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2:1 If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. 2:3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. PHILLIPIANS 2:1-8 PETER, AT THE END OF HIS FIRST SERMON FOLLOWING THE ASCENSION OF JESUS CHRIST, DECLARED THE POSITON THAT CHRIST ATTAINED THROUGH HIS OBEDIENCE UNTO DEATH. PETER STATED,"...GOD ... HATH MADE...JESUS ...BOTH LORD AND CHRIST..." (ACTS 2:36). THIS ASSERTION DARE NOT BE OVERLOOKED BECAUSE IT DETERMINES ONE'S DEGREE OF COMMITMENT TO GOD.
ALL TRULY BORN AGAIN, BLOOD BOUGHT, REDEEMED CHILDREN OF GOD READILY ACCEOPT JESUS AS THEIR CHRIST (SAVIOUR). THEY NEED AND WANT A SAVIOUR. THEY REALIZE WITHOUT A SAVIOUR THEY WILL REMAIIN IN DANGER OF THE WRATH OF GOD AND ETERNAL CONDEMENATION. THE TITLE CHRIST REFERS TO JESUS AS THE ANOINTED ONE, A UNIQUE BLENDING OF THE SON OF GOD MADE FLESH AND GOD THE SON(PHILLIPIANS 2:1-8). IT DEFINES ONE SENT WITH A DIVINE PURPOSE-ONE SENT FORTH TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK OF ETERNAL VALUE. JESUS WAS SENT FORTH FROM GOD TO REDEEM, SANCTIFY, AND SECURE GOD'S CHOSEN (JOHN17).
HOWEVER, MOST PROFESSING BELIEVERS HAVE NOT RECOGNIZED JESUS AS LORDOF THEIR LIVES AND THEREFORE FAIL TO LIVE VICTORIOUS CHRISTIAN LIVES. RECOGNIZING JESUS AS LORD SIMPLY MEANS DOING OR BEHAVING IN A MANNER OBEDIENCE TO WHAT HE HAS REVEALED.
YOU MAY HAVE ACCEPTED THE SAVIOUR AND BE VERY HAPPY THAT YOU WILL NOT FACE THE WRATH OF GOD, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE LORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST? WHETHER YOU RECOGNIZE HIS LORSHIP OR NOT, HE WILL ERERCISE THAT AUTHORITY NOW AND IN THE ETERNITY BY WITHHOLDING MANY BLESSINGS . HE IS LORD AND DESERVES OUR COMPLETE OBEDIENCE. JOHN 14:15 SAYS, "IF YE LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." JOHN 15:10 SAYS, "IF YE KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, YE SHALL ABIDE IN MY LOVE; EVEN AS I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS, AND ABIDE IN HIS LOVE."
BY PASTOR LLOYD SHEPHERD, CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH, UNION CITY, IN.
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