Speaker 1: [inaudible] celebrate the victory you've accomplished for us through your son, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: And we come admitting and confessing.
Speaker 1: We have no righteousness of our own to bring to the table or to bring to the equation.
Speaker 1: So Jesus, thank you that you accomplished it.
Speaker 1: You said it was finished and now we get to abide in your love, abide in your victory that you've, you've won for us.
Speaker 1: And I pray that today would be a day where your word break strongholds.
Speaker 1: Would you set us free from the ongoing power of sin?
Speaker 1: Would you today grant humility, ears to hear, eyes to see and soft heart to respond to your truth?
Speaker 1: Because you are great.
Speaker 1: You get to define greatness and you define it by us humbling ourselves and empty in ourselves and giving our lives away, which you empower us to give our lives away.
Speaker 1: Like Jesus gave his life away.
Speaker 1: Would you do the work today?
Speaker 1: I've got nothing.
Speaker 1: And so I pray that you would use your word work through your spirit impact, transform your people off for your glory.
Speaker 1: Pray these things in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 2: Well, welcome for those.
Speaker 2: Uh, met a number of you.
Speaker 2: It's your first time.
Speaker 2: So glad you're here.
Speaker 2: You found yourself at hillside fellowship.
Speaker 2: We believe that Jesus Christ changes everything.
Speaker 2: He does that by changing us from the inside out.
Speaker 2: He puts his spirit, we talk about Christ in us.
Speaker 2: He puts his spirit in us, he changes us, sends us out to be lights in the midst of a dark, crooked, perverse world.
Speaker 2: And then he uses us to draw other people in.
Speaker 2: And so we're simply a group of people that believes Jesus changes everything.
Speaker 2: He's changed us.
Speaker 2: So we encourage everyone everywhere, every day to align their lives around Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: The one who changes everything.
Speaker 2: So that's the simple message of hillside.
Speaker 2: We do that by walking through the scriptures.
Speaker 2: We're in the book of Philippians now.
Speaker 2: We spent the summer in Ecclesiastes.
Speaker 2: He's looking at gee, where joy isn't to be found.
Speaker 2: And, and now we're in Philippians looking at where true joy is to be found in Christ, a to know Jesus is to know joy doesn't mean life's easier.
Speaker 2: Uh, but Jesus gives us a hope beyond the trials and difficulties of this life.
Speaker 2: So let me read it to you, Philippians.
Speaker 2: We're going to be in chapter two I'm going to be reading verse 17 down through verse 30 in Philippians chapter two God says, Paul writes, but even if I'm being poured out as a drink, offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
Speaker 2: You two I urge you rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me, but I hope in the Lord Jesus to send to you shortly so that I also may be encouraged when I learned of your condition, for I have no one else of kindred spirit who will generally genuinely be concerned for your welfare, for they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus, but you know, Timothy's proven worth that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving as father.
Speaker 2: Therefore, I hope to send them immediately as soon as I see how things go with me and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly.
Speaker 2: But I thought it necessary to send you a path for ditis my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier who is also your messenger and minister to my knee because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick for indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him and not only on him, not and not on him only, but also on me so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.
Speaker 2: Therefore, I've sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see them again, you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you receiving them in the Lord with all joy and hold men like him in high regard because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was deficient in your service.
Speaker 2: To me, so a great passage on travel plans and kind of a roadmap where who Paul was sent and why this is an odd section.
Speaker 2: I've never met anyone who's favorite Bible verses in this section and I've never seen any verse from this section.
Speaker 2: On a coffee mug.
Speaker 2: Almost every other chapter of Philippians have has coffee mug versus this one doesn't have any.
Speaker 2: It's like, Hey, I'm going to send Timothy and a path for ditis and let me walk you through it because it's hugely important and it really will change your perspective on life and how you view greatness.
Speaker 2: How you see this passage really does matter.
Speaker 2: So let me walk you through a broad theological perspective on this passage should we can move forward together through it.
Speaker 2: If you read straight through the Bible, you'd reach Psalm one 45 right around verse three and then this huge doctrine and teaching of the Bible would would jump out at you.
Speaker 2: Someone 45 three says, God is great and greatly to be praised.
Speaker 2: In fact, his greatness, he's so great.
Speaker 2: His greatness is unsearchable.
Speaker 2: So we know that God's great, therefore he gets to define greatness.
Speaker 2: Believe it or not, all of us are trying to define greatness this morning.
Speaker 2: That's what we pursue.
Speaker 2: What we believe will make us great, but God gets to define greatness.
Speaker 2: So however, because God is the greatest, however, he defines greatness needs to be our target, the big E on the eye chart that we're aiming for.
Speaker 2: Now, here's the theological perspective.
Speaker 2: I'm not really great at anything.
Speaker 2: Actually the Bible says I'm great at one thing.
Speaker 2: Psalm 25 11 pardon my inequity for my sin is great.
Speaker 2: I'm great at sinning.
Speaker 2: I've got a PhD in S I N and it's, it's bad, it's bad, and you do too.
Speaker 2: You can allow like my sin is great.
Speaker 2: David would say, my sin is ever before me, so much so that most days I'm like, God, how could you love me, Laura, out of everyone who could preach and proclaim Jesus, I'm the least likely.
Speaker 2: I'm my Senate just ever before me.
Speaker 2: Um, here's the good news to read through the Bible.
Speaker 2: You're going to reach Luke chapter one and in Luke chapter one, the angel announced system.
Speaker 2: Mary, you're going to have a baby and you're going to name him Jesus.
Speaker 2: And the next phrase is amazing.
Speaker 2: The angel says, he shall be great.
Speaker 2: You see Jesus is salvation is greater than all of my sin.
Speaker 2: Jesus is grace that he gives is greater than all of my sin.
Speaker 2: God proved how great he was by humbling himself, emptying himself, becoming nothing, taking the form of a bondservant and dwelling among us and giving his life away.
Speaker 2: He didn't come to be served, but to serve and to give us life.
Speaker 2: That's how God defines greatness.
Speaker 2: So however, however you're defining greatness, whatever you're pursuing to find greatnesses, if it doesn't align with how God defines greatness, you're off track.
Speaker 2: You're going to be miserable, depressed, frustrated, angry, and bitter, and you're going to blame God, but he made greatness very clear.
Speaker 2: Today I'm going to walk you through a weird, awkward, strange MapQuest passage, and I'm going to show you how beautiful it is.
Speaker 2: Your life literally won't be the same after this passage if you listen to it again, it's weird because it just deals with Paul Timothy and a path for ditis, which is a weird name.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 2: You don't get it.
Speaker 2: Um, last night after nine o'clock, my son, he's 10, he said, Hey, and he's one of the most curious cats I've ever met.
Speaker 2: He came out and he said, Hey dad, what are you preaching on tomorrow?
Speaker 2: I said, well, Paul Timothy and the PAF or ditis my son just like this.
Speaker 2: He goes, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 2: I said, Paul Timothy and a path for ditis and his face goes.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, what's going on?
Speaker 2: He's like, dad, that sounds like a horrible disease.
Speaker 2: I would never want.
Speaker 2: I said, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 2: Episys appendicitis, tonsillitis, tendinitis, conjunctivitis, it path for ditis.
Speaker 2: Get it, dad.
Speaker 2: Beautiful.
Speaker 2: We're going to look at it.
Speaker 2: Here's the bottom line.
Speaker 2: Let me give you the bottom line up front.
Speaker 2: He just got done in at two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Pastor Allen did a great job.
Speaker 2: Do from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind.
Speaker 2: Consider one another more important than yourself.
Speaker 2: Chapter two verse three chapter two verse five, have this attitude in yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus who although existed in the form of God, didn't regard equality with God a thing to be grasped.
Speaker 2: He humbled himself.
Speaker 2: He emptied himself.
Speaker 2: Chapter two verse 14 hillside, do nothing with grumbling or disputing.
Speaker 2: These are huge imperatives that if you're honest and I'm honest, I'm like, I can't be like Jesus.
Speaker 2: This is too much.
Speaker 2: What he's gonna do is give us three simple examples, illustrations, models to mimic.
Speaker 2: Here's the truth.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you something that hopefully will blow your mind.
Speaker 2: We've got millions of people that have spent their life in church, but they're wondering, why can I not change?
Speaker 2: Why can I not grow?
Speaker 2: Why am I not maturing?
Speaker 2: Why is nothing altering in my life?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: Most of us just go to our church and hear a message.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, don't, don't just be hearers, but be doers.
Speaker 2: You see, if you hear a message, you can remember upwards of 10% of it and that's if you're brilliant.
Speaker 2: If you're brilliant, you can remember and redistribute 10% but most of us will leave and very little of this will actually settle on us.
Speaker 2: Paul knew it, and he knew that if you hear something and see somebody else living it out, guess what?
Speaker 2: It jumps from 10 up to 50% retention.
Speaker 2: If you just hear it and see somebody else.
Speaker 2: This is how God put you together.
Speaker 2: Your neurologically, depending upon who you hang out with, you begin to mimic them.
Speaker 2: They're called mirroring neurons.
Speaker 2: You begin to mimic people you're around, so if you see it 10 or you hear it 10% you hear it, see it 50% but if you hear something, see it lived out and actually use your hands to do it, it reaches 90% of who you are.
Speaker 2: Paul doesn't want the message of the incarnation to fall on deaf ears, so he gives you three perfect pictures of what it looks like to model it, to become a disciple.
Speaker 2: He's going to give Paul himself, Timothy in a PAF for ditis.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to give you Paul's exhibit a, exhibit B and exhibit C it says, I've got 46 minutes.
Speaker 2: I love that and I'm going to fly all 46 minutes of that unless we get that changed and honestly, I'll go 46 and I'll wait until it's like three or four minutes in the red.
Speaker 2: That's not for you.
Speaker 2: That's just a air traffic controlling.
Speaker 2: Watch this.
Speaker 2: Verse 17 and 18 here comes exhibit a on what it means to mimic model and live out the incarnation personally for each one of us, because you're defining greatness somehow.
Speaker 2: Every single one of us, if it's not defined how God defines it in Christ Jesus, then you're missing the Mark and you're running hard after something that's going to frustrate you.
Speaker 2: So here's exhibit a.
Speaker 2: Paul says, even if I'm being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
Speaker 2: You too.
Speaker 2: I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
Speaker 2: Now, Paul is a perfect exhibit of what it means to live out the incarnation, but here's what you're going to say, and here's what I say.
Speaker 2: You look at Paul's life.
Speaker 2: Paul was astounding.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this or not.
Speaker 2: Next to Jesus Christ, I believe that Paul probably bought, brought about more social, social, cultural, and worldwide change than any other person.
Speaker 2: Paul was bold.
Speaker 2: He stood before Kings and Caesars and proclaim the gospel.
Speaker 2: Paul was brilliant.
Speaker 2: It just intellectually brilliant.
Speaker 2: You read through what Paul wrote.
Speaker 2: We can we struggle just to grammatically diagram his sentences.
Speaker 2: He was profoundly brilliant here.
Speaker 2: He wrote like 13 books of the Bible.
Speaker 2: Yo.
Speaker 2: Anybody else?
Speaker 2: I struggled to write texts without getting auto corrected and Paul wrote 13 books of the Bible.
Speaker 2: So what you're going to say and what I'm going to say is, yeah man, that made Paul great, bold, big, brilliant, but I could never be Paul.
Speaker 2: Just let me enter into that.
Speaker 2: Is Paul great?
Speaker 2: Does the scripture hold forth?
Speaker 2: The apostle Paul, the one who wrote 13 books of the new Testament, is he great because he was big, bold, brash and brilliant?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 2: Even if I am being poured out as a drink offering, Paul was great because he was willing to follow Jesus Christ and becoming nothing.
Speaker 2: I call it the Maxwell house principle.
Speaker 2: See nobody.
Speaker 2: Does anybody drink Maxwell house anymore?
Speaker 2: Anybody?
Speaker 2: One good.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you instant.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 2: I was going to be concerned for a minute, but I'm glad Maxwell house had this brilliant ad campaign before Starbucks, before Maxwell house.
Speaker 2: Good to the last C.
Speaker 2: y'all know, even though you don't drink it, I horrible coffee to some, sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: That just happened.
Speaker 2: That was real.
Speaker 2: Some people delight in it.
Speaker 2: 99.9% of us go a different route and there there's freedom.
Speaker 2: I'd stepped in it.
Speaker 2: The point is, their ad campaign was you can pour it out to the last drop and up to the last drop.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 2: Paul was great in the eyes of God, not because he was bold, not because he was brilliant, not because he wrote 13 books of the new Testament, but because he was willing to be poured out to the last drop.
Speaker 2: If you want to be great in God's kingdom and I pray that you do, you want to be great in the kingdom of God, be willing to be poured out so that others might be filled up.
Speaker 2: That's what made Paul great.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this about me because I know man, I live with me and I've spent 44 years with me.
Speaker 2: You pour me out where my battery level is low and I'm down to the last drops.
Speaker 2: Energy speaking.
Speaker 2: I am not good to the last drop.
Speaker 2: Amen, and you're not either.
Speaker 2: This is why, man, you talked to me on a Friday.
Speaker 2: Likely I'm going to grouch at you.
Speaker 2: That's when I workout.
Speaker 2: I get, I just, my energy level is really low.
Speaker 2: I'm not good to the last drop.
Speaker 2: Paul was great.
Speaker 2: Acts 2024 because he was willing to be poured out to the last drop.
Speaker 2: He said, I do not consider my life on any account as dear to myself so that I might finish that course in ministry given to me by God to testify solemnly of the grace of God that's been given to me in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 2: You want to be great and I pray you do.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 2: I pray.
Speaker 2: This was the discussion that the disciples were talking about who is greatest in the kingdom and I pray you want to be great.
Speaker 2: If you want to be great, be willing to be poured out to the last drop so that others might be filled up.
Speaker 2: That's greatness and Paul was willing to do it, so that's 0.1.
Speaker 2: Be poured out so that others might be filled up and God will look at you and say, that's great.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not just gonna leave it there.
Speaker 2: What's one step you can take today with your wife to be poured out?
Speaker 2: Listen, don't come to me and talk about pouring out on Africa.
Speaker 2: If you're not willing to pour out on your wife and serve her, please.
Speaker 2: I get so that's when I get grouchy, yo.
Speaker 2: It's like, Dave, we need to do more over there.
Speaker 2: And I happen to know that your marriage is falling apart and I'm just going to tell you, go home and pour out on your wife and kids.
Speaker 2: Don't talk to me again about reaching Pygmies because you can't reach your princess at home.
Speaker 2: So don't go there.
Speaker 2: You want to know why the church is so in America?
Speaker 2: You want to go there for a minute?
Speaker 1: It's because we're not willing to apply these truths at home.
Speaker 1: You want to do something amazing.
Speaker 1: Be willing to be poured out on your neighbor.
Speaker 1: I know they don't know Jesus.
Speaker 1: So start there with neighboring be poured out and God's going to say
Speaker 2: beautiful.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 2: Now you can tell me, Dave, I tried that.
Speaker 2: I tried that.
Speaker 2: It didn't work.
Speaker 2: I tried that last week.
Speaker 2: You tried it last week.
Speaker 2: Are you serious?
Speaker 2: You understand
Speaker 1: when we're being poured out, there've been five, eight, and 10 year periods of my life where I was poured out and there was no fruit, none.
Speaker 1: I never saw anyone come to Jesus.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just him pouring you out and pouring you out and pouring you out.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you his graceful fill you back up.
Speaker 1: He loves to fill us up.
Speaker 2: If we're willing to pour out TWI.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, follow me and I'll make you fishers of men.
Speaker 2: He didn't say, I'm gonna make you catchers.
Speaker 2: We fish and we fish and we fish.
Speaker 2: I went fishing with my kids down in Mexico.
Speaker 2: We went on vacation.
Speaker 2: We were on that boat forever.
Speaker 2: Yo,
Speaker 1: lines in the water of my poor kids were like, dad.
Speaker 1: Fishing's awful.
Speaker 2: Honestly, they're like, dad, can I play video games?
Speaker 2: No, we're fishing dad, but we're not catching anything.
Speaker 2: I know we call it fishing hours trolling and then all of a sudden boom, and everything changed.
Speaker 2: We had a Barracuda on the line and the kids were all like, yeah, listen, you may be fishing for years.
Speaker 2: Honestly, at your workplace, you be willing to be poured out and you watch at the right time, at the right place for the glory of God.
Speaker 2: Boom, that Lionel band, and you'll never, you'll never be the same.
Speaker 2: You want to be great.
Speaker 2: Be willing to be poured out.
Speaker 2: Let's go number two, watch this Timothy.
Speaker 2: Man, the time change messed me up.
Speaker 2: Alright, 15 we're going watch this.
Speaker 2: Watch this.
Speaker 2: Stick with me and your notes.
Speaker 2: Timothy.
Speaker 2: Now, Paul was big, bold, brave, and brilliant.
Speaker 2: Timothy was kind of behind the scenes guys.
Speaker 2: He was different than Paul.
Speaker 2: In fact, I identify when I read through person.
Speaker 2: Second Timothy, Paul's words are like words to me.
Speaker 2: Like, be brave, Dave.
Speaker 2: Stand up.
Speaker 2: Go for it.
Speaker 2: Don't be timid.
Speaker 2: Don't stand back.
Speaker 2: So Timothy, some of us are like, Oh, I could never be Paul.
Speaker 2: Watch Timothy behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: I hope in the Lord Jesus.
Speaker 2: Here's your verb.
Speaker 2: I want to send Timothy to you.
Speaker 2: So Timothy was just going to be a messenger.
Speaker 2: He was just going to run over.
Speaker 2: Here's what he's going to do so that I may be encouraged when I learn of your condition.
Speaker 2: I have no one else.
Speaker 2: That kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare.
Speaker 2: So Timothy was tender.
Speaker 2: He was concerned.
Speaker 2: He cared about the church at Philippi for they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
Speaker 2: Next slide.
Speaker 2: Watch this, but you know of his proven worth.
Speaker 2: That's Timothy's that he served with me.
Speaker 2: He was sent out.
Speaker 2: He was simply a servant in the furtherance of the gospel, like a child serving as father.
Speaker 2: Therefore, I hope to.
Speaker 2: Here's your verb again, send him to you.
Speaker 2: He's just going to be like a FedEx messenger boy.
Speaker 2: I'm going to send him up to send them to you.
Speaker 2: I'm going to send them to you immediately.
Speaker 2: As soon as I see how things go with me and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly.
Speaker 2: You want to be great in the kingdom of God.
Speaker 2: And I pray you do.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 2: This is why one of our core values at hillside is serve.
Speaker 2: Do you know when I put opportunities before you to serve?
Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter what it is, yo, if I invite you to serve coffee or serve donuts or serve by greeting, ushering, welcoming parking, children's youth, it's not because I need it.
Speaker 1: It's not like, Oh, please come serve.
Speaker 1: We need more servants.
Speaker 1: Would you come serve and fill slots?
Speaker 1: I don't want that.
Speaker 1: A lot of you, I don't.
Speaker 1: It's probably better if you don't serve kids.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 3: [inaudible]
Speaker 1: because if you know the joy of the Lord, you should inform your face.
Speaker 1: Because if you're grouchy, grumpy, crusty, constipated, Christian, I don't want you around kids because they're going to be like, that's what it means to serve Jesus.
Speaker 2: No, I don't like, and you're probably not best for greeting and ushering, but till I get it, the Lord's working on you, sanctifying you.
Speaker 2: I want to encourage you in that work.
Speaker 2: If you know the joy of the Lord, inform your face.
Speaker 3: [inaudible].
Speaker 1: I dunno, Alan.
Speaker 1: It just happened.
Speaker 1: I got into a coldest, a mental col-de-sac.
Speaker 1: I'm getting out and here we go.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: We offer you opportunities to serve because in Christ Jesus, I need it and you need it.
Speaker 2: We've got to be able to be poured out.
Speaker 2: You've got to be able to be sent out.
Speaker 2: You want to know why?
Speaker 2: Timothy was great.
Speaker 2: You want to know why he's exhibit B in this?
Speaker 2: He was simply willing to be brought off the bench and used he.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 2: He was behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 2: He took years and years with Paul.
Speaker 2: Is he just, he was on the bench serving where he was supposed to serve.
Speaker 2: Whatever he could do,
Speaker 3: but
Speaker 2: he didn't say, I'm just going to sit here and do nothing.
Speaker 2: When Paul said, Hey Timothy, it's time to go.
Speaker 2: Timothy went to Corinthia Corinth and it was a mess there.
Speaker 2: Then Timothy went to fill a pie.
Speaker 2: When it was time to go.
Speaker 2: When it was time to be used, he was there.
Speaker 2: He wasn't willing just to sit and do nothing.
Speaker 2: You see what happens is many of us, well I can't say that intelligently.
Speaker 2: Some of us we see, we come to church and we just sit in the back and nothing
Speaker 1: and we're like, why am I not growing?
Speaker 1: Why am I not changing?
Speaker 1: Dave, you need to preach better.
Speaker 1: We've got to do something.
Speaker 1: I'm not changing.
Speaker 2: You're not changing, growing and maturing, cause you may be hearing the truth, but you're not applying it and walking it out.
Speaker 2: You're not.
Speaker 2: Listen, it's the frigerator principle.
Speaker 2: How many of you have ever cleaned out your refrigerator and found something back in there that had been there months and there was stuff growing off?
Speaker 2: You are afraid to take off the lid.
Speaker 2: You take off the lid, a herb.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: There's black mold spots in there.
Speaker 2: It's toxic.
Speaker 2: You see,
Speaker 1: when you get hidden in the back and you just hide out, funky stuff starts to grow on you.
Speaker 1: When, gee, honestly, Jesus says, go.
Speaker 1: If you say no stuff will start to grow.
Speaker 1: It's a frigerator principle.
Speaker 1: I see it all the time.
Speaker 1: Jesus said, Hey, I'm going to send you out.
Speaker 1: Go to work and shine as a light in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.
Speaker 1: When he says, go.
Speaker 1: If you say no, you hide it.
Speaker 1: The back of the fridge,
Speaker 2: you're going to be a funky follower of Christ.
Speaker 2: I can guarantee you that because you weren't made simply to sit and to soak into chill.
Speaker 2: You do that too long.
Speaker 2: Here's what starts to happen.
Speaker 2: I've seen it over and over.
Speaker 2: I know this is true.
Speaker 2: When you become a funky follower and disgusting disciple, you start to grow mold spiritually, you get critical and bitter.
Speaker 2: Why don't you do more, Dave?
Speaker 2: Why don't you change things?
Speaker 2: I didn't like the coffee.
Speaker 2: I didn't like the donuts.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 2: We're not a donut shop.
Speaker 1: And that's what I get to say and I say it with less attitude.
Speaker 1: I'm very bold up here.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be like, I don't care.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, I don't care.
Speaker 2: It probably be more like that.
Speaker 2: We're not a coffee shop.
Speaker 2: There's a number of those around.
Speaker 2: I don't like the temperature.
Speaker 2: Ah, you know, I don't care.
Speaker 2: You know, we're not an HVAC place.
Speaker 2: We're here to be willing to be poured out so others might be filled up.
Speaker 2: We're here to be sent out so that others might be brought in as gathering together as an about us and join.
Speaker 2: The church is here to reach those who are not yet here and I've got a bunch, a whole bunch addict and alcoholic friends that I invite and I say, come watch a group of people being willing to humble themselves, empty themselves and do all things without grumbling and disputing are you willing to be sent out so that others might be brought in Timothy's exhibit B because he was, he didn't do anything huge, massive.
Speaker 2: He ends up dying and emphasis hollering against them, celebrating Diana.
Speaker 2: He dies, he's dragged through the streets, he's stoned, he's put to death and that's his life sent out so that others might hear the truth of the gospel and see it modeled in his life and others might be brought into the fellowship of the saints.
Speaker 2: So that's exhibit a.
Speaker 2: Paul being poured out so that others might be filled up.
Speaker 2: Exhibit B Timothy being sent out so that others might be brought in.
Speaker 2: Here's my favorite path for ditis.
Speaker 2: Watch this,
Speaker 1: but I thought it necessary to send to you a path for ditis my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier.
Speaker 1: Watch how common this is.
Speaker 1: And how many of you know somebody named a puffer ditis why is that funny?
Speaker 1: Anybody here named a path for ditis.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 1: Isn't that odd?
Speaker 1: Watch the positive modifiers.
Speaker 1: Watch what Paul says about a path for diodes.
Speaker 1: This whole section is weird to me.
Speaker 1: A path for a ditis gets more press time in the Bible than the incarnation of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Verse five six seven eight nine.
Speaker 1: It path for ditis who nobody names their kids after gets more press time than God becoming man in Philippians.
Speaker 1: It's odd.
Speaker 1: My mind glitches on it.
Speaker 2: Watch how common usual and mundane the things said about a path for dinosaur.
Speaker 2: I thought it necessary to send to you a path for ditis comma, he's my brother.
Speaker 2: Paul says, we're one and we're like family.
Speaker 2: He's a fellow worker.
Speaker 2: How common, how mundane.
Speaker 2: So he shows up and helps Paul.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's a fellow soldier, so he said, helping Paul advanced the gospel.
Speaker 2: That's usual.
Speaker 2: That's common.
Speaker 2: That's normal.
Speaker 2: That's mundane.
Speaker 2: It's Beno.
Speaker 2: It's run of the mill.
Speaker 2: Those modifiers.
Speaker 2: Watch this.
Speaker 2: He's also your messenger and minister to my needs.
Speaker 2: A pap reditus was from Philippi.
Speaker 2: The Philippians were like, man, Paul's in prison.
Speaker 2: We've got to send them a gift.
Speaker 2: Who wants to go and[inaudible] like, I'll make that several thousand mile trip.
Speaker 2: I'll do it.
Speaker 2: I'll go talk about a road trip.
Speaker 2: This was like a cross America.
Speaker 2: Huge.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'll walk that for POL common.
Speaker 2: Normal.
Speaker 2: Usual,
Speaker 1: because he was longing.
Speaker 1: Listen to his heart.
Speaker 1: A PAF reditus was longing for the Philippians and a path for a ditis was distressed.
Speaker 1: Why was a path for dyes distressed?
Speaker 1: Because he had heard that the Philippians had heard that he was sick, so PAF reditus has a Bola.
Speaker 1: He's about to die, and Paul's like, Hey, the church at Philippi knows you're sick and their concern and a path for dies.
Speaker 1: They're like, ah, shit.
Speaker 1: Oh man.
Speaker 1: Now I've caused them distress.
Speaker 1: This guy's, he's got a Tinder heart.
Speaker 1: Next slide.
Speaker 1: Watched this for indeed.
Speaker 1: He was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him and not only on him, not on him only, but also on me so that I would not have sorrow upon
Speaker 2: sorrow.
Speaker 2: Therefore I've sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again, you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.
Speaker 2: [inaudible] he was great.
Speaker 2: He got a lot of air time here, a lot of print time, but he was great because he was willing to be normal.
Speaker 2: Average, usual, common mundane.
Speaker 2: I call it my Benjamin's principal.
Speaker 2: About twice a year I'll open up a card and I'll get a Benjamin a hundred dollar bill.
Speaker 2: This one's real.
Speaker 2: I took it out of the bank.
Speaker 2: I didn't tell Brooke I was going to take it out of the bank, so we're, she's probably hearing I'm going to get in trouble.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna, I'll, I'm going to put it back in after I'm done and this is why the budget's off, but Oh, I open it and said a hundred dollar bill, which is a lot of money and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: So I'll do something.
Speaker 2: I'll grab all four kids and I'll be like, let's go down to the donut shop and this is, this happens regularly.
Speaker 2: Like anytime I get a a Benjamin, well go down to the doughnut shop and the kids will pick out their donuts.
Speaker 2: I'll get my makeup and bacon covered donut, and then I'll pull out my wallet and boom, I'll drop the Benjamin.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm not used to it yet, but they say the same thing every time.
Speaker 2: Sir, do you have any smaller bills?
Speaker 2: We can't break that and I get to say no.
Speaker 2: It's all I have.
Speaker 2: I roll in Benjamin's only.
Speaker 2: I'm big time.
Speaker 2: I'm exquisite.
Speaker 2: I'm superior, I'm huge.
Speaker 2: I'm, I'm great.
Speaker 2: All I have is Benjamin's.
Speaker 2: She'll soon, sorry, we can't break that.
Speaker 2: You see, this is what I want life to be like pretty much every day.
Speaker 2: I want it to be huge.
Speaker 2: I wanted it to be massive.
Speaker 2: I wanted it to be spectacular, dramatic, amazing.
Speaker 2: You see, you live in a sensationalized world.
Speaker 2: You realize you turn on the news, even the weather forecast is sensationalized.
Speaker 2: We need adrenaline for everything.
Speaker 2: Even the weather report where this is going is not good.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden you have clowns dressed up giving you the weather report dancing so that it's sensational, generalized.
Speaker 2: You want everything to be sensationalized and it's like you're living constantly dropping hundred dollar bills.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, life is a lot more like the other 363 days of a year.
Speaker 2: What I generally have to do is I dig through my change drawer in the morning looking for$2 and 27 cents to buy a cup of coffee and I'll get those$2 and 27 cents and I'll go and I'll say, I'll take my tall coffee and they'll say, that's two to$2 and 27 cents and then I'll drop my pennies, nickels, quarters and dimes on the counter and poor Michelle, the barista account through them.
Speaker 2: Oh Dave, how embarrassing.
Speaker 2: You had to dig through your change drawer again and everybody else's looking like, what is that?
Speaker 2: And it's like they're coins, they're real money.
Speaker 2: I promise you.
Speaker 2: It's just some of us have to dig through our change drawer.
Speaker 2: What a path for ditis was willing to do was to be common, usual, ordinary, mundane.
Speaker 2: He was willing to live every day and simply give his life away opinion, a dime at a time.
Speaker 2: Oh, you need me to go back to Paul in Rome?
Speaker 2: I'll put that dime.
Speaker 2: I'll give you that dime.
Speaker 2: I'll give my life away a dime at a time.
Speaker 2: It's not a Benjamin.
Speaker 2: It's not huge.
Speaker 2: It's not dramatic.
Speaker 2: It's not sensational.
Speaker 2: It's just a little bit at a time.
Speaker 2: You see, you want to be great, and I pray that you do hillside.
Speaker 2: You want to be great in God's eyes.
Speaker 2: He's made it very clear.
Speaker 2: Whoever wants to be greatest among you must be the servant of all.
Speaker 2: And to be a servant of all means, giving your life away a penny and a dime at a time every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's not sensational.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's not dramatic to give your life away a dime at a time.
Speaker 2: You know, the biggest things I do aren't here on stage preaching on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I get praised for this.
Speaker 2: This is probably going to be something that's gonna cost me in eternity.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, when I'm empty, my tanks on empty and it happens almost every night.
Speaker 2: One of my children will say, dad, can you go get me a drink every night?
Speaker 2: I'm like, have we?
Speaker 2: Have we not figured this out yet?
Speaker 2: You walked upstairs, you could get a drink, and finally the Lord whispered in my ear, are you willing to become nothing and give your life away a penny and a dime at a time?
Speaker 2: So now when my kids say, dad, can you get me a drink?
Speaker 2: That response is automatic.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Because if you don't see a servant in your dad, you're not going to learn what it means to serve.
Speaker 2: You may hear about it, but if you don't see it and experience it, you'll never do it.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to give your life away at a dime at a time?
Speaker 2: You see, that's why a path for ditis was great.
Speaker 2: He was willing to give his life away a dime at a time.
Speaker 2: Most of what you and I do in the Christian life will go unseen.
Speaker 2: Uncelebrated on known and unbeknownst to anyone, most of ministry in pastoral life isn't done before.
Speaker 2: A crowds caring for the sick, helping the needy.
Speaker 2: It truly is mundane, ordinary, normal run of the mill stuff, and it's what you do too at home.
Speaker 2: Loving one another and giving your life away.
Speaker 2: Dime at a time.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you this, Matthew six four says it.
Speaker 2: Your father who sees what's done in secret, he knows and it's not ordinary to him.
Speaker 2: It's not mundane, it's not
Speaker 1: usual.
Speaker 1: He looks at it and says, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: That looks like my son, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Let's see, aroma of life, one who's willing to empty themselves, humble themselves, and give their life away.
Speaker 1: One who's willing to be poured out so that others might be filled up.
Speaker 1: That's called love.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 1: One who's willing to be wrong out so that others might be helped up.
Speaker 1: One who's willing to be sent out so others might be brought in that that
Speaker 2: is love and that is great.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to give your life away?
Speaker 2: One dime at a time?
Speaker 2: Start at home.
Speaker 2: What's one step that the spirit of God Christ in you as leading you to to say, sweetie, I haven't been, I haven't been given my wallet, my life away, a dime and nickel and a penny at a time.
Speaker 2: I've been looking for the spectacular, the extraordinary, because I've missed defined greatness.
Speaker 2: If you want to be great in the kingdom of God and I pray you do, you must become the servant of all and follow Jesus Christ and follow Paul whose life was poured out and follow Timothy who was sent out and follow a path for ditis who was wrong out so that others might be brought in.
Speaker 2: Here's what I love about this passage and if I had more time, I would preach it again from this lens or this angle in the kingdom of this world.
Speaker 2: Many people want to be stars.
Speaker 2: They want to be great.
Speaker 2: Do you know that it's what we pursue.
Speaker 2: We want to go viral.
Speaker 2: We want to be big time.
Speaker 2: Very few can become rock stars and superstars and movie stars.
Speaker 2: We don't have the talent, we don't have the looks.
Speaker 2: Very few of us will ever become superstars in this world.
Speaker 2: It's like half of 1% it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Here's what I love about Jesus and the kingdom of God.
Speaker 2: Everyone can be a superstar because it only requires humility and being willing to empty yourself and be poured out and be sent out and be wrung out so that others might be filled up, broaden and helped up everybody.
Speaker 2: Paul can be a superstar, not because he's bold, brilliant, wrote a bunch of the Bible, but because he was willing to be poured out.
Speaker 2: Timothy, he wasn't.
Speaker 2: He wasn't a full blood Jew.
Speaker 2: He was half Greek and Jew.
Speaker 2: He can be great because he's willing to be sent out in a path for ditis.
Speaker 2: Epaphroditus a pagan.
Speaker 2: This is what I love about Jesus.
Speaker 2: You read through a hundred commentaries and they'll all say, we don't know anything about a path for ditis.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you everything you need to know about a[inaudible].
Speaker 2: His name means[inaudible] dedicated to Aphrodite.
Speaker 2: It would be like you being named son of Satan like, Hey, this is my friend, son of Satan.
Speaker 2: We just call on Sam.
Speaker 2: I don't know his name was dedicated to a path for ditis.
Speaker 2: I guarantee his mom worked in the red light district.
Speaker 2: I guarantee he was an accident.
Speaker 2: He was unseen, unwanted, unloved, and dedicated to the temple to serve prostitutes in in these disgusting, disgusting rituals.
Speaker 2: This is what I love about my savior, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: He'll reach in to a pagan temple and say, that one's mine.
Speaker 2: Epaphroditus dedicated to a path for did not any more.
Speaker 2: Now he's dedicated to Jesus Christ and changing the world by becoming nothing.
Speaker 2: If you're here today and you're saying, I'm surprised the ceiling hasn't come down because I'm that much of a sinner, I can't believe that I'm here.
Speaker 2: My center's great.
Speaker 2: Join the club.
Speaker 2: We're a whole bunch of nobodies whose sin is great, who celebrate Jesus Christ, who for con can forgive and save anyone hillside.
Speaker 2: I pray that you want to be great in the kingdom of God, and I pray that the result of that is you humbling yourself, emptying yourself, being willing to be poured out, sent out, and rung out, decreasing so that Jesus Christ might increase.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to give your life away one dime at a time?
Speaker 2: Start today.
Speaker 2: Let's pray.
Speaker 2: Father God, thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you that you didn't call us to be great by trying harder, doing more, pushing harder, attempting more, being more disciplined.
Speaker 2: You called us to be great by emptying ourselves, humbling ourselves, and putting our faith in the greatest one who ever lived.
Speaker 2: His name is Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Jesus, thank you that you finished it all.
Speaker 2: You accomplished it all, and you give us grace to simply humble ourselves and receive love and joy and grace from you, which you help us to pour that love, joy and grace out on others.
Speaker 2: Would you help us today through your spirit to give our lives away one diamond at a time?
Speaker 2: It's for your glory.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Amen.