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*“What Jesus Gave Up*
*At Christmas*
*Philippians 2:5-11*
The focus of the Christian’s confession
The core of the Christian faith
Our message in a nutshell is:
The transcendent God
- Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient
o All powerful, present everywhere, all knowing
- The One who is:
o Holy, power, truth, love
This God has visited
And redeemed
His people
In Jesus of Nazareth.
For this Advent Season (when we celebrate the coming of God from heaven to planet earth) we are going to use the phrase:
“The Word became flesh”
To guide our meditation.
We will look at topics such as:
1) the divinity of the pre-incarnate Christ
2) the reason Jesus became flesh > salvation
3) The co-existence of a) the Son of David – human and b) the Son of God – divine in the person of Jesus
4) Jesus is: ‘Emmanuel’: “God Himself with us!”
Within this discussion questions will be looked at such as:
- the virgin birth
- was Mary sinless
- should we call Mary ‘the mother of God?’
What did you give up for advent?
Whoa – sounds more like Lent than advent season.
Christmas – the question is: “What do you want to get for Christmas?”
What did Jesus give up?
Phil 2:6
‘Emptied himself’?
What did he have to be emptied of?
Vs.
6a: /“Who, being in the very nature God”/
Same word used in 7b: /“taking the very nature of a servant.”/
This was Christ’s nature before his advent on earth.
His nature – His essence – the best way to describe His existence before His incarnation – His birth in human flesh:
He had equality with God.
He is God.
This equality with God was the driving desire, the great temptation that led to the fall of Satan and subsequently the Fall of mankind:
/“I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."”/ (Isa 14:14 NIVUS)
Adam Gen 3:5
/“"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."”/
(Ge 3:5 NIVUS)
Jesus > every right to hold on to this equality but willingly gave it up.
Divine nature:
*John 1:1*
/“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”/ (Joh 1:1 NIVUS)
Before time or anything else came to be, the Word absolutely *was*.
/“13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known *him who is from the beginning*.
I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.
14 I write to you, fathers, because *you have known him who is from the beginning*.
I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.”/
(1Jo 2:13-14 NIVUS)
When nothing but God had being – the Word enjoyed an intimate “I-Thou” relation with the Father.
Jesus explicitly affirmed His timeless preexistence:
John 8 – during a ceremony of the Festival of Tabernacles
Four great candelabra were lit to commemorate the pillar of fire that guided Israel through the wilderness.
/“When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, *"I am the light of the world.*
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."”/
(Joh 8:12 NIVUS)
/“But he continued, "You are from below; *I am from above*.
You are of this world; *I am not of this world*.”/
(Joh 8:23 NIVUS) Jesus existed with the Father before His human birth.
“Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad."”
(Joh 8:56 NIVUS)
/“"I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, *I am*!"”/ (Joh 8:58 NIVUS)
Ex. 3:14 – at the burning bush: God’s name: “I am.”
Jesus said:
- God has sent me into the world – I am on a unique mission under God’s authority.
- I am the Son of Man who came down from heaven.
(John 313,31)
- I am the true bread that comes down from heaven (John 6:32,33,38,41,51)
John 1:14
/“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
We have seen *his glory, the glory of the One and Only*, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”/
(Joh 1:14 NIVUS)
John and others observed the glory of the majestic God shining through Jesus’ human flesh.
/“No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.”/
(Joh 1:18 NIVUS)
Jesus is the full revelation of the unseen God.
Jesus has uniquely expounded the reality of God to finite persons.
/“27 No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28 ¶* I came from the Father and entered the world*; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."”/
(Joh 16:27-28 NIVUS)
Heb 1:3
/“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”/
(Heb 1:3 NIVUS)
Col 1:15-20
/“15 He is *the image of the invisible God*, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For *by him all things were created*: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; *all things were created by him and for him*.
17 *He is before all things*, and in him all things hold together.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
19 *For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him*, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”
/(Col 1:15-20 NIVUS)
/“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,”/ (Col 2:9 NIVUS)
John 17:5
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