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Introduction
Our hearts love a good story.
A story where a person goes out of their way to help someone else.
A story where someone puts their life in harms way to do something good.
A story where good triumphs over evil.
We’ve all heard this type of story time and time again.
Why is this the case?
Why does our heart gravitate toward something that seems too good to be true?
Because it gives a glimpse to what our hearts know to be true… That there is a good God who created all things good and with order and structure.
In this world we see chaos and we see destruction and disorder… But every now and then we see good prevail.
We see someone do something for someone else.
We see things work the way that they were supposed to before the fall!
More times than not, these types of stories require great sacrifice.
They require someone to do something difficult to help someone else.
During the Battle of Okinawa, nearly 80 years ago, one such feel good story took place.
A medic by the name of Desmond Daws found himself in the middle of one of a deadly war zone with bullets and grenades flying every which direction.
Upon a plateau called Hacksaw Ridge Daws began running from soldier to soldier giving them medical assistance with bullets flying overhead.
From person to person he went.
Dragging the injured to safety and administering help to those too hurt to move.
Over a 12 hour span Daws is credited with saving 75 lives in the middle of an active battle!
This man put his life on the line to help those who were hurt and in desperate need of saving.
Stories like this of people going out of their way to save those in need strike a chord in our hearts and understandably so, but they are but a shadow of the greater story of Someone helping us in our time of need.
On a day like today, what we all need to remember is that the Bible tells us that we are all in need of help.
Not only are we wounded, the Bible tells us that we are dead in our sins and trespasses.
Into this situation comes our Savior.
He isn’t a flawed hero like those in our world… He’s the sinless Savior.
He isn’t just here to offer some assistance and make us feel better… He’s here to make a way when there was no way and to reconcile us to our God!
Who is this Savior?
Where did He come from?
What exactly does Jesus do?
Paul spells all of these answers out in Philippians 2:5-11 in one of the most loaded passages in the entire New Testament as He shares with us why Jesus had to come and what He did for sinners.
Today, as we continue our study out of Philippians, I encourage you to simply ask yourself this: What have I done with Jesus?
As Paul continues to encourage this congregation, he arrives at an exclamation mark of sorts in this book as He rejoices in who Jesus is.
Our world is so confused about Jesus - as we study from God’s Word this morning, rejoice in what we read and resolve to share this truth with others.
Jesus: The Greatest Substance (5-6)
Who is Jesus, or what exactly is Jesus?
Did you know that over the years people have been divided about the answers to these questions?
Look at a few of these heresies concerning Jesus within 300 years of His ascension!
Heresy list:
Ebionism - Denied divine nature of Jesus (He was a man adopted by God)
Arianism - Denied fullness of deity of Jesus (He was created by God)
Docetism - Denied humanity of Jesus - said He only looked like a man but wasn’t really a human
Apollinarianism - Denied full humanity of Jesus - human body but not a human mind
Nestorianism - Denied that Jesus was fully-God and fully man.
Eutychianism - Denied the distinction between deity and humanity in Jesus
Modalism - Denied the unchangingness of Jesus - says that God changes forms
People are still confused as to who Jesus is!
Is He a good teacher?
Nice guy?
Is He kind of God?
Is He just kind of man?
Does Jesus change?
Has Jesus always existed or was He created by God later on?
You have some pastors out there today who teach things like this and will say that Jesus changes.
Steven Furtick teaches that God broke His own law for love and that God changes forms - this isn’t found in the Bible, that’s a false Gospel from a false teacher.
Others believe that Jesus is created by God - Arius in 4th century and Jehovah’s Witnesses today.
Some believe that Jesus is Satan’s older brother and the offspring of God the Father (Mormons).
People are confused!
So what does Philippians 2:5-6 tell us?
That Jesus is the same form as God.
What does this mean?
Simply: Jesus was, is, and always will be God.
The doctrine of the Trinity blows our minds because it’s impossible for us to fully understand… But here’s what we all need to know: The God of the Bible is 3 in 1.
He has always existed as Father, Son, and Spirit but we don’t believe in 3 separate gods, there is only 1 God who reveals Himself to us in those 3 distinct persons.
We see this truth in both Old and New Testaments
We see in the Bible that God is 3 in 1 - Father, Spirit, and Son.
He doesn’t change forms.
He isn’t a magician who wakes up and picks a different mask to wear depending on how He feels. 1 God in 3 persons.
The Doxology spells this out clearly: God in 3 persons, Blessed Trinity!
This is the God of the Bible.
This is what Philippians 2:6 is telling us - Jesus existed in the form of God.
Some people believe that Jesus was created by God and isn’t fully God.
In 325 AD there was a church meeting in Nicaea - present day Turkey - where there was a debate about who Jesus was and the debate stemmed from one tiny Greek letter.
Was Jesus the same substance as God or was He just similar substance as God.
Was Jesus created by God or is Jesus truly God?
A man named Arius claimed that Jesus wasn’t fully God but the highest created being - he declared that there was a time whenever the Son of God didn’t exist.
Did you know that many people believe the same way today?
I’ve heard kids and adults say the following: Jesus wasn’t around until Bethlehem when he was born.
Was the Son of God around before Bethlehem?
You’d better believe so! Look at Jesus’ prayer in John 17
Look at what we read about regarding creation in the book of Hebrews
Why does it matter that we fully understand that Jesus has always existed and is fully God?
Because if we get Jesus wrong, we get Christianity wrong.
Only God can forgive sins… If Jesus isn’t fully God then we don’t have a great high priest in heaven interceding on our behalf.
We are still dead in our sins.
We are still hopeless if Jesus isn’t fully God!
The Jesus of the Bible isn’t just a good teacher, nice guy, powerful healer, or wise prophet.
The Jesus of the Bible is the eternal Son of God who is the same substance of God and who came from heaven to earth.
See, Philippians 2:6 tells us that Jesus, as king, did something unexpected.
He didn’t please himself.
He didn’t grasp everything He could have.
He didn’t do what He could have done… Instead Jesus gave.
Think about this for a moment, we live in a world where people want to grasp everything that they can.
They want to get what they can, can what they get, and sit on the can until Kingdom come.
But not Jesus.
Jesus doesn’t grasp… Jesus gives.
Compare Jesus with Adam for a moment.
Adam was made in God’s image and wanted to be just like God and exalt himself.
Jesus was and is the same substance as God but took on the form of man and emptied Himself by becoming a slave.
Adam brought a curse upon the world… Jesus reverses that curse.
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