{"id":9128,"date":"2018-02-09T03:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T01:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2018-02-09T03:16:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T01:16:33","slug":"joy-in-being-2nd-season-3-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/joy-in-being-2nd-season-3-episode-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy in Being 2nd | Season 3 Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2FNIST_S04E04.mp3&amp;modern=1&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fsukofamily.org%2Fjoy-in-being-2nd-season-3-episode-4%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-3\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/content.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/NIST_S04E04.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?powerpress_pinw=9128-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/content.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/NIST_S04E04.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"NIST_S04E04.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 42:24 &#8212; 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One is to confuse joy with amusement, thrill, and self-gratification. The second is to think that the way to joy is through personal pursuit of that which makes me feel good, that which promotes my individual purposes, or that which promises me some sort of physical or emotional satisfaction!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And thus our culture tells us:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pursue your dreams<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do what makes you happy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And YOLO -You only live once, so enjoy yourself<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019d think that with so many people pursuing their own dreams that the world would be a really happy place. Unfortunately it isn\u2019t. Yet today we have more methods to make you happy more technologies to bring you entertainment, more money to purchase excitement, more opportunity and more choices to give you fun, excitement, thrills, adventure, and a thousand pleasures not even dreamed of 50 years ago!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our society is fixated on having a blast and making life fun. You\u2019d think that with all this stimulation and excitement you\u2019d find a lot of joyful people! Instead we are dealing with unprecedented epidemic of depression, addictions, and suicide. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for those between the ages of 15-34 and is in the top 10 leading causes of death for all age groups. Since 1999 the overall suicide rate in the US has grown by about 27%<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our \u201cme first, pursue your dreams and find your happiness\u201d society has not brought greater happiness!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greg Easterbrook in his book \u201cThe Progress Paradox\u201d writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf you sat down with a \u00a0pencil and graph paper to chart the trend of American and European life since the end of World War II, you&#8217;d do a lot of drawing that was pointed up. Per-capita income, \u201creal\u201d income, longevity, home size, cars per driver, phone calls made annually, trips taken annually, highest degree earned, IQ scores, just about every objective indicator of social welfare has trended upward on a pretty much uninterrupted basis for two generations&#8230;.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But your graphs would lose their skyward direction when the topics turned to the inner self. The trend line for happiness has been flat for fifty years. The trend line is negative for the number of people who consider themselves \u2018very happy,\u2019 that percentage is gradually declining since the 1940s. And the trend line would cascade downward like water over a falls on the topic of avoiding depression. Adjusting for population growth, ten times as many people in the Western nations today suffer from \u2018unipolar\u2019 depression, or unremitting bad feelings without a specific cause, than did half a century ago. <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Americans and Europeans have ever more of everything except happiness.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor increasing numbers of Americans and Europeans, life is like being in a really nice hotel room, but not having a good time because no one else came along for the trip\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the conditions of life and seeking our own happiness is not producing happy and joyful people then where can we find true joy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>We find joy not by putting ourselves first but by putting ourselves second.<\/b><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the text<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul spent most of chapter 1 writing about his own situation in prison and how God had used it for the furthering of the Gospel. He tells them of how he does not fear death because it means that he will get to be with Christ. He also tells them how he knows that he will continue living in order to serve the church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We see in chapter one how Paul finds joy even though he is writing from a prison cell. Paul\u2019s example for the Philippians and for us is very instructive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After these very personal remarks he turns his attention now in chapter two towards the Philippians. Here Paul begins the meat of his letter and what he wants to communicate to the Philippians. He now addresses them specifically giving them clear instructions on how to find joy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:1-11 is probably the most theological section of the book. It is both deep and rich, meaningful and beautiful in it\u2019s teaching on Christ and what it meant for Jesus Christ to leave heaven and come to earth as a man. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But don\u2019t be thrown off by the fact that I said it is theological. This section has huge practical implications in daily life. If we can only grasp the truths of this Scripture it will change our relationships with our spouse, our children, our parents, our coworkers, and our brothers and sisters in the church.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I. The reason to find joy in being second<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.<\/p>\n<p>Philippians 2:1-2<\/p>\n<h3>1. It\u2019s the only way to find joy in trials<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We only need to go back to the end of chapter 1 to find out what Paul is referring to here when he says, \u201cTherefore\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.\u00a0Philippians 1:29-30<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul\u2019s time in Philippi was not exactly a nice vacation. (Act 16:11-30)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was pestered for days by a demonized\u00a0girl<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was stripped naked by a crazed mob of people<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was flogged\/whipped publicly<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was thrown into prison<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He experienced an earthquake<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was asked to leave the city<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine writing a prayer letter like that! And now he says that the Philippians are experiencing the same thing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Philippians needed to know the joy of coming second because they certainly would not be experiencing joy otherwise. They needed the inner strength of God\u2019s joy to endure the persecution that they were facing. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>2. Joy is inseparable from our growth in the faith<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to grow in your faith without joy!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus had joy. How do we know? <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because his birth was announced as \u201cGood news and great joy\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because children came to him. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because wanted to give the disciples his joy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one&#8217;s life for one&#8217;s friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John 15:11-13<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It brings joy to others.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul tells us that he joy will increase being seeing their joy increase! What better gift can you give your pastors, teachers, parents, mentors than to grasp the joy of being second and run with it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can I expect my children to have joy if I don\u2019t example it daily?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">True joy is rare<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">True joy is contagious<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joy is not a limited commodity for the Christian. Joy is self-reproducing <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">True joy is others focused<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">II. The way to find joy in being second<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philippians 2:3-5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now Paul gets down to the details. Exactly how can we find this joy in being second. It all sounds nice but what steps do we need to take, how can we make it real in our lives today and tomorrow and next week and next month?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>*Finding joy in being second is more about attitude than it is about action.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>*Service to others without humility will always be cruel and unbearable<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSelfish ambition\u201d -used of those running for political office, or someone who is using the system to work their way up with no care about whose head they have to step on in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We shouldn\u2019t be sticking our campaign sign in everyone\u2019s yard!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul tells us that some preach the Gospel this way in Phil 1:17<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVain conceit\u201d -literally empty glory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNot looking to your own interests\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast to the above warnings we are to have a 2nd attitude:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humble -literally having a low mind.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look to the interests of others.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have the mind of Christ.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Humility is to see yourself as God sees you<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>True humility is the only way to really see who you are<\/li>\n<li>True humility always contrasts self with God<\/li>\n<li>True humility enables service<\/li>\n<li>True humility recognizes that I am created in image<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What does putting yourself 2nd not mean?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fails to recognize God\u2019s image<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having an unbiblical false humility that sees no value in yourself as an image bearer of God.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Has a victim attitude<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can become a become a \u201cdoormat\u201d for evil and people.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus stood hard against evil -He said tough things against the religious rulers of his day<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Standing up against evil people and injustices of the world can be a way in which we find joy in being 2nd! <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fails to take care of your own spiritual and physical needs<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus took time to be alone<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">III Jesus our example of joy in being second<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death&#8211; even death on a cross!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Philippians 2:6-8<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where does the attitude of 2nd come from?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It comes from Jesus\u2019 example<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look at the progression:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God Almighty, the creator of the heavens and earth, the father of time, the one who measured the oceans in the palm of his hand Isaiah 40:12 BECAME MAN!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That MAN became a SLAVE<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That SLAVE was considered a CRIMINAL<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That CRIMINAL was put to the most humiliating death!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He holds the seas in his hand and you don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has the right and authority to judge and punish and you don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He should be honored and glorified and you shouldn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet it was he would humbled himself in a way that you and I can\u2019t even come close to!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>True humility can only come from a true understanding of who Jesus is and faith in what he has done!<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It comes from knowing Jesus and realizing that everything is loss in contrast<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.\u00a0 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ.\u00a0Philippians 3:7-8<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IV The result of finding joy in being second<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Philippians 2:9-11<\/p>\n<p><b>The ultimate end of joy is God\u2019s glory<\/b><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conclusion:<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How does being second bring you joy?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It frees from the pressure of being first!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It teaches us that joy isn\u2019t dependant upon circumstances<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows us to see God\u2019s simple graces<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It makes us like Christ<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows us to glorify God<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2FNIST_S04E04.mp3&amp;modern=1&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fsukofamily.org%2Fjoy-in-being-2nd-season-3-episode-4%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" 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