Highly Exalted

Q: What does the Bible say about the glory of Jesus?

The Bible declares Jesus as highly exalted, with His name above every name, demonstrating His authority and divine nature (Philippians 2:5-11). The apostle Paul in Philippians 2:5-11 highlights the glory of Jesus Christ, affirming that He was in the form of God and did not consider equality with God something to be grasped. Instead, He humbled Himself, taking the form of a servant and became obedient to the point of death on the cross. Because of His humility and obedience, God has highly exalted Him, giving Him a name that is above every name, which signifies His ultimate authority and sovereignty over all things. This passage encapsulates the profound truth that Jesus, though He served as our humble servant and substitute, is also the sovereign Lord of creation, deserving of all glory and praise.

Q: How do we know that Christ's work of salvation is successful?

Christ's successful work of salvation is evident because He humbled Himself and accomplished redemption, which led to His exaltation by God (Philippians 2:9). The assurance of Christ's successful work of salvation is grounded in His obedience and commitment to the Father's will. As articulated in Philippians 2:8, He became obedient unto death, even the death on the cross. This sacrificial act not only fulfilled the demands of divine justice but also secured the redemption of God's chosen people. The exaltation of Christ by God, as stated in verse 9, serves as powerful confirmation of His successful mission. If Christ had failed in His mission or if His sacrifice was not efficient for the salvation of His people, He would not have been exalted. Additionally, the concept that He died specifically for His people reinforces the truth that His sacrifice was perfectly effective, as it guarantees the salvation of those for whom He died.

Q: Why is it important for Christians to understand Christ as our servant?

Understanding Christ as our servant emphasizes His humility and the unconditional nature of His love and sacrifice for His people (Philippians 2:7). Recognizing Christ as our servant is crucial for Christians because it reveals His selfless love and the nature of His ministry. As stated in Philippians 2:7, He took on the form of a servant, which illustrates the depths of His humility and His willingness to serve those He came to save. This understanding compels believers to reflect on their own call to servanthood and humility, following the example set by Christ. It also assures believers of His profound commitment to their well-being, as He did not serve out of obligation but from a position of love. The actions of Jesus as a servant challenge Christians to live lives of service to others, reflecting the transformative love that Christ has shown them.

First hour, we heard about the humility of Christ found in our text, and we have the same text this hour, five through 11, chapter two of Philippians. First hour, we focused on his humility and what, how amazing the condescension of our Savior and what he accomplished, how he humbled himself and how glorious it was, it is. This hour is, we're gonna be talking about the glory. of our Savior, the glory of our Savior.

There are many passages that clearly declare him as high. Rob was, in his prayer, mentioned Isaiah. Isaiah says, in the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up. And he was seated. And his train filled the temple. That's one example of the Lord being sovereign being the works finished, there's so much in that.

But our passage here tells us about him being all powerful, that his purpose reigns supremes. And perhaps in our text, it's one of the greatest and clearest declarations of those things, talking about our Lord. Here in our text, it states that even his name is above every name. Even his name is above every name.

Let's read this together. Verse five, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow at things in heaven and things in earth, things under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

His name is above every name. He has been highly exalted. That's what I've titled this message, highly exalted. This passage stands as one of the most definitive past tense declarations of our successful redeemer, our successful salvation, the Lord's salvation that he wrought for his people. He would not have been exalted if he would have been a failure. And did you know that if he died for everybody and somebody goes to hell, he was a failure? He died in vain. He couldn't save him. He only died for his people.

He's highly exalted because he finished the work given to him by the father. Before the world began, he elected a people. The son agreed to humble himself, as we heard the first hour, and redeem those people. And in time, the spirit regenerates those people. He sends his spirit and power and regenerates them.

Therefore, God has highly exalted him, the successful redeemer of his people, the Lord Jesus Christ, and given him a name that's above every name. They said, call his name, Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sin. He didn't say call his name, Jesus, because he's going to do his very best to save his people from their sin. He didn't say he's going to try to save his people from their sin. He said that he's going to save his people from their sin.

God, therefore hath highly exalted him because he humbled himself as a servant, because he honored the father as our substitute charity, and because he finished the work as our savior. So first he humbled himself as a servant, let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus. Verse five, verse six, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant. This is why God has highly exalted him. He took upon himself the form of a servant.

Can you imagine God serving you? Think about that. God serving you. What did you deserve for God to serve you? Scripture says at the marriage supper of the Lamb, the Lord's going to girt himself and serve his people. Can you imagine sitting at his table and the King being the one serving you?

That's what he's going to do. Why? He took upon himself the nature of a servant. He took the form, I'm sorry, the form of a servant. He humbled himself. It's amazing to me that our service is always based, it's a selfish service, it truly is, always has to be because we're selfish creatures, but somebody, if I was to tell you I go to work, I provide for my family, well, yeah, that's what you're supposed to do.

They would tell me that, but why do I do that? Well, I don't want to look like a deadbeat. I don't want to look like a, Like I don't love my family. I don't want to look a certain way. So am I doing it for the right reason? Well, I do it because I love her too. I do it because I love my children. That's true.

But the Lord did it perfectly. He served perfectly without sin. He served under the father. He served his people. And it's amazing to me that the God of this universe, the sovereign creator, the sustainer of all life. The one who commanded light to shine out of darkness. Now think about that. It's just complete blackness is all that exists. The Lord said, let there be, and boom, it was there. Let there be light. And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good.

He became a servant to creatures of dust, to creatures of sin, to creatures that are selfish and prideful. and arrogant so that we might be made the very righteousness of God in him. He didn't save us for us, he saved us for his own sake, my name's sake. It's completely based upon his mercy, upon his grace, upon his purpose, all for his glory.

Our servant, the Lord Jesus. And that's even saying that kind of makes you shudder a little bit because you're like, wow, he's my servant. He became, yeah, for his people, he became a servant. Is that not remarkable? King of kings and Lord of lords became our surety, became our substitute, became his people's servant.

His people's servant. Christ is seen as the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He humbled himself as a servant. He was a servant to his father. He said, I come to do thy will, O God. I come to do thy will. In the garden, he prayed, nevertheless, not my will, but thy will be done. He became A servant, the form of a servant.

And what's amazing to me is he took that upon himself. Do you see how it reads there? He took that. He chose that. He chose that title. He chose that position. He chose that work so that you and I could be saved. And if he hadn't, we would not have any hope. We certainly can't serve him on our own. We certainly couldn't save ourself on our own, as we heard the first hour. He had to do it, and that's exactly what he did by becoming a servant. We're selfish.

He was selfless. He was selfless. He glorified the Father in everything that he did. He laid his life down for his people that we might be redeemed back to God. He saved his people from their sin. He was selfless. No greater love hath any man than this, that a man would lay down his life for his friends. He was selfless. I don't know that it's humanly possible for us to do something selfless completely. I don't think it is because everything we do is tainted with sin. Everything he did was selfless. Perfect. Perfect. He was God-honoring in everything he did.

Are we God-honoring in everything we do? No. No, I'd like to think we're God-honoring sometimes, but I'm gonna put my hand over my mouth, not gonna speak anymore, because every time I do, I'm not honoring God with my sinfulness. We talked about it this morning back in the men's study, even preaching, if the Lord doesn't bless it, it's vanity, it's vanity. I'm a creature of clay, a creature of sin. So whatever we do is sinful, it's tainted. Everything I touch, I defile. Everything he touched, he cleansed. Think about that. Everything he touched, he cleansed.

The woman that had the issue of blood, you know what's interesting about that story? If you would have had a sickness back then of any kind, they believed in bloodletting. Do you know what that is? That's where they drain blood out of your body. Now, this poor woman had an issue of blood. She was bleeding for a long time, years. Spent all of her money on doctors.

But you know what those doctors would have done? They would have bloodlet. I find that interesting, because that's all false religion can do, isn't it? It can't fix the problem. It can just make you bleed more. I mean, honestly, it can't help. It just makes it worse. That's how George Washington died. Did you know that? He had a cold and they bloodlet too much and he died. That's just a fun fact. I don't know why I even told you that.

So she goes to the Lord, crawls to the Lord through the crowd and she touches the hem of his garment. She says, if I could but touch the hem of his garment, I know I'll be made whole. Why? Because everything that touched him or everything that he touched was made perfect. And he touched her or she touched him, the hem of his garment. And the Lord stopped and said, somebody touched me. The disciple says, well, yeah, there's a lot of people around. We know people touch. He said, no virtue. Virtue has went out from me. Somebody touched me.

And she confessed. She confessed unto the Lord. And the Lord had a conversation with her. He wasn't angry about it. Be it unto you as your faith. He was telling her she had faith to believe. People that have faith to believe, that's God-given faith. That's not their faith in God. That's his faith given to believe him. That means she was a sister. She was a sister. It wasn't her belief that healed her. It was whom she believed in that healed her. There's the difference.

She touched him and was made perfectly whole. Perfectly whole. He honored God in everything. Everything he touched was cleansed. Nothing could defile him. I love the thought that you had all those lepers that came to him. He didn't have to be afraid of getting leprosy. He's God. Do we get that? He didn't have to be afraid. He healed them. Leprosy back then, that was incurable. It was incurable back then, but he healed them.

It's a picture of our sin, leprosy from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet. A lot of people believe that they're sinners, but they only believe they're a little bit sinful. They have a little bit of leprosy here and there and places. Well, until you have a leprosy from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet, the priest will not declare you as clean. But if you have leprosy from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet, if you're white all over, the priest will declare you clean.

What do you mean by that? That means you've been made a complete sinner. That's what that means. 100% sinful. This is a metaphor, but it means that God has made you a sinner. Therefore, you need a savior. God will never make a sinner not have faith to believe the savior. He won't give you repentance and not give you faith. They go hand in hand. You won't read in scripture, you're never given repentance without giving faith.

They are double, They're double-sided. It's the same concept. He causes us to see us as we are, causes us to see him as we are, and we believe him over self. We're made clean. It doesn't make sense, but the dirtier you are, the cleaner you are. Explain that one. The dirtier you can see yourself, the cleaner you are, because he only cleans up wretched, vile, dead dog sinners. He only makes them perfectly righteous.

And I love that no matter how bad you are, no matter how bad I am, it cannot change the blood. It cannot negatively affect the blood. The blood's too powerful. It's all sufficient to cleanse every stain. It's all sufficient to put away every sin. There's nothing that I can do that prevents the blood from accomplishing the salvation of God's people. Nothing I can do. I can't break it. I can't mess it up. I can rest in that.

Every step our Lord took, he was looking to the Father. Every step that you take, do you look to the Father? Do you look to Christ in everything that you do? I wish I did. I wish I did. I wish I... Somebody mentioned to me even recently, they said, well, if I believe what you believe, I would live life however I wanted to live. There wouldn't be any rules. He's talking about the laws when he's talking about it. If I lived how I wanted to live, I would think on Christ 24-7. I would think of nothing else but Him. I would serve Him perfectly if I could live like I wanted to.

That's what's going to be so glorious about heaven. He's going to be the the sum and substance of heaven. He's going to be the focal point in so much that we have the picture of the streets of gold, the walls of Jasper, gate of one pearl, all those things. And what that does is it says even gold is going to be pavement in heaven compared to him.

And that one of our most valuable resources, just going to be pavement. So if you bring all your gold with you, when you can't, you've never seen a U-Haul being pulled by a hearse. If you bring all your gold with you to heaven, you would just be greeted by, no, you brought pavement to the Lord.

That's, do you any good? It's because he is so glorious. He is so wonderful. He's the light of the city there. And that light became a servant on this earth. And that light was the life of man. John chapter one. Turn to John chapter one. Turn to John chapter one. We'll read that together. John chapter one, verse one, where did it all start? In the beginning. That's where it all started. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made in him was life. And the life was the light of men and the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended him not. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe. He was not the light, but was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. He came to his own and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the father, as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and full of truth.

His life was the light of the world. So the eternal light, he is light. Let's just establish that. That's what he's saying, he is light. There's no light without him. When the Lord said, let there be light, that's a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ shining forth in darkness. That's what he does. He comes to you and I, darkness, and he says, let there be light. He sends his spirit and power and he illuminates us.

And then we see that we're sinners. We don't have a covering. We see him as the savior, as our life. And we see that our life is hid with God in Christ. He's the one that has to do that. He's the one that has to do that. The Lord Jesus Christ. The light of glory. Became a servant. Became a servant. For the salvation.

Of his people. He didn't desire or seek praise of men as you and I would. He honored the father in every thought in every action in every word in every detail. He honored the father and the glorious part of our substitute is that that he's our substitute and that everything he did was put to our account. It was laid to our, uh, I was going to say charge. I don't think that's the right word. It was, it was given to us, his people.

Now, when the Lord sees us, we have honored God in every word and every action and every thought and every deed. We've never had one bad thought in God's eyes. That's how powerful the blood of Christ is. That's how glorious our, our, our substitute surety, our servant, our because himself, our brother, that's how glorious he is.

He said, I come in my father's name. He didn't even, he didn't, I come in my, I've come to do thy will, O God. I've come in my father's name. I have a job to do. And the job is to save my people from their sin. He came with a purpose to serve his father. No matter the cost, no matter the price, we see it in the garden.

He says, father, let this cup pass from me. It was the cup of damnation. It was a cup of separation. It was the cup of our, our iniquity, our transgression, our sin that was going to be laid upon him. He said, let this cup pass from me. Never been separate from his father, but our servant, the Lord Jesus Christ, was separated from the father so that you and I would never have to be separated from him. Never have to be separated from him. So that you and I, although we mess up in our servitude toward our savior that we love dearly, he don't see it. He doesn't see it.

All he sees is perfect righteousness, perfect obedience, perfect holiness. He entirely gave himself to the service of God's will and to God's people. That's how we are to think. Go back to Philippians chapter five, when he says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ. What mind? The servant, to be a servant, to serve selflessly. What's the first step? What is the first step in serving your brethren selflessly? What's the first step? Realizing you can't do it and look to Christ. That's the very first step.

Because as soon as we start saying that your responsibility is this, we're gonna make a law out of it. We're gonna make a self-righteousness out of it. We're just so geared for that, we're gonna say, look at what I've done. I helped so-and-so do this. Give myself a pat on the back. That's what we do all the time, isn't it?

Our love is tainted. His love is not. His love is perfect. He was a servant unto you and I selflessly, selflessly. If you and I are truly looking to Christ, then we will serve, we will give whatever we can to make certain our brethren's needs are met. We will, because the love of Christ abounds in our heart. It's just how it works. Unto him, we don't, we only can do this if we're looking to him.

You know, his love causes us to love. His grace and mercy causes his people to be gracious and merciful. Do you know who shows kindness? Somebody that's been shown kindness. Do you know who loves somebody that's been loved? Do you know who shows grace and who shows mercy? Somebody that has tasted of the grace and mercy of God. What other motivation is there outside of that? Which brings us to our second point. First, he became our servant, the Lord's people, servant to the Father, servant to his people. Second, he became our surety.

I told you we were going to talk about surety the second hour. And I always get excited, but I never can say it the way that I want to say it because I always end up rabbit trailing or something. So maybe the Lord will let me say it how I'd like to say it this morning. So not certain that I could describe it properly, I wrote down the whole definition. A surety is a person that assumes legal responsibility for another party's debt or performance of obligations. It acts as a guarantee against loss, often using contracts where the surety is immediately liable if the principal party fails their duty.

He became immediately liable because we failed our duty. He's our surety. He's our surety. Because we could not perform our obligations to keep the law, He kept the law on our behalf. Because we could not satisfy the justice of God, He satisfied the justice of God on our behalf, His people. Because we could not wash away any bit of our sin, He washed our sins away so that you and I could be made perfectly righteous. As God's elect, he purposed Christ as the lamb slain from the foundation of the world to be our surety. He said, I will be surety for them.

In the book of Genesis chapter 43, it's the story of Joseph and Judah, Benjamin. Joseph's already been sold to Egypt years before. Pharaoh's already has exalted him to the position of second over all of Egypt. He's already, told the dreams, he's given the interpretation of the dreams to Pharaoh and Pharaoh had exalted him because of that.

There's going to be seven years of plenty, seven years of famine. He said, well, during the seven years of plenty, we need to put back the harvest. Some fifth of the harvest, I believe is what it was for the seven years of bad. Otherwise we'll perish. locked it so much he put him in second in command."

Well that was God that did that. He did that for the, he's a picture of Christ is what he is. He did that for the salvation, the physical salvation of all of his people. All of Israel were saved because of him. The famine, they were sore pressed because of the famine.

Joseph's brothers come to Egypt and they ask Joseph, If they can buy grain, he accuses them of being spies. He knows who they are, but he's speaking in Egyptian and he don't know that he can understand what they're saying in Hebrew. You know somebody that can speak multiple languages and they tell you that person just called you this or that. You don't have a clue. Joseph knew what was going on, everything that they were saying, he knew. And you can imagine their shock whenever he finally reveals himself later on. They were like, man, I shouldn't have said that.

He gives them the grain and he tells them, because he says, how is your father? And how many brothers do you have? And he said, well, we have one brother, but he's back with our father. He said, well, how's your father? He said, father's well. He believes they're lying because he is the brother. He don't know about Benjamin. That's how long he's been gone. Benjamin's just a lad.

Joseph says, well, don't come back unless you bring your younger brother with you. And he kept Simeon there. He said, I'm gonna keep your brother. until you bring the other brother back. Now, why did he pick Simeon? The scripture's not clear, I don't know, but he picked Simeon.

Well, they get back, and they tell Jacob everything that Joseph said, and then they open up their bags, and they find the very payment that they were gonna pay for the corn, or the grain, in their bags. So you can imagine how frightened they would be. He's gonna think we stole from them. He said, well, they told Jacob, he told Israel, he said, don't come back unless we bring Benjamin with us. Don't come back unless we bring Benjamin. Reuben stepped up. Reuben's the firstborn. Reuben said, if I bring not the lad back, you can slay my two sons. You can slay my two sons. That's not an easy thing to say, sure.

But Jacob said, no, you're not going to bring my gray hairs to the grave. And it wasn't good enough. That wasn't good enough. He didn't want his two sons. That wasn't the point. Next chapter, time has passed by. The corns ran out. Famine's worse. They got to go back to Egypt. They go and they tell Jacob, say, listen, we need to go get more grain for our families. Give us Benjamin so we can do it. And Judah spoke up. Now I want to tell you the names and a little side note here.

Leah loved Jacob. Jacob did not love Leah. Jacob had worked for Laban for seven years to have Rachel because he loved Rachel. But on the wedding night, it was dark in the tent. So he didn't see who it was that he was going to bed with. Plain and simple. He woke up and it's Leah. So he had to work another seven years in order to get Rachel.

Joseph and Benjamin is Rachel's sons. And the 10 other sons belong to handmaidens and to Leah. Leah has the first son named Reuben. And she says, Reuben's name means, see, I've given you a son. That's what she was saying to Jacob. See, I've given you a son. Now you'll love me. That's what she says when she named him. Now you'll love me, Jacob. Jacob still didn't love her. She had the second one. Name was Simeon. God hears. God has answered my prayer. Now my husband will love me. Now my husband still didn't love her. He had a third one, Levi. Attach your heart to me, Jacob. That's what that means. Attach your heart to me. Still didn't love her. Jacob never loved Leah. Scripture doesn't say he ever loved her. He says he didn't love her, but he never says that he changed and started loving her.

So she had Judah. She had Judah. Judah's name mean now will I praise the Lord. Wasn't about being loved by Jacob anymore. Lord changed her heart. Now I will praise the Lord who doeth all things well. Now I will praise the Lord. Christ is called the lion of the tribe of Judah, not Reuben, not Simeon, not Levi, Judah, the fourth born, the lion of the tribe of Judah. Judah speaks up after they said they need to go back and Jacob said no, and he says, give the lad to me, father. I will be surety for him. I will be surety for him. And if I come not back with him, lay it to my charge." And you know what Jacob said?

So be it. So be it. That was good enough. That was good enough. Our Lord Jesus Christ became surety for us. That was good enough. The law couldn't be surety for us. The law could only condemn us. You and I couldn't be surety for each other, but the Lord spoke and said, give them to me. Give them to me before the foundation of the world, the elect of God, give them to me. I will be surety for them. And if I bring them not back, lay it to my charge.

But he could not fail because he was God. He became our surety. Benjamin came back and all the elect of God have been brought back to glory in Christ Jesus as perfectly righteous. He finished the work given to him because he became our surety. Because he became our surety. When they returned to Joseph, they put the cup in Benjamin's bag. Joseph hadn't revealed himself yet. They put Joseph's cup in Benjamin's bag.

He was going to see how they were going to act. He was going to see how they were going to act. And they stopped them outside. They say, halt, you've stolen from us. They're like, no, you haven't stolen anything. And they open up the bags, starting with the first one, got to start with Reuben. He's the oldest. It goes all the way down to Benjamin. You imagine their faces when they were like, what have you done, Benjamin? Benjamin would say, I didn't do it. It wasn't me. Didn't matter. He was caught with it. And what'd they do? They took him, or they were going to take him. And guess who stepped up? It wasn't Reuben. It wasn't Simeon. It wasn't Levi. It was Judah. Judah pleaded his cause.

He had to honor his father. He had to honor his father. He had to make certain that the work that his father had given him would be performed. Because he couldn't tarnish his father's, his father's legacy. He couldn't cause his father to grieve. So he spoke up and he said, My father loves this child.

And if I bring it not back, it'll kill him. It'll kill him. Have mercy, have mercy. Well, when our Lord was on the cross, there was no mercy for you and I to be had until he went to the cross. He secured that mercy by being our surety. And he not only was our surety, but he was our successful substitute redeemer as well.

He said, lay it to my charge. Give me their sin. Give me their iniquity. Give me their transgression and I'll wash it all away. I will be surety for them because if I bring them not back, if I bring them not back, that makes me a liar and he cannot lie. He cannot fail. He cannot tarnish the holiness of God. It's not possible. It's not possible.

I love because Joseph then breaks down, starts crying, talks to him, tells him, I'm your brother, Joseph. And you know, they had to be like, oh, no, we're dead. Because they'd sold him into slavery. I mean, wouldn't you get even? No, it's funny because later on, Joseph tells them this after Jacob dies.

He says, you meant it for evil. God meant it for good. Oh, for the grace to say that whenever something happens to us that's out of our control. Our adversary may mean it for evil, but God always means it for our good. Joseph talked to Pharaoh. Pharaoh said, fetch your family. They put them in Goshen, the best part of Egypt. And I love the fact that they gave them five changes of raiment when they left. All 11 of them got five changes of raiment. What's the number five?

It's a number of grace. Our surety has clothed us in his righteousness and gave us grace upon grace upon grace. Benjamin also got 300 pieces of silver. The number three is the Trinity. The Lord's given us his spirit. We have the father, the son, and the Holy spirit. This is what our surety did. He said, place it to my charge. and he gave us his righteousness, and then he sends his spirit to fetch us. Go fetch him. You know what Joseph told the brothers? Go and fetch my father. Go fetch him and bring him to me. That's what he says. Surety sends the spirit, just like Mephibosheth, go fetch him.

Brings us into his palace, puts his people at his table, causes us to eat his food, have his righteousness, That's what our surety did, which brings us to our last point. He became our savior. Our surety didn't just act in word only. Judah just had to act in word only. Now he would have done it, but he didn't have to go all the way through it. Our surety became our savior. He became our savior. He acted in deed as our substitute and saved his people from their sin.

He quite literally went to hell for his people on the cross, quite literally. That's what hell is, is the wrath of God. He tasted the eternal, I don't say tasted, he took all of the eternal wrath of God that was due unto us because of our sin, because of our guilt, because of our shame. And it was poured upon him because he became our surety in order to be our savior.

There was nothing that we could do to satisfy the law. Everything that we tried to do was called iniquity. So the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all. He chose to save his elect, his bride, all to honor the Father. He was made to be sin for us who know no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

He said, Father, I'll assume full responsibility for them. Do you love the thought that Jesus Christ takes responsibility for his people? I'm pretty good at responsibilities, but I'm not perfect at it. I have honey to do lists has been sitting there for a long time, but did you know the Lord is perfect in his responsibilities?

It's not delayed. It's right on time. He wasn't, he wasn't late in his responsibilities. Whenever he went to Lazarus's tomb, he was four days late to everybody else, but he was right on time. He was never late. He arrived precisely when he intended to, he was God.

Now, our Lord's perfect in everything he did, in all of his responsibilities. He said, I will assume full responsibility for them, lay their sin to my charge, and God laid upon him the iniquity of us all, poured out his eternal justice until it was satisfied, our sins all gone.

Our servant became our surety, and our surety became our savior. He saved his leg, therefore, that's why he's highly exalted. That's why he's highly exalted. He chose to become a servant. He chose to become our surety. He chose to become our savior. God has highly exalted him.

Let's read that one more time in closing. Verse eight, in being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto the death, even the death of the cross, wherefore, Because of the death of the cross, God also has highly exalted him and given him a name, which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of things in heaven and things of earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. All because he came unto us, his chosen people, our servant, our surety, and our savior. To him be all the glory forever and ever. Amen. I'll ask the men, Joe and Greg, if they'll come up, disperse the elements.

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What does the Bible say about the glory of Jesus?

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Why is it important for Christians to understand Christ as our servant?

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