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Welcome to Day 2324 of Wisdom-Trek. Thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to\xa0Wisdom\nPhilippians-5 A Christlike Decent Into Greatness \u2013 Daily Wisdom\nPutnam Church Message \u2013 01/07/2023\n\nJoy in Serving \u2013 A Christlike Decent Into Greatness \u2013 Philippians 2:1-11\n\nLast week, we looked into the lives of two devout persons who have been waiting all their lives for the coming Messiah in a message titled, The Oldest Bucket List: Simeon and Anna.\n\nThis week, we pick up where we left off before Advent in our study of the letter to the church at Philippi. Today, we explore A Christlike Decent Into Greatness.\n\nToday's scripture passage is Philippians 2:1-11 on page 1827, in your Pew Bibles.\n\n1\xa0Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit,\xa0if any tenderness and compassion,\xa02\xa0then make my joy complete\xa0by being like-minded,\xa0having the same love, being one\xa0in spirit and of one mind.\xa03\xa0Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.\xa0Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,\xa04\xa0not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.\n\n5\xa0In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:\n\n6\xa0Who, being in very nature[a]\xa0God,\ndid not consider equality with God\xa0something to be used to his own advantage;\n7\xa0rather, he made himself nothing\nby taking the very nature[b]\xa0of a servant,\nbeing made in human likeness.\n8\xa0And being found in appearance as a man,\nhe humbled himself\nby becoming obedient to death\u2014\neven death on a cross!\n\n9\xa0Therefore God exalted him\xa0to the highest place\nand gave him the name that is above every name,\n10\xa0that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,\nin heaven and on earth and under the earth,\n11\xa0and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,\nto the glory of God the Father.\n\nTo move forward from the first chapter to the second chapter of Paul\u2019s letter to the Philippians, we need to take a step backward to Philippians 1:21, a key verse for the epistle: For to me, living means living for Christ, and dying is even better. Paul knew that to experience martyrdom and to be ushered into the presence of Christ would be a great gain. But he also knew that God had much more work for him to do in the here and now and that he was called to encourage others to live like Christ.\n\n \n\nBut how do we truly live like Him? How do we possibly begin to take even one small step closer toward the greatness>Christ exhibited as the God-man? How can we become an imager like Christ? Is there a specific series of deeds we need to do? Fruitless! Do we attempt to mimic His miracles?...