Pastor David Koop

Philippians 2:5   (NLT)
Your attitude should be the same that Christ Jesus had.

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Philippians 2:5  (NKJ)
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz – Notre Dame Football Coach

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
Viktor Frankl

John Maxwell writes in The Winning Attitude, one of the valid ways to test your attitude is to answer this question; “Do you feel the world is treating you well?”

Stanford Research Institute says that money you make in any endeavour is determined only 12.5% by knowledge and 87.5% by your ability to deal with people.

Research has shown that 68% of customers quit a store because of the attitude of an employee.

What is THIS attitude I should have?

1. Do things for the ____________ _______________.
   Philippians 2:3 (Message)
   Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead.
2. Walk in ______________.
   Philippians 2:3,4
   Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
1. Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of others instead and acting in their best interest, instead of your own.
2. It’s a choice. You choose to not be self-centered. You choose to not be arrogant. You choose to not be egotistical. Instead you choose to act in humble ways.
   
3. Humility is not denying the gifting you have but admitting that the gifting you have is from God and comes through you and not from you.
4. “Humour” and “humility” and “humanity” and “human” all come from the same root word?  Humility is when you take God seriously, and you don’t take yourself seriously.
3. ________________ God and others.
   Pilippains 2:6
   Although he was in the form of God and equal with God, He did not take advantage of this equality.  Instead, he emptied himself by taking on the form of a servant, by becoming like other humans, by having a human appearance.
4. Take ________________________.
   Philippians 2:12
   Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
1. Because we respect what God has put inside us. A treasure in earthen vessels. Ephesians 3:20, 2 Corinthians 4;7
2. Because we must learn how to feed ourselves.
3. Because our actions, even so small, can have huge affects.
4. Because life is short, we are not promised tomorrow.
5. Because we don’t want to waste the life God has given us.
6. “It is possible to have a saved soul and a wasted life.” Nicky Gumbel
5. ______________ cheerfully, no complaining or arguing.
   Philippians 2:14 (Message)
   Do everything readily and cheerfully—no bickering, no second-guessing allowed! Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
6. Promote ______________.
   Philippians 2:2
   Fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
   Philippians 2:20
   For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state.