Timothy was not arrested or
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  beaten, but Paul and Silas were. And at midnight in the jail, as
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  Paul and Silas were singing and praying together out loud in
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  that in that jail, an earthquake happened, released them from
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  their socks. They stayed there.
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  The Philippian jailer thought that everyone was, you know,
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  just going to book it out of the jail and that he would be killed
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  for negligence, for allowing the prisoners to escape.
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  And so he almost killed himself with his sword, but Paul told
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  him, hey, don't, don't do that. We are all still here.
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  And he asked themselves, what must I do to be saved?
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  And he says, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be
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  saved and your household. And so God did some awesome
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  things there in Philippi. And so this is a letter that
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  Paul and Timothy are now writing to this church.
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  And they encourage the people to be unified together.
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  And we read this in verse #5 adopt the same attitude, the
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  same mindset as that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form
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  of God, did not consider equality with God as something
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  to be exploited. Instead, he emptied himself by
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  assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of
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  humanity. And when he had come as a man,
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  he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,
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  even to death on a cross. For this reason, God has highly
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  exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,
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  so that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow in heaven
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  and on earth and under the earth and every tongue will confess
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  that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
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  So I wanted to take just a moment and talk through this
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  passage and, and why I love it so much.
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  I love that all of this, this incredible doxology that is
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  praised to God, it is expressed as something that we are to
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  emulate. There is a mindset that the
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  Christian, the child of God is called to have and it is have
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  the mindset that Jesus had. OK, well what was that mindset?
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  It was a mindset that though he was deserving of everything, he
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  did not choose to assert his rights.
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  He chose to humble himself. He became pitiable, he became
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  someone lowly looked down on certainly from God it and if God
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  had become an Angel that that would be, you know, a step down,
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  but he became a man. He became a creature that if you
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  will didn't have the cool 6 wings flying around, you know
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  the throne saying holy, holy, holy like we read in Isaiah sex.
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  He is not one that came and you know struck people with
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  blindness like the angels when they came to the cities of Sodom
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  and Gomorrah. Instead Jesus came and he took
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  on himself the form of a servant.
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  Think about it this way, for the 1st 27 to 30 years depending on
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  how old Jesus was at the end of his life.
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  For those first 2 1/2 three decades of Jesus's life, we know
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  almost nothing about that time period other than as Jesus does
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  his ministry. When he comes back into the area
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  that he grew up in, they say isn't this the carpenter's son?
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  Isn't this the Carpenter? The word is technon.
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  It's it's like a Craftsman. Depending on the area that would
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  involve more stone work or like stone masonry versus straight up
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  like carpentry, woodworking depending on the area and what
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  resources were available. So just in case you guys ever
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  hear someone refer to Jesus as like a stone Mason or a
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  Craftsman as opposed to a Carpenter, they're not
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  downplaying anything about him. It just depending on the area in
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  which you lived in, the resources that were available
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  that kind of defined what a technon was.
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  That's I'm going to use a little bit of a transliteration.
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  It's like TEKNONTEKNON technon. So Jesus, he just served, and he
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  who had all power and all authority chose to make stuff
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  for other people. The one that created all of the
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  cosmos walked places thinking about the humility of Jesus that
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  the one who could do anything chose to come, teach, love,
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  serve, work and ultimately die for us.
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  What humility is there within this person of Jesus and here
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  Paul and Timothy say have that mindset as you interact with
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  other people in your church. I love what he says in verse
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  number six who existing in the form of God.
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  So he goes, we all know this, Jesus is God, but God the Son
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  did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited
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  or used for his own advantage. He could have just said, all
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  right, you know, angels attend me, everyone bring me authority
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  and worship. He could have done that, but he
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  didn't. Far too often within our
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  churches, within our families, within our jobs, we want all of
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  the attention on us. And we want people to think well
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  of us, to shower us with compliments, that they would
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  allow us to do everything that we ever want to do, that we
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  would be the center of attention.
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  But that's not the way that Jesus lived.
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  And so here Scripture encourages us.
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  Let's not live that way. Let's have a humility that no
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  matter whether you're like, hey, I've been saved for 75 years and
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  so everyone better serve me. No, God himself didn't have that
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  mindset. So let's not have that mindset
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  personally. Or you might say, man, I'm the
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  most gifted order. I know more than everyone else
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  here, God would say serve. Like even me as the pastor, I
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  want to always be faithful to serve, that there wouldn't be
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  anything that is too lowly. There should be nothing off
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  limits for me to do in caring for and serving and loving other
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  people. I know that there's a kind of a
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  balancing game, even, as you know, we consider Act 6 and lots
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  of good things to do in life. And the apostles, they're
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  commissioning the deacons or kind of those like proto
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  deacons, as they say. It would not be fitting for us
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  to leave the word of God, to leave preaching and to wait on
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  these tables. So here pick some people to do
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  this task, but we will devote ourselves to the word and into
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  prayer. So I know that I have some
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  responsibilities even as a pastor that mean I shouldn't do
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  all sorts of things so that I can focus my attention on the
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  word in prayer. But I also just want to say,
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  like God, I'm a servant, I'm a minister.
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  If that means I go take someone home from the hospital and I am
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  happy to, if it's hey throw away a trash bag, I want to do that.
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  If it's clean a bathroom, absolutely I'll do it.
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  If it's mow the grass, I might try to take like a Zyrtec or
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  something to deal with some of my allergies, but I'll do it.
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  I'll do whatever is needed because I'm not important.
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  The only person that is important is Christ Jesus.
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  And so I want to draw attention to him.
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  And if I can be a blessing to some other person along the way,
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  I want to do that because that's how Jesus treated me.
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  What a joy verse #7 Instead of being one that demanded
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  adulation and respect, he emptied himself by assuming the
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  form of a servant. We would read in Isaiah 53 He
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  didn't have anything like any great attractiveness that we
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  would go, Oh yeah, like he's awesome.
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  We want him to be our king. He emptied himself.
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  For many of us, we don't want to ever feel empty, unwanted,
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  undesirable, unseen. But that's who Jesus became.
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  You can think of it all. Eternity passed.
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  Jesus had received the love and praise of God the Father, and
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  then once creation started, he had the praise of all of the
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  angels. And yet he spent nine months in
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  the womb of Mary. What humility, what an emptiness
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  in the praise. And you can think, even as his
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  half brothers and the Jewish leaders and even his apostles at
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  times ignored him, argued with him, insulted him, he didn't
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  treat them in the way that they deserved.
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  He extended love and patience and kindness.
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  And the one who deserved everything was getting nothing
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  from these people. Maybe we, you and I, we don't
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  need all of the praise or affirmation from other people
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  that we think we do. Instead, I think like Jesus, if
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  we know that we have the love and the approval of God the
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  Father, maybe that's enough. And we can be misunderstood and
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  unseen and under appreciated within our families and our
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  churches if we know that God is pleased with us and that should
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  be our goal. Jesus, he assumed the form of a
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  servant taking on the likeness of humanity, and when he'd come
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  as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point
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  of death, even to death on a cross.
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  Jesus says I'm a human, humans obey God and I will obey God
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  even to the point of dying for the sins of all.
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  Do you view your role as subordinate creature?
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  That what God says you must do, that whatever God says in his
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  word, we must obey. Or do you say, I'll do whatever
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  I want to do, and when my will matches up with God's, then
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  sure, I'll obey him. May we obey even as Jesus did in
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  the sending section here, for this reason, for the obedience,
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  for the humility that Jesus Christ had.
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  God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every
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  name, so that at the name of Jesus.
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  Here's the promise. This is quoting from actually
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  Isaiah 1 of the later chapters that we'll look at in probably
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  month or two. Every knee will bow in heaven
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  and on earth and under the earth that is in heaven, the angelic
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  beings, the earth, those are, you know, physical creation,
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  mankind and under the earth, if you will.
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  The demons would be one way to think about that or or the
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  departed. Everyone is going to confess
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  that Jesus Christ is Lord, He is Yahweh to the glory of God the
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  Father. So all praise and all worship
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  goes to the Son, and that goes to the praise of the Father.
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  What a joy I want to be about this Business Today.
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  May you and I today with our actions and our words or our
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  posts, may we declare the preeminence and the worthiness
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  of Jesus Christ, for He alone is worthy.
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  Thank you for tuning in. I am going to include in the
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  show notes the description for this one, Brooke Liger Wood.
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  That's LIGERTWOOD. Liger Wood wrote a song very
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  recently that is literally just these verses put to song and it
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  is beautiful and amazing. So I'm going to put that in the
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  show notes so you guys can listen to it and be blessed even
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  as I've been. Thanks for tuning in.
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  See you next episode.