PHILIPPIANS FOR TIMES LIKE THESE
#10 – Adjusting
My
Attitude
Philippians 2:5-11
THOSE FEELINGS OF SELF-INTEREST
Last
week discussed putting
the needs of others ahead of
our own.
This
will cause us to face an
identity crisis.
Natural
tendency is selfinterest and self-preservation.
What’s
best for ME?
THE ATTITUDE OF CHRIST
Philippians
2:5 – Have this
attitude in yourselves
which was also in Christ
Jesus….
What
kind of attitude did
Jesus have?
What
elements should be
emulate?
EMPTYING OURSELVES OF CONCEIT
Philippians
2:6 -- …who,
although He existed in the
form of God, did not regard
equality with God a thing
to be grasped….”
NOT
ROBBERY – didn’t
consider equality with God
something He had to
maintain.
JESUS EXISTED IN THE FORM OF GOD
John
1:1 – “In the
beginning was the
Word, and the Word
was with God, and the
Word was God.”
Hebrews
1:3 – “…And
He is the radiance of
His glory and the exact
representation of His
nature….”
SHARED IN THE FULL GLORY OF GOD
John
17:5 -- Now, Father,
glorify Me together with
Yourself, with the glory
which I had with You
before the world was.
Isaiah
42:8 -- “I am the
Lord, that is My name; I will
not give My glory to
another, Nor My praise to
graven images.”
JESUS SURRENDERED HIS EQUALITY
Did not consider it
imperative to hold on to
His rights (equality with
God)

Station
was not nearly as
important as mission –
surrender of self for the
sake of others.
FREEDOM FROM ARROGANCE
2
Corinthians 12:20 -- For I
am afraid that perhaps
when I come I may find you
to be not what I wish and
may be found by you to be
not what you wish; that
perhaps there will be strife,
jealousy, angry tempers,
disputes, slanders, gossip,
arrogance, disturbances….
THE HUMILITY OF A SLAVE
Philippians
2:7 –
but emptied
Himself, taking the
form of a bondservant, and
being made in the
likeness of men.
“Made
Himself of
no reputation”
JESUS BECAME A BOND SERVANT
Greek:
MORPHEN
DOULOU
God
the Son
“morphed” into a
common bonded
slave.
Can
you imagine the
depth of change?
MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF MAN
 Hebrews
2:14, 17-18 --Therefore, since the
children share in flesh and blood, He Himself
likewise also partook of the same, that through
death He might render powerless him who had
the power of death, that is, the devil….
Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren
in all things, so that He might become a
merciful and faithful high priest in things
pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the
sins of the people. For since He Himself was
tempted in that which He has suffered, He is
able to come to the aid of those who are
tempted.
JOHN 1:14
“And
the Word became
flesh, and dwelt among us,
and we saw His glory, glory
as of the only begotten
from the Father, full of
grace and truth.”
Jesus
became flesh so that
He could save us. It was
not because becoming
flesh was fashionable.
JESUS WAS DOING GOD’S WILL
John 6:38 --For I
have come
down from
heaven, not to
do My own will,
but the will of Him
who sent Me.

HUMBLED EVEN TO DEATH
Philippians 2:8 – “Being
found in appearance as a
man, He humbled Himself by
becoming obedient to the
point of death, even death
on a cross.”

Hebrews
5:8 – “Although He
was a Son, He learned
obedience from the things
which He suffered.”
WHICH HE DID FOR US
Romans
15:1-3 – “Now we who are
strong ought to bear the
weaknesses of those without
strength and not just please
ourselves. Each of us is to please
his neighbor for his good, to his
edification. For even Christ did not
please Himself; but as it is written,
‘The reproaches of those who
reproached You fell on Me.’”
ISAIAH 53:4-6
Surely
our griefs He Himself bore, And our
sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves
esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. But He was pierced
through for our transgressions, He was
crushed for our iniquities; The chastening
for our well-being fell upon Him, And by
His scourging we are healed. All of us like
sheep have gone astray, Each of us has
turned to his own way; but the Lord has
caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
SO HE WAS EXALTED BY GOD!
Philippians
2:9 – “For this
reason also, God highly
exalted Him, and bestowed
upon Him the name which is
above every name….”
JESUS GIVEN THE HIGHEST NAME
Hebrews
1:4-5, 8 – “…having
become as much better than
the angels, as He has inherited a
more excellent name than they.
For to which of the angels did He
ever say, ‘You are My Son, Today
I have begotten You…?...But of
the Son He says, “Your throne, O
God, is forever and ever, and the
righteous scepter is the scepter
of His kingdom.’”
THE RESULT OF JESUS’ HUMILITY
At
the name of
Jesus every knee
will bow.
Every
tongue will
confess Jesus as
Lord.
To
the glory of God
the Father.
ROMANS 8:16-18
The
Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit
that we are children of God, and if
children, heirs also, heirs of God and
fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer
with Him so that we may also be glorified
with Him. For I consider that the sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to be
compared with the glory that is to be
revealed to us.
God
will likewise exalt us.
2 THESSALONIANS 1:10-12
“…when
He comes to be glorified in His
saints on that day, and to be marveled
at among all who have believed – for our
testimony to you was believed. To this
end also we pray for you always, that our
God will count you worthy of your
calling…so that the name of our Lord
Jesus will be glorified in You, and you in
Him, according to the grace of our God
and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
DO WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST?
Are we free from arrogance?
Are
we emptied of our own selves?
Are
we willing to suffer our rights to be
trampled to benefit others?
Do
we love so much that we will gladly
surrender our freedom to be slaves used
by God?
Will
we treat others as better than
ourselves?