1. Philippians Teaches Philippians Teaches a Life Given Philippians 2:8

2. PIVOT POINT

3. Philippians 2:8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

4. PIVOT POINT “The cross of Christ is the pivotal event of human history…not simply of church history, but ALL of history. Because it’s to that point that all roads of the past converge, and from that point that all roads to the future diverge!” Alistair Begg

5. PIVOT POINT John 10:17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”

6. PIVOT POINT

7. GETHSEMENE TO GOLGOTHA

8. Luke 22:41 And he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed, 42 saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” 43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

9. GETHSEMENE TO GOLGOTHA Matthew 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. 28 And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. 31 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.

10. GETHSEMENE TO GOLGOTHA Matthew 27:39 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads 40 and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” 41 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, 42 “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” 44 And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.

11. GETHSEMENE TO GOLGOTHA Luke 23:34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Matthew 27:50 Jesus cried out again with a loud voice [“it is finished”] and yielded up his spirit.

12. GETHSEMENE TO GOLGOTHA

13. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN

14. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

15. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN Romans 5:19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

16. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN Philippians 2:1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ … 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

17. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN 1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

18. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the L ORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

19. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN 2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

20. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN Matthew 27:51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.

21. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN Hebrews 10:3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

22. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN Hebrews 9:26b But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

23. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN Galatians 6:14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

24. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

25. GIVEN AND FORGIVEN