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I suggest Philippians 2 are leaving this morning.
Chapter 2.
If there be, therefore any consolation is right.
Any comfort of love?
If any fellowship of the Spirit, any bows and mercy, fulfill ye my joy.
That to be like minded.
Having the same love being of 1 accord of one mind.
Let nothing be done to strive for vain glory, but in loneliness of mind that needs to seem other, better than themselves.
But not every man on his own thing, but every man also on the face of others.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
Who, being the form of God, thought of not robbery to be equal withdrawn, but made him come with no reputation?
And took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.
And being found in faction of the man, he humbled himself and became a beat. Another death, even the death of the cross.
Warfare God also was highly drawn in him and given him a name which is above every name, that is the name of Jesus.
Every nation found.
Of things in heaven.
Things on earth and things under the earth.
And that every tongue could confess of Jesus Christ and Lord to the glory of God and bodies.
Wherefore my beloved and ye have always obeyed not as in my presence only.
But now I'm much more of my actions work on your own salvation with fear and friendly Lord is God working in you both your will and to do them with good pleasure.
Do all things without murmuring and disputing that you may be blameless and harmless.
The sons of God without rebuke in the midst of crooked and perverted nation, among who needs 9 Is life in the world holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the Bay of Christ, that I am not running vain, neither labored in vain.
Yeah, you know, if I be offered upon it sacrifice and service of your faith, I enjoy enduring and rejoice with you all for the same cause also to you joy and rejoice with me.
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, till I also mean to be a good comfort when I know your state, for I have no man like minded who will naturally care for your state.
All seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ.
But you know the proof of him, that is the Son of the Father. He had servant me in the God.
Him, therefore, I hope to send presently, as soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
Yet I suppose, if necessary, you send me your pancreas, my brother and companion and labor and fellow soldier, but your messenger indeed administered to my wife.
For you, long after you all, Northern was full of heaviness.
Because he heard that he had been sick.
For indeed he was sick Nigh and Adam.
And not on him only, but on me also.
Lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
I sent him there for the more carefully that when you see him again, you may rejoice that I may be the less sorrowful.
Receive him therefore in the Lord, and all gladness, and hold such a reputation.
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As well for the work of Christ. He was nine of them.
Not regarding his life. This is why your lack of service toward me.
There are a few things that stand out very prominently in this chapter.
Among other things.
One of them is that the apostle.
Is deeply moved.
And he's passed away here because I believe we do have Christian experience here.
But it's buying his eyes being fixed on Christ.
And all the apostles imprisoned himself, as we see in the first chapter.
He sees one who went much lower than himself.
And he sees the end of the pathway.
He sees the Lord Jesus exalted to the highest place.
Now this is more than mere teaching. This is the heart moved by it.
And that this is the very spring of his activity. And so as we go down in the chapter.
He finds himself.
In the 17th verse, completely closed in, he was given a dispensation of the gospel and was committed to him. And now he's tired, he's in prison, and he cannot carry it out.
But in his extremities he discovers that the Lord is working for it.
And the Lord has moved the hearts of the Saints of Philippi to take up the very work that the apostle could not do.
I made these these two points especially together with the papaditis that before us is the example here of Endeavor.
Would help us in our Christian pathway.
Lest we be discouraged, and we find all our answers in being occupied with that one object that tries to set before our hearts.
We find that when man in the early days after the flood began to turn their eyes away from God.
They began to worship demons.
Well, it's always a result when the eye is taken off of Christ.
That we decline immediately, but the apostle here.
All of his activities praying from this one thing, He's occupied with Christ as the object, and he sees the end of the pathway.
With Christ in glory, and he sees also as what he could not do himself here.
God under thanks for it.
The first version of the chapter.
Tells that there was something that he did correcting that vilified.
And I think what he is referring to in that first word is in connection with the audience in the 4th chapter in the second word and syndicate who are not of the same mind in the Lord.
Come disagree.
Come in between these two.
And as have been mentioned.
Now that have given us instruction at the assembly of philippi was in such a.
Remarkable state of faithfulness.
Going on with the Lord that the apostle could take up a matter between two cities.
Doesn't do that. As far as they were serious, matters had to be correct there.
But still little thing that not just been corrected can lead to much sorrow and even division among the people of God.
And I believe the president that we see the apostle in wisdom leading up to this.
Word of Corrections. Notice how it reads there. Get there and be there for any constellation in Christ. Any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, any bowels of mercy, fulfilling my joy as He be like mine.
Well, the first chapter where Harry has been preparing him for this word of imagination.
And we find how the apostle as their prisoner forms, and his heart goes out in such loving desire.
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For these Saints who are so dear to his heart and he commend them for things that he could happily commend them for before he leads up the walk needs corrected and I believe that.
Yes, Brian, wisdom that before.
The correction is given that the Lord would have us encouraged in every way those that we want to help.
In the pathway and getting their hearts in happy accord with himself.
While then he can bring a matter that distressing because of this divided state caused Iran, my two sisters in disagreement.
And you know, that's a way of approach.
The Apostles have appealed to them as to his imprisonment.
All that and now he will seek to bring before them that he had these joy in the Lord.
Fact is more about joy. I believe in this special than any other epistle. But now he says my cup isn't quite full.
I want you to correct this matter all that my cup, as it were, will be.
Over running.
And nothing to hinder the outflows, the full joy and the light. His heart.
This feeling had already spread beyond the two sisters too, haven't it? Because it says in the first chapter that there were those preaching Christ even of enemy and strife.
Because it's impossible for a thing to be confined to a couple of people like that. It always spreads, doesn't it, if it isn't judged. And so there was a general state in the Assembly that needed this, wasn't there. But it's lovely the way he brings it before them.
And seeks to correct it by sending the Lord Jesus as the first example before their souls.
I suppose who were preaching some Indian strike wasn't just the sofa, more a general state among the assemblies everywhere that the apostles had in mind that he speaks of that way. Perhaps they're at home too. Where?
There were those who were taking advantage of the apostles imprisonment to get up funds that they couldn't have when their possible was given. Was enjoying his full liberty and ministry of St.
Probably don't mentioned in Israel this morning, but we are well we're passing through the wilderness. We have all that we need in the world and in Christ and it's good to notice I leave in this official. We have Christ mentioned that 40 times.
And in each chapter, he's mentioned in a very special way.
First chapter verse 21 we have Christ, the purpose.
The second chapter.
And.
The first time we have Christ, the pastor let this mind being used, which is also in Christ Jesus.
We have Christ the prize, verse 14.
And the 4th chapter we have Christ the past verse 13.
And the same chaplain privacy provisions and I don't like all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
And nursing tools that lead every epistle. The apostle Paul ends with grace.
So we have Christ and His grace for the journey, and that should be sufficient for every one of us.
I think every epistle ends with great suddenness. Impossible.
And he is one who certainly has truth. The grace of God is saving his soul.
And the grace of God and sustaining in every step of the journey, although we had a very rough journey.
And yet he can speak so much of grace and passed on to us to encourage our house in our journey.
The Spirit has the power of that.
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Light, and in the circumstances here is brought out quite prominently, I believe, in this vessel.
You know we could.
We could be very accurate in doctrine.
But we don't have the spirit of this second chapter.
There isn't much fruit or blessing.
Because Christ is the object, the spirit of man is the candles of the Lord.
And.
Searching out all the innermost parts of the belt.
How often things are done right, but not in the right spirit.
And how important to have the right spirit and that's only found this is not in communion.
To be an employment impossible once here.
Of that right option.
And.
Himself in the in the good walking in the path of the that the Lord Jesus took down near rejection and that's what gave him power, moral power Roosevelt.
The powers of the enemy around about and he could even set the terms of his own destiny as it were on earth. Here at the end of the first chapter, he could decide his faith. He could say it's more profitable than I remain with you.
Every day he could expect the executioner to welcome to that.
But the apostle here is living in a in a plane higher. It's a result that's found only in having Christ as the object and walking to some union with him. And that's a little expression in the 4th chapter that I think gives us the thought the Lord is at hand.
Now I don't mean to take away from the thought of that the Lord's coming is there, but perhaps the thought there could be.
That the Lord is present, and the consciousness of it with us here gives us power.
Well, when we need consolation, it's surely Christ needs to turn you, for he has probably pathways. He knows all the sorrows exercises we have through.
And occupied with his love, well, we're comfortable for the tribe and distressed soul. Then there's facilities of the spirit.
The Spirit of God.
Here dwelling and believers and when gathered together, he is his presence with those things. So when we're going on our of an unreached spirit, while there is that precious fellowship of heart and mind of Christ and there's the author John says if you walk in the light and he is in the life we have fellowship one with another.
And then instead of being troubled about the same question.
I you can say that the blood of Jesus Christ His Son granted us from all that question that could come and would mar the intelligence is all settled in the depth of Christ.
Of the helmet of salvation.
It's the it's the consciousness of the full work being done for us and that we're saying, but also that we have complete deliverance.
Down here and our Christian experiences.
I was thinking in this first and second verse, 2 Perhaps this first verse had reference to the kindness that had been shown to him by the Saints of Philippi. They had sent him a gift and they had comforted his heart. They had shown fellowship in the Spirit. They had shown mercy toward him and his affliction.
And now he asks them, seeing they have this love for him and this interest in him, to fulfill his joy in going on happily with one another. I think this is a great challenge to each one of our hearts. Sometimes a person might be very nice to us and treat us well.
But perhaps is not being so nice to another one of our brethren. But we have the grace to say to him, Well, it would make me fully happy if you were as nice to each one of your brethren as you are to me. And it seems to me there's something of that thought here fulfilling my joy.
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That you be like minded. He didn't question their love toward him and their thoughtfulness of him.
But he desired that this same love might flow out to each one of the brethren. Well, how lovely it would be, and how quickly these things would often be corrected if there was more or less free flow of love. Every one of us, I believe, do have a love towards some brethren.
Who perhaps have been a help to us or been kind to us, but there are some that it takes a little more grace to show that love to, but He give us more grace.
He emphasizes that quite often, I think. Does he not hear in Philippians?
The first chapter in the eighth verse. God is my record. How greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Expression is used quite often here. It must have been.
A good example that he himself established, for I wouldn't be surprised if the Philippian tailor were among those who heard this official race for the first time. And to think that the apostles fall in love with me after the way I treated him.
I believe that there was that example before them. Was there not in the very testimony of the apostles?
Lovely how the Christian Taylor evolved after having put all the silence in the inner president made their big class in the stock.
Because he says he takes him into his house and feeds them and voices disgust.
But marvelous being very much airman, feeding those men unmercifully, and then parking them by putting them in the stock. Here we see the same man.
Wiping the stripes? I doubt not they were. Tears fell from his eyes as he thinks the boy had an inflicted gold strike on these men. Well, the answer is to what made the change. We're here to come as a poor lost city.
And accepted Christ and received.
The man that, while a marvelous change, that surely is being the hardest of cynics. How he's the most tender hearted, merciful.
Man among God's children.
The very ones that he wants hated and persecuted.
The old nature has no capacity for Christian grace, but when the Apostle Paul himself was converted.
He had been insolent and over buried man, but we find him in Thessalonians.
Speaking of caring for the Saints as as a nurse would care for her own children or as a father would care for his own children. Well, that's why the change was taking place in the apostle and that's what that's what really is true, isn't it? Before God, that didn't simply work. That's true. And it's Christ replaced in the vessel of the sun and that's what God desired with venue.
Nothing takes place in everyone of us finally get saved we we have leave on nature.
That takes God naturally we're we're enemies of God and mission our mind by wicked works hidden God. But when you got saved.
We became God's children. We we got a new life and a new nature.
As the Word tells us, God is love. That's his nature.
And we are partakers of the divine nature.
And we're naturally love each other.
Not to say they not make their discipline. We love each other.
And we're we're not good upon us believers at all unless we really love our brother. So with the love one another as I have loved you.
Where the same nature of the blessed Lord Himself.
As as the Son of God were partakers of that divine nature.
And the apostle John over and over again emphasizes that He tells them that God is love, and then he tells him to love one another for lovers of God.
So that's just showing forth. That's the new nature we have when we do love each other.
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Of course things come in sometimes that may irritate, but still the lovers there. The number of brother in England telling of a case that he knew.
Two brothers.
That were staying at the same home.
This is in Brothers.
They get into an argument.
And they argued quite hotly for a while.
And they parted that night, went to the room, went to their beds. Expect a different room.
And they hard quite feeling quite hot for each other.
And then in the night time.
Or very early in the morning.
Customers, you know over there that when you retired, you took your shoes off and let them outside the door, and in the morning when you're rising, you open the door and then your shoes were shined outside the door. That's a good old English custom. They don't carry attackers in this country very much, but that's the way it was over there and those early days.
Well, early in the morning, one of these brothers thinking late awake a good part of the night, worrying about the way it treated his brother.
And how he lost his temper, which is very on price sight.
And he thought, well, I'll show my love for my brother by slipping down the stairs before he gets up out of bed for you in a week, slip down the stairs to the kitchen.
On the shiny shoes for and then laying up in his door to wake us up there he'll find his shoes almost shine. So then he goes with his brothers shoes down to the kitchen by the Captain Black legacy and the polishing stuff you know.
I'm really gotten the kicks open and quiet. Open the kitchen door. There he found his father and the Lord down there with his shoes, chaining them. The Bullets had the same thoughts. Well, there was that united work and both of us.
On the irritation.
Subsiding or fully subsided and that long shining.
Do we not say the beautiful picture of the apostle Paul in Romans chapter 15?
Along the same line.
Romans chapter 15 and verse 30.
Now I beseech you, brother, while the Lord Jesus Christ says.
And for the love of the Spirit.
That he strives together with me.
In your prayers to God for me. Well, they're striving together with the apostles in prayer.
Verse 31. That I may be delivered from them, and do not believe in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the race.
That's not all verse 32.
That I may come unto you with joy, by the will God, and may with you be repressed, may with you be refreshed, you would have the Saints of God.
And the same enjoyable Christ as he was. And enjoy that same refreshment.
Many clothes now the God of peace be with you all.
It's nice to see how the Apostle.
Well, we might say the apostles.
Encourage the Saints to go on. And their hearts were refreshed. They were filled with joy as they saw the Saints going on.
In Christ.
The blessed Lord to study himself. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if you have loved ones.
Thinking of the first part of the first verse, it says, If there be therefore any consolation in Christ?
There are 4 certain questions in the fixing the girls.
And verse 11.
Are the consolations of God small with thee?
That's a very surging question.
What's their time in the history of mine when Christ was small? French drums and now?
The next question is, is there any secret thing with these?
Well, are we going on with anything in secret that would hinder our enjoyment of Christ?
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And then it's and why don't I carry me away?
First, our hearts are not occupied with Christ. We soon will be carried away.
And then the 4th question. And what do thy eyes wink at?
Well, do we wink at things today that we used to frown upon years ago?
Questions, beloved, are the consolations of God small with thee?
They should start John House.
Person all right to do and then the second official job.
And the fifth word.
Second job first.
And now I'm the 16 lady. Not until I hope a new command and reach, but that which he have without which he has probably that he loved one another. But to find his awful doesn't stop there. Because we might get a wrong call about love, because there's an ecumenical spirit in the world of all to unite and.
A broad minded idea of how to show love.
Let's see what the apostle says in the next verse, six verse. And this is love, that we walked after his commandments. This is the commandment that as he have heard from the beginning, he should walk.
Which they heard from the beginning as first pages as Christ Himself.
That is in His walk, and going on in obedience to His demand is what really gives the strength of what is meant by Divine Love.
So if it's a love, that isn't it.
Being guided by the Word of God.
Well, it's not the love the apostles they're talking about at all.
Could it be also Brother Mary, that a person may be so enthusiastic in serving the Lord? And I have no doubt that these sisters are among those women mentioned as helpers.
That they go beyond their own spirituality.
And they get active.
Rather than having Christ as the object.
Now in the 9th chapter of Luke, where we have those moral principles so important.
It won't take time to assert it to read them, but we find in the first part of that chapter, the 9th includes, that the apostles were given power and authorities cast out demons and do the various things that were assigned to but after they come down from the mountain, Transfiguration.
They're unable to do them and the Lord has to cast out the demon. We find also they're opposing some who were casting out demons.
There were difficulties arise and so the Lord has to call that to their attention.
I believe it is that their their own hearts were sore because they didn't seem to have the power to carry out.
What they had been given the authority to do.
Well.
The exercise with us should be.
To be in that state of soul that we're able.
To carry these things out even before the Lord independence. Otherwise it's the flesh act and we get the sad results of Syndicate and Jodius here.
Coming in and spreading out through the assembly.
Bringing in things that would occupy with the mere flash instead of the famous Christ.
He's going a little further, further.
Monday and the 45th verse last chapter, after the Lord had told him the son of man told him delivered into the hands of men, says that they understood not this thing. It would get promised as they perceive it enough, and they feared to ask him on that thing. Well, that wasn't the fear that that Sweden to the Lord.
That's the result of a state of soul, that's if they went to the Lord, they would get a correction. Perhaps they were not.
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Ready to accept then read the next person who's trying what the real difficult it was then there was a reasoning among them which of them should be the greatest.
Going that there was.
Desires to be.
Foremost among the large societies.
Plan any of the large people get into that state of seeking a place or self and self the object before them, and then they're in a state where.
It's when they're not able really to understand the word of the Lord and there isn't the exercise of the entire to inquire of it, and then the soul gets alienated from the Lord and appear awakened.
The last I hear, many of God's children don't want to be disturbed when they're going on.
In a long course and then there's a fear of having to do with the Lord and getting his mind because it was.
The counter to the course that they have taken.
In this same chapter that you're Speaking of other very it seems that the Lord is praying twice before it disciples. That is, they're with me, but they're not praying, which the 9th chapter of Luke was referred to.
The Lord is praying.
And the disciples are not praying.
And they make a number of mistakes in this chapter.
It seems that Luke grows together these moral principles.
For our property.
But you notice also, and I think this is so important, that the Lord brings before his disciples in this state of soul in which they're found his death three times in this capsule.
So we have in our chapter this morning. I don't mean to digress and simply get the principle.
In our chapter this morning, the apostle is seeking to bring before.
These two sisters and the assembly.
The one thing that will correct everything and that is the Lord is the object. Now if you notice sometime with reading the 11Th of the blue, you'll see the disciples say teach us to pray.
And the Lord answers them, Which of you shall have a friend?
So rather do we go to the Lord?
As a friend because we have a need. Or is it a formal thing with us? When we get home from work, do we drop to our knees? Get into communion?
We know all of us that there's much in this world, even passing down the highways that break communion, our souls that we allow, but how good it is to get before the Lord that the day, the rest of the day again, right? You be profitable to us and we might have that joy that the apostle speaks of in this chapter.
Continuous through the day.
As easy as it not to get into the spirit of Vainglory and where there is that is found to be strife.
I set myself up as something someone that is better than someone else.
And try to resolve myself. Well, isn't that the what is behind all these petty differences of mind?
That we've been Speaking of the the example we have in the Lord himself who never.
Exhibited that spirit, there was always a loneliness of mind.
So the expectation that we have here.
Is to let agency mother.
Better than himself.
Well, if the Spirit is exhibited.
In us what the difference it would make to find my brother as one that I can esteem better than myself and to listen to him and do with enjoy communion with him.
Kelly Brown, one fast other part of the question.
According to this first that he has seen other better than themselves.
Because so the Potter, does that mean that we're considered that we know more about the Bible and and you know, about the Bible?
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Mr. Potter said no, that's not the thought at all, He said. I know what's in my own heart, and so he says I better be careful how I treat my presence.
So I'm going to think lots in our own heart of four things we are and how much we have failed and how much we could fail if it wasn't for the Lord keeping grace. So when we think of what we are in ourselves, we can well esteem of it better than ourselves.
That's a very good principle and that was found in the Scripture. Be kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ sake hath forgiven you. Our brother Gladding mentioned how Paul exalted the grace has gone, and it said in First Timothy 1.
I'll ask. Grace was exceeding abundance.
Toward the apostle personally in ever picking him up. And I suppose that it's a measure in which this sense is endured in our own soul.
That we find ourselves as feeding others in that light and loving others because there might be a little danger in our becoming occupied with how much we love our presence.
We might even have some threatened thoughts at taking pride in the measure in which we love our brethren, and trying to love them more in the such thoughts as that. Is it not better for us to be occupied with the person of the Lord Jesus Christ?
And the wonderful love of matchless grace that was displayed toward us.
In the measure in which we enjoy that and fully realize it. In that manner where we not find ourselves as steaming others in that light and loving others.
It doesn't fair 5th chapter receipt when the second verse really.
Give what you're thinking of those who and walk in love.
As Christ also have loved us and given himself for us, and offering and a sacrifice to God.
So.
The way that love is bigger just according to the love the Lord tells the God to follow first that comes.
1St is and it has its primary importance.
And it was first known to the father or love goes out.
Not himself 1St and the heart is true and and.
Filled with his mind where then it goes out in the proper channels and reach the desire among further.
I believe there is two sides right here, side by side in the 3rd, 3rd and 4th verses.
In the third verse, it's the truth that has been mentioned that if we have the sense of the grace of God in our souls, we realize how much has been done for us and how unworthy we were of it, and this makes us lowly in the presence of God. Sir, loneliness is not something that we just pretend. It's a reality when we are in the presence of God because we know that we are nothing and the grace has been shown to us.
But now in this fourth verse, look, not every man in his own things, or the new translation is look not every man in his own qualities, but every man also on the qualities of others. That is, we're conscious of our own failure, but we're also conscious that our brother has some good points.
He maybe has failures, so have we. God has been gracious to us, but now there's another side. It's not only overlooking His failures, but it's seeing that there is something of Christ manifest in that. Brother. We look at that so often. We make a great deal out of the failure of another and completely overlook that which is was of grace. How different it was with the Lord in the portion that was mentioned to us in Luke.
They were quarreling over who should be the greatest, and the Lord certainly looked on their quality that one could speak in that way. He says He are they which have continued with me in my temptations, and I appoint under your Kingdom as my Father has appointed me. What condescending grace that he would take notice of the devordedness that there had been, even at a time when their failure seemed so glaring.
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Well, this is what enables us, I'm sure, to go on with one another, conscious of our own failures, conscious also of the fact that our brethren do have qualities. How we're not speaking, of course, of positive sin. That may require judgment, but I don't think that's the point here. It is little things that hinder oneness of mind and fellowship, and certainly if we wait until all our bread and are perfect.
Why it'll never be. We're far from it ourselves.
Not until we get to glory, but there is much that we can see in one another that is a Christ. Let's look for it and commend it and be also conscious of the fact that we have our own shortcomings.
It's possible here was trying to correct this before. It didn't grow, didn't.
With the passage of Jesus both and Luke is the second step in the 22nd chapter that Peter did not take heed to the first.
And so the 22nd chapter instead of.
As it wasn't the 9th.
Where they were murmuring, now they're striving.
The third step was when Peter denied, he said, I don't hold this man. And that's what it will lead to in our lives if we don't take heed to the corrections that we receive from our brethren, and we may receive them from some brethren that we're not particularly fond of as to their ways, and God will use that to humble us. If we don't receive these corrections, we'll find we're taking the second step until final run of the discipline.
Of God himself, and it's sad to see Peter.
There not taking me to those corrections. So finally he denies when he ever knew the Lord Jesus.
Sometimes the things that are said may be untrue, but even then they are of God to correct the flesh within us. That is, if some brother accuses me of something of which I'm not guilty, instead of getting annoyed if I just said to myself, well, it could have been true.
And it would have been true but for the grace of God. The very fact that I show resentment shows that even though I perhaps didn't display the flash of that occasion, it was there. And I'm so proud. I think I would never do a thing like that, but I would if the Lord didn't keep me.
Let us drop it even by the things that are said that are not true. There are occasions to discover to us whether the flesh is really in the place of death. Far better to be accused of something we didn't do than to be accused of something we did. And if we are accused of something we didn't do, let us seek race them to just get before the Lord and thank them for preserving grace that has kept us from doing that thing.
I heard of her brother once but but being accused of certain things and he didn't know all the details but someone came to him and mentioned to him.
Some of the things that were being said about him, well, he said to this one.
That they really knew me, they could say things a lot worse about.
When we get to the fifth part of our chapter, let this mind the Hindu, which was also in Christ Jesus.
Not us, Christ Jesus.
I've been here in the way when you had Christ put forth all of my Jesus.
The apostle was occupying us with the glorified Christ and Jesus Christ the man down here.
All that man in the glory.
Have run the whole time here below and now he is seated.
At the highest place in the whole universal dog. But he was praised to have leaves up to the place of highest honor and glory, and we find that clock LED up to that place.
From that he always took me lowest place.
So when he says, let this mind be in you, it's the mind of Christ.
Who was always ready and willing on everything to step down a little lower.
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Or as I believe we have.
The seven steps of Christ downward.
Until we find him there on the cross.
And during the more shameful deaths.
That error invented by a man.
More shameful than curiously suffering as to death. This were engaged and blessed Lord. So that's how low the Lord stepped in grace and all on our behalf. We love it.
Because he saw us down here.
Roan will sing and was having the judgment and damnation before, so he came as holy grace.
First mark out a pathways and would be entirely for his Father's goal, and then in love to take up the question of our sins to several last questions divinely and evangelist all that we could be in the enjoyment.
Of what we are now considering the Lord pathway.
From God, his highest glory we sing. Sometimes the Calvary is testable.
Rather if they have the word on the little word lab.
Line in the third verb of our pastor. Let nothing be done to try our bank boy.
In the Pittsburgh, we have left this mind being used.
Let me also have.
In another book.
Any word black?
The 4th pastor of Columbia.
Words Let your moderators be known on the old man.
Doctor thinks rather that roughly see it all the time.
And driving through the city is the word yield.
Always, always having your own way.
Time for driving long business were healed.
Well.
It's our safety.
It's for our good.
To obey that injunction, and it surely is our safety and for our good if we obey godless.
Times when there's nothing right, when there's nothing that bring this honor on the name of Christ. It's best to yield. And I'll always insist on having our own way.
Very good effect on on others to yield.
Notice sometimes as we're driving along.
There's a There's somebody who wants to get rid of a driveway for innocence.
But the sixth block cars are moving along and no telling when you let me get out.
Well, you come along, you see this, You see the man's predicament.
And you stop, lock the traffic behind you, and let us get out.
I've done that sometimes.
Did more probably.
But I tried to do things like that.
Realizing this, we ourselves oftentimes getting the same particular and I've noticed over and over again a look of gratefulness comes over the face and they'll wave and get you, I said. Where little Lord of thanks.
Just that that small act of kindness.
Well, that's yielding so you can keep it going. Oh well, he can get out. We I have to go to and I can heat you look and he can normally go.
That's not yielding well, little things like that and our daily life as Christians as you contact people and.
We let the nose belong to the Lord.
They expect, they expect that we should show the reality.
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And we get off and show that the Spirit of Christ and that simple quiet way.
That no doubt has its power, and it's a testimony. These little things are the testimony to the to the Lord's glory.
Christianity.
Yes.
Brother McMillan will back them up with the judgment seat of Christ.
Said act well I'm sure that every time we act for the glory of Christ and seek act because the Christians that do it like where these lacks of kindness.
I believe that praising the Lord no God because there's much selfishness in all of us. You know, by making there may be a little difference in the impressions in the second verbs of our or the 3rd verbs of our chapter and then what we have our brother referred to in the 4th chapter. We have Westminster moderation. We know healing this. There may be also this thought with our first in our chapter that.
If we're not in communion, if we allow, some little things come in.
And the truth is before us. We may not bow to it.
The The natural man always resists the truth of God and will resist every truth.
Unless it's only the Spirit of God that enables us to lay hold the truth. And if we have this mind that the apostle speaks up submissive.
We will yield to the truth itself and bow to it. And it says here in particular the particular thing before us in this second chapter.
And let nothing be done through strife or Vainglory. It's it's the pausing and reflecting and realizing that.
It's the mind of God we want. The apostles commends their faith.
In the 17 verse, the service of your faith. What is faith? Well, faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. There is no such thing as faith unless it's based on the Word of God.
His soul of the soul and the Wretch is arrested to see what God has to say. And then there is the obedience.
If we're walking in communion and seeking his mind to battle that through if we have here.
I've enjoyed the thought in this 4th chapter of Philippians and the fifth verse of his Virtue Lecture. Moderation be known unto all men.
Are you healing us as have some suggestions but couples with a thought of gentleness.
Using this coupled with the Father of gentleness and that brings the person of Christ before us again.
Of Christ.
Thank you.
Let instead of doing something in a legal way.
Compelling by ourselves.
Carry out certain things that our thought is by itself to let this.
This it comes from Christ take position. It's there. All we have to do is to help. Wow. Anything about resisting or just letting it come in and and act in our lives. We find the same kind of expressions in the first chapter polite.
15.
And left a piece of dog rule in her heart.
And the 16th verse let the word of Christ well in the rich place.
Or instead of my putting myself in the Lord?
And.
Enjoy this peace. Why just like the air and the vacuum is really all you need to do is just release.
How about And there it is. But just Anderson, Bill.
And you have the peace of God in our hearts right here surrounding us. Is there anything that's hindering or enjoying that peace and our soul? Here's the word of God in our hands, and it speaks to us. I'll let the word of Christ well with us. Let's please.
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That's so very, very different to the natural reasoning of man's man seem to recognize the beauty of the Christian principles and they write all kinds of books such as how to win friends and influence people, books of that sort in which.
Principles are put before us for conduct that will make us accepted in society and looked upon as people who are kind and forgiving and thoughtful. That the whole principle is entirely contrary to Christianity. Isn't this here? In Christianity we have been made to realize that we are.
Actually worthless and staged and guilty in the sight of God that have been picked up and redeemed. And now we have this wonderful principle before us that we are partakers of that which.
If it is allowed to be displayed, will actually be pleading to the Lord and will also be a blessing to others.
Being in the forms of thought is not equal to God.
Well, that was the mark was gone.
Any doctrine that brings any?
Any concrete teaching? Absolutely.
Christ.
Something that comes directly from the enemy of our souls, not one might require.
Why does it say here?
Thought it's not robbery?
And be equal with God or I believe the word.
Is seizing upon something that you have not cared before for this?
I think it's Brother Libert Crown.
Do nice illustrations about Queen Elizabeth.
He doesn't aspire to be clean where he is.
And so the Lord, it wasn't something that he aspired to be equal in God before he was equal with God.
But in wondrous, marvelous grace, that one who was God.
For equal with the Father himself.
Fumble himself and takes the form of a surf being found in fashion. As a man, he humbled himself.
Becomes obedient of its death eaten the death of the cross.
It was, I suppose it would be in contrast with the first Adam, the first man, why he was placed in the garden. He was not equal with God. He was only a creature, and God had breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. So he aspired to be like God.
For the serpent suggested that they should be as God's knowing good and evil. He aspired after that, and he fell in it. But here was one who came into this world who was equal with God, and yet he took the position of a man. He was the 2nd man, the last Adam. There was no robbery for him to be equal with God.
His course was the very opposite of the first man who tried to exalt himself. Here was the one who was really God, and he went down, down in the path of obedience that in which Adam, the first Adam, failed. The Lord Jesus perfectly fulfilled, but he fulfilled as man.
We're liable to act as natural men, we're liable to live like the first Adam, but if we're walking in communion, we're allowing the Spirit of God to lead us. Our course too will be humbling ourselves. Not that we're equal with God, the Lord Jesus alone was that, but we fulfill the preachers place in the proper way of being humble.
Some of our friends have had the experience of going to places where they had to put up with things they weren't used to, possibly down in Bandingo or Libya or China.
North Borneo and other places, and they found it perhaps at first by distressing to to accustom themselves to different circumstances.
In which they were dropped suddenly and that no doubt was trying for them.
And what must have been for the Lord Jesus as a man to leave the course of Florida and to come down in this world?
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And missed all the ruin that he found. And then on top of that.
To humble himself.
And when some of raining under death, then it says even the death of the cross. Now that means that he was a total outcast from this world. So he was hung on the cross. So that's the path of the Lord Jesus that so inspired the apostle Paul that he's willing.
To set everything aside down here, that he might know Christ.
In the 6th, 7th and 8th verses.
We have the four prominent characteristics with which our Lord is betrayed in four gospel verse. Our brother Barry just frozen through being in the former song.
That's the enjoyment he presents, His Majesty. He was born a king.
And then it says robbery to be or with God. That's John Scott. You see it?
Made himself of no reputation, and took upon him before the servant that Mark Scott.
Has been being found in fashion as a man that Snoop stocks presented there to man.
So we have a 400 characteristics of the Lord Jesus portrayed in these three verses in the Gospels.
Very helpful.
No, the only man that ever lived, God didn't pass the mountain.
God has to humble your me. I'm a very pleasant experience. So it's called Jesus that.
And we will thank him for it in the end.
Here was one man.
God never had the humble, but he humbled himself.
The long period takes the very long place possible for man's taste.
Thinking of what he said on the cross, Father forgive them. He never had to pray. Father, forgive me, did He?
Is the settlers response 1 undefined and servant here is really a bomb slave?
He was the only one that had the right to do this. Man could never leave his place.
Efficiently the angels tried to leave their place and there any change. The Lord Jesus took this slice voluntarily.
And everything self tumble itself.
And show the apostles has these. I think now of the place of the Lord Jesus is gone.
The Father glorified.
And has often been said that he emptied himself of God, he humbled himself with land.
They empty themselves. All that glory that was hit by right and it still hidden by right. Right, when he made all rabbit files, emptied himself.
And saw those who saw him in his pathway down here, they saw a humble man.
But there were times when His Godhead glory would shine out.
And his moral glory was seen all through his pathway down here.
When it came to the glories that belonged to him in the past eternity, he veiled all that glory, emptied himself.
And then became.
A mom slave in this scene.
Tony positionally that he emptied himself. Elizabeth.
Never.
The Lord Jesus never apologized.
For making the mistake, that is.
All they'll have also hypothalized.
Paul himself that I dear mind of God, I told several times that he didn't what he shouldn't have done.
For instance, when he called the high priest a white war.
A whitewashed hypocrite. A white and wall.
He had to apologize. I I what not, I knew not that this was the high priest or written. I shall not speak evil of the rules of thy people. He he confessed to that. And then they also made the confessions of having stirred up the crowd, and the once there was before a crowd a mob, and the mob was divided.
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Car seats and sight to seas. And Paul saw that.
And so he made an extension that.
Turned the piracy from society seats against each other.
And almost cleared himself.
Given freedom almost, he had to own the Roman those things and mistaken me. But the blessed Lord was the perfect one.
And the Lord humbled himself and came down very low. He never owned that he had made an instance.
Because he didn't. He was the boy and the spotless 1 so.
Mistakes of the apostles fall and others are ******** to magnify the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect service.
Yes, that's accepted to me, the same flower.
Offering in the Old Testament.
No.
All.
Fine and and the same all the way through. No, no grit and hard numpty pieces in the flower as the fine flower. Well the blessed Lord in his life was the perfect one in every attribute.
His patience, love, grace.
Hispanic sympathy.
Almost always infection and hints.
Well, as you're saying, a while ago I was saying that and all of us.
There are qualities that are of Christians if there were not.
But the end of our human beings press gets in and works.
And sometimes we may lose our patience and say things we shouldn't say.
Lose our tempers, as they're sometimes called. Lesson. Find them again.
Can lose. Can lose them quite often.
But.
Many qualities and and.
And different ones. One is that we sometimes make you say anyway.
Because we don't have them. And then the causes and Oscar they see that they may appreciate.
But sometimes, sometimes up and sometimes down.
That's innocent. There's all the flesh showing itself out, and then once of God showing itself out too. But a mixture.
But the blessed Lord always perfection.
And even on the cross with a more a more grown.
Holy mob yet that love his was on them and he says Father forgive them, forget who? Why that holy mob that's just Lord for shouting crucify and crucify and those that.
Cry Don't. All of those in the place from don't the cross will believe on me and teasing and challenging and challenging him.
Well, none of those things disturbed that law.
Many waters cannot flinch low. Not love. That was divine. Nothing could quench.
And he says, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Well, I heard not the one on the day of Pentecost.
Among that great throne with Haircut giving his talk, no doubt there were many of them that had taken part. And the crucifixion.
Because when the apostles told them, they crucified the Lord of glory and rejected the Prince of Life.
Why they they said, finally, what shall we do?
They were convicted of the law of their ways and we have told them what to do.
Tendency, but thank everyone of you for the mission of Sins.
And 3000 of that crowd.
No doubt many of them I've been in that law took part of the law, they they attended of their sins have been crucified the Messiah, and they were forgiven.
They knew not what they do. They didn't know they were so deceived by Satan. They didn't know that that was really the Christ. But now they see it and they repent and the Lords Prayer Doctor on on the part of men, they're forgiven.
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What you've been telling us, brother, in the first chapter of Solomon, Solomon.
With regard to our.
Following this in Christ and our evil nature.
First chapter Solomon and verse 5.
I am black.
But humbly.
Was that expected that you thought?
Yes, definitely.
What we are in ourselves with Conway talk, they are in the.
I'm thinking when you were talking, Brother McMillan, our blessed Lord, how long the apostle says we be held His glory, full of grace and truth.
The Lord Jesus was the only one that.
Sometimes we'll err on the side of grace. And again.
Will occur on the side of the truth, but there was perfect planning and you said, giving the illustration of the fine.
All the quality.
Honorable and.
West God would see of his people I was thinking of.
Of that being full of great children connections with with famous.
No one Peter had to give them already gave him a home, gave him review, said get these behind me, behind me straight.
Of course in where give Peter deceased, I need plenty of telling the Lord how to do.
Well, the very next chapter, that's in 1716, the mask you find the Lord taking reduced fear up to the mount of configuration.
Very great.
Bryson said nothing behind me instead of empty hands like he did to say it's wrong translation and see their message or this way, he said to get me behind me they can simply get me hindered.
The Lord here and in our chapter is seen as a man and a servant.
For these servants, now Isaiah 49, Kelso conservative, he's not served.
And it's never said that he said the other service, any other one served. But isn't it nice to think of his taking place in Grace to serve his own?
He has served us what He has accomplished, and He is now serving us in the glory.
And our great high priest and also is our advocate. But in Luke, well, he's coming back to he made himself known in that way that he'll come more concerned again.
So the Lord Jesus will take this place.
Forever will he not if we have in First Corinthians.
15 and the illustration in the Old Testament. In two places we have.
Where that serpent was put his ears to the door.
Through the door.
That he might be that servant forever servant body.