Philippians 2: 5-7
- By: ckroboth
- On: 04/13/2009 09:28:14
- In: Philippians
We are human and we have no power to resist the tempation of the world. So What does it mean that Christ became human?
Continuing to go verse by verse through Philippians.
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Brother Ambe over in the forum discussion said the following:
Remember in the Garden of Eden that GOD made man in His Image? Well while man fell into original sin we lost the image of GOD and are now we are in the image of Adam. Now all those that are in the Image of Adam are dead, but all those that are in the Image of Christ live. It's the Holy Spirit that does the work of putting us in the Image of Christ, all we do is place our Faith in what Jesus did at Calvary. Trust me we have the easy part. But be sure that God will complete what He started in us.
God intends to restore us to the perfection we were meant for in the beginning.
II Cor 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Remember that righteousness is the very nature of who God is, and what meant for us.
6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
This one throws me every time, and leads to the debate over the next verse. It just goes to show that Jesus understood where his authority came from and that God set him on the path of Death and Resurrection with a command.
John 10:17-19 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father." 19 At these words the Jews were again divided.
Rev 2:27-28 He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery'[— just as I have received authority from my Father. 28 I will also give him the morning star.
Knowing he has that authority though,
7 but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
A very debated verse as to what it means that Christ took on the Nature and being made in human likeness.
He “Made himself nothing taking on the very nature of a servant” ? Does that mean he set aside some of His power to become human? or Does it mean that he allowed himself to just experience what it was like to be human? That is the debate, and one we may not know the answer to until we get to ask him ourselves.
In all of the debate though the important part is the we believe God became human. He came to this earth in this way so he could experience our temptations, suffering, hurts and joys. This because he wanted us to know that he understood us, and that when we turn to him and rely on him we know he has experienced everything as we did. He just did not fall to the temptation, and sin.
In our humanness and propensity to choose sin, it is only through Christ that we have the power to overcome sin and become the very nature of what God intended us to be. Righteousness.
