The Book of Philippians – Choose Joy | Message 3: Grin and Bare it | Pastor Chad Dingess

Philippians 2: 2 (ESV)
…complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.(MULTILINE)

Philippians 2: 3-4
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.(MULTILINE)

• Pride destroys relationships.(MULTILINE)
• Humility deepens relationships.(MULTILINE)

James 4: 6
God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.(MULTILINE)

1. I’m grateful.(MULTILINE)

Philippians 2: 29 (HCSB)
Therefore, welcome him in the Lord with all joy and hold men like him in honor…(MULTILINE)

2. I’m prayerful.(MULTILINE)

Philippians 1: 4
In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy…(MULTILINE)

3. I look for ways to serve.(MULTILINE)

Philippians 2: 5-7
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus. 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant… (MULTILINE)

4. I do what’s right, even when it’s painful.(MULTILINE)

Philippians 2: 8
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!(MULTILINE)