Here on earth it is otherwise. Hebrews 10): The Jewish slave wishing, for the love he bare his master, to continue in his service, had his ear fastened for a while with an awl to his master's door in token of his abiding always in his service. He suffered without the gate (Hebrews 12:12; Leviticus 24:14).3. Sin was the great bankrupt that brought all to beggary, and so poverty is the likeness of sin. Sinless. What in reason can be more powerful towards working penitential sorrow and religious fear, and stimulating true obedience?8. This exaltation is —. To His Father. In amplification of this, the principal act of Christ's humiliation, note —I. Progressive. As the reward of His obedience Jesus was empowered with the prerogative of bestowing the gift of eternal life on all that believe on His name.(R. And being found in appearance as a man...." (2:7-8a), The meaning of the Greek words themselves are clear enough. Glorious Kingdom, The 2. Exodus 21:6).I. No point is more fruitful in wholesome instruction, more forcible to kindle devout affections, more efficacious in affording incentives to a pious life.1. It was very notorious, and lasted a competent time. (2) Let our lives run out for Christ in a vigorous activity (2 Corinthians 5:14, 15; Titus 2:14). Had He suffered by private malice, His obedience had been less remarkable.4. 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." But it is not humble courtesy, but humble obedience here. Christ as man had within Himself the foundations of a true merit, and by His Divine personality communicated to His actions an infinite value.2. Our Saviour in any other way could hardly have displayed so many virtues to such advantage. He became obedient unto death. (4) Death. (2) Let our lives run out for Christ in a vigorous activity (2 Corinthians 5:14, 15; Titus 2:14). Merit ceased with the Cross: what follows is reward (John 19:30).4. Is this submission and confession voluntary? He gave His life with all its preciousness, a freewill offering, a priceless sacrifice "of a sweet-smelling savour unto God."(J. And reason: that member of all others is our glory (Psalm 57:8), our peculiarity above the beasts; they will be taught to bow, we have tongues to do something more than they. "(2)Aggravated "death of the cross."2. Inured to poverty.4. λόγος we must say somewhat; ὀμοῦ, do it together, not some speak and others keep mute; εξ, speak out, not whisper. (Matthew 16:19; Revelation 3:7; Revelation 1:18; Revelation 20:2-3). As our Saviour freely undertook a life of the greatest meanness and hardship, so we might be pleased to undergo such a death. "Render unto Caesar," etc.IV. He came in order to do. He is not the solitary conqueror entered into His rest; but the forerunner and earnest of His saints. It will incline us to submit cheerfully to God's will to remember that Christ learned obedience by the things He suffered.(L. The Greeks, then, in consistence with their own wisdom, could not reasonably scorn the Cross, which Christ freely chose to recommend the most excellent virtues to imitation.II. 3. Yet after all, with this combination of natural, super natural, and Divine energies in the work of Christ, its claim on Divine retribution must rest on some covenant or promise. 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?" What in reason can be more powerful towards working penitential sorrow and religious fear, and stimulating true obedience?8. God has entered into covenant with man in Christ to crown with a reward those works which Christ first wrought in Himself, and after wards by His grace should work through His members. He appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh (Romans 8:3). )Christ's humiliation and exaltationBishop Andrewes. But this grace is not the grace of adoption, but that of union. )The humanity of ChristJ. God was pleased to prosecute it, as thereby no wise to impair but rather to advance His glory. He took the nature of all, and thus merited for all (Hebrews 2:14). "the name of Jesus. 2. Hutchinson, D. D.)Obedient unto deathW. (c) But if given Him ἐχαρίσατο "of grace," where is the merit then? Answer. There stands in a Strasburg church a monument suggestive in its sculptured group. They in heaven "cast down their crowns and fall down" and confess Him singing (Revelation 4:10); they under the earth are thrown down and made His footstool (Psalm 110:1); they on earth, as in the midst, partake of both. "Though He were a Son," etc. (5) In deep thoughts he had the counterpart of ours, the shrinking back of the obedient and willing spirit as it recoils from nature's throes. But death, in the person of Jesus, was the culminating catastrophe in the history of the "Man of sorrows." (3) He farther requires somewhat from the tongue. Not so.II. For what cause? "the name of Jesus. JESUS BECAME OBEDIENT UNTO DEATH in that —1. "(1) Of this giving three doubts arise. He gave His life with all its preciousness, a freewill offering, a priceless sacrifice "of a sweet-smelling savour unto God."(J. But although He merited for all, all do not receive the grace He purchased. That staggers the best of us. But this grace is not the grace of adoption, but that of union. The nature of His kingdom was thereby signified. God has entered into covenant with man in Christ to crown with a reward those works which Christ first wrought in Himself, and after wards by His grace should work through His members. So our Lord, as His answer to Pilate testifies, received the human judgment as God's. How free and forward to do His will. But Christ Jesus in His perfect obedience died, because He so willed, and when and as He willed. Death is the wages of sin. He might have avoided it (Matthew 26:53), but so far from that He anticipated His executioners (John 19:33). (4) Death. Merit ceased with the Cross: what follows is reward (John 19:30).4. (d)Constantly (Psalm 119:112). How could this happy design be compassed in consistence with the glory, justice, and truth of God?3. Either fall on our knees now, or be cast on our faces then; either confess Him with saints and angels, or with devils and damned spirits. The justice of God is satisfied; the law is fulfilled; Satan is subdued; sin is abolished as it binds over to punishment, and is reflected in the conscience by way of accusation; death is slain. See Jesus under the lash and on the cross the slave.5. Personal. "the name of Jesus. 1 & 2 Timothy In becoming a man He did not necessarily become mortal, for mortality is not an essential condition of humanity. highest placeand gave him the name that is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,in heaven and on earth and under the earth, "The Scripture marks the special stages of His humiliation.1. Is it then to be said, in the ignorance of our pride, in the supercilious presumption of our poor narrow thought, that the Infinite One must always be in Divine state and glory, in one manifestation, in one form of His infinite life, that whatever transpires in the history of the world or the universe, He can do nothing except what He has been forever doing — speak no new word — make no new revelation of Himself? Sinless. INFERENCES.1. Christ was always obeying inward principle. (1) Otherwise our sins could not be atoned for. O. Mackay.During one of the campaigns in the American Civil War, when the winter weather was very severe, some of Stonewall Jackson's men having crawled out in the morning from their snow-laden blankets, half frozen, began to curse him as the cause of their sufferings. )Obedient unto deathR. A creature is indispensably subjected to the law of its Maker, by virtue of its creatureship and dependence, and is involved in no humiliation. None but a spiritual kingdom could He have designed who submitted to this suffering.3. 9; Hebrews 2:9; Luke 24:26, 46; Psalm 110:7; Hebrews 12:2). H. Giles, B. A.I.A VOLUNTARY death.II.A death of INFINITE LOVE.III.A death of KINGLY POWER.IV.A death of TERRIBLE BODILY PAIN AND MYSTERIOUS MENTAL ANGUISH.V.A death of CALM ASSURANCE.(R. He veiled the very humility wherewith He humbled Himself to be obedient, so that Satan thought that He might be tempted through pride. But the Son of God is the Law Maker. Thus it was that Christ went down to His grave, and when He rose and was glorified the great representative principle went on. (3)The Spirit assisting the Son to offer Himself without spot.2. UPON WHAT GROUNDS CHRIST THUS HUMBLED HIMSELF TO DEATH.1. Not to Lazarus' life again, but to life immortal; from shame to the glory of the Father which shall never fade, as all here shall.2. He took the nature of all, and thus merited for all (Hebrews 2:14). A. (3) It was not Absalom's humility, in show, his heart being full of pride and rebellion. The grace of a humble mind is that it is too humble to look humble. That His will and testament might be firm and effectual (Hebrews 9:16, 17; Luke 22:20).4. But though thus many tongues, one confession that "Jesus Christ is Lord. (a) How given. The issues are a inability to take a compliment. (4) But there is an obedience which cometh from natural reason; but some other there be wherein there is no other reason but the will of a lawful superior. H. Giles, B. 2. But it is not humble courtesy, but humble obedience here. A. Active and passive.II. But neither of these possibilities were consistent with the mission of Jesus. How did He do it? Even in Christ grace imparted worth to His natural actions (John 5:19). (1) Your time is not your own. (2) "Himself." This honour is awarded Christ for the death of the Cross; shall we, then, rob Him of it? THE PERMANENCE OF THAT FASHION. They in heaven "cast down their crowns and fall down" and confess Him singing (Revelation 4:10); they under the earth are thrown down and made His footstool (Psalm 110:1); they on earth, as in the midst, partake of both. The heinousness of our sins.3. He took the nature of all, and thus merited for all (Hebrews 2:14). 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. When Adam lost the likeness, the great design of God was to restore it. God, though He have so exalted it, yet reckons it not exalted until we exalt it too. 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. (1) "He humbled" — so great a person. —(1) Poverty. "FOR THIS CAUSE."1. In the latter sense the Cross outstrips all other portions of our Saviour's life in its value. Where was there a Mediator worthy to intercede on our behalf? But it is not humble courtesy, but humble obedience here. 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. His choice of Nazareth as a home, the name of which fastened a stigma and a prejudice upon Him all His days.3. But why such a death, since any would have been sufficient; and why such a death odious alike to Jew and Gentile?1. That He that hath the power of death might be destroyed (Hebrews 2:14).6. The assertion that God cannot lay aside some of what we may call the accidents of His being, and invest Himself in another way, is almost to assert that He is not God at all.(A. In amplification of this, the principal act of Christ's humiliation, note —I. Not, however, that suffering in itself is acceptable to God; the thief suffered; it was the way in which the purpose for which it was borne which made it acceptable.3. Could He become a suitor to His offended self? In HIS INCARNATION. B. Pusey, D. D.)Condescension of ChristM. It is well to drive away superstition, but it will be well not to drive away reverence with it. Where was there a Mediator worthy to intercede on our behalf? λόγος we must say somewhat; ὀμοῦ, do it together, not some speak and others keep mute; εξ, speak out, not whisper. (1) God had made the power of Jesus to do His work depend on His faithfulness. They never made out their service. Christ cannot be the name of God, for God cannot be anointed. Pharaoh was humbled by His ten plagues. His time while He lived on earth was not His own but theirs. The better sort get to their knees gladly, and cheerfully confess Him. (1) It is a law of the mind that it grows. The atoning value of the Cross lay in the removal of a hindrance: its meritoriousness acquired a positive gain. Matthew 12:18), and "bondservant" (Psalm 11:6; cf. Ordinances, however precious, are humbling because the badge of a fallen state.2. 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. At death the slave might be scourged and tortured as none other might, and the bitterest and vilest death was assigned to Him. (2) It must be voluntary. The heinousness of our sins.3. He went on in His service in the righteousness of His life, being obedient unto death (ver. Not to Lazarus' life again, but to life immortal; from shame to the glory of the Father which shall never fade, as all here shall.2. ITS PRACTICAL EFFICACY. (a) To Him. )The passion of our blessed SaviourL. It should yield great joy to know that Christ hung there not only as a resolute sufferer, but as a noble conqueror over the devil, the world, the flesh, death, wrath, enmity, and strife, etc.4. (2) It must be voluntary. 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. But how could God undertake the business? 10. λόγος we must say somewhat; ὀμοῦ, do it together, not some speak and others keep mute; εξ, speak out, not whisper. So, to warm up your thinker, we’re going to have a little quiz: Name That Christmas Carol – match these words with the right Christmas carol… It should give us a humbling sense of our weakness and vileness to know that we needed such succour. Raleigh, D. D.We have no difficulty in conceiving how a man of highest virtue, and noblest birth, and clearest intelligence, could assume an outward garb which would completely belie or hide his real character. Accordingly this death did not fall on Him by surprise or chance. But Christ's obedience was unto —(a) Death. Of all causes not for that, says the world. "(2) That we are conscious of joy and sorrow. His humility. He forewent not things without Him only; He forewent Himself He, the Creator, not only made Himself to need the creatures which He had formed, and was without them — He was hungry and thirsty, and wearied — but even in the things which He wrought, He depended not alone on the Godhead within Him but on the Father. Even so; rather than lose His obedience He lost His life. For one of mean estate to be humble is no great praise, it were a fault were he not; but for a king, nay the King of kings to show this great humility, is a cause indeed. (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). But Christ's obedience was unto —(a) Death. Matthew 12:18), and "bondservant" (Psalm 11:6; cf. He suffered without the gate (Hebrews 12:12; Leviticus 24:14).3. At death the slave might be scourged and tortured as none other might, and the bitterest and vilest death was assigned to Him. To be scorned by men.4. To own that title you must not regard it as a figure of speech. (Bishop Andrewes.)HumilityJ. Harris.During the wars of the first Napoleon, in a naval engagement, the son of the captain of a vessel was placed by his father at a certain post and charged to keep it till his return. "We know," say they, "that this man is a sinner." The Cross was the ultimate limit of those labours which purchased a reward. Thus if Adam in Paradise, and some of His fallen descendants were to perform the same virtuous action, the act of the former would have more merit in the one sense; the act of the latter in the other. There stands in a Strasburg church a monument suggestive in its sculptured group. He obeyed the law. (c) Every knee and tongue. 10. They had it of men, He of God. So our Lord, as His answer to Pilate testifies, received the human judgment as God's. How could this happy design be compassed in consistence with the glory, justice, and truth of God?3. The expressions which assert Christ's incarnation imply His Deity. Death at his side is touching him with his inevitable dart, and he is represented as descending with manly step, but saddened brow, into the sepulchre yawning at his feet. Adam was human, but he was not created mortal. H. Giles, B. A.I.A VOLUNTARY death.II.A death of INFINITE LOVE.III.A death of KINGLY POWER.IV.A death of TERRIBLE BODILY PAIN AND MYSTERIOUS MENTAL ANGUISH.V.A death of CALM ASSURANCE.(R. Barrow, D. D.1. The better sort get to their knees gladly, and cheerfully confess Him. There was the humiliation of the flight and exile into Egypt. Obediently. He trod not one step awry in sin, but many of the footsteps of sin appeared upon Him: e.g. 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. But death, in the person of Jesus, was the culminating catastrophe in the history of the "Man of sorrows." He was the most obedient of Sons to His heavenly Father — "I can of Myself do nothing."III. This honour is awarded Christ for the death of the Cross; shall we, then, rob Him of it? From death to life, from shame to glory, from the form of a servant to the dignity of a sovereign. It all hinges on the His temptation. Application: Three uses may be made of this doctrine.1. 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. In HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.1. Christ cannot be the name of God, for God cannot be anointed. As our Saviour freely undertook a life of the greatest meanness and hardship, so we might be pleased to undergo such a death. This death best suited the character of His undertaking. The captain was killed, and his vessel given over to the enemy. He entered into this service by His being born holy for us, and remained so to the end. Let all be exhorted to flee to Christ, and by faith embrace Him, and the service performed by Him as their only plea for life and salvation. So we are to esteem it above every name, and to show our esteem by bowing with the knee and confessing with the tongue. For if Christ be not absolutely a man, if His divinity come in, in the least degree, to qualify His humanity, then He practically ceases to be an example, and, indeed, a substitute.I. Willingly. We deserve open condemnation and exemplary punishment, wherefore He was pleased to undergo not only an equivalent pain for us, but in a sort equal blame before God and man.3. (1)Voluntary — "humbled Himself."(2)"Obedient. But what name was given here? The justice of God is satisfied; the law is fulfilled; Satan is subdued; sin is abolished as it binds over to punishment, and is reflected in the conscience by way of accusation; death is slain. In becoming a man He did not necessarily become mortal, for mortality is not an essential condition of humanity. This, ignominious in itself, exposed the sufferer to the scorn of the rude vulgar.2. )Christ's humiliation and exaltationBishop Andrewes. (1) These are outward acts: so the exalting of the soul is not enough. He was the most obedient of Sons to His heavenly Father — "I can of Myself do nothing."III. Vaughan, M. For God therefore to be liable to any claim, He must have graciously condescended to involve Himself in an obligation. Him and others had it also (Hebrews 4:8; Haggai 1:1). (Matthew 16:19; Revelation 3:7; Revelation 1:18; Revelation 20:2-3). He is, on the contrary, bound to conserve it, if he car, do so without the sacrifice of higher interests. The vehemence of His love.2. For exhortation. Christ always set His life to the meridian of Scripture — "It is written. Born in a stable.2. 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