True humility is hard to find. In an age were self-exaltation is the norm and encouraged on every social media platform, humility is left behind. Sinful and frail as we are, humility should come naturally to us, but we instead exalt ourselves. Conversely, Christ had every right to be exalted, yet he humbled himself and became the greatest example of humility for us. Looking at his equality with God, his making himself of “no reputation,” his humility in life and in death on the cross, his exaltation, and the exaltation of his Name, we see what true humility is and we see the call to emulate such humility.

Alright, thanks guys. You may be seated. We've stood and I'll read our text. We're going to go to Philippians chapter 2. I had the privilege to minister last night or yesterday afternoon from Philippians chapter 1.

And today I have the honor to stand before you in a very humbling text of Scripture and look briefly at the humility of Christ, which is our topic, and Philippians chapter 2. So verses 5 through 11 is where I'll read, and then we'll just kind of pick up from there and talk about the humility of Jesus, the humility of Jesus. So I'm reading, I have the trusty old King James with me this morning, I hope that's okay. If you have the NASB or ESV, you should be fine, new King James, but every once in a while I like to hear ye and whatsoever. So, uh, Philippians Chapter two, verse five declares, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.

And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, hallelujah, to the glory of God the Father. So as we look at this text this morning, first an admission or two. As I said yesterday in our keynote, we taught on Philippians chapter 1 verses 18 through 24. And in that message, we went just a little bit over the historical kind of context of this epistle by the Apostle Paul and just a touch of his relationship with the church at Philippi or Philippi.

But as we look at this text today, let me tell you, as a Bible teacher, as a man who tries to stand up and do justice to God's word, this passage is very, very humbling. It sets forth a standard of both thinking and sacrificial living that quite frankly leaves me in awe and maybe you too. When you consider the imperative of the text and actually what's being said here how we ought to think and consider ourselves in light of what Jesus did and who he is, it just causes me to tremble because I know I am far away from the mark. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Most often, my mind is not as Christ's mind, but my mind is very much like Carlton's mind and what Carlton wants.

And so it's very humbling to stand here and attempt to impart a text that I struggle so mightily with obeying. Contextually, Paul was likely dealing with an undercurrent of strife in the church, attempting to raise its ugly head at Philippi. And however, the example he uses here concerning Christ raises the bar of a standard of conduct and a standard of personal holiness and personal humility, even in how we think about ourselves, raises a bar so high that we can barely see it, much less attained to it. How dependent we are, friends, on the mercy of God in Christ. Indeed, when I read this passage, I want to cry out like the Apostle Paul who said in his church, or in his letter to the church at Rome.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells or dwelleth no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would do I do not, but the evil which I would not do that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more that I do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. And I find then, he goes on, he says, and I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me, for I delight in the law of God and my inward man, and I've found that to be true as I walk with the Lord, but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Oh, wretched man that I am. Anyone ever have that exclamation before the Lord? Oh, wretched man, wretched woman, oh, wretched person that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of death? I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with my mind, I serve the love of God, but flesh, my flesh the law of sin.

That's Romans 8 Romans 7 rather 18 through 25 and so when I look at this passage Thoughts like that come to my mind let this mind be in you which is also in Christ Jesus, and I'm going Lord I really need your I want to obey that I really really need your help Secondly as a Bible teacher my final admission this passage is humbling in another sense. One could literally spend years meditating upon and attempting to describe the humble nature of our Lord that's laid out in these passages. This text is a succinct statement of the gospel, but it is more than that. It may have been the so-called kenosis hymn of the early church. The word kenosis comes from the phrase, making himself of no reputation, the emptying of himself.

And so it may have been an early hymn, but it's also more than that. It is a stunning statement of both the deity and the humanity of Christ. It is a statement that describes the humble nature of our Lord and the exaltation of that same Lord. And these things, while understandable, are beyond our understanding. While graspable, the full meaning nevertheless tends to elude the finite human mind.

So again, I am forced to cry out like Paul before you today, oh the depth and the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counselor, or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again. For of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. And so I need to say that even as we start looking at this text because again, this text is very humbling.

Now, let your eyes follow the verse number five of Philippians chapter two, and we'll start just walking through this passage and considering the humility of our Lord. Verse five says, Let this mind be in you. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. And so as I've already kind of mentioned, we first see that these theological truths are given to us in the context of an imperative. This is something he wanted the church to do.

He wanted the churches, the way the members of the body of the Philippian church, He wanted their minds to think a certain way. He wanted their interactions one to another to be wrapped up in a certain mindset, a way they approach one another, the way they approached ministry. And the way he describes for us, again, sets this extremely high bar. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. I want you guys to think more like he thought and I want you to consider yourselves in light of who he is and what he did.

And it is a stunning statement all by itself. It sets the standard so high at the same time, embedded in a statement like this is the key to peace in family and church. What if we all thought more of ourselves like Jesus thought about himself? What if we lowered ourselves in times of conflict like he lowered himself? Paul gives this command to the church, Let this mind be in you.

I don't believe this was a suggestion. I believe he wanted them to press into this idea of thinking like Jesus more and more and considering themselves in terms of humility like Jesus considered himself. The word here in Greek in verse five means to have an opinion of one's self. Literally it's saying, think about yourself like Jesus thought about himself. We'll go on to find out that he made himself of no reputation.

He emptied himself, right? He humbled himself even to the point of death on the cross So the command for the Christian then the command for the church is think like that Be that person be the one who's willing to die Hey, here's how this translates to regular life for us be the one to apologize first Right be the one to even though you think you're right be the one to lower yourself that doesn't normally get many amens when I say stuff like that. What do you mean apologize first? He's wrong. Yeah, but let this mind be in you.

She's wrong. I know she's wrong, but let this mind be in you. I really don't like what my pastor's doing. Okay, but he's just a human. Let this mind that be in you as is also in Christ Jesus.

You know, I'm really angry about this and someone really needs to hear about this. Yeah, okay, that may be true, but let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. See, this is applicable immediately and needed immediately because we've all seen conflict in church, we've all seen conflict in family. Hey, truth is we've all seen conflict within, right? And so this is this first one, Let's not skip over the power of this let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus think about yourself Like he thought about himself and the truth is that could only go so far.

Of course. He's God. He's he's infinite He has all power in his hands. We're small. We're finite, But we're called to emulate his humility.

We're called to look at ourselves like he looked at himself. And if there was anyone who had any right to say, I am exalted, it would be Christ. We have no such right. And so it all the more lends itself to the need of the hour for the Christian church to walk in humility. Now, looking at the passage, I believe there's a reason for it.

I strongly suspect, and as do many commentators, I strongly suspect that Philippi was dealing with some conflict. If you read a little bit later in chapter 4 verse 2 you'll find out Paul actually calls out a couple of the sisters in this church who apparently were having such a problem that the problem made its way into an epistle. How would you like that to happen, right? You know, you're in heaven going, but Paul, did you have to put our names in there? Paul calls out Euodius, Euodius, right, and Syntyche.

Interesting names, two sisters there, to be of the same mind in the Lord. So apparently, whatever they were going through caused enough of a stir that the apostle from prison makes note of the conflict, right? And so there's some suggestion that perhaps The church was, there was some strife within the church. And so one of the keys to solving strife is to lower oneself, is to think like Jesus, is to not always feel like you have to fight for your rights or fight for this or fight for that. Sometimes the answer is no answer at all.

It's yes sir, yes ma'am, and quietness, and going on and doing, again, making himself of no reputation, or back in Isaiah, not answering his accusers, or taking abuse, right, for the sake of something better, something greater. So by extension then if we look at verse 5, we are commanded to think of ourselves more in line with how Jesus thought about himself all for the glory of Christ. How then did he think about himself? Well, look at verse six. Look at verse six.

Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Now as we look at verse 6 we can begin to understand why the humility of Christ is one of our Lord's most glorious attributes. Although some in the cultic world have tried to use this verse to argue against the deity of Christ, this verse presents no such thing. In fact, it presents the opposite of that. The Greek word for form here, morphe, doesn't imply anything less than God.

I agree with popular Bible teaching commentator, John MacArthur, who writes on this verse, Paul affirms that Jesus eternally has been God. The usual Greek word for being is not used here, but instead, Paul chose another term that emphasizes the essence of a person's nature, right? So he's not saying he's less than, he's actually saying Jesus, who is God, who in essence is God. That's what's actually being said here. And so his continuous state or condition is God.

Paul also could have chosen one or two Greek words for form, but he chose the one that specifically denotes the essential unchanging character of something, what it is in and of Itself and that's exactly what's going here going on here Jesus who is God is one way to put it Jesus who is God? Thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Now the word robbery here in the King James means something tightly held on to. So it doesn't mean stealing, it means holding and holding tightly. William McDonald, another great commentator, writes here, here is or here it is of utmost importance to distinguish between the personal and the positional equality with God.

As to his person, Christ always was, is, and will be equal with God. It would be impossible for him to give that up, but positional equality is different. From all eternity, Christ was positionally equal with his father, enjoying the glories of heaven, but he did not consider this position something that he had to hold onto at all costs. Now, hear this. Now, we're talking about the humility of Christ.

When a world of lost mankind needed to be redeemed. He was willing to relinquish his positional equality with God, the comforts of joys of heaven. In other words, he did not consider them something that he had to grasp forever under all circumstances. In other words, he voluntarily left heaven to come do what only he could do. It's amazing.

The incarnation will forever, should forever amaze all of us that God would come to get us because of the great love that he has for us. And so how did he think about himself? Even though he is God, always has been God, and will forever be God, he thought about himself like this. I love you so much that I'm going to leave my Father's side. I'm going to wrap myself in flesh.

I'm going to allow myself to be born of a virgin. I'm going to show up on this planet. I'm going to walk out a perfect life in your place, the life that you couldn't live. I'm gonna do it without sin, of course, because of who I am. I'm going to suffer, bleed, and die by the hands of my own creations.

I'm gonna be mocked and spat upon because I love you. I'm gonna go to the cross and hang there hour after brutal hour, you know, with most of my body exposed and endure the taunting and jeering of people who I said live and they lived, right? And I'm going to do all of these things and eventually I'm going to bow my head and breathe my last breath in this moment and declare it is finished. And I'm going to carry your sins to the cross. I'm going to leave the glories of heaven and I'm going to come down and be born in an obscure town, and I'm going to have a no-name dad, and a mother who is in the midst of what must have been a huge scandal in their little town.

I'm going to go through all of that because I love you and because I want to obey the will of my Father. That's how he thought about himself. And Paul says, hey, that's how you think about yourself. See, we don't think of it like that, do we? We just kind of gloss over these verses, but we're actually kind of, you know, this is an epistle.

Epistles are occasional letters, and they speak to the church at the time, but through them, they also speak to us. And so, I believe it would be exegetically accurate for us to look at this verse, Just like the saints in Philippi and go, okay, Paul was talking to them, but the Holy Spirit's also talking to me. I'm supposed to let this mind be in me that was also in Christ Jesus. So I'm supposed to be willing to lay down my status, lay down my glory, do whatever I need to do to obey God's will. I'm supposed to be willing to suffer in dignity and pain for others.

This verse is literally teaching Jesus who was and is God decided to let go of heaven for us. Wow. And we are also called to live such a self-sacrificing life. Amen. Amen.

Verse 7 goes on, but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant "'and was made in the likeness of men.'" This idea of making himself of no reputation is the idea again of emptying himself. The word kinao in Greek, literally from this word comes the doctrine of kenosis, or the doctrine of Christ emptying himself and becoming a man in the incarnation. Importantly, this was a temporary self-renunciation by our Lord to take up the role as our mediator and our perfect high priest. Again, from John MacArthur, Jesus set aside his privileges in several areas. I really like this.

It's worth your time. First of all, he set aside his privilege as it relates to heavenly glory. While on earth, He gave up the glory of a face-to-face relationship with God and the continuous outward display and personal enjoyment of that glory. He gave up independent authority. During his incarnation, Christ completely submitted himself to the will of his father.

And we'll talk about that a little bit more later. He gave up some of his divine prerogatives. He set aside the voluntary display of his divine attributes and submitted himself to the spirit's direction. He gave up eternal riches. While on earth, Christ was poor and owned very little.

That's amazing to me. Kind of an aside, but have you ever thought of what it must have been like to live in Nazareth? And, you know, there's like Jesus' family over there. Did Jesus play with rocks and sticks? You ever thought that the Savior of the world is like right there?

He literally walked this earth. It's just an amazing thing to me. I'm trying to imagine, you know, Jesus on the soccer field or something. It's just pretty incredible that he lived among us and ate bread and walked among us, the creator of the universe. It's incredible.

Anyway, he gave up those eternal riches. He gave up this favorable relationship in the sense that he went on to take the full brunt of the Father's wrath for our sake. And so this is what's meant by emptying himself, right? He was never not God, but in his humanity and in his role as mediator and high priest, he went through what we go through and endured humanity and endured sleep and being hungry and tears and all that we endure. What a great humility, right?

What a great humility. I struggle with giving up my favorite foods, people. I don't know how he gave up heaven. You know, in our church Sometimes we fast and pray. We call out certain times of the year.

We'll all get together and we'll set aside certain foods and certain things that we do just for prayer and just to spend time with the Lord. And those are excruciating times because every time we fast, it seems like all the Burger King commercials are on television or someone's always cooking something. But you know, it's hard for us to give up things that we enjoy. Would you say amen to that? That's difficult for us.

We are, I was trying to make this point yesterday, but we are, even though we know we're not supposed to be, we are very attached to this world. Very attached to this world. No one likes, no Christian likes to consider themselves carnal, but to a degree we're all carnal. Right? We're very attached to our jobs, and to our Instagram, and to our phones, and to our, and to our, and to our, and to our.

And so when, so Jesus gives up everything, like he gives it all up for us and the imperative, the driving imperative of the passage is, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, and he detailing the mind of Christ Jesus and the humility of Christ Jesus. And in the back of our minds, we're saying, and we're supposed to be like this, and we're supposed to act like that, and we're supposed to be willing, because that's kind of the driver here. It's describing our Lord, His humility, but it's also saying, be like this, be like this, be like this, be like this. And this is difficult for us. What a great humility.

What a great love that our Lord displayed and showed. Indeed, what God commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if When we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son much more being reconciled. We shall be saved by his life And not only so but we also joy in God through our lord.

Jesus Christ by whom we've now received the atonement. This is why this study is so important, recognizing what he actually did. And then the follow-on step, which when we give a few applications here at the end, the follow-on step is not just, you know, It's one of the things that our movement is often accused of is just kind of really sterile and clinical and theological with no application. Well, don't make that mistake in something this important today because the truth of the matter is we need to behold our God, behold the humility of Jesus, but then we must go forward and say, okay, now Lord, help me to walk like you walk. Think like you thought, because all of your relationships, it matters, and in your church, it matters, and how you raise your children, it matters, and what they see in you, it matters.

Humility solves so much just by itself, just by itself. So this is worthy of our time and attention, all right? So he made himself of no reputation, He emptied himself. He took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. He was and is fully God and of course became fully man.

It's the great mystery of the incarnation. He took on the form of a servant, that is to say, he went to do what we could not do. Not only did he heal us, not only did he teach us, not only did he show us the kingdom of God, But he did what we could not do. He went to the cross for our sins that we might have access to the tree of life. Now, look at verse eight.

Y'all still with me? How are we doing on time, sir? We're good? All right. So look at verse eight.

And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Okay, so if we're connecting verse five and verse eight, that's not the best like, come to my church marketing campaign there. Let this mind be in you, which is also in Christ Jesus. Well, he was found in fashion as a man, humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on the cross. We mentioned this a little bit yesterday when Paul said for me to live is Christ and to die is gain.

And are Christians supposed to be willing to give up everything for their Lord? Are we supposed to be willing to die for our Lord? Are we supposed to be willing to carry our cross for Jesus? I joke with my church all the time, especially new folks coming in. Jesus called you to carry a cross and that's not something purchased at the mall.

Right? You don't get that at Pagoda or whatever, right? That's not jewelry, right? The cross is an instrument of torture and death, reserved for the worst criminals in the Roman Empire, it was an excruciating, lengthy way to die. Beheading was much better than just laying there and suffering from asphyxiation.

You can't breathe because the way your body is angled on the cross, you're suffering from exposure and blood loss and shame is just the worst of the worst of the worst way to die. It's I would imagine it would seem like it would go on in excruciating pain forever, right? It's just a really bad way to die. And so this is what our Lord did for us though. He was crucified.

He was tortured. He was beaten. He was bruised. This is the humility of Christ. Think about who we're talking about.

We're talking about the one who said, Let there be and there was. All right, we're talking about the one who spoke, as the great apologist says, and the universe leapt into existence. We're talking about the one who made everything, who knows you by name, the very hairs on your head. They're numbered by him. And he allowed this to happen to himself in obedience to the will of his Father.

It's absolutely amazing, and we're called to live like that. We're called to think like that. We're called to have the mental posture to be willing to go all the way to death and torture for the glory of Christ. And by the way, he didn't make this a secret. He said it over and over again in his earthly ministry.

As we mentioned last night, If anyone would come after me, if anyone would follow me, if you really want to follow me, and I'm not talking about Twitter. If you really want to follow me, you have to take up your cross and follow me. You have to be willing to do what I did. You have to be willing to suffer the way I suffered. I must mean so much to you that your life pales in comparison.

You're willing to lay it down. Friends on the other side of such a posture is revival. It's absolute Reformation. It is a total turnaround with what we're seeing out in the culture right now is how the church is relating to that culture because if we're willing to go die, you know, it's a shame. It's a shame in the West, you know, we often find people who believe wrong things who are willing to suffer more than those of us who have the truth.

We are very much, myself included, we're all slaves to comfort. And I've watched this play out in my ministry, in my own life. I've run across, have you ever been studying the Bible and you run across a scripture that you really didn't want to obey? Any honest people in the building? Come on, come on, yes I know you're Presbyterian, Baptist-performed, but come on, hang in there with me for a moment.

I know you're holy, but have you ever run into a passage where you're going, Lord, I just don't want to do that. Anyone? Or, you know what, Lord, I don't want to do that, so I'm going to make that mean something than what it looks like it means. You know, Lord, I'm going to Google my way out of this one. I know there's someone on the block somewhere who will tell me that I don't have to do that.

I've seen this a lot. I've seen this a lot in my church, in my own life. I've seen this a ton. I don't really like that, so I'm gonna find some author somewhere who will tell me my not liking that is okay. But when we are willing to die for Jesus, right, when the mind that was in Christ, when we're closer to that mindset, then the precepts of the Lord become beautiful to us, and even the things that we struggle with, we're going, Lord, you know what?

You put that in there, and you died, you suffered, you bled and called me to be willing to die and suffer and bleed for you and for your people. And so yes, Lord, is my reply. Now help me, Master, to do what you've asked me to do. Can you imagine what the church would be like? It would just, I mean, we'd have like this Acts 2 thing breaking out.

It would be incredible. It would be incredible. Anyway, so being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on the cross. So not only did God the Son become a man, God the Son was obedient to the Father's will, suffering a brutal, shameful death on the cross, a death again reserved for the worst criminals in the Roman Empire. And I submit that the humility of Jesus besides his love and care for others is one of his chief attributes, particularly one of the attributes that we must strive to emulate or imitate.

In a wonderful book, a very short read written by a gentleman, a brother named Andrew Murray, written somewhere in the late 1800s, it's called Humility. And Brother Murray writes this. He says, and so pride or the loss of this humility is the root of every sin and evil. He says it was when The now fallen angels began to look upon themselves with self complacency that they were led to disobedience and were cast down from the light of heaven into outer darkness. Even so it was when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their highest state into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk.

In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation is the gate and the birth and the curse of hell. Brother Murray didn't mince words. And so I'm continuing this quote, it's so good. He says, and so the life of the saved ones and of the saints must needs bear this stamp of deliverance from sin and full restoration to their original state, their whole relation to God and man marked by an all-pervading humility. Without this, there can be no true abiding in God's presence or experience of his favor and the power of his spirit.

Without this, no abiding faith or love or joy or strength. Humility is the only soil in which the graces root. The lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with the others, it is the root of all because it alone takes the right attitude before God and allows him, as God, to do all. Isn't that good?

It's true. It's true. I particularly love this idea that humility and many of the other graces root themselves in humility. This was the posture of our Lord. And let's go on and prove it just very briefly.

These are the words of Jesus himself. The Son can do nothing of himself, John 5.19. I can of my own self do nothing. My judgment is just because I seek not my own will. John 5 30.

I receive not glory from men. John 5 41. I am come not to do my own will, John 638. My teaching is not mine, John 716. I am not come of myself, John 728.

I do nothing of myself. John 8 28. I have not come of myself, but he sent me. John 8 42. I seek not my own glory.

John 8 50. The words that I say, I speak not from myself. John 14 10. The word which you hear is not mine, John 14, 24. And we could go on and on, and we could leave the Gospel of John and look at other gospels, but it lays out so beautifully there in John.

Listen to the heart of Jesus who continually, even in his earthly ministry, gave glory back to his Father, even though he himself is the Lord of glory. Absolutely amazing. And we're called, commanded, to let this mind be in us, which was also in Christ Jesus. Well, how would the church be different and our homes be different if we deflected glory and gave it back to God? Hey, how would our families be different if our children were busy trying to out-serve one another?

Instead of saying, my toy, mine, mine, your toy, yours, yours. It's not in us, is it? It's just not there. It's not there from birth. It's mine, mine, me, me.

And the apostle just said, no, no, no, think more like Jesus. You, you, him, him, not to us, Lord, not to us, but to your name be all of the glory. Murray says these words open up to us the deepest roots of Christ's life and work. They tell us how it was that Almighty God was able to work his mighty redemptive work through the Son. They show what Christ counted, the state of heart which became him as the son of the father.

And they teach us what the essential nature of life is of that redemption which Christ accomplished and now communicates. And it is this, He was nothing that God might be all in his estimation, by his own words, even though we know he was not nothing. But he was nothing that God might be all. He resigned himself with his own will and with his own powers entirely for the work that the Father sent him to do. Of his own power, his own will, his own glory, his whole mission with all his works, with all his teaching, with all of that he said was that I'm nothing that he might be all.

He said my food, my meat is to do the will of the Father who sent me. This is the mind of Christ Jesus, even though he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So if Jesus thought like this, and he's king, how much more should we think like this, mere servants in the kingdom. Finally, these last couple of verses. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of the Father.

All I have time for is just a couple exhortations here. One, Christ humbled himself, but he is now exalted. Christ was born unknown in a nondescript town with a poor reputation, but now has a name that is above every name. Christ essentially bowed the knee before his own creations for our own sake, praise be to his name, but now every knee bows to him in all of creation and will on the day of judgment. Christ was once the subject of slander and ridicule, he was spat upon, laughed at, mocked and belittled, but there is a coming a day where every living soul will confess the lordship of Jesus Christ.

So yes, he humbled himself and laid it all down, And he calls us to do the same. One day, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Thankfully, we in this room, most of us in this room have already done that. But he calls us then to emulate, to imitate the humility that he displayed, which was way more than I can do in 45 minutes, but it's an immense humility when you consider that the creator of everything humbled himself on our behalf. A couple applications, got the five minute mark over there.

One, take these things away, simple. Be more humble. Pray about it, pray through it, pray during it, but be more humble. Take the meek posture of Christ. Don't think of yourself more highly than you ought.

You'd be surprised how conflicts melt away when one of the arguers says, hey, I love you. Number two, be willing to let go of comforts and titles and anything else he calls for for his sake. Three, be a servant. Be a servant. Don't sit on the sidelines too long.

We need to rest sometimes, but be a servant. It teaches you humility. Nothing teaches humility like having to work with other sinners, right? It's who we are too. We're sinners saved by grace, working with others, sinners saved by grace, one of the ways we learn humility.

Be a servant. Look for ways to humbly serve without recognition. Four, be willing to die if necessary. That's a mouthful, but consider whether or not you're willing to give everything up for him. Five, be willing to suffer.

The cross didn't just kill you, it tortured you first, and that's kind of our call. And so some of you are saying, right now I'm just being tortured in this thing, amen. Number six, be content. Be content with who and what you are. Let God do the exalting if that's his will.

Don't fall for the world's game. It's claw and scratch for every ounce of notoriety. Let God do his thing. And when he raises you up in due season, he'll get the glory from that. And finally, number seven, be a minister of the gospel.

Again, that there's a day coming, a terrible day for those who aren't redeemed. So tell as many people as possible about this this humble savior. But this king that we serve, Tell someone the good news of Jesus Christ. People are hurting and dying out there, saints. They're hurting and dying out there.

Tell them, Jesus, who He is. Don't be afraid to say, hey, repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. And let the Lord do the saving. May the Lord help us understand these things that we briefly went over today and walk in them for his glory. That is my time.

Love you guys a ton. Thank you for your time and attention.