The Servant Who Came, Part 1

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Philippians 2:5-8 Self-promotion is so natural we barely notice it. We angle for recognition, guard our reputations, and resist situations that might diminish our status. But Jesus—who had every reason to insist on His position—chose the opposite path entirely. From Philippians 2:5–8, Pastor Chuck Swindoll unpacks one of the most majestic passages in Scripture: how Jesus, though existing in the very form of God, emptied Himself, took the form of a bond-servant, and humbled Himself to death on a cross. Let this portrait of Christ confront your own pride. Have the same attitude—and live with the freedom that comes with a servant’s heart.

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0:00.0	If someone you love desperately needed rescue, what would you be willing to give up?
0:15.0	Your comfort, your career, your freedom?
0:18.0	Well, Jesus gave up heaven itself.
0:21.6	In Philippians 2, Paul wrote what many scholars call the single greatest passage about Christ.
0:27.6	Paul used a word that should stop us cold.
0:30.6	Christ emptied himself.
0:32.6	Not of his deity, but of his privilege.
0:34.6	All the way to a cross that was so vile, Romans wouldn't even utter the word.
0:40.5	Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall takes us there to the servant who came and paid it all.
1:08.2	Let's turn our attention to what is considered by many the single most significant statement in the New Testament letters regarding the person of Jesus Christ.
1:12.5	Philippians chapter 2.
1:17.1	I'll be reading only four verses from this second chapter.
1:21.9	As we think today about the servant who came.
1:25.5	Verse 5, Philippians 2,
1:34.0	Have this attitude in yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus, who although he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God, a thing
1:43.3	to be grasped, but emptied himself.
1:48.6	Taking the form of a bond servant and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself
1:58.4	by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
2:15.9	You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into today's topic on your own,
2:21.6	be sure to purchase our searching the scripture's Bible study workbook called How Great
2:26.4	is Our God. You can find it at insight.org slash offer. Chuck titled today's message,
2:33.8	The Servant Who Came.
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