Jesus' Humility
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Both the hummingbird and the vulture fly over our nation's deserts.
All vultures see is rotting meat, because that is what they look for.
They thrive on that diet. But hummingbirds ignore the smelly flesh of dead animals.
Instead, they look for the colorful blossoms of desert plants.
The vultures live on what was. They live on the past.
They fill themselves with what is dead and gone.
But hummingbirds live on what is. They seek new life.
They fill themselves with freshness and life.
Each bird finds what it is looking for. We all do.
Steve Goodier, Quote Magazine, in May, 1990 R.D.
Today, I want to talk about your mind
Whether or not you have the right attitude
In your life for change
Paul had to deal with a similar issue
The Church at Philippi
had much dissension
Three heresies had reared there ugly head
And the attitude of the members was not where it needed to be
And Paul takes one of their hymns and talks about their attitude.
Turn with me to Philippians 2:5-11
Paul is dealing with dissension and disunity
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, but some also from good will; the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;
False teachings
Judaizers - the practice of imposing Jewish religious and social customs on others
Libertines - Libertinism can be defined as autonomy, practical atheism, or antinomianism. Anti-nomos means “against law.” But the law of God is an expression of God’s very nature; thus, Paul tells us the law is holy, spiritual and good. So when somebody is antinomian, he is, in fact, anti-God, anti-kingdom, and anti-order. Antinomians, or libertines, want absolute freedom without any restraint of God’s moral law. Thus, they negate the rule of God and affirm self-rule. Their philosophy is: “I want to do what I want to do when I want to do it how I want to do it, and who are you to tell me anything?”
Perfectionist - holds that it is possible for Christians to completely defeat sin in the present life and to live holy lives like Jesus did.
They did not have the right attitude
and he starts to deal with this by saying
“let this mind be in you”
Look to the real example
Three Truths concerning the Messiah
Christ Pre-existent State
Christ Pre-existent State
Being in the form of God
Morphe
Outward expression of inward essence
Expresses who you are on the inside
Divine form is the glorious radiance of God
The shekinah Glory
Jesus possessed the Glory of God
Showing his identity of God
“Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
A glimpse at the transfiguration
Thought it not robbery to be equal with God;
some suggest he gave up his equality
Jesus did not regard his rank and privilege something to be clinged to greedily
I must disagree
Didn’t give up equality
He was God
Fully equal but placed self in submission
Husband - Wife
Equality with God was giving rather than getting
Did not regard equality with God as something to use for his own advantage
Used it for the advantage of others
Verse 4 Exactly what Jesus did
Used his equality for sacrifice
Not selfishness
He used his Deity as an ultimate sacrifice to atone for his own creation
Christ Humiliation
Christ Humiliation
But made himself of no reputation
He emptied himself
Emptying is a metaphor of voluntary humiliation
He emptied himself of his outward glory
Took the for of a servant
A Slave
He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations So that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
One form did not replace the other but was added to the other
Thus Deity and humanity coexisted in Christ
Perfect man and perfect God
Came in likeness of men
eternal God was born in time and space as a baby
Being found in the fashion as a man
Form=inward appearance
Fashion=outward appearance
On the outside he was a man and recognized as a man
This condition necessary to die
Obedient to death
Self-humiliation to the fullest extent
Voluntary submission
Passage where drew back and fell
Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” They answered Him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them, “I am He.” And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them. So when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground. Therefore He again asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.” Jesus answered, “I told you that I am He; so if you seek Me, let these go their way,” to fulfill the word which He spoke, “Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one.”
No man takes my life
“For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. “No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”
Even the death of the Cross
Most torturing
Full of shame
accursed by Jews
his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.
Christ’s Exaltation
Christ’s Exaltation
The basis for his exaltation was Humuliation
The demonstration of his exaltation the name LORD
YHYV
The name above every name
Not Jesus
Substitutes
Elohim
Jehovah
The name
the word
Given the supreme name of diety
Lord kurios
The unspeakable name
The recognigition of his exaltation
Every knee and tounge
And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.