Watch this. Three minutes. Then three questions below it.
Doss on the ridge praying please Lord help me get one more is not thinking about himself at all. Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is thinking of yourself less.
Pride is the last sin to die because it hides most effectively behind other virtues.
Doss had an accurate view of his own capability. But he was not running his life for the sake of being seen using it.
Hacksaw Ridge is the film at the center of this study. The scene is chosen because it captures something true about the specific challenge this study addresses. The filmmakers may not have intended a theological reading, but the truth they captured is there regardless of intention.
Philippians 2:3-8 sits inside a larger argument Paul or one of the other biblical authors is making about how the renewed life looks in practice. The verse is not a standalone principle. It is part of a sustained argument about what it looks like when a man actually believes what he says he believes on Sunday morning.
The connection between this film and this Scripture is the same one that runs through every study in this series: what a man sees in the mirror when he watches that clip is exactly the gap this Scripture addresses. The film names the problem. The Scripture names the source and the solution.