Hey guys this is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This

podcast. On this, we will be reading Philippians 2 versus 1 through 5.

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 accordant of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition 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 interest of others.

Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in Christ Jesus. And now let's hear from Jenny. So one of the most unique things about being a Christian is supposed to be that we do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility we regard each other more important than ourselves.

And this is really grounded in what Paul's going to lay out as the mind of Christ and how he

lived like what it means to be a Christian is that we follow Christ's that we're

Christ's followers and so what a Christ follower does is it looks at how

Christ lived and we we do our best to live like it and man did he

live that out well. I mean God came to earth and rather than build a kingdom for

himself he died for the people that would eventually kill him he died for the people that would eventually kill him. He died for those that would hurt him,

those that would hurt him on earth, those that despised him. And so this backwards way of living

is supposed to display Christ to the world. Just 101 if you're new here,

if you don't know Jesus and you're thinking to yourself I want to learn more. Let me

give you the 101 of Christianity. Philippians 2 does it so well.

And it actually describes the mind of Christ.

And that mind is that though he was in the form of God,

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