Selfless Part 3 Kindergarten and Beyond “Selflessness and the Mind of Christ”

Kindergarten and Beyond

Selflessness and the Mind of Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Imitating Christ’s Humility

2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,     did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing     by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,     being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man,     he humbled himself     by becoming obedient to death—         even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place     and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,     in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,     to the glory of God the Father.

Our first and foremost purpose on this earth is to ___________and _____________God, and our second purpose to be in ___________ _______________________with others.

 

Society’s basic rules of good social behavior ________________ of true selflessness.

Jesus makes known that ______________ must be of ________________ and ____________ in order for the world to believe.

(John 17:20-21)

Jesus Prays for All Believers

20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

 

Selfless Attitude Value #1- ________________________

Believing that God gives us ___________________which cannot be __________________ no matter what ________ or ________________do.  

  • Failure to accept this truth will send us on an _____________ _____________ for self-worth from __________________.

 

  • We will see the _____________ of others in the same way we see _________________________ and treat them ______________________.

Selfless Attitude Value #2 – ______________________

________________ after that to which we feel ____________ and ____________ undermines the __________________________ that is the mind of Christ.

Our first and foremost purpose on this earth is to ___________and _____________God, and our second purpose to be in ___________ _______________________with others.

Believing that God’s _________________ through Christ will meet all our needs ________________ us from the fear of being ___________ and frees us to look to the __________________of ______________. 

 

Selfless Attitude Value #3 – __________________

God calls us to ________________ Him with ____________, ______________, and ______________.

  • Christ’s selflessness _______________ ___________ God’s plan and purpose to provide for all people to ________ in __________ of the _________ __________ God.
  • The practice of worship is the ___________ that __________ ____________ to the attitude of selflessness.

                                                               

 The Cycle of Selflessness

 

Our selfless attitude _____________ _________________   in the name of Jesus will fulfill God’s _________ and _______________ for us, helping ________  ___________ to bow in worship of the One True God.

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