Mind of a Servant Phil. 2:1-5 Series part 7

Q: What does the Bible say about the mind of Christ?

The Bible encourages Christians to let the mind of Christ dwell in them, which embodies humility and servitude. Scripture teaches us that to have the mind of Christ means to adopt His outlook characterized by humility and a servant's heart. Paul in Philippians 2:5 urges believers to 'let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.' This signifies a complete trust in God’s purpose and a willingness to serve others as modeled by Christ's own humility. This mindset is crucial for maintaining unity and love among brethren.

Q: How do we know that Christ is our righteousness?

We are assured of Christ as our righteousness because through His sacrifice, we are declared righteous before God. The confidence in Christ as our righteousness is rooted deeply in the Scripture, particularly in 2 Corinthians 5:21 which teaches that Christ was made to be our sin so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. This demonstrates that our standing before God is not based on our deeds but entirely on the perfect work of Christ. Trusting in Christ’s finished work frees us from the burden of seeking to earn righteousness through our efforts.

Q: Why is focusing on Christ important for Christian unity?

Focusing on Christ fosters unity among believers as it directs our love and service towards one another. The necessity of keeping our focus on Christ for unity among believers cannot be overstated. In Philippians 2:1-4, Paul emphasizes being like-minded, having the same love, and being of one accord. By directing our attention to Christ and serving each other out of love, we align our hearts and minds with His will. This not only promotes communal peace but also deepens our joy in the Lord as we fulfill His command to love one another.

Q: What does it mean to have the mind of a servant?

Having the mind of a servant means to prioritize the needs of others and emulate Christ's humility. The mind of a servant, as illustrated in Philippians 2, involves selflessness and a focus on serving others. This is epitomized in Christ's own actions, where He modeled perfect servanthood by taking on human likeness and becoming obedient to death. In practical terms, this means putting aside personal ambitions for the benefit of others and looking out for the interests of fellow believers, thereby reflecting Christ’s love and humility in our interactions.

This is how we're going to be in the book of Philippians, in the second chapter, again, if you'd like to turn there. Philippians 2. This is the seventh part of the series that we've been going through. Philippians 2, 1 through 5. And this will probably be the last. And I find it interesting that it's number seven. That's the number of completion, the number of perfection. So that's not irony, I'm positive.

Here in our texts, Paul is telling how the people of Philippi can fulfill his joy. He said, fulfill ye my joy. And that word fulfill means to verify, verify my joy. Paul's joyful for the Philippians. He loves them dearly. When the Philippian jailer, that was one that was saved by a miracle. It's always a miracle when the Lord saves somebody. But the way that the Lord went about it in that particular time, they were captive. shackles and chains in a jail and they were singing hymns. They were rejoicing in the Lord, even though they were all bound up and whatever. And Lord sent an earthquake and shook the jail open. Chains fell off and the jailer thought, Oh no, I've lost the prisoners.

They're going to kill me. So he went to kill himself. And, um, Paul said, Hey, harm, not yourself. Harm, not yourself. We're here. We're all here. And he said, and I find it interesting, the very next thing that's said is he says, what must I do to be saved? So he heard something. He heard something. In the gospel that they were preaching back and forth to one another, the Lord moved upon him and he heard. And he said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house. And he believed. The Lord saved him.

The other one, I believe it was Lydia. I think it was Lydia. She was the other one that believed. There was a bunch of women down by the river and, um, Uh, Paul preached the gospel to him. They heard Lydia believed and went back and told her house. And, uh, Paul started meeting with them, the whole house heard. So you, there's some churches that are kind of being established. They were meeting in houses and I don't know exactly how far apart these places were, but Paul had a deep affection for these Philippians. He loved them.

And what had happened was as men had came in, preachers had came in and they started legalism. They said, you need to do this, and you need to do this. And they were taking their eyes off of Christ. They were also pointing the fingers, and they were pitting brother against brother. They were saying, well you are doing this, and you are doing this. And so they were at discord, having discord.

Now Paul is saying, he is refocusing them again on what is most important about the Lord. Focus on Christ alone. If you see your brother as Christ sees him, if you love them as Christ sees them, you'll see them as perfectly righteous. There won't be anything to judge at that point.

And that's what he's explaining to them. But he says, verify my joy. I still have the joy, but I need verification that you have not changed, that you're still, and he says, the four things, that you be like-minded, have the same love, being of one accord and of one mind. And then he tells them how, how to have that. He says, not with strife or with vainglory, not to look upon self or your things, but look on the needs of other.

How do we do that? Well, he tells us that too. Let this mind be in you that's in Christ Jesus. That's the solution. That's the solution. Let's read this text together. Oh, what is it? Well, what is the mind? I didn't say that. What is the mind that he says, let this mind be in you?

Well, he tells us he took upon the nature of a servant, took upon the nature. Look at verse, is it verse six, verse seven. Yeah, verse 7 made himself no reputation took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. Let that mind be in you the mind of a servant serve one another love each other as Christ loves them love them love them through the eyes of the Lord.

Otherwise, no way. How can a group of sinners get together? and have genuine love for one another and not kill each other. You know what I mean? I mean, not fight and feud and all that. You know it's true. Families do it all the time. Families do it all the time. How can it be that a church can have peace and harmony because of our focal point? Our focus is Christ alone. We love each other in Christ. Do I love you? Absolutely. You're in Christ.

Let's read this, Philippians 2, 1 through 5. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship. of the spirit, if any bowels of mercies fulfill you my joy, that she be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and one mind.

Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but in lowliness and bind, let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man upon his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." How can we be like-minded How can we have the same love? How can we be of one accord and of one mind? By looking to Christ. By looking to Christ. And in doing so, serving one another. Serving one another. Look to Christ. That's how all this is accomplished.

It's not accomplished by examining self. Am I living a good life? Am I doing this right? Am I doing that? That's not it. Because now you're just taking yourself to the law and you're trying to see whether or not you add up. That's not going to work. No, we're born sinners. We need a savior. I don't need a little nudge. Peter didn't ask for a life raft. He said, save me, Lord, when he fell, when he started to sink. What is the service that we can do for our brethren? I thought about that. I was trying to consider that. How can I serve you best?

Well, I can pray for you. Prayer is not for God. Prayer is for us. And you'll find that in praying, the Lord said pray for your enemies. You know why? Because as you do that, you become softer towards that individual. You become softer towards that circumstance, because you have to consider yourself whenever you're praying.

You're coming before the presence of God, and you're saying, Lord, have mercy upon me first. That's how it starts. I'm gonna pray for this person, but first, have mercy on me. Lord, forgive me of my sin. Lord, Enable me to see your face. And I also pray for so-and-so." That's how we pray. We ask, if you come to the Lord with a heavy heart or a guilty conscience, you know it's impossible to pray. You have to ask.

The good news is if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us for all unrighteousness. That's the good news. We pray for one another. What's the greatest service you can do for your brethren other than prayer? Point them to Christ. Point them to Christ. Give them a word of encouragement about the gospel.

Do you know how easy it is for our minds to wonder, think about the troubles of this world, get overcome and burdened by the things that we see naturally, not look to Him in all things? Isn't it so nice whenever you receive something, maybe a text or a phone call, or you get to talk to somebody, a brother or a sister and the gospels brought up and it's like a breath of fresh air. It's like your feet are grounded again and you see his face just for a brief moment. You get like you're drowning and then you get to breathe all of a sudden. Now you might go right back down under again, but you got that breath.

That's how we can serve one another. That's how we can serve one another. What is the greatest example of servitude? Well, look at verse 5-8. He says, That's our motivation. Look to Him. Consider Him. Look, if you want motivation, that's it right there. Look to him. Philippi had some problems, as I've already mentioned. The preachers were pitting brother against brother. There's some legalists putting men under the law. Paul's reminding them the same thing that we are looking at this morning is look to Christ. That's the solution. You know, that's actually the solution for all your problems.

Now, that doesn't mean your problem's gonna disappear, but in looking to him, you'll have rest in the problem. You'll have rest in the storm. You'll have rest during the trial. Not looking to him, the trial's gonna seem a lot bigger, but looking to him, you realize he's purposed all things. I can rest in that. He's God and I'm not. I can rest in that. He does all things good. I can rest in that. He promised to do all things for my good and for his glory. I can rest in that.

Then the trial seems bearable. Trial seems bearable. You say, Lord, I'm too weak for this trial. I'm too weak for these circumstances. You know what he said? My grace is sufficient for my strength is made perfect in weakness. How is his strength made perfect in weakness? Because he makes you depend upon it 100% completely. That's how. It's made perfect in you. It's already perfect. It's made perfect in you. He reveals it unto us. So this hour I want to answer the question, what is the mind of a servant? I've titled the message, Mind of a Servant. First thing I'll have to say, because I missed this, but it's important.

In verse four, he says, look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Don't look down on each other, look to Christ. And the next thing would be, don't look to the law, but let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus, who looked to the Father. So he trusted the father as we are to trust him. Do we see that? That's the motivation. That's the call to the Lord's people as we are to look to him and trust him as he trusted the father.

So for this hour, I wanna answer the question, what is the mind of a servant? Do I have a servant's mind? Do I have a servant's mind? Well, the answer is look to Christ, not self. That's the solution. If I say, do I have a servant's mind, and I immediately begin to examine myself, that's not gonna accomplish anything. Because I can always be certain that I will find my service lacking.

But not his. Not his. Look to him. Look to him. He had the servant's mind. Lord, make me a servant for my brethren. Give me a heart to serve them gladly. Do you have his mind? Let this mind be in you, the mind of Christ. Think about that. What did he think? Well, it's pretty simple. Do we believe in his purpose or our own purpose? Well, to have his mind, you believe in his purpose. If you have his mind, you're trusting in him and all things. You're not trusting self. To have his mind, you're resting in his salvation. You're not trying to get salvation. You're resting in his righteousness, not trying to earn righteousness.

That's what the mind of Christ gives to his people. We see him as all in salvation. If I have his mind, I've been born of his spirit, given a new nature inwardly that looks to him alone. That means that these four things that Paul is saying are fulfilled in the Lord's people, being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and one mind. All four of those are fulfilled in the Lord's people because we've been born of his spirit. The new man created in righteousness, your new man, my new man, we're new creatures, we're like-minded, we have the same love, we're of one accord and we have one mind. And it's all in Christ. And that's the meat of this scripture right here.

You can't just take this from a physical standpoint and run with it, because if we do, we'll say, okay, I should be like-minded. Yeah, well, you know, he's not talking about the color of the walls or the size of the ceiling fan. He's not talking about the drapes and the color of the flooring that we have installed. He's not talking about it, whatever, any, he's not talking about that.

He's talking about, do we have, are we like-minded when it comes to the things of Christ? That he is all in salvation, that salvation's all by grace. Are we like-minded in that? Are we resting in the election of God? Are we trusting in our choice for our salvation? Are we like minded in that? Are we counting on him to regenerate us in spite of our will, despite of our will, because we would always choose self, we would never choose him? Or are we trusting in his election, his choice?

These four go hand in hand. They can't be separated. To be like-minded, to have the same love, to be one accord and one mind. They're all, they blend together. They're the same thing. You can't separate them. You can't be one accord, but not same like-minded. I mean, that's not possible. You can't be, have one mind and not have the same love.

It all goes together. And these are all fulfilled and can only be fulfilled by looking to the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't look at self and say, okay, am I like-minded with so-and-so? Do I have the same love as so-and-so? No, that's not what he's saying to do at all. Look to Christ.

There's where our love is found. There's where our like-mindedness comes in. That's the only place that we can rest. Everything else is a debate, isn't it? Go through scripture. I remember debating scripture. You talk about this, and this says this, and that says that, but what's this mean? What does that mean? Rather than compare Scripture to Scripture, we would compare ideas to ideas, and it wasn't accomplishing anything. That's not one-minded. That's not like-minded. That's not unified. But the oneness that the Lord gives to His people causes them to look to and rest and trust Him alone. Alone, as everything in salvation. All my wisdom, all my righteousness, all my sanctification, and all my redemption.

Someone said, I have a hard time trusting Him in all things. What can only be fulfilled by trusting Him in all things is what I just said. Somebody said, I have a hard time trusting Him in all things. Not your new man. Your new man looks to Him 24-7, never taking his eyes off of Him. Everything, God requires me to look to Him all the time. He's gonna have to provide it, and that's exactly what He provided in giving us His Spirit, that looks to Him and believes Him in all things. Have a hard time trusting Him in all things, yeah? Well, the flesh can't. But let me ask you this.

Do you trust Him as all your wisdom? Do you look to your own wisdom? Do you look to your own... Do you look to His wisdom or do you look to your wisdom? That's the question. That's one or the other. One or the other. Do I look at His wisdom as sovereign, right, true? Am I dependent upon His holiness? Am I dependent upon His doing? Is he all my wisdom or am I still trying to figure out how to be righteous? Am I still trying to figure out how to be, how to get, people use the term, you don't get saved. Salvation's of the Lord. It's bestowed freely by grace. You don't go to the grocery store and get it.

Do I trust completely in his wisdom? Or am I trusting in my own wisdom? Am I looking to self? Am I looking to what I know or what I have learned? Because that's actually not wisdom, that's knowledge. Wisdom is the gift of God. God is the giver of wisdom. He is the giver of wisdom.

You remember whenever Solomon was praying, Lord said that you can ask for anything, I'll give it to you. And Solomon said, wisdom, that I may be able to discern the people, to judge the people properly. And the Lord said, well, because you asked for wisdom, I'm going to give you riches too. I'm going to give you this and this and this. Why? Because it's a picture of giving you Christ. See, if you want Christ, you have everything. That's what he's saying. Is he all my wisdom? He has to give it. He has to be the one that gives it.

Am I believing it was his infinite wisdom, or am I looking to my choice, my works, my prayer, or my life as part of my salvation, or evidence of my salvation? Am I looking at what I used to do, but I don't do anymore? Am I looking to how I've cleaned up my life? Or am I looking to him and his finished work, his wisdom and salvation? Am I believing it was his infinite wisdom that purposed salvation's accomplishment? He accomplished salvation. Or is it only accomplished whenever I do something?

Because then I have wisdom, don't I? Am I coming to him saying, Lord, I don't have any wisdom. You have all wisdom. If I am looking to self, then my choice would be the final wisdom. My choice would be the final wisdom. Are you looking to the wisdom of God that elected to save his people?

He alone possessed. We didn't think about this. What wisdom it took for Him to purpose salvation before time ever began. And give us to His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in purpose to make this earth for the point of redeeming those whom He elected. What wisdom. He's the only one that was capable of knowing how to save His people from their sin. You and I couldn't have formulated anything remotely close to the salvation that God accomplished. because we're sinful.

We couldn't have done anything to help ourself and yet he looked through the corridors of time and he saw his people in the lost sinful state and he says, I'm going to redeem you, I'm going to save you, I'm going to wash you in my blood, you're mine, you're mine. And that's exactly what he did in his wisdom.

If you are looking to him as all knowing, that means you don't know nothing. Or you don't know anything is the proper way to say that. You don't know anything. You're confessing, I know nothing. I know nothing. You know all things. Looking to his wisdom, his infinite knowledge, his isness. Scripture talks about him as Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. He's omnipresent, meaning he's everywhere all the time. And he's omnipotent. He knows everything all the time.

This is the God I'm talking about. Am I trusting in his? Has Christ been made into me? My wisdom. My wisdom. Has Christ been made into me? My wisdom. If so, we are like-minded. We have the same love. We're of one accord and we're of one mind. Which brings us to our second point. Do you or I look to him as all our righteousness?

Is my righteousness filthy rags? Do I see that? Do I see that in my hand I cannot bring anything to God that he will be pleased with because I'm utterly Sinful, utterly sinful. I'm not just a little bit bad, but I was born in sin and shape it in iniquity, as the scripture says, that my destiny, if the Lord doesn't intervene, will be eternal hell.

He has to do something. I need a righteousness. I need his righteousness because I don't have righteousness and I can't get it. I have nothing I can do to obtain it. Am I looking to his righteousness alone, or am I still trying to work righteousness by what I do or what I don't do?

And you'd be surprised how many people do that. I used to do that, or I don't do that anymore. Somebody told me even recently, it grieved me. It grieved me greatly. We're talking about judgment. And they said, well, whenever I stand before God, I've been a good person, so I think he'll understand and let me in." And I said, that's completely irrelevant. Completely irrelevant. It grieved me.

And you can only teach somebody that's teachable. I will caution everybody on that. If you're talking to somebody and they're not wanting to listen, don't talk. Take it as criticism. All they want to do is debate then. If somebody believes, if they're asking questions, absolutely tell them the truth. If the Lord opens up the door, but I've learned the hard way. So maybe I've passed that little bit of information to you. I told this individual, I said, that's irrelevant because we're born in sin. So everything that we do is producing sin and God doesn't accept sin. He hates it.

Sin has to be punished. Sin has to be paid for. Justice has to be satisfied. The law has been broken. And she said, well, I'll make sure that if I do something bad, that I always do something good and it makes up for it. And I said, no, that's called iniquity. And that's even worse. Psalm five, verse five says, God hates the workers of iniquity. And at the end of it, she justified herself and that's fine. I'm a little more passionate talking from the pulpit than I did to her. You understand that.

But it's not something that I can do to have righteousness before God. God demands perfection. And who in here is absolutely perfect in and of themselves? Who in here has never sinned one time? Because it can't be that I used to and I don't anymore. If you sinned, it's not even that you sin and I sin because that's what we are by nature. We're not sinners because of what we do. We're sinners because of what we are.

The dog barks because it's a dog. It doesn't bark to become a dog. Sure, you can teach a dog to meow probably, but it's still a dog. Doesn't change anything, does it? No, I can't have a righteousness by what I do or don't do. My hope's not that I'm a good person, that I stopped bad habits, that I haven't done this. Have you ever heard somebody say, I haven't done that in years? I haven't done that in years and years. It's been a long time since I've done that. I cleaned up my life. I don't know what a good example of that would be, so we're going to leave it there.

But people are confident in what they have done before God. They think that God is going to be pleased because they do or do not do something. And I'm here to tell you, I'm ringing the bell as loud as I can. It is not going to amount to anything but damnation, if that's what I bring to God. That's all it's going to amount to. He demands perfection. He demands perfect righteousness. He demands holiness. And you and I are not capable of producing that in and of ourself. There's not a choice that we can make that would cause that to happen. There's not a prayer that I can pray that would cause that to happen.

The Lord has to choose to bestow his righteousness unto me freely by his grace. He is the only source of righteousness. Do I believe that when he was made sin, who knew no sin, that I was made the righteousness of God in him and that's my righteousness? Yes, that's my hope.

That he took my sin, he took my shame, and he made them disappear. He made them disappear by the shedding of his own precious blood, they're gone. They're gone. Now he no longer sees me as a sinner, as I see myself, because the Lord didn't save the flesh. The flesh isn't getting better. It's going to end up dying one day. If the Lord would have saved the flesh, the flesh would live forever.

Do we see that? That's simple. No, the scripture is clear. The soul that sins will surely die, will surely die. Or is my righteousness something else, not of him? Is it something I can see? It's very simple, brethren. Men and women, they say, look at what they wear. There's churches where I've been to, and the people wear certain clothing because it's part of their righteousness.

And I'm not picking on anybody. I'm just simply telling you that's how it works. If you're wearing something because of righteousness, throw it away. Don't do that. It's not going to help you at all. And I don't believe anybody here is, that's why I can say that. I'd have probably said it anyways, but maybe somebody listening is. Don't wear it. People wear, what's the most common item is a cross. People wear, that's a graven image. Don't wear that.

Don't, don't, don't, no, no, no. The Lord, the Lord, the Lord's love's in the heart. The Lord looks upon the heart. He don't look upon the outward appearance. That's for men that do that. That's just to say, look at me. That's not bringing him any glory. Men and women say, look at what I wear, what I say, what I drink. I don't drink that no more. I don't do that no more. I don't go there no more. I don't do this or that.

But they think that that's evidence of salvation, but they don't realize that that's just self-righteousness. That's just self-righteousness. No, the Lord said, I would that you were hot or cold because you're lukewarm. I'll spew you out of my mouth. He was talking to the church of Laodicea. But at the same token, you cannot say, that you want Christ by grace and then want to have works as evidence of salvation. It doesn't work that way. Christ has to be all your righteousness.

Do we see that? He has to be all our righteousness, not just part of it. Am I looking to his righteousness alone? Am I looking to everything he provided, everything the Lord Jesus Christ produced, or am I seeking my own by something I produce? because I would remind us that all we can produce is sin. All we will hear the law say based upon what we do is guilty, death, guilty, death. That's what the Lord demands. If I am looking to him alone as all my righteousness, if you are looking to him alone as all your righteousness, then we are like-minded We have the same love, we are of one accord, and we have one mind.

See how those are all fulfilled in looking to Christ? Which brings us to our next point, am I looking to Christ as all of my sanctification? Do I believe that Christ is the sanctification of His people. He sends His Spirit in time, and by giving His Spirit, we are 100% sanctified.

There is a lie that's floating around that says you have to get, becomes more and more sanctified, progressive sanctification. It's called by what you do. You get better, and you get better, and you get better. I heard somebody say one time that the moment that you achieve the plateau of sanctified, that's when the Lord takes you.

You're ready for the picking, and that's just a lie. That's just a lie. No, Christ is our sanctification, isn't it? Progressive sanctification just causes us to just do this. Look at me, look at me. That's all it does. It's self-worship. But if you say Christ is all my wisdom, Christ is all my righteousness, Christ is all my salvation, Christ is all my sanctification. Well, he gets all the glory, doesn't he? He gets all the glory. Hebrews 10, 14 says, for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.

Not going to be, not going sanctified right now. You're saying I'm holy? I'm set apart right now? The new man is. Now this flesh is not holy, it's sinful. But the new man created in righteousness is holy as God is. It's kind of hard to believe, isn't it? But that's what the scripture teaches us. It is sanctified by the Lord's spirit. Some believe they're getting holier. I put the word down oxymoron. I hope everybody knows what that word means.

It doesn't make any sense. You can't get holier. And I wrote this down in Tennessee slang just because that's what came to mind. Either you is or you ain't. And it's that simple. Either you're holy or you're not. It's not complicated. You can't get holy by becoming more and more holy. Either you are or you're not. It's that simple.

And if I am, it's by his grace, all by his grace. Either God has made us as holy as he is, but the sacrifice of Christ and giving us his spirit, or we're not holy at all. Either we are or we are not. If he has set us apart and made us holy, if he has made us sanctified, if Christ is all my sanctification, then we are like-minded. We have the same love, we're of one accord, and we have one mind.

And lastly, is Christ all my redemption? Has Christ been made unto me all my wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and lastly, redemption? Are you redeemed by blood and saved by grace? Or are you saved by works? Because if that's the case here, we're not saved at all. We're not saved at all. Were you redeemed when you decided to follow Jesus and give him your heart or let him in? Or did he save you by himself?

Hebrews 1.3 says, when he had by himself purged our sins, he sat down. That means the sin was gone then. So if he died for everybody, that means everybody's sin's gone. So that can't be true, because there's people in hell. He died for his people. He put their sin away on the cross of Calvary. They're gone.

The good news of that, I can't mess that up. No matter what I do, no matter what I do, my sin's gone. My sin is gone. Peter sums up redemption perfectly. Turn with me in closing to 1 Peter 1. Has Christ been made unto me all my redemption? Verse 18, 1 Peter 1, for as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.

Who by him, I love that, don't you? It's by him that we do believe. Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God. Not in man, not in the will of man, not in the will of flesh, but of God, in God. Our hope may be in God. By the blood of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, we have been redeemed. Not by man, not by this flesh, not by a decision I made, not by a prayer I prayed.

No, it was by his purpose, his determinant counsel. He redeemed his people successfully, all by grace. He saved his people from their sin and gave them eternal life, all by his grace. All because the Father elected, the Son redeemed, and the Spirit regenerated it.

We heard that the first hour. This is the question. Has God made Christ into me, all my wisdom, all my righteousness, all my sanctification, and all my redemption? If he has, you've been given the mind of Christ to believe, God, that you are like-minded, that you have the same love, you're of one accord, and one mind. You have a mind of a servant looking to Christ. You have it. You have it.

May we serve him and each other, looking unto him alone as all of our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we ask that you would take these words and bless them to our understanding for your glory. In Christ's name, amen.

Mind of a Servant Phil. 2:1-5 Series part 7

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Mind of a Servant Phil. 2:1-5 Series part 7

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What does the Bible say about the mind of Christ?

How do we know that Christ is our righteousness?

Why is focusing on Christ important for Christian unity?

What does it mean to have the mind of a servant?

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