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 Now I want you to imagine with me a cold, dirty animal stable six miles outside of Jerusalem.

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 Nowhere in the Gospels are we told what kind of labor Mary had.

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 So we don't know if it was a long labor or a short labor.

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 We don't know if it was a one-push birth or multiple pushes over multiple hours.

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 We're not told.

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 We're not told if Jesus was a breech baby or He was a head-first baby.

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 We don't know.

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 But we are told that Mary gave birth to a firstborn son and they named Him Jesus.

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 We also know that secretly Mary and Joseph knew that this baby boy was not conceived by Joseph.

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 But this baby was conceived miraculously by the Holy Spirit.

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 There was some controversy stirring around this lady's pregnancy.

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 Now, surely the conception of Jesus was a miracle.

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 But nine months later, His birth was oh so mundane.

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 There was pain.

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 There was sweat.

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 Blood.

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 Exhaustion.

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 After birth for sure.

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 In a mess.

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 The baby may have been miraculously conceived, but this baby was delivered in the most mundane of ways.

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 He wasn't born with a halo around His head.

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 He certainly didn't deliver Himself from Mary's womb.

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 He didn't start feeding Himself.

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 He didn't clothe Himself in swaddling clothes.

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 He didn't start changing His own diapers.

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 This little baby was completely dependent on His mother.

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 Now, if you were in that stable and you witnessed this delivery and you were looking at this baby lying in the manger,

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 would you have any sense of who this baby truly was?

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 His true nature?

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 His true identity?

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 Why did the Magi come and worship Him?

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 What child is this?

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 If you would open up your Bibles to Philippians 2, we're going to look at a classic passage in the Apostle Paul.

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 We're going to kind of jump in kind of midstream of Paulian thought.

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 And if you would turn to Philippians 2, verses 5 through 11.

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 I'm going to read this to you.

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 And then I just want to kind of bathe your mind in the truth of this passage on this Christmas Day.

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 So you'd be amazed of who this baby is.

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 What child is this?

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 Listen.

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 Verse 5.

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 Have this mind among yourselves.

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 Paul's writing to Christians in the town of Philippi.

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 And he's saying to them,

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 Have this humble mind among yourselves.

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 The humility that Jesus demonstrated.

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 And so he says,

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 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

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 who, speaking of Christ Jesus,

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 though he was in the form of God,

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 did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

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 but made himself nothing,

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 taking the form of a servant,

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 being born in the likeness of men.

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 Merry Christmas.

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 And being found in human form,

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 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,

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 even death on a cross.

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 Therefore, God has highly exalted him

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 and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

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 so that at the name of Jesus,

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 every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

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 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,

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 to the glory of God the Father.

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 Father, what child is this?

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 This baby lying in the manger,

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 kids the one that you're drawing right now,

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 hopefully not sleeping.

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 This is the second person of the Trinity

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 who humbled himself for you.

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 And so this morning,

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 I just want to point out three truths from this passage,

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 and I'll be moving at a quick clip.

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 First truth is,

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 this baby, he is God.

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 Second truth, he humbled himself.

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 And third truth,

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 he was exalted.

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 So first truth of this little baby in the manger,

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 he is God.

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 He was alive before he was born.

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 When you read verse 6,

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 we read,

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 who though he was in the form of God.

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 Now when you hear that word form,

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 I'm not sure what goes through your mind.

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 What goes through my mind is,

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 I'm lying in my bed in my house.

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 It's dark.

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 Some of our kids have come home.

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 They light up the hall,

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 and they're standing in my bedroom doorway,

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 and I can't see them,

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 but I see their form.

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 I know who they are.

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 I see their shape.

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 I know who it is.

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 Now if you look around the room,

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 we are a people of a variety of shapes and forms,

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 aren't we?

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 But when Paul talks about

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 who is in the form of God,

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 he's not just talking about

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 the form,

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 the shape of God.

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 That word in the original language

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 actually means to take on

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 its full and true essence.

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 So what Paul is saying there is,

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 Jesus, who was very God,

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 that phrase,

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 the form of God,

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 has a lot of similarities

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 to Colossians 1.15

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 where Jesus is described

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 as the image of God,

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 the icon of God.

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 Or in Hebrews 1.3

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 where Jesus is said to be

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 the exact imprint of God's nature.

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 Or of course in John 1

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 where Jesus is described

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 as the Word of God.

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 The Word was with God.

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 The Word was God.

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 And we learn in John 1.18

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 that it's this Word of God,

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 Jesus,

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 who makes known the unseen God.

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 So it would be possible for you to read

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 who though he was in the form of God

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 and think that Jesus isn't quite fully God.

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 But that's not what Paul's saying.

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 He's saying that Christ,

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 the second person of the Trinity,

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 has always been the true display

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 of the full essence of God

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 for eternity.

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 He is equal in essence

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 to God the Father

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 and God the Son.

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 He is fully God,

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 eternally existent with God

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 in a relationship

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 that experienced love forever.

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 The Trinity.

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 The Word was with God

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 and the Word was God.

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 Understanding that phrase that way,

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 it really helps you understand the next phrase.

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 And so when you read

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 who did not count equality with God

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 a thing to be grasped,

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 you're kind of like,

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 huh?

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 If you look back at Philippians 2,

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 1-5,

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 Paul is calling the Philippian Christians

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 to live with each other in humility.

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 Look at verse 3.

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 He says,

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 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit,

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 but in humility count others

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 more significant than yourselves.

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 But in humility count others

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 more significant than yourselves.

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 And verse 4,

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 Let each of you look not only

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 to his own interests,

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 but also to the interests of others.

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 This was all about living their lives

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 in a manner worthy of the gospel

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 of Jesus Christ.

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 And so for them to live in unity together,

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 they need to be humble with one another.

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 In order to be humble with one another,

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 the Apostle Paul says,

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 Look at Jesus,

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 who is fully God

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 and did not consider using His divinity

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 to advance His personal purposes.

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 That's what Paul's saying here.

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 He did not consider equality.

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 He did not consider using His equality

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 with God for His own advantage.

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 That's what the Apostle Paul's saying.

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 Jesus, before He became a man,

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 exercised humility.

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 In His pre-incarnate state,

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 the second person of the Trinity

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 did not consider using His divinity

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 for His own personal advantage,

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 and so He became a man.

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 Pretty cool, huh?

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 So what child is this?

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 He's the second person of the Trinity.

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 He was fully God in essence

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 who existed before He took on human likeness.

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 That's who this little child is.

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 He's God.

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 Second point,

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 He humbled Himself.

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 In verses 7 and 8,

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 we read about Jesus

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 making Himself nothing.

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 Emptying Himself.

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 That phrase,

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 making Himself nothing,

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 you might be reading a version

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 that says He emptied Himself.

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 And when you think about

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 making Himself nothing

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 or emptying Himself,

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 you start thinking in terms of subtraction,

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 don't you?

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 You start thinking in terms of

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 taking something away.

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 And so some Bible-believing Christians,

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 when they read this verse,

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 they'll say that

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 when the second person of the Trinity

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 took on human flesh,

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 Jesus emptied Himself

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 in such a way that

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 He emptied Himself

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 of some of His divine attributes,

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 at least for a little bit.

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 but there's no reason

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 to draw that conclusion

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 from this passage.

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 When the second person of the Trinity

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 took on human flesh,

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 He did not in any way

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 cease to be fully God

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 in all that He is.

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 If He subtracted something,

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 it would have been this,

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 the glory that was His

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 before He took on human flesh,

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 and we read that in John 17, 5.

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 But nothing about His essence,

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 who He is,

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 any of His attributes.

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 So when we read

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 He made Himself nothing

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 or He emptied Himself,

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 you might start thinking

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 about subtraction,

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 but you shouldn't think subtraction.

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 You need to think

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 in terms of addition.

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 Jesus emptied Himself.

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 He poured Himself out.

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 He made Himself nothing

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 by taking on some things.

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 And the next three phrases

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 in v. 7 and 8 show that.

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 And so we read,

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 but made Himself nothing

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 by taking the form of a servant.

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 Do you read that?

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 That word form is the same word

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 used in v. 6.

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 And so the One who is

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 fully and truly God

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 became a servant.

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 A slave.

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 Fully and truly.

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 In all essence.

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 A slave.

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 And if you're familiar with anything

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 with the first century world,

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 a slave was the lowliest

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 of all human beings

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 on the status ladder

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 of the time.

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 No rights.

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 So this emptying

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 is actually a humbling,

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 a humble pouring out

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 of the second person

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 of the Trinity for others.

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 So the shock of Christmas

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 is that the One

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 who is fully and truly God

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 became fully and truly a slave.

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 Mark 10.45,

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 I came not to be served,

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 but to serve

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 and to give my life

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 as a ransom for many.

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 So He emptied Himself

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 by taking on the form

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 of a servant.

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 And then we read,

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 He emptied Himself

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 by being born

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 in the likeness of men,

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 of human beings.

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 He poured Himself out.

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 He emptied Himself.

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 He made Himself nothing

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 by adding to Himself

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 the fullness

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 of human experience.

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 experience.

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 He experienced everything

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 that we have experienced.

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 And He did so without sin.

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 He knows firsthand

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 what it means

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 to lose somebody you love.

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 He knows firsthand

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 what grief is.

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 He knows it.

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 He's our sympathetic High Priest.

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 Christ.

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 And He's interceding

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 for us now.

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 What Paul is saying here

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 is that the birth of Jesus,

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 being born in the likeness of man,

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 was part of His humiliation.

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 It was an act of humility.

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 It was Him emptying Himself,

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 pouring Himself out for others.

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 But His humble emptying

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 didn't stop at His birth.

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 It continued.

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 And so we read the third phrase

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 and we find that in verse 8.

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 In being found in human form,

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 He humbled Himself

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 by becoming obedient

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 to the point of death.

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 How did Jesus humble Himself?

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 By becoming obedient

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 to the point of death.

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 His humility was obedience

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 to the will of His Father.

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 The will of His Father

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 was to send His Son

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 to die for others.

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 For us.

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 So just as His incarnation

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 was an act of obedience,

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 so was His going to His death.

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 And we read

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 what kind of death He died.

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 Even death on a cross.

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 So this baby born to us

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 was born to die for us

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 on a Roman cross.

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 Have you heard of the word excruciate?

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 It's an English word

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 that means some of the most

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 deepest pain physically

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 we experience.

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 Excruciate literally means

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 out of the cross.

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 crucifixion was designed

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 to inflict as much

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 physical and psychological pain

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 as possible.

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 It was one of the most

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 demeaning ways to die.

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 It was brutal.

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 It was brutal.

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 Physically, it was awful.

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 Psychologically,

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 you are publicly

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 dying slowly naked.

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 It was humiliating.

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 He did it

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 for us.

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 He emptied Himself

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 by becoming a slave.

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 He emptied Himself

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 by taking on human likeness.

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 He emptied Himself

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 by dying on a cross

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 for a purpose.

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 And that was our salvation.

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 He came as a suffering servant

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 in the flesh

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 for our sake.

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 You can't disconnect

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 the incarnation

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 from the crucifixion.

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 He humbled Himself

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 for us.

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 It's in the name.

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 Jesus,

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 the Lord saves.

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 Emmanuel,

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 God with us

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 in humility.

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 The wonder of Christmas

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 is not the display

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 of the majesty of God.

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 but the display

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 of the humility of God.

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 That God would do this?

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 It's amazing.

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 So this little baby,

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 He's God.

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 He humbled Himself.

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 And He was exalted.

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 In verses 9-11,

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 we read how God the Father

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 responded to God the Son.

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 Therefore, God has highly exalted

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 Him and bestowed on Him

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 the name that is above

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 every name.

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 Notice the humility

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 that the Son displays

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 even reaches to the way

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 He's exalted.

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 He doesn't exalt Himself.

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 Rather, God the Father

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 is the one who exalts

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 God the Son in verse 9.

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 And God just didn't exalt Him.

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 He highly exalted Him.

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 This is classically

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 one of the Apostle Paul's

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 kind of made-up words he does.

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 It literally means

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 hyper-exalted.

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 And most likely,

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 Paul made it up

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 to try to get this sense

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 of the degree by which

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 God the Father exalted the Son.

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 So as a response

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 to the humble,

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 sacrificial obedience

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 to the Son

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 who went to the lowest

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 possible descent,

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 a slave,

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 God the Father

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 raised Him up

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 to the highest

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 possible degree.

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 Highly exalted.

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 And then God the Father

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 bestowed on Him

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 the name that is above

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 every name.

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 Again, it's an expression

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 that gets to

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 degree of exaltation.

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 And so we're left asking,

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 so what's the name?

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 What's the name above

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 every name?

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 Well, we've got two choices.

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 We've got to decide

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 between Jesus,

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 that name,

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 and another name,

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 Lord.

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 And so in verse 10,

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 we read,

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 so that at the name

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 of Jesus,

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 every knee should bow

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 in heaven and on earth

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 and under the earth.

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 So that since in heaven,

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 the angels,

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 and on earth,

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 everyone living,

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 and under the earth,

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 all the dead

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 will be raised up

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 and they will bow the knee

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 one day to Jesus.

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 So it's Jesus

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 and you can make

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 a case for that.

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 But the other option

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 is Lord.

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 And every tongue

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 confess that Jesus Christ

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 is Lord

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 to the glory

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 of God the Father.

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 Now there is a little,

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 there's a little something

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 that makes the case.

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 Would you turn back

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 in your Bibles

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 to Isaiah chapter 45?

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 Isaiah chapter 45.

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 Verses 10 and 11

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 are actually

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 the Apostle Paul

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 quoting

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 Isaiah 45, 23.

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 But he's quoting it

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 in a very interesting way.

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 But in order

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 to understand that,

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 you need to understand

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 who's speaking

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 in Isaiah 45, 23.

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 And in Isaiah 45, 23,

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 we read this.

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 Let's start

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 in verse 22.

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 Turn to me

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 and be saved

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 to all the ends

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 of the earth.

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 For I am God

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 and there is no other.

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 Who's speaking?

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 God.

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 Yahweh.

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 The Lord.

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 By myself

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 I have sworn

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 from my mouth

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 has gone out

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 in righteousness

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 a word

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 that shall not return.

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 To me,

00:19:27.399 --> 00:19:28.379
 every knee

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 shall bow.

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 Every tongue

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 shall swear

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 allegiance.

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 allegiance.

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 When you start

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 realizing

00:19:36.840 --> 00:19:37.660
 that Paul

00:19:37.660 --> 00:19:38.500
 is quoting

00:19:38.500 --> 00:19:40.220
 Isaiah 45, 23

00:19:40.220 --> 00:19:41.580
 and he's quoting

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 God speaking,

00:19:43.600 --> 00:19:44.560
 you start realizing

00:19:44.560 --> 00:19:46.000
 he is attributing

00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.100
 Isaiah 45, 23

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 to Jesus.

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 He's saying

00:19:52.080 --> 00:19:52.640
 Jesus

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 is God.

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 He is the one

00:19:56.980 --> 00:19:58.660
 whom every tongue

00:19:58.660 --> 00:19:59.320
 will confess

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 and every knee

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 will bow.

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 So the name

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 that is above

00:20:03.420 --> 00:20:04.200
 every name

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 it's not

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 Jesus.

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 It's

00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:09.279
 Lord.

00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:10.799
 And the way

00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:11.240
 that Paul

00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:11.759
 is using

00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:12.339
 Lord

00:20:12.339 --> 00:20:14.759
 is the name

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 of God.

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 Yahweh

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 from the Old

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 Testament.

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 So the name

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 that is above

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 every name

00:20:22.940 --> 00:20:25.700
 is the name

00:20:25.700 --> 00:20:26.220
 Lord

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 as in God.

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 Jesus Christ

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 is the Lord God.

00:20:29.539 --> 00:20:30.240
 every knee

00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:30.759
 shall bow

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 and every tongue

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 confess.

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 So on that

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 day when the

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 child who was

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 born in utter

00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:36.440
 humility

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 and who died

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 in utter

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 humiliation,

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 on that day

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 when he returns,

00:20:41.259 --> 00:20:42.299
 his exaltation

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 will be complete.

00:20:45.180 --> 00:20:45.819
 Every knee

00:20:45.819 --> 00:20:46.139
 bows

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 and every tongue

00:20:46.659 --> 00:20:47.279
 confesses

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 that he

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 is the Lord

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 God

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 and God

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 exalted him.

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 All glory

00:20:53.819 --> 00:20:54.259
 to God

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 the Father.

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 What child

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 is this?

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 He's the

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 preexistent

00:21:01.340 --> 00:21:01.779
 Christ

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 fully

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 and truly

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 God

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 who humbled

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 himself

00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:05.620
 by becoming

00:21:05.620 --> 00:21:06.180
 a servant

00:21:06.180 --> 00:21:08.000
 taking on

00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:09.120
 human likeness

00:21:09.120 --> 00:21:09.900
 died on a

00:21:09.900 --> 00:21:10.279
 cross

00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:10.759
 was then

00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:11.259
 exalted

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 think

00:21:11.800 --> 00:21:12.440
 resurrection

00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:13.039
 ascension

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 current reign

00:21:13.900 --> 00:21:14.660
 he was

00:21:14.660 --> 00:21:15.060
 exalted

00:21:15.060 --> 00:21:15.519
 by God

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 the Father

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 and bestowed

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 the name

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 above every

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 name

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 the name

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 Lord

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 God

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 of all

00:21:20.360 --> 00:21:21.539
 he is

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 our Lord

00:21:22.539 --> 00:21:24.019
 what child

00:21:24.019 --> 00:21:24.519
 is this?

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 He's Jesus

00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:29.200
 he's the

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 Lord of all

00:21:29.899 --> 00:21:32.480
 he's Emmanuel

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 God

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 with us

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 how do we

00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:35.539
 respond?

00:21:35.859 --> 00:21:36.700
 We bow our

00:21:36.700 --> 00:21:37.500
 knee to him

00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:38.700
 we confess

00:21:38.700 --> 00:21:39.180
 Jesus

00:21:39.180 --> 00:21:40.099
 as our

00:21:40.099 --> 00:21:40.539
 Lord

00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:41.099
 God

00:21:41.099 --> 00:21:42.379
 we worship

00:21:42.379 --> 00:21:43.119
 him

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 and we

00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:45.019
 demonstrate

00:21:45.019 --> 00:21:45.659
 the same

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 kind of

00:21:46.019 --> 00:21:46.399
 humility

00:21:46.399 --> 00:21:46.980
 to one

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 another

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 as he

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 showed

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 in him

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 becoming

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 flesh

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 so the

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 magi

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 in Matthew

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 2.11

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 had some

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 sense of

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 who this

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 child is

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 we read

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 in going

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 into the

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 house

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 they saw

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 the child

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 with Mary

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 his mother

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 and they

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 fell down

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 and worshipped

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 him

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 then opening

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 their treasures

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 they offered

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 him gifts

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 gold

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 and frankincense

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 and myrrh

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 so despite

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 this child's

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 humble appearance

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 and humble

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 origin

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 and humble

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 surroundings

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 and one

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 day humiliating

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 death

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 the magi

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 knew that

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 this child

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 was the

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 Christ

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 who is

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 the Lord

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 he humbled

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 himself

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 for the

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 salvation

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 of others

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 that's what

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 you go tell

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 on the mountain

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 that Jesus

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 Christ

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 is

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 Lord

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 let's pray

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 God we do

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 thank you so

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 much for

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 Philippians 2

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 we thank you

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 for this

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 day

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 God help us

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 to celebrate

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 the incarnation

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 of the second

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 person of the

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 trinity

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 Merry Christmas

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 it's your plan

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 for the salvation

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 of sinners

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 Lord Jesus

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 we confess you

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 as our Lord

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 now

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 and know one

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 day

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 that every knee

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 shall bow

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 and every tongue

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 confess

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 who you truly

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 are

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 God in the flesh

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 it's in your name

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 we pray

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 amen

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 amen

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 no

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you