From Glory to the Cross: He Emptied Himself Phil 2:7

He emptied himself. He kenosis himself meaning the individual of the most honor deserving the most praise deserving the most worth

You think of today for Mother's Day who in here got flowers for their mother or their wife of their children?

I Went to Fred Meyer, and we're gonna be giving out flowers later today, and oh my goodness

They were expensive flowers They'd like to upcharge these things on on a day like this right you might say that those flowers have value

What would be taking a flower and making it kenosis making it emptied? You take this flower

That's a value to yourself and you take it and throw it on the floor and you stomp on it You bury it up, and you spit on it, and you smack it around all these things you make it of no value

Jesus Himself being of the most value being fully God having the essence of God right then and there

The one everyone should have been bowing down to and praising. What did he do for us? The king of kings was made the scum of scum

Because you are dead in your sins, and he has risen again and died for you

That is the kenosis that we have in here That is the emptying out that his worth was made void that his praise was not sung

That his admiration was not heard, but instead he was rejected and despised above all else that he

Who had never sinned Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law having become a curse for us

He has become a curse for us so that we could be relieved of these things so here in verse 7

But emptied himself by taking the form of a slave Meaning that these these two natures have come together again not mixing not adding not taking away from each other and brothers and sisters the question

Of how does that happen? How does this miraculous thing take place in the person the work of Jesus Christ?

You just have to confess what the Bible tells you don't try to make analogies

Don't try to make it work in your understanding because guess what you will lessen the value of Jesus Christ when you do this

Jesus is fully God Jesus is fully man. How do those things come together?

I can't tell you exactly how those things came together if dawn was here

He would tell us about Adams and these things but even that does not answer for us the miraculous event that is the incarnation that he who existed in the form of God was humbled and Emptied himself of all value and worth that has nothing to do with attributes that has to do with us recognizing his greatness

We were veiled our eyes were covered our hearts were deaf in our ears were were deaf all these things and we rejected the infinite being

Jesus Christ And because he was in fullness of man

He was nailed to a cross and he died for us so that if we have faith in him we would live again

So he emptied himself. This is a very biblical term It does not mean he lost attributes

But that he become humble that his value was not seen in man Because he was in the form of a slave and he was in the likeness of us and look at verse 8

So even though he existed in the form of God, how did we see him? How did we find him?

Being found in appearance as a man What's the text teaching humility he humbled himself

And listen to this this is remarkable by being obedience You think about obedience and you think it should bring you good things.

What did Jesus do for us in his obedience? By becoming obedient to the point of death

His humility didn't stop there it wasn't like he just lived a long life and died of old age death upon a cross he lived a perfect life an obedient life a

Life that you and I can't live and yet he died in our place He died the death that you and I deserve

He was buried he rose again on The third day which we'll talk about hopefully next week because that's what the next what text has for us is that then therefore now?

He's been exalted above every name So now in our hearts though, we rejected him and we saw him as scum and vile

We now recognize and profess that he is the king of kings that he is Our Lord and our

Savior and our God that we recognize him as what fully God And the life he lived he's fully man