NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - The Gospel: How God Makes Miserable People Happy In Him
Aired: 2022-08-24
Duration: 05:40


=== Christ's Humble Incarnation (04:49) ===

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[00:00:19]  Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
[00:00:25]  You're listening to Daily Truth.
[00:00:30]  See, before God could supply us with his blessedness, something else had to happen.
[00:00:35]  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.
[00:00:45]  That's Isaiah chapter 53 verse 3.
[00:00:47]  See, prior to the incarnation, the son, that is Jesus Christ, was in need of nothing, possessing all good things in himself.
[00:00:57]  And yet Christ willingly chose to become nothing So that he might give to us everything he could possibly give.
[00:01:06]  This is Philippians chapter 2, verse 6 through 8.
[00:01:10]  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.
[00:01:20]  That is, a thing to refuse to relinquish, a thing to cling to, unwilling to open your hand and let it go.
[00:01:29]  So Christ, who was in the form of God, who was equal with God.
[00:01:33]  He did not count that equality with God, which he had a thing to hold on to, a thing to refuse to relinquish.
[00:01:42]  But verse seven, he emptied himself by taking the form of a servant.
[00:01:48]  He emptied himself in the sense, not that he removed the divine nature, but, but it was subtraction by addition.
[00:01:53]  He emptied himself of the divine nature, as it were, by simply adding to himself a second nature, namely the human nature.
[00:02:02]  It is as St. Augustine once said, it's divinity wrapped in flesh, divinity wrapped in humanity.
[00:02:09]  It is subtraction by addition.
[00:02:11]  He emptied himself by taking upon himself a lowly human nature.
[00:02:19]  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.
[00:02:30]  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.
[00:02:40]  No, he humbled.
[00:02:43]  The emphasis is not on the pain of death at this point, although the cross, crucifixion, was undoubtedly physically painful.
[00:02:50]  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.
[00:02:58]  He humbled himself to take on the form of a servant, to add to himself the human nature.
[00:03:04]  That was humility.
[00:03:05]  So the incarnation itself, Christ coming into the world was an act of humility.
[00:03:11]  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.
[00:03:18]  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.
[00:03:32]  Christ humbled himself by coming to earth, he humbled himself by going to death, and he humbled himself even further in his death.
[00:03:41]  By the particular death by which he died.
[00:03:43]  That is not just any old death, but the most humiliating death you could possibly imagine, even death on a cross.
[00:03:51]  Christ emptied himself.
[00:03:55]  Our God is full of himself.
[00:03:59]  You think of that expression, that person's really full of themselves.
[00:04:02]  Anytime we speak of a person being full of themselves, it's an indictment.
[00:04:05]  It's not a compliment.
[00:04:08]  Right?
[00:04:08]  It's a criticism.
[00:04:10]  That person's full of themselves.
[00:04:11]  Well, why is it a criticism?
[00:04:13]  Because no finite and fallen human being should ever be full with their own finite and fallen self.
[00:04:21]  But God is full of himself, and righteously so.
[00:04:26]  God is absolutely full of himself.
[00:04:29]  And Christ is.
[00:04:30]  As God, the second member of the eternal Trinity, Jesus was eternally, that is, in eternity past, full of Himself and righteously so.
[00:04:41]  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 Himself (00:51) ===

[00:04:49]  That's the gospel.
[00:04:50]  And that is the gospel of the happy God who shares His happy essence with His ever becoming happy people.
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