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When Jesus “humbled himself by becoming obedient,” the condition that led to His exaltation was not His outward obedience, but His inward humility. There is only one active verb in the original Greek, which is “humbled.”. Becoming obedient is an adjective in the original text. In other words, obedience, in this case, is what humility ...
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In Scripture, to glorify, or exalt, or lift up, is sacred action and language. God made us to image him, to reflect and reveal him in the world, that he might be glorified and exalted. Before addressing the question of what it meant for Christ, as man, though God, to not seek his own glory, it may help to rehearse Scripture’s plain and repeated tea...
The question about Christ’s self-exaltation is more challenging than what we’ve seen so far. Scripture is plain that divine self-exaltation and human God-exaltation are righteous, as is divine man-exaltation, while human self-exaltation is folly, rebellion, and even the very spirit of antichrist. Yet with Christ, we come to the unique and spectacul...
What, then, do we learn from Christ, both theologically and ethically, in our milieu increasingly at home with human self-exaltation and confused by self-humbling? First, oh what wonders await us in the unique and spectacular person who is Jesus Christ — the one man who is God, and the one divine person who became man. As Paul writes, with awe, “In...
Christ’s exaltation should be the comfort of every Christian. He has all authority in heaven and earth to promise us an exaltation that takes part in His own. We shall be with Him in glory because we have received Jesus Christ in our life. He has ownership of our life, and therefore we are given an inheritance that shares in the glory He owns.
May 29, 2019 · We should exalt God because He is the only one worthy to be exalted. The God of the Bible is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all that fills it (Psalm 146:6). All things owe their existence to the eternal, thrice holy God of the Bible (Revelation 4:11). All of creation proclaims the glory, power, and divine nature of its Creator ...
which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, Hebrews 1:9. Verse Concepts. “You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You. With the oil of gladness above Your companions.”. 1 Peter 3:22. Verse Concepts.
Oct 21, 2020 · By becoming obedient. To humble oneself is to acknowledge God as Lord and to obey as servant. In order to do so, then, the Son had to take “the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:7). “We, as creatures, must obey our Creator, and he, as our brother, did the same.”.
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Jul 30, 2012 · The only way this exaltation of Jesus makes sense to me is if it is the man Jesus who is being exalted by the Father. Jesus twice sacrifices himself, first by becoming human, and secondly by dying for me. The man Jesus lived a life without sin, always walking in the Father’s will, up to and including death on the cross.
