Jun. 23, 2024

UNFATHOMABLE HUMILITY

PHILIPPIANS 2:5-8

• JESUS EMPTIED HIMSELF OF HIS AUTHORITATIVE POSITION OF POWER IN HEAVEN TO SUBMIT TO A SHAMEFUL DEATH ON A CROSS FOR OUR SALVATION
• JESUS, STILL AS GOD, TOOK THE FORM OF A HUMAN PERSON. THIS IS CALLED THE INCARNATION

1. THE CENTRAL MIRACLE OF CHRISTIANITY IS THE MISSION OF JESUS 

        IN HIS INCARNATION

• JOHN 1:1-3, 14      ·   COLOSSIANS 1:15
• COLOSSIANS 2:9     ·   HEBREWS 1:2-3
• JOHN 8:58

2. THE FLAWLESS HUMBLE ATTITUDE OF JESUS MUST IMPACT 

         OUR ATTITUDE - 2:5

• ROMANS 15:2-3,7

3. JESUS STEPPED DOWN FROM HIS EXHALTED POSITION  IN A SERIES 

       OF ACTIONS – 2:6a

• DID NOT REGARD EQUALITY  WITH  GOD A THING TO BE 

       GRASPED - 2:6b

• BUT EMPTIED HIMSELF – 2:7a
• THE GREEK TERM IS KENOSIS

• TAKING THE FORM OF A BOND – SERVANT -2:7b
• AND BEING MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN - 2:7c
• BEING FOUND IN APPEARANCE AS A MAN- 2:8a
• HE HUMBLED HIMSELF – 2:8b
• BY BECOMING _OBEDIENT  TO THE POINT OF DEATH - 2;8c
• EVEN DEATH ON A CROSS - 2:8d