"Bow pt 3: A Servant's Heart" - By Lay Speaker Jan Denby

Sunday,

August 20, 2017

 

Philippians 2:1-11

(CEB)

 

Imitate Christ

¹Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort in love, any sharing in the Spirit, any sympathy, ² complete my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, being united, and agreeing with each other. ³ Don’t do anything for selfish purposes, but with humility think of others as better than yourselves. ⁴ Instead of each person watching out for their own good, watch out for what is better for others. ⁵ Adopt the attitude that was in Christ Jesus:

⁶ Though he was in the form of God, he did not consider being equal with God something to exploit. ⁷ But he emptied himselfby taking the form of a slave and by becoming like human beings. When he found himself in the form of a human, ⁸ he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even death on a cross. ⁹ Therefore, God highly honored him and gave him a name above all names, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus everyone in heaven, on earth, and under the earth might bow, ¹¹and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father

 

Psalm 29:2

² Give to the Lord the glory due his name!

Bow down to the Lord in holy splendor!