of any person who ever walked on this Earth there never was a clearer purpose for the birth of an individual than there was for Jesus he was born to die that was his purpose Jesus Christ came down from the glories of heaven born through a woman born into humanity and his real purpose was simply to die without his death we have no hope that’s not just my statement that’s his statement that’s the statement of the Lord Jesus Christ he says I didn’t didn’t come here to be served but to serve and to give my life a ransom for
many the writer of the book of Hebrews makes it very clear listen to the words this is right out of the King James Bible but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death that he by the grace of God might taste death for everyone and Hebrews 2:14 says in as much then as the children have partaken of Flesh and Blood he himself likewise shared in the same that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the devil our attitudes are important in fact they are more important than our
actions we’re to work on our attitudes how many of you know we could all work a little bit on our attitudes maybe you came to church today and you got a bad attitude you came for the right sermon I’m going to talk to you about that from his incarceration in the city of Rome he actually writes to the church in Philippi and he says what you do with your attitudes is either a source of Joy or discouragement to me as I’m here in prison and if you have the right attitude it brings joy to my heart and then he begins to tell them in
his letter first of all some reasons that they should work on their attitude of unity with one another secondly he gives them some requirements for doing that and third and this is the main part of the message today he introduces them to a role model who illustrates what all of this really looks like let’s take a few moments with these first few verses and try to get Paul’s introduction under our belt in the first verse he says if there is any consolation in Christ if there is any comfort of love if there is any Fellowship of the
spirit if any affection and mercy now without getting too technical let me just tell you if you insert the word sin where the word if is you will have more of the meaning of the verse what Paul is saying is simply this since there is consolation in Christ since there is comfort in love since there is fellowship of the spirit and since there is affection and mercy in other words here are the reasons why we should care about the chemistry that Paul writes about the word consolation here comes from a word which means a draw alongside
of somebody the the mental picture that you get with this word is you walk up to somebody who’s hurting and you put your arm around them and you encourage them and you talk with them and you and you bless them with your words the testimony of our Lord’s life was continually that of helping and encouraging others I remember reading the scripture that says went everywhere doing good what a testimony for anyone even the Lord Jesus how would it be to have someone say about you Janie went everywhere doing good Jack went
