Let this Mind Be in You

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So we're going to be considering this evening the mind of Christ, and specifically this title, let this mind be in you, which we just read in Philippians 2 verse 5, let this mind be in you. And as some of you may know, I teach grade five, six, so you're looking at 10 and 11 year olds. And one thing I always do or try to do as a teacher is to make sure the kids know what they're learning and why we're learning it. And the goal is that if anyone came in to my classroom, whether it's the principal, another teacher, the custodian, a parent, if anyone came in and saw them working and they said, what are you learning about? They should be able to say, I'm learning, you know, how to multiply double digit numbers or I'm learning this or whatever it is. And then they should also be able to answer why they're learning it. You know, what's the purpose of learning this? Sometimes that goes really well. Sometimes it doesn't go quite so well. So for just this year, the first six weeks in science, we were looking at biodiversity, the diversity of living things. And after six weeks, I gave them a little test. And the first question was, what is biodiversity? And give examples. And I had four, probably about four out of 20 students answer the first question with IDK. And if you didn't know anything about texting, that means, I don't know. Six weeks of covering biodiversity in many facets. And at the end of it, they said, I don't know. Hopefully this evening, you'll know what we're learning, why we're learning. And at the end of it, you'll be able to in some way have some information that you could share if somebody asked. So why the mind of Christ? So there's quite a few reasons why we would consider the mind of Christ. In fact, so first of all, it's informative. And if you look at the world, there's lots of intriguing people. And we often wonder, what makes them tick? What do they think? How do they process things? How do they work through problems? So for example, Elon Musk. And you can find, when I was doing some research, there's pictures of him and his brain is open and there's all these cogs moving around. And they're wondering, what makes Elon Musk tick? Or Sam Altman, the guy who's leading this AI push. How does he think through things? How do they process things? What's their attitude towards things? I think somebody would make a lot of money if they could figure out how Donald Trump processes things and thinks what his priorities are and how it all works together. And then some way, maybe the Canadian government could buy that book and get the tariffs removed. Um, some of us might be like, I wonder how my spouse's mind works. Why does she process things so differently than I do? Um, so considering how somebody thinks, how their mind works can be very informative. Um, so that's the first reason we're going to consider the mind of Christ. We The second thing is sort of the title of this, this class, you know, it's imperative. So in grade six, we teach the students that there's four types of sentences. There might be more types of sentences, but in grade six, there's only four types. There's interrogative. So when you ask a question, uh, there's declarative. When you are giving information, uh, there's exclamatory. When you make an exclamation, you know, I love pizza or go Blue Jays. Um, and then there is imperative when you're, you're giving a command. And that's what Paul's doing here. He says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. So it's informative. It's interesting to try to figure out how Jesus thought about things, but it's also imperative. We're told to take on his mind, his way of thinking. A third reason to contemplate this is our mind is the battleground. And it has been for 6,000 years, right from, you know, the Garden of Eden, when Eve was, was tempted with this idea of like for her mind, you know, don't think that way. Did God really say that here's what you should be thinking. Here's what you should be striving for. And it was really a battle for her mind for the way she thought the way she processed things. Um, and if we can figure out how Christ thought through things, you know, he was the one who won this battle, the only one who has won the battle of the mind and kept his mind focused on God and on serving others. But we live in a world where everyone is competing for our mind. You know, they want us to vote this way or think this way, behave this way, spend your money here, get angry about this, ignore that. There's so many things that are competing for our mind. And so we can develop a way of thinking as Christ did with single mindedness. We should be striving for that. And that sort of gets to this idea that a desire for an ordered mind, we should want an ordered mind, a sound mind that's whole. We know that there's meant many mental disorders in this world. And you know, just thinking about that, those words, mental disorder, that there's a disorder in people's thinking. Some things are emphasized too much in our minds, maybe fears or anxieties, and maybe sometimes things that should be more important aren't in our minds. And so there's the disorder. And so if we can contemplate Christ's mind, we can find that sound mind. Okay, so that's why we want to cover this topic. Now, someone might say, well, why Jesus? Like if this was a secular class, they might consider someone like Elon Musk or President Trump or someone else. But why Jesus? And I want to go to this statement that he made, a very bold statement, where he says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. And I think it was C .S. Lewis that sort of put forward this idea that a statement like this can't be half true. Either it is completely false, or it is completely true. There's no in between. You know, Jesus is saying there is one way, and there is one truth, and there is one life. And he doesn't say it's some knowledge or wisdom outside. He says, I am the way. So if we can figure out Christ himself and follow his example, then we're finding the way, the truth, and the life. And because it is true, it means everything. So we'll just leave that as sort of a foundation for this class. So Philippians chapter two. Now, when we open up Philippians chapter two, and hopefully have your Bibles with you, the first word in chapter two is therefore. So that sort of tells us we have to read what came before that. So I just want to look at that real quickly, starting verse 27. It says, Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel, and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but to you of salvation and that from God. For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which you saw in me and now here is in me. And so he's saying to them, you know, there's adversaries, there's people who are coming after them trying to disorder their lives, and he's asking them to be in one spirit with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel. So he wants them united, and so because of that he says therefore, because you have to be united, therefore in verses one through four we read that therefore if there's any consolation in Christ, any encouragement, I think is what Jason's version said, if you've gotten anything out of being a part of Christ, if you've gotten any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the spirit, if any affection and mercy fulfill my joy and being like-minded. So he's saying, if you've gotten anything out of Christ, let me read the message. I know it's a paraphrase and it can get kind of strange, but I think it captures what Paul's getting at, the gist. It says, if you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care, then do me a favor, agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. So a paraphrase, but the idea is if you've been in Christ and if you've received any encouragement from it, you've got to be of one mind. And that's what he points to in verse two. It says, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and one mind. Twice he uses this word, phronio, for this mind, this Greek word. He's saying, be like-minded. And it's going to be so important. And he points them in verse three towards being humble and serving one another. We see that verse three, let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind, so humility, let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look not only for his own interest, but also for the interests of others. So I think what Paul is saying is if you are in Christ and you're the body of Christ, the body of Christ does not have any mental disorder. It is one-minded, it is sound, and it is sure. And he's going to expand on that as you'll see as we go through this. But this is a huge ask. Humans don't like humbling themselves, and we don't like serving. We like to be served, and we like to be in charge. We have pride. And so this goes right against human pride. And so Paul is asking a big thing from them, and he better back it up. And he does back it up, because he points us to Christ. He gives us a target. He gives us a basis of foundation where we can say, okay, if I'm going to humble myself, and if I'm going to become a servant to my brothers and sisters, I need some sort of a target. I need some reason. And he says, look to Christ. This is where you find that example. And that's where we get into the meat of this talk, and it starts in verse 5. Now it says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. So if you're going to be united, if you're going to be in unity, have a sound mind, if you're going to be together, you have to think the way Jesus thought. And that's actually what he says. The first three words there, let this mind is phronio. This is Greek, tuto phronio, which actually means think this thinking or mind this mind. Think about this attitude. And it's not sort of a, you know, maybe think about maybe thinking this way. This is, as I said, it's imperative. You have to think this thinking. You have to have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. The New American Standard version says have this attitude. So if you're going to be united and working together, and there's all these different things that are going to try to disorder you, you have to have this attitude, the attitude that Christ had. And I think attitude is a fair, a good word to use in this case. The word mind, and I'm not an expert on psychology and how the brain works, but I get this idea that the mind is your total attitude, your way of reasoning. It comes out as your disposition. In Proverbs 23 verse 7, it says, as a man thinks in his heart, so he is. So the way we process things, the way we reason through things, it comes out in who we are, our attitude, our disposition. It influences our behavior. We live our lives from the inside out. And so we might even say it's our identity, our mind, the way we think our disposition is our identity. And hopefully in this context, this makes sense that Paul is saying if you want the identity, you have to identify with him. He has to be your identity. You have to become Christ in you, the hope of glory. This has to become your identity, the way you think, the way you reason. Hopefully that makes sense. And if somebody has more wisdom and psychology and things like that, you can correct me or share more when we get towards the end. But Paul is saying the first thing you have to do, let this mind be in you. This is the mind that we're looking at, the attitude, the identity. And what was the mind in Christ? Verse 5 and 6, it says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. So I was just reading Rested Scripture by Brother Ron Abel, and he said, this is not a good translation, do not consider it robbery. And I've gone for walks and memorized this verse and tried to not consider it robbery and tried to work it through, but other translations did it for me. And there's many that phrase it this way, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped. And that Greek word, that's what it means, did not consider it robbery. It means he didn't grasp at it. He let go of that. So he didn't think, you know, I can in some way be, you know, the Son of God and let everyone know I'm the Son of God, and that will be my identity. He let go of that. He this is extremely important that he didn't hold tight to this, that he emptied himself. Other versions, if you, you know, you do those Bible searches, and it has all the versions there, some of them say, he stripped himself of all privilege. Even though he was the Son of God, he did not take advantage of that. He did not exploit it. So Jesus never used his sonship as a way of elevating himself over others. He didn't hold on to it and say, this is who I am. You know, never do we read of Jesus saying to anyone, Pharisees, Pilate, Lappers, he didn't say to anyone, do you know who you're talking to? He didn't use it as a way of saying, I'm above you. I'm better than you. I'm the Son of God. Never. You know, he completely let go of that opportunity. There was no royal treatment. There was no pomp. There was no ceremony when he came in or when there's people who followed him. But there was no expectation. You know, I'm the Son of God. This is what I expect from people. Even when he was mocked and insulted, you know, when the Pharisees said to him, we know who our father is, you know, that's that's saying you don't even know who your father is. You were born in sin. There was no, hey, just wait a second. You know, I'm the Son of God. There was none of that. When they said, oh, you're the carpenter's son, there was no response of anger or trying to hold on to his identity. When people mocked him and said, oh, you saved others. Why don't you save yourself? And he can call down legions of angels to support him. He did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped. And so what's the message from Paul? Let this mind be in you. If Jesus could let go of the greatest opportunity to elevate yourself above man, if he can let go of that, we need to let go of some of those things we grasp tight to some things we we call our identity. In verse seven, it says, it says, but made himself of no reputation. He made himself of no reputation. Now, first of all, notice that that was self-imposed. It says he made himself of no reputation. So he wasn't out there to get a following, you know, lights and clicks and all that stuff. He was going out and he was preaching the good news of the kingdom of God. And if people listened great, if they didn't, he didn't change his message. Reputation is so important to us. We take years to craft our reputation. A lot of people will go online and put on the right picture and get rid of the picture. And now you can filter things and make yourself look stronger or we are smarter or whatever. We manage our reputation. We protect our reputation. And Paul saying you've got to let go of it. Whatever is getting in the way, you've got to take on the mind of Christ, the identity of Christ and let that go. It's getting in the way. And Paul knew what he was talking about. If you just look over in Philippians chapter three, verses three through seven, he says, for we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit, rejoicing Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. Though I also might have confidence in the flesh, if anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so circumcise the eighth day of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, concerning the law of Pharisee, concerning zeal, persecuting the church, concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. So he had a reputation. Paul had an amazing reputation and he could have grasped tight to it and held on to it. And when people came to you, you know who you're talking to? You know, I'm a Christian. And he didn't. At least when he when he was converted, he let go of all of it. He says that he says, but what things in verse seven, but what things were gained to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. He let go of it. And that's what he's asking us to do. And you think of all the things we can grasp tight to. Oh, let me pass that for a second. We can let go of our pride. We create a narrative for ourselves. We may have to let go of that or our status. We might try to come across as really intellectual. We may have to let go of that, our ego, our reputation, our popularity. We do this project with students where they trace their head and then they fill in everything that makes up their identity, who they are. These are the things they think about and they dream about and they, you know, want to be. And so for example, this person, there's a lot of I think that's TikTok and Snapchat. There's a lot of social media on there. There's a dollar sign, Nike shoes. Is that the Puerto Rican flag? So maybe some identity there. There's a shopping bag, a volleyball. There's some sports equipment. So that's her identity. This person, once again, a phone, a lot of social media, football, baseball, basketball. So this person is thinking sports. That's their identity. McDonald's fries. Once again, a phone. So you can see where people's identity is wrapped up. And just from this little project, it'd be interesting for us to do it. What would be in our head, our identity, who we want people to see us as. This person has a lot of makeup things and fairy and cupcakes. Anyway, you get the idea. And so we too have these identities that we have. And it might not just be worldly identities, like I'm a successful businessman, or, you know, I'm a good mom, or we could say I'm a fifth generation Christadelphian, and that might be our identity. And it doesn't matter. Whatever we're building up. Paul is saying you can let go of it. That's what Christ did. He let go of being identifying necessarily as the Son of God. In Matthew chapter 16, verse 25, Jesus says, for whoever desires to save his life, will lose it. But whoever loses his life, and that's my words in there, who lets go of that life that we're trying to build. If you let go of it, for my sake, they will find it. So if grasping onto some identity is preventing me from being like Christ, then there's a problem. So for example, we know that Christ says you need to love your enemies. But if because of my pride, I'm unable to love my enemies, then I need a new identity. I need to let go of that pride. I know that Jesus says, let your yes be yes and your no be no. But if because of my reputation, sometimes I have to lie a little bit and change some stories. If I can't just let my yes be yes and my no be no because of my reputation, then I need a new identity. I've done something wrong because of my ego, then I need a new identity. If I can't take criticism from a brother or sister because of my image and what I'm trying to build my reputation, then I need a new identity. So Paul is saying if your life is running on that kind of fuel, as he says in chapter three, confidence in the flesh. There's another term he uses or admiration from others. If that's the fuel we're running on, you will never have the mind of Christ. It will always be disordered. You're always going to be pulled in different directions. You'll never find and ultimately you'll never find unity in yourself, in your family, in your ecclesia if you're trying to grasp tight to these things. And I would say that you're grasping tightly to a lesser version of yourself because our heavenly father has a version of us as servants of one another following the example of his son and anything less than that is selling out. So we must let go of it. So I think that's the first thing that Paul is saying. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God did not grasp it but made himself of no reputation. Just an example of this in Luke chapter nine. In Luke chapter nine, starting verse 51, it says, Now it came to pass when the time had come for him to be received up, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem and sent messengers before his face. As they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans to prepare for him, but they did not receive him because his face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, do you want us to command a fighter to come down from heaven and consume them just as Elijah did? But he turned and rebuked them and said, You do not know what manner of spirit you are of, for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And so here we have James and John, and they're in a Samaritan village, and their pride, I think their pride was hurt. Here we have this great message. These people don't know Jesus like we know him, and they're rejected by the Samaritans of all people. That would have been an ouch for sure. And so they say, Do you want us to bring down fire and consume them all? I know in mine says, You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. Some versions don't have that, some do. If that is what Jesus says, it's almost like you don't know what your true identity is supposed to be like. You know, you don't know what you're supposed to be following. And he gives himself as an example, the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. So sort of that call to, you know, think about your identity, don't let your pride get in the way. And if you think about the message that would have sent, we bring you glad tidings of joy and hope and the love of God. And if you don't accept them now, we're going to send down fire from heaven to consume you. It didn't quite make sense at that time. And I think if we were to go through and add more time, I think we could find that every man and woman of spiritual stature in the Bible had to let go of something. That there was something that could have gotten in the way of their service of God and of their brothers and sisters that they'd let go of in order to do what was right. So we've got to let go. But then what do we take on as our identity? And we've emptied ourselves of all those metrics that the world sets up that says this is what makes you successful or have meaning in your life or a life of purpose. We pushed that aside. Now we need to be filled with something. And that's where Paul goes on in chapter two of Philippians, starting at verse seven and eight. Let me just read that. So Jesus made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. So there's three things that come up here. And we'll just start with this one, taking the form of a bondservant. And so Paul is saying don't grasp all those other measures, all the things that get in the way, but grasp this. This is what Jesus did. He took the attitude, the thinking, the form of a bondservant. This is the fuel that we need to run on. This is the identity that we need to embrace. This is where we need to find value. We need to find purpose, meaning, that of a bondservant. So if we turn to Luke 17, we're given a picture of what the expectations of a bondservant. And it's not pretty in the modern mind. Luke 17, I'll start at verse seven. In which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, come at once and sit down to eat? But will he not rather say to him, prepare something for my supper and gird yourself and serve me till I've eaten and drunk, and afterwards you will eat and drink? Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not. So likewise, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, we are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do. And this is the context of faith. And you can see it, the faith that would take to empty yourself and take on that as your identity. As it says, Jesus himself, he made himself of no reputation. He took this on himself. And so just stop for a second and think what Paul is saying to the Philippians. You know, you've got to let go of all that the world exalts, and you have to replace it with the identity of being a bondservant. This is the mind that your Savior took on. And in Matthew 20, it says, the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many. Okay, so he's asking very difficult things, but this is the thinking. And it's linked with the next thing. And being found in the appearance of man, he humbled himself. And once again, he humbled himself. He was willing to take on this identity. You know, humility can be forced on us. So if you're in a position where you're not the boss, sometimes you're forced into a humble position. You take orders, and you're expected to do what you're told to do. But sometimes it can be ingrained. You know, if we take on that position that I am going to approach all situations as a humble servant, and then somebody comes and says, do this, there's no animosity there. Okay, yep, that's my job. That's what I'll do. And that's what Luke 17 was getting at. I'm an unworthy servant. I've done what my duty was. If it's forced humility, I think we look forward to times when our boss, our master, our leaders, whoever it is, we look forward to when they're embarrassed. Okay, we're humble before you, because we have to be humble before you. But we love it when you get ridiculed, or when you get brought low, or when you're driven to bitterness, or we end up being driven by bitterness and contempt. We look like we're servants, but inside, we're just looking forward to when you get yours. But if you humble yourself, if you've changed your identity and have taken on a bond servant who's humbled himself, we want what is best for our master. We work for their best interest. And so an example of that is name and servants. You know, you consider it if, and as we know, the little girl in his household was taken in captivity. Um, he has leprosy and she wants what's best for him. You know, I think you can get healed. And then they go and he's so full of pride that he's not going to go wash in the rivers. And the servants don't go. He's going to die. He's going to suffer. He's going to be itchy all over the place. They don't. They, they appeal to him. Come on. If he asked you something hard to do, you would have done it and just go wash. Like how amazing is that? That's the attitude we need to have that attitude of wanting the best for, uh, you know, our families, our Ecclesias. And so if you just think of an ecclesial situation where, um, you know, you're asked to do something, it might be cut the grass, clean the bathrooms, or you go to Bible school and you're garbage duty or, uh, you know, all the, all the little jobs that have to be done. And if we're like, you know, again, and we struggle with it and we're forced into that humility, then, you know, we don't mind when things go wrong for the Bible school or other people are in the Ecclesian. I told you so. You know, that's what you get. Um, we can take that shoot or we can come as humble services. Hey, if that's what you want me to do, that's what I'll do. If that helps our family or Ecclesia or the Bible school or whatever, that's what I'll do. You want me to stack chairs? I'll stack chairs. You want me to wash the dishes after I'll wash the dishes, whatever it is to help this family. And so Jesus, his thinking and the thinking we told to take on is one of a bond servant who humbled himself. First and foremost, his mindset, his identity was a humble servant. At the beginning of this class, we thought, okay, why are we considering this topic? Well, we want to know what were the inner workings of his mind. Well, we're starting to see it. He let go of things that could have, you know, esteemed him better than others. He took on servanthood. He took on humility. We said it was that this is imperative. So this is for our own good is what we're being told. It's for the good of your Ecclesia. It's for the good of your family. It's for the good of your place of employment. It's for the good of your community, your neighbors. Um, we also said that we have a battle going on for our mind. Well, one way to win that battle is to let go of all those things that are tearing us in different directions and be single minded. And I am a humble servant here to help. Um, and so we, we can have a sound mind in this way so that no matter what comes into our life, we ask one simple question. How can I approach this as a servant? We don't approach it, say, how can I preserve my comfort, my ease or how can I hold on to power and control or how can I maintain my status and reputation or my money or my image? We simply say, how can I be a servant? Just that single minded approach. The last thing that it says, he humbled himself and became obedient and obedient to the point of even death on the cross. So he was obedient to God. So here's another tricky one. It's hard to let go. It's hard to take the form of a bond servant. It's hard to humble ourselves. And now we have to be obedient. Another immense challenge. I remember we started off with John 14, verse six, where Jesus says, I am the truth or I am the way, the truth and the life. And we say, maybe, maybe not. You know, I've kind of got some things figured out as well. Um, and really we have to say, am I king of my life? Am I the author of my life? Or is he? Can we trust Christ? Jesus trusted his heavenly father to the point of death, even death on the cross. That's amazing trust. Can we trust? Now, I thought it was interesting that just this past weekend in the States, you had all those protests and it was like no kings. Some of the signs said no kings ever. Um, and we'll get to that in a second. But I came across this quote by a scholar, a biblical scholar named Dallas Willard. And he said, if you are on the throne of your life, you won't want to think about God because after all he is God and there will be no room for both him and anybody else on the throne of your life. And it just creates this funny picture of my mind of, of a throne. And I'm trying to fit myself onto that throne. And I pushed trying to push, you know, our heavenly father off. No, I will make decisions for me. I know what's best for me. Or pushing Christ off and saying, no, I don't think the whole servant hood thing was right. And so it's a huge question. Jesus was obedient. Can we truly be obedient to Christ? When he, you go through the Sermon on the Mount and all the things he tells us to do, he commands us to do. Do we trust that he knows what he's talking about? It's a huge question. Some people want Jesus the Savior, but there's so many times, 84 times, he's called Lord Jesus Christ. There's only six times where he's called Savior Jesus Christ. 84 times Lord Jesus Christ. You know, it's kind of funny that in society that you can march like this and say, no kings, no kings, not our king. We want to choose who our king is. You know, in the times of Christ, in the times of Jesus, there was no opportunity to do that. You know, you would be crucified for doing that. But we in some ways might be saying that to our heavenly father and to his son, no king, no, not in my life. We may claim that Jesus is our Lord, but if we even take one of his commandments, just one of his commandments and say, no, that's old fashioned. It's not for the 21st century. That's not realistic. Then what are we doing? We're putting ourselves in the place of a king and saying, no, I get to control what's right and wrong here. So it raises the same question that Jesus must have asked about God. Can I trust him? Does he really know what he's talking about? And we have to ask when Jesus says, turn the other cheek, when he talks to us about forgiveness or not worrying, can we trust him? We've spent our lives being disciplined and listening to the world and being immersed in the world and how to handle situations the way the flesh does. And the world's tools are things like anger and jealousy and retribution and hoarding and lust and gossip. And we have to, a new word you hear a lot is we have to unlearn those things we've been immersed in. We've been disciples of the world, whether it's movies or TV or podcasts, news, colleagues, and they've been training us to behave in certain ways, to think certain ways, to create identities that are so far from what Paul is instructing us. He's instructing us to have the mind of Christ, the identity of Christ. So just to finish, we're told, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. He let go, he became a bond servant, he humbled himself, and he became obedient. And so just to close, let's just look at those last few verses in Philippians chapter two of that section we read, because it's so important, starting at verse nine. So because Jesus did these things, it says, So it doesn't matter if we say, if we have protests that say no king ever, there will be a king, and it will be a king that came as a servant who humbled himself and became obedient. And so we exalted. So we look forward to that day when our king returns and we can hopefully approach him, knowing that we've been obedient and that we followed his example.