Daily Truth host explores Jesus Christ's incarnation, citing Isaiah 53:3 and Philippians 2:6-8 to illustrate how the divine emptied Himself into flesh, enduring humiliation on the cross rather than just physical pain. This self-emptying allows people to be full with Him, contrasting God's righteous fullness with human misery. The segment concludes by promoting an upcoming three-day Right Response Conference featuring Dr. James White and others, focusing on post-millennialism and theonomy at rightresponseconference.com. [Automatically generated summary]
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Christ's Humble Incarnation00:04:49
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Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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See, before God could supply us with his blessedness, something else had to happen.
God had to send his son into this world so that for a time he would be a man of sorrows, as I spoke earlier, and acquainted with grief.
That's Isaiah chapter 53 verse 3.
See, prior to the incarnation, the son, that is Jesus Christ, was in need of nothing, possessing all good things in himself.
And yet Christ willingly chose to become nothing So that he might give to us everything he could possibly give.
This is Philippians chapter 2, verse 6 through 8.
The Bible says, Though he, that is Christ, was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.
That is, a thing to refuse to relinquish, a thing to cling to, unwilling to open your hand and let it go.
So Christ, who was in the form of God, who was equal with God.
He did not count that equality with God, which he had a thing to hold on to, a thing to refuse to relinquish.
But verse seven, he emptied himself by taking the form of a servant.
He emptied himself in the sense, not that he removed the divine nature, but, but it was subtraction by addition.
He emptied himself of the divine nature, as it were, by simply adding to himself a second nature, namely the human nature.
It is as St. Augustine once said, it's divinity wrapped in flesh, divinity wrapped in humanity.
It is subtraction by addition.
He emptied himself by taking upon himself a lowly human nature.
Verse 8 now, and being found in human form, he further humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
And that phrase there, even death on a cross, is not just speaking about Not just that he humbled himself to the point of death, even a very painful death, aka death on a cross.
No, he humbled.
The emphasis is not on the pain of death at this point, although the cross, crucifixion, was undoubtedly physically painful.
But the emphasis of this portion of the text, Philippians 2, verse 8, is on not the pain of the cross, but rather the humility.
He humbled himself to take on the form of a servant, to add to himself the human nature.
That was humility.
So the incarnation itself, Christ coming into the world was an act of humility.
And then Christ, furthermore, not only coming into the world in the incarnation, but then in the crucifixion, Christ going to death was a further humility.
And not just any old death, not just the death of old age, but death on a cross where he was stripped naked, where he was spat upon, where he was mocked and laughed at and scoffed by the ones who nailed him there.
Christ humbled himself by coming to earth, he humbled himself by going to death, and he humbled himself even further in his death.
By the particular death by which he died.
That is not just any old death, but the most humiliating death you could possibly imagine, even death on a cross.
Christ emptied himself.
Our God is full of himself.
You think of that expression, that person's really full of themselves.
Anytime we speak of a person being full of themselves, it's an indictment.
It's not a compliment.
Right?
It's a criticism.
That person's full of themselves.
Well, why is it a criticism?
Because no finite and fallen human being should ever be full with their own finite and fallen self.
But God is full of himself, and righteously so.
God is absolutely full of himself.
And Christ is.
As God, the second member of the eternal Trinity, Jesus was eternally, that is, in eternity past, full of Himself and righteously so.
And yet, according to Scripture, the one who was full of Himself emptied Himself so that we could be full with Him.
God Is Full Of Himself00:00:51
That's the gospel.
And that is the gospel of the happy God who shares His happy essence with His ever becoming happy people.
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Our next Right Response Conference is in the works.
We've got a number of things already lined up and organized.
This is what we've got so far.
The whole conference, three days long on post millennialism and theonomy.
And the speakers Dr. James White, Dr. Joseph Boot, Gary DeMar, and of course, yours truly, Pastor Joel Webbin.
We've got a great lineup.
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If you want to find out dates and location, And registration and anything else, go and visit our website, rightresponseconference.com.