Amen. So before we actually get into the text, like I said, this is my small rabbit trail. If you've been in the 1689 class, you remember us talking about regulative principle of worship versus normative principle of worship. And if you don't, that's okay. We're going to quickly explain them. What's known as the RPW, the regulative principle of worship. and the normative principle of worship is... Very simple, the regulative is you worship God how you're commanded in his word. Okay, so you only worship God the way he commands. The normative is you can worship him in any way that's not forbidden in scripture. And again, that is on the worship chapter that we went over in the 1689 class. I believe in the regulative principle. It is how God commanded. God is allowed to tell you, his creation, how to worship him. But this caused some arguments in the early church with what's called exclusive psalmody. And what that means is that they will only sing songs that they consider to be inspired by God, which is the Psalms in the Book of Psalms, the Psalter, which is 150 songs, right, in the Psalms. So, you'll hear the term EP years. That's exclusive psalmody. They only believe you're allowed to sing the psalms because that's the only thing we're commanded. All right? I'm very sympathetic to that. I agree with that. But then in Colossians and in Ephesians, Paul says to encourage one another and teach one another. And then he lists off three things there. He says psalms. Then he says hymns. And he says, spiritual Psalms. There are some in this camp who say that Paul is referring all three of those to mean the Psalms. That is a possibility. Because the Jewish believers would understand the Psalms being from the Songbook of God. They would understand that. The Greeks would understand hymns are odes to gods. In fact, it was Pliny the Younger that said that when he took over the governorship. He said, these Christians are singing hymns to Christ as if he's a god. So in their mind, hymns are only sung to God. So again, it could still be, speaking of the psalms, and the spiritual songs. So why this other caveat? Spiritual songs is, basically it's a generic word for songs, but Paul narrows that focus of spiritual songs being the songs that they have a reaction to you in the spirit to do good works to God. So these three things, psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. If that is only speaking of the Psalms, the 150 Psalms in the Book of the Psalter, then we have a bad example in the New Testament. And I do have some definitions there. I'm not going to read them. This is for your own future reading there. But the Psalms, that's from a website, that's from Founders. Actually, that's a great article that talks about the three different ones. The definition of hymns there. And of course, I said the Old Testament understanding of hymns would have been the Psalms, but we have examples in the New Testament. We have what's called the Canticles and Luke, or Luke's Canticles, which we have when the angel speaks to Mary. Do you remember what she says? When the angel is pronouncing that she's going to give birth to the Savior, do you remember what she says? Now my soul magnifies the Lord, I rejoice. She's singing this song to God. So if we're only allowed to sing what scripture is, she's bursting out these praises to God. I'm okay with that. Then we have Zachariah, when he's finally able to speak, he sings, I believe that's called the benediction, what that one's called. He sings out this song to God. There are examples of this praising God through song. Song is very important. If you look out on the board there, we have God commanding the people of Israel to make a song. Say, I'm gonna sing this because they're gonna fail me and I want them to know that they failed me. So, write this song. Alright? We have these examples in scripture of songs. If you're listening to music in worship that is not saturated with God's Word, then I would argue that you're not obeying these Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Okay, and what we're going to go over right now in this text in Philippians, it's called the Carmen Christi, the Song of Christ. Some say it was a poem written in the early church. But as you can see, we don't have the original format of the Psalms and we have some gifted men and women who have made this altar for us to be able to sing the words of God. That's no different than a scripture. I've heard the Lord's Prayer sung to music and it's beautiful. So the word of God being sung is not Not only is it not forbidden, but I believe it is commanded. So if we are singing the Word of God, we are well within the regulative principle of worship. I bring that up because I do try to sing a psalm every week. Sometimes we do two. Occasionally we're able to pull in three. But we also sing hymns and spiritual songs. We just make sure that they are They're scripturally, theologically sound, and we don't want them to be vague. That, I think, is where we can get into the problem. So, our brothers and sisters, and I even had this singing controversy in the 17th century, they want to be faithful to God, but because they were only singing God's Word, that even spawned a controversy that, well, women aren't allowed to speak in the public worship service, so if they're singing Psalms, they're now singing the Word of God, so we can't have anybody sing. So this controversy came with, do we sing psalms? Do we sing psalms and hymns? Or do we not sing at all, because that would let the women sing? And of course, Benjamin Keech and some others were like, that's ridiculous. We have examples here. We're going to sing these. And then he started including hymns after the Lord's Supper. And there was a split in our Baptist brethren at the time. So that was my short rabbit trail. We're going to get into the text here now. But yes, I could not overlook the music part of that, being the music fan that I am. So thank you for your time. I'm sure Sadie was not the only one bored with that. And if you do have any questions, though, I'd say I love the music aspect. There are some great resources out there. Yes, we've even talked before about what songs, what bands are OK, what groups are not. And there really is some discernment that needs to be listened to, though. I used to do this with the youth group. I'd throw up some lyrics and ask them if it was a Christian song or not. And nobody was able to get them. Because some of them are so vague that they didn't know. And others were like, oh yeah, that's a song about Jesus. No, that's literally about his girlfriend. So it was very difficult to tell. But we want to be sure that what we're singing is clearly the Word of God. That being said, now we're in the Book of Philippians. The Carmen Christi. Chapter 2. We're going to be doing verses 5 and 11 today. Any questions or comments on this before we move on? I encourage everybody to get a Psalter. If you want to have some fun, though, try singing from your actual translation. It's very difficult because it is translated in a way that we read it and not sing, so it doesn't have the structure. And it's great. Reminds me of Buddy the Elf. I'm singing. You're my dad and I love you. That's great. So we're going to be reading verses 5 through 11. We'll just do that again. We'll start at this side and go to the back of the room and up. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. That'll probably stop at that table. 2 Philippians. I'm making up books now. Philippians chapter 2, verses 5 through 11. I'm sorry. Verses... Yes. Net Bible. Got me again. and you have his mind among yourselves, which is your word in Christ Jesus. Who, though he was an unflagged dog, did not count equality with God, or claim to be God's people. But in peace himself, by faith in the poor boy's church, and in love with the likeness of God, and being God's in human form, he humbled himself by the faith of his people, even death, even death on high. That every knee should bow, and those who are in heaven, and on earth, and in his name. And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, in the glory of God the Father. See, even in that poetic formula right there, that is a beautiful truth. This is beautiful. And we're not going to be able to do it justice now. We have about 40 minutes to go over these beautiful verses. And two years ago, we did four sermons on just these verses. So we broke it down. That's how much we dived into the truths of this here. And it's beautiful, though. But bouncing off of what we've already seen in Paul's letter here, what he's addressing his fellow brethrens to, and we have a, I don't know if you got one of the, hand it up to you? Okay. I'll be building on his encouragement for his brothers and sisters here. These are saints that he loves and he's encouraging them. And remember, he desires to hear of them. Even if he can't be with them, he desires to hear of them, standing firm in the Spirit. And last week we saw that, that think of others higher than you think of yourself. So don't neglect yourself, but think of others higher than you think of yourself. Now he's going to continue on with that though. And he says, I like the translation a little bit better this way. You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had. Or you should be thinking the same way that our Lord was thinking. Have the same attitude in you, or other translations. So yes, have the same mind, the same thought process, the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had. And then we get that Carmen Christi, we get this beautiful song, this praise to Christ. It says that, who though he existed in the form of God, I'm reading from the net again, who existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped. Okay, so what was the ESV translation there again? Though He was in the form, was in the form of God? So we have that was, being, existed. Anyway you look at this, going to the original language there. it's showing the eternality of Christ and the deity of Christ. So this right here is showing that aspect of it, which again, he's talking to saints. This is what they believe that Jesus is Lord Jesus is God. That's not a problem. But in the song there that he was, it existed in the form of God and I don't know the whole study on it, but I believe that that word there is one of the rare words used in Greek. I think it's like morph, morphe. John can jump in any time. I believe that's it. Morphe? Yeah. Isn't that one of the more rare used words? I don't know if it's rare, but I had a dream about, in this case, it's in contrast to what's in the verse 7. So he's God, equality with God. He is God, which people who say that Jesus never claimed to be God are either mis-abusing scripture or they're just willfully ignorant. All right, but who though he existed as God is what that's saying. He existed as God, always. God is eternal, therefore Christ, the person who they're saying think like he has always existed. All right, deity and eternality is emphasized. And it says there that he did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped. There are some other translations there. Something to be exploited. Did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. Is I think how the King James and some others do. So what does that mean though that this equality, so Christ being equal with God, which that means he is God because God said I will share my glory with no other. Therefore Christ is claiming divinity. What does this mean here then that he did not consider it something to be Did not consider robbery to be the same as God or something that can be exploited. So God is a sovereign creator, right? The creation owes everything to the creator. So we're gonna see that in the next verse though, but he emptied himself. This is where that heretics class that we just took is very helpful, understanding that there are godly men and women still, but in the early church, they were trying to battle us. What does that mean? That he emptied himself. Okay? That he emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature. So what does that emptying himself mean? I think we can start off with what it doesn't mean. It doesn't mean he stopped being God. He did not stop being God. He answered himself up with glory. The divine glory that he had in the presence of God. In the trinity, they have... I don't know if I'm explaining it right, but... I'm trying to get people to step in heresy again. Casey's like, I'm not having it. What do we understand Christ? Okay, so we have the Trinity, right? What is the Trinity? How do we explain our trying on God? What is the Trinity? I'll give you the first one. Okay. Three distinct. One who? Right? God. God and three persons. But with the Son, now we have the one person of the Son with two natures. Right? So, that divine nature and that human nature. And I like the way you did express that in a way that I think makes sense there. But this emptying himself, and if you remember, docetism was one of the heresies we looked at, where he appeared to be a man. So he didn't empty himself of the divinity, but he appeared to be a man. So he was still on this side and appeared to be a man, but didn't actually suffer, there was no physical nature to him. Whereas others, that the divine was completely Gone. He just totally emptied himself. Not like you said, the glory, which I was kind of waiting like, is he going to step into the heresy there? Is he going to step? No, he didn't do it. Alright? So now when we're doing that, we've now made him not God. That is not what it means. That was the first definition. It's easier to say what something is not than to explain it. He did not not become God anymore. Or he did not, he was not not God. and the emptying himself. So that's what I have there. Did he set aside his divinity? I would say no, which we all agreed there. Did he only appear to be man? I would also say no. Why is this important? Why is this duality, these two natures, important? And we looked at, remember, so the two natures we had where they're completely separate, so it's almost like two different persons. And then we had where they were so intertwined that it was just one nature that mixed and made a third nature. And it's difficult to explain that, so. You can't be one and the same, so you have to be He couldn't have been born with sin or with the sin that He took. I was going to say, if He wasn't God, then our sins weren't truly covered because the sacrifice is not pure. If He's just a man, then He's just man. He can't be just man because He's a sinless man. What is required of God? What is required of God? To be found perfect before God, what is required of God? Holiness. And who is holy? So what they're saying is correct though. If there's any sin, if there's any possibility of sin, and there is that other aspect of, you know, He was divine so He couldn't sin. Well, He had a human nature. And of course, I'm not going to get into that again. We had several classes on godly men in the first century trying to define this to make sure that as they were teaching, we understood the Christology, Christological doctrines, what this means. Who remembers the fancy term we used for this taking place? Hypostatic union. Yes, so sinless. So if he did not have any humanity, if he only appeared to be man, what does that do for us? This matters so much because it's understanding that we have a Savior. who is just like us, has been tempted like us, and yet without sin, so that He can lay at home for us. And yet we have a Savior who is divine, so whatever sacrifice He's offered is eternal. And that's important too, because in our humanity we cannot satisfy eternal justice. This is really, this is, it's a mystery but It's a revealed mystery to us. And that's why when Jesus is speaking with his human nature, he doesn't know things. But when he's speaking with his divine nature, he knows all things. And that's how it helps. Yep. Enter Joseph. Yes, and that's why I love the way the Confession even says that though, that each nature acts according to its nature. However, sometimes there is some overlap because we're speaking about the eternal Son of God. And I do like that we're very careful in words. I was even reading something else and it said, there wasn't a time when Jesus didn't exist. Again, I get that. When we think of Jesus, we think of the Son of God, we think He is eternal, but the Son of God always existed. At the incarnation is when we have the humanity, so just so we have an understanding of that, and when it helps us to think properly on this and understand the importance of the two natures, but also so that we're not even accidentally stepping into heresy. You know, because like I say, I like throwing out the landmines anyways, like, ha ha ha, got him. Poor Tyson. Lucky this isn't that kind of class, huh? There's my biggest heretic right there. Wait a minute. Is God God? No, I'm not sure. What did I answer? This is great, man. You're my favorite though, dude. So yes, this is important though. So again, we have this starting off the who. Though he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped or exploited. But he emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature. And again, so we have Adam, our head representative, he failed. Everybody after Adam is condemned in that. That debt needs to be paid. So now we have, and I love the beautiful imagery that Paul uses with the second Adam, Christ Jesus, who accomplished what he couldn't, and is that perfect sacrifice for our sins. So he fulfilled what needed to be fulfilled, and he provided the sacrifice that God demanded. The sacrifice required, the payment required by the Holy God was something that we cannot do. So our Holy God and His mercy, His infinite mercy and grace provided the way for us to be reconciled. That's beautiful. And here's that song that we're singing about. In verse 8, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. All right, humility, this is something that's difficult for prideful people, all right? I know I let pride trip me up often, most people do. Oh, aha, I saw aha moment. Aha, I left the oven on. but by becoming obedient to the point of death. And this goes kind of to what you were saying there with this heavenly glory. So now he's taking on not just I am the creator. Nothing was created that was not created by me. And now I'm a servant. Now I'm a slave. Now I am taking on this. I love Isaiah too, the servant songs that we have there. Which again goes back to my earlier, there are more songs than just this altar. But the servant attitude, and what is he saying? He's obedient even to the point of death. Even death on a cross. So it's not just that death is the final point of obedience, but the cross was a brutal, brutal, brutal death. Okay, but disobedience there and humility, that's the example there. Explain this humility of Christ, this obedience even unto the death. What is humility? What does it mean to humble yourself? Parents might know this one. Have you ever done something that you regret to your child and you have to get down here and look at them and break your heart because I did this to you? No. Not yet. There's something heartbreaking about that. Am I no longer the father who's in authority over my children? That part didn't disappear. But in this moment, that's not the issue. So I like that, this heavenly glory. Because he does say that later. Father, glorify me now as I had with you before. So I definitely like that. I'm going to have to look at that some more. Thanks, Jimmy. But this idea though, this humbling, it's... All right? Sometimes people humble us, sometimes we humble ourselves. Mostly in my life, I've been humbled by others because, you know, that pride factor. Sorry. Uh-oh. This will be deleted. Okay. Work, but not work, but kind of work. So, this humbling, what does it mean to be humbled though? What is humility? That's one example I gave, but what does this mean? This humbling himself by becoming obedient, especially. Giving up, I mean, when you humble yourself, you're giving up your need or ability or, you know, where you stand. Like, for instance, if you talk about a parent, when you tell yourself or your child, you know, that you've done something wrong, you're actually just giving them, I mean, pretty much you're, hmm, you're willingly You're willingly submitting yourself to, I won't say their will, but so that they will benefit. I don't know how to, I don't know how to. You're giving up yourself. You're giving up, yeah, that's right. Kind of what was mentioned with the emptying yourself. Yeah. I'm probably going to go over it more on Sunday because my better half was kicking me with some humble pie there. But she said, you and John keep using these big words and you never define them. I was like, I'll have to talk to John about that. Wow. You made me sound like I didn't know your big words. I didn't say that. I said we don't define it. But condescend. All right. He humbled himself even though he could because he's God. do something or say something with authority and power, he didn't. The service officer that we're talking about, he says, he was oppressed, he was afflicted, yet he opened up his mouth. Like a lamb was left to slaughter, like a sheep before its years is silent, so he opened up his mouth. So he had power, too. This is enough. This is done. He set aside. He ended himself of that. Not ability, but that prerogative. They were co-equal, so now, you know what I mean? So it's like, yeah, humbling because they are the same. I've heard that humility when it comes to Christ is power and control. That's what I've heard. And I think Paul defines humility for us in this text in verse four, in one highly of others than yourself. And I think putting those things together is you see Christ, you see the Son of God existing, equal to God, and then emptying himself, humiliating himself, and taking on humanity, and then humbling himself by taking on the form of the lowest form, which is a slave. It's just like, wow, so beautiful. And I love the song that you used there, because that, again, hit me with my, when I need to be humbled, it's like, somebody wronged you. Why do you need to let them know? The creator of the universe was wronged beyond any comparison you can have. What did he do? He opened not his mouth. And this is the whole answer, you ready? But he was God. Yeah, but he was God. He was a true man. Yes, I get that. He was fully God, but you know what? Like me in every way. So I gotta imagine there was some Jim wanting to creep up in there. Humility, humble, and yes, going back. That's why, again, our hermeneutic. Reading this, yes, we can get some good stuff from it, but what did Paul say earlier in this chapter? Think higher of others than yourself. Here's the creator. And we're supposed to use his example where he thought of others higher than himself, his creation. He is dying for his creation. Anybody else here have anything close to that? Mr. Perfect Parent, no? I didn't say I was perfect, I just said I ain't getting down to that level. What someone told me one time is like, man, everybody keeps, you know, having complaints against me. So I talked to a friend of mine. He's like, well, if everybody has the same problem, maybe you're wrong. So you know what? I took that to heart and I went around and thought about it. No, everybody else was wrong. Yeah, obedience, even unto this horrible death. But obedience to God the Father is our example. And I know we love that. Yes, Christ loved. Alright, we see that. We see Him shedding tears for Lazarus. We see Him crying over the city. So there is these emotions in the humanity of Christ. We see that. But why did He go to the cross? Why did He humble Himself to death, to the cross? Because of us? Because of obedience, right? Because of obedience. What was he obeying? God's mission, the will of the Father. So he is obeying the will of God. That's our example. And we get that from Paul. Yes, here's how you're supposed to treat others. Don't just think about taking care of your own needs, but think about the needs of others. Put others higher than yourself. Have that same attitude that Christ had. The sovereign creator of the universe, humbling himself, taking on flesh. First Adam failed. Second Adam, perfection. But that does not mean, yes, he was God. No. We see the temptation. He was tempted like us in all ways. He suffered. So we have this humanity that we can definitely relate to. The emotions, and I'm very careful. When you see me thinking like this, I'm making sure I don't say something so the gym's like, I'm a heretic tonight. So I've stumbled you guys enough, so that's me. But the emotion, we say that God is, he doesn't change. So this immutability of God. Like, there is no changing, so these emotions that we put onto them is not the same thing when we're referring to the humanity in Christ. There is these emotions, there is this aspect that we can relate to. Alright, but let's not put those attributes and emotions onto the divinity side. Alright, but because of this, as a result, God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that in the name of Jesus, every knee will 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. So again, this is to the glory of God, the will of the Father. He is obeying in His humility. And hopefully we can get some discussion here though on How do we mirror this though, especially within the church? And I love that we're going over the gifts. This Sunday we're gonna go over the gifts. We're practicing some songs today about this one body, one baptism, one faith that we all share. Paul's talking about that here, being in the same spirit, being with the same faith, competing for the same faith, loving others higher than yourself, and then our example in Christ. All right, what are we missing? We, collectively, the church, the people of God, what are we missing? This is not a new text. This is something that I'm sure we've heard it before, unless you're really young in the faith, which is possible, and I understand that. But Paul is clear in all of his letters. This is a unified message that Paul has in all of his letters. What are we missing? Why are we so self-centered still? If we've been redeemed, why are we still self-centered? Or is it just Jim? Just Jim. Then I need to go sit down and get your guys. No, I think the issue is when we become man centered, we get distracted. We pursue what Paul describes as being glory. The hardest thing is you don't apologize to your kid. Or your spouse. That might not happen. I just default say sorry all the time. I wasn't even talking to you, but I'm still sorry. Like, baby, you were... I was... You know what? That's all. See, she missed it back there, but she knows. I said my default mode is always sorry. Like, I wasn't even talking to you, but I'm still sorry. It's like the Levites again, you know, I'm apologizing for the things I know I did and for the things that I don't know that I did. There's some things I'm going to do, I'm sorry. Look at that. I'm apologizing ahead of time. Humble servants. We are serving each other, right? Is that what we're ought to do, people of God? How are we doing that today? when I get texts from guys asking how they can pray for me. Particularly, they seem to come in the moments when I need the most prayer. Because I'm like, clock, or my knees? Clock, or my knees? You know what I mean? Sometimes that's the stance, though. Yeah, all sorts of people come in, and they're like, how can I pray for you today? Usually, my default response is God means, because if I do that, if I get in touch with everything else, he's the one who prays. Yeah, that's why I take that option away from you sometimes. Other than godliness, how can I pray for you? Is that all we got? Just pray? I mean, that's a lot, but... Serving in the church. Serving in the church? Do you want to go broad, or do you want to bring it in a little bit? Just broad. Just broad? Yes. How do you serve in the church? You need help with the music? He died, I was serving him. Giving you the right answers back there? Or taking out the garbage? I'm looking at the humble things, things that we don't like doing especially. It's easy to serve and I'm gonna help my brothers and sisters when it's something, especially if it gives me a little bit of recognition there. I remember not realizing that there was a sergeant major and a full bird colonel next to me digging latrine trenches. You know what goes on in a latrine trench, yes? They weren't doing it. Look at us. We're going to go out there and show them. All of a sudden, they're there. And most of them are like, man, they've been here for a while. I just don't realize who that is. To me, that was something. And then I'm like, yeah, good. They're doing a little bit more, so that's a little bit less for me. But there's some humility and some disgusting jobs. And we always like to have the better choice things. If I'm going to serve somebody, I want it to be this. What can we do without talking about it? What can we do? Have the same attitude towards one another that Christ had. What attitude did Christ have for others? Generosity? Love? Compassion? For people he knew though, right? Well, it is. Yes, it is. Helping with physical needs. Of course, we're not saying you can heal somebody's ear, but if you do, please put it on upside down, because that would be awesome. You would be my hero in that aspect. But I think when we look at Christ, we see what we, what humans are intent. And, you know, I mean, there is, I mean, I, to me, John 13, where he's washing a mire off of their feet, and then he says, I've given you This is how you're circumcised. And we have modern sewage, and so are ours. We don't throw raw sewage into the street, but that's what they were washing. Washing their feet. That's an amazing thing. You call me Lord, and you are right, because I am. I'm your teacher, and I am. Yeah, I remember the family laughing one time. I decided, I'm going to take this literally. I'm going to wash my family's feet. That did not go well. I'm definitely not a three ordinances Baptist. And I missed my other one. I really need to quit bringing this. Didn't I say last time I'm going to quit bringing my net Bible? Yeah, it's in 1 John, I knew it. It was in 1 John, in chapter 3. For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning. that we should love one another, not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brothers were righteous. Therefore, do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. We come to know love by this, that Jesus laid down his life for us. Obedience even to death, death on a cross. And then he goes on there in 1 John, thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. That's easy for, especially in a military mindset, lay down our lives. I love that greater love has no man than he is. He laid down his life for his friends. That kind of sacrifice. Yes, I would give my life for you. I would die for you. Well, will you live for them? This humbling attitude, that's, Yes, with the children especially. That's why I'm very thankful for the second group we have, the older group, where I made all the mistakes. And even the others were like, why are you letting the kids do this? Hey, you guys were trial, trial and error. We're in this phase now, so we're trying something different. But humility being a lifelong lesson for me. And still having some aspects of like, wow. Like the other day, I'm an impatient driver, if you don't know that. And I'm sure you can probably guess that by looking at me. But I'm trying to cross Rayford Road on Bingham, which has like 20 lanes and a three-second light. And this guy, who's out of his mind, is walking across. And I'm like, he's going to get right in front of us as that light turns green. And he did. So I beeped at him and pointed to the light like the light's green. He looked at me, turned around, stopped. Thanks, man. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. And I'm like, no, no, no. I'm missing the light. But I have this problem that I'm still trying to overcome and putting others higher than myself. I'm the most important person out here. I believe it was when Andy was talking about that, too. Are you more important than this other person? What I have to do right now is more important than anything else going on here. Paul says, yes, take care of yourself, but put others ahead of you. And especially when I'm in my one track mind, see the mission, goal, hit it. And whoever gets run over in the process, too bad. And it really hurts when it's the family. So I've mentioned that before, too, though, that this service, yes, these ministries that we have, these areas that we do serve in, all right, we have to have all of this attitude, though, this serving others, this not bringing down, especially young ones, not tearing them down in the process of what we're trying to do. I love that the kids get to see so much. Maybe they don't understand everything that's going on, but again, more and more I'm hearing the songs. I loved a lot of them looked up with the familiar songs last week. So they are learning, they are hearing, they're seeing our example. But what is it if they see us come in here and we're all laughing, having fun, and then we leave and now we're tearing down each other? So it doesn't just take place here. So this is just something I'm trying to throw out there for us to continue on. This example we have of crisis, humility, and we're not living it out. I say we because it's collective. I'm not saying necessarily those in here. But at times we do that. Yes, I know that this brother is hurting in this area right here, and I forget about it. And I'm more worried about my minor problem. And then I'm confronted with that again like, wow. Here I am, me, me, me, me, and the example I have, the commandment I have from Paul is, yeah, take care of yourself, but think of others. Like, ah, I wasn't doing that. Jim's the only one I need to worry about. Anybody who happens to be along for the ride, good for them. How do we help each other with that other than prayer? How do we walk with each other? I think that's the thing. walking with each other. I mean, you know, if we're honest with ourselves, we fail every day. And if we're just blunt with ourselves, the moment we wake up our eyes, we know that we're going to fail. And so, you know, I don't mean the accountability part of this. I mean the guys that are going to ride with me, and the guys that are going to pull me out of the ditch when I'm in the ditch, and the guys that are going to say, hey, we can't do that. You know, at home, it's probably the hardest place to be humble but honest with ourselves. To do, I mean, to not think the things that you're thinking as you're doing something for your spouse, right? Because, you know, the outward service is what Paul talks about. Eye service. Eye service, yep. But the inside, like, get your own coffee. Get your own clothes, you know? I mean, it's, once you get the kids, And I think the only way to truly be humble is to be honest before God. Just be honest before God. And that's the part I think that's tough, you know, because none of us really want to say, Lord, I'm a jerk. And what I'm thinking right now is sin, even though I'm not acting on it. It is sin. Man, we're such poor witnesses at times to our kids. Especially. For me, it's just walking down with other Christians, other Christian families, other Christian men. To me, that's process. That's humility. Well, what does Paul say about prayer without ceasing? And that is difficult. I say, I love that. Yes, I get the text too. I really hate it when I want to be in gym mode and no, I already know what I'm gonna say to this person. I can't wait to get there. I know how I'm gonna say it, what I'm gonna say. I know their reaction, it's gonna be awesome. And hey brother, I'm praying for you this morning. Remember that text from 1 Corinthians we just read? Yeah, I do. I guess I'm not gonna, you know, get to satisfy my flesh today because I am wrong and I need to repent to that. And, you know, this person still angered me. Especially when people don't know that they've angered you and we wanna be, you know, me in the flesh, Adam. Because we all often think higher of ourselves. Here's God, the son of God, glory of God. I'm going to do this. There is no example we have in our human lives that is close to that example of humility. There is nothing. The worst thing we can do. I drop my toy in the toilet. I guess I'm sticking my hand in it to get it. Nothing compares. Am I the only one who's had to do that too? Your hand will fit in there. Poor Tyson. And thank you again for having a small arm. I couldn't tighten the screw in my guitar. My hand won't fit in there. So I'm like, hey, Tyson, come here. You got a small hand. Reach way in there. That's a good part of Paul's letter. Does anybody have anything else on that? I know that, like I said, we didn't do it justice. We spent four sermons breaking it down. Just speaking about that, that Karma Christi, this song of Christ, before which those are online. But every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus Christ is Lord. And I love that, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. You don't believe it right now, doesn't matter. You're going to. You do believe it in your heart and you're just suppressing it, but we won't get into the apologetics on that there. So any other comments? And again, I appreciate it. I know, John, you would have liked to dive into a lot more of that as well. You remember the importance of that, too, though, the divine nature and the human nature. And if you want more materials, we do have in the library, especially the heretics class does a good job of what it's not. So you can look at those. But if you wanted to get into some more, because it is important to understand the divinity of Christ and the humanity of Christ. All right, so we don't just want to say, yes, we love Jesus. OK, if we're able to know more and we can have that taught to us to have a little bit better understanding, because it is important. All right, and that we see Christ through all the scriptures, that our brother back there went to Isaiah, the servant songs. That's not speaking of the divinity of Christ, that was speaking of the humanity with the servant songs. All right, well, I appreciate it. Does somebody wanna close us in prayer?