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This passage on the glorification of our Lord Jesus is the Mt. Idols of sex, money, power, prestige, and so on can become lords if we are not careful; therefore, let us always confess that Jesus Christ alone is Lord. When we proclaim the gospel, we are proclaiming the humiliation of Jesus, and when we proclaim the humiliation of Jesus, biblically defined, we are drawing attention to His glory as our Lord and Savior.

 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. As we grow in holiness, we help to show our pastors, Sunday school teachers, and other church leaders that their labor has not been in vain. View Resource, The incarnation is a deep mystery, for we cannot fully understand how God could take on our humanity without giving up any of His deity. Meeting others’ needs should be important in our lives.

25.  12 ¶ Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Browse daily devotions with Scripture passages fromPhilippians, from the Today Daily … The account of the humility of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is totally counter-intuitive to this world's system, exposing the total folly of our own pride. View Resource, Our love for those who minister to us should be part of what motivates our obedience to the Lord. View Resource, The christological debates of the early church can be hard to keep track of, but there is one important conclusion from them that we can easily remember, namely, that Jesus’ humanity is as important to our salvation as His deity. Website © 2020 by Ray Stedman Ministries. They were so busy working to pay the bills, spending long hours doing their children’s laundry, and taking their free time to play with their youngsters, that they did not have time to think of themselves. They knew that Jesus alone is divine and would have no one usurp His status. Finding yourself feeling low?  Feeling like there is not a purpose in your life? 1 View Resource, Until we are glorified, the presence of sin remains in us, affecting all that we do. Even as we are aware that we work out our salvation in fear and trembling, we must also know that ultimately it is God who gives us the desire to persevere and moves us to do so.  24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. Get you mind off yourself and do something for others.

He can save us and sanctify us because He is one of us without sacrificing any of His deity.  2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Because He was and remains truly human as well as truly divine, Jesus atoned perfectly for our sin and helps us in our temptation. Donate Now.

0.  23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. Fix that problem! Now we come to what I think is the most breath-taking passage in all of Scripture. The Next 500 Years: 2017 National Conference, Naming Ligonier the Beneficiary of a Bank or Investment Account, Gifts That Provide Income and Tax Benefits. As such, He is worthy of our worship, our loyalty, and, indeed, all that we are. "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."

The Jesus whom we serve is not just another man among men or one great teacher among many — He is the incarnate Lord of glory Himself. There is a temptation as we study this passage to remove it from its context and treat it as a passage on Theology.

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God has guaranteed that you will persevere, for He has sealed you with His Spirit.

Our modern culture offers many competing lords for worship.  16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. He did not leave us alone in our sin but entered into the misery of this fallen world without becoming a sinner Himself in order to rescue us from eternal damnation. View Resource, Early Christians like Polycarp were martyred because they refused to confess Caesar as lord. Everest among the mountain peaks of revelation concerning the Person of Christ, the amazing story of how the eternal Son of God stepped out of eternity into time, and became a man as God intended man to be. We will fail from time to time and need reminding that shining as lights excludes grumbling and complaining.

Scripture Reading — Philippians 2:1-11. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God,    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;7 rather, he made himself nothing    by taking the very nature of a servant,    being made in human likeness.8 And being found in appearance as a man,    he humbled himself    by becoming obedient to death—        even death on a cross!

Hence he laid aside his glory in the view of men, not by lessening it, but by concealing it.” View Resource, Since we are already lights to the world in Christ Jesus, we can, by His Spirit, show forth the glory and goodness of God in line with the Father’s plan. Some years back, a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to go door to door left the city to tackle customers in the country.

Indeed, salvation is of Him from first to last.

 28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. View Resource, Matthew Henry comments on today’s passage, explaining that we can put others before ourselves more easily when we are “severe with our own faults and charitable in our judgment of others.” If we assume the best of other people in the church, we will find ourselves more readily surrendering our own rights in order to serve them.  11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. Does 2 Corinthians 4:16–5:8 represent your life with its struggles with sin and the weakness of the flesh?  26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. 1. In nursing homes that I preach at, I have talked about this fact among the elderly.  They have admitted this biblical truth to be true in their lives.  They recall the happiest days of their lives to be when they were raising their children. Here in this chapter, the Philippians are reminded that instead of building up one’s own pride, that they should make another’s needs more important than their own.  Instead of being prideful about ourselves, we should be humble. View Resource, Augustine says that “[we] are to work with fear and trembling so that [we] will not, by attributing the good working to [ourselves], be elated by the good works as if they were [our] own” (ACCNT 8, p. 245). Daily Nugget: — Philippians 2:3-4 What does greatness look like? Thus, our pursuit of conformity to Christ’s image is a tangible way that we can fulfill the command to love one another, especially those who lead us in the faith (John 13:34). Devotional of the week: Philippians 2:10–11 / Devotionals, Philippians 2 devotionals.

Philippians 2:1–2.  17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. (KJV), © 2005-2015 OpenThouMineEyes.com All Rights Reserved. 25 Nov 2013. View Resource, If Jesus’ path to glory involves humbling Himself for the sake of His people, then one of the greatest ways we can bring Him glory is to remind the world of the clearest evidence of His humiliation — His death on the cross.  27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Such is impossible, for then He would not be fully God and could not save us.

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Many in the homes have admitted, now that there is no one else to take care of except themselves, that they often find that their self-esteem is lower.  They fight depression more in their latter years, then they ever did when others’ needs were more of a priority. Each person acknowledging they have contributed to it, and burying the past in forgiveness. Wherever there is contentiousness, it is a revelation of the presence of pride.

 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: