Wednesday, August 15, 2012


Php 2:1, 2  "So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind." 

So if you take you encouragement by faith in Christs sacrifice on your behalf, knowing His love, walking in the Spirit of God, being filled up with affection for God and having a heart that considers the needs of others around joy, then follow through and make me completely happy. In unity of mind and heart love and submit to one another.
So don't set up a competition so you can boast in yourself and your achievements. In putting yourself under Christ, He has accomplished everything in your lives. Put others in the forefront, make the people around you more significant, lift them up. Be sure to put your interests and their interests as one, you are a family.

Php 2:3, 4  "Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others." 

Here is what it looks like as an example of what living in the power of the Spirit of God looks like. Your mind is set on following Christ. He is Absolute Love. In His joy and love shared with the Father throughout eternity, His love overflowed to the point of Him leaving His exalted place next to the Father. He didn't need to hold on to His position because it was secured in the relationship of love. Father, Son and Spirit. Three in One. One Yet Three. 

Php 2:5, 6  "Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped," 

So the only begotten Son of God made himself an embryo in an insignificant maidens womb. God the Son put Himself in the place of serving an earthly mother and father, He was born of a woman in the likeness of man. He is The Son of Man! He is Yahweh. He is The Christ, the Messiah.

Php 2:7  "but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men." 

In the form of a human being, He humbled Himself to the point of being beaten, mocked and put to death, even the most gruesome form of execution, crucifixion. Will you follow Him?

Php 2:8  "And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." 

This was not a defeat, it was a tremendous victory. Jesus Christ took on the sins of the world, of all who believed in Him and repented from their arrogance against God! He defeated death, sin and Satan, taking away their power. Now He is exalted as the highest name above all names, King of kings and LORD of lords. Will you follow Him?

Php 2:9  "Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name," 

Yes, you will now willingly, out of love and faith, or at some point in fear a dismay. Every knee will bow to Him. Angels, the living who remain when He comes or the resurrected at His coming. All will say that Jesus Christ is Lord, glorifying His Father who is Absolute Love. Will you follow Him?

Php 2:10, 11  "so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,  and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." 


Dan 7:13, 14  "I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed." 


Mat 26:2  "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."

Mat 26:64  Jesus said to him, "You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Rev 1:12-18  "Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.  The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.  In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.  When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last,  and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades." 

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