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TITLE: WHOM DO WE PLEASE?

TEXT: ROMANS 15:1-3

INTRODUCTION: (1) THE ROOT EVIL OF FALLEN HUMAN NATURE IS IN WANTING TO HAVE ITS OWN WAY.

* R. C. H. LENSKI, THE WELL-KNOWN COMMENTATOR ONCE SAID, “CURE SELFISHNESS AND YOU HAVE REPLANTED THE GARDEN OF EDEN.”

** NOW THE REASON LENSKI SAID THAT IS ADAM AND EVE REJECTED GOD’S WAY SO THAT THEY COULD HAVE THEIR OWN WAY.

*** SELF REPLACED GOD.

(2) AND THAT IS A ROOT PROBLEM THAT ALL OF US HAVE TO DEAL WITH EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY.

* WILL I PUT SELF FIRST? WILL I PLEASE MYSELF? WILL I PUT MY WELFARE FIRST? WHOM WILL I PLEASE?

** AND THOSE ARE QUESTIONS THAT WE ANSWER EVERYDAY BY OUR ACTIONS, BY WHAT WE DO, WHAT WE SAY, HOW WE SPEND TIME, HOW WE SPEND MONEY AND IN GENERAL HOW WE LIVE.

(3) AND I BELIEVE IT’S SAFE TO SAY THE ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS SHOW THAT MANY TIMES WE ARE SELFISH RATHER THAN SELF-LESS OR SACRIFICIAL.

* AND I’M AFRAID THAT MANY TIMES WE LIVE TO PLEASE SELF RATHER THAN CONSIDERING OTHERS AND ULTIMATELY PLEASING CHRIST.

** IN FACT MANY OF US THINK OF OURSELVES SO MUCH, OF OUR OWN WELFARE, OUR OWN COMFORT AND OUR OWN WAY, THAT IT’S NO WONDER THAT WE GET DEPRESSED SO OFTEN.

*** AND I REALIZE THAT SELFISHNESS AND SELF-CENTEREDNESS AND MEISM IS NOT THE ONLY CAUSE OF DEPRESSION, BUT IT’S DEFINITELY ONE OF THEM.

(4) AND WHEN A PERSON IS ALL WRAPPED IN THEMSELVES, THEY MAKE A PRETTY SMALL PACKAGE.

* TERTULLIAN SAID, “HE WHO LIVES ONLY TO BENEFIT HIMSELF CONFERS ON THE WORLD A BENEFIT WHEN HE DIES.” (AND I REALIZE THAT SOUNDS CRUEL, BUT IS IT NOT TRUE?)

** JESSICA NORTH SUMMED UP THE LIFE OF A SELFISH PERSON BY WRITING, “I GAVE A LITTLE TEA PARTY THIS AFTERNOON AT THREE. TWAS VERY SMALL, THREE GUESTS IN ALL – I, MYSELF AND ME.

*** MYSELF ATE UP THE SANDWICHES WHILE I DRANK AL THE TEA, TWAS ALSO I WHO ATE THE PIE, AND PASSED THE CAKE TO ME.” (END QUOTE)

(5) AND I, MYSELF AND ME DEFINITELY DOMINATE THE CONVERSATION AND LIVING OF THE SELFISH PERSON.

* YET, THAT KIND OF CONVERSATION AND LIVING SHOULD NOT DOMINATE THE LIFE OF A TRUE BELIEVER.

** FOR OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST WAS THE INCARNATION OF SELFLESSNESS, SACRIFICE, AND DOING THE WILL OF HIS FATHER.

*** JESUS SAID IN JOHN 6:38: (READ IT).

**** HE SAID IN MATTHEW 20:26-28: (READ THEM).

(6) AND BELOVED, THE BOTTOM LINE IS IF WE WANT TO BE LIKE CHRIST, WHICH WE SHOULD IF WE’VE BEEN TRULY CONVERTED, THEN WE WILL DESIRE TO LIVE SELF-LESS LIVES AND LIVES OF SACRIFICE.

* AND YES, WE WILL LAPSE OVER AT TIMES TO SELFISHNESS AND WE WILL BE MISERABLE FOR IT, BUT WANTING TO BE LIKE CHRIST AND LIVING A LIFE FOR OTHERS AND CHRIST WILL BE A DESIRE.

** AND THAT’S THE MESSAGE PAUL WILL CONVEY IN ROMANS 15:1-3, THAT WE AS BELIEVERS SHOULD NOT JUST PLEASE OURSELVES, THAT WE SHOULD PLEASE OUR NEIGHBOR AND WE SHOULD PLEASE CHRIST.

*** AND ALL OF THIS IS SAID IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY, THAT WE DON’T ABUSE OUR LIBERTY IN CHRIST AND OFFEND WEAKER BROTHERS AND BE A STUMBLING BLOCK.

(7) BUT ALSO SELFLESS SACRIFICIAL LIVING IS A REPEATED PRINCIPLE IN THE N.T. FOR ALL BELIEVERS.

* SO THE CHALLENGE I GIVE TO MYSELF AND YOU TODAY, NOT ONLY HAS TO DO WITH CHRISTIAN LIBERTY, BUT ALSO EVERYDAY CHRISTIAN LIVING.

** AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I’VE TITLED OUR MESSAGE THIS MORNING, “WHOM DO WE PLEASE?” AND I WANT ALL OF US TO ASK OURSELVES THAT QUESTION THROUGHOUT THE REST OF OUR TIME TOGETHER TODAY. WHOM DO WE PLEASE? WHO IS NO 1?

*** WELL, UNDER THAT TITLE WE’LL LOOK AT TWO THINGS, NO. 1 THE MESSAGE OF PAUL OF PLEASING OTHERS, VV. 1&2; AND NO. 2 THE MODEL OF PLEASING OTHERS, OUR LORD JESUS, V. 3.

(8) AND WITH THOSE TWO POINTS TO HANG YOUR THOUGHTS ON, LOOK AT ROMANS 15:1 WHERE WE’LL START TO SEE PAUL’S MESSAGE OF SELFLESSNESS.

I. THE MESSAGE, (READ V. 1)

A. NOW NOTICE IN V. 1 THAT PAUL SAYS, “WE WHO ARE STRONG.” AND BY USING THE PRONOUN WE, HE PUTS HIMSELF IN THE CATEGORY OF THE STRONG.

* AND THE STRONG HERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE STRONG IN THE FAITH, THOSE WHO WERE MORE MATURE, THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE FREEDOM AND LIBERTY IN CHRIST, BUT LIMIT IT NOT TO BE A STUMBLING BLOCK TO THE WEAK GOING BACK TO ROMANS 14:13&16. (READ THEM).

** NOW STRONG BELIEVERS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO BELIEVERS WHO ARE WEAK IN THE FAITH, IDENTIFIED BY THOSE WITHOUT STRENGTH.

*** AND THAT RESPONSIBILITY IS THAT THEY OUGHT TO BEAR WITH THEIR WEAKNESSES.

1. NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WELL, WE CAN UNDERSTAND THAT BY LOOKING AT A COUPLE OF WORDS IN V. 1.

* AND THE FIRST ONE IS “OUGHT.” NOW THE WORD “OUGHT” IN THE GREEK LANGUAGE HAS THE BASIC MEANING OF OWING A DEBT OR HAVING A STRONG OBLIGATION.

** IT IS USED IN HEBREWS 5:3 TO REFER TO THE UNIQUE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HIGH PRIEST IN ANCIENT ISRAEL, WHO WAS “OBLIGATED” OR OUGHT TO OFFER SACRIFICES FOR SINS, FOR THE PEOPLE AND ALSO FOR HIMSELF.

*** THEN JOHN IN HIS FIRST EPISTLE USES THIS WORD 3 TIMES TO INDICATE OUR OBLIGATION TO FOLLOW GOD’S EXAMPLE.

2. IN I JOHN 2:6 JOHN SAID, “THE ONE WHO SAYS HE ABIDES IN HIM (CHRIST) OUGHT HIMSELF TO WALK IN THE SAME MANNER AS HE WALKED.”

* I JOHN 3:16 SAYS, “WE OUGHT TO LAY DOWN OUR LIVES FOR THE BRETHREN.” AND THEN IN I JOHN 4:11 JOHN SAID, “IF GOD SO LOVED US, WE ALSO OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.”

** AND IN ALL THESE VERSES THE WORD “OUGHT” HAS THE IDEA OF BEING A DEBTOR, TO BE UNDER OBLIGATION, TO BE BOUND BY DUTY.

*** SO THE STRONG IN THE FAITH HAVE A DUTY, THE STRONG ARE UNDER OBLIGATION, THEY HAVE A DEBT TO THE WEAK. AND THAT DEBT, THAT RESPONSIBILITY IS TO BEAR THEIR WEAKNESSES.

3. AND THE WORD “BEAR” HERE REFERS TO PICKING UP AND CARRYING A BURDEN. IT IS USED LIT. OF CARRYING A PITCHER OF WATER IN MARK 14:13, OF CARRYING A MAN IN ACTS 21:35, AND FIGURATIVELY OF BEARING A YOKE OF OBLIGATION IN ACTS 15:10.

* THEREFORE, TO BEAR THE WEAKNESSES OF FELLOW BELIEVERS IS NOT SIMPLY TO TOLERATE THOSE WEAKNESSES, BUT TO HELP CARRY THEM.

** NOW HOW DO WE DO THAT? WELL, BY NOT BEING CRITICAL OR CONDESCENDING AND BY SHOWING RESPECT FOR SINCERE VIEWS OR PRACTICES THAT WE MAY NOT AGREE WITH THAT ARE GRAY, NOT CLEAR DOCTRINE, AND BY NOT USING OUR FREEDOM AS A STUMBLING BLOCK.

*** IT IS APPLYING PHILIPPIANS 2:3&4 WHERE IT SAYS: (READ IT).

4. AND BELOVED IT BOILS DOWN TO LIVING FOR OTHERS, NOT JUST LIVING TO PLEASE OURSELVES IN THE LAST PART OF V. 1.

* IT IS WHAT TRUE CHRISTIAN LOVE IS ALL ABOUT,

I CORINTHIANS 13:5 (READ IT).

** AND AGAPE LOVE IS SACRIFICIAL AND BECAUSE GOD SO LOVES HIS OWN WITH THAT KIND OF LOVE, WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, JOHN 3:16, I JOHN 4:11 (READ THEM).

5. AND IF WE SO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, PRACTICALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF ROMANS 15 IT MEANS WE WILL NOT ARGUE ABOUT MINOR ISSUES OR BE CRITICAL OF THOSE WHO MAY STILL BE SENSITIVE ABOUT A FORMER RELIGIOUS PRACTICE OR TABOO.

* IT MEANS THAT MATURE BELIEVERS WILL LOVINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY REFRAIN FROM EXERCISING THEIR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY IN WAYS THAT MIGHT NEEDLESSLY OFFEND THE CONSCIENCE OF LESS MATURE BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST, THOSE WITHOUT STRENGTH IN THAT AREA.

** IT MEANS THAT THERE WILL BE A DISREGARD FOR SELF, LOOK AT V. 2 PLEASE.

B. READ V. 2. NOW AGAIN PAUL DID NOT EXCLUDE HIMSELF FROM THIS EXHORTATION, HE SAID, “LET EACH ONE OF US” EXPRESSING EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY AND ALLOWS NO EXEMPTIONS OR EXCEPTIONS EVEN FOR AN APOSTLE.

* AND THE RESPONSIBILITY WE HAVE IS TO PLEASE OUR NEIGHBOR FOR HIS GOOD, TO HIS EDIFICATION.

** NOW WHO IS OUR NEIGHBOR IN THIS CONTEXT? WELL, FROM WHAT I CAN SEE FROM MY STUDY, THE WORD NEIGHBOR HERE IS NOT TALKING ABOUT OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, BUT BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST THAT ARE WEAK THAT COME ACROSS OUR PATH, WHO ARE NEAR US – CONTACT WISE OR ASSOCIATION WISE, WHO WE ARE AROUND, THE FAMILY OF FAMILIES.

*** THOSE WE ARE AROUND IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SAINTS, THOSE WE HAVE CONTACT WITH IN CHRIST’S CHURCH.

1. AND THE GOAL OR OBJECTIVE OF PLEASING OUR NEIGHBOR IS TO PROMOTE HIS GOOD AND HIS BUILDING UP AND EDIFICATION, EVEN IF IT REQUIRES THE SACRIFICE OF SOME OF OUR OWN WELFARE AND PLEASURE, WHICH IT OFTEN DOES, WHAT WE WANT TO DO.

* IT IS LAYING ASIDE OUR PREFERENCES TO BUILD UP ANOTHER BELIEVER; IT IS A CONSUMING DESIRE TO PLEASE GOD ABOVE ALL, TO SUBMIT TO HIS DESIRES.

** AND THAT IS IMPORTANT, NOW IN EXPLAINING WHAT V. 2 MEANS, LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IT DOESN’T MEAN.

2. IT DOESN’T MEAN WE ARE MEN-PLEASERS, GALATIANS 1:10 (READ IT).

* NOW THAT SOUNDS CONTRADICTORY TO WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING, BUT IT’S NOT. FOR IF WE DESIRE TO PLEASE GOD FIRST, WE WILL HAVE A DESIRE TO DO GOOD AND EDIFY OTHER BELIEVERS.

** BUT WE WILL NOT COMPROMISE THE GOSPEL OR DOCTRINE OR GODLY STANDARDS OF LIVING IN ORDER TO GAIN ACCEPTANCE AND APPROVAL BY WEAK BELIEVERS OR THE WORLD, TO BE A PLEASER OF MEN THAT WAY.

*** FOR MANY TIMES THE GOSPEL OFFENDS AND DIVIDES, AND WE CANNOT WATER IT DOWN SO WE DON’T OFFEND.

**** AND WE CANNOT COMPROMISE TRUTHS OF THE WORD OF GOD BECAUSE SOME BELIEVER GETS UPSET, LIKE SALVATION CENTERING AROUND MAN, RATHER THAN GOD, OR PREACHING A NON-COMMITMENT, EASY BELIEVISM, A NO REPENTANCE SALVATION, A NO LORDSHIP SALVATION.

***** AND WE CANNOT BRING GOD DOWN FROM HIS SOVEREIGN THRONE TO CATER TO THE WHIMS OF MEN AND THE EXALTATION OF MAN’S WILL.

3. BELOVED, PLEASING OUR NEIGHBOR IN THIS CONTEXT IS IN THE AREA OF OPINIONS, GRAY AREAS, THINGS NOT COMMANDED OR FORBIDDEN IN SCRIPTURE, NOT TRUTH!! NOT DOCTRINE!!

* AND OUR MOTIVE OF LIMITING OUR LIBERTY IS FOR THEIR SPIRITUAL GOOD AND BUILDING THEM UP NOT TICKLING THEIR EARS. IT IS NOT TO MANIPULATE THEM BUT TO MANIFEST LOVE TO THEM IN THINGS THAT DON’T MATTER TO HELP THEM TO GROW.

** AND IN THOSE AREAS WE SACRIFICE WHAT WE MIGHT WANT TO DO AND ARE FREE TO DO, TO BUILD UP, RATHER THAN TEAR DOWN A BROTHER OR SISTER. WE ARE TO PLEASE OUR NEIGHBORS IN THAT CONTEXT.

*** AND IN V. 3, PAUL WILL GIVE US A WONDERFUL MODEL, THE PERFECT PATTERN FOR LAYING DOWN AND DENYING SELF TO DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER, AND WHO IS THAT? OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. SO LOOK AT V. 3 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL SEE OUR 2’D POINT TODAY, THE MODEL.

II. THE MODEL, (READ V. 3)

A. NOW THE MODEL OF SELF-SACRIFICE, THE MODEL OF PLEASING HIS FATHER AND DOING THE WILL OF THE FATHER IS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

* AND OUR PERFECT MODEL, THE LORD JESUS, IS SET BEFORE US TO GIVE US THE MOTIVE OF NOT PLEASING OURSELVES.

** FOR CHRIST’S GREAT SUPREME PURPOSE WAS TO PLEASE HIS FATHER AND TO DO AND ACCOMPLISH HIS FATHER’S WILL.

*** FOR EXAMPLE IN JOHN 4:34 JESUS TOLD THE TWELVE “MY FOOD IS TO DO THE WILL OF HIM WHO SENT ME, AND TO ACCOMPLISH HIS WORK.”

1. TO A GROUP OF UNBELIEVING JEWS IN THE TEMPLE, WHO ALREADY WERE INCENSED BY HIS CALLING GOD HIS OWN FATHER MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD, JESUS TESTIFIED IN JOHN 5:18&30, “I CAN DO NOTHING ON MY OWN INITIATIVE. AS I HEAR, I JUDGE; AND MY JUDGMENT IS JUST, BECAUSE I DO NOT SEEK MY OWN WILL, BUT THE WILL OF HIM WHO SENT ME.”

* TO A MULTITUDE NEAR CAPERNAUM JESUS SAID IN JOHN 6:38: (READ IT).

** AND THEN TO ANOTHER GROUP OF JEWS IN THE TEMPLE TREASURY, WHO ASKED HIM, “WHO ARE YOU?” AND WHO “DID NOT REALIZE THAT HE HAD BEEN SPEAKING TO THEM ABOUT THE FATHER, JESUS THEREFORE SAID:

*** “WHEN YOU LIFT UP THE SON OF MAN, THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM HE, AND I DO NOTHING ON MY OWN INITIATIVE, BUT I SPEAK THESE THINGS AS THE FATHER TAUGHT ME. AND HE WHO SENT ME IS WITH ME, HE HAS NOT LEFT ME ALONE, FOR I ALWAYS DO THE THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING TO HIM.” JOHN 8:25, 27-29.

2. NOW AS WE THINK OF THOSE SCRIPTURES WHAT STANDS OUT TO YOU? WELL, JESUS PLEASED HIS FATHER, HE CAME TO DO THE WILL OF HIS FATHER, PLEASING HIMSELF WAS NOT A PART OF HIS LIFE.

* AND IT WAS NOT THAT THE FATHER WAS FORCING HIM TO DO HIS WILL, HE WANTED TO DO HIS WILL, HE AND THE FATHER WERE ONE, IN ESSENCE, IN DEITY, AND IN DESIRE, JOHN 10:30.

** BUT GOING TO THE CROSS WAS NOT SOMETHING HE LOOKED FORWARD TO. I MEAN MOMENTS BEFORE JESUS WAS ARRESTED IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, HE ENTREATED HIS FATHER BY SAYING:

*** “IF IT IS POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME,” REFERRING TO HIM BECOMING THE SIN OFFERING BY CRUCIFIXION.

**** BUT HE HAD NOT COME TO EARTH TO PLEASE HIMSELF, SO HE ADDED, “YET NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS THOU WILT” IN MATTHEW 26:39.

3. SO JESUS ENDURED THE CROSS, HE DIDN’T ENJOY THE CROSS, IT WASN’T SOMETHING HE LOOKED FORWARD TO, BUT LOOKED BEYOND IT FOR WHAT IT WOULD ACCOMPLISH, THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM.

* AND WHAT A MODEL JESUS IS FOR NOT PLEASING OURSELVES. I MEAN MANY TIMES I HEAR THE RESPONSE, RAY, IT’S SO HARD FOR ME TO DO WHAT’S RIGHT. YOU DON’T REALIZE HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO DO WHAT GOD SAYS, I CAN’T DO THAT. (ILLUST. THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO DO)

** 1. TO LIVE ON LESS AND GIVE.

2. BEING PURE. I’M TEMPTED.

3. BAPTISM.

4. BE IN THE WORD, BE OBEDIENT.

5. STAYING WITH A MATE, YOU DON’T KNOW MY HUSBAND, I’M NOT GETTING ENOUGH OUT OF IT.

6. I HAVE A BUSY SCHEDULE.

7. COMING ON THE LORD’S DAY, SEEK STUDIES AND WORSHIP.

*** BUT IN REALITY, IT’S NOT CAN’T BUT WON’T FOR PHILIPPIANS 4:13 SAYS: (READ IT). ALSO, MATTHEW 6:33.

**** AND WE HAVE ALL THE RESOURCES TO DO WHAT’S HARD AND RIGHT IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE. IT’S EASY TO DO WHAT IS WRONG. AND WE’RE SO USED TO PLEASING OURSELVES THAT WE JUST DON’T WANT TO DENY OURSELVES AND PLEASE CHRIST. (SELF-DENIAL IS A DIRTY WORD TODAY IN AMERICA.

4. BELOVED, JESUS IS OUR MODEL AND WE LOOK TO HIM AND THAT’S WHY THE WRITER OF HEBREWS SAID IN HEBREWS 12:1-4 – (READ IT).

* SO WE NEED TO CONSIDER CHRIST WHEN WE WANT TO PLEASE OURSELVES AND HIS MODEL IS OUR MOTIVE FOR NOT PLEASING OURSELVES.

** AND AFTER PAUL SAID THAT JESUS DID NOT PLEASE HIMSELF IN V. 3, HE GOES BACK TO THE O.T., TO PSALMS 69:9, A MESSIANIC PSALM AND PAUL USES IT TO FURTHER ILLUSTRATE THAT JESUS DID NOT PLEASE HIMSELF.

5. FOR THE READ FROM PSALMS 69:9 SAYS: “THE REPROACHES OF THOSE WHO REPROACHED THEE FELL UPON ME.”

* AND THAT MEANS THE INSULTS OF THOSE WHO INSULTED HIS FATHER HAVE FALLEN ON HIM.

** IN OTHER WORDS, THE REPROACHES OR INSULTS VENTED AGAINST GOD THE FATHER BY THE UNGODLY FELL UPON CHRIST. FOR ALL THE ENMITY OF MEN AGAINST GOD WAS DIRECTED TO CHRIST; HE WAS THE FOCUS OF MAN’S ATTACK AND ASSAULT IN HIS REBELLION.

*** AND SINCE MAN COULD NOT PHYSICALLY SEE GOD TO INSULT HIM, AND GET TO HIM, THEY INSULTED AND REVILED GOD’S SON, THEY NAILED HIM TO A CROSS.

6. AND BY DOING THIS JESUS SHOWED HIS LOVE FOR HIS FATHER AND HIS LOVE FOR HIS SHEEP IN BEING WILLING TO BEAR THE INSULTS AND REPROACHES AIMED AT HIM.

* FOR PETER SAID IN I PETER 2:22&23 (READ THEM).

** AND AS WE GO BACK TO ROMANS 15:3, JESUS DID NOT PLEASE HIMSELF, BUT HIS FATHER, AND THE INSULTS AND REPROACHES OF THOSE WHO INSULTED AND REPROACHED THE FATHER FELL UPON CHRIST.

AND AS I WRAP UP THINGS TODAY: (1) LET ME SAY JESUS IS OUR MODEL AND HIS MODEL GIVES US THE MOTIVE NOT TO PLEASE OURSELVES.

* AND I COME BACK TO THE TITLE OF THE MESSAGE TODAY WITH ALL THAT IN MIND, “WHOM DO WE PLEASE?” WHO IS NO. 1?

** AND AGAIN OUR LIFE, OUR SCHEDULES, OUR ACTIONS, THE WAY WE GIVE, OUR OBEDIENCE, AND OUR PRIORITIES, AND A MULTITUDE OF OTHER THINGS WILL ANSWER THAT QUESTION LOUD AND CLEAR.

(2) AND THE ANSWER FOR SOME OF YOU IS SELF, AND FOR SOME IT WILL BE OTHERS, AND FOR SOME IT WILL BE CHRIST.

* AS WE CLOSE TODAY, I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT PHILIPPIANS 2:3-8 AND I WANT TO RETURN TO OUR MODEL THAT SHOULD MOTIVATE US TO APPLY THE MESSAGE TODAY, OUR LORD JESUS, THE ULTIMATE SERVANT.

** PHILIPPIANS 2:3-8 –

V. 3 -

*** READ OTHERS.

**** BELOVED, WE’VE BEEN GIVE THE MESSAGE, NOW LET’S FOLLOW OUR MODEL