1 00:00:01,300 --> 00:00:06,400 I want to study a little bit on Philippians chapter 2, verses 5 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,500 through 11 specifically on a couple of verses within that 3 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:13,200 group Philippians. I love Philippians is a just a 4 00:00:13,207 --> 00:00:18,000 wonderful book very encouraging book that we can read from and 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,300 gained so much encouragement from the will spend little time 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,200 dealing with verses 5 through 11. 7 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:33,200 It says they're beginning. In verse 5 of Philippians 2, 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,200 will read that passage. It says, let this mind be in you 9 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,200 which was also in Christ. Jesus who being in the form of 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,800 God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:51,100 himself of no reputation taking the form of a bondservant and 12 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:54,500 coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance. 13 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:59,600 As a man, he humbled himself and became obedient To the point of 14 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,900 death, even the death of the Cross. 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,300 Therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him the 16 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:10,300 name, which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every 17 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:13,900 knee should bow of those in heaven and those on Earth and 18 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:17,100 those under the Earth and that every tongue should confess, 19 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:24,100 that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father You 20 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:27,100 know, in the past few maybe a couple three months ago we 21 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:28,900 talked about a little bit of the Trinity. 22 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:32,900 The godhead the mystery about it, the one God in three 23 00:01:32,900 --> 00:01:35,500 persons, God, the Father God, the son, and God the Holy 24 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:39,500 Spirit, each of whom is fully God. 25 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,000 And we know that also too. When we talk about Jesus, we 26 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,300 realize that Jesus, you know, was part of that godhead and he 27 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:56,700 came here To be with us, even as a baby, a crying screaming, you 28 00:01:56,708 --> 00:01:59,700 know, bed, waiting bedwetting, baby lying in a Manger that's 29 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:02,700 God With Us. And the fact that Jesus was 30 00:02:02,700 --> 00:02:06,500 fully human is what separates actually Christianity from 31 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,000 Judaism or separates Christianity from Islam. 32 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:16,000 Those religions believe that there's no way in the world that 33 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,800 a holy infinite. God could come down to this 34 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,800 world and live among a sinful. World, they don't believe that. 35 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:28,400 And in verse 7, Is where we're going to. 36 00:02:28,900 --> 00:02:31,100 It's going to tell us how and why that happened. 37 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:35,800 How wide Jesus came here. So at verse 7 with the leading 38 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,100 in from verse 6, it says but but made himself of no reputation 39 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:44,500 taking the form of a bondservant and coming in the likeness of 40 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:46,400 men. So what does that mean coming in 41 00:02:46,408 --> 00:02:52,100 the likeness of man or or taking the form of a bond sir? 42 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,200 Jesus emptying himself, emptied himself is clearly something 43 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,800 that he chose to do. It was his on his terms. 44 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,600 Well, God, the father of course Institute, but Jesus came and 45 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,400 emptied himself. Instead of you know, it taking 46 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:13,500 all of what God had and all the powers that Jesus had Jesus 47 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:16,000 chose to come here and empty himself. 48 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:21,600 And we know that he that doesn't mean that he ceased to be God 49 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,400 because he was fully God and fully man. 50 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,800 So what does it mean to empty himself? 51 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:35,200 And verse 7 answers that force in a couple of ways, one, he 52 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,300 answers it by taking the form of a bondservant. 53 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,800 That's what it means for him to empty himself, he didn't take 54 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,400 off his divinity. He took off, he took on the form 55 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,600 of a servant in the same word that's used earlier. 56 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,200 The form of God, in the form of a certain being born, he's born 57 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:55,700 in the likeness of men and two. It says coming in the likeness 58 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:59,600 of men here as well. Jesus empties itself not by 59 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,800 losing something, but by taking on something. 60 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:06,100 And in these two verses we have a picture of Jesus as one person 61 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:10,800 with with tuner, two natures. Verse 6 is talking about his 62 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,100 divine nature, and verse 7 is talking about his human nature. 63 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:19,800 We've seen Jesus is fully, God. And is a, he's also fully man 64 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,900 and the word here in verse 7, for likeness this word here, 65 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,900 that means the same as. That's how it's defined out of 66 00:04:29,907 --> 00:04:32,800 the old Greek, the same as. So, at a certain point in time 67 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,100 Jesus, who was fully God, he became human just like you and I 68 00:04:36,108 --> 00:04:39,100 except with no sin, which is what we'll talk about in a 69 00:04:39,108 --> 00:04:41,500 minute. So, when we think about it, 70 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:47,000 Jesus God the son took on a human body with flesh and blood 71 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,600 bones. And just like we have everything 72 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,200 like us and we have he was born a baby. 73 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,700 This is a picture of Lizzy and Ice children when they were 74 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:01,000 younger, wish, we could have him back to that age. 75 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:04,200 So precious. So little so small, Anthony, 76 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,000 Kylie and Emma. We're so proud of them. 77 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:12,500 But my point is that, when this is what Jesus was, this is who, 78 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:16,500 this is what Jesus would have been when he was a baby or a 79 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:18,900 child. He would have had all the needs, 80 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:20,300 he needs. What it needs to be fed, you 81 00:05:20,300 --> 00:05:22,700 would need to be changed. He would have needed to be, you 82 00:05:22,707 --> 00:05:24,600 know, he would have cried because he was hungry, whatever 83 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,600 it may have been, you know, things are so chaotic when you 84 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,000 have children when they're that age. 85 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,500 We decided to have three at a very young age, really close 86 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:37,000 together and we were dealing with all that in a very chaotic, 87 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,800 a lot going on. And this is kind of what I'm 88 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,600 talking about. But Jesus, emptying himself 89 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,700 means we need to make sure that we do not minimalize what Jesus 90 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:51,200 did when he came here. We can't, we can't miss the 91 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,800 point that he had needs, just like our babies do as well or 92 00:05:54,808 --> 00:05:58,800 their human children do as well. He cried, he was hungry. 93 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:02,900 He needed the sleep, he needed, you know, maybe he cried when he 94 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:05,500 was thirsty. He also had a human mind. 95 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:09,800 As a child, Jesus had to learn just like we learn to eat to 96 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,600 walk to talk read and write he had emotions just like our 97 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:20,900 emotions. Loneliness sorrow, you troubled 98 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:24,200 in spirit, you know, Jesus experienced all of these 99 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,800 emotions, the full depth of humanity, just like us. 100 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:33,400 And I think that he still does feel those sometimes, this is 101 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,200 truly amazing, that Jesus with one as one person with two 102 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,100 distinct Nature's as human nature, and has a divine nature. 103 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Regarding Jesus birth, the angel said to Joseph, Mary will give 104 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,900 birth to a son. That's his Humanity side. 105 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:53,700 And his name will be called Emmanuel, that's his, which 106 00:06:53,700 --> 00:06:55,700 means god with us. That's his divinity. 107 00:06:57,300 --> 00:06:59,200 There, that's his, that's his deity. 108 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,200 Even, the Virgin birth as fully human on full display, being 109 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:07,300 born from a human mother and his and his, you know, his birth, 110 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,000 his DD being on full explore display because of the Virgin 111 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,200 birth as well. We think about these Nature's 112 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,000 throughout the Bible in his human nature. 113 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,500 We could say that at this point, maybe, when he was 5 or 10 or 114 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:29,700 1330, whatever may have been his divine nature exists eternally, 115 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,200 And in his human nature, they were times when he was weak and 116 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,300 tired and his divine nature. He, you know, he at the same 117 00:07:38,300 --> 00:07:42,900 time, experienced omnipotent power and we can see this in 118 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:45,900 Mark for where Jesus was, you know, sleeping in a boat. 119 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:51,000 That's his human side. But then, as he woke, he told 120 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,400 the Seas to calm and stop and they did. 121 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,800 That's his divine nature. The not Dynamic, you know, is 122 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,400 sometimes mind-boggling when, when you think about it, how 123 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,900 this could be, you know, it's life-changing. 124 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:06,900 It takes us back to another phrase in verse 7. 125 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:10,000 You know, when we see, you know, we've seen what it means for 126 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,700 Jesus to empty himself by becoming fully Human, like us. 127 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:18,100 But but why? Why did you know why did he do 128 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:19,900 that? And this is where the Wonder, 129 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:23,500 you know and the Mystery kind of goes to a whole another level. 130 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:25,800 As I was putting this together, Jesus, emptying himself by 131 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,800 taking on the form. Of a servant. 132 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:37,299 Okay, that word that word in the Greek doulos, that's the 133 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:40,799 original word there. And it's the Greek word for 134 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,400 slave. And if we're reading this, in 135 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,000 the first century, you know, the word immediately pops into our 136 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,600 mind. That, you know, if you're a 137 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:53,900 slave you don't have, you know, you don't have any rights, you 138 00:08:53,908 --> 00:08:58,400 don't have your freedom, you're working for somebody all the 139 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:02,400 time, your existence is to serve somebody else. 140 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:06,300 Jesus still in the form of God took on the form of a slave and 141 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:08,600 that's not the only time the Bible talks about that. 142 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,400 In fact, Jesus himself identifies himself as that way 143 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,800 as well and Mark. 1045 Jesus, talking to his disciples, 144 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,800 talking to them about serving, kind of like the context in 145 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,100 Philippians 2 but it's about serving each other in, you know, 146 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:28,400 within the church Mark 10:45 says the son of man came not to 147 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:33,100 be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many 148 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,200 Jesus is telling us why here why he came and I want to look at 149 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,800 three different reasons of why Jesus became human specifically. 150 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:46,800 He came to this world became human. 151 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:52,800 Why did Jesus become human? Number one, Jesus came to 152 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,700 suffer, like you. When Jesus calls himself. 153 00:09:57,700 --> 00:09:59,900 The son of man. That's a title that we see 154 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:04,300 throughout the Bible throughout the New Testament, it emphasizes 155 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:06,000 his humanity and specifically in. 156 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,500 Mark it emphasizes the hardships and sufferings that accompany, 157 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,900 you know, human nature. Jesus is saying here that I came 158 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:17,100 to experience what you experience in your Human Nature 159 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,800 And if we're not careful, we can we can create a picture of 160 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,800 Jesus, that he's nothing like us. 161 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:28,800 You know, we can create that picture but in reality All of 162 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,300 who he is on this Humana, Human Side is everything up like us. 163 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:37,100 He's like I said, most ways will picture him as different ways 164 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:39,200 that that really take us away from the reality. 165 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,800 That Jesus specifically came like, came to be like us and 166 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,700 experience what we experience. Are we tired? 167 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,600 Jesus knows what it's like to be tired. 168 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:54,800 Are you exhausted or worried or burned-out Beatdown? 169 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,200 Jesus experienced all those things. 170 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:01,900 What about emotional distress, so did Jesus? 171 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,400 What about physical pain? Absolutely. 172 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:10,100 Jesus experienced that. Do we experience relational her? 173 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,900 So did Jesus. He was alienated betrayed 174 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:17,100 criticize denied and ultimately condemned. 175 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,300 You ever feel broken? Jesus was broken. 176 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:29,200 Do we grieve Jesus Graves? It was sometimes cry out to God 177 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,100 because we don't know what else to do. 178 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,900 All were sitting doing. Just crying out to God, please, 179 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:42,500 what, we can't take it anymore. Jesus was full of Sorrows crying 180 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:46,100 out to God the father, and Desperation even asking the 181 00:11:46,100 --> 00:11:51,300 question of why? And whatever physical emotional, 182 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:53,600 relational or weariness that we may have. 183 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,800 We do not have a god that is distant from us and to help us 184 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:02,400 with those matters. We have a God, Jesus who is 185 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,800 familiar with what we're walking through and Jesus came to this 186 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,000 world as a man to suffer like you. 187 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,300 And I the language in Hebrews. Four verse 15. 188 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:17,400 It says therefore we do not have a high priest who is unable to 189 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:22,800 sympathize with our weaknesses but one who is in every respect 190 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,200 has been tempted, as we are yet without sin. 191 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,000 Sympathize with us in our weakness. 192 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:34,500 He understands. Jesus, you know, he's able to 193 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:38,100 identify, he suffered in all the way to the point of death would 194 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:42,200 bring this to a second reason why Jesus came Jesus, came to 195 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,400 sacrifice his fac rifice his life for you. 196 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,300 And I want to point out with this point that, you know, Jesus 197 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:53,200 is full. Humanity is absolutely 198 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,700 necessary. For Jesus to give his life for 199 00:12:56,700 --> 00:13:03,900 us. mark, 10:45 for even the son of man came not to be served, 200 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:07,100 but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many, and 201 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:14,400 the word for here in Mark 10:45 literally means instead of Or in 202 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,900 place of and in order for Jesus to die for us as his people. 203 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:21,900 You know, he had to become like us as a person. 204 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:26,200 The Bible makes this clear in Hebrews 2 verse 17 and talking 205 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,600 about Jesus. It says therefore he had to be 206 00:13:28,608 --> 00:13:31,500 made like his brothers. Basically like every man in 207 00:13:31,508 --> 00:13:35,400 humanity man and woman in every respect that so that he might 208 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,700 become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of 209 00:13:38,700 --> 00:13:42,200 God to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 210 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:46,400 In other words of Jesus was not fully human. 211 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,600 Like this, like us. He could not have paid the 212 00:13:49,608 --> 00:13:55,300 penalty due to us as humans. He had the experience temptation 213 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:58,600 just like we do, overcoming those Temptations and then dying 214 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,700 in our place. And I don't know, a full crowd, 215 00:14:03,700 --> 00:14:05,500 maybe we have visitors, maybe we don't, but if you're not a 216 00:14:05,508 --> 00:14:08,300 Christian, you know, or even if we are Christians, you know, 217 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:10,900 it's always good to hear the good news of the Bible. 218 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,400 The good news and the center core truth of the Bible. 219 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,700 We have all been created by God. To have a relationship with him, 220 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:21,800 but we have all sinned and been separated from God. 221 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:25,700 And the Bible uses the word for how everybody has turned aside, 222 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:28,100 and that's called sin. It looks different from 223 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:31,000 everybody. In this building, you know, how 224 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 we have separated ourselves because of sin. 225 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:37,000 We've all turned aside from God and his ways to our own selfish 226 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 ways. And our sin has separated us 227 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,200 from God in a way that if we die in this state will be lost 228 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,700 eternally. Separated from God, and will be, 229 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:49,500 will spend eternity experience, he judgement do our sin. 230 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:53,300 However, the good news of the Bible is that God loves us so 231 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:58,500 much, that he provided a way for us to get that relationship back 232 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:01,200 with him. God In the Flesh, came and 233 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,400 manual. Jesus came. 234 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:06,800 And he lived the perfect life that you. 235 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,400 And I cannot live a life without seeing that is what he lived. 236 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:15,000 And even though he had no sin to die, he died for our sin. 237 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,800 He paid the price that we couldn't pay instead of you and 238 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:26,800 me, he died the death that we deserve. and, After that after 239 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,000 he died after the third day, he rose. 240 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,700 He didn't stay dead for long. Three days later, he rose from 241 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:36,700 the great, Conquering the enemy of death that we cannot conquer 242 00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:38,400 on our own and that's who Jesus is. 243 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,900 He came to redeem us to God no matter what we've done in our 244 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:45,400 relationships or in our past or whatever. 245 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:49,100 Maybe if we believe the gospel of Jesus Christ and Obey what he 246 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:53,000 is laid out for us, we can have that relationship and be with 247 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,200 him for eternity as long. As we abide by the guidelines 248 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:02,000 written in the scriptures. So the first true points are 249 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:07,100 pretty awesome, but this next point that I want to make a 250 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:12,500 really kind of I kind of struggled with honestly and the 251 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:18,500 language I'm going to use is strong language. but it almost 252 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:20,800 feels wrong to say, but I'm going to say it because Jesus 253 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:25,000 said, And he's saying it, Philippians 2 verse 7. 254 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,300 Why did Jesus come to take on human flesh? 255 00:16:27,700 --> 00:16:29,500 Why was he born in the likeness of men? 256 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:36,500 Jesus came to be your servant. And let me explain that. 257 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:44,400 He came the actual word here in Philippians 2 verse 7, that word 258 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:49,000 is actually translated slave in the original Greek. and Mark 259 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:54,300 10:45 it says even the son of man is talking about himself, I 260 00:16:54,300 --> 00:17:02,100 do not, I did not come to be served but I came to serve And 261 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:07,000 this word in Mark 10:45 actually is translated it's not 262 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,800 translated slave it's translated as waiting on tables. 263 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:16,099 So when Jesus look forward to describe why he came to you and 264 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:20,000 me, he chose this word, he said I came to wait on you and when 265 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,700 we think about waiting on somebody, you know, think about 266 00:17:22,700 --> 00:17:25,200 going to a restaurant, the waiter coming waiting on us. 267 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,600 You know, what can I get you? Kai refill, your glass. 268 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:31,900 How was dinner on? And on waiting on. 269 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:35,200 You bringing you what you need, what you asked for Jesus. 270 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,800 Is this is why I came, how can I help you? 271 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:41,500 What can I do for you? What can I get you? 272 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:44,800 I'm your servant. This is Jesus, the God In the 273 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,500 Flesh saying that to you and I know religious teacher of any 274 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:51,900 other religion. Talks like this. 275 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:56,300 You know, we're supposed to, I'm, we supposed to serve deity, 276 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,700 you know. This is deeding the fleshing, 277 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:01,000 I'm here to serve you and it sounds crazy until we realize, 278 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,300 you know, it's not crazy. It's really kind of a 279 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,900 foundational thought of what Christianity is. 280 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:15,100 Jesus did not come as a self-serving individual, who, 281 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:20,800 you know, whose personal whims are to be catered to by his 282 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,900 lowly servants. That's not why he came, that's 283 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:26,400 not who he is, Jesus came to be the lowly servant for you. 284 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:31,100 And I and Jesus is said, said to his father's in and, you know, 285 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:33,000 we could take it and apply it to our lives today. 286 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,200 And I did not come to be served by you and my relationship with 287 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,400 you. I am your servant, I serve you I 288 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,100 work for you. I can wait, I wait on you. 289 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:46,500 Doesn't that sound kind of wrong to say? 290 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:52,500 But it's what, you know, I want to be clear, what I'm not 291 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:54,700 saying. The Bible does not mean when 292 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:59,000 it's calling Jesus. Our servant the Bible, does it 293 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,000 mean that we tell Jesus to do whatever, we ask him to do and 294 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,400 he does it because he's our servant. 295 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:05,700 That's not what I'm talking about. 296 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:07,200 That's not what the Bible teaches. 297 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:09,400 We do not have authority over Jesus. 298 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,800 And it doesn't discount all the time that the Bible calls 299 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,200 followers of Jesus Servants of him. 300 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,000 We could, you know, there's a whole another lesson that can be 301 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,700 given on on that as well. But the sense of, you know, when 302 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:27,000 we think about it we can miss it that what Jesus actually does 303 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,800 for us, what we ask him to do for us. 304 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,800 The Christian Life Begins when we realize that we have sinned 305 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,800 and we're separated from God and God, you know, there's no men of 306 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:42,400 good that we can do. You know, to get that 307 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,400 relationship back. We can't do enough. 308 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,200 It's not, it's not a check list of things to do, you know, pray, 309 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,500 this amount of times go to church, read the Bible, do all 310 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:54,200 these things anywhere, in your way back to God, that misses the 311 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,400 whole point. That's not what it's about. 312 00:19:56,700 --> 00:20:00,700 We can't cover our own sin, we need God to serve Us in some 313 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:03,700 way, we need. Jesus sacrifice to cover over 314 00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:07,000 the stain of sin in our life. And Jesus says, I came to serve 315 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,400 you. And when we, when we trust him 316 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:13,500 to service in that way, That's when we start to understand 317 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:15,700 exactly what all he can do for us. 318 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,800 We then do the things that he asks of us to become a 319 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,300 Christian. We Believe repent confess who 320 00:20:23,308 --> 00:20:27,000 were baptized for the remission of our sins but once we are a 321 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,300 Christian once we do take that path and and take those steps 322 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:34,600 into the church, you know we don't move on from that if you 323 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,700 know like we just don't need him to service anymore. 324 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,000 You know. Jesus didn't come to service 325 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,600 just once he you know to save us from the penalty of sin, you 326 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,600 know. Then we then it's all on our own 327 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,000 from there on out. That's not the point. 328 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,700 A lot of people actually look at the Christian like that way and 329 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:55,500 experience it. He came to service every single 330 00:20:55,500 --> 00:21:02,700 day. so I want to put all this kind of together, you know, just 331 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:07,500 as You know, Jesus existed in the form of God, Jesus exists in 332 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:11,900 the form of human. And also how he served us. 333 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:14,900 The whole reason one of the reasons why he came to be like, 334 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:18,300 you and I, in order to serve you in my you and me. 335 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:22,500 So when we're tired, weak burned out or beat down or discouraged 336 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:26,200 depressed, we need to listen to what Jesus is saying to us. 337 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:31,300 Jesus is saying, I'm here to serve you I'm here to wait on 338 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:34,200 you was helping with the strength to get you throughout 339 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:39,100 the day with all the peace that passes, all understanding with 340 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:41,200 joy that supersedes all your circumstances. 341 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:42,800 Jesus says, I'm here to serve you. 342 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,700 That is why I came as a human. That's one of the reasons why we 343 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:48,300 think about it. You know what is prayer. 344 00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:52,100 What's the purpose of prayer, right? 345 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,700 We're saying God, thank you for all these things but also got. 346 00:21:56,700 --> 00:22:01,500 I need your help. I need, I'm asking for this. 347 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:04,000 I'm asking for that. I'm praying for this person, I'm 348 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,500 praying for that person and praying for this circumstance, 349 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,300 you know, we're asking for God's service every single day. 350 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:15,900 All the time, we pray, And he's told us to do that and God 351 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:19,400 actually Delights in us doing at that he says, ask you know, he 352 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,600 wants us, he wants us to pray to him. 353 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,800 He tells us to pray to him and ask for things. 354 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,500 If it is according to his will you know, even our family life 355 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:33,200 you know, when Lizzy and I pray we always pray for wisdom and 356 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,500 guidance for raising our kids up because we need it. 357 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:39,500 We cannot do it on our own. If we didn't have the guidance 358 00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:43,600 of God in Jesus, we We be off and right field. 359 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:49,000 Who knows where we cannot do it without and some people think, 360 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,400 you know? Yeah, that's Christianity, you 361 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,900 know, Christianity is for weak people because they can't do it 362 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:57,800 on their own. There's actually a thought 363 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,600 process in a thought out there that people think that way. 364 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:05,100 Christianity is for those who need a crutch, they can't do it 365 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:06,300 on their own. Some people. 366 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:08,000 You think, you know, I don't need God to serve me. 367 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,700 I get up every morning. I work hard, I provide for my 368 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:13,300 family. I do all these things. 369 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:15,900 I make all kinds of decisions. I do all these good things. 370 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,800 And maybe that's the case. But the people who think that we 371 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,300 need to understand, you know who who gave them that ability to 372 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:29,300 work hard, who gave them the ability to breathe and to get up 373 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:34,000 every morning and have a ride. Who made that possible? 374 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:36,600 There is not one person in this Gathering today, who was 375 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:41,100 self-sufficient. None of us are every person is 376 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:45,000 ultimately God depending you know, even people who say they 377 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,500 hate God. You know every breath that they 378 00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:52,300 take is given from God, they don't realize how they depend on 379 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:55,600 me. You know, I think about some of 380 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,500 the struggles that we have experienced here in the 381 00:23:57,500 --> 00:24:01,800 congregation recently, just in the past few years. 382 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:10,000 It seems like you know, we have the loss of That Brent 383 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,700 experience with, with his son, the recent deaths of runnels 384 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:21,100 mother Brenda son, Bob Duncan Cindy's, husband, Mercy 385 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:24,700 Camarillo. We think about the struggles of 386 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:28,800 sister Bobbie the pain that she goes through every single day 387 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,300 all day long. What she deals with the the 388 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:38,500 daily infirmities that Virgil and Janet son go through on and 389 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:43,200 on and on and on there is so many things that this 390 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,000 congregation has gone through recently. 391 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,000 I showed a picture of my kids but I want to show you one more. 392 00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:54,200 Some of you may recognize this picture, some of you may not 393 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,900 this is Tyler brancato. Frank and Tina's, first child. 394 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,900 Frank was kind enough to send me this picture last night and I 395 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:09,600 talked to him for a few minutes last night and so thankful that 396 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:16,900 he did about Tyler situation, he told me that Tyler Situation was 397 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:20,100 because of lack of oxygen prior to birth. 398 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,200 And this lack of oxygen. Eventually damaged his spinal 399 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,500 cord to a point to where it caused his body, not to be able 400 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:35,000 to Metabolize. The food intake that he was 401 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:40,300 having that correct? And because of that condition. 402 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:45,300 The care that it took for him to remain alive was far and above 403 00:25:45,300 --> 00:25:49,100 what, Frank and Tina or any other parent would ever expect. 404 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,800 He lived just less than a few than four weeks. 405 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:57,000 I'm sorry for months before his passing and during those 406 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,000 precious weeks I can remember Frank and Tina constantly day 407 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,900 and night, caring for that. Little boy taking shifts. 408 00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:07,800 Okay, you got him for three, four hours, whatever, whatever 409 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,100 they agreed upon to care. For this young man, who could 410 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:15,700 not care for himself. Taking care of his needs. 411 00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:18,000 I remember one time we were sitting in worship and all of a 412 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,100 sudden Frank popped up and just left, and I believe you got a 413 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:26,700 page on his pager of 9/11, he just up and left, we knew all 414 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:29,000 knew what was going on it. What he needed to take care of, 415 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,500 he went home to be with Tina because something was going on. 416 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,800 Because that boy needs to be cared for in some way. 417 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:48,200 I don't pretend to understand or no. all of the emotions that go 418 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:54,400 along with that, or with any other Problem that somebody may 419 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,000 be having in their life at that time. 420 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,200 We live in a fallen weary and painful world with all kinds of 421 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,700 questions that we don't have answers to. 422 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:08,500 But we do know that we have a God who serves us in a way in 423 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:12,100 the middle of hurt and pain and all the questions, you know. 424 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:21,400 God was Tyler servant. You know, the Bible clearly 425 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,100 teaches that when that little baby boy, breathe his last 426 00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:27,600 breath, God himself, was there to serve that little boy's body 427 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,900 in a way that in the next. Instant, he woke up to Glory 428 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,500 with him in that beautiful. God serves Us in so many 429 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:43,500 different ways. And so it is with others who may 430 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:45,900 have passed as well, that we just mentioned. 431 00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:50,600 Even those who are not Christians experience the same 432 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,000 painful circumstances, but I think all of us know, can they 433 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,200 can agree that it is far easier to get through something? 434 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,800 When we know that we got Jesus on our side that we can go to 435 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,200 him, we can pray to him, we can ask him for Comfort asking for 436 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,000 strength, that's God, for strength, whatever it may be. 437 00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:14,700 We know that he is serving us. The good news of the Bible that 438 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:17,700 Jesus came to service to wait on us and to be are serving. 439 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:22,100 He knows he that he he knows and he's able to sympathize as well. 440 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,500 There's coming a day, you know, when will breathe our last 441 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:27,600 breath. We don't know when to be today, 442 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,200 tomorrow years from now, whatever the Lord decides. 443 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:33,500 But whenever that moments come when you know that all of us who 444 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:37,300 are in Jesus or you know, in that moment when our hearts fail 445 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:42,000 or lungs fail or whatever it may be, The fully Divine Son of God 446 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,600 who conquered death will be there to serve us at that point. 447 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:51,000 That's great. All glory be to Christ who being 448 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,500 in the very form of God did not consider equality with God, 449 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,200 something to be grasped, but emptied himself taking the form 450 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,600 of a servant being born in the likeness of men. 451 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:05,300 Therefore God has also got also has highly exalted him and given 452 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:08,700 him the name which is above every name that at the name of 453 00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:12,400 Jesus every knee should bow of those in heaven and those on 454 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,600 Earth and those under the Earth. And that every tongue should 455 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,500 confess that Jesus Christ. Is the Lord? 456 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:24,300 To the glory of God, the Father. Pray that something's been said, 457 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:28,100 the Gospel of Jesus includes hearing the good news that Jesus 458 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:31,000 came and died for our sins has made a way for us to be redeemed 459 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,200 to God. Within believe that Jesus is the 460 00:29:34,208 --> 00:29:36,800 son of God, and believing is a loaded word. 461 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,100 But leaving, you know, changes our current lifestyle. 462 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,200 You know, we turn to Jesus and follow the model that he has set 463 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,900 before us. That's repentance. 464 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:50,700 We confess his name as being the Son of God and were baptized for 465 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:53,400 the remission of sin. And then, and only then Jesus 466 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,600 adds us to his church. 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