Exhortations to Unity Through Humility (Part 2)

Bibles with me to the book, the Little Epistle of Philippians, known as the Epistle of Joy, chapter 2, verses 1 to 11. Chapter 2, verses 1 to 11, this chapter brings out a lot on humility. As you turn there, let me say this at the beginning.

This is, no doubt, one of the greatest passages in this epistle, this little letter to the Philippians. It's one of the greatest passages of all the writings of the Apostle Paul, and may I say it's no doubt one of the great passages of all Scripture.

You can hardly do justice to it, and I can promise you I will not be able to do justice to this great text this morning. But we do need the Holy Spirit of God to help us, and it has great depth, as Paul would say, great depth of both riches of both wisdom and the knowledge of God.

How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out, as he says in Romans. So this text, no doubt, before us today is rich beyond compare, so what I would like to do again today with the help of the Spirit of God is to give an overview of those that did not, were not able to hear last Lord's Day.

I'm going to give a quick overview of what we looked at, and we're going to go right into the text, look at some very practical applications to our everyday Christian living. So hear the word of the living God this morning, Philippians 2, verse 1 to 11.

Verse 1 to 11, hear God's word. Therefore, if there is any consolation in Christ, if there is any comfort of love, any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord of one mind, let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself.

Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. 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, but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bond slave and coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man.

He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

May God bless the reading of his word from our ears to our hearts this morning. Please bow with me in prayer as we seek the Lord's face and favor within the hour of worship as he speaks to us through his word.

Our Father and our God, we are thankful this morning for your holy word. Lord, we are standing on holy ground when we open up thy word. May we truly give reverence and awe to it and tremble before it as your word has said.

And Father, we would pray that you would sanctify us this morning through your spirit, through your word, for your word is truth. We ask that, O God, you would open the eyes of our heart, that we may behold wonderful truths from it.

Speak to us, O Lord, and change us, change us, O God, from faith to faith, from glory to glory, more into the likeness of the loveliness of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom you are well pleased. And we ask this for thy honor and your glory.

Amen and amen. In this wonderful book, I love this quote. I've used it quite often, but I cannot believe I can quote this too often because it has such a significant truth of Christ's humility of condescending in the incarnation.

It's found in the writings of the book Miracles, C .S. Lewis. I believe Brother Keith posted this on the group text. Thank you, Brother Keith. I don't know how you knew I was going there, but you knew it.

Praise God. But it's one of my favorites, and I appreciate Brother Keith posting that because we need to be reminded. But I'm going to read it to you. It's a little lengthy, but listen very carefully as I read C .S. Lewis' words from his book Miracles about the condescension and the humility in the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

It has great truth to it. He says this, in the Grand Miracle, it's a chapter on the incarnation of Christ. And in that chapter, he draws a very rich analogies for by which we can view the incarnation.

I'm sorry, this is a silly introduction. This is what Lewis says. He says, quote, in the Christian story, God descends to re-ascend. He comes down, down from the heights of absolute being into time and space.

Down into humanity, down further still, down to the very roots and sea bud of the nature he had created. But he goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with him. One has the picture of a strong man stooping lower and lower to get himself underneath some great complicated burden.

He stoops in order to lift. He must also disappear under the load before he can incredibly straightens his back, marches off with the whole mass of swaying on his shoulders. Or one may think of a diver, first reducing himself to nakedness, then glancing into mid-air, then gone into the splash, vanished, rushing down through green warm water into black and cold water, down through the increasing pressure into the death-like region of ooze and slime and old decay, then up again back to color and light, his lungs almost bursting till suddenly he breaks surface again, holding in his hand the dripping precious thing he went down to recover.

You see the picture? He came, he and it are both colored now that they have come up into the light. Down below where it lay colorless in the dark, he lost his color too. In this descent and reassent, everyone will recognize a familiar pattern, a thing written.

All over the world.

It is the pattern of all vegetable life. It must belittle itself into something hard, small, death-like, and it must fall into the ground, then the new life reassents. It is the pattern of all animal generation as well.

There is the pattern, descent from the full perfect organism into the spermatozoon and the ovum, and to the dark womb, a life at first inferior in kind to that of the species which is being reproduced, then the slow ascent to perfect embryo, to the living conscience baby, and finally to the adult.

So it is in our moral and emotional life. The first innocent and spontaneous desires have to submit to total denial, but from that there is a reassent to fully formed character in which the strength of original material operates, but a new way.

Death and rebirth go down to go up. It is a key principle. Through this bottleneck, this belittlement, the high road nearly always lies.". How wonderful it is. And the words here of C .S. Lewis, it approaches the incarnation of Jesus Christ, which is one of the central miracles of Christianity, the most wonderful of all things that God ever did, the great incarnation that God became flesh.

And it is great humility. And this is what we're focusing on today, is the humility of Jesus Christ. This is the grand theme of these verses before us, is Christ's humility, His humility. It's hard for us to really grasp this when only the Spirit of God can help us grasp it because it is within our natures.

And I know we have a new nature even as children of God, but even that is very difficult because there still is a remaining sense of sin and pride within us that we are to have crucified by the Spirit, put to death the deeds of the flesh, which is mortification of sin.

But it is very difficult for us, and that's why we need the Spirit of God to help us to truly understand this great humility. And that's what we're going to look at, is the humility of Jesus Christ. And God willing, we're going to look at Christ's exaltation more in detail next Lord's Day.

But as the recap a little bit from last Lord's Day, there are four points. And I borrowed this outline from Pastor John MacArthur. I think there's not any other better on this passage than MacArthur's outline.

The four points that has to do with unity through humility. The first is the motives for spiritual unity, which is verses 1 and 2. Second is the marks of spiritual unity, verse 2. Next is the means of spiritual unity, verse 3 and 4.

Then the model of spiritual unity, verses 5 through 11, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. The first three I will go through very quickly this morning. Comment on, draw out the most important truths in its meaning, in its content.

And then the fourth point, we will look at and focus on the Lord Jesus Christ and His great humility. And then we will look at some application. Now, keep in mind, the motives of unity answer the question, why?

The marks of unity answer the question, what? The means of unity answer the question, how? And the model, which is really the application and where Paul goes to, is the unit of unity answers the question, who?

And that who is the Lord Jesus Christ? He is the who. Let me give you some questions here. Why should we seek unity in the church? Why is unity important? How do we experience unity? And we're talking about unity in truth.

Now, we're just not talking about for unity, for unity's sake or for peace sake. We're talking about in the truth. It's very simple. It's very direct, very practical. And I believe it's absolutely vital for our church or for any church as that.

And you can honestly say that this is basic Christianity 101. It's the 1, 2, 3s and ABCs of Christianity. It's foundational. Now, as we look back, I'd like to look at verse 1 and 2. The motives for spiritual unity is given to us in verse 1 and verse 2.

It says this, therefore, if there be any consolation in Christ, if there's any comfort of love, any fellowship of the Spirit, any affection and mercy. Verse 2, fulfill my joy and be like-minded, he says, having the same love of being of one accord and one mind.

Now, this is the very heart of the passage because it is the phrase being of the same mind. Underscore that. Being of the same mind is the emphasis. That's the main thrust of where Paul is taking this by the Spirit of God is God has given him the breath of breathing upon the Apostle Paul to write this.

So Paul is basically saying, I desire you to be like-minded. It's the same thing in chapter 1, verse 27. You stand fast in one spirit with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel. And now he tells him why he wants them to be of one mind.

And he means by one mind and how they can be of one mind. It is very, very practical. So he gets to the motives.

Why?

Why is it important for us to maintain this unity of the faith and truth in the church? Why is it important for us to have one spirit?

Why?

Why should we be striving together for the faith of the gospel? There are questions there and he answers these to eliminate any conflict, any discord, any disunity. Why is this so important to us? Well, the four motives are given in verse 1.

If therefore is any encouragement of Christ, if therefore there's any consolation of love, if there's any fellowship of the Spirit, you can say or since there is any encouragement.

Since.

And the Philippian Christians biggest battle was not with the external circumstances, but it was internally. They were tearing one another apart and there was divisions within them. And Paul basically had to demonstrate to the church how his own refusal to let external circumstances to control the attitudes.

And as you well know, here Paul writes this little letter from a dungeon. He's in chains. But he did not allow that to control him. He did not allow the external circumstances to sway him from the truth.

Therefore ties together his conflict and their conflict. Paul knows as an apostle, not only is that he is a spiritual apostle, the spiritual father to these churches, he's one with them. Even though he's in prison in a jail cell, a dungeon, he knows he is still one with them.

He bleeds when they bleed. If they're persecuted, he's persecuted. He, if they're in joy, he's in joy. There's the oneness there. And then he says in verse 29 of chapter 1, for to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his name's sake.

To suffer, verse 30, having the same conflict.

You get that?

The same conflict which you saw in me now here is in me. So the therefore, the if, the sense, are basically the conditional clauses that come. If, if, if, or sense, sense. And expresses the idea of sense of each of the following clause may be considered to be a true.

He is not speaking of doctrinal abstractions. He is speaking now, note this, of present, practical, spiritual experiences. This is real, folks. We could read the verse like this. Sense or because, that's what Paul means here.

Because there is encouragement in Christ. Because there's consolation of love. Because there is fellowship of the spirit. And because there is affection and compassion. Make my joy complete. This is what Paul's joy was.

He had a burden for all the churches. And he's a spiritual father. So these are the driving motives that there, of the truths that should compel all of us within the church. Those three main exhortations.

Consolation in Christ. That's encouragement in Christ. Comfort of love. And fellowship of the spirit. Fellowship of the spirit. So basically, yes, there are the motives. That's the motives. Now, next in verse 2, you see the marks of spiritual unity.

He says, fulfill my joy being like-minded. Having the same love. Being of one accord and one mind. In the book of Acts chapter 4, Luke wrote these words. And now the multitudes. Verse 32, of those who believe were of one heart, one soul.

Neither did anyone say that any of these things, of the things he possessed was his own. But they all had, they had all things in common. That's what the scripture says. They had all things in common.

Because of their unity and humility. They did not think of themselves greater than the other. They thought of others greater than themselves. And this is the thrust in which Paul, the apostle, takes the Philippian church.

They had great power, great grace. And it was great fear that came upon the church. We looked at that last Lord's Day. And the head, Jesus Christ, the head of the church, by the way, made a great priority, a great priority of, out of the unity of the church.

In John 17, he prays this. And now the Lord Jesus, as the head of the church, places this burden upon the apostle Paul. It is of great concern to his heart, as it is the heart of God. It should be also a great concern of our heart as well.

Therefore, he gives to us this little letter to the Philippians. These verses 1 to 4 give to us the most concise, practical understanding of unity in the New Testament. You know, there's so many pastors, sad to say, and the officers of churches today, they, and they're going against their calling and staying true, they're not staying true to their call by looking at outward sources of resources other than the Bible itself for Christian unity.

You know, philosophy or any smart person, so to speak, ideas of how to keep the church together or, you know, how sad it is. That's leaning on the harm of flesh. And God's not going to bless any church if it's called a church, if it is a church, if they look anywhere else but the Bible itself.

And this is where we look to for unity. And it's in the word of God. So Paul is basically telling them how a Christian is to act.

How is he to behave?

It's Christian behavior. Paul even mentioned that very, very plainly that we are to act and how we're to behave in the household of God behavior. And it's almost like a spiritual father telling children, this is the way you are to act in the home.

This is the way you are to behave. This is the way you're to have an attitude. What kind of attitude do you have? And these are attitudes. These are attitudes, motives, marks. This verse, the apostle sets forth a four-fold appeal, and it's an appeal that expresses one major idea.

And that is unity through humility. There's no other way. And it's always through humility. Fulfill my joy, he says. Make my joy complete. Here are the marks of spiritual Christian unity by being of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, one mind, all together, one body, one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

And he says that in Ephesians, the same mind, we have to think alike. We have to think alike. We're talking about in the sense of truth. You know, we all are different in one degree, but in Jesus Christ, we're one.

You see? And that's the way God sees us. In Christ, we're one. So when we go to the scriptures, we are to see. Now, we may have different interpretations and every so, and that's when we come together and say, well, let's get on our knees.

And I like it. I like how the old saints used to say it. Let's pray together if we can't see this together, if we disagree, and if there's a conflict. But these conflicts, you see this in the early church.

There was conflicts in the early church. And then you see in the Jerusalem council, they had to come together and they had to work together. You had the apostles. You had Peter there. You had James there and Paul there.

And they had to come together to deal with the conflicts. And they did work it out, by the way, by the help of the spirit of God. Same mind, we have to think alike. And what does that mean? You see this in Romans chapter 12.

And go there very quickly. Romans, he picks up some of the very same theme that he does here. In Romans 12, look at verse 3. For I say through the grace given to me, not everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function. So we, being many, are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. And he goes on, having then gifts deferring according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them.

If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith or ministry, let us use it in our ministering or serving. That's another way of saying to serve. He who teaches in teaching, he who exhorts in exhortation, he who gives, talking about that Sunday school today, with liberality, he who leads with diligence and he who shows mercy with cheerfulness.

And then if you want to look at how the behavior looks like, look at verse 9, all the way through verse 21. I'm going to read it to you. Let love be without hypocrisy, abhor what is evil, cling to what is good, be kindly affectionate to one another, there's the one and others, with brotherly love and honor, giving preference to one another.

Notice there, it's the same thing in Philippians. You're to think of the other person and you to put that person to esteem them as superior over yourself. You think about a whole church doing that, what kind of church would it be?

Of giving and thinking of others greater than yourself. It's basically self-denial, folks. This is the way Jesus is taught. This is actually the extension of that. How we are to deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Christ.

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Be kindly affectionate to one another, with brotherly love and honor, giving preference to one another, not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer, distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality, bless those who persecute you and bless and do not curse.

He gets this from the Lord Jesus Christ in the Sermon on the Mount. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep, be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble.

Do not be wise in your own opinion. We pay no one evil for evil, having regard for good things in the sight of all men. If it is possible, if it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.

Remember what the Hebrew writer says, follow peace with all men. And what?

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Without which no man will see the Lord, which no one will see the Lord. Peace. Christ is the Prince of Peace and He has given us peace. Notice the apostle Paul, when he opens up his epistles many times, what does he say?

How does he begin it? Grace and peace. And the Lord Jesus Christ to you. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves. No sense of self-defense here, but rather give place to wrath. For it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

God knows how to deal the blows and justice to those who are doing you wrong. Verse 20, therefore, if any, if your enemy hungry, feed him. If he's thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap coals of fire on his head.

Do not overcome evil, though do not overcome, do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. You know, isn't that a beautiful portrait of how the Christian is to behave?

That's behavior.

And if we followed that, oh, how the church would be unified. Well, that's basically what is given there. Now, Romans 15 verse 5 says, Now, may the God of patience, be comfort and comfort, grant you to be like minded toward one another.

According to Christ Jesus, verse six, that you may be with one another. One mind, one mouth. And doing what? Glorifying God. That's what it's all about, right? Is the glory of God. That's why we put this banner right up here.

Behind the preacher, behind anyone who who leads up here. Sole dei gloria, to God alone be the glory. Because this isn't about us, this isn't about the pastor, and this isn't about the preacher. It's all about the glory of God.

Ultimately, it's that's where it goes to is God's glory because he is worthy. So what is he saying in Philippians 2, 2? Be like minded. This is his concern. This is his concern for true humility, togetherness of soul.

I like what Paul Washer said. The fellowship of the saints is not when saints meet together, but it's when they meet together and talk about Jesus. I like that. Say we can meet together and talk about any other things, but when it's true fellowship, it's when we talk about Jesus.

Because he's the reason, right? He's the purpose. Next, you have the means of unity was verses 3 through 5. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition, conceit, but in lowliness of mind. Let each esteem others better than himself.

Let each of you look not only for his own interest, but also for the interest of others. Remember what I mentioned last Lord's Day? We're to live for others, folks. We're not to live for ourselves. We do not love ourselves unto death.

We love Christ and Christ alone.

We love.

We do not love ourselves. Actually, Paul said it. He says, I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And the life in which I live now in the flesh, I'll live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

That's the reason why we had died unto Christ. We've been buried with Christ. We have been raised with Christ. It's no longer us that lives, but it's Christ in us. And then Paul says, therefore, if I die, I die unto the Lord.

I'm already dead. When they took his head off from his, severed it from his body that day. And he went on to be with the Lord. As far as Paul was concerned, he was already dead, folks. It's powerful, isn't it?

And you would think, how can he? How can he face such awfulness and horror of having his head decapitated from his body? But as far as he was concerned, he was already dead. Because he saw the death of Christ and he died with Christ and faith.

And that's the way it is with us. Now we come to the question of how, how. That's the next one. How do we get to that unity? How does it practically come about? Due to the following humanities innate depravity, namely self-centeredness.

We're born selfish. We're born in this world with a fist against God because of Adam's sin. That's the birthday gift that we get when we enter into this world. We don't know it. That little child that's a precious little angel is really a depraved little reprobate.

I know mothers, that's a tough one, but they are cute and they're precious. But, and within the heart is that rebellion. And that's, that's what David said in Psalm 51. I'm in sin. My mother conceived me.

I never, I never will forget. I mentioned this to a lady at the Christian Missionary Alliance and she was up in age. And I thought, my goodness, she should have known this. And I brought that scripture out from Psalms 51 about in sin.

And we're all sinners. And she says, how dare you say such a thing? I said, that's, I said, look lady, that's not me saying that. That's the word of God. I said, you're born a sinner. Every baby's born a sinner.

She said, how can you say such a thing? I said, look to the word of God. And I just went to Psalm 51 and I read it out and she got mad with a red face and just walked away from me. I said, well, not me.

I'm just giving you what the word of God says. Well, if a person doesn't see that, they can't see their own condition. They don't see their own depravity, right? How can you be saved unless you first see your condition, that you're a sinner, that you need saving?

We know the world does not highly regard humility as well. What do they regard?

Pride.

You know, brother Ben and brother Jordan and brother Daniel noticed this first hand and the rest of us seen it from the other years, previous years of witnessing these poor lost souls out there. Just pride, pride.

Well, they named it right, didn't they? And what turned an archangel into a devil was not adultery. It wasn't the sin of adultery. It wasn't the sin of lust. It was the sin of pride, pride. And that's what the world lifts up.

Self-esteem.

Tell me if this isn't true today. Even it's come in within the church, the self-esteem gospel,.

That it's okay.

No, it's not okay. God don't think so. God abhors a haughty look. He hates a haughty look. God hates pride. He resists the proud. But yet the word of God places an utmost importance on humility, which is the opposite of pride.

The word of God is crystal clear in being humble. Humble. Do nothing from selfishness, selfish ambition. Don't be self-seeking or conceited, nor according to vainglory, as the old King James Authorized Version says, not according to vainglory, basically meaning empty pride.

Pride is empty, groundless esteem. Pride should not have any place in the Christian whatsoever. And beloved, only the cross of Christ can deal a blow to the pride. I never will forget this. I was listening to A .W. Tozer preach against pride on the old cassette years ago.

And he said, let me tell you what's going to knock pride out of you. And I thought, wow, he's going to have a great solution here. He's going to have an answer for me. How can I get this pride out of my prideful heart?

And you know what he said? The cold grave. I said, wow. In other words, this is something we're going to wrestle and fight against until the day we go home to be with Christ in glory. We have to be so careful.

Pride should not be a part of the Christian's motivation whatsoever. Everything must be done for the glory of God and in humility. Then how are we to live as believers in Christ? Well, the scripture tells us lowliness of mind.

And there's only one, folks, that is meek and lowly, absolute holy. And that is the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said it in Matthew. He said, come unto me, all you laboring, heavy laden. I will give you rest.

And when he said, learn from me, learn. He says, for I am meek in heart. I am lowly of heart. Some translation said lowly or meek. Same thing. Meekness is a weakness. But it is Christ that is lowly and meek in heart.

We can't say that about ourselves. We are prideful in heart. So now he says he turns to the positive. But with lowliness, humility of mind, let each esteem others better than himself. True unity is born out of humility.

And humility of mind is one word in the Greek. It basically means God always gives grace to the lowly.

Always.

Scripture says he resists the proud. And you will find in God's word that God chooses the insignificant, the humble for his work. He hears the prayers of the downcast, the humble, those that humble themselves before the mighty hand of God.

I like what Luther says. Luther says, for God is the God of the humble and the miserable, the afflicted, the oppressed, the desperate, and those who have been brought down to nothing at all. This is his writing to his book on Galatians.

And basically he says this, he extends the quote, it is the nature of God to exalt the humble, to feed the hungry, to enlighten the blind, to comfort the miserable, to afflict, I'm sorry, and to the afflicted, to justify sinners, to give life to the dead, to save those who are desperate and damned.

God loves to be the savior of those who are humble and realize they're nothing. He goes on to say, for he, God, is almighty creator who makes everything out of nothing, end quote. That's the kind of savior we have, beloved.

Jesus Christ came to seek and save the lost. Now we come to the model of spiritual unity and that is the Lord Jesus Christ, verse 6 through 11. And it's going to take us a couple Lord's days to get through this because I want us to see the example, the model, who we are to look at to this model.

And by the way, let me say this, Jesus is just not another example of humility. He is the example. Jesus is not just another model amongst many. He is the model of humility. Christ, because he is the only one that is lowly in heart.

No one else can say that, only Christ. And so it is him that we look to, right? His humility is perfect, perfect in every way. And Paul sets before us the true model of humility. And this is where he goes in this wonderful epistle.

And that's why the transition goes, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Because in verse 4 he says, let each of you look out not only for his own interest, but also for the interest of others.

That's self-denial. Jesus even had to learn obedience by the things he suffered. It doesn't mean that there was any mistake in him, but he had to learn that as a human. He is perfect, and he is the perfect illustration of true humility.

Well, let's look at this. The truth of the matter is that, you know it as well as I do, that Christ is that very pattern for us to follow in every area of life. Not just the matter of humility, but in every area.

So, but I like for us to just look at humility. There's a verse, John mentions, 1 John 2 verse 6. The one who says he abides in him, that is in Christ, ought to walk in the same manner as he walked. We are to pattern our whole life after Christ.

Now, there are many great saints as we admire. We admire the Puritans, and thank God for the Puritans. And we admire the martyrs. And we admire all, and actually if you go to Hebrews, and I was going to close with, I'll close this in application in Hebrews 12.

But all of Hebrews 11 speaks about the heroes of faith, right? And they are heroes of the faith, but they were sinful, sinners like we are. But they realized they were weak. They realized they were nothing.

And that's the humility. And God worked through them. And that whole chapter 11, the cloud of witnesses. And then the writer of Hebrews says, looking unto Jesus. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

That's who we look to. Well, praise God. There should be models of the church today and leaders that should be models. But like I said, the model is Christ. Christ Jesus himself is the model of humility as he is the model of everything else.

And I've already quoted it. He says, take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart. We learn humility from Christ. That is why in John 13, he says after he washed the disciples feet.

Think of that. This is God in flesh that created these men. He's the creator of the ends of the earth. And he's flesh incarnated. And he washes their feet. And he says then to them, love one another as I've loved you.