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Slipping. 
It's all right. 

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If we do. 
All right, well, good morning. 

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It's great to be here with you. 
You've been so welcoming to me 

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and my family and just like 
John, Michael said, I love your 

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pastor, he's an amazing man, you
guys are very fortunate and very

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blessed of God to have him here.
Just want to say, Happy Mother's

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Day to all the moms. 
I've been telling John Michael 

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for a while that I wanted to 
visit salt church, I didn't 

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realize he was going to have to 
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happen. 
So maybe one day we'll be here 

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at the same time, but if you 
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Philippians chapter 2, we're 
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through 11 this morning. 
We're going to be talking this 

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morning about relationships with
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And my emphasis this morning on 
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the local church, because I 
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the text that we're going to be 
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But I do want to say you can 
apply these principles to any 

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relationship in your life, 
whether it's your friends, your 

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family, your neighbors strangers
that you interact with these 

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principles, apply across the 
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in today on our relationships 
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So some quick background on 
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Apostle Paul, he's writing to 
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prison and so the Philippian 
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named epaphroditus to deliver a 
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And so this letter is Paul's way
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to them, he begins this letter 
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generosity and he Comforts them 
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prison. 
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the first chapter, he's 
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against opposition that they're 
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church. 
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for the sake of effective gospel
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And so it's at this point in 
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shifts from addressing conflicts
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he begins addressing conflicts 
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instructing this congregation on
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And so there's three main points
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unity in Christ is essential for
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If you're taking notes I'm going
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Unity in Christ is a central 
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Ministry. 
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see this morning is that the 
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The pathway to Unity is humility
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that. 
Jesus is our ultimate example of

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humility. 
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verses 1 through 11 says. 
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in Christ, any comfort from 
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spirit, any affection and 
sympathy complete my Joy, by 

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being of the same mind, having 
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Accord. 
And of one mind, do nothing from

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selfish ambition or conceit. 
Seat but in humility, count 

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others, more significant than 
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Let each of you look not only to
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the interests of others have 
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which is yours in Christ Jesus, 
who though he was in the form of

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God, did not count equality with
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A thing to be grasped but 
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form of a servant being born in 
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found in human form. 
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obedient to the point of death, 
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Therefore God has highly Lee 
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The name that is above every 
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every knee should bow in heaven 
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Earth. 
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Jesus Christ is Lord to the 
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The Father, let's pray before we
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God, I thank you for your word. 
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This is a difficult word to put 
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that your Holy Spirit would help
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would guard my mouth from error.
Lord that the Holy Spirit would 

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guard everyone else's ear. 
Ears from error. 

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Lord, that we would be guided 
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morning and that you would 
Empower us to live this word out

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Jesus name. 
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It's kind of weird. 
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there. 
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All right, so the first thing 
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this text, this morning is the 
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So this first verse, we see 
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statements, right? 
It says, if there is any comfort

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in Christ or in, if there's any 
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there's any comfort from love, 
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the spirit and the obvious 
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is, of course, there is, of 
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Christ, of course, there's of 
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and participation In the spirit.
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doing here is he's grounding 
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spiritual realities. 
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Now, here, do this. 
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these spiritual realities. 
That are true of everyone who is

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in Christ. 
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being, he's appealing to their 
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He's saying based on the 
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based on the comfort that comes 
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that comes from the spirit based
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Believers around us there to 
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And so he's telling them, 
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one another. 
Not because they like each 

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other, though. 
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get along, though. 
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But what he's saying is that 
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members of God's household, as 
members of gods family, they 

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have a responsibility to live a 
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a certain way. 
This Unity This isn't the result

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of of natural Fellowship. 
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he's talking about here. 
It's supernatural what he's 

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doing. 
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but he's not starting with their
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starting with their relationship
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And the reason he's doing that 
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Christ is the foundation of 
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that we have, and it's out of 
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that our Unity flows. 
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be one in Christ. 
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he's telling them it's already a
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Christ now you need to act like 
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That's what he's telling them. 
This is an objective reality 

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about those of us who are in 
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And as Christians, we must view,
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Another with our church family, 
as a direct relationship, direct

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reflection of our relationship 
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because it's out of that Oneness
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with others clothes. 
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readers of this, he goes on to 
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He says complete my Joy by being
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Having the same, love being in 
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So he says complete my joy. 
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connotation here, right. 
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really make me happy. 
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you're generous, you're loving 
each other all but you know what

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would really make me happy? 
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Vin Unity parents. 
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That's your prayer for your 
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Will you please just get along. 
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in the home, it is a it is a 
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It is wonderful. 
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terrible right, everybody. 
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that and so Paul has this 
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this church. 
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Hey, this would complete my joy 
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He gives them a working 
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means being of the same mind 
having the same love and being 

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in full Accord. 
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of the same mind, it doesn't, it
doesn't mean we're always going 

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to agree on everything, it 
doesn't mean we're always going 

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to have the same opinion. 
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impossible. 
We're not always going to agree 

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on everything. 
We're not always going to have 

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the same opinion. 
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about having the same mindset 
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Having the same demeanor with 
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and serve one. 
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because we're United in Christ, 
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in Christ. 
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he's telling us to pursue this 
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verse three and four is going to
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Second thing we're seeing is the
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verse 3, do nothing from selfish
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humility count others, more 
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each of you look not only to his
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interest of others. 
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We see here are he's putting 
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humility as the enemies of our 
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ambition, it pursues personal 
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at the expense of others, right?
You're worried about I'm going 

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to get ahead and I don't care 
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I don't care what I have to do. 
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mine right? 
That's what that's the selfish 

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ambition. 
It's only worried about personal

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advancement. 
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It seeks personal Acclaim, and 
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this empty vanity in this over 
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puffed up, it wants to promote 
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and so what we can clearly see 
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ambition and can see. 
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coin, their pride, he's telling 
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get away from Pride. 
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prideful people in our lives, 
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Are they easy to get along with?
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Now, imagine you get a church 
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you have? 
You have a recipe for disaster 

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and so Paul is telling them 
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You've got to get rid of pride, 
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of a Christian, and it has no 
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Proverbs, 11:2 says, when pride 
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But with the humble is wisdom 
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God, opposes the proud, but 
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says do nothing from selfish 
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So this means as Christians, we 
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As Christians, we don't take 
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treat people like they owe us 
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We don't do things just to make 
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We don't boast in ourselves. 
We don't promote ourselves. 

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We don't put others down to make
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It's not what Christians do. 
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humility. 
Let's talk a minute for about 

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what humility is not. 
Most of you have probably heard 

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a pretty well-known quote. 
It says humility is not thinking

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less of yourself. 
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right? 
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it because humility doesn't 
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Low self-esteem is not humility 
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because low self-esteem is what 
it's primarily still 

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self-focused. 
Low self-esteem is just a 

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different form of Pride whether 
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thing ever or you think you're 
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still focused on yourself. 
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Lewis had to say about humility.
He said, do not imagine that if 

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you meet a really humble man, he
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Humble nowadays. 
He will not be a sort of greasy 

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smarmy person, who is always 
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is. 
Nobody probably. 

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All you will think about him is 
that he seemed to cheerful 

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intelligent chap, who took a 
real interest in what you said 

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to him, if you do dislike him, 
it will be because you feel a 

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little envious of anyone who 
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So easily, he will not be 
thinking. 

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About humility, he will not be 
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John Piper. 
I once heard him give a 

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definition of humility that I 
thought was really profound in 

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helpful. 
He said, humility is the 

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opposite of entitlement and 
that's powerful because humble 

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people don't walk around feeling
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something right? 
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like we deserve that, we're out 
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other people. 
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Paul, he spells out for us what 
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verse 3, he says count others, 
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which says Let each other esteem
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Now these translations they have
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because we're not literally 
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valuable than us. 
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people are are better. 
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They may or may not be that's 
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More significant in that we are 
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self sacrificial service. 
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to you this way. 
Imagine somebody really 

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important came in the door 
today, just fill in the blank, 

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whether it's an athlete, a 
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Somebody that you think is super
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How are you going to respond 
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Right? 
You're going to be excited, 

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right? 
This way. 

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Let me show you. 
Let me get you the best seat in 

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the house. 
Do you need anything? 

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Let me show you where the 
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going to go out of your way to 
make them. 

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Feel welcome. 
Make them feel loved and served.

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Why? 
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significant than you are. 
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are to treat everybody in the 
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I word count is important 
because we're counting others. 

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More significant than ourselves,
where we're making a conscious 

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decision, a conscious effort to 
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Why? 
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probably don't deserve it. 
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We're supposed to give that 
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significant than ourselves Pride
makes us treat people as a means

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to an end. 
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Benefiting me but humility makes
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significant than ourselves by 
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In the verses to follow Paul's 
going to point to Jesus as the 

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ultimate example of this and you
want to know what that tells us 

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that tells us that none of us 
are too good or too important to

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serve others. 
If Jesus can serve, none of us 

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are too good or too important to
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Can I just be honest with you, 
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important. 
None of us are all that 

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significant anyway. 
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not only to his own interests 
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others. 
So, yes, we are supposed to look

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after our own interests because 
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interests, of course, we should 
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well-being. 
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mental well-being. 
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for our Holiness for our 
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Our mental health, we should 
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or shelter or clothing. 
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that's good. 
We should we should take care of

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those things. 
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Because those position us to be 
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It's the keep us from being a 
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So he's not saying we shouldn't 
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No, we should. 
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morning. 
How often as Christians are we 

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guilty of only looking after our
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We're so worried about what's 
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life, my finances, my job, or 
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think about others. 
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Is that humility? 
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the balance between looking 
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And also, looking after the 
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be looking after others to meet 
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Here's some examples. 
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As a parent when your kid comes 
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you play with me or Mommy? 
Will you play with me? 

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And you just want to look your 
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have any idea how tired I am? 
Since you came along, tired is 

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now a permanent part of my 
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do anything in this moment 
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And you have to ask yourself 
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Are you going to serve in that 
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Or maybe you're like me and you 
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The weather, is finally going to
be good on a weekend and you got

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the gear prep, your boats, 
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It's going to be a great day, 
catching some bass and then you 

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hear about a family that just 
moved to the area that needs 

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help moving. 
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who's interested. 
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Maybe even saving some money. 
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buy this cool new thing or you 
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know you work hard, you deserve 
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Then you hear about a need in 
your congregation. 

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That's just massive way too big 
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Whose interests are you going to
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So this Paul says, is the mind 
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that is, it's the mind of 
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First five have this mind among 
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Christ Jesus. 
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talking about a heart posture, a
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humility, and he's just been 
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He says this mind is yours in 
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you to obtain something that you
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He say, Saying you already have 
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My pastor once said in his 
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Testament pattern for obedience 
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profound to me. 
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we understand who we are in 
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like it understand who you are 
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You already have this mind. 
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That Jesus is the ultimate 
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through 11. 
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example that Jesus sat in his 
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Incarnation, his humiliation at 
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Now these verses were getting 
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that this is an early him or 
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That the, that his audience 
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He's quoting from something 
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Now, these are some of the most 
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mysterious pasta scriptures are 
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And so most preachers, they use 
the illustration illustrations 

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to make things simpler and 
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But Paul says here let me 
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deep theological concept. 
That's kind of confusing right? 

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Thanks Paul. 
But I don't want us to miss the 

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point this morning because, yes,
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full of Rich. 
Theology and christology. 

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And, but I want to make sure we 
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point, because Paul's Point 
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an example of humility. 
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unified, his point is that we 
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We really can't have real Unity 
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That's the point. 
These aren't merely intellectual

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Concepts, but like most 
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eminently practical for us. 
They're very practical for our 

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It says Christ Jesus who though 
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not count equality with God. 
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emptied himself by taking the 
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the likeness of men and being 
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He humbled himself by becoming 
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Death even death on a cross. 
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he was equal with God, he always
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second person of the Trinity, 
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First, John one said this in the
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Word was with God. 
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He was in the beginning with 
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through him. 
And without him was not anything

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made, that was made Hebrews. 13 
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glory of God, and the exact 
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upholds, the universe by the 
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That's the Jesus, we serve. 
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the status of God, this passage 
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thing to be grasped, he didn't 
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to for his own personal 
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And what does it mean that he 
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That's a, that's a phrase that 
has sparked a lot of 

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controversy, dating all the way 
back to the early church and for

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good reason, it's important. 
What that means me, tell you 

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what it does. 
Not mean, it is not mean that 

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Jesus ceased to be God. 
That he gave up his deity. 

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Jesus never lost his, his 
Heavenly nature, he never lost 

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his deity. 
It doesn't mean that he lost his

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Divine attributes. 
Our God is unchanging. 

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He didn't lose any of that. 
He didn't give that up. 

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So what does it mean? 
Rest of our verse 7, tells us 

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what it means. 
He said taking the form of a 

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servant being born in the 
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So this is his, his Incarnation 
right kids in the room. 

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What are we celebrated 
Christmas, right, great answer. 

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I thought you were gonna say 
presents. 

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Yes, we celebrate Jesus birth. 
When Jesus came to the Earth, he

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condescended to be born as a 
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The creator of the world took 
Form of the creation. 

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The one who's deserving of 
service took on the form of a 

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servant. 
He suggested himself to things 

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like hunger, and thirst, and 
fatigue, and Temptation. 

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And we just sang a song about 
that this morning Our Savior 

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bled, Our Savior wet. 
These are things. 

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He would not have had to do. 
Had he not come to the Earth as 

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a man, but Jesus did not lose 
his divine nature. 

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What he did was he added a human
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So some have called this 
subtraction by addition. 

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He added a human nature to 
himself. 

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So Jesus. 
The God, man. 

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He didn't become 50%. 
God and 50%, man. 

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No, he's both. 100% God, 100% 
fully. 

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Man, two Nature's in one person.
Are you confused yet? 

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Me too. 
John Calvin. 

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Once said this about the 
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He said, the Son of God, 
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Heaven yet without abandoning 
Heaven. 

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He was pleased to be conceived 
miraculously in the virgin's, 

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womb to live on the earth and 
hang upon the cross and yet 

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always filled the world as from 
the beginning. 

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It's powerful. 
Here's an illustration, I 

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borrowed from a guy named Gavin 
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I think, might be helpful to us 
to wrap our heads around this. 

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He said there's not a one-to-one
correspondence Between Heaven 

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and Earth. 
They are infinitely and 

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qualitatively distinct. 
Therefore Christ is able to be 

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fully localized on Earth and 
remain extra just as token could

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have written himself into the 
story of The Lord of the Rings. 

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Thus having the properties of 
character in that story while 

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still remaining in Oxford. 
Thus retaining his original 

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properties token could not have 
traveled to Cambridge while 

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remaining in Oxford, but he 
could have written himself into 

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middle. 
The Earth while remaining in 

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Oxford. 
And that is because Middle-earth

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and Oxford are not just 
different places but different 

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Realms and in the same 
mysterious and wonderful way. 

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God, the son is able to become 
fully man on Earth while 

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remaining fully God in heaven. 
One person with two Natures or 

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one person in two different 
realms. 

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It's really helpful to me to 
think about it that way. 

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And so Paul is emphasizing this.
This emptying that Jesus has 

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done this emptying of himself. 
He's emphasizing this to point 

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to the humility of Jesus. 
That's what he wants us to see 

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here. 
Wayne grudem, put it this way. 

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He said, the emptying includes a
change of role in status. 

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Not an essential attributes or 
nature. 

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It's not that Jesus was anything
less than what he was before. 

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It's that in becoming a man and 
in becoming a servant Eternal, 

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Son of God performed, the 
greatest act of humility 

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imaginable. 
It is the single greatest act of

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counting others, more 
significant than yourself. 

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Jesus poured out his life. 
He poured out everything for you

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and me and verse 8 of our 
passage today tells us being 

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found in human form. 
He humbled himself by becoming 

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obedient to the point of death, 
even death on a cross. 

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So Jesus was born into the world
for a purpose, right? 

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He was born to die, so reason he
came to die. 

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Substitutionary death, he 
humbled himself by becoming a 

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man living in a obedient life. 
Following the law perfectly on 

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our behalf dying. 
A substitutionary death, in our 

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place that we should have paid a
penalty. 

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We should have paid and he took 
that punishment upon himself, 

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and he didn't do this against 
his will, but know, the Bible 

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tells us. 
He, he sacrificed himself 

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willingly. 
He laid down his life willingly.

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And this Paul tells us was the 
result exaltation. 

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The father, exalted him verse 9 
therefore God has highly exalted

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him and bestowed on him. 
The name that is above every 

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name that at the name of Jesus. 
Every knee should bow in heaven 

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and on Earth and under the 
Earth. 

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And every tongue confess that 
Jesus Christ is Lord to the 

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glory of God, the father. 
So Jesus humbled himself and God

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the Father, exalted him. 
Jesus been his need to serve 

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others and the father decrees 
that every knee will bow to him.

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00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:37,900
Jesus, He didn't seek a name for
himself but the father has given

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a decree that every knee will 
bow to him. 

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Every knee will bow, every 
tongue will confess and I don't 

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know if there's any unbelievers 
in the room but if there are I 

486
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just want to tell you it's going
to go a lot better for you if 

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you bend the knee to Jesus now 
because the Bible's very clear 

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every knee will bow and every 
tongue will confess and it's 

489
00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:01,600
either going to be in humble 
submission or it's going to be 

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in judgment and that should be a
warning to us. 

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All we need to humbly submit to 
Jesus. 

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Now willingly, submit to Jesus. 
Now one commentator said of this

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passage, he said this section, 
although steeped in profound 

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theology remains eminently, 
practical for the Saints of 

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00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:24,500
Philippi and for believers of 
all ages, Paul is presenting the

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Divine Paradox, foolish to the 
Natural man. 

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At the Way Up Is Down at the 
cross proceeds. 

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A crown that the road of 
exaltation by the father is 

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paved by Humble service, to 
others for the father's glory. 

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In this, just like what Jesus 
said in Matthew 23:12, he said, 

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00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,200
whoever exalts himself will be 
humbled. 

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Whoever humbles himself, will be
exalted. 

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00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:50,500
He also said in Matthew, 20, 
starting in verse 26, but 

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whoever would be great among you
must be your servant. 

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00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:57,000
ENT and whoever would be first 
among you must be your slave, 

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00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:00,600
even as the son of man came not 
to be served, but to serve and 

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to give his life as a ransom for
many. 

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So it's okay to desire to be 
great. 

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It's a good desire. 
We should desire to be great but

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we have to remember that the Way
Up Is Down. 

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Jesus humbled himself. 
He gave up his life to serve us 

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and in so doing he made Unity 
with him and unity with one 

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00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:27,100
another possible that's what he 
accomplished. 

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So I want to ask you a question 
this morning, how could we not 

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pursue Unity? 
What reason could we possibly 

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give not to pursue unity in our 
church body in light of 

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everything Christ has done in 
light of everything, we've just 

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00:28:43,300 --> 00:28:45,400
been reminded of how could we 
not? 

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Because the reality of it is 
humbly serving one. 

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Another is how we serve Jesus. 
You know, I'm an elder at my 

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home church and as an elder when
people are going through 

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00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,700
terrible things you're usually 
the one that gets the phone 

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00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:02,600
call. 
And we've had some families in 

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00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,200
our church, goes through some 
really traumatic stuff lately. 

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00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:10,500
I was talking with a brother who
his family experience a really 

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00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:14,400
tragic loss that was unexpected 
and just reach out to him and 

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00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,100
said, hey, what can we do? 
How can we, how can we love on 

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00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:18,200
you? 
Is there anything we can do? 

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And he said, honestly, I don't 
need anything. 

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00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,400
Our small group has stepped up 
their cutting grass. 

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They're bringing meals. 
They're just pouring out so 

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much. 
Love on us. 

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00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,500
I couldn't ask for anything else
and something he said to me that

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00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:35,300
stuck out was he said, I don't 
know how anybody goes through 

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00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:39,300
something like this, without a 
church family and my wife and I 

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00:29:39,308 --> 00:29:42,200
have experienced that we've been
on the receiving end of that as 

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00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,400
well. 
And I'm sure many of you in this

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00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,500
room can think back to times in 
your life where you were really 

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00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:50,100
going through it and your 
church, family stepped up, and 

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00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:52,100
loved you and served you. 
And that's what it's about. 

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About. 
I know from talking to John, 

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00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:01,800
Michael, I know that salt Church
practices this well, I know, he 

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speaks so highly of you guys, so
I know that you do this. 

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Well, I just want to say, keep 
going. 

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And as we close this morning, I 
want to remind us of the goal. 

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What's the point of all? 
This is it just so, we feel 

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good? 
Is it just so we feel like our 

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00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:18,900
needs are being met and know. 
There's something bigger, 

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there's something more 
important. 

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I said at the beginning of this 
that our unity in Christ is 

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essential for what for 
Effective, gospel Ministry. 

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00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:33,800
Unity is not the end goal. 
Healthy relationships with one, 

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00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:38,500
another is not the end goal. 
The end goal is that we have 

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00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:42,400
effective gospel Ministry. 
Remember, in John 17, when Jesus

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00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,400
is about to go to the cross and 
he's praying for his disciples 

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00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,300
and he's what does he pray? 
He says, father, I pray. 

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You would make them one. 
Those disciples and all who 

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would believe in their message. 
I pray that they would be one 

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and why what's the reason he 
gives says? 

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00:30:55,700 --> 00:31:01,900
So that the world may believe so
that the world may believe in. 

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00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:03,700
I want to suggest you this 
morning. 

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That that's the Apostle Paul's 
point in Philippians chapter 2 

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as well. 
If we keep on reading in verse 

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14 and 15, he says do all things
without grumbling or disputing 

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that you may be blameless and 
innocent children of God without

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00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:19,300
blemish in the midst of a 
crooked and twisted generation 

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00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,900
among whom you shine as lights 
in the world. 

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00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:30,000
This is why our Unity as a 
church is absolutely essential 

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because we are lights in the 
world because the world is 

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00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:36,800
watching the world is watching 
to see how we love one another. 

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00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,200
And when we love one, another 
will we are being lights in the 

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00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,600
world. 
So that all the world might 

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00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,800
believe our missions to 
important and the stakes are too

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high for us to be inviting. 
Right? 

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00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,600
I want you to imagine for a 
minute soldiers in a war zone. 

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00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,100
Do you think soldiers in a war 
zone? 

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00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:00,700
Have time to fight and bicker 
about stupid insignificant? 

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00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:05,200
Things know why? 
Because lives are on the line. 

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00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,900
If they don't work together as a
team people die. 

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00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:14,200
And so I want to challenge you 
this morning church missions to 

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important and there's too much 
at stake for us not to walk in 

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00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,800
unity. so, a couple of takeaways
things, that ways that we can 

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apply this word this morning, 
First pursue unity and Christ, 

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for the sake of the Gospel. 
Pursue Unity with one another. 

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00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,700
And remember, remember that 
reason? 

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00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,100
It's because we're we're doing 
it for the sake of the Gospel. 

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00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,900
For the mission. 
That Christ has entrusted to his

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00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:44,000
church. 
Secondly, follow the example of 

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00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,700
Jesus by serving others in 
humility. 

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00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,800
Humility is the pathway to 
Unity. 

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00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:55,100
So we serve one another in 
humility, but following the 

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00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:59,900
example of Jesus and and thirdly
worshiped, the exalted savior, 

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00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:04,100
when we reflect on what Christ 
has done, when we reflect 

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00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:08,100
reflect on a text like this, it 
should cause us all to step back

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00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,600
and Marvel at what Jesus has 
done. 

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00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,700
He is the king of kings. 
He is the Lord of lords. 

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00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:19,000
God has made him King over all 
the Earth, every knee will bow 

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00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,800
to him. 
Every tongue will confess. 

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00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:26,300
He will rule the nations with a 
rod of iron Jesus the king over 

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00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:31,900
all the universe. 
But this cause you to step back 

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00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:35,700
and on worship him this morning.
Let's pray father. 

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00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,900
I think you for this word. lord,
it's a difficult word to put 

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00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:45,700
into practice and I pray that 
you would help us Lord, I pray 

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00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:49,300
that you would help us to pursue
Unity God and not forget the 

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00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:53,000
reason not forget the point of 
it all got to pray that you 

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00:33:53,008 --> 00:33:57,700
would help us to follow. 
Your example, help us to humbly 

607
00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:00,600
serve one another in love. 
And Lord, I pray, you would 

608
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,900
cause us all to worship you to 
exalt. 

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00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:06,700
You Lord, to just bask in your 
presence. 

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00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:12,000
To be. 
In total awe of who you are and 

611
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,600
what you've accomplished. 
I thank you for the opportunity 

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00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,600
to be here today. 
I think you for this church. 

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00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,400
Lord. 
I Thank You for their pastor and

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00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,400
Lauren. 
I'm just excited to hear all the

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00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,500
great testimonies of what you're
going to do in this community 

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00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:28,600
through Salt Church. 
It's going to be amazing. 

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00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:30,800
In Jesus name. 
Amen. 

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00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,699
All right. 
You're dismissed. 

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Thanks for being here, 
everybody.