1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:02,600 We're going to turn in our Bibles this morning to 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:06,300 Philippians chapter 2 and we're going to read again. 3 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:11,500 The first 11 verses this very important chapter of Holy 4 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:17,700 Scripture. Philippians chapter 2 will read 5 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:21,200 from verse 1. Let's hear the word of the Lord. 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,600 And as the reading takes please, we encourage you to follow. 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,400 What we need to hear the words, but see them on the page. 8 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,200 Let's be thankful. Of course for the word of God 9 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,300 and our own language for thankful to God. 10 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:41,000 They have a faithful and reliable translation of holy 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,800 scriptures and the authorized version. 12 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:50,200 Let's hear the word of the Lord Philippians chapter 2 verse 1. 13 00:00:51,700 --> 00:00:57,000 If there be there for any consolation Christ, if any 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,100 comfort of Love of any Fellowship of the spirit, if any 15 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:07,600 bowels and mercies for fill, ye my joy that you be like-minded, 16 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:11,000 having the same love being of one. 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,800 Accord of one mind, let nothing be done. 18 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:20,100 Through Strife or vainglory. But in lowliness of Mind, Let 19 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:23,200 each esteem other better than themselves. 20 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,100 Look, not every man that his own things, but every man also on 21 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:31,600 the things of others, Let this mind be in you which was also in 22 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,500 Christ. Jesus who being in the form of 23 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:39,600 God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God but made 24 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,700 himself of no reputation and took upon him. 25 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:49,200 The form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man and 26 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,300 being found in fashion. As a man. 27 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:56,700 He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the 28 00:01:56,700 --> 00:02:01,000 death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath. 29 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,700 Highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every 30 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:10,000 name that at the name of Jesus Christ, every knee should buy of 31 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,900 things in heaven and things in Earth and things under the 32 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:15,800 Earth. And that every tongue should 33 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:22,100 confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the 34 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:23,500 Father. Amen. 35 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:25,200 We Do. Lord and stumbles on approval 36 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,800 and glassing this reading of the Holy scriptures. 37 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:34,800 Now, my text this morning as we continue, our series of messages 38 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:39,000 in the book of Philippians is taken from Philippians chapter 39 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:45,300 2, verses 6 to eat. It reads as follows who being in 40 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:48,800 the form of God. Thought it not robbery to be 41 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,000 equal with God that made himself of no reputation and took upon 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,200 him. The form of a servant was being 43 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,200 the likeness of man being found in fashion as a man. 44 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,900 He humbled himself and became obedient. 45 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,600 The death, even the death of the Cross. 46 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:07,900 No, my theme today is to consider the example of Jesus 47 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:14,400 Christ. The God Mom now Philippians 48 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:22,600 chapter 2 verses 5 to 11 as one of the most important passages 49 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:28,700 in the entire Bible. It is one of the most profound 50 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:36,400 christological portions of Holy Scripture, many reformed and 51 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,000 Protestant scholars. Believe this is one of the best 52 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,200 passages of the Bible to defend the doctrine of the Incarnation 53 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:52,400 and explain that Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. 54 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:59,300 However, the Apostle Paul did not write these words under the 55 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:04,800 inspiration of the Holy Spirit to theologians or to Scholars. 56 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:10,200 It is not a mere, systematic. Theological lecture. 57 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:17,100 The Apostle Paul is not using the tax to combat heresy or to 58 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:21,600 denounce theological error. No. 59 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:28,900 He is writing about the Practical matter of how true 60 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:34,100 believers can get along with each other. 61 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:41,200 The church in Philippi was facing a time of Discord and 62 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:47,300 disunity and disharmony. And the Apostle Paul is 63 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:52,500 stressing here, the need for Unity and Harmony in the local 64 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:54,800 church. He is writing therefore to 65 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,400 Common People to business, people in the church to 66 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,200 Housewives. To act soldiers, may be serving 67 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:09,100 soldiers to two young people to two sleeves to help them to live 68 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:13,900 in harmony with one another. In other words, Philippians 69 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:19,000 chapter 2, verses 5 through 11 is set in the context of a very 70 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,800 practical matter. In order to live in harmony. 71 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:28,100 One with another, I'm going to Spurt of hue Unity. 72 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:32,700 They must cultivate the mind of Christ. 73 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:36,800 He says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ 74 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,000 Jesus. And remember the sermon from 75 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,500 last week. We encourage you to go to the 76 00:05:40,508 --> 00:05:44,700 website until listen to it. Again, they must cultivate the 77 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:46,900 mind of Christ. It's very important. 78 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:49,400 We thought about the portrait of Christ mind. 79 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:56,300 What was Mind Lake and we said it was a sound made in dealing 80 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:59,100 with others. We must have the attitude of 81 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:01,400 Christ. He knew who he was and what did 82 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,900 Kim to do. It was a single mind remained, 83 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,800 satin pleasing his Heavenly Father. 84 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,000 It was a spiritual main. He never had a evil or a bitter 85 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,900 thought towards any individual his motives and his conversation 86 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:20,600 was always an only sinlessly pure. 87 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:29,200 We must. Pursue the mind of Christ. 88 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:34,300 We must be selfless. To live in harmony and unity, we 89 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:39,400 must learn to die to self must experience a life of self denial 90 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,100 and life of self-sacrifice and humbly live for others for 91 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:45,900 Christ's sake. And therefore, we must be 92 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:49,600 submissive to the will of God. We must be steadfast in for felt 93 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:53,300 God's purpose. And remember how knowing the 94 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:55,300 mind of Christ is a powerful reality. 95 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:58,500 But, here's the key to true, happiness, Holiness, and 96 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:01,700 Harmony, and even the hope. Now, your weather Street the 97 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:07,000 point, The Apostle Paul sets before us the person and work of 98 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,300 Jesus Christ. Also superb, example, of supreme 99 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,900 humility. And this solid theological 100 00:07:16,900 --> 00:07:24,900 understanding of who Christ is, is the very Foundation of 101 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:29,200 promoting Harmony and unity among ourselves. 102 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,600 Paul is saying in order to promote Harmony and unity, We 103 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:38,400 must grow in humility by being modeled on, Jesus Christ, and 104 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:44,600 his Incarnation, unders death. See we live in a day when people 105 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,700 don't want Doctrine, they argue it's dry. 106 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:52,100 It's it's divisive. It's boring. 107 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,100 What we want. We want Harmony. 108 00:07:56,900 --> 00:08:02,000 We want Unity, we want life. You let me tell you this 109 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,200 morning. You can't divorce, true Harmony 110 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,000 and unity from the doctrine of Christ. 111 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:11,600 And remember that God's Doctrine? 112 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:15,900 True Doctrine centers in the person and work of Jesus Christ. 113 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:19,100 And therefore, true Christians who want to live in harmony and 114 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:21,800 unity with each other must learn to emiti. 115 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,800 It uncultivated. Christ model of human. 116 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,900 Day, and that's why the Apostle Paul inspired by the Holy Spirit 117 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:34,299 stated Philippians, chapter 2, verses 5 to 11. 118 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,500 That's the context. Yes. 119 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:39,299 It's a profound theological statement. 120 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:41,799 Yes. It's a wonderful treaties of of 121 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:45,900 the doctrine of Christ, but none of never be divorced from the 122 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:48,000 context. Now stressed out to you, at 123 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,400 least until your three occasions, but I repeat that for 124 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,100 emphasis so that you can grasp it. 125 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:57,600 Remember the setting it. It's very important ever divorce 126 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,800 a thing from its context. And the context is this profound 127 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:06,300 theological statement about Christ, as sat in the context of 128 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:11,500 Paul arguing for the need to model yourself on Christ. 129 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:15,700 Humility, in order to promote Harmony and unity in the house 130 00:09:15,700 --> 00:09:19,100 of God. Now this morning, I have three 131 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:22,100 things as we begin to open up this text as probably take a 132 00:09:22,108 --> 00:09:24,100 second sermon. It might even take a third 133 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:28,500 servant so you'll have to bear. For me, I want you to consider 134 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:33,900 first of all, the mystery of Christ person. 135 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:39,600 Who is Jesus Christ? Now? 136 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,700 If you look at the contacts, look at your book? 137 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,800 Verse 5. Let this mind be in you which 138 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,700 was also in Christ. Jesus. 139 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:52,000 He mentions Christ Jesus. So we're going to ask the 140 00:09:52,008 --> 00:09:55,200 question. Well, who is Christ Jesus? 141 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,900 Someone wrote a book one time and it was entitled will The 142 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:00,700 Real Jesus Christ of Nazareth, please stand up. 143 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:07,400 I'm we're giving the answer who he is in verse 6, who being in 144 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:13,400 the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, 145 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:18,700 not text of scripture. Has to do with his. 146 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:26,200 Co eternality with the father. His coexistence with the father. 147 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:30,500 I'm just going quality with the father. 148 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,800 He one of the greatest and most profound events. 149 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,400 And the whole of the world is the event known as the 150 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:46,400 Incarnation of the god mer. That is the Eternal Son of God. 151 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:51,100 God, the son, taking human flesh, taking a real human body, 152 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,500 that with the properties of, of body and soul into Union, with 153 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:59,300 his divine nature. And coming into this world, via 154 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:02,900 the Virgin birth member 1st. Timothy, 3:16 greed is a must 155 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,800 Godzilla's God was manifest in the flesh. 156 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:14,700 Look with me at verse 6. Who being in the form of God. 157 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:20,700 Never going to pause there? Because the word being means 158 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:25,600 from the verb to be? Existent. 159 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:32,300 It's a reference to has pre-existence before he was born 160 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:35,100 of the Virgin Mary in the fullness of time. 161 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:41,800 Jesus Christ is not a created being, he is the second person 162 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:47,200 of the Triune God before he killed him before. 163 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,200 He came to Bethlehem young people. 164 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:53,800 He existed in the form of God. Now they're called. 165 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:59,300 Say he came to exist. Or he entered into existence 166 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:04,600 through the time, freedom is clearly Eterna. 167 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:10,000 It's a reference to Eternity past the Apostle Paul, simply 168 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:16,300 exerts, something that Jesus Christ existed eternally. 169 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,600 Who being in the form of God. Now, the word form? 170 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,700 It's important and I want you to know the meaning of it. 171 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:31,700 The Greek word is morphe from which we get the English word of 172 00:12:31,708 --> 00:12:36,400 morphology and the word morphing means. 173 00:12:37,100 --> 00:12:46,400 What a thing is of itself. It's what is intrinsic or 174 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:52,300 essential? To being in other words, what 175 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:56,100 he's saying is that? Jesus Christ and he says, it's 176 00:12:56,100 --> 00:13:00,500 in the form of God is in the essential nature of God. 177 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:06,400 Paul is saying that Jesus Christ in his nature in his character 178 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,500 corresponds with the nature and character of God, the father, 179 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:16,200 and he does so inherently. He'd also unchangeably, he does 180 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:21,900 so eternally, let me explain. Dissuaded the word morphe ties 181 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:25,700 into the Roman stump. Now if you want to post a letter 182 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:28,900 today, you could enter the shop and you pay 60 in P or whatever 183 00:13:28,900 --> 00:13:30,500 it is. You put a first-class stamp on 184 00:13:30,500 --> 00:13:33,900 it and the Royal Mail delivers it but the way back in Roman 185 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:38,400 times, they didn't have stamps. So what they did was when they 186 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,800 had an important document that they wanted to be delivered to 187 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:47,600 someone, they ruled the document up and they sealed it with a wax 188 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:53,300 seal on. There was a ring stump pressed 189 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:58,000 into the hot wax bearing. The insane Emperor Emperor's 190 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,200 Insignia, and the impression in the wax was the exact 191 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,700 representation of the Insignia on. 192 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,100 The rain. We have some similar today's I 193 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:15,200 think of a rubber stamp on ink when I'm filling in passports 194 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,700 for the Republic of Ireland. I have to use my rubber stamp 195 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:20,900 and rare. Thank and what's on the rubber 196 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:24,000 stamp when I press it into the ink and put it onto the paper, 197 00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:29,700 as an exact impression and paper, the exact image of what 198 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:33,500 is on the stamp. The Apostle Paul is saying, is 199 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:38,800 this, that the relationship that Jesus Christ Bears to God, the 200 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:44,100 Father? He is the exact image or the 201 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:48,900 exact representation of who and what God is. 202 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,000 Now. That's that's important because 203 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,800 Jesus Christ is not a junior partner to God. 204 00:14:56,700 --> 00:15:01,300 He's not a created being, he's not one who's inferior to the 205 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:06,600 father Jesus Christ as a fully-fledged member of the 206 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:11,200 godhead. He's equal with the father and 207 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,300 every respect. How do you seek will from 208 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:19,200 eternity past? Jesus Christ as he turned away, 209 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,800 God. Jesus Christ exists as God. 210 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,100 What Paul is saying, is that Jesus Christ? 211 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,700 And his pre-existence from all eternity possess. 212 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:42,000 The essential nature of God, the character of God, the Divine 213 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:48,900 attributes of God. In other words, he is God before 214 00:15:48,900 --> 00:15:53,000 he came to Earth. Jesus Christ, existed and dwelt. 215 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,600 in the indivisible glory of the father. 216 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:04,400 He existed and dwelt in the Perfections of Heaven. 217 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:09,700 He was one with the father and the spirit and the blessedness 218 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:16,200 of his Divine being, but he willingly he voluntary last out 219 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,600 Glory. For the Earth. 220 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:27,500 Let really, we have to say. God was manifest in the flesh. 221 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:33,000 You know, this is one of the fundamental doctrines of Bible 222 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:38,400 believing Christianity. This is a most basic fundamental 223 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:42,700 truth and all truth. Really circularly. 224 00:16:42,700 --> 00:16:46,000 It's or revolves around this one truth. 225 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:52,900 All Doctrine centers around the Revelation that God was manifest 226 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:55,500 In the Flesh. Know if you deny this. 227 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,600 Doctrine. Or are you reject us Doctrine? 228 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:03,700 I have to say this morning. You cannot be a true Christian. 229 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:08,599 If you deny that Jesus Christ is eternally the Son of God or the 230 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:11,700 doctrine of the Incarnation or the doctrine of his virgin 231 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:14,700 birth. You cannot be a true Christian. 232 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:18,900 You can't be born of the spirit. You can't be seemingly joined to 233 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:22,900 Christ and Union with him. This is a ground theme. 234 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:29,000 The equality. Of the son with the father. 235 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:36,500 Who being? That's a reference to Eternal 236 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:40,400 existence who being in the form of God. 237 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:44,100 The exact nature of God. That's a reference to the 238 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:47,500 doctrine of the Trinity that not brings in the the truth of it. 239 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:51,700 The father and the truth of break the spirit 3 +, 1 + & 1, & 240 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:53,700 3 are not three Gods young people. 241 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:55,200 We don't worship. Three Gods. 242 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:59,500 We worship one living and true God, who subsist in three 243 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:04,000 persons father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the semen substance. 244 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:12,800 Equal in power and Glory. So here's the Apostle, Paul who 245 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,600 is Jesus Christ? He is someone who from all 246 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:24,700 eternity existed, as God, the son, as the Son of God, and 247 00:18:24,700 --> 00:18:30,300 therefore, Jesus Christ as God, the son as a trinitarian person. 248 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,700 Hiko exists. He's going terni. 249 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:38,900 He's quick. Look at the text. 250 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:45,700 Look at verse 6, thought it not robbery to be equal with God and 251 00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:49,200 it was not me. I want to tell you this morning. 252 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,800 There's a lot of rubbish written about that particular statement. 253 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,800 There's a lot of lies written about that statement. 254 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:06,500 Literally, it means this. It was no exaggeration for him, 255 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:10,600 too. Clean to be God or for him to be 256 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,500 called God. Jesus Christ was forever 257 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:17,700 conscious of who he was. He knew who he was, and who he 258 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:20,800 is. John Calvin says in this tax 259 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,300 there that there would be no wrong done though. 260 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:28,100 We had shown himself to be equal with God. 261 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:31,100 In other words. He didn't use what he possessed 262 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:35,300 godhead. For his own Advantage. 263 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:39,700 He didn't use his possession as God, the son or the Son of God 264 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:44,700 to further his own interests, at the expense of the father or the 265 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:48,600 expanse of the spur, be go equal with the father was not 266 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:54,900 something that he greedily clutched and said it's mine or 267 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,300 ostentatiously. Displayed. 268 00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:04,200 He was not exerting his equality. 269 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:11,800 He was not being arrogant. Or Blasphemous to claim to be 270 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,700 God. When the be a monstrous 271 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:21,800 exaggeration for me, or for you to claim to be God or a god. 272 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,100 But it was no robbery for Christ. 273 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,400 Too clean to be gone. Why? 274 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:32,700 For he is God, who co-exist is coeternal? 275 00:20:32,700 --> 00:20:36,200 His co-equal with the father. Let me put it this way. 276 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,000 I have no rate this morning to claim to be the Prince of Wales. 277 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:43,800 That would be robbery, that would be a lie. 278 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,000 That would be arrogant, that Title Prince of Wales, belongs 279 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,600 to One, Man of the House of Windsor and I do desire nor 280 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,200 thought to be the prince of Wheels. 281 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:02,300 But when Jesus Christ claimed to be God, when he came and said, I 282 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:07,500 am, he spoke the truth. He wasn't telling lies. 283 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:11,000 See, this is a very rich statement. 284 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:17,500 Jesus Christ is God. I don't want you to understand 285 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:20,800 and consider the Majesty of his person for the Covino. 286 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,400 Dating it. There could be no duplicity 287 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,000 here. There could be no ambiguity 288 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,100 about this. He is God, the son. 289 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:36,400 Everything that belongs to God belongs to Christ and thus forms 290 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,000 part there, if the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and people poke 291 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,900 fun at the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, they laugh and they 292 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:44,000 say, well I can there be three Gods. 293 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:47,100 I repeat. There's not There's three 294 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:51,100 passions in the one godhead and everything that belongs to God 295 00:21:51,100 --> 00:21:55,100 belongs to Christ all the Divine substance, all the Divine 296 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,500 Essence, all the attributes, the power of the prerogative, the 297 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:03,800 sovereignty, the Majesty. It's all has just as much as it 298 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,800 was God, the father's, I'm God, the Holy Spirit, and it was not 299 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,300 a robbery for him to clear him that you Children Here, know 300 00:22:11,300 --> 00:22:15,300 what robbery is. It's taking something that not 301 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,000 yours. You know that robberies a bad 302 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,300 Act. The Bible says, Thou shalt not 303 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:25,700 steal, whether that's a pan or a penny or whether that's like 304 00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:30,900 robbing the bank. The Lord Jesus were told thought 305 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:35,500 it not robbery to be equal with God. 306 00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:40,600 The Lord Jesus who existed from all eternity in the form of God 307 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,400 co-equal. As I've said, cool exist in 308 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,300 Kuwait, are no and that equality belonged to him. 309 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,800 It was his by intrinsic, right? It was his by the very essence 310 00:22:53,800 --> 00:23:00,900 of us being I want you to understand this morning the 311 00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:05,600 mystery, or the Majesty of his person, only to get into your 312 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:11,100 main, the equality, and the eternality, and indeed the 313 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:21,400 existence of the Sun. I want you to consider something 314 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,800 else. Not only the mystery of the 315 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:29,000 Majesty of his person. I could go on to verse 7, but 316 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,700 I'm going to resist that Temptation. 317 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:34,900 I want you to think of the the message. 318 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:41,400 Of Christ purpose. Because if the doctrine of the 319 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,800 Incarnation is true that God was manifest in the flesh. 320 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:51,000 Why did he come? And the answer is for the son of 321 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000 man has come to seek and to see of that, which was lost. 322 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,000 The Bible says, as a faithful saying that Christ Jesus came 323 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,700 into the world to save Sinners. Paul says of whom. 324 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:02,800 I am chief and these are real Tris. 325 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,900 And these are real truce for a real world because even though 326 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:14,200 he was coeternal with the father and coexisted with the father, 327 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,800 and co-equal with the father verses 7 and 8, teachers about 328 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:25,600 the steps that they God, the son took to empty himself by taking 329 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:31,300 upon himself human nature and ending up dying on atoning, 330 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:34,900 death on the cross, the Bible. He humbled himself. 331 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:38,700 No one humble Christ willingly, voluntary graciously. 332 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:42,400 He offered up himself unto death as a once and for all sacrifice 333 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,700 for sin and the Bible tells us, but this man after he had 334 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:47,000 offered one sacrifice for sins forever. 335 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,300 Sat down on the right hand of God, and I want to ask this 336 00:24:50,300 --> 00:24:54,000 morning because I believe passionately these are real 337 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:57,500 truths that I'm teaching you and telling you and they're real 338 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:01,500 truce for a real world. A world of trial, a world of 339 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:05,700 Tears, a world of Temptation. A world of sin and suffering and 340 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:07,700 sorrow. I want to ask the question. 341 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,300 Is Jesus Christ. A real sea of your to you? 342 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,700 If he came into the world to seek and to save that, which was 343 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:18,500 lost. If Christ Jesus came into the 344 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:22,000 world of see of Sinners, have you acknowledged it your Center, 345 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:26,300 acknowledge that you have a soul Exotics that you need Christ and 346 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:27,800 your life. Remember, neither? 347 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,400 Is there salvation in any other? For there is no other name under 348 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,000 Heaven, given among men. Whereby we must be sieved. 349 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,400 You see the doctor of his incarnation? 350 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:43,100 What does it mean to you this morning? 351 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:46,300 God In the Flesh, does it mean anything? 352 00:25:47,100 --> 00:25:52,200 It must have been something either you rejoice in this and 353 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,300 you receive Christ in the fullness of his coming? 354 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,800 Or you reject him. Remember the Bible says he came 355 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,000 unto his own and his own received him. 356 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,500 Not put as many as received him to them gave he power to become 357 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:08,800 the sons of God. Are you one of his children this 358 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,500 morning? Have you borrowed the money? 359 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,000 Have you trusted him as Lord? And Savior? 360 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,500 Remember again? What Joe and emphasizes there 361 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:23,800 and not particular 12 verse? Even to them, that believe on 362 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,800 his name, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the 363 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,700 flesh, nor of the will of, man, but of God, and the Word was 364 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:36,600 made flesh, and dwelt Among Us. Jesus Christ came into the world 365 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,000 to see if Sinners. Jesus Christ came into the world 366 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:44,600 so you could receive He was manifested. 367 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,900 The Bible tells us to to destroy the works of the devil. 368 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:50,500 You see, these are all statements of purpose. 369 00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:54,400 Sinners are are born in sin and sheep and iniquity there fected 370 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,700 by some affected, by a world of tears of trial and Temptation. 371 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,400 And what does the coming of Christ into the world mean to 372 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,500 you? Hi many try to live as if 373 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:08,600 Christ, never existed. How many try to live as if 374 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,700 Christ has not called equal with the father? 375 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,700 How many try to live as if he's not God? 376 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:17,800 The son? As if he didn't come into the 377 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:22,600 world, it's nothing to there. And yet the reality is, this is 378 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,700 the greatest message of love and great. 379 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:28,100 His message of grease and a great message of Salvation. 380 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:31,000 Through Christ can say, I was born for you Christ. 381 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,700 Can say I live for you, the Christ can say I died. 382 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:38,400 An atoning death for you? I rose again bodily for you and 383 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,200 I called you that I might redeem you and change and transform. 384 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,300 You, you know, you can't save yourself. 385 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,300 And, you know, the church doesn't see if and certainly the 386 00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:53,300 poop doesn't see it. Have you submitted to him? 387 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,100 Have you bowed the knee to him? You know, the Bible tells us. 388 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,700 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. 389 00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:02,700 Speaking of Christ. Jesus Christ. 390 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:09,100 God, the son, God In the Flesh. You don't need a dictionary to 391 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:11,400 understand the meaning of the word gift. 392 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:17,400 You receive the gift. And you say thank you, and 393 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,000 you've got joy and gladness in your heart. 394 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:25,400 About the gift. I want you to consider not only 395 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,200 the magistrate of the mystery of his person, but I want you to 396 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,500 think about the message of us purpose. 397 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:36,100 Why did he come? And what does it mean to you? 398 00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:38,600 This morning? I don't want you to consider. 399 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,200 Lastly. I want you to consider the mains 400 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,500 of Christ Porsche. Because as I thought about how 401 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:52,600 this impacts on our lives and what our response ought to be to 402 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,200 the coming of God, the son into the world. 403 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,500 There were three things that come and these three things were 404 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:03,300 something that dr. Alan Kearns told many many years 405 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:07,400 ago in the Medfield College of the Bible in relation to the 406 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,100 doctrine of the Incarnation. And this is what he said, our 407 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:13,700 response ought to be and I remember hearing them and I 408 00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:16,000 wrote them down and I've had them and I've just brought them 409 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,900 into the message rather than go on and do versus seven and 410 00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:21,100 eight. We will open that up at a second 411 00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:23,400 time, but here was the three thoughts. 412 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:26,400 We ought to be thankful unto Christ. 413 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:30,900 Thanks be unto God for his on speakable gift. 414 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,100 You see the true Christian never gets Beyond? 415 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,500 He's lost in a sense, of wonder sense of Amazement the the 416 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:44,600 newness and freshness of crazed. As always the newly slain lamb 417 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,700 Before the Throne of God, there's joy. 418 00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:51,100 There's peace. There's happiness. 419 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:56,000 Fills us hard. Be thankful unto Christ, Lord. 420 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:59,900 Thank you for being born for me. Thank you for loving for me. 421 00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:01,700 Thank you. Lord for dying for me. 422 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,500 Thank you. Lord, for saving me. 423 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,300 It's not a prayer that you could pray. 424 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,000 Some of you won't come to the prayer meeting. 425 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,900 Give difficulty. You say, I don't know what to 426 00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:10,800 say. Mr. Magorium. 427 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,300 Here's the answer. You can come and pray, be 428 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:16,500 thankful unto him. I told you some time ago when I 429 00:30:16,508 --> 00:30:19,700 was at Marion and the 84 year old woman came to the prayer 430 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:23,200 meeting for the first time. She was saved, ten years that 431 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,500 day. It was a Tuesday and she was 432 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:29,800 saved when she was 74. I just come in to the prayer 433 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,100 meeting, and she sat in the very front row and she cried out. 434 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,000 Thank you, Lord, for saving me. You lubbers, joy and happiness 435 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,600 in upper and that we woman's fear is really it, the 436 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,700 thankfulness that you had that you were seeing. 437 00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:45,300 Are you thankful this morning that you have this experience? 438 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:50,600 I want you to think, secondly. Thinking like Christ. 439 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,700 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ. 440 00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:56,600 Jesus. I told you that last week, the 441 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:03,200 word mind means the attitude. You see if we have the attitude 442 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,000 of Christ, a spurt of self-sacrificing self-denying. 443 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,100 There's no room for Pride. What if we got to be prayed 444 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:12,200 abide? There's no room for 445 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:19,200 self-promotion or are are no place for division or disunity 446 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:25,500 or Discord? All that it takes to serve God. 447 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:30,200 And to live for the glory of Christ and to reach Sinners and 448 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:36,800 exalt the savior. All the teks. 449 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:44,500 We're willing to guess. Nothing will be too much for us. 450 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,400 It'll be a great spirit of sacrifice in our heart and then 451 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,500 and later who he is and what he's done. 452 00:31:51,500 --> 00:31:54,900 Remember CT stud said of Jesus Christ be God and day for me 453 00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:58,600 then no sacrifice can be too green for me for me to make for 454 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,700 him. If he left the Realms of Glory, 455 00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:04,700 the bosom of the father, for the bosom of the Virgin, and lived 456 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:08,500 among man, in the likeness of sinful flesh in a real human 457 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:11,800 body and and went to the cross and injured, the horrible. 458 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:16,400 Half of crucifixion and rose again for us, then surely, in 459 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,400 light of who he is. And what he's done, does it not 460 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:24,400 cause us to think about him? and lastly, Allen Kearns 461 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:31,000 emphasize this Talking of him. If we really believe the gospel. 462 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:34,900 Will not keep it to her sales because this is the greatest 463 00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:39,200 message in the world. And here's the means of having 464 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,200 Christ. As our portion will only be 465 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,200 thankful unto Christ and think like Christ, but we will talk of 466 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,800 Christ. What was it? 467 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,900 Drove the early church? What was it? 468 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:53,200 That feel the great missionary movements. 469 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,700 The old church has string, what caused people to uproot their 470 00:32:56,700 --> 00:32:58,300 lives and leave Northern Ireland? 471 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:02,700 Go to Kenya and go to Uganda and go to Nepal and other places to 472 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:05,900 the far-flung corners of the earth and bear hardship for 473 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:10,100 Jesus Christ, and suffer loss of this world and its goods, maybe 474 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:13,800 even suffering L health. Because they really believe the 475 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,700 gospel. They were gripped with us, and 476 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:19,500 there are willing to go and tell others of Christ. 477 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,700 And, you know that We need to do in our church. 478 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:25,900 We need to go and tell others how great a savior. 479 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,400 Come on here. A man that told me all things 480 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,400 that ever I did. It's not this the Christ, the 481 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,500 Messiah. Remember, they mom from the 482 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:38,300 gadarenes after he got converted, and he wanted to go 483 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:41,600 with Christ, and Grace, said, go home and tell what great things, 484 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,600 the Lord of Dunphy. And the Bible tells us he went 485 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,600 to the capitalist. He went the ten cities, not just 486 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,000 us home and among his family, but he went to many others. 487 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,300 Yes, and he told them of the great things that the Lord had 488 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:56,900 done for him. No, this morning. 489 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:02,400 Let's consider this example. Of the mystery of Christ person. 490 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,900 Let's take into our main god, the son manifest in flesh. 491 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:14,500 Let that impact upon us. And then let's think of us 492 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:18,000 purpose. God, the son came to see of 493 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,800 Sinners. He came to see of me. 494 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:23,100 Have you see if this morning? Are you trusting Christ? 495 00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:28,500 And then let's Have this means employed have Christ Our 496 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:31,600 portion. Then let's be thankful. 497 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,199 Let's think often of him. In the steps that he took and 498 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:41,000 humiliation and that stock of him to others. 499 00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:44,000 May the Lord bless you this morning. 500 00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:45,500 Thank you for listening.