Philippians 2:3-5
Just like I did on Mother’s Day this year, I have a message today that is generally directed at men since it is Father’s Day. But this really can apply to all of us who claim the name of Jesus.
So, let’s start with this question. What does it mean to be a servant? In fact, here is a little exercise. When I say the word servant, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Maybe it is a waiter or waitress at a restaurant. Maybe it is a public servant, a police officer or fireman. Maybe what came to your mind was something more negative in nature. Someone who is subservient to others, perhaps. The term servant can bring all sorts of images to our minds.
I believe that we live in a culture that doesn’t really value servanthood in many ways. Most everything that is marketed to us tend to have components of how that product can help us be better served. I think we are so conditioned to think about how we can be served that we kind of recoil at the thought of being a servant nowadays.
Now, when we bring this concept into the realm of the family, a Christian husband or dad wears a lot of hats. We have a lot of responsibilities. And I think those that want to be a good dad or good husband feel the weight of that responsibility. But one thing that is often overlooked is the calling of God on our lives to be servants.
To lead from a position of humble servanthood. Which goes against the grain of our society today in many ways. When we think of leaders today, we probably don’t think about servant-leaders since that is radically different than what most “leaders” are today. In fact, there are some today that want to have a higher rank than others because they think that being a leader means that they will no longer have to serve others.
But as Christians we are called to lead from the posture of humble servanthood. To not lord authority over others. To not knock others down by might. But to serve others. The atheistic evolutionary belief naturally leads to this conclusion: “might makes right.” Survival of the fittest. If you are stronger, then you are right. And that is the natural destination of a worldview that is void of God.
But the Christian ethic is exact opposite. Let me give you the greatest example of this. Who is the most powerful and authoritative and greatest person to ever walk the earth? Obviously, it is Jesus, the One who made the earth. He is omnipotent in His power.
And yet, in John 13 Jesus laid took at towel and stooped down and washed the nasty feet of His disciples. And after doing so, He said this…
John 13:12-17: 12 “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord; and [b]you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
Now, either right after washing the disciples’ feet or maybe before washing their feet this interaction happened among the disciples:
Luke 22:24-27: And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest. 25 And He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who have authority over them are called ‘Benefactors.’ (a term of praise for how awesome they were) 26 But it is not this way with you, but the one who is the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the servant. 27 For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.
Matt 23:11: But the greatest among you shall be your servant.
Now, all of those verses I just read are not the ways or the beliefs of our secular world today, are they? The greatest is the servant? The least is the greatest. The most powerful person to ever walk the earth stooping down to serve His disciples by humbly washing their feet. That’s not the way of the world at all!
Yet, that is the call of God for His people. To be servants. That is the call of God on Fathers and husbands…..and even on all of us.
Now, to build on that theme, I want us to go over to Phil 2 for our text today.
Read Philippians 2:1-11
In verses 1-2 Paul called on the Philippian church to be unified. To be of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
The fix their minds on the same spiritual realities in Christ. To be unified in those beliefs. To maintain the same fervency in their love for God and one another. To be united in spirit. To lock arms in a unified mission. And to have one overarching purpose, to know God and to make God known.
And that was critical for the church at Philippi as they existed and served the Lord in a pagan society. There was no room for beating each other up; culture was going to do a good enough job of that. And the church in Philippi had to be galvanized in their unity. It was mission critical that they were unified.
So, after calling for their unity, Paul then shared with them…
1.The pathway to unity
Within these verses we find some great truths about what it means to be selfless. What is means to serve. What it should look like to imitate Christ.
Now, obviously Paul was writing this to the church at Philippi. The church at Philippi that assembled 2,000 years ago on the other side of the world. But this should be the desire of all Christians as well, including Christian husbands and fathers.
Read verses 3-4:
1.Do nothing from selfishness: Here is the lexicon meaning of the GR word used for selfishness here. “A feeling of resentfulness based on jealousy and implying rivalry.”
--Selfishness is demanding one’s own way and it can even include bullying others to get one’s own way driven by resentfulness and rivalry. Paul writes, “do NOTHING from the position of selfishness or…
2.Empty conceit: Kenodoxia. (doxology means to sing a hymn of praise to give glory to God). Literally it is empty glory. The old KJV translates this as vainglory. It is to have a highly exalted, over-inflated view of self!
Paul wrote about this very thing other times as well. For example, in Romans 12:3: For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think;
--Or to the church at Corinth. I Cor 4:7: For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Now, obviously selfishness and empty conceit are very much interconnected. Because empty conceit leads a person to view others as lesser than and perhaps even see others as a means to selfish gain. And that person, in his arrogance, as he thinks highly of himself, he will consequently think less of others, leading to selfishness toward the person that he deems lesser than himself.
--And here in Phil 2, he writes don’t be selfish and don’t be conceited. That isn’t the way of Christ. Selfishness and pride are not ethics of the Kingdom of God. To walk the pathway of Jesus is to walk the pathway of selflessness and humility.
Don’t be a church, don’t be a people, don’t be men, don’t be fathers, don’t be husbands….who are selfish and conceited.
Boy, that goes against the fabric of popular culture today, doesn’t it? Men, don’t be arrogant. Don’t be boastful. Don’t think more highly of yourself than you should think. Let’s be honest, the vice of arrogance is often celebrated as virtues in our world under the guise of things like confidence. But that isn’t the way of our Lord of His Kingdom or His people.
So, instead of being full of self, Paul writes in verse 3, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourself. Verse 4, do not merely look out for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.
In order to maintain unity in churches specifically (but also in our relationships), the Christian should do nothing from the posture of selfishness or pride, but instead….in humility of mind we must regard one another as more important than ourselves.
Now, believe it or not, that was an even more radical, counter-cultural teaching at that time than it is today! The Roman ethic at that time was that humility was for the weak person and the weak segments of society. Humility was not a virtue in the Greco-Roman world. In fact, the word that is used here for humility was a Greek word that was often used in secular writings and language to describe someone who was being debased or afflicted. So, those who deferred to others in humility rather than demanding their own way or overpowering another to get their own way were viewed as weak and pitiful people in the secular culture into which Paul wrote this letter.
But here is something we find all throughout the pages of the bible. The ethics of various cultures, the Roman ethic at that time or even the American ethic today, in many cases, is not the same as the Christian ethic. Christians are called to be different. To let our lights shine for Jesus in such that way that the lost world will see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven. We are called by God to humbly think of the needs of others above our own. We are called to serve others.
So, if a church wants to be disunified and fight and fuss and have strife, if we want to have discord and strife in our marriages, parenting, and so forth, then there is a very simple way to bring that into existence. Just do the opposite of what these verses instruct us to do.
Simple steps to destroy a church or to destroy a marriage or to destroy other relationships in our lives: be selfish and demanding, be arrogant, and be unloving toward others.
1.Make life all about self and all about my preferences and my desires.
2.Be boisterous and loud, be aggressive and harsh in demand my own way.
3.Don’t consider the needs of others; consider my needs only.
That truly is the blueprint to disunity and fighting. Now, let’s be honest. It is easier to be like that than the other way, isn’t it? Those things truly do come naturally to us. Innate within us is a desire to want our own way. Innate within us is a propensity to think more highly of ourselves and of our opinions than we should. Innate within us is a desire to look out for our own interests before the interests of others. That is natural to us!
It is hard to choose selflessness. It is hard to defer to others. It is hard to choose to humility. It is hard to choose to be caring toward others at times. The opposite of those things is natural to us.
I give you as exhibit A, the toddler!
Toddlers don’t have to be taught how to scream and yell for their own desires, they don’t have to be taught how to take from others, they don’t have to be taught how to be unkind. No, they’ve got that down pretty well. But they have to be taught the opposite of those things. Because, as the bible says, we are by nature, children of wrath, just as the rest. This is why we need to be made new by Jesus!.
If a Christian truly chooses to honor God by living their lives in alignment with the principles of these verses, unity would flourish! Friendship and relationship with others would flourish. And God would be glorified.
The older I become, the less I’m interested in fighting over unimportant things. The older I get, the more I realize that my time is limited and not every hill is a hill to die on. The older I get the more I realize that our energy, our time, and our resources should be put into things that are eternal and that really matter.
So, we’ve seen the urgency of unity and we’ve seen the pathway to unity in verses 3-4. Now, let’s look at the driving factor behind all of this:
2.The example that Christians must follow.
And this is amazing.
Be selfless, be humble, consider others as more important than yourself, look out for the interests of others and not just your own interests. Who is our example in this? Paul? Peter? James or John, maybe? Our moms or dads. Our religious leaders. No! It is someone much greater! Look at verse 5.
Our example is Jesus. And like Paul wrote in Eph 5:1, we are to seek to imitate our Lord as His beloved children.
If there was anyone who ever walked the face of this earth who had reasons to be selfish, to be served, and to think highly of Himself, it is Jesus, the Creator and Lord over all. Yet, when we think about humility, when we think of deferring to others, when we think about selflessness, it is there that we find Christ. He personified all of those noble traits, even though He is eternal God with all power and all glory!
Now, think about this from verses 6-8.
Verse 6: Jesus is God
Verse 7: He willingly emptied Himself, not of deity, but of the prerogatives of deity. He temporarily set aside some of the privileges of deity to come down and live among us.
Verse 8: He humbled Himself to the point of allowing Himself to be hung naked on a cross to die, not for His sins, because He has never sinned, but for our sin.
And then think about the realities of verses 9-11.
Verse 9: God highly exalted Him. Bestowing in Him the name above all other names.
Verses 10-11: Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of the Father.
Verses 6-11 describe the condescension of Jesus and then the exaltation of Jesus, the eternal Son of God.
Jesus is King and Lord over all. And yet after describing some of the traits that should characterize the Christian, humility, selflessness, caring about the needs of others more than our own….we read, “have this attitude in yourselves which existed in Christ Jesus.
That is amazing, isn’t it? What a mighty and awesome God we serve.
Let’s aspire to be like Him. Let’s aspire to honor Him in our relationships in life.
As we close this morning, let me ask you a simple question.
What would happen if all of us truly strived to live according to Philippians 2:3-4?
What would happen if Christian husbands strived to put the needs of their wives above their own needs? What would happen if wives did the same? What would happen if fathers served their families well for the glory of God? What would happen if the church was made up of people who sought the good of one another?
Homes would be stronger. Churches would be healthier and more effective. And the gospel light would shine much brighter in our communities.
While the world tells us to climb the ladder to get to the top, to demand our way, to promote ourselves, and to make sure everyone knows about our importance, Jesus shows us a better way.
The King of Kings became a servant. The Lord of all creation washed the feet of His creation.
The One who was completely worthy of carrying a scepter carried His own cross instead. And after He died an atoning death for sin He didn’t commit, He rose from the dead, conquering death and the grave. And because of that, every knee will one day bow before Him and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Men, if you want to be a great husband, be a servant. If you want to be a great father, be a servant. If you want to be a great leader, be a servant.
Church, if we want to honor Christ and experience the unity He desires for us, we must follow the path He walked. The pathway of humility. The pathway of selflessness. The pathway of sacrificial love.
And the wonderful truth is this: it’s not all up to us to do this alone. Jesus Christ, who modeled this servant-hearted life for us, now lives in us through His Spirit, empowering us to become more like Him.
So, this week, ask yourself: "How can I serve others?" "Who needs can I place above my own?"
"How can I reflect the humility of Jesus in my home, my workplace, and my church?"
Let’s strive, through God’s power within us, to have the same attitude that was in Christ Jesus.
1.Have you received the gift of salvation that Jesus humbly and selflessly made possible for you on the cross and the empty grave? Rom 10.
2.Will you commit to serve others in humility?
3.Maybe that hasn’t been true of your life lately? If so, ask God for forgive you and empower you to better serve others.
4.Husbands and fathers, may we lead our families from a posture of servanthood. May we all do that.
Just like I did on Mother’s Day this year, I have a message today that is generally directed at men since it is Father’s Day. But this really can apply to all of us who claim the name of Jesus.
So, let’s start with this question. What does it mean to be a servant? In fact, here is a little exercise. When I say the word servant, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Maybe it is a waiter or waitress at a restaurant. Maybe it is a public servant, a police officer or fireman. Maybe what came to your mind was something more negative in nature. Someone who is subservient to others, perhaps. The term servant can bring all sorts of images to our minds.
I believe that we live in a culture that doesn’t really value servanthood in many ways. Most everything that is marketed to us tend to have components of how that product can help us be better served. I think we are so conditioned to think about how we can be served that we kind of recoil at the thought of being a servant nowadays.
Now, when we bring this concept into the realm of the family, a Christian husband or dad wears a lot of hats. We have a lot of responsibilities. And I think those that want to be a good dad or good husband feel the weight of that responsibility. But one thing that is often overlooked is the calling of God on our lives to be servants.
To lead from a position of humble servanthood. Which goes against the grain of our society today in many ways. When we think of leaders today, we probably don’t think about servant-leaders since that is radically different than what most “leaders” are today. In fact, there are some today that want to have a higher rank than others because they think that being a leader means that they will no longer have to serve others.
But as Christians we are called to lead from the posture of humble servanthood. To not lord authority over others. To not knock others down by might. But to serve others. The atheistic evolutionary belief naturally leads to this conclusion: “might makes right.” Survival of the fittest. If you are stronger, then you are right. And that is the natural destination of a worldview that is void of God.
But the Christian ethic is exact opposite. Let me give you the greatest example of this. Who is the most powerful and authoritative and greatest person to ever walk the earth? Obviously, it is Jesus, the One who made the earth. He is omnipotent in His power.
And yet, in John 13 Jesus laid took at towel and stooped down and washed the nasty feet of His disciples. And after doing so, He said this…
John 13:12-17: 12 “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord; and [b]you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
Now, either right after washing the disciples’ feet or maybe before washing their feet this interaction happened among the disciples:
Luke 22:24-27: And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest. 25 And He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who have authority over them are called ‘Benefactors.’ (a term of praise for how awesome they were) 26 But it is not this way with you, but the one who is the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the servant. 27 For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.
Matt 23:11: But the greatest among you shall be your servant.
Now, all of those verses I just read are not the ways or the beliefs of our secular world today, are they? The greatest is the servant? The least is the greatest. The most powerful person to ever walk the earth stooping down to serve His disciples by humbly washing their feet. That’s not the way of the world at all!
Yet, that is the call of God for His people. To be servants. That is the call of God on Fathers and husbands…..and even on all of us.
Now, to build on that theme, I want us to go over to Phil 2 for our text today.
Read Philippians 2:1-11
In verses 1-2 Paul called on the Philippian church to be unified. To be of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
The fix their minds on the same spiritual realities in Christ. To be unified in those beliefs. To maintain the same fervency in their love for God and one another. To be united in spirit. To lock arms in a unified mission. And to have one overarching purpose, to know God and to make God known.
And that was critical for the church at Philippi as they existed and served the Lord in a pagan society. There was no room for beating each other up; culture was going to do a good enough job of that. And the church in Philippi had to be galvanized in their unity. It was mission critical that they were unified.
So, after calling for their unity, Paul then shared with them…
1.The pathway to unity
Within these verses we find some great truths about what it means to be selfless. What is means to serve. What it should look like to imitate Christ.
Now, obviously Paul was writing this to the church at Philippi. The church at Philippi that assembled 2,000 years ago on the other side of the world. But this should be the desire of all Christians as well, including Christian husbands and fathers.
Read verses 3-4:
1.Do nothing from selfishness: Here is the lexicon meaning of the GR word used for selfishness here. “A feeling of resentfulness based on jealousy and implying rivalry.”
--Selfishness is demanding one’s own way and it can even include bullying others to get one’s own way driven by resentfulness and rivalry. Paul writes, “do NOTHING from the position of selfishness or…
2.Empty conceit: Kenodoxia. (doxology means to sing a hymn of praise to give glory to God). Literally it is empty glory. The old KJV translates this as vainglory. It is to have a highly exalted, over-inflated view of self!
Paul wrote about this very thing other times as well. For example, in Romans 12:3: For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think;
--Or to the church at Corinth. I Cor 4:7: For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Now, obviously selfishness and empty conceit are very much interconnected. Because empty conceit leads a person to view others as lesser than and perhaps even see others as a means to selfish gain. And that person, in his arrogance, as he thinks highly of himself, he will consequently think less of others, leading to selfishness toward the person that he deems lesser than himself.
--And here in Phil 2, he writes don’t be selfish and don’t be conceited. That isn’t the way of Christ. Selfishness and pride are not ethics of the Kingdom of God. To walk the pathway of Jesus is to walk the pathway of selflessness and humility.
Don’t be a church, don’t be a people, don’t be men, don’t be fathers, don’t be husbands….who are selfish and conceited.
Boy, that goes against the fabric of popular culture today, doesn’t it? Men, don’t be arrogant. Don’t be boastful. Don’t think more highly of yourself than you should think. Let’s be honest, the vice of arrogance is often celebrated as virtues in our world under the guise of things like confidence. But that isn’t the way of our Lord of His Kingdom or His people.
So, instead of being full of self, Paul writes in verse 3, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourself. Verse 4, do not merely look out for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.
In order to maintain unity in churches specifically (but also in our relationships), the Christian should do nothing from the posture of selfishness or pride, but instead….in humility of mind we must regard one another as more important than ourselves.
Now, believe it or not, that was an even more radical, counter-cultural teaching at that time than it is today! The Roman ethic at that time was that humility was for the weak person and the weak segments of society. Humility was not a virtue in the Greco-Roman world. In fact, the word that is used here for humility was a Greek word that was often used in secular writings and language to describe someone who was being debased or afflicted. So, those who deferred to others in humility rather than demanding their own way or overpowering another to get their own way were viewed as weak and pitiful people in the secular culture into which Paul wrote this letter.
But here is something we find all throughout the pages of the bible. The ethics of various cultures, the Roman ethic at that time or even the American ethic today, in many cases, is not the same as the Christian ethic. Christians are called to be different. To let our lights shine for Jesus in such that way that the lost world will see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven. We are called by God to humbly think of the needs of others above our own. We are called to serve others.
So, if a church wants to be disunified and fight and fuss and have strife, if we want to have discord and strife in our marriages, parenting, and so forth, then there is a very simple way to bring that into existence. Just do the opposite of what these verses instruct us to do.
Simple steps to destroy a church or to destroy a marriage or to destroy other relationships in our lives: be selfish and demanding, be arrogant, and be unloving toward others.
1.Make life all about self and all about my preferences and my desires.
2.Be boisterous and loud, be aggressive and harsh in demand my own way.
3.Don’t consider the needs of others; consider my needs only.
That truly is the blueprint to disunity and fighting. Now, let’s be honest. It is easier to be like that than the other way, isn’t it? Those things truly do come naturally to us. Innate within us is a desire to want our own way. Innate within us is a propensity to think more highly of ourselves and of our opinions than we should. Innate within us is a desire to look out for our own interests before the interests of others. That is natural to us!
It is hard to choose selflessness. It is hard to defer to others. It is hard to choose to humility. It is hard to choose to be caring toward others at times. The opposite of those things is natural to us.
I give you as exhibit A, the toddler!
Toddlers don’t have to be taught how to scream and yell for their own desires, they don’t have to be taught how to take from others, they don’t have to be taught how to be unkind. No, they’ve got that down pretty well. But they have to be taught the opposite of those things. Because, as the bible says, we are by nature, children of wrath, just as the rest. This is why we need to be made new by Jesus!.
If a Christian truly chooses to honor God by living their lives in alignment with the principles of these verses, unity would flourish! Friendship and relationship with others would flourish. And God would be glorified.
The older I become, the less I’m interested in fighting over unimportant things. The older I get, the more I realize that my time is limited and not every hill is a hill to die on. The older I get the more I realize that our energy, our time, and our resources should be put into things that are eternal and that really matter.
So, we’ve seen the urgency of unity and we’ve seen the pathway to unity in verses 3-4. Now, let’s look at the driving factor behind all of this:
2.The example that Christians must follow.
And this is amazing.
Be selfless, be humble, consider others as more important than yourself, look out for the interests of others and not just your own interests. Who is our example in this? Paul? Peter? James or John, maybe? Our moms or dads. Our religious leaders. No! It is someone much greater! Look at verse 5.
Our example is Jesus. And like Paul wrote in Eph 5:1, we are to seek to imitate our Lord as His beloved children.
If there was anyone who ever walked the face of this earth who had reasons to be selfish, to be served, and to think highly of Himself, it is Jesus, the Creator and Lord over all. Yet, when we think about humility, when we think of deferring to others, when we think about selflessness, it is there that we find Christ. He personified all of those noble traits, even though He is eternal God with all power and all glory!
Now, think about this from verses 6-8.
Verse 6: Jesus is God
Verse 7: He willingly emptied Himself, not of deity, but of the prerogatives of deity. He temporarily set aside some of the privileges of deity to come down and live among us.
Verse 8: He humbled Himself to the point of allowing Himself to be hung naked on a cross to die, not for His sins, because He has never sinned, but for our sin.
And then think about the realities of verses 9-11.
Verse 9: God highly exalted Him. Bestowing in Him the name above all other names.
Verses 10-11: Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of the Father.
Verses 6-11 describe the condescension of Jesus and then the exaltation of Jesus, the eternal Son of God.
Jesus is King and Lord over all. And yet after describing some of the traits that should characterize the Christian, humility, selflessness, caring about the needs of others more than our own….we read, “have this attitude in yourselves which existed in Christ Jesus.
That is amazing, isn’t it? What a mighty and awesome God we serve.
Let’s aspire to be like Him. Let’s aspire to honor Him in our relationships in life.
As we close this morning, let me ask you a simple question.
What would happen if all of us truly strived to live according to Philippians 2:3-4?
What would happen if Christian husbands strived to put the needs of their wives above their own needs? What would happen if wives did the same? What would happen if fathers served their families well for the glory of God? What would happen if the church was made up of people who sought the good of one another?
Homes would be stronger. Churches would be healthier and more effective. And the gospel light would shine much brighter in our communities.
While the world tells us to climb the ladder to get to the top, to demand our way, to promote ourselves, and to make sure everyone knows about our importance, Jesus shows us a better way.
The King of Kings became a servant. The Lord of all creation washed the feet of His creation.
The One who was completely worthy of carrying a scepter carried His own cross instead. And after He died an atoning death for sin He didn’t commit, He rose from the dead, conquering death and the grave. And because of that, every knee will one day bow before Him and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Men, if you want to be a great husband, be a servant. If you want to be a great father, be a servant. If you want to be a great leader, be a servant.
Church, if we want to honor Christ and experience the unity He desires for us, we must follow the path He walked. The pathway of humility. The pathway of selflessness. The pathway of sacrificial love.
And the wonderful truth is this: it’s not all up to us to do this alone. Jesus Christ, who modeled this servant-hearted life for us, now lives in us through His Spirit, empowering us to become more like Him.
So, this week, ask yourself: "How can I serve others?" "Who needs can I place above my own?"
"How can I reflect the humility of Jesus in my home, my workplace, and my church?"
Let’s strive, through God’s power within us, to have the same attitude that was in Christ Jesus.
1.Have you received the gift of salvation that Jesus humbly and selflessly made possible for you on the cross and the empty grave? Rom 10.
2.Will you commit to serve others in humility?
3.Maybe that hasn’t been true of your life lately? If so, ask God for forgive you and empower you to better serve others.
4.Husbands and fathers, may we lead our families from a posture of servanthood. May we all do that.
