TO ESTEEM ANOTHER GREATER THAN, SELF. IT ISN'T NATURAL; NOR IS IT EASY. JESUS WAS OF HIGH BIRTH. HE WHO HAD BEEN SO RICH, CAME DOWN FROM IVORY PALACES; INTO A WORLD OF WOE. IT WAS HIS GREAT ETERNAL LOVE, THAT MADE OUR SAVIOUR GO. FOUND IN FASHION AS A MAN, A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS. AND ON ACCOUNT OF THE SUFFERING OF , CROWNED WITH GLORY, AND HONOUR... .HEB.2:9,10. *LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU"
If you receive honour from God or man, "take it in stride." Don't take your own "good press" seriously. Men can turn on you in a heartbeat. The same crowd that welcomed Christ into Jerusalem as a conquering king on Palm Sunday was cry for his blood three days later.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: Philippians 2:5-6 - New Living Translation (NLT) 5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. 6 Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Notice how far away from original greek the NLT is
