1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:04,200 Well, hey, I'm so glad every single one of you is here and it 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,240 is a good day to worship. I'm glad you're here because God 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,120 is good and we have the opportunity to worship and serve 4 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:13,720 Him today. So congratulations for being 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:15,520 here. It's good to have you. 6 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,720 We love you guys, all of you. By the way, Tuesday is veteran's 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,560 day and so we're going to have a lunch. 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,960 And I know we talked about in pre service, but right after 9 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,400 service, if you are a veteran, you are invited to the luncheon. 10 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,120 But right now I wanted to take a moment and say, would any 11 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,120 veterans or active service military, would you please stand 12 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,720 and can we just acknowledge them and say thank you for their 13 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:51,330 service? Thank you all so much for 14 00:00:51,330 --> 00:00:53,970 serving our country. And, and I, I don't ever want to 15 00:00:53,970 --> 00:00:58,720 take for granted the fact the, the freedoms that we have and, 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,960 and your service that helped us and, and serving our country 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,160 and, and serving God at that. Today, we're going to continue 18 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,840 talking about being humble. And, and, and I want to say 19 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:16,120 this, humility is not an option for the follower of Christ. 20 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,800 Humility is a calling. It's not, you know, if you get 21 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,480 there, it's not, you know, just in case you're a super 22 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:26,880 Christian, then you should be humble. 23 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,000 Humility is what we are called to as Christians. 24 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:38,320 So the big question I have for you today is this is it enough? 25 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,440 Is it enough? And I'll explain that as we go. 26 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,760 But Philippians chapter 2 is where we're at. 27 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,320 And verse one talks about the good things that God has done 28 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,520 for us that Jesus has has done for us. 29 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,280 It has the four ifs and, and, and really those ifs are more 30 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,200 rhetorical because we know that God is good and that God is 31 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,160 doing good things. And so the question I have for 32 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:06,280 you today is, is it enough? I, I read a story this week and, 33 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,240 and this is a true story. There were two authors that this 34 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:11,840 sounds like a joke. I'm starting, but it's not a 35 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,160 joke. There are two authors and, and 36 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,880 they were at a party of, at the House of a billionaire. 37 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:19,960 He's a hedge fund manager. And one of those authors had 38 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:24,360 written a famous book And and the other author just came to 39 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,600 realize and and said to that one said, listen, did do you 40 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,480 understand that the guy whose house we're at this party made 41 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:38,080 more in one day than your famous book made across all of its 42 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,720 entirety? Isn't that incredible? 43 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,480 I mean, think about does it ever blow your mind just how much 44 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,440 money some people make and have? And and and so this one, and 45 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,200 this is this is legit. This happened. 46 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,480 The one author said this to the other like he made more in one 47 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,480 day than you made with that entire book and everything 48 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,040 you've done. And the other author looked back 49 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,320 at him and said, yeah, but I have something that he will 50 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,920 never have. He said, well, what is that? 51 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:09,360 And he said enough, I have enough. 52 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,320 I share that. And and that is true, that 53 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,520 happened. I share that because we live in 54 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,160 a world that is chasing enough. You know that, right? 55 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:24,360 We're chasing enough, enough money, enough popularity, enough 56 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:29,240 power, enough, enough likes or shares, enough, whatever it is. 57 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,960 We live in a world that is chasing enough. 58 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:40,720 And in Philippians Chapter 2 today, the question is, is it 59 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,600 enough for us? Do we have enough? 60 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,600 Stand with me. We're in Philippians 2. 61 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,120 I'm going to read verse one through 11. 62 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,720 We're really focusing on verse 3 and 4 today, but I'm going to 63 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,080 read the whole thing. And I just want to remind you 64 00:03:55,080 --> 00:04:03,480 that we are called to be humble. This is not a mere suggestion. 65 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,440 This is who we're called to be. If you are a follower of Christ 66 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,240 and and listen, if you're not a follower of Christ, I want you 67 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,800 to know that there is nothing better in the world than 68 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,480 following Jesus. But if you're a follower of 69 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,440 Christ, you are called to be humble. 70 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:22,680 So this is Philippians chapter 2. 71 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,040 This is Paul's letter to the church at Philippi says 72 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,920 Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united 73 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:32,840 with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing 74 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:37,080 in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy 75 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:41,880 complete by being like minded, having the same love, being one 76 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:46,440 in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish 77 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,320 ambition or vain conceit. Rather in humility value others 78 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:55,920 above yourselves, not looking to your own interests, but each of 79 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,720 you to the interests of others and your relationship with one 80 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,080 another. Have the same mindset as Christ 81 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,760 Jesus, who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality 82 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,280 with God something to be used to his own advantage. 83 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,040 Rather, he he made himself nothing by taking the very 84 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,160 nature of a servant being made in human likeness and being 85 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,600 found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself by becoming 86 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,080 obedient to death, even death on a cross. 87 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:28,520 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the 88 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,080 name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every 89 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,920 knee should bow in heaven, and on earth and under the earth, 90 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:39,400 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the 91 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,680 glory of God the Father. Praise the Lord, you can have a 92 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,760 seat. This is God's word. 93 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,760 And, and Paul wrote this to the church at Philippi a long time 94 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,880 ago, but we believe that God inspired that. 95 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,120 And we believe that God not only wanted to speak to the church at 96 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,560 Philippi, but wants to speak to us today through these words. 97 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,200 And so this is a beautiful picture of of Jesus and his 98 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,760 humility. It's a beautiful picture of what 99 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:11,920 it looks like to be humble. I want to start here by telling 100 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:16,880 you that it is all about Jesus. All of it. 101 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,840 As followers of Christ, this is all about him. 102 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,920 Everything we have comes from him. 103 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:30,600 He is the model of who we should be and it's all for His glory. 104 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,280 It's all about Jesus. Now verse one through 4 kind of 105 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,720 really the whole thing talks about how we we are supposed to 106 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,280 treat others. Last week we talked about verse 107 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:49,800 one and two, which say therefore and and we the words if here I I 108 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,840 want you to understand that this is rhetorical. 109 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:58,200 This is Paul is not saying you know, if per perchance God loves 110 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,160 you what he's saying. I think the better translation 111 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,800 here would probably be since, and, and I mean, it translates 112 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,400 to if, but the, the meaning here that Paul would be, you know, 113 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:13,480 saying is since you have encouragement from being united 114 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,840 with Christ, if you have any comfort from his love, if 115 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,600 there's any common sharing in the spirit, if any tenderness 116 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,120 and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like minded, 117 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,120 having the same love and being one in spirit and of mine. 118 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,480 So, so we had the four ifs last week, the then and, and then 119 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,440 what we're called to, which is unity. 120 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:33,720 That's what we talked about last week. 121 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,800 Verse 1 and 2 are about what God's done for us through Jesus 122 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,960 and about unity. But now we're looking into verse 123 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:45,440 three and four and three and four get a little bit more 124 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,440 tricky. They're they're very 125 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:53,880 countercultural. And so our, our world tells us 126 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,640 that it's all about you, right? Every commercial you see, 127 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:02,960 everything you experience, our world tells us that it's all 128 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,600 about you, that you are the center of all of it. 129 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,720 And we understand that since the beginning of time when when God 130 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,720 created Adam and Eve, they chose a selfish, sinful way. 131 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,000 And from that moment on, every person that's ever been born 132 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,920 since has been born with a selfish, sinful nature. 133 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,640 You don't have to wait long to see it manifest itself in a 134 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:33,360 child. We are selfish from the get go 135 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:38,799 because we were born with this selfish sinful nature and so our 136 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:42,039 world, it echoes that. Just some I know I've I've said 137 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:45,200 these before, but just some, you know, popular sayings. 138 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,840 Live your best life. Yolo. 139 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,760 What's Yolo mean? You only live once. 140 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,440 The idea there is hey, you only live once so enjoy it. 141 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,760 You know, it's all about you. Treat yourself or yourself. 142 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,560 Treat yourself. Hey, you know you are what 143 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:12,000 matters, so treat yourself. Hey, you got to look out for #1 144 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:13,360 right? Who's number one? 145 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,520 You are. That's what the world's telling 146 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:17,680 you. You aren't. 147 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,280 You know what if you're on an airplane, put your mask on first 148 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,840 before you put anyone else's. No, that, that one's actually 149 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,320 important. You should do that. 150 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,680 That's a safety issue. I'm just joking with that one. 151 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,400 But our world, everything around us teaches us that it's about 152 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,800 us. And Paul is calling the church 153 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,680 and Paul is calling all of us as Christians to a different way. 154 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:44,320 Verse three, he says do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain 155 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,080 conceit. Do nothing out of selfish 156 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,680 ambition or vain conceit. Rather in humility, value others 157 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:56,160 above yourselves, not looking to your own interests, but each of 158 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,040 you to the interests of others. Two parts of this that we're 159 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,840 going to look at. The 1st is this do nothing out 160 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,120 of selfish ambition or vain conceit. 161 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,680 Say nothing. Do nothing out of selfish 162 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:12,560 ambition or vain conceit. The second part is how we view 163 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:16,040 others. Value others above yourself. 164 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:17,920 Let's let's talk about the first part. 165 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,440 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. 166 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,560 The first thing is selfish ambition and, and, and the idea 167 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:30,640 of that selfishness is seeking after your own good. 168 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:32,800 There there's a song that comes on the radio. 169 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,200 I listen to country music sometime. 170 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,680 I'm a little bit out of that, you know that phase right now. 171 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:40,200 But but one of the songs, Toby Keith has a song and, and it 172 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,200 says I want to talk about me. I want to talk about I, I want 173 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,360 to talk about number 10. My, me, my, what I think, what I 174 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,440 like, what I know, what I want, what I see. 175 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,280 I like talking about you, you, you, you usually, but 176 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,560 occasionally I want to talk about me. 177 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,200 You guys hear that when I said it? 178 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,000 Do you want me to sing it? Brad, get that guitar and bring 179 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,760 it up here. I'm kidding. 180 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,560 Don't do it. I'm not doing it. 181 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:13,720 I mean, our culture is all about me and many people walk through 182 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,120 life and they're not thinking of others, they're thinking of 183 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:19,880 themselves. The idea here, it says do 184 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:24,000 nothing out of selfish ambition. The idea here is, is that you 185 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,760 would be doing things for your benefit, regardless of what it 186 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,840 means for other people. Selfish ambition. 187 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,280 All right, let's, let's have a little bit more fun. 188 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,760 I've, I've got a list of things that I see people do that I 189 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,240 think are incredibly selfish. If you want to add to them, you 190 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,280 can talk to your neighbor and, and add 1. 191 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:45,640 Or if you just want to raise your hand, you can raise your 192 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:51,560 hand and say Amen. Walking around, talking on 193 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:58,720 speakerphone in public. Come on, we don't all want to 194 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,720 hear your conversation. Pastor Dale, I'm sorry. 195 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:03,840 I didn't say that. I didn't say that. 196 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,920 He's not even in here to defend himself. 197 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,560 What a jerk I am. Come on. 198 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,880 Some of you do that, don't you? Hey, stop it. 199 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,480 Stop it. We don't want to hear your 200 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,720 conversations. All right, here's another one. 201 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,520 Getting up before the fasten seat belt sign goes off so you 202 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,840 can get your bags and get to the front of the line and make 203 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:29,240 everyone wait on you. Come on. 204 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,200 Any amens in here, people that stand up right? 205 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:34,960 They just got to get to the front of the line. 206 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,560 Are there any people in here that do that? 207 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:43,600 Stop it. All right, a couple of these are 208 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,800 airport related. You know what drives me insane 209 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,000 is when you're waiting for the bags to come off baggage claim 210 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,560 and what do we all do instead of standing back and watching for 211 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:54,440 our bags? We all have to get right up on 212 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,080 it. And we got to look because we 213 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,040 got to make sure that I'm the 1st to see my bag and I'm the 214 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:01,480 first to get my bag. And I just want to say guys, if 215 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:06,280 we all just scoop back, then we can all see and you can walk up 216 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,480 and get your bag. But no, it's about you. 217 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,360 Any of you do that? Stop it. 218 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:14,200 OK. All right, All right. 219 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,440 I see some. I see some halfway hands. 220 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:17,720 You don't want to admit it. All right, here. 221 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:19,760 Here's another one. Are any of you adding some of 222 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,880 these in your head? Like, all right, here. 223 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,560 Here's another that drives me nuts when I'm pulling through a 224 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:28,360 parking lot and I'm driving down the parking lot and somebody's 225 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:34,080 walking across the road or a space and instead of just 226 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:38,840 walking across and saying thank you, they just walk right down 227 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:43,040 the middle. They know I'm behind them. 228 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,200 They know I'm trying to get through. 229 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,120 I'm letting them go by, but they're just taking their sweet 230 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,480 old time. Does this drive anyone else 231 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,520 crazy? Some of you do it. 232 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:56,920 Stop it, stop it. All right, we, we were in 233 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,400 Nashville for homecoming. I'll talk about that a little 234 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,240 bit in a bit. But we're staying at a hotel and 235 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,880 we came to check out yesterday morning. 236 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,760 And when I walked out now, this hotel had a just terrible 237 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,640 parking lot full of cars. And there was one way to get in 238 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:15,120 and out of the hotel parking lot. 239 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,600 And it was the portico or, or the, the drive through right by 240 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,240 the hotel. And somebody as I'm walking out 241 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,280 getting ready to check out, I'm taking my bags out. 242 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:27,680 Somebody had parked their beautiful big red truck right in 243 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:32,200 the middle of the driveway, right in the middle. 244 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,200 OK, that's fine. I went and put my bags in the 245 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,280 car, went back up to the room, you know, got them ready, came 246 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,160 back down, and when we were ready to go, 20 minutes later, 247 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:46,200 that truck was still parked right in the middle of the 248 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,000 driveway. The only way in and out. 249 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:52,200 Hey, forget about everyone else. Just make sure that you have 250 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,360 what you need. We we, we live in a selfish 251 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,560 world, don't we? Don't do any of you do that. 252 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,600 By the way, I don't want to leave you out. 253 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:05,880 Stop it. We live in a selfish, selfish 254 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,680 world. We're called to a different way. 255 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,560 In fact, in Matthew 20, Jesus says, you know that the rulers 256 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:12,960 of the Gentiles lorded over them. 257 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,200 Their high officials exercise authority over them. 258 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,680 But not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become 259 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,000 great among you must first be a servant. 260 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,760 Whoever wants to be first must be a slave. 261 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:28,560 Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve 262 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,680 and to give his life as a ransom for many, Jesus says the Son of 263 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:38,720 Man, Jesus Christ came not to be served but to serve others, not 264 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:43,080 to be selfish, but to be selfless. 265 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:50,280 And if we are going to follow Jesus, we can't be selfish, stop 266 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:55,040 it. Do nothing out of selfish 267 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:57,560 ambition. The second thing it says is or 268 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,760 vain conceit. Do nothing out of selfish 269 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,080 ambition or vain conceit. How many of you have seen the 270 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,400 movie The Truman Show? Jim Carrey was in it the movie 271 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,840 The Truman Show. OK, the the premise of the movie 272 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:14,080 is that Jim Carrey is living his life and and he doesn't realize 273 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,640 it at first. But all of this is 1 big 274 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,520 production about his life. He's the main character and 275 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,720 everyone walking around him are actors and actresses. 276 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,360 And he starts to realize that something's off. 277 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,960 Here's the deal guys. A lot of us live our lives. 278 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,200 I'm just going to go ahead and call it what it is. 279 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:36,000 Almost all of us at some point think that the world revolves 280 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,080 around us. Don't we? 281 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,640 Have you ever thought that the world revolved around you? 282 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,360 Don't lie. Am I? 283 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:48,360 Am I the only one, guys? And you guys make a pastor feel 284 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,760 bad about herself. We tend to think that the world 285 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,640 revolves around us. I mean, we were born thinking 286 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,000 that, right? And so, you know, the craziest 287 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,520 thing happened this week. I went to homecoming down at 288 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,920 Tribeca Nazarene University. That's where I graduated. 289 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,079 And Friday night there was this big show and all these people 290 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:11,160 were gathered and I walked in the room. 291 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:16,839 Alex Mahaffey, graduate, 2003 Tribeca Nazarene University. 292 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:21,280 And I walked into this room and the craziest thing happened. 293 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:27,640 The production didn't stop. Everybody didn't stop their 294 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,960 conversations and look at me and say he's here. 295 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,680 You ever have that experience, guys? 296 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,200 The world doesn't revolve around you. 297 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:39,880 It certainly doesn't revolve around me. 298 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,560 I was reminded of that this this weekend. 299 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,920 We we tend to think that everything, I mean, we live in a 300 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,440 way that says I'm the star of the show. 301 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,480 Everything's about me. And, and honestly, I know it's 302 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,640 true. Every single one of us at some 303 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:59,920 point thinks this way or feels this way, But the truth of the 304 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:03,480 matter is the world does not revolved around you. 305 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,640 Vain conceit is valuing yourself higher than you should. 306 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,880 It's thinking of yourself as higher than you should. 307 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,840 It's having an arrogant or conceit in nature thinking it's 308 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,360 all about me. All right, another fun thing. 309 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,600 I was walking out of the basketball game at Tribeca. 310 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:20,840 So we went to the basketball game. 311 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,240 At halftime we were leaving and there were these two guys out in 312 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:28,560 the hallway and they had basketball jumpsuits on and, and 313 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,800 they had an H and an F on it. And I thought, wait a minute, 314 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,760 there aren't a lot of schools that have the initials H&F. 315 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:39,600 You know what school does have HF? 316 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,360 Hume Fogg. I'm not even going to say the 317 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:46,400 whole name because it's so cool. Hume Fogg, Academic magnet 318 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,560 School, HF. And I walked up to him. 319 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,800 I was like, guys, where, what is HF? 320 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,560 Where are you guys from? Oh, we play basketball at Hume 321 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,720 Fogg. I went to you fog. 322 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,600 I played basketball. I graduated in 2000. 323 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,280 And they're looking at me like, wait, why are you talking to me? 324 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,600 I played there. I was a basketball player. 325 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:10,920 What? Were you any good? 326 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,600 No. Was the team any good? 327 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,480 No. OK, cool, man. 328 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:22,440 Yeah. We, we like to think. 329 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,280 I'll be honest, when I went to Hume Fog, I kind of thought I 330 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,240 was pretty good. You know, I I thought I thought 331 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:35,320 I was pretty good. 25 years later and nobody remembers me. 332 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:42,040 Nobody cares any good. Nah, I think all of us, if we're 333 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:45,080 being honest, when we dream about going back to reunion or 334 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,680 when we dream about getting together with friends or in a 335 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,200 group of people, we, we typically like think about 336 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,320 people valuing us, remembering us. 337 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,240 I mean it when you walk into a group, maybe if you're, if 338 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,160 you're not looking back at reunions, maybe you're going to 339 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,640 a basketball game and you just expect, hey, I'm going to walk 340 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,200 into this basketball game and it's all good. 341 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,840 Oh, there he is. There's Alex. 2000 graduate, 342 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:11,880 Hume Fogg Academic High School Magnet. 343 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,000 Yeah. Super cool. 344 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,040 Are you guys super impressed? Come on. 345 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:22,640 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. 346 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:28,200 I was reminded all weekend that it's not about me. 347 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,320 Here's the thing. The devil. 348 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,720 The devil loves to play tricks on us. 349 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,720 Guys. I want you to know that we are 350 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,240 called to be humble. We should do nothing out of 351 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,440 selfish ambition or vain conceit. 352 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,200 But can I tell you that the devil was working on me? 353 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,960 This happens all the time. To be honest that the devil says 354 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:59,960 you're nobody, you're nothing. Nobody stopped when you walked 355 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:02,960 in the room. Nobody even knew you went here. 356 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,080 Nobody cares if you played basketball, you didn't do 357 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:14,920 anything. Verse one says if you have any 358 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,280 encouragement from being united with Christ once again, that's 359 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,440 not if it's since you have encouragement from being united 360 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:28,160 with Christ, if since you have any comfort from his love, if 361 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,040 since any common sharing in the spirit, if since you have 362 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:37,080 tenderness and compassion. Guys, I'm constantly and and I 363 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,840 know this is you too. I don't share this. 364 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,720 I don't. I don't need you to come tell me 365 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,800 that I'm something I don't. Because listen, the reality is, 366 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:49,480 if you are trying to earn your value, if you think you're a big 367 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:56,560 deal, you will find you're not. The world doesn't revolve around 368 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:01,960 you. But I want to tell you the good 369 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,360 news. There's a God that loves you so 370 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:12,800 much that he gave us one and only Son, that if you would 371 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,000 believe in Him, you won't perish, but you'll have 372 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,920 everlasting life. Some of you were good ball 373 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,640 players in high school and college. 374 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,320 Some of you were really successful. 375 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,360 Some of you are. I want you to know that your 376 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:31,720 value in no way comes from those accomplishments or successes. 377 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,720 Your value is not in how many people will remember you when 378 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,680 you walk into a room or how much money is in your bank account. 379 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,560 Your value is in verse one of Philippians chapter 2. 380 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:50,480 We have encouragement in Christ. We have comfort in His love. 381 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,600 We have a common sharing in the Spirit. 382 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:58,240 We have tenderness and compassion from God Almighty. 383 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,720 That's where our value comes from. 384 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,280 Let me ask you again, is it enough? 385 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:15,000 Is it enough because the devil plays tricks? 386 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,960 The devil will tell you you are worthless. 387 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,640 The devil will tell you nobody cares if you show up or what 388 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,080 you've done or what's happened. The devil will use it against 389 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,760 you. The question is, do you know 390 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:34,080 just how much God loves you? And do you understand that it's 391 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:38,120 more than enough? Yes, praise the Lord. 392 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:41,280 When the devil comes and says, hey, nobody cares about you, I 393 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:46,400 say yes, God cares about me. When the devil says nobody 394 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,640 remembers you, yes, God remembers you, nobody cares 395 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,960 about you. Yes, Jesus Christ came and died 396 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,360 on a cross because he cares about me. 397 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,760 Nobody wants to be with you. Yes, I have the common sharing 398 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,000 of the Holy Spirit because God sent his Spirit to walk with me 399 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:09,000 and be with me. Yes, guys today do nothing out 400 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:14,800 of selfish ambition or vain conceit because it'll lead you 401 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,960 nowhere. It'll lead you empty. 402 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:24,080 But real humility is learning to find your value in God and trust 403 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,920 Him for your well-being. The world tells you, treat 404 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,880 yourself, take care of yourself, look out for #1 make sure that 405 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,280 you have everything you need. And the truth is over and over 406 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,720 again, if that's the way you live, you will end up empty. 407 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,640 Paul writes and says there's a God that loves you. 408 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:53,840 He's with you. Humility is understanding that 409 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:58,840 my value comes from him. Not from my basketball career, 410 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:04,720 not from what church I pastor, not from how popular I was or 411 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,680 wasn't, not from any of that. From him. 412 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,400 It doesn't matter who recognizes you, God loves you. 413 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,960 If you don't walk away with anything else today, please walk 414 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,320 away knowing that there's a God that loves you more than you 415 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:33,400 will ever know, and then it doesn't matter what you've done, 416 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:40,400 whether good or bad, your value comes from Him. 417 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:45,600 If there's any consolation, any comfort of love, any fellowship 418 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:53,160 of the Spirit, any tenderness or compassion there is be humble. 419 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:58,720 We can only be humble when we learn that it's about His love 420 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:05,720 for us, not about our achievements or who we are, so 421 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,600 that that changes the way we treat each other. 422 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,240 Verse 4, that's verse 3. All of that for verse 3, we're 423 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,600 25 minutes in. Now let's go to verse four. 424 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,760 That leads us to the second part. 425 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:22,240 It frees us. Rather Paul says, don't live 426 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,440 selfishly. Don't live out of vain conceit. 427 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:30,160 Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves, not 428 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,600 looking to your own interests, but each of you to the interests 429 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,520 of others. Here's the deal guys. 430 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:42,720 When we learn that our value comes from God, it frees us up 431 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,480 that we don't have to earn our value. 432 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,280 We don't have to look out for #1 because we have a God that's 433 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,520 looking out for us. We don't have to worry about our 434 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,360 needs because God is going to take care of our needs. 435 00:26:56,360 --> 00:27:00,080 We don't have to earn our way because God has already given us 436 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:07,040 the way to eternal life. And so verse 4 and humility, 437 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,880 value others above yourselves. Don't look to your own interest, 438 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,840 but each of you to the interest of others. 439 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:17,240 True humility leads us to generosity. 440 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:23,000 See, selfish ambition, vain conceit is everything is pointed 441 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,160 at me. This is coming to me. 442 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:29,080 This my value is here, my accomplishments are here. 443 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:34,960 Everything points to me. But when you realize that your 444 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,680 value doesn't come from all that, you can let it go. 445 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:44,360 And then you can live a life that points outward that you can 446 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:48,160 be. You can be a vessel of God's 447 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,720 love and comfort and grace and peace to others. 448 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:59,960 Value others above yourself. True humility is knowing your 449 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:06,040 value comes from God. And true humility is then loving 450 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:10,000 others, serving others with everything you have. 451 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,120 Can you imagine how different our world would be? 452 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:14,400 How different our country would be? 453 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,680 I love our country. Can you imagine how much better 454 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,400 it would be if we were all walking around knowing that our 455 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,680 value came from God and just loving and serving each other? 456 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,720 Can you imagine? All right, let me get myself in 457 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,400 some trouble. Can you imagine if our 458 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:38,640 politicians just wanted to serve others and didn't care about 459 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,480 their own pockets? I don't mean to call them out. 460 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:47,120 Can you imagine if your neighbors, if the people in the 461 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,000 parking lot in the airport? Can you imagine if we all just 462 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,400 wanted to love and serve each other because we knew we were 463 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,720 already loved and valued by God? Wouldn't it be an incredible 464 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,440 thing? John 13 Jesus gathers with his 465 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,560 disciples and says, When he had finished washing their feet, he 466 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,400 put on his clothes and returned to his place. 467 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,640 Do you understand what I've done for you? 468 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,840 He asked them. You call me Teacher and Lord, 469 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,080 and rightly so, for that is what I am. 470 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,000 But now that I, your teacher and Lord, your Lord and Teacher, 471 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,600 have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. 472 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:31,480 I have set an example that you should do as I have done for 473 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,880 you. Be humble. 474 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:41,440 Humility is understanding God's goodness to you, understanding 475 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:49,040 God's value for you, being unified and living and serving 476 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,120 others. So let me ask you a question. 477 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,040 Is it enough? Worship team, come on up, 478 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,600 everyone staying with me, is it enough? 479 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,680 There are probably two kinds of people in the room today. 480 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,560 Some of you maybe are still struggling with the question, Is 481 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,880 it enough? Some of you maybe have been 482 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:18,760 trying to earn it, trying to find your value, trying to earn 483 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,320 your value. Listen, today there is a God 484 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,360 that loves you more than you will ever know, and He wants to 485 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,680 invite you to find your value in Him. 486 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,120 If that's you, I want to invite you to respond to God's word. 487 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,200 And to do that, you can come to an altar, you can kneel where 488 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,880 you are, you can gather and prayer with people say God, I 489 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,400 don't want to do it on my own. I want to accept your love and 490 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,400 your grace for me. Maybe there's some of you who 491 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,960 just have been living a little bit too much. 492 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:54,040 Like it's about you. We all do it. 493 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,840 It's it's a part of every single one of our nature, but praise 494 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:04,200 God, his spirit and his power can change us today. 495 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,800 If that's where you're living and you say, hey, I just need to 496 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,280 love people a little bit better. I just need to serve people a 497 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,440 little bit better. I want to invite you to respond, 498 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,720 say God, how can I love and serve others? 499 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:22,880 I know we're going to spend some time in prayer here as we sing. 500 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,320 So I would invite you to come as we sing and and I know Andy 501 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,120 Poland's going to come down because we're going to anoint 502 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,120 her for her surgery that's coming up. 503 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,040 The family ask if we could. And so if you want to come, 504 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,400 gather around her. If you want to come, respond to 505 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,760 God's word. If you need to come and just 506 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,400 pray, I want to invite you to respond to God's word. 507 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,160 Now, Father, I thank you for your love and your grace. 508 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,040 I thank you that every single person in here is a is your 509 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,000 child, whether they know it or not. 510 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,560 I pray today, if there's anyone that's been struggling to find 511 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,200 their value, I pray that you would show it to him right now. 512 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,840 If there's any of us that have just been a little bit selfish, 513 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,240 I pray Lord that you would call us and direct us to find our 514 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,760 value in you and to love and to serve others. 515 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,680 We love you Jesus. We thank you that you're here. 516 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,320 Help us as we respond now in Jesus name, Amen. 517 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:15,520 Respond as we sing.