BECOMING NOTHING
PHILLIPIANS 2:1
Therefore if you have any encouragement
from being united with Christ, if any
comfort from his love, if any common
sharing in the Spirit,if any tenderness and
compassion, then make my joy complete
by being like-minded, having the same
love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or
vain conceit. Rather, in humility
value others above yourselves, not
looking to your own interests but
each of you to the interests of the
others.
Rather in humility value others
above yourself and not looking to
your own interests but to the
interests of others.
Romans 12:3
Do not think of yourself more highly
than you ought, but rather think of
yourself with sober judgment, in
accordance with the faith God has
distributed to each of you.
Phil 2:5
In your relationships with one
another, have the same mindset as
Christ Jesus: Who, being in very
nature God, did not consider
equality with God something to be
used to his own advantage; rather,
he made himself nothing by taking
the very nature of a servant, being
made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a
man, he humbled himself by
becoming obedient to death even
death on a cross!
What am I trying to become?
Luke 17:7-10
Suppose one of you has a servant
plowing or looking after the sheep.
Will he say to the servant when he
comes in from the field, ‘Come
along now and sit down to eat’?
Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my
supper, get yourself ready and wait
on me while I eat and drink; after
that you may eat and drink’?
Will he thank the servant because
he did what he was told to do? So
you also, when you have done
everything you were told to do,
should say, ‘We are unworthy
servants; we have only done our
duty.’”
1. He must be willing to have one
thing on top of another put on him
without any consideration being
given to himself
2. In doing this he must be willing to
not be thanked for it
3. Having done all this, he must not
think that the other person is selfish
4. Having done all that, he must not
congratulate himself or be proud
about it.
5. Admit that in doing and bearing
all that we are bearing, we are not
doing one stitch more than what is
our duty to do anyway.
RELATIONSHIP–
CHILD OF GOD
ROLE–
BONDSERVANT
Phil 2:9
Jesus was obedient all the way to the
cross. “Therefore, God exalted Him to
the highest place and gave Him the
name that is above every name, that at
the name of Jesus, every knee should
bow and every tongue acknowledge
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
the Father”!
Christianity is not so much about
what we do as who we are
becoming.
Romans12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Then you will
be able to test and approve what
God’s will is—His good, pleasing and
perfect will.
Phil 2:15
so that you may become
blameless and pure, “children of
God without fault in a warped and
crooked generation.” Then you will
shine among them like stars in the
sky as you hold firmly to the word of
life.
BECOMING NOTHING