This never. Exalted He shall be with our wills or without them. He trod not one step awry in sin, but many of the footsteps of sin appeared upon Him: e.g. Real, not in appearance only.2. So painful was it in thought that Christ shrunk from it (Matthew 26:39). A. Shame. To bring them into a state of adoption in the family of God. No! The grace of a humble mind is that it is too humble to look humble. Who can doubt of God's goodness, despair of God's mercy, after this.3. Grace must aid and enrich the operation of the human faculties. Seeing that our Lord's death was a satisfaction to Divine justice, it was most fit that it should be in a way wherein God's right is most nearly concerned and plainly discernible. It was not simply glory for His body that He purchased, but exaltation and kingly power; a name above every name.2. Our Lord's humiliation may be regarded in four stages. He industriously shunned a death such as might have brought Him honour when exposed to it by the malignity of the Pharisees. Nay, if He must die, let Him die a honest fair death. Vaughan, M. Their peculiar goodness arises from the absence of any stain of sin and any material defect: our good actions have both these drawbacks. What in reason can be more powerful towards working penitential sorrow and religious fear, and stimulating true obedience?8. For it is the only name by which we can be saved. Perfectly human, or it would be no example to us.3. Sin was the inlet of shame (Genesis 3:7). ITS BEING IN APPEARANCE CRIMINAL, as in semblance being an execution of justice on Him. "(1) Lord whereof? Christ might have been man without humiliation: e.g., had He assumed the "glorious body" He now wears.3. Personal effort freely made lies at the root of all sacrifice. the verb used in a pejorative sense, but in the New Testament it is used only in (b) Bow to His name. To bear up under fierce pain for a few hours is a greater test of moral strength than the lifelong efforts of a healthy person. Even so; rather than lose His obedience He lost His life. So we are to esteem it above every name, and to show our esteem by bowing with the knee and confessing with the tongue. (2) It must be voluntary. (3) Our Lord's actions could have obtained no merit, whatever their perfection, had they resulted only from His natural powers. It was not simply glory for His body that He purchased, but exaltation and kingly power; a name above every name.2. Thus it was that Christ went down to His grave, and when He rose and was glorified the great representative principle went on. He foresaw it from the beginning, and regarded it with satisfaction.2. Surely it will be glad tidings to the poor broken hearted sinner, who sees that he cannot serve the Lord according to the demand of the law, to know that there is a service performed by the Mediator for him which is perfect in the eye of the law, and that a way of reconciliation is opened.VIII. Death was the objective end of His mission. (b) He had it before. In this kind of passion (the death of the cross) consider divers notable adjuncts.I. And He will not have us worship Him like elephants, as if we had no joints in our knees; He will have more honour of men than of pillars in the Church. That Scripture types might be fulfilled — Isaac, the offerings, the brazen serpent, etc.3. His humiliation had been to the ground, into the lowest parts of it; His exaltation was from thence. In obedience to the Holy Ghost He goes into the desert and conquers by "It is written," etc.5. Thus is depicted the lot of our common humanity. It is possible to conceive that Jesus might have assumed our nature without submitting to the law of death. "(2) That we are conscious of joy and sorrow. "the name of Jesus. (text and following): —I. How will they jeopard dignity and even life but to leave a glorious name behind them. As soon as the Saviour had resolved to take upon Him the form of a servant, it followed that He should be "made in the likeness of men." Christ was anointed that He might be Jesus — Saviour. )Christ degradedJ. Answer. Unto humanity had been enough, to servitude were more. By the voluntary surrender of His life. (3) Let us praise Him exceedingly, and raise Him in our esteem above everything and every one else (1 Peter 2:7; 1 Corinthians 2:2; Philippians 3:8; Matthew 10:37). (b) He had it before. Eyleen has given me the chair that lets me see the sun and a statue in our backyard, someone the whole world knows by name. Obedient and yet put to death? There was the humiliation of the flight and exile into Egypt.2. Vaughan, M. First of all, and this is a no-brainer, Jesus added to Himself a human nature. He took the nature of all, and thus merited for all (Hebrews 2:14). Produced by the Spirit. (1) Your time is not your own. (b) Why the knee first — because we thereby put ourselves in mind of due regard to Him in reverence, and are therefore the fitter to speak of and to Him with respect. Vaughan, M. (b)By doing good as we have opportunity (Galatians 6:10). All is traceable to Divine mercy as its first source (Psalm 62:12), yet it is the Divine justice which is represented as under an obligation to repay the services which are rendered (Hebrews 6:10). Justice was exacted of Jesus, and mercy was proffered to man. (b) To us. His outward life was the reflection of His sense of duty. As a child He was subject to His mother — but if interfered with in His work there were the "Woman; what have I to do with thee?" At thirty His argument for baptism is "Thus it becometh us," etc.4. For exhortation. The Transfiguration speaks of Sonship and service.8. Death, to us, is a surrender to an inevitable, from which we would prefer to be exempt, and at the best in most cases, it is a passive submission to a necessity, but the death of Jesus was Jesus in action. For exhortation. See Jesus under the lash and on the cross the slave.5. Christ saves by becoming a new principle of life in the soul through the action of the Divine Spirit.(W. No! Notorious villains were crucified with Him. Death is the wages of sin. Pharaoh was humbled by His ten plagues. Where among angels, seeing that they cannot discharge more than their own debts of gratitude and service?4. We must have union with Christ for pardon and life (John 15:16; John 1:16; 2 Peter 1:4). The Ruler of all brought to the state of a creature.1. The vehemence of His love.2. All these Jesuses had need of and were glad "to lay hold of the skirts" of this Jesus to be saved by Him. (c) Every knee and tongue. (Matthew 16:19; Revelation 3:7; Revelation 1:18; Revelation 20:2-3). "(2)Aggravated "death of the cross."2. And yet it is a glory for humility that even proud men take a pride to shroud themselves in her mantle. Ordinances, however precious, are humbling because the badge of a fallen state.2. Merit in the sense of an action to which a reward is due on grounds of justice can only exist where there is some stipulation. THE OBJECT FOR WHOM THIS MERIT WAS ACQUIRED.1. ITS BEING IN APPEARANCE CRIMINAL, as in semblance being an execution of justice on Him. Besides the knee is only dumb acknowledgment, but a vocal confession utters our mind plainly, and this He calls ἐξομολόγησις. "To the glory of the Father," whose great glory it is that His Son is Lord of such servants, that men shall say, "see what servants He hath." He was not at first that perfect man which lay in the intention of the Father before all ages, but He was like it, as the shadow is to the substance; and He gradually grew into it. It will incline us to submit cheerfully to God's will to remember that Christ learned obedience by the things He suffered.(L. If His object in coming into the world was to save men by the lustre of His living and by the splendour of His philosophy, why need He to have died, and why, especially, need He always have insisted upon the necessity of His death, in order that by dying He might accomplish the object which He had undertaken?2. "It is appointed unto men once to die," and when death comes, he comes resistlessly. This, ignominious in itself, exposed the sufferer to the scorn of the rude vulgar.2. So the Eternal Word assumed human flesh and merited God's favour to us by a perfect obedience to the law, and satisfying Divine justice by pouring forth His blood in sacrifice for our sins. (2) Let our lives run out for Christ in a vigorous activity (2 Corinthians 5:14, 15; Titus 2:14). Again, how must He have "emptied Himself" of His majesty, who, when, with a word, He could have destroyed the ungodly, and "with the breath of His mouth" have "slain the wicked," was Himself sold into their hands for the price of a bondslave. For God therefore to be liable to any claim, He must have graciously condescended to involve Himself in an obligation. For it is the only name by which we can be saved. (b) The worst death. (a) To Him. Christ always set His life to the meridian of Scripture — "It is written."4. By the voluntary surrender of His life. (2) Sorrow (Isaiah 53:3). His childhood and early manhood were subject to parental authority.3. He stooped to become a man. )The passion of our blessed SaviourL. The exemplification of the hardest duties of obedience and patience.III. Yet this last virtue is the ground of Christ exulting. Christ saves by becoming a new principle of life in the soul through the action of the Divine Spirit.(W. Who would say of any merely human being that he was "found in fashion as a man."2. But although He merited for all, all do not receive the grace He purchased. ver. Vaughan, M. judge." This is the only pattern for our holiness.(J. A. All these Jesuses had need of and were glad "to lay hold of the skirts" of this Jesus to be saved by Him. How full of reverence to His name! Year C. He Emptied Himself, Christmas Eve (I) - 2004. From time to time, in earnest of His future purpose, He appeared as a man to the Old Testament saints. And when men are so high that they cannot get higher there is no way to exalt them but to dilate their names, which every noble generous spirit had rather have than any dignity. Pain. From death to life, from shame to glory, from the form of a servant to the dignity of a sovereign. (3) Our Lord's actions could have obtained no merit, whatever their perfection, had they resulted only from His natural powers. (3) The exact and impartial justice of God and His most righteous remedy against sin. He became obedient to teach us passive and active obedience to God's will. (Bishop Andrewes.)HumilityJ. (2) Its design was —(a)To illustrate the Divine glory much darkened by the hired servants of God's own house by sin (Isaiah 49:3). Missionaries — and in this case the moral analogy is more perfect — after learning the language of a barbarous people, have gone among them, conforming to all their habits as far as they could, living a dark, rude life, submitting to every kind of trial and privation, in order to a great and beneficent end. WHAT IS DEATH — especially as expressive of the condition to which Jesus humbled Himself? example of selfless humility displayed in Christ (2:5-8), God's exaltation Look at SOME OF THE LAWS RESPECTING JEWISH SLAVES so as to estimate the humiliation of Jesus; and these were mild compared with those that obtained among the Romans.1. Since all this behoved to be done, and they could not do it, it was necessary for their life and salvation that Christ should come under the curse for them, accept their service, and fully serve it out for them (Galatians 3:3-5, 13).IV. But as this contemplation doth breed sober humility, it should also preserve us from base abjectness of mind; for had not God esteemed us, He would not have debased Himself.6. Human nature was not left in a state of neutrality, as if God should look upon it without wrath or favour, hut was again to become the subject of Divine complacency.III. Isaiah 59:2). But He was more than willing (Luke 12:50).2. True, but by a kind of anticipation, for it never had its perfect verification till after the crucifixion. Where are they, then, who deny any tongue the faculty here granted, or bar any of them the duty here enjoined, that lock up the public confession in some one tongue or two?4. THE PERMANENCE OF THAT FASHION. The obedience of Jesus unto death became the exhaustive ground on which God could justly remit the penalty pronounced against the sinner.3. Where was there a Mediator worthy to intercede on our behalf? He foresaw it from the beginning, and regarded it with satisfaction.2. There stands in a Strasburg church a monument suggestive in its sculptured group. In the likeness of the infant He lay in the manger, of the boy He sat in the temple, of the man He walked the length and breadth of the land. IT WAS NOT THE BODY OF CHRIST ONLY WHICH WAS HUMAN WHILE HIS SOUL WAS DIVINE, BUT THAT SOUL AND BODY WERE EQUALLY IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN.1. )Christ degradedJ. 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