Adopting Christ’s Attitude (Protestant/Lutheran/Evangelical/NonDenom/Bible Church Caucus)

ligonier.org ^ | 8/20/2015

[Gamecock]

“Each of you should look not only to your own interests but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be rasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on the cross!” (Phil. 2:4–8, NIV).

Here the attribute of glory is ascribed to all three members of the Trinity. This glory is then confirmed as a glory that is eternal. It is not something added to or acquired by Jesus at some point in His earthly life and ministry. He held this glory at the beginning and will possess it for eternity:

“Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:9–11, NIV).

Though the form of servanthood covered Jesus and His life was marked by a willing humiliation, nevertheless there were moments in His ministry where the glory of His deity burst through. It was these moments that provoked John to write, “And we beheld His glory” (John 1:14).

Coram Deo

Ask God for an ever-increasing revelation of His glory.

Passages for Further Study

Philippians 2:5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,1 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a tservant,2 being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

[Gamecock]

Morning Devotional Ping!

[spirited irish]

Atheist and Gnostic ‘Christian’ alike refuse to bend the knee to our Lord Jesus Christ since if He really is God incarnate, as the faithful affirm, then He is the Word Who spoke all things seen and unseen into existence ex nihilo. Thus the Revealed Word is really true and what evolutionary atheists and ‘Christian’ Gnostics affirm is not just false, but vain, hence without substance and meaning.

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Amen.

I also like Collossians 1:17 on this subject!

“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”