did not like it when the people
were shouting Christ's praise. And he rejoiced, though. He said,
Have you not read out of the mouths of babes as thou ordain
praise? I couldn't help but think about
that when I heard Isaac Williams want to start that hymn, The
Lord is King. I couldn't help but think about
when our Hannah was about two years old or less, she'd been
hearing these choruses and these songs for some time and knew
them. The Lord is King, He is Lord,
what Sherry played, He is Lord. One time we were sitting in a
restaurant and she was sitting in her high chair and Mindy and
I were looking at the menu and she just started singing at the
top of her lungs, He is Lord, He is Lord. And we both said,
honey, honey, honey. I said, no, wait a minute. Let's
not shut her up here. If we won't do it, let her do
it. He is Lord. Every knee will bow
and every tongue should confess that He is Lord. Philippians
2, go back there, Philippians 2. Verses 6-9 is what we are going
to look at, well, 6-11, but verses 6-9 is
found one of the most comprehensive declarations of
the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ to be found in God's
Word. And these verses tell us who
he is. where he came from, why he came,
what he did, and where he is now. And finally, give us a command
of what to do because of him, in reference to him. Who is Jesus
Christ? Look at verse 6. This is his
person. We want to look at his person
and his work. That's what this book is all about. I mean, all
of God's word is about the person and work of Christ. Well, who
is he? Verse 6 says, who, speaking of Christ Jesus, who being in
the form of God. That one, that Jesus of Nazareth,
is none other than, was none other than, God Almighty. Isaiah 9.6 declares that plainly,
does it not? Unto us a child is born. Yes,
there was a baby born in a cow stall, and they called his name
Jesus. But the Son is given, the Eternal
Son, who was with the Father from the beginning. The Son,
the Son of God. A child is born, a son is given. He tells us, call his name, wonderful,
counselor, the mighty God. the everlasting Father. That baby was none other than
the Father, the eternal Heavenly Father of the woman who held
him in her arm. It's a mystery, but it's God. God, they said, was manifest
in the flesh. Call his name Emmanuel, which
means God with us. God. John 1 verse 1 and 2 says,
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. The
Word was God. Jesus Christ is, was, and is
none other than God Almighty. Verse 14 of John 1 says, The
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. God took upon himself
the form of flesh, an image. I do want you to to turn to Colossians
chapter 1, Colossians 1, just a few pages over, a couple of
pages, and see that it says that he was in the form of God. Well, God is spirit, right? Whom no man hath seen nor can
see at any time. God is spirit, correct? But God took a form. God took an image, a body hast
thou prepared me, the psalm said. An image. Look at Colossians
1 verse 15, speaking of Christ, says he is the image of the invisible
God, the firstborn. The image of the invisible God,
that's what he says in Hebrews 1 verse 3, he's the express image. Man was created in the image
of God. Adam. But he lost that image. He was created upright, righteous,
but he lost that image when he fell into sin. He lost that image. The image being character, more
than anything. But this man now has the express
image of God. the express image of God. It
says he was equal with God. Verse 6, "...thought it not robbery
to be equal with God." Show that to the Joseph Smithites, the Russellites. He's equal with
God, right? Sister Mary? Brother Mary? He's equal with God. That's the reason the Pharisees,
the people They said, you're just a man, you make yourself
equal with God. Well, it's so. It's so. He's equal with God, equal with
God in essence. Look at John chapter 5. Go back
to John chapter 5. John chapter 5. He's equal with
God in essence. He's spirit, yet he took upon
himself a body. Nevertheless, he has the Spirit
of God. He is equal with God in power
and in glory. John chapter 5, our Lord says
this plainly. John 5, I quoted this, verse
18. The Jews sought the Moor to kill
him because he not only had broken the Sabbath. You see, they were
seventh-day Adventists. That's what they were. And the
Lord said, I'm Lord of the Sabbath, and my people will do exactly
what I permit them to do and tell them to do. And they got
mad at this. And not only that, but he said
God was his Father making himself equal with God. Then answered
Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, the Son can do nothing
of himself. But what he seeth the Father
do, what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son,
and showeth him all things that himself doeth, and he will show
him greater works than these, that ye may be marveled. As the
Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the
Son quickeneth whom he will. The Father judges no man, but
hath committed all judgment unto the Son. that all men should
honor the Son, even as they honor the Father." Less than the Father? No, equal to the Father, the
same honor, the same glory, attributing to Him all the person of the
Godhead. For in Him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead. V. 23, All men should honor.
He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father, which
is Him. That's what Christ said. Who
is Jesus Christ? Go back to Philippians 2. He's
God in the flesh. He's God. Now, this is the mystery. The Trinity, these three, God
Father, Son, Holy Spirit, they're equal. These three are one. You say, I don't understand that. I don't either. But it's something. Alright, who is he? He's God,
in the form of God. He took the form of God. That's
why he's called the Son of God. That doesn't mean he's less than
God the Father, but it means he's the offspring of, the bodily
manifestation of God who is Spirit. That's why he's called the Son
of God. It doesn't make him less than
God. I'm the son of my Father, right? Am I less a man than he
is? No. I'm called the son of him because
I came from him. I'm his offspring, and Christ
was the offspring, the manifestation, the bodily manifestation of the
invisible God. He's understanding that he's
equal with God. And this is where ignorant men,
they can't understand it, so they don't believe it. But if he were not, and we're
going to see in a minute what he has done, who he is gives
credibility to what he's done. If he's not who he is, he couldn't
do what he did. And really, now, this is where
all the error in religion has come from. They really don't
believe he's God, so he didn't save whom he came to save. He didn't purpose to save. His
blood wasn't effectual. He loves everybody just like
we do, and are supposed to, and can't really do anything for
anybody unless they let him. Because they really don't believe
he's God. But now, if he's God, absolute sovereign God, who does
as he will, because he will, with whom he will, then he did
his will. Then he did what he set out to
do, right? You see, who he is gives credibility
to what he did. The Jews argued one time when
he forgave that man his sins. Remember that? Thy sins be forgiven
thee. Oh, they got angry. They said,
Who can forgive sins but God? That's right. So he said, Thy
sins be forgiven thee. Only God can forgive sins. The commandment says, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou worship.
Well, the Lord Jesus Christ allowed men to come and worship him.
If he's not God, he's the biggest idolater there ever was. I mean,
the biggest blasphemer there ever was, right? Allowing men
to worship him if he's not God? Well, he did so because he's
God. Because men can't understand
it doesn't mean it's not so. All right, so who he is gives
credence to what he did, and vice versa. Here's his work. Now, a person is known and remembered
by what they have done, what they have accomplished in this
life. Stay with me. Stay with me, okay? I want this
to be, I hope this will be Christ-exalting. What did Jesus Christ do? What's
his great work? We are remembered by or well
known by according to whatever we accomplish in this life, right? We're thought highly of. We're
given a high reputation or people of renown according to what we
accomplish. If we don't accomplish anything,
nobody knows us or cares about us. It's just a fact, isn't it?
What did Jesus Christ do to make him one of such renown? What
did he do? What was his accomplishment?
Look at the first thing it says. Verse 7. He made himself of no
reputation. This is his first great work. And one of the chief aspects
of his glory and his honor. You know that? This is one of
his chief glories, is that he made himself of no reputation. It says he humbled himself in
verse 7. He humbled himself. In verse
8, he humbled himself. He made himself
of no reputation. Now, this is the one whom angels praised in the beginning before
the world ever was. This is the one, the infinitely
high and glorious one, the word reputation, the word repute,
this is the one who was of the highest repute, not ill repute,
but the highest repute, of the highest known of angels. said
of God in Hebrews 1.8, that even God said to the Son, Thy throne,
O God, is forever. God, even, acknowledges that
his Son is God. God praised and honored his Son
as God. This is the one of highest renown
to God the Father, to the angels, among the cherubs and the seraphs,
before man was ever created. This is the one of whom angels
praised, the highest of the high, okay? But he became, the one of highest
reputation, became an unknown baby. The one of highest reputation,
the one who sat on the throne of glory, of whom angels, seraphs,
cherubs, God himself praised and honored. condescended down
into this little speck of dirt in the midst of a vast universe. And further than that, Scripture
talks about the lowest parts of the earth, that is, the womb
of a woman and became a fetus. Peter said in 1 Peter 1 that
this is what angels desire to look into. This is something
angels cannot comprehend, could not comprehend. God did not explain
to the angels what was going on then. I believe when God the
Son left, took a body, went down and entered into the womb of
that woman, I don't think the angels had a clue what he was
doing. And they were amazed, what is
he doing going down to that place, leaving such a throne to go down
and enter the womb? And then God sent them with that
declaration to the human beings, unto you is born a Savior. I
still don't think that they knew what he was there for and what
he was going to do, but they were just given this declaration
to make. unto you is born a Savior." And he entered into this baby's
body, the womb of a young maiden, born in a cow shed, born in a
stall, a feed trough, a hay manger, a hay rack. Now, you're getting this picture,
you're trying to. I'm trying, I'm doing what's
impossible to do, that is, to adequately describe the condescension
of him who made himself of no reputation. Boy, in a cow shed,
this is part of his glory. Listen to me. This is one aspect,
one great chief aspect of his glorious person and work. He
who was of highest reputation made himself of no reputation. We don't do this. We're born
without a reputation. Man spends all of his days striving
to make a reputation for himself. Right? He who already had the
highest reputation made himself of no reputation, unknown by
any. It was Christ's great glory to
make himself of no reputation, and it says here in verse It
says, "...he took upon him the form of a servant, and was made
in the likeness of men." Now who are we talking about? Go
over to Isaiah 40. Turn with me. Come on, folks.
Turn with me. This is God's Son. This is God's
glory here. I'm about the business this morning
of trying to exalt the Lord. This is His glory. That's why
we meet here, that's what our purpose is, to glorify Him. Come
on now, ask God to give you a heart to glorify Him this morning. The flesh is weak, but Isaiah
40. King David wrote in the psalm,
he said, When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the work of your fingers, the
heavens, not just The heavens, the universe, the solar system,
the work of his fingers. The moon and the stars which
thou hast ordained. God Almighty put every star,
every moon in place, every planet in space, the orbit of them,
everything. Every star, he numbered them
and named them. David said, well, I consider
that. It was eternal power and Godhead, Paul said in Romans
1. When I consider that, David says, what is man? This little infinitesimal creature
on this ball of, this little speck in the universe, what is
man that God would stop and pay attention to, let alone visit
him? Become one of these little creatures. Huh? David said that. Man has a distorted view of himself. Mankind has a distorted view
of mankind. He thinks he's some little great
thing. Man has a wrong opinion of himself,
number one, because he has a wrong opinion about God. He thinks
God's lower than he is and man's higher than he is. He's got it
all wrong. Isaiah 40, look at this glorious
description of our God. I love these verses, love them.
Isaiah 40, verse 10, Behold, the Lord God will come. And He
did. He came. God was manifest in
the flesh. God came. Only God can save us,
right? Isaiah 25, 9 says it. This is
our God. He'll save us. We've waited on
Him. He did, He came. That's what
the whole Old Testament's about. God coming down here to save
his people. Jehovah means God our Savior. God came down here. He's the
only one that could save us. And he came. He came with a strong
hand. See that? Verse 10. I love that.
With a strong hand, his arm. These ten head preachers today
say he doesn't have any hands but your hands. They don't know the God of the
Bible, do they? They must never have read Isaiah
40, verse 10. He's got hands all right, and
they're in it. And he came, yes he did. Who
is he? Verse 12. Who is this one that
came? The one that measured the waters
with the hollow of his hands. The earth was two-thirds water,
the Atlantic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean, on and on
it goes. It says he measured it in his
paw. The vast ocean, incomprehensible
to puny man. God measured it all right there. It's Christ, as we were talking
about, meted out heaven with a span. Heaven was measured,
I mean the heavens of heaven, measured like this. There's no hands but your hands. Comprehended the dust of the
earth in the measure. He knows every atom and particle
of dust. Weighed the mountains and the
scales and hills in a balance. Oh, don't you like that? That's
our God. Verse 15. The nations. Put all
the nations together, they're a drop of the bucket. Oh, the mighty United States
of America, what a great nation this is. It's a drop in the bucket. There have been bigger and more
powerful nations in history. Oh, yes, sir. Where are they
now? Kick the bucket. Look at verse 15. They're counted
as a small dust of balance. The islands are a very little
thing. Verse 17, all nations before him are as nothing. They're nothing. They're less
than nothing. Vanity. All nations. Know what it says?
This one came to earth. That's why David said, why did
you come here? Why did you come here? You remember the story of the
ants I told you last Sunday, that illustration of the ants?
Some of you weren't here, but this happened to me. I was working
on the railroad one time, and ants got in my lunch and just
destroyed my lunch. Well, I destroyed those ants
in anger and wrath. They destroyed what was rightfully
mine, what belonged to me, and I burned them up. Set them on
fire, put them in a lunch and all, ants and trash can, burn
them all up. Well, it would have been real
condescension on my part if I could have, or would have, become one
of those ants, wouldn't it? If I decided and purposed, I'm
going to go down there and tell them what they've done. I'm going to save them. The only
way I can save any of those ants is to become one of them and
to reveal myself. They don't know. They don't know
what they've done. And I'm going to go down in mercy
and infinite condescension to these ants. I wouldn't have to,
would I? But what if I decided to go down there and not try,
but I determined, I picked out. Here, I'm going to save this
ant, save this ant, save this ant. And I'm going to tell each one of
those that I chose, I'm going to tell them, who I really am,
what I have done, why I came. And God, or this one who's angry
with ants, is going to destroy ants, and I'm going to take their
place. You see the picture here? That is not an accurate description
of what Jesus Christ did. He got undescended lower than
that. More so than that. For man is
not a high and noble creature as he thinks he is. Man is the
lowest of all servants. He's lower, the scripture says,
than a worm. That's what God calls the sons
of Jacob. Thou worm, Jacob. That's what this book says. That's what God says about human
beings. The word worm, if you look it
up, means maggot. The word worm is maggot. You've
seen them, haven't you? In your trash can, open up the
trash can, and look at it, and it's a little despicable looking. Is anybody here like maggots?
Anybody? Anybody make a pen out of it? Is there anything lovely about
maggots? I'm not trying to be funny. This is so. This is what the word worm means. Christ said this about himself
when he came, he said, I've become a worm and no man. Is there anything lovely about maggots?
Is there something savable about them? I mean, they're so cute
and lovable and sweet and they're just worth saving. Are they, maggots? That's what God calls man. Why are they called maggots?
What do maggots live on? What do maggots live on? They
only eat one thing, dead flesh, dead meat. They don't eat plants. They eat dead meat. And isn't
that a good picture of mankind, who lives on dead flesh? That's
what he consumes, that's what he, dead works of religion, and
on and on we could go without illustration. is dead, and all
he's concerned with is dead things. Well, God became a worm. Man is not a high and noble creature.
Our Lord said this in Isaiah 1. An ox knows his owner. The
ass is master's crib. But man doesn't know. Or consider. Doesn't even consider. Doesn't
even like to think about God. Adam was a noble creature. The
first man, Adam, and his wife were noble creatures. Created
in the image of God, they were high and noble creatures. What was it that plunged them
into this cesspool of sin? What was the first sin? What
was the first sin? What was the room of sin? What was it that is the author
of sin? What was it that all sin is found
under and because of? Pride. This is why Satan tempted
man. You be like God. You're just
a creature now. Don't you want to be like God?
You have a free will. Exercise it. Who does God think
He is to have His will? And you can't have your will.
Eat that tree! Okay, Adam said, and Eve said,
yeah, we'll be like. We want to be God. Our will be
done. Pride! Wasn't a statement. Pride! He that exalteth himself shall
be what? Man who wanted to be God, as
God, became a worner. But, now here's his work. God who is infinitely high and
glorious, who alone is exalted made himself of no reputation,
humbled himself, took upon himself the form of a servant, humbled
himself. Since pride is man's greatest
sin, and what all sin comes from. verses in all of God's Word.
Isaiah 23. Turn with me. Isaiah 23. This is the purpose of God Almighty,
the mind, the will of God Almighty. Very few human beings have ever
seen this verse, or if they've seen it, they didn't have a clue
what it was saying. Now look at it with me. Isaiah
23, verse 9. It says, The Lord of hosts hath
purposed it. to stain the pride of all glory,
and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. The Lord at host has purposed
it. This is his purpose. This is what he's going to do,
Kellie. He's going to stain the pride, he's going to bring down,
he's going to abase everything and everyone that glories in
anything. A wise man is one day going to
have He can't even remember his own name. The beautiful woman's
going to become a wrinkling mass of flesh. The mighty, strong
man's going to be reduced to a quadriplegic whose glory is
in himself, whose glory is in his mind, his beauty, his strength,
his anything apart from God. To God be the glory. He will
not share his glory with another. Where does God hate pride more
than anything else? Proverbs 6, 16. Six things that
the Lord hates, yea, seven are abomination to him. The number
one thing, listen to me, the world doesn't know this. You
know it. The number one thing God Almighty
hates is a proud look. And you see it on the faces of
most human beings, don't you? It's called haughty eyes, arrogance,
the way they walk, the way they talk, the way they dress, the
way they everything, pride. We can see a little bit of it,
can't we, in people, in ourselves. That's what's most abominable.
We see it in ourselves at times. We can't walk by a mirror without
admiring ourselves. But the fact is, we see it in
people, don't we? We see it, these haughty eyes,
this infinite look, this arrogance of, is there anything more hateful
to you? Huh? Don't you hate it? What is the
most enduring quality of anybody? What is an enduring quality?
What is it that you see in someone that just makes you admire them
and love them and just think, oh, that's a, what a beautiful
person? Humility. Look at those two blessed people
standing before me yesterday. I'm glad they're not here right
now, so I can say this. Who are they? Where'd they come
from? Are these two of the most beautiful
people on the planet? The most talented people on the
planet? The wisest, the most educated, the most talented? Huh? They are the one who looks
on the heart While the movie stars are getting
married a hundred times, those two are going to last. Those
two are going to be in heaven together. That's so. God hates pride. Why does He
hate pride more than anything else? Because 2 Corinthians 4,
verse 7 says, What do we have that we have not received? What
does anybody have that they have not received? Now, if we've received
it, that is, a man can receive nothing except it be freely given
him from above. Now, if we've received it, how
or why would anybody glory as if they hadn't, as if they didn't? That's why God hates pride more
than anything, and that's why Isaiah 23, 9 says he's going
to stain it. He's going to bring down every
infinite human being, every powerful human being that gets glory in
anything. And the only ones He's going
to exalt are those who humble themselves, those who acknowledge
that without Him we can do nothing, without Him we're worthless.
That's the one God Almighty's going to be exalting, and that's
what Jesus Christ did in the place of His people. Humble Himself. Man won't do it. God did. Christ did. I know I'm getting
excited and yelling and doing what I said I wasn't going to
do. I'm going to do it anyway. Just like my daughter. A proud
man strutting and hollering and shouting about himself. Somebody
needs to embrace a proud man. God's going to do it. He's going
to do it. He's set to do it. He purposed it, he says. God became a man. God became
a man. And all around him, these proud
men were looking, saying, look at me, look at me. Do you know
how that just... Even his disciples one day said,
Lord, come look at these temples. Look at what man has done. He
who left heaven. The temple of temples. Even his
disciples were all caught up in what man has accomplished.
Our Lord said, There's not going to be one stone that's standing
on another. All proud flesh is going to be
reduced to a rubble. He had no form of comeliness.
He purposely took upon himself a form that was not appealing
to the flesh. When we see him, the scripture
says there's no beauty about him that we should desire him.
These pictures of this Jesus are all wrong. They've got some
handsome Caucasian fellow. No, apparently he was not beautiful
to look at. Why? He humbled himself. Humbled himself. At this greatest of humility,
look at verse in our text that says, He took upon him the form
of a servant." Oh my! Verse 7, "...took upon him the
form of a servant." Whose servant? Now listen, whose servant did
he become? This little proud worm down here
thinks that God is at his beckoning call. These proud creatures down
on this planet think God's just standing up there, has nothing
better to do. Wait a minute! Jesus is outside right now, outside
their heart's door, hoping they'll let him in. He is not man's servant. Isaiah 42, 1 says, God says,
Behold My servant. This needs to be hollered, this
needs to be declared in this generation. It's got God serving
man. No, no, no, no, no, no. God, the
God-man, Christ came to serve the Father, to serve his purpose. He came to serve God's purpose.
He came to serve God's glory. Nobody else was doing it. He
came to do it. He came to save God's elect. God's servant. Do you see that?
That's vital. Took upon himself the form of
a servant. Oh, he did serve his disciples,
didn't he? He did serve his disciples as
an example. At John 13, where he washed their
feet, he said, You call me Master and Lord, and you say, Well,
so I am. But now, if I, your Lord and
Master, have served you, you do it to one another. If I condescended
in such a way to serve you, how much more should you do it to
one another? He did serve his people. Yes, he did. purpose
was to serve God's purpose. And it says in verse 8, he humbled
himself, became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross. Became obedient. Man wasn't.
Man is not now. No one. I know the scripture
says as obedient children, but none of us are perfectly obedient
children. That's not our hope of glory.
It never will be. Our hope of glory, our only hope
of glory, is that Jesus Christ was the obedient child, the obedient
son. He learned obedience by the same
things he suffered. He obeyed God's holy law for
his people. Obedient as a man. Glorified
God as a man. Humbled himself. He was humble
before God. He truly humbled himself. He
who was equal with God humbled himself. became submissive to.
That's why, Gabe, whenever you read these things about the son
can do nothing of himself for what he sees the father do. The
son takes not what I speak, I speak not of myself. He was as the
obedient, humble servant of God that we should be. I didn't make
him less than God or beneath God, but he's our representative.
He's our substitute. He humbled himself in that way,
to be obedient unto God. even and became obedient unto
death, the scripture says, unto death. Oh my, he didn't have
to die. You see, he voluntarily died. The wages of sin. What we have
earned is death. That is our rightful duty. We
have to die. It's appointed unto man once
to die. We all have to die. That's what is coming to us.
That's what we've got coming to us. But a sinful and a righteous
man cannot die. Jesus Christ could not die unless
he agreed to die. He said, no man taketh my life
from me. I lay it down. I have to will
it. I have to purpose it. I have
to decide to do so. He became obedient even unto
death. I love that when he was hanging
on the cross, the Scripture says he bowed his head. Not that his
head dropped. No, no. It's over. He said, it's finished.
I've done the work. And he committed his spirit to
God. We can't do that. We can't just
up and leave our body. He did. He said, Father, into
thy hands I commit my spirit. And he bowed his head. Left his
body. He died. He killed himself. Wielded. Obedient unto death. Why? He was doing that for his people.
He was doing that for his people. Made sin for us. See, who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Even the death of the cross, it said. Oh, my. The cross, the cross. You hear
a lot about this. People drag them around. People
wear them around the neck. They wear them in their ears.
Everybody talks about the cross, the cross, the cross. The cross was the most shameful. Nobody knows anything about the
cross today, or they wouldn't be making so much of it. It is
the most horrible, torturous, shameful thing known to man. It was an instrument of Roman
cruelty. The Romans, who were masters
of cruelty, were masters of torture and inflicting long and slow
and painful deaths upon whoever there was their enemy. put them
on a cross to die a slow death. It was the most embarrassing,
humiliating thing known to man. Strip them naked where the whole
population would gaze at their naked body and spit on them and
hurl insults at them. The cross. He said, even the
death of the cross. Why did he go through the cross?
Why did Jesus Christ get up on a cross? Why didn't he just die
without the cross? Why did he go through such a
humiliating death? Why did the Lord accept to be
tortured and spit on and all that? Why? Because that's what
man deserves. to be publicly humiliated before
everybody. A man who has exalted himself
all the days of his life, never acknowledged God, taking glory
in himself, deserves to be exposed, don't we? Don't we? Deserves
to be exposed before everybody. See, he's not so pretty, is he?
He's not so sweet, is he? He's a murderer and a thief and
a criminal. He deserves to be exposed before
everybody. He lived 40, 50, 60, 70 years
without God giving God a thought he deserves to die a slow and
painful death for getting the glory. See that? Does that open up a little bit
why Christ went to that cross? Plus, it had to be a bloody thing.
He's the Lamb of God. It's the blood of Jesus Christ,
God's Son, that cleanses us. The life of the flesh is in the
blood. Christ had to die. It had to
be clear that he's dead. And a soldier came by and slit
his insides open, and all his bowels came out. Blood poured
all over the ground. It was a hideous, horrible, despicable
sight. And it left no doubt that this
man is dead. He's been publicly humiliated,
tortured, and he's dead. He is no more. Christ was doing that for his
people. Bridget Hardy was here. She sings
a psalm, I should have been crucified. I should have suffered and died. took my place. We should be put
to shame. We should be rejected of God
and man. But God did it to himself. Did it to himself. I'd like one time in my life
to preach Christ crucified. I mean, really. to where people
could really see what happened there. And you see, people are
so commercialized and ignorant, they take that horrible thing,
a symbol, they make it a form of pride. You know that? They make it a form of pride.
People aren't wearing those things to bring honor to Jesus Christ,
but to themselves. They're showing everybody, look
at me, I'm a Christian. Huh? That's another form of pride. When Paul said, God forbid that
I should glory save in the cross of my Lord, he wasn't talking
about that wooden symbol, and he sure wasn't talking about
something he wore. No, it's the cross of Christ,
the work of Christ upon that tree. God forbid that I should
bring any attention whatsoever to myself. But to him and him alone be all
the glory. Well, look at this. Verse 9, I've got to quit. Wherefore, since he did this,
since he willingly did this, made himself of no reputation,
Jeanette, you're listening well, and I'm going to preach to you.
Since he did this, didn't have to do it, and he did it, made
himself of no, he who was of infinite reputation, made himself
of no reputation, humbled himself, became a worm, no matter, became
obedient even to the death of the cross, the most horrible
death known. Wherefore, God hath highly exalted
him. God hath highly exalted him.
No longer, people, no longer. Roman Catholicism has a prayer
that they pray. They pray it by rote. It's a
little repetitious prayer. They pray and say, gentle Jesus,
meek and mild, have mercy on us, your child. He ain't gentle
Jesus no more. He came down to this earth. Kelly,
he came down to this earth as gentle Jesus. He said, take my
yoke upon you and learn of me. I'm meek and lowly. Why did he
do it? He humbled himself, became a man as an obedient son under
the Father to do for us a work. But when he got through with
it, he went back and sat at the right hand of the majesty on
high, higher than high. He's not gentle Jesus anymore. He's the judge of the universe. All authority is given unto me
in heaven and earth, he said. God has highly exalted him and
given him a name above every name. Jesus? No, he had that
name when he was down here. By virtue of him humbling himself,
he's got another name that's above every name. What is it? Look at it with me. At the name
of Jesus, every knee should bow. Everything. Things in heaven,
angels do bow. Things in earth, men should bow.
All men will bow. Some do right now, by God's grace. Things under the earth, devil's
mouth, that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord. A name above every name. He's
Lord of Lords. He's King of Kings. The King's heart is in the hands
of this Lord. King of kings and Lord of lords,
every tongue, to the glory of God the Father. Every tongue. And so in fulfillment of what
Christ himself said, he said, he that humbleth himself shall
be exalted. That's what he said, didn't he?
He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. He did and he was
and he is. But he that exalteth himself.
It doesn't matter what it is. Religion. Anybody that exalts
anything in their religion, whether it be their whatever it is in
religion, anything, shall be a basil. No flesh should glow
in his presence. The last became the first, didn't
it? The least became the greatest,
just like he said. Just like he said, my, my. Best I can do it. All right,
let's sing a closing hymn. What number have we got? 449? 449. To God be the glory. That's a good hymn. Let's stand
as we sing hymn number 449. the first and second verses of
life. To God be the glory, great things
He hath done So loving the world that He gave us His Son To be
ill in His life and atonement for sin And open the life gate
that all may go in Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the
earth hear His voice! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the people rejoice! O come unto the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He has done. O perfect redemption, the purchase
of blood, to every believer the promise of God, the vilest offender
who truly believes, that moment from Jesus the pardon receives. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice. O come to the Father through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. I'll pour you a cup of tea