Lesson 7 Washing at the Cross Produces Humility and Sets us Free
Questions 1 and 2
Greetings friend, welcome back.
Today, we will study how washing at the cross produces humility in us and sets us free.
Humility is the key that will unlock our prison door because it enables us to both receive and apply the gospel to our lives.
Please examine the following Scriptures and provide your answers below:
Philippians 2:3-8 (NIV) Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Question 1. What is the instruction we are given in this passage?
When I was immersing myself in pornography and sexual impurity I was living exactly the opposite of how this passage teaches us to live. I was prideful, considering my physical desires more important than the needs of my wife, looking to my interests instead of hers, considering myself more important than her.
But I’m learning humility now as I view the cross, and it is freeing me and enabling me to live in love. I want this for you too, where we humble ourselves and begin to look to the interests of other people, considering them more important than ourselves.
Let’s see how Jesus did this:
Question 2. According to Philippians 2:6, who is Jesus Christ?