WEBVTT 00:00:00.220 --> 00:00:05.719 We'll begin our worship by singing to God's praise in Psalm 95 in the Scottish Psalter, 00:00:06.520 --> 00:00:12.000 page 357 of the psalm book, Psalm 95. We'll sing from verse 1 to verse 6. 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:19.320 O come, let us sing to the Lord. Come, let us, everyone, a joyful noise make to the rock of our salvation. 00:00:19.500 --> 00:00:23.660 Let us, before his presence, come with praise and thankful voice. 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:28.179 Let us sing psalms to him with grace and make a joyful noise. 00:00:28.179 --> 00:00:32.460 We'll sing from verse 1 to verse 6, and if you're able, we stand to sing. 00:00:58.179 --> 00:01:07.659 Let us sing to the rock of our salvation. 00:01:07.659 --> 00:01:27.019 Let us, before his presence, come with praise and thankful voice. 00:01:27.019 --> 00:01:45.019 Let us sing psalms to him with grace and make a joyful noise. 00:01:45.019 --> 00:01:47.019 Thank you. 00:01:47.019 --> 00:02:02.879 God, our great God, our great King, above all gods He is. 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:20.879 As of the earth are in His hand, the strength of His blisses. 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:37.879 Through Him the spacious sea belongs, for He the same did me. 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:55.879 Let Thine land also from His hand, His form at first to take. 00:02:55.879 --> 00:03:14.879 O come and let us worship Him, let us bow Him with all. 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:32.639 And on our feet before the Lord, our Maker let us fall. 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:41.379 Let's bow our heads in a word of prayer. Let us pray. 00:03:41.379 --> 00:03:48.400 Our Father in heaven, we thank You for being able to gather in Your name today. 00:03:48.519 --> 00:03:53.819 We thank You for the blessing and the privilege that is ours to come and worship You. 00:03:54.519 --> 00:03:58.280 As You command us, even in that psalm that we have been singing, 00:03:58.419 --> 00:04:01.780 we are to be a people who recognize who You are. 00:04:02.379 --> 00:04:04.620 That You are our Maker, that You are our God. 00:04:05.180 --> 00:04:10.819 And we pray that as we come today, as we come to seek You and to hear You, 00:04:10.819 --> 00:04:17.019 through Your Word, that You will speak to us, Lord, and help us to know more of who You are 00:04:17.019 --> 00:04:21.599 and the wonder of all that You do and have done for us and will do for us. 00:04:22.060 --> 00:04:26.600 We thank You that You are our God who is always active, that You never sleep, 00:04:26.699 --> 00:04:28.899 that You are always watching over us. 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:34.360 And we pray, Lord, to know Your blessing and Your presence over us at all times. 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:39.939 Throughout this holiday period, for all our young people, we pray that You will bless them and watch over them. 00:04:40.620 --> 00:04:43.540 As we see visitors in our midst, we thank You for them, Lord, 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:48.620 and we pray that You will refresh them at time of visiting and holiday with family and friends. 00:04:49.340 --> 00:04:54.199 And that together, Lord, even today, we would know that You are here with us, that You are for us. 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:57.479 So bless us in all that we do in our worship here. 00:04:57.620 --> 00:05:04.719 And as the young ones go through to the tweenies, we thank You for all who are there to help with these things. 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:10.919 And we pray that together today, we would just know the wonder of what it is to worship You 00:05:10.919 --> 00:05:13.899 and to hear Your voice speaking to us. 00:05:14.459 --> 00:05:18.599 So, Lord, hear us, we pray, and answer our prayers according to Your will. 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.920 So we ask it all in Jesus' name and for His sake. Amen. 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:27.300 I'll just say a few words to the young ones. 00:05:27.420 --> 00:05:30.640 If you're going to go out to the holiday tweenies in a moment, 00:05:30.700 --> 00:05:34.700 and even if you're staying in, and even the adults, always listen in as well, 00:05:34.760 --> 00:05:39.520 because there's always something to hear as we think of what God's Word says to us. 00:05:40.500 --> 00:05:43.900 Does anyone ever pretend to be somebody else? 00:05:44.939 --> 00:05:47.760 Maybe when you're young, you do, but even when you get old, 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:52.579 sometimes people pretend to be somebody else or act like somebody else. 00:05:52.699 --> 00:05:53.920 Maybe it's not just the young ones. 00:05:54.060 --> 00:05:56.019 Maybe it's your parents or even your grandparents. 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.279 You see them trying to pretend to be somebody else. 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:04.899 For example, maybe you're playing football out in the garden 00:06:04.899 --> 00:06:07.659 and Grandpa decides to try and imitate Messi, 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:11.139 and he ends up just falling over on his backside. 00:06:11.819 --> 00:06:13.139 He makes a fool of himself. 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.560 Or maybe when you're going out running, you often think, 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:21.660 I wonder what it's like to be Laura Muir running in all these big competitions 00:06:21.660 --> 00:06:22.959 in a big stadium. 00:06:23.860 --> 00:06:27.199 We sometimes pretend to be people in different ways. 00:06:27.339 --> 00:06:30.100 Maybe you love singing, and when you're singing, 00:06:30.340 --> 00:06:34.199 you hold something up to your mouth and pretend to be Taylor Swift 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:37.699 or somebody else as you're belting out the songs. 00:06:37.699 --> 00:06:41.439 Maybe somebody you know, when they're driving, 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:43.879 they pretend to be Lewis Hamilton, 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.599 driving so fast around everywhere. 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.879 I'm sure there's a few adults in here who we could say that about. 00:06:51.019 --> 00:06:53.860 You see them driving around at high speed. 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.659 But we often maybe try and pretend to be somebody else. 00:06:59.379 --> 00:07:03.300 But our lives isn't about pretending to be somebody else. 00:07:03.300 --> 00:07:08.340 It's being ourselves and recognizing who we are 00:07:08.340 --> 00:07:10.280 and what we need to do. 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.699 We need to come and put our trust in Jesus. 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:18.220 That's what the Bible says to us. 00:07:18.860 --> 00:07:21.120 And yet, in the Bible, as we read through it, 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.939 we find a man called Paul in the New Testament. 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:27.819 He tells us to imitate somebody else. 00:07:27.819 --> 00:07:31.420 He tells us to be like somebody else. 00:07:32.219 --> 00:07:35.139 And he tells us to be like Jesus. 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.399 In 1 Corinthians 11, verse 1, he says, 00:07:39.500 --> 00:07:43.000 Be imitators of me as I am of Christ. 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:45.379 So we're to be ourselves, 00:07:46.060 --> 00:07:48.439 and yet at the same time to imitate somebody else. 00:07:48.459 --> 00:07:50.139 That can sound a little bit confusing. 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.100 But what it means is that whatever we do 00:07:54.100 --> 00:07:57.180 and however we behave as ourselves, 00:07:57.520 --> 00:07:59.520 we are always to think of it in light of, 00:07:59.660 --> 00:08:01.000 well, what would Jesus do? 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:03.340 How would Jesus speak? 00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:05.660 How would Jesus act? 00:08:06.100 --> 00:08:08.560 How would he be towards others? 00:08:09.640 --> 00:08:11.660 And how we act in that way. 00:08:11.820 --> 00:08:13.200 So that challenges us. 00:08:13.860 --> 00:08:17.020 And to be an imitator of Jesus 00:08:17.020 --> 00:08:18.960 means first and foremost 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:21.879 that we have to put our trust in him. 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:25.019 When we pretend to be somebody else 00:08:25.019 --> 00:08:27.279 like Messi or Taylor Swift 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:29.959 or somebody who's got all these gifts and talents 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:30.879 that we don't, 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:33.320 we know we won't reach that. 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:35.899 And in many ways we could say that 00:08:35.899 --> 00:08:38.639 when it comes to imitating Jesus as well. 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.559 We will never do what Jesus has done. 00:08:42.620 --> 00:08:45.799 But we are still to strive to be like him. 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:48.340 That one day we would see him 00:08:48.340 --> 00:08:50.000 and be like him fully. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.980 For we want to put our trust in him 00:08:53.980 --> 00:08:58.279 because he is worthy of imitating in every way. 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:00.340 And that is where we find joy. 00:09:01.179 --> 00:09:02.700 That is where we find life. 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:06.080 So when we think of being imitators, 00:09:06.220 --> 00:09:07.639 being like other people, 00:09:07.740 --> 00:09:10.580 let us remember to be ourselves first and foremost, 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:14.659 but also to put our trust in Jesus Christ 00:09:14.659 --> 00:09:17.039 and imitate him. 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:21.000 Well, we'll say the Lord's Prayer together now. 00:09:21.079 --> 00:09:22.459 Let's say the Lord's Prayer. 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:25.339 Our Father which art in heaven, 00:09:25.839 --> 00:09:27.240 hallowed be thy name. 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:29.079 Thy kingdom come. 00:09:29.740 --> 00:09:32.779 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:09:33.379 --> 00:09:35.740 Give us this day our daily bread 00:09:35.740 --> 00:09:37.879 and forgive us our debts 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.200 as we forgive our debtors. 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:42.539 And lead us not into temptation, 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:44.720 but deliver us from evil. 00:09:45.220 --> 00:09:46.519 For thine is the kingdom, 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:47.379 the power, 00:09:47.700 --> 00:09:49.019 and the glory forever. 00:09:49.580 --> 00:09:50.019 Amen. 00:09:50.019 --> 00:09:54.079 We'll again sing to God's praise. 00:09:54.179 --> 00:09:56.059 Now we're singing in Psalm 27 00:09:56.059 --> 00:09:58.019 in the Sing Psalms version, 00:09:58.179 --> 00:10:00.000 page 31 of the psalm books. 00:10:01.899 --> 00:10:04.319 Psalm 27 on page 31. 00:10:04.539 --> 00:10:07.480 We'll sing from verse 1 down to verse 5. 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:08.539 And during this singing, 00:10:08.659 --> 00:10:10.539 the young ones can go out to the tweenies. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.279 The Lord's my Savior and my light 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:15.179 who will make me dismay. 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:17.600 The Lord's the stronghold of my life. 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.320 Why should I be afraid? 00:10:20.420 --> 00:10:24.800 We'll sing from verse 1 to 5 to God's praise. 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:25.399 Amen. 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:50.879 The Lord's the stronghold of my life. 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:56.800 Why should I be afraid? 00:10:56.800 --> 00:11:05.800 When the world doers threaten me 00:11:05.800 --> 00:11:11.740 to take my life away, 00:11:11.740 --> 00:11:20.460 My other shodings and my foes 00:11:20.460 --> 00:11:26.740 Will stumble in my face. 00:11:26.740 --> 00:11:35.120 Oh, an army hens me in, 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:41.720 My heart will feel no dread. 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:49.620 Though what against me should arise, 00:11:49.620 --> 00:11:56.740 I will lift up my head. 00:11:56.740 --> 00:12:04.899 One thing hath lead before the Lord, 00:12:04.899 --> 00:12:11.639 And this I'll seek the way, 00:12:12.100 --> 00:12:19.699 That I may come within your sight, 00:12:19.699 --> 00:12:26.819 And dwell there all my days. 00:12:26.820 --> 00:12:35.060 But on the beauty of the Lord, 00:12:35.060 --> 00:12:41.780 I constantly gain his, 00:12:41.780 --> 00:12:49.720 And in his eyes may seek to know 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:56.920 Direction in his way. 00:12:56.920 --> 00:13:05.720 All in his dwelling he will keep me 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:11.960 Safe in troubled days. 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:16.139 Live in his hand, 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:19.900 He'll shelter me, 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:26.700 And on our rock he reigns. 00:13:26.700 --> 00:13:35.180 We return to read in God's word now. 00:13:35.259 --> 00:13:36.720 We're going to read in Philippians. 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:38.280 In the New Testament, 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:39.900 Paul's letter to the Philippians. 00:13:40.500 --> 00:13:42.500 Taking up our reading in chapter 1, 00:13:42.700 --> 00:13:44.440 At verse 27. 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:52.720 We're going to read down into chapter 2, 00:13:52.800 --> 00:13:54.080 Down to verse 11. 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:56.200 Philippians chapter 1, 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:57.940 At verse 27. 00:13:58.640 --> 00:14:00.300 Let us hear the word of God. 00:14:02.500 --> 00:14:06.500 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, 00:14:06.680 --> 00:14:08.520 So that whether I come and see you, 00:14:08.560 --> 00:14:09.240 Or am absent, 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:10.620 I may hear of you, 00:14:11.060 --> 00:14:13.539 That you are standing firm in one spirit, 00:14:13.680 --> 00:14:14.700 With one mind, 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.360 Striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 00:14:18.980 --> 00:14:22.120 And not frightened in anything by your opponents. 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.899 This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, 00:14:26.460 --> 00:14:27.799 But of your salvation, 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:29.620 And that from God. 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.000 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ, 00:14:33.100 --> 00:14:34.740 You should not only believe in him, 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:36.759 But also suffer for his sake, 00:14:37.419 --> 00:14:39.060 Engaged in the same conflict, 00:14:39.059 --> 00:14:39.859 That you saw, 00:14:40.259 --> 00:14:40.939 I had, 00:14:41.359 --> 00:14:43.319 And now hear that I still have. 00:14:44.219 --> 00:14:46.899 So, if there is any encouragement in Christ, 00:14:47.319 --> 00:14:48.759 Any comfort from love, 00:14:49.199 --> 00:14:51.099 Any participation in the Spirit, 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:53.359 Any affection and sympathy, 00:14:53.979 --> 00:14:56.759 Complete my joy by being of the same mind, 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:58.439 Having the same love, 00:14:59.019 --> 00:15:00.559 Being in full accord, 00:15:00.979 --> 00:15:02.039 And of one mind. 00:15:02.719 --> 00:15:05.000 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:09.000 But in humility count others more significant than yourself, 00:15:09.059 --> 00:15:12.899 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, 00:15:13.319 --> 00:15:15.519 But also to the interests of others. 00:15:16.339 --> 00:15:18.179 Have this mind among yourselves, 00:15:18.299 --> 00:15:20.679 Which is yours in Christ Jesus, 00:15:21.059 --> 00:15:21.899 Who, 00:15:22.479 --> 00:15:24.079 Though he was in the form of God, 00:15:24.579 --> 00:15:27.919 Did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 00:15:28.479 --> 00:15:30.119 But made himself nothing, 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:32.319 Taking the form of a servant, 00:15:32.319 --> 00:15:34.919 Being born in the likeness of men, 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:37.559 And being found in human form, 00:15:37.719 --> 00:15:38.799 He humbled himself, 00:15:39.299 --> 00:15:41.959 By becoming obedient to the point of death, 00:15:42.579 --> 00:15:44.500 Even death on a cross. 00:15:45.459 --> 00:15:45.860 Therefore, 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.199 God has highly exalted him, 00:15:48.620 --> 00:15:49.899 And bestowed on him, 00:15:50.319 --> 00:15:52.099 The name that is above every name, 00:15:52.659 --> 00:15:54.299 So that the name of Jesus, 00:15:54.839 --> 00:15:56.199 Every knee should bow, 00:15:56.199 --> 00:15:57.740 In heaven and on earth, 00:15:57.939 --> 00:15:59.000 And under the earth, 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.220 And every tongue confess, 00:16:01.820 --> 00:16:04.019 That Jesus Christ is Lord, 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:06.980 To the glory of God the Father. 00:16:07.620 --> 00:16:08.600 And so on. 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:12.059 May God add his blessing to that reading from his word. 00:16:12.139 --> 00:16:14.200 We'll again come to God in prayer. 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:14.919 Let us pray. 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:19.960 Our Father in heaven, 00:16:20.059 --> 00:16:21.539 As we worship you, 00:16:21.620 --> 00:16:23.419 We acknowledge our dependence, 00:16:23.419 --> 00:16:25.419 And our need of you at all times, 00:16:25.419 --> 00:16:28.179 To recognize your word, 00:16:28.719 --> 00:16:30.759 To recognize your voice, 00:16:31.419 --> 00:16:34.319 To hear it in the midst of all the other distractions, 00:16:34.319 --> 00:16:36.719 That can go on around us, 00:16:36.819 --> 00:16:37.579 In our lives, 00:16:37.659 --> 00:16:38.620 And in our world. 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:40.979 We can so often be caught up, 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.019 In the many things that take place, 00:16:43.379 --> 00:16:44.379 But yet, 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:46.419 We know that there is one thing, 00:16:46.539 --> 00:16:47.879 Most needful of all, 00:16:48.459 --> 00:16:50.980 And to come and sit at the feet of Jesus, 00:16:51.699 --> 00:16:53.539 And to hear what you have to say. 00:16:53.539 --> 00:16:55.419 And so we ask today, 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.259 That as we come in your presence, 00:16:57.379 --> 00:16:59.860 As we come to seek you, 00:16:59.959 --> 00:17:01.759 As we come to hear from you, 00:17:02.339 --> 00:17:03.480 That you will help us, 00:17:03.939 --> 00:17:05.740 To still ourselves before you, 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.420 And to come with that longing, 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:09.420 And that desire, 00:17:09.940 --> 00:17:11.559 To be built up by you, 00:17:12.019 --> 00:17:13.220 To understand you, 00:17:13.619 --> 00:17:14.619 And your ways, 00:17:15.099 --> 00:17:17.680 To understand your wonderful love, 00:17:17.879 --> 00:17:18.740 Towards us, 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:19.579 Your humility, 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:22.240 Even as we have read of it here, 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:25.059 The wonder of these words, 00:17:25.180 --> 00:17:25.980 That we have read, 00:17:26.099 --> 00:17:28.500 That so often we cannot grasp, 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:29.980 Just the depth of them, 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:32.620 That you made yourself nothing, 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:34.460 That you became obedient, 00:17:34.460 --> 00:17:35.960 To the point of death, 00:17:36.019 --> 00:17:38.200 Even death on the cross, 00:17:38.980 --> 00:17:40.460 Help us to see, 00:17:40.620 --> 00:17:42.000 What has been done for us, 00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:43.759 Even though it may have been, 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:45.259 So many years ago, 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:47.319 Even though it may be, 00:17:47.579 --> 00:17:48.620 As something that seems, 00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:50.759 So distant from us at times, 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:51.960 And yet, 00:17:52.220 --> 00:17:53.819 How we need it so near to us, 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:54.819 Even this day, 00:17:55.420 --> 00:17:57.799 To recognize the wonder of the cross, 00:17:58.220 --> 00:17:59.500 For all our days, 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:01.859 The wonder that Jesus, 00:18:01.859 --> 00:18:03.339 Came into this world, 00:18:03.900 --> 00:18:05.299 To lay down his life, 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:07.279 For sinners such as we are, 00:18:07.859 --> 00:18:08.980 We thank you too, 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:09.220 Lord, 00:18:09.259 --> 00:18:11.019 That today is a reminder to us, 00:18:11.099 --> 00:18:13.400 That he rose from the grave, 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:15.619 That on the first day of the week, 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:17.599 As they gathered at the tomb, 00:18:17.700 --> 00:18:18.819 As they came to it, 00:18:18.819 --> 00:18:19.939 They saw a stone, 00:18:20.439 --> 00:18:21.220 The great stone, 00:18:21.220 --> 00:18:23.220 That had concealed him inside, 00:18:23.299 --> 00:18:24.279 Had been rolled away, 00:18:24.939 --> 00:18:26.099 And he was not there, 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:27.359 For he was risen, 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:28.899 And we thank you, 00:18:28.899 --> 00:18:31.480 For every recollection, 00:18:31.539 --> 00:18:32.659 That we have in your word, 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:34.859 Of how he met with people, 00:18:35.579 --> 00:18:36.319 He met with them, 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:37.579 In so many different ways, 00:18:37.619 --> 00:18:38.480 And situations, 00:18:38.700 --> 00:18:39.379 Reminding them, 00:18:40.019 --> 00:18:41.059 That he was risen, 00:18:41.859 --> 00:18:42.819 And that he would ascend, 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:44.200 To the father in heaven, 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:45.940 That he would receive, 00:18:45.940 --> 00:18:47.000 All that glory, 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:48.880 That was due to his name, 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:51.100 That he has been highly exalted, 00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:52.500 And has a name, 00:18:52.580 --> 00:18:53.840 That is above every name, 00:18:54.380 --> 00:18:55.580 And we pray to know more, 00:18:55.620 --> 00:18:56.620 Of that name today, 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:58.299 The name of Jesus, 00:18:58.500 --> 00:18:59.720 As our Lord, 00:19:00.100 --> 00:19:01.340 And as our God, 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:02.539 And so we pray, 00:19:02.620 --> 00:19:03.960 That as your word is proclaimed, 00:19:04.500 --> 00:19:06.299 Throughout our communities, 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:06.960 And islands, 00:19:07.080 --> 00:19:07.539 And nation, 00:19:07.620 --> 00:19:08.460 And world today, 00:19:09.180 --> 00:19:10.360 That the name of Jesus, 00:19:10.360 --> 00:19:11.319 Would be praised, 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:13.019 That the name of Jesus, 00:19:13.019 --> 00:19:14.160 Would be lifted high, 00:19:14.700 --> 00:19:15.859 On lips of many, 00:19:15.940 --> 00:19:16.859 That the name of Jesus, 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:17.879 Would be confessed, 00:19:18.819 --> 00:19:20.980 Confessed even in our own hearts today, 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:22.879 That you would be our Lord, 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:23.960 And be our God, 00:19:24.639 --> 00:19:26.259 So hear us in these things, 00:19:26.420 --> 00:19:26.539 Lord, 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:27.859 And guide us in our worship, 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:29.740 And hear us in our prayers, 00:19:29.859 --> 00:19:32.079 For all that goes on around us, 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:32.299 Lord, 00:19:32.339 --> 00:19:33.500 We pray for our homes, 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:34.240 And our families, 00:19:34.339 --> 00:19:35.059 And our communities, 00:19:35.779 --> 00:19:37.279 We pray for all the different needs, 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:38.019 That we see, 00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:40.119 And the needs that we know, 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:41.259 That you only know of, 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:41.539 Lord, 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:42.779 We know that there are so many, 00:19:43.019 --> 00:19:45.420 But yet you know the people around us, 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:46.480 You know us intimately, 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:48.420 You hear our prayers, 00:19:48.579 --> 00:19:49.740 You hear our cries, 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:51.160 And so we ask, 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:51.559 Oh Lord, 00:19:51.619 --> 00:19:53.039 That you will come in your power, 00:19:53.539 --> 00:19:54.980 That you will minister in ways, 00:19:55.099 --> 00:19:55.759 That we cannot, 00:19:56.460 --> 00:19:58.019 That you will be that peace, 00:19:58.180 --> 00:19:59.379 That only you can give, 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:00.139 That healing, 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:01.940 That only you can give, 00:20:02.019 --> 00:20:02.759 That forgiveness, 00:20:03.420 --> 00:20:04.759 That only you can give, 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:05.960 We pray, 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:06.279 Lord, 00:20:06.379 --> 00:20:07.559 For people to know, 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:09.220 What it is to call, 00:20:09.420 --> 00:20:10.440 On the name of the Lord, 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.380 And that you will be heard, 00:20:12.580 --> 00:20:13.539 That you will be heard, 00:20:14.019 --> 00:20:16.000 By them as well, 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:17.860 As you hear from their cries, 00:20:18.580 --> 00:20:18.820 Lord, 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:20.019 We ask for your comfort, 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:21.220 To those who mourn, 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:22.380 We think of, 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:23.640 The Finlayson family, 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:24.880 And commit them to you, 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:26.240 Catherine and Rothy, 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:26.840 And the grandsons, 00:20:27.620 --> 00:20:29.160 James and Joel as well, 00:20:29.620 --> 00:20:31.220 And all the extended family, 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:32.840 And ourselves as a congregation, 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:34.880 May you continue to bless, 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:35.779 And to minister, 00:20:36.100 --> 00:20:37.100 To each one, 00:20:37.099 --> 00:20:38.519 To comfort, 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:39.339 And uphold, 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:40.359 And give strength, 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:42.059 Remember those in hospital, 00:20:42.199 --> 00:20:42.819 And homes, 00:20:43.259 --> 00:20:44.240 Remember those confined, 00:20:44.339 --> 00:20:45.219 In their own homes, 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:47.099 For different reasons, 00:20:47.179 --> 00:20:47.799 Even today, 00:20:47.919 --> 00:20:48.059 Lord, 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:49.599 Remember those who tune in online, 00:20:50.179 --> 00:20:51.699 We thank you for this facility, 00:20:51.980 --> 00:20:53.539 And not just for locally, 00:20:53.659 --> 00:20:55.500 But even so many parts of the world, 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:56.559 Where different people, 00:20:57.079 --> 00:20:58.339 Will tune in to hear, 00:20:58.939 --> 00:20:59.959 The gospel, 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:01.359 We pray that you would bless it, 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:02.299 To each one, 00:21:02.879 --> 00:21:04.019 Remember our nation, 00:21:04.019 --> 00:21:04.799 And our world, 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:07.480 As we think of all that goes on around us, 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:08.259 We think even of, 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:09.879 The events in America, 00:21:09.879 --> 00:21:10.980 Last night, 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:12.579 With the attempted assassination, 00:21:13.059 --> 00:21:15.500 Of Donald Trump there, 00:21:15.619 --> 00:21:17.399 We see it in shock, 00:21:17.539 --> 00:21:19.039 And we see it as, 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:21.119 The kind of world that we live in, 00:21:21.700 --> 00:21:23.240 Where there's so much hostility, 00:21:23.399 --> 00:21:24.240 So much anger, 00:21:25.019 --> 00:21:25.500 Lord, 00:21:25.579 --> 00:21:26.159 We pray, 00:21:26.659 --> 00:21:27.619 That in these days, 00:21:27.700 --> 00:21:28.619 You would remember us, 00:21:28.659 --> 00:21:30.399 That you would have mercy upon us, 00:21:30.980 --> 00:21:32.039 Remember our nations, 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:32.440 Lord, 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:33.299 How we need you, 00:21:33.740 --> 00:21:35.059 To be Lord over all, 00:21:35.579 --> 00:21:36.420 To be our Lord, 00:21:36.460 --> 00:21:37.139 And our God, 00:21:37.220 --> 00:21:37.920 As a people, 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:39.359 May you hear, 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:40.680 Your praying people, 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:41.759 Near and far, 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:43.059 As a church, 00:21:43.139 --> 00:21:43.720 As a body, 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:45.299 Of your people, 00:21:45.859 --> 00:21:46.319 May you, 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:46.720 Lord, 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:48.200 Come down upon us, 00:21:48.339 --> 00:21:49.180 Be in our midst, 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:49.960 Guide us, 00:21:50.059 --> 00:21:50.980 In all that we do, 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:52.240 And may we do it, 00:21:52.299 --> 00:21:53.039 For your glory, 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:53.899 And yours alone, 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:55.240 As we ask all, 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:56.779 With the forgiveness of our sins, 00:21:56.879 --> 00:21:57.839 In Jesus name, 00:21:58.259 --> 00:21:58.639 Amen. 00:21:58.639 --> 00:21:58.779 Amen. 00:21:58.779 --> 00:22:02.899 Before we turn back, 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:04.139 To look at our passage, 00:22:04.259 --> 00:22:04.779 In Philippians, 00:22:04.859 --> 00:22:05.660 We'll sing again, 00:22:05.879 --> 00:22:06.799 To God's praise, 00:22:06.879 --> 00:22:08.019 In Psalm 110, 00:22:09.399 --> 00:22:11.399 In the Scottish Psalter version, 00:22:12.500 --> 00:22:13.619 Psalm 110, 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:15.220 We'll sing from verse 1, 00:22:15.339 --> 00:22:16.480 To verse 5, 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:42.160 We'll sing from verse 1, 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:44.279 To God's praise, 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:52.379 The Lord is in, 00:22:52.379 --> 00:22:56.500 To my Lord, 00:22:56.859 --> 00:23:03.599 Sick thou at my right hand, 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:12.460 Until I make thy goals as true, 00:23:12.460 --> 00:23:20.559 Where all my feet stand, 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:29.279 The Lord shall earth of Zion send, 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:35.340 The rod of thy river, 00:23:35.339 --> 00:23:45.579 In midst of all my enemies, 00:23:45.579 --> 00:23:48.319 In the Lord, 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:51.379 The governor, 00:23:51.379 --> 00:24:02.159 The willing people in my day, 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:09.160 All fire shall come to thee, 00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:15.140 And holy duties, 00:24:15.140 --> 00:24:18.500 From our moon, 00:24:18.860 --> 00:24:21.240 Thy youth, 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:26.259 Thy truth shall be, 00:24:26.259 --> 00:24:31.259 The Lord himself, 00:24:31.259 --> 00:24:31.519 The Lord himself, 00:24:31.700 --> 00:24:35.259 Have made a road, 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:42.259 And will repent him never, 00:24:43.379 --> 00:24:49.460 Of the order of them is, 00:24:49.460 --> 00:24:50.759 Starолов day, 00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:56.460 The Lord apart the peace 00:24:56.460 --> 00:24:59.860 Forever, 00:24:59.860 --> 00:25:02.460 And will repent him never, 00:25:02.460 --> 00:25:16.059 Sonia, Son, mighty Lord, that sits at thy right hand. 00:25:16.059 --> 00:25:31.240 Salim is he, O Christ, like who kings that do him withstand. 00:25:38.740 --> 00:25:42.779 We're going to turn back to our reading in Philippians chapter 2. 00:25:42.779 --> 00:25:47.019 Our focus this morning is on verse 8 to verse 11. 00:25:48.460 --> 00:25:53.799 As we sang there in Psalm 110, there's these words in verse 5. 00:25:54.539 --> 00:26:00.059 The glorious and mighty Lord that sits at thy right hand. 00:26:00.379 --> 00:26:07.160 You're reminded there of where our Lord is, exalted at the right hand of God. 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.960 That is through today. 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:16.079 As we read here in Philippians chapter 2, we are reminded of how that came about. 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:19.140 Of how he humbled himself. 00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:22.259 How he came down in the form of man. 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:25.360 How he came obedient to the point of death. 00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:27.460 Even death on the cross. 00:26:27.579 --> 00:26:29.900 It says there in verse 8. 00:26:29.900 --> 00:26:31.960 And then in verse 9, it goes on to say, 00:26:32.320 --> 00:26:40.240 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. 00:26:41.300 --> 00:26:46.420 It's a wonderful thing to think about what Jesus has done for us. 00:26:46.580 --> 00:26:49.780 And the depths of it we so often can't understand. 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:52.519 The glory that was his that he left behind. 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.700 But the glory that he now has at the right hand of God. 00:26:56.700 --> 00:27:04.319 When you think of that word glory, how would you go about bringing glory to yourself? 00:27:05.900 --> 00:27:10.059 We can talk about bringing shame to ourselves in different ways. 00:27:10.120 --> 00:27:15.120 Or someone who's brought shame to the family in some ways by doing something bad. 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:21.940 Or by doing something that leaves a kind of feeling of disgrace upon them or upon the family. 00:27:21.940 --> 00:27:25.059 But how do we bring glory? 00:27:25.900 --> 00:27:29.700 Or should we try to bring glory to ourselves? 00:27:30.380 --> 00:27:37.039 Well, as you read on in these verses, verse 11 says to us that we are to give glory to God. 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:40.779 That is the glory that we are to seek to bring. 00:27:41.259 --> 00:27:47.940 Not to bring glory to ourselves or our families through success or fame or riches or doing good or any of these things. 00:27:47.940 --> 00:27:52.180 But that we always would seek to give glory to God. 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:55.000 And that's what we see with Jesus here. 00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:57.740 Giving glory to God the Father. 00:27:58.480 --> 00:27:59.660 And how did he do this? 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:01.100 Well, he did it in obedience. 00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:04.460 He was obedient to his Father. 00:28:05.320 --> 00:28:08.559 You see it in verse 5 through to verse 7. 00:28:09.700 --> 00:28:11.200 The mind of Christ. 00:28:11.360 --> 00:28:11.580 There it is. 00:28:11.660 --> 00:28:12.400 It speaks of. 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:29.040 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant being born in the likeness of men. 00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:32.839 From the great heights of glory with God the Father. 00:28:33.339 --> 00:28:38.859 He came down to the depths of this world, into this sinful fallen world. 00:28:38.940 --> 00:28:40.539 He took on the form of man. 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.619 He humbled himself in obedience to God the Father. 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.519 And there he gave glory to his Father. 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:59.480 And as we look at this passage in Philippians here, we are just reminded of the enormity of what Jesus has done for us. 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.599 And to always have that in our minds. 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:05.440 His obedience to the point of death. 00:29:05.539 --> 00:29:11.279 And as Paul puts it here, as we look at a little later on, even death on a cross. 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.759 The shame that there was in that death. 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:19.000 But that brought glory to God the Father. 00:29:19.879 --> 00:29:22.180 And the purpose behind it all. 00:29:22.619 --> 00:29:25.460 That he came from heaven to earth. 00:29:25.740 --> 00:29:27.680 That he came down in the form of man. 00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:28.799 For what purpose? 00:29:29.819 --> 00:29:32.160 To give his life as a ransom for many. 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:35.599 To give his life that we might have life through him. 00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:37.799 And life to the full. 00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:39.859 We are sinners. 00:29:40.619 --> 00:29:42.099 And we need his power. 00:29:42.639 --> 00:29:43.879 We need his glory. 00:29:44.419 --> 00:29:45.299 Not our own. 00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:51.119 And that is the glory that we see that the Lord Jesus shows us here. 00:29:51.579 --> 00:29:52.279 His obedience. 00:29:52.579 --> 00:29:53.159 His power. 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:54.599 And his glory. 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.220 That is ours through faith. 00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:02.379 Shame would normally bring disgrace. 00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:06.379 And those who looked on at Jesus as he was crucified. 00:30:06.380 --> 00:30:09.400 They saw it as a disgrace. 00:30:10.540 --> 00:30:13.260 They saw it as the lowest of low. 00:30:13.320 --> 00:30:15.360 And that is what the world did to him. 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:18.720 That is what the world put him through. 00:30:18.860 --> 00:30:22.340 That they brought him to that point of death on the cross. 00:30:23.560 --> 00:30:24.700 But he was obedient. 00:30:25.380 --> 00:30:27.960 He was doing the Father's will. 00:30:29.080 --> 00:30:30.080 It was shameful. 00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:31.660 There was humiliation. 00:30:31.660 --> 00:30:36.440 But after it all there was glory and exaltation. 00:30:37.220 --> 00:30:38.700 As the hymn writer puts it. 00:30:38.840 --> 00:30:39.519 It says, 00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:42.500 Bearing shame and scoffing rude. 00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:45.820 In my place condemned he stood. 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.640 Sealed my pardon with his blood. 00:30:48.779 --> 00:30:49.279 Hallelujah. 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:50.880 What a savior. 00:30:51.560 --> 00:30:52.800 Bearing shame. 00:30:53.620 --> 00:30:54.740 He had that shame. 00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:56.880 He gave his life. 00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:00.740 He gave his life to that death that he died. 00:31:00.860 --> 00:31:02.840 Even death on the cross. 00:31:03.020 --> 00:31:06.500 But God exalted him and gave him a name. 00:31:07.120 --> 00:31:09.420 And that is the name that we need. 00:31:10.560 --> 00:31:12.840 Because a day is coming as it says here. 00:31:12.900 --> 00:31:14.100 That every knee will bow. 00:31:14.320 --> 00:31:16.320 And in heaven and on earth and under earth. 00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:19.620 And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. 00:31:20.620 --> 00:31:22.560 But it's night and day the difference. 00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:25.180 Of how we may confess him on that day. 00:31:25.180 --> 00:31:30.320 Will we confess him as our Lord and our God and our Savior. 00:31:31.320 --> 00:31:36.039 As the one who we know as the Lord who loved us and gave himself for us. 00:31:36.620 --> 00:31:43.519 Or will it be Lord and God in the sense of only then recognizing the word of God is true. 00:31:44.220 --> 00:31:45.259 That he is Lord. 00:31:45.380 --> 00:31:46.440 That he is God. 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:48.820 But that we have rejected him. 00:31:49.980 --> 00:31:53.320 Do you want to be part of his glory. 00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:56.819 And to enjoy his glory forevermore. 00:31:57.299 --> 00:31:59.679 Well as to see what he has done. 00:32:00.619 --> 00:32:05.519 And to put our trust in the one who has given himself in obedience to the point of death. 00:32:05.939 --> 00:32:08.659 Even death on the cross. 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:14.919 And so there's three aspects of this I want to look at together this morning. 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:19.720 As we think of what Jesus has done for us here on this cross. 00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:23.240 And the first thing is we want to see the low point. 00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:26.140 The humiliation that there was in it. 00:32:26.620 --> 00:32:28.660 Then we'll see the turning point. 00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:32.220 And then we'll see the high point. 00:32:33.019 --> 00:32:35.279 So we begin with the low point. 00:32:35.840 --> 00:32:38.300 And then the sense the humiliation. 00:32:38.299 --> 00:32:44.259 Christ becoming nothing was part of what we call Christ's humiliation. 00:32:44.879 --> 00:32:50.299 And you see it so clearly in here when you think of verse 6. 00:32:50.639 --> 00:32:53.000 Where it says who though he was in the form of God. 00:32:53.139 --> 00:32:57.059 Did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped. 00:32:57.139 --> 00:32:58.599 He was with God the Father. 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:01.500 And yet he didn't see that as something to be grasped. 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:03.220 To be held on to. 00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:06.099 No instead he came. 00:33:06.099 --> 00:33:08.059 He made himself nothing. 00:33:08.179 --> 00:33:09.639 Taking the form of a servant. 00:33:09.819 --> 00:33:12.919 Being born in the likeness of men. 00:33:13.439 --> 00:33:15.859 Made himself nothing. 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:20.759 Emptied himself of all that was his at the right hand of God. 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:23.219 To come down into this world as a man. 00:33:23.859 --> 00:33:27.199 And to live among a people in this world who were sinners. 00:33:28.539 --> 00:33:30.279 Have you ever been humiliated? 00:33:31.219 --> 00:33:34.419 Have you ever gone through an experience of humiliation. 00:33:34.420 --> 00:33:36.100 Where something has happened to you. 00:33:36.100 --> 00:33:37.960 Or somebody has done something to you. 00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:41.539 And it just leaves you with a sense of humiliation. 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:44.620 That everybody is looking at you in this way. 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:45.680 And looking down on you. 00:33:45.700 --> 00:33:48.519 And you just feel small and insignificant. 00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:51.279 Maybe someone has humiliated you at work. 00:33:51.360 --> 00:33:56.000 And given you a task that seems to be so much below what you would normally be doing. 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.720 Can you imagine for example. 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.400 The king coming into Stornoway and being told. 00:34:02.579 --> 00:34:05.500 Go and sweep the streets of Stornoway next weekend. 00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:07.579 After the Heb Kelt festival. 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:09.219 He wouldn't do it. 00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:10.860 He wouldn't come and do that. 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.840 There would be humiliation for him to do that. 00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:18.619 And yet you think of what we call the humiliation of Christ. 00:34:18.739 --> 00:34:20.840 The glory that was his with the father. 00:34:21.260 --> 00:34:23.460 That he did not grasp and hold on to. 00:34:23.460 --> 00:34:25.579 But that he made himself nothing. 00:34:26.340 --> 00:34:28.519 He came in the likeness of men. 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.900 This is God in the person of Jesus. 00:34:32.059 --> 00:34:35.579 This is the king who is deserving of all glory. 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:38.880 And yet he comes in this form. 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:42.619 And he comes humbling himself. 00:34:43.500 --> 00:34:45.880 Humbling himself in obedience. 00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:48.179 To the point of death. 00:34:48.179 --> 00:34:48.259 Death. 00:34:48.739 --> 00:34:51.639 Even death on the cross. 00:34:53.139 --> 00:34:56.159 And just what does that mean for us? 00:34:57.019 --> 00:35:01.299 Do we understand what Christ has done for us? 00:35:01.899 --> 00:35:05.919 When you see someone who has done something powerful to you. 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:07.179 Something you don't deserve. 00:35:07.819 --> 00:35:10.960 You're left just in a sense of awe at that person. 00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:13.539 You don't know how to thank them for it. 00:35:13.539 --> 00:35:17.820 And yet do we see what Christ has done for us. 00:35:18.219 --> 00:35:19.559 In his humiliation. 00:35:20.059 --> 00:35:21.300 In his coming down. 00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:24.219 In his leaving all that glory behind. 00:35:24.420 --> 00:35:27.199 And humbling himself to the point of death. 00:35:27.980 --> 00:35:31.960 It would have been amazing enough that God came down to this world. 00:35:32.059 --> 00:35:34.019 In the form of a mighty king. 00:35:34.099 --> 00:35:34.960 A mighty warrior. 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:40.699 It would have been amazing that he would come in the form of a humble servant. 00:35:40.699 --> 00:35:41.820 That we read here. 00:35:42.980 --> 00:35:46.220 But it almost just goes on further and further. 00:35:46.220 --> 00:35:49.280 When it comes to what we cannot comprehend. 00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:53.440 That he would come and humble himself to the point of death. 00:35:54.139 --> 00:35:56.340 That he came to die. 00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:59.139 And then it's like Paul adds this. 00:35:59.139 --> 00:36:02.079 To leave us even more staggered by it all. 00:36:02.179 --> 00:36:04.980 That even death on a cross. 00:36:06.379 --> 00:36:08.699 He didn't just die any death. 00:36:09.059 --> 00:36:11.179 He didn't die a noble death. 00:36:11.259 --> 00:36:13.319 He died the cruelest of deaths. 00:36:14.379 --> 00:36:18.400 The death that was for the extreme criminals of that day. 00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:22.679 The cross was a weapon of torture and suffering. 00:36:23.619 --> 00:36:25.679 And that's what he endured. 00:36:25.980 --> 00:36:28.599 Even death on the cross. 00:36:29.139 --> 00:36:33.739 People who saw Jesus die on the cross. 00:36:34.139 --> 00:36:36.079 They saw the shame of it. 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:39.079 Because that's what people understood of the cross. 00:36:39.859 --> 00:36:41.599 Those who knew the Old Testament. 00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:47.980 They were reminded that God's word says that cursed is the one who hangs on a tree. 00:36:48.779 --> 00:36:50.239 Just what Jesus did. 00:36:50.359 --> 00:36:51.940 He hung on a tree. 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:54.179 The cross is what that was. 00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:56.400 And there was the curse of God. 00:36:56.400 --> 00:37:01.539 And for those who didn't know the Bibles or didn't understand scriptures. 00:37:02.059 --> 00:37:05.280 Still there was the shame of crucifixion. 00:37:05.720 --> 00:37:09.639 It was the lowest and most despicable form of death. 00:37:10.780 --> 00:37:12.180 Reserved for criminals. 00:37:12.340 --> 00:37:16.720 And on his right hand and on his left hand were criminals who were deserving of it. 00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:21.379 And yet here was the sinless son of God. 00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:27.659 Come down from glory to this low humiliation. 00:37:27.879 --> 00:37:28.899 Humbling himself. 00:37:29.459 --> 00:37:30.899 Obedient to death. 00:37:31.439 --> 00:37:34.199 Even death on the cross. 00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:39.639 And here is the wonder of the love of God for us. 00:37:39.759 --> 00:37:43.199 The love of Jesus Christ for lost sinners. 00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:46.639 That he was obedient in this. 00:37:47.319 --> 00:37:51.139 Not my will but yours be done he said. 00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:54.480 The shame of it. 00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:58.760 Martin Luther, the reformer. 00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:06.159 As one said he was reading as part of family worship from Genesis 22 with his wife. 00:38:07.019 --> 00:38:11.980 And he was reading through about Abraham offering up Isaac on the altar. 00:38:12.980 --> 00:38:17.300 And how God provided a lamb in his place eventually. 00:38:17.300 --> 00:38:21.320 But Katie, Martin Luther's wife said to him. 00:38:21.620 --> 00:38:26.280 I can't believe that God would have treated Abraham's son like that. 00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:31.000 But Martin Luther said he did. 00:38:31.539 --> 00:38:33.400 He did for his own son. 00:38:34.220 --> 00:38:36.360 He gave his own son. 00:38:37.060 --> 00:38:40.120 For Isaac he gave a lamb in his place. 00:38:41.160 --> 00:38:45.220 But for his own son Jesus he offered him. 00:38:45.219 --> 00:38:48.579 He gave him to the point of death. 00:38:48.679 --> 00:38:51.159 Even death on the cross. 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:54.159 So there is this low point. 00:38:54.339 --> 00:38:55.579 This humiliation. 00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:57.219 That he emptied himself. 00:38:57.359 --> 00:38:58.980 He made himself nothing. 00:38:59.759 --> 00:39:02.959 Obedient and humble to the point of death. 00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:05.939 Even death on the cross. 00:39:06.139 --> 00:39:08.859 Do we understand what that means? 00:39:09.379 --> 00:39:12.119 Do we appreciate what that means? 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:17.179 That he gave himself for our sins. 00:39:19.339 --> 00:39:23.099 The second thing we see here is the turning point. 00:39:24.019 --> 00:39:26.400 And that's what we see as we go into verse 9. 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:29.599 As we see the humility of Christ. 00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:33.880 We maybe recognize how far short we fall ourselves. 00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:35.640 In our own humility. 00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:37.720 In our own obedience to God. 00:39:37.780 --> 00:39:40.660 In our own lack of thankfulness to God. 00:39:40.740 --> 00:39:42.860 And what he has done for us through his son. 00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:51.920 But the second thing here that we see is we are by nature a people driven by purpose. 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:54.280 We like to have purpose in our lives. 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:58.580 But so often the purpose is self. 00:40:00.040 --> 00:40:02.519 And that's what Paul is highlighting for us here. 00:40:03.120 --> 00:40:05.200 We need to change that. 00:40:05.340 --> 00:40:07.080 We need that changed for us. 00:40:07.700 --> 00:40:10.780 By trying to trust in the Lord Jesus. 00:40:12.120 --> 00:40:15.100 He has spoken at the beginning of chapter 2. 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:18.660 Of humility and counting others as more important. 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:21.200 Looking out not only to your own interest. 00:40:21.300 --> 00:40:22.460 But the interest of others. 00:40:22.460 --> 00:40:24.179 Have this mind among you. 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:27.360 Yourselves which is yours in Christ Jesus. 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:29.960 This is the foundation of everything that we're looking at. 00:40:30.720 --> 00:40:34.440 Who did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped. 00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:37.840 And yet we're grasping for our own glory. 00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:41.199 Instead of looking at the glory of God. 00:40:41.860 --> 00:40:47.980 But here we see that pride can so often take hold of our own hearts. 00:40:48.579 --> 00:40:50.519 Pride and boasting in ourselves. 00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:55.099 And C.S. Lewis in one of his books in Mere Christianity. 00:40:55.539 --> 00:40:56.960 He wrote this. 00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:01.259 As we come up against God in the midst of our lives. 00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:01.940 He said this. 00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:06.840 In God you come up against something which is in every respect. 00:41:07.539 --> 00:41:09.840 Immeasurably superior to yourself. 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:13.720 Unless you know God as that. 00:41:13.720 --> 00:41:17.620 And therefore know yourself as nothing in comparison. 00:41:17.940 --> 00:41:20.079 You do not know God at all. 00:41:20.720 --> 00:41:23.780 As long as you are proud you cannot know God. 00:41:24.460 --> 00:41:27.880 A proud man is always looking down on things and people. 00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:31.220 And of course as long as you are looking down. 00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:34.480 You cannot see something that is above you. 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:43.320 He is there talking about us recognizing God in that sense of the one who is above us. 00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.659 But in our pride we cannot see him because we are looking down on others. 00:41:48.980 --> 00:41:50.780 But that's what Paul is getting at here. 00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:53.740 Look not only at your own interest but the interest of others. 00:41:53.739 --> 00:41:58.159 Have this mind among you which is yours in Christ Jesus. 00:41:59.979 --> 00:42:01.679 And when we see that. 00:42:02.539 --> 00:42:08.719 When we see that we begin to see how our hearts are changed from pride and self. 00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:12.119 It's to see Jesus. 00:42:13.819 --> 00:42:15.919 And as we see him on the cross. 00:42:16.359 --> 00:42:18.919 As we see him in that humiliation. 00:42:19.339 --> 00:42:21.639 We are reminded here of what came after. 00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:24.559 That in his obedience. 00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:26.079 In verse 9. 00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:27.500 Therefore it says. 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.980 Related to what came in verse 8. 00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:31.859 How he was obedient to the point of death. 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:33.539 Even death on the cross. 00:42:33.799 --> 00:42:37.279 Therefore God has highly exalted him. 00:42:37.739 --> 00:42:39.500 And bestowed on him the name. 00:42:39.799 --> 00:42:42.400 That is above every name. 00:42:45.739 --> 00:42:46.980 All that he had. 00:42:48.119 --> 00:42:50.879 Before he took on that humiliation. 00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:52.000 All that he had. 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:53.440 All that he left behind. 00:42:53.579 --> 00:42:55.079 That he emptied himself of. 00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:56.059 Once again. 00:42:56.300 --> 00:42:57.579 He is exalted. 00:42:58.300 --> 00:42:58.980 Once again. 00:42:59.220 --> 00:43:00.640 He is lifted up. 00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:02.599 And that it is his name. 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:05.059 That is above every name. 00:43:06.340 --> 00:43:08.420 There is the turning point. 00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:11.099 That he was that low servant. 00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:14.280 And Jesus did not exalt himself. 00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:15.660 He could have. 00:43:15.860 --> 00:43:18.240 He could have taken himself off the cross. 00:43:18.239 --> 00:43:20.919 He could have saved himself from all of that. 00:43:20.919 --> 00:43:22.099 But he didn't. 00:43:22.319 --> 00:43:23.179 He was obedient. 00:43:24.500 --> 00:43:24.919 Therefore. 00:43:25.579 --> 00:43:28.779 God the Father has exalted him. 00:43:29.439 --> 00:43:32.439 God the Father has given him the name. 00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:34.419 That is above every name. 00:43:35.259 --> 00:43:37.539 The name of Jesus. 00:43:39.139 --> 00:43:42.399 The name of the one that we are to look to. 00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.059 The name that is proclaimed. 00:43:45.539 --> 00:43:46.840 The name that is preached. 00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.000 The name that is the way to forgiveness of sin. 00:43:50.820 --> 00:43:52.000 It is through him. 00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:56.460 As Peter proclaimed Jesus in the book of Acts. 00:43:56.519 --> 00:43:57.619 Acts chapter 5. 00:43:57.700 --> 00:43:59.380 Before the Jewish Sanhedrin. 00:43:59.900 --> 00:44:01.420 What he said to them was this. 00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:01.800 He said. 00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:04.700 The God of our fathers raised Jesus. 00:44:04.699 --> 00:44:08.119 Whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. 00:44:08.919 --> 00:44:13.639 God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior. 00:44:14.139 --> 00:44:17.199 To give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sin. 00:44:18.219 --> 00:44:21.699 The one you killed he says. 00:44:22.939 --> 00:44:26.199 Your sins and mine killed Jesus. 00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:29.899 It was that that led him to death. 00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:32.279 Even death on the cross. 00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:36.179 But God the Father raised him. 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:41.960 God the Father has exalted him at his right hand. 00:44:42.980 --> 00:44:43.539 Therefore. 00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:44.919 As it says here. 00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:47.699 God has highly exalted him. 00:44:47.779 --> 00:44:48.439 And given him. 00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:49.500 Bestowed on him. 00:44:49.879 --> 00:44:52.239 The name that is above every name. 00:44:52.939 --> 00:44:54.000 That sacrifice. 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:54.939 That obedience. 00:44:54.940 --> 00:44:56.420 That was done. 00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:01.019 That Jesus gave his life. 00:45:03.579 --> 00:45:06.019 Back in 1943. 00:45:06.820 --> 00:45:08.940 In the midst of the second world war. 00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:11.519 There was a ship that left America. 00:45:11.860 --> 00:45:13.300 Called the SS Dorchester. 00:45:14.659 --> 00:45:16.720 It had been a ship that had been used for. 00:45:17.179 --> 00:45:18.400 Ordinary cargo. 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:20.220 Pre-war. 00:45:20.220 --> 00:45:23.220 But it had been converted into a troop carrier. 00:45:23.219 --> 00:45:26.279 And it had set sail from America. 00:45:26.739 --> 00:45:30.039 Heading across the North Atlantic in February 1943. 00:45:31.379 --> 00:45:35.639 Carrying just over 900 troops to go and fight in the war. 00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:40.500 And they knew that going across the Atlantic was dangerous. 00:45:41.519 --> 00:45:44.559 German U-boats were always on the prowl. 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:48.299 And they were told the men on board the ship. 00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:49.819 That they were to sleep at night. 00:45:50.379 --> 00:45:51.699 Fully clothed. 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:53.799 And wearing their life jackets. 00:45:53.799 --> 00:45:55.019 Just in case. 00:45:55.019 --> 00:46:01.320 But because of the nature of the crowds in the midst of the boat. 00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:02.940 It was so warm inside. 00:46:03.059 --> 00:46:05.500 That many refused to wear all their clothes. 00:46:05.860 --> 00:46:07.059 And their life jackets. 00:46:08.420 --> 00:46:11.759 But on the morning of February 3rd 1943. 00:46:11.759 --> 00:46:13.179 At around 1am. 00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:16.519 The boat was struck by a torpedo. 00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:20.920 And they were told that we are sinking. 00:46:21.780 --> 00:46:23.259 The boat is going down. 00:46:23.340 --> 00:46:24.759 And it was going down fast. 00:46:26.099 --> 00:46:28.280 Well as well as the troops on that ship. 00:46:28.539 --> 00:46:32.219 There were four army chaplains on board with them. 00:46:33.340 --> 00:46:37.780 And in the midst of all the chaos that ensued after the torpedo struck. 00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:41.860 These four chaplains began to try and bring order. 00:46:42.860 --> 00:46:44.239 And to try and help. 00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:47.379 They were there guiding people. 00:46:47.939 --> 00:46:50.139 Getting them life jackets from boxes. 00:46:50.879 --> 00:46:52.699 Praying over those who were wounded. 00:46:53.759 --> 00:46:57.119 And eventually in a short space of time as the boat was going down. 00:46:57.219 --> 00:46:59.779 There were people panicking who didn't have life jackets. 00:46:59.899 --> 00:47:01.179 So all these chaplains. 00:47:01.279 --> 00:47:02.159 The four of them. 00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:05.899 They gave their own life jackets to those who didn't have. 00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:10.899 And as others made it off the boat onto rafts and lifeboats. 00:47:11.019 --> 00:47:13.479 They stayed on the ship as it went down. 00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:15.119 They stayed there praying. 00:47:15.240 --> 00:47:19.960 And there's testimonies told of people who could see it after they got off the boat. 00:47:20.179 --> 00:47:24.019 These men there praying as others went down with the boat. 00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:29.539 It's an amazing story of sacrifice in so many ways. 00:47:29.539 --> 00:47:31.820 Why did they do it? 00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:33.880 Why were they helping in this way? 00:47:33.940 --> 00:47:35.779 Why weren't they just trying to save themselves? 00:47:37.179 --> 00:47:40.219 Because they knew what people needed was to hear about Jesus. 00:47:41.659 --> 00:47:43.480 And these kinds of sacrifices. 00:47:43.860 --> 00:47:46.539 They make such an impression on us at times. 00:47:46.539 --> 00:47:49.159 Of the nine hundred. 00:47:49.579 --> 00:47:51.239 Probably nearly a thousand men on board. 00:47:51.340 --> 00:47:53.699 Only a quarter of them survived the sinking. 00:47:53.699 --> 00:48:00.779 And the four chaplains went down and are so spoken of to this day for their act of bravery. 00:48:01.399 --> 00:48:04.659 And the way that they showed that power of prayer. 00:48:04.659 --> 00:48:08.759 But they were doing it not for their glory. 00:48:09.859 --> 00:48:11.659 Not for glory of self. 00:48:12.399 --> 00:48:14.379 But for the glory of God the Father. 00:48:15.139 --> 00:48:21.099 Because they knew that those who were perishing without Christ were lost for all eternity. 00:48:21.099 --> 00:48:27.199 And here we see the greatest sacrifice of all. 00:48:28.319 --> 00:48:32.819 That God the Son humbled himself to the point of death. 00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:35.119 Even death on the cross. 00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:39.219 And so as we see there in verse 9. 00:48:40.259 --> 00:48:43.079 That name that is above every name. 00:48:43.239 --> 00:48:44.960 What does that name do for us? 00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:52.639 Well if you tie that in with what it says in Isaiah's prophecy in chapter 45 verse 22. 00:48:52.940 --> 00:48:56.360 It says turn to me and be saved all ends of the earth. 00:48:56.440 --> 00:48:58.980 For I am God and there is no other. 00:49:00.659 --> 00:49:01.599 This is the name. 00:49:02.300 --> 00:49:03.179 This is God. 00:49:03.740 --> 00:49:05.740 This is where there is salvation. 00:49:05.900 --> 00:49:07.599 And there is no other. 00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:11.059 There is no other way to salvation. 00:49:11.059 --> 00:49:15.179 There is a turning point here for us. 00:49:16.279 --> 00:49:17.960 As we think of Jesus. 00:49:18.860 --> 00:49:21.119 He was highly exalted and given a name. 00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:23.799 But what about ourselves? 00:49:25.579 --> 00:49:27.599 Is there a turning for ourselves? 00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:30.820 Are we turning to him that we might be saved? 00:49:31.380 --> 00:49:32.900 Because there is no other way. 00:49:33.619 --> 00:49:36.440 There is no other way to be saved. 00:49:37.299 --> 00:49:38.460 But through him. 00:49:38.460 --> 00:49:42.659 Let us turn to him. 00:49:44.579 --> 00:49:46.019 Finally we see here. 00:49:46.860 --> 00:49:48.059 The high point. 00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:50.400 The high point. 00:49:51.179 --> 00:49:52.900 From that humiliation. 00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:55.300 God gives him a name. 00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:56.820 He highly exalts him. 00:49:57.500 --> 00:49:58.760 So that the name of Jesus. 00:49:58.940 --> 00:50:00.119 Every knee should bow. 00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:01.980 In heaven and on earth and under earth. 00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:04.139 And every tongue confess. 00:50:04.280 --> 00:50:06.179 That Jesus Christ is Lord. 00:50:06.179 --> 00:50:09.279 To the glory of God the Father. 00:50:10.460 --> 00:50:11.739 Those who mocked him. 00:50:12.219 --> 00:50:13.699 Those who despised him. 00:50:14.139 --> 00:50:15.799 Those who rebuked him. 00:50:15.919 --> 00:50:17.299 Those who had him crucified. 00:50:17.659 --> 00:50:19.639 Those who still mock him to this day. 00:50:20.539 --> 00:50:21.659 The day is coming. 00:50:22.179 --> 00:50:24.659 When every knee will bow. 00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:26.419 And every tongue confess. 00:50:26.579 --> 00:50:28.699 And say that he is Lord. 00:50:28.699 --> 00:50:31.859 But are we trusting? 00:50:33.299 --> 00:50:33.859 Gambling. 00:50:34.299 --> 00:50:36.359 Is something that so many people do. 00:50:36.439 --> 00:50:39.159 And so many people struggle with in life. 00:50:40.299 --> 00:50:41.839 It's a dangerous thing. 00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:44.939 It's about the hope. 00:50:45.339 --> 00:50:47.899 Of a change in our circumstances. 00:50:47.899 --> 00:50:50.099 The hope of that big win. 00:50:51.019 --> 00:50:52.019 But that's for most. 00:50:52.179 --> 00:50:53.539 And many never comes. 00:50:54.699 --> 00:50:56.199 Many buy a lottery ticket. 00:50:56.299 --> 00:50:57.919 In the hope it could be you. 00:50:58.920 --> 00:50:59.920 And what's the chances? 00:51:00.099 --> 00:51:01.880 One in 45 million. 00:51:03.059 --> 00:51:03.539 And yet. 00:51:03.720 --> 00:51:04.900 We'll put our hope. 00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:05.840 In that. 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:08.119 Don't be a fool. 00:51:08.260 --> 00:51:10.539 To think that that is what will change your life. 00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:11.760 Don't be a fool. 00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:13.240 To think that it's these things. 00:51:13.300 --> 00:51:15.099 That will give you the security you need. 00:51:15.460 --> 00:51:17.300 There is only one thing you need. 00:51:17.300 --> 00:51:18.220 For security. 00:51:19.260 --> 00:51:20.579 And that is Christ. 00:51:22.780 --> 00:51:24.740 And yet we all gamble. 00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:26.300 In so many ways. 00:51:26.300 --> 00:51:29.560 We're all gamblers at heart. 00:51:29.640 --> 00:51:31.640 When we think of not putting our trust. 00:51:31.980 --> 00:51:32.840 In Jesus. 00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:35.920 Why gamble and take the chance. 00:51:36.600 --> 00:51:38.700 That what God is saying in his word today. 00:51:38.900 --> 00:51:39.519 Is not true. 00:51:39.940 --> 00:51:41.080 It's not for you. 00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:42.340 You don't need it. 00:51:43.680 --> 00:51:44.460 You do. 00:51:45.460 --> 00:51:48.060 And that's what these verses remind us of. 00:51:48.059 --> 00:51:50.360 The day will come. 00:51:50.980 --> 00:51:53.460 When every knee will bow and tongue confess. 00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:55.980 That Jesus Christ is Lord. 00:51:57.199 --> 00:51:59.599 But is he Lord now? 00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:04.559 Christ humbled himself to the point of death. 00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.219 Even death on the cross. 00:52:08.299 --> 00:52:09.559 But he has a name. 00:52:10.139 --> 00:52:11.320 Above every name. 00:52:12.380 --> 00:52:13.380 That he is Jesus. 00:52:14.139 --> 00:52:15.900 And that he is Lord. 00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:20.039 It was once said. 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.279 If he is not Lord of all. 00:52:22.900 --> 00:52:25.860 He is not Lord at all. 00:52:25.860 --> 00:52:30.099 And that's the challenge to ourselves today. 00:52:30.860 --> 00:52:32.400 Is he Lord? 00:52:33.900 --> 00:52:36.240 Do you see what he has done? 00:52:37.300 --> 00:52:38.440 His humiliation. 00:52:39.260 --> 00:52:40.860 His being brought low. 00:52:41.079 --> 00:52:42.180 His emptying himself. 00:52:42.700 --> 00:52:44.300 His obedience to death. 00:52:44.380 --> 00:52:45.880 Even death on the cross. 00:52:46.780 --> 00:52:48.840 But that God has raised him up. 00:52:49.420 --> 00:52:52.420 That he is exalted at the right hand of God. 00:52:52.420 --> 00:52:54.400 And that a day is coming. 00:52:54.940 --> 00:52:57.460 When we must appear before him. 00:52:58.360 --> 00:53:01.099 And give an account for ourselves. 00:53:02.200 --> 00:53:03.320 Is he Lord? 00:53:03.960 --> 00:53:05.180 Is he God? 00:53:05.720 --> 00:53:07.119 In your heart today. 00:53:08.940 --> 00:53:11.019 There's a poem I read. 00:53:11.420 --> 00:53:12.880 And it says this. 00:53:13.780 --> 00:53:16.860 I am not sent a pilgrim here. 00:53:17.019 --> 00:53:19.200 My heart with earth to fill. 00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:22.480 But I am here God's grace to learn. 00:53:23.059 --> 00:53:25.059 And serve God's sovereign will. 00:53:25.819 --> 00:53:28.659 He leads me on through smiles and tears. 00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:31.679 Grief follows gladness still. 00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:34.639 But let me welcome both alike. 00:53:35.179 --> 00:53:37.599 Since both work out his will. 00:53:38.379 --> 00:53:40.779 No service in itself is small. 00:53:41.439 --> 00:53:43.219 None great though earth it fill. 00:53:43.819 --> 00:53:46.419 But that is small that seeks its own. 00:53:46.420 --> 00:53:49.420 And great that seeks God's will. 00:53:50.200 --> 00:53:52.740 Then hold my hand most gracious Lord. 00:53:53.300 --> 00:53:55.059 Guide all my doings still. 00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:58.440 And let this be my life's one aim. 00:53:58.940 --> 00:54:02.180 To do or bear thy will. 00:54:04.659 --> 00:54:05.680 One aim. 00:54:06.539 --> 00:54:09.539 To do or bear thy will. 00:54:09.539 --> 00:54:13.900 When we see what he has done for us. 00:54:14.900 --> 00:54:15.719 His will. 00:54:17.460 --> 00:54:20.019 His will that he gave his son. 00:54:21.219 --> 00:54:22.779 And Jesus' obedience. 00:54:23.659 --> 00:54:26.300 Obedient to the point of death. 00:54:27.779 --> 00:54:29.039 But how he's exalted. 00:54:29.659 --> 00:54:30.820 How he's lifted up. 00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:35.039 And how his name is the name through which we can be saved. 00:54:35.039 --> 00:54:37.039 We ask ourselves. 00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:39.259 Is he Lord? 00:54:40.259 --> 00:54:42.340 Is he God for us? 00:54:43.500 --> 00:54:45.980 It is through his death. 00:54:46.759 --> 00:54:49.940 That he gave glory to God the Father. 00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:54.039 Do we see glory for ourselves? 00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:58.920 Or do we see the shame that he endured? 00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:01.820 That we might enjoy his glory. 00:55:02.780 --> 00:55:05.639 And that we would give glory to God the Father. 00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:08.420 May we see Jesus. 00:55:09.180 --> 00:55:09.920 His obedience. 00:55:10.579 --> 00:55:11.220 His death. 00:55:12.139 --> 00:55:13.000 His humiliation. 00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:14.920 But above all his exaltation. 00:55:16.500 --> 00:55:17.800 And the power of his name. 00:55:18.320 --> 00:55:19.880 That is there to save. 00:55:20.500 --> 00:55:21.220 Let us pray. 00:55:23.300 --> 00:55:24.740 Our Father in heaven. 00:55:24.739 --> 00:55:29.459 And we do thank you that we have a God who understands our needs. 00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:32.419 We have a Lord who came and met our needs. 00:55:32.579 --> 00:55:33.659 And that we have a spirit. 00:55:33.799 --> 00:55:34.779 A Holy Spirit. 00:55:35.279 --> 00:55:36.799 Who is here for us today. 00:55:36.899 --> 00:55:40.359 To draw us closer to the one who is able to help. 00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:42.039 In all our different needs. 00:55:42.139 --> 00:55:43.399 And we do ask oh Lord. 00:55:43.459 --> 00:55:46.000 That you will go before us in all things. 00:55:46.059 --> 00:55:47.079 That you will humble us. 00:55:47.859 --> 00:55:51.500 That you will remind us that there is one name exalted above every other. 00:55:51.979 --> 00:55:53.219 And the name is Jesus. 00:55:53.219 --> 00:55:56.039 And that we must appear before him. 00:55:56.500 --> 00:55:58.559 That we must bow and confess. 00:55:58.919 --> 00:56:00.059 That he is Lord. 00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:01.519 But help us even today. 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:04.379 To know him as Lord and God of all. 00:56:04.819 --> 00:56:06.579 As we ask it in his precious name. 00:56:07.019 --> 00:56:07.339 Amen. 00:56:11.279 --> 00:56:16.059 We're going to conclude by singing to God's praise in Psalm 118. 00:56:16.059 --> 00:56:19.759 Psalm 118. 00:56:19.759 --> 00:56:21.599 Psalm 118. 00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:24.299 We'll sing from verse 5 to verse 9. 00:56:24.799 --> 00:56:26.279 These three stanzas. 00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:29.659 It's Sing Psalms version page 155. 00:56:31.099 --> 00:56:33.019 Psalm 118 at verse 5. 00:56:33.119 --> 00:56:35.799 I cried in anguish to the Lord. 00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:37.980 He answered me and set me free. 00:56:38.219 --> 00:56:39.519 The Lord is with me. 00:56:39.960 --> 00:56:41.000 I'll not fear. 00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:43.880 What harm can people do to me? 00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:47.480 We'll sing from verse 5 to 9 to God's praise. 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:53.480 I cried in anguish to the Lord. 00:56:53.480 --> 00:57:07.940 I wish to the Lord, He answered me and set me free. 00:57:07.940 --> 00:57:22.940 The Lord is with me, I'll no fear, what harm can people do? 00:57:23.480 --> 00:57:44.139 To me, the Lord is with me constantly, He is the one who gives me aid. 00:57:44.139 --> 00:58:02.139 I look in triumph on my foes, I will not need to be afraid. 00:58:02.139 --> 00:58:20.139 It's better far to trust the Lord, I'll move for help to man's defense. 00:58:20.139 --> 00:58:37.599 It's better far to trust the Lord, than in a prince of confidence. 00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:38.599 Amen. 00:58:40.599 --> 00:58:43.199 After the benediction, I'll go to the door to my left. 00:58:43.299 --> 00:58:44.480 We'll close with a benediction. 00:58:45.179 --> 00:58:50.420 Now may grace, mercy and peace from God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, 00:58:51.019 --> 00:58:54.339 rest upon and abide with you all now and forevermore. 00:58:54.340 --> 00:58:55.180 Amen. 00:59:24.340 --> 00:59:47.460 We'll be right back.