Brent Ho: [00:00:00] Welcome back everyone. We've got five minutes of faith. A few portions of scripture and one more tool in your toolbox. These next several episodes are going to shift a little bit and we're gonna focus on how to one another everyone. It's from a book that I pulled off of my shelf.

I had this for several years, is 31 Ways to One another person bear with one another. Forgive one another, love one another, serve one another and the like.

 think of the word consider. Consider how we consider,

here is today's verse, and it comes from Philippians chapter two, verse three. It starts off with. Paul writing to the church in Philippi and asking them to be of one mind, to be a comfort to one another, to love one another.

And then he asks the question and puts the point, do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility. [00:01:00] Count others more significant than yourselves. So the whole word as far as to count some other words and other versions are to esteem one another or to consider one another. So when we consider others, we should be putting others first.

We should be looking toward their interests and we should be thinking of them more highly than ourselves. are you really finding yourself in a lower, more humble position than the other person? And if truth be told, most likely we're actually trying to say it's the other.

Person's fault, or it's the other person's reason that I got mad or that I got upset that, or I became frustrated. James has something to say about that. So in James chapter three, verse 13, starting there, who is wise in understanding among you? And I'm sure that a lot of you think that you're pretty wise.

You make good decisions, you're making life saving situations day after day, [00:02:00] bell after bell call after call. So he goes on further to say, alright, then by your good contact, let him show his work in meekness of wisdom. But if any of you have bitter jealousy or selfish ambition in your hearts, not in your minds, but in your hearts, don't boast.

And don't be false to the truth. 'cause that action continuing on in verse 15 is not the wisdom that comes from above, but that wisdom is earthly unspiritual, demonic. So think about that. What wisdom that you are using to try and place yourself in a higher position rather than the Other individual.

Paul says it's demonic and he continues in verse 16. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exists, there will be disorder and every [00:03:00] vial practice. And I know that kind of hits hard. I know the first time that I really read it and really applied it to myself, it was like, man, I'm really not as good as I think I am.

He even goes further in chapter four at the beginning and says, what causes quarrels within you? What causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you, you desire and you don't have it? So you murder, you covet, and you cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. That speaks about me, right to my face.

It really tells me who I am and causes me to reconsider considering others more so than myself.when you feel that you've been wronged, cheated, hurt, or that you feel that someone has sinned against you. Think about Paul's words

 let each of you look not only to his own interests, but [00:04:00] also to the interests of others and have this in mind amongst yourself, which is yours in Christ who. Though he was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God, a thing to be grasped, and he made himself nothing.

Taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men and being found in human form. He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. So how willing am I to consider. What I feel that I've been wronged, what I feel, that I've been cheated in relation to Christ who has given me all things and all comfort.

I do hope that's a comfort to you and as we consider one another more than ourselves, that it would be contagious, that you would likewise want to do the same. Praying for you guys. Be safe out there. God bless.