I Pledge Allegiance: Wk 3, Allegiance as Loyalty

Preacher: Becca Knudsen

Scripture: Phillipians 2:3-16

 ^3 . Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Instead, in humility, value others above yourselves, four not looking to your interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same attitude as Christ Jesus:

⁶ Who, being in very nature^[a] 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^[b] 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!

⁹ Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
¹¹ and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

¹² Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, ¹³ for it is God who works in you to will and to act to fulfill his good purpose.

¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, "children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation."^[c] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky ¹⁶ as you hold firmly to the word of life.