Philippians 2

Phillipians 2:3:
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. .

Self-denial lives at the center of love. True love denies self and supports another. Putting others first should be more than an act of humility, but an act of affection. It’s not that we think so little of ourselves, but that we feel so warmly toward our brothers and sisters in Christ that we are happy to lay aside our interests and preferences so that another may experience blessing.

Phillipians 2:4:
 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Phillipians 2:5:
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus

​ No man will ever get into the Kingdom arrogantly. the mind of Christ was characterized by humility (vs 6 & 8), dependence upon God (John 5:19, 30), a determination to do the Fathers will (John 5:30; 6:38), thoughtfulness of others (Acts 10:38), and a willingness to sacrifice and suffer, and even to die, for the good of others (2 Cor 8:9, Rom 5:6-8, I Peter 2:24)

​Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. --Philippians 2:6-7

Phillipans 2:9- 11:
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The church's earliest baptismal confession "Jesus Christ is Lord" was taken from here. A lord, sovereign, or God, for such is the meaning of kurios, is total owner and controller of us, and baptism means that God is now our Lord, our owner. Nothing can be withheld from Him. The verses preceding these kind of set this up in that Paul writes about Jesus humbling himself, and in exchange God exalted him to the highest place. Humility is not about self humiliation or purposed self denigration. It is knowing our place in the universe. Jesus knew his place and was about the business he was sent to do. We, too, have business to take care of. We will then voluntarily meet our maker, at bended knee and purposed confession that He is Lord.. WE need to be in prayer for those who God will apparently have to bend their knee for them and instead of saying "Halleluljah, Jesus Christ is Lord!" will say "OMG. You R Real? Jesus Christ THE Lord?" And,,,yeah...I am kind of guessing they would rather be texting that message about then.... "Under the earth" the dead; among whom He was numbered once (Ro 14:9, 11; Eph 4:9, 10; Re 5:13). The demons and the lost may be included indirectly, as even they give homage, though one of fear, not love, to Jesus (Mr 3:11; Lu 8:31; Jas 2:19, Php 2:11).

​Phillipians 2:12:
 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 in order to fulfill his good purpose.

“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12). This is a classic imperative. “Work out” is a command, an imperative for the reader. However, the very next verse is in the indicative mood: “for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure” (v. 13). Here we are not told to “do” anything. We are merely told of the reality that makes it possible for us to do anything. --Voddie Baucham