MIKE RUTTER - Humility leads to Harmony and Joy [24 November 2013]

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PHILIPPIANS

“Humility that leads to Harmony and Joy”

Message Outline

“Pride always leads to arguments.” Proverbs 13:10 (NLT)

PHILIPPIANS 2:1-11

Vs.  1-2           Happiness comes from Harmony

Vs.  3-5           Harmony comes from Humility

Vs.  6-11         Jesus modelled both

           

HARMONY CREATES HAPPINESS

“You will make my joy complete by having the same mind, by sharing the same love, by being united in spirit, and intent on one purpose.” Philippians 2:2 (NAS)

HOW TO REDUCE CONFLICT WITH OTHERS

1.  Never let my ______________________________

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or from vain conceit.”

Philippians 2:3a (NIV)

           

·         Selfish Ambition:

“Wherever there’s jealousy or selfish ambition, you will find disorder and every kind of evil.” James 3:16 (NLT)

·         Vain Conceit:

 “Don't live to make a good impression on others.” Vs.3 (LB)

 “Don’t do anything from a cheap desire to boast.” Vs.3 (TEV)      

“When you follow the desires of your sinful nature your lives will produce...  hostility, quarrelling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group.”  Galatians 5:19-21 (NLT)

2. Be humble or ________________________

“… but in humility consider others better than yourselves.” 

Philippians 2:3b (NIV)

“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

 James 4:6 (NIV)

3. Learn the lost art of __________________________

“Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others too, and what they are doing.”  Philippians 2:4 (NLT)

4. Ask what would ___________________

“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 2:5 (NIV)

ACTING LIKE JESUS MEANS...

·         I don’t demand what I ____________________________

“Though he was God, he did not demand and cling to his rights as God. He emptied himself of all he had...” Philippians 2:6 (NLT)

·         I look for ways that ________________________

“…and took the nature of a servant, He became like a human being.”  Philippians 2:7 (TEV)

·         I do what’s right even when _______________________

“While living as a man, Jesus humbled himself even more, by being fully obedient to God, even when that meant his death on a cross!”

 Philippians 2:8 (NCV)

THE REWARD

“Because of this God raised him to the heights of heaven, and gave him a name that is above every other name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”  Philippians 2:9-11 (NLT)