True Esteem

What Paul is saying here is, he never tried to push his father over and take over the kingdom. Now someone else tried who was that someone safe. What is Satan doing he was that Angel that worshiping angels will rise up and I will take hold.

Why does God get all the glory and what did God do to help you cast them out right. He felt but Jesus who was God never tried to take over his father's kingdom is the better translation should be should be like this, who, being in the form of God did not consider equality with God something to grasp. After it is off-limits. You just heard a portion of the upcoming message title true esteem by Pastor Sean Clearview church at Cleveland focused on making Christ in the worship service.

We love one another. Come check us out at 3045 Oxford Rd. visit us online@clearviewbc.org join us for the rest of this week's message now in this message regular learn how what we need is not self esteem. We need celebrants that the self-esteem is you can be horrible, but someone comes and tells you your great is that gutters are bad. Good self-respect is one thing, self-esteem is quite the other. I love peanuts not eating peanuts for the cartoons you remember from different life and Lucy.

I love this one she had him the world revolves around the sun that sought to revolve around me. Unfortunately, a lot of people have that same mindset and even some Christians. So you see in this series how to have true esteem.

The right estimation of ourselves, because unless we do, there is always in the conflict in our homes and our marriages in our churches and our relationships is just on and on. So if you have your Bibles turn to Philippians chapter 2 starting in verse five and once again the stand for the reading of God's word.

Now hopefully you have these verses memorized by now and I'm hoping as we go to the series. You can hear so many times that you will have it pad down.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross as John sang the songs they're all chosen for a reason to remind you that Jesus gave the ultimate he gave his life, not just he died out of sickness, no he died on a brutal, shameful Roman cross was the result. Therefore, God, and you have to assume is God the father also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name, that the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven. One of those on earth, and of those under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ, the son is Lord, to the glory of God the father before he praying again the same question applies. How do you see yourself is okay to have self-respect, but self-esteem thinking of yourself higher than you should.

How do you see yourself, do you have a Lucy complex the whole world revolves around you. Are you saved the have the mind of Christ. If you don't today as I pray for God's blessing on the message you invite Christ to come into your life is very simply acknowledge that you are a sinner.

Christ is the perfect Savior. He died for your sins and you invite him to come into your life to forgive you of your sins and choose to follow him from that day on, whatever his word says you will be now. So far in our series called mind reset. We have learned that God made human beings as mind and body. We are both mind and body.

Both are important mind is not better than the body body is not just a shell or the husk.

God made you both and both have been contaminated by sin and both mind and body are in need of redemption. And that's why Jesus came.

The redemption has begun in our minds. It has also begun in our bodies because we are bodies of the temple of the Holy Spirit, but is going to come a day when God will redeem everything once and for all body and mind or body and spirit. Now, as we were going to this these messages.

I also emphasized the importance of how we see our mind are mine. God made our minds.

They are defected. But at the same time, the there also open to salvation. We can change our minds when we receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, but we have certain things working against us. The mind is made up of our genetic generated genetic makeup or the combination of our parents. That's part of our minds.

It's also made up of our upbringing. How you were raised of Eurasian a good Christian home, your mind is soft towards the things of God.

If he were raised in a non-Christian home. Your minds are closed doors. The things of God also circumstances is sad. In life we go through ups and downs through pain and struggle, but it all shapes are minded shapes the way we think and mind is not the brain mind is this material thing that is all around us in us that we can touch and feel it is real.

Our mind is made up of how we handle circumstances in life.

If we handle them God's way than our mind becomes more godly. If we handle it our way. That same mind is set against the things of God. And that's why we get set in our ways. That's how we have that's just the way I think what were saying is this is how my mind is shaped what you need you need growth in Christ to shape your mind, you need the word of God to renew your mind, you need to abandon the Holy Spirit to renew your mind, you need godly fellowship. Were we having this coming weekend were having a marriage conference here is not just to get a lot of people here and talk about marriage because many of us grew up in homes where we did not see what godly marriage is supposed to be. Face the facts. Many of us grew up in homes where one person walked out or did something very horrible. Many of us grew up in homes where where dad did not know what it means to be a godly husband and he did whatever came naturally when he saw his father do and what you are doing in your marriage. You carry the same thing along and you say this is that that's not it. As wives, you saw your mom or your grandma living a certain way of thinking a certain way or talking a certain way about her husband and you're doing the same thing with your husband why is the marriage conference happening is happening for a reason to help you renew your mind to get it more in line with the word of God city haven't signed up, do yourself a favor. Sign up. I was sitting there and every week I counsel couples and yet when it comes to marriage. I sit down and listen because I still have to learn that a lot of things I don't know.

Invest in your marriage. Invest in your relationship now you see more of that in this message. But our minds are to sink with the mind of Christ. What is the mind of Christ.

Listen again to verse six who, being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God.

Two things are mentioned here that I want to put on the board. One is the form of God, and the other thing is, what does it mean to be equal with God. There are two different things. What is the form of God went. Paul says Jesus, who, being in the form of God, the Greek word is more is a very rare word is hard to understand. It can have many meanings in Greek and English ice is a form of water that is frozen. The content of ice water and was the third one steam or vapor is the same right is water. One is frozen. One is evaporating. But the content is the same Manjit when Paul says Jesus was in the form of God, what he is really saying here is that Jesus had the same content. Another word that theologians love to use is the word essence. Jesus had the same essence as God the father.

Now here comes the big question what is the form of God the father. What is God the father made of. Now don't misunderstand, I'm not talking about attributes. I'm not saying a start listing. God is holy God is loving God is on the this on the that when I talk about attributes those are qualities I'm a nice person.

I'm a hard-working person a generous person. But that's not the question. The question is what am I made of what is the form. What is the content of Jesus because it is the same content that God the father had. That's one of the toughest questions you never answer number one. He is spirit. How do we know that listen to apologize. Jesus said in John 424 God is spirit.

What is the content of the father because it was the content of Jesus before he was born into this world. He was spirit.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth as a spirit he could go anywhere as a spirit he could do whatever he wants to keep in mind when Jesus came he took on human form.

That was a step down as God. Jesus was spirit what else is Jesus or was he before and still is eternal. You can't create God, neither can you kill God. Listen to what is says in Micah chapter 5 verse two is a prophecy given about Jesus. Listen carefully to those words, but you, Bethlehem, the fraud, as though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me the one to be ruler in Israel who is going forwards forth are from old, from everlasting.

It is translated is whose origins are from old, in other words, although he was born, yet he was everlasting to have the form of God the father means there is no beginning to you. There is no end to you. Seven. Paul says, who, being in the form of God number one. He is saying is Jesus is spirit. But Jesus is also eternal. Yes, he was born 2000 years ago. But no, he did not have a beginning. What else does it mean here's a toward one Jesus was glorious or we know he is and he will be. But even before he came into this world.

Jesus was glorious. How do we know. Listen to John 17 five is on the screen and now father, glorify me together with yourself, with the glory which I had with you before the world was well known in the Old Testament God talks about glory.

The only way to describe glory is light, blinding light. That's it. So if you were to meet Jesus before he was born.

How would he be like you would be spirit. He's eternal again create him can kill him and glorious full of light. What is equality with God.

Here comes the big question what is equality with God. Jesus was equal with the father while he was equal with the father when it comes to his essence. He was equal with the father.

Wade came to his power, God the father is not more powerful than God the son God the father is not wiser than God the son, they are equal in every aspect. What is the Trinity journey is very simple.

Is there is there is one God folks we don't worship three gods we worship one God at the same time God is three persons, God the father, God the son God the holy spirit.

What else. Each person is fully God and are startled, you just a few minutes ago few moments ago assets and we are listening this people, you shouldn't is because some people believe that sometimes God showed himself as father. Other times he showed himself the son, and sometimes he comes as the spirit that's not Trinity. Each person is fully God and they are very real at the same time there is one God. We are worship three gods we worship one God in three persons coequal in everything but each person has a different function different function. How how where, how does that work with with Jesus and the father in creation, God the father had a different role than God the son was the purpose of God the father. His job was to speed the world into existence who did all the creating healthcare to answer and I don't want to be a non-Trinity believing person.

Jesus did God the father spoke with true God the son created. Listen to John chapter 1 in verse one in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God, who is word word is Jesus. Listen to verse three never stoop.

He was in the beginning with God all things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made. So God the father spoke but as God the son, who did all the creating is Jesus pre-incarnate Jesus was making the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets, the earth thus sees the land the trees, Adam and Eve.

Guess who made him. Jesus did, God the son did God the father gave the command but God the son executed the commitment they say where is the Holy Spirit is in the first two verses of the Genesis.

Listen to what is says in Genesis 11 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The earth was without form and void and darkness was in the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the deep. So as God the father is giving the authority and calling things out that were not is the son who is making everything in the Holy Spirit is filling the whole universe how powerful another references Colossians chapter 1 verse 16 for by him by Christ. All things were created that are in heaven that are on the visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through him and for him and he is before all things and in him all things consist.

Again, when we talk about equality with God the father is in charge and the son executes. Of course you know the spirit encompasses everything and he is the one making it all happen and giving life. The spirit gives life, not just in creation. How about redemption when it came to our salvation while in the father come to die. They may wonder that if I were the second person of the Godhead honor sound sacrilegious.

I would've told God why don't you go and that would kids say if he ever tell him to do something really bad word to say when you get sick well and you knew it.

Now they know better to but depends on how well they they know you and you tolerate them. My kids have sometimes that you go first John 316 said the site together for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Who gave is the father who came as a son.

Amazing that there was no argument there was no disagreement. I'm not going it in fuzz about it, he simply did he love the world he went. Of course, he also loved the world, because he made the world. Here's another reference John chapter Galatians 4 for women the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law is the father who is the sender and is the son whose the one who comes and dies by the way, where is the spirit very quickly.

The Holy Spirit, Jesus said, whom the father will send in my name, he will teach you all things spirit was with Jesus. He sometimes gave it to his disciples and then he promised them. I'm sending another was the word counselor. Another one is coming, and he will teach you all things, he will remind you all that I'm telling you, and he will be in you, the world doesn't know him, but you will know him just come back to that verse again whom being in the form of God, Jesus is completely equal with his father. In essence, what is he equal with him in authority now father is in charge son obeys the father in creation and redemption. That's what Jesus did. By the way, he never tried to usurp in what the word usurp means to take over his father's authority.

I mean it happens both on the why it happens. But even to this day it happens in businesses where the children tried to push the parents over get out of the way so we can take over.

We can do what we want to do not always sound out over here but in some places I've heard stories I've seen documentaries where it happened is very sad when you see that Jesus what Paul is saying here is, he never tried to push his father over and take over the kingdom.

Now someone else tried who was that someone Satan what is Satan do. He was that Angel that worshiping Angel he's I will rise up and I will take hold. Why does God get all the glory and what did God do to him, he cast them out right. He felt but Jesus who was God never tried to take over his father's kingdom.

Did you see the better translation should be should be like this, whom, being in the form of God did not consider equality with God something to grasp.

After it is off-limits. Work what Paul is saying is, who was that Jesus was in the form of God, fully God and yet he never tried to go after equality, as if it's something he can touch and grasp.

He left it alone. Instead what he do we do see that in the weeks ahead. He emptied himself, he came down he became like us and even died on the cross for our sins, he said, why are you going through all this equal in essence, but unequal in function is it that that's just isn't just temporary. Was that just how Jesus was before he came in this world know that's exactly how it's good always be even to the end of time and beyond. Listen to this verse. First Corinthians 15 in verse 28 gallery with me. Maybe that will hurt help now you're reading now when all things are made subject to him, then the son himself will also be subject to him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all God the father will finally once again be in charge again.

How does that work in our daily life.

It works like this. Folks to have the mind of Christ is to know that you are equal. Recipients of God's grace and yet you need to understand your role in different relationships.

Authority does not means authoritative authoritarian authority means yes ultimately you are in charge. You're the one who has to stand and give an account you you you lead by serving as a I can go on and on and on time has gone off but the point is that Jesus was fully God before he ever came to this world. He knew who he was. He was not missing any aspect of Godhead. He was not being demoted. He was willing to step down into our world at the same time he knew that he could not touch the father supporting and that is our model in charge and home and marriage relationships is Alaskan antiquated. That's kind of been a cultural thing. Let me know how it works out for you to steam. How do you think of yourself. Thank you so much for joining us for this message because encouragement to the Philippian believers must have the mind of Christ.

If you and are going to do this just have to follow the example of Christ. He understood exactly what he was giving up when he stepped out of heaven and into our world to work and have the mind of Christ. We also have to follow the example of humility of Christ. For more information visit us online@clearviewb.org for this sermon's notes.

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