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ABHORRENT OF SIN. He saw beyond the cross. This was eminently seen in Christ.2. We are coveting the same things that made wreck of the old nations, and forgetting the thing that has distinguished the Christian from them. But what are these as witnesses compared with the experiences of pure hearts who, in all generations, have been able to sing, "The Lord is my light and my salvation?"II. A. The antagonistic view of Christianity finds the supreme end of human conduct and activity in connection with God. In our aim in life.2. SUBLIME BENEVOLENCE. The Christian theory is unique and contrary to the popular theory IN THE LAW WHICH IT PROPOSES FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THE HIGHEST SUCCESS IN HUMAN LIFE — the law of self-sacrifice. O Christian, from whence did you derive your name.2. Popularity for the sake of principle.3. Generated by Divine grace.2. But not only in general or towards God have we need to be humble. There was no compelling power in heaven, earth, or hell.2. "I must work the works of Him that sent me," etc. How vain the profession of the gospel without its temper.4. His view of the world and its glory. The Divine nature never has a human attribute, nor the human a Divine, but the Divine-human Person may be spoken of as having both. THESE DELINEATIONS OF CHRIST REVEAL THE TRUE METHOD OF RENDERING SERVICE TO MAN. Helpfulness should be united with tenderness.V. Both. This is the first step in true human obedience, for before that can be rendered, pride, self-seeking, self-importance, must be subdued.4. This was the supreme thing in the life of Christ. Accordingly, that Person may be the subject of two classes of predicates. Creation gives us a high estimate of manhood. B. Pusey, D. D.The heathen had semblances or images of well-nigh every virtue. The Christian is always representing or misrepresenting Christ. He had many excellences, here and there, which put Christians to shame. As good parents train their children by example, so God our Father trains His children. Without this our religion is vain. In our spirit and temper.(E. Accordingly, that Person may be the subject of two classes of predicates. I must adjust. (1) The evangelists were incapable of inventing it. A. 1. The antagonistic view of Christianity finds the supreme end of human conduct and activity in connection with God. SINCERITY. This is the soul of all religion (2 Corinthians 1:12; John 1:48). Kindly visit our Upcoming Events page regularly to get more information about Disciple Events. There was pain and shame and curse. He came not to judge but to save the world.II. There is no detail of the Saviour's sufferings.2. AS A MAN HE WENT DOWN INTO THE DEPTHS OF HUMILIATION.1. This meekness is not the effect of constitution or the calculation of self-interest; it is the gift of God working on the lines of Christ's example.VI. It is this selfish, so called morality that has brought the degradation of character, the general corruption.III. Of course there could be no essential change in this humiliation. Philippians 2:3-4. (1)A name above every name. Through the lowly portal of repentance, are we brought into the Church; and humble as little children must we again become, if we would enter the everlasting gates. He does not say "Behold, I show you a mystery." How vain the profession of the gospel without its temper.4. THERE IS ONE PERSON HERE AND ONE ONLY. 1. And then coming to things of earth — He is the sheep that is dumb before her shearers, and is presently "the Good Shepherd." Benevolence will come forth unpolluted as a sunbeam.2. Their history, character, training, prevented that; and, moreover, they present it artlessly, not as advocates, but as witnesses. See how excellent is the religion of Jesus.2. It is a practical exhortation rather than a theological disquisition. If love be the summit of all virtue, humility is the foundation. His obedience exhibits —(1) The reality of His manhood. If the wretched and unsuccessful man will look into his heart he will find that he is breaking this great law of life, and is suffering for his breach of it. Let His mind, then, be in you, and nothing shall be done through strife and vain-glory. That ye may be blameless and harmless, None finding fault with you, and you not finding fault with others; neither harming nor harmed: “blameless and harmless.”. How He waited those thirty years; how He bore with the ignorance of His disciples, and the malignity of His murderers.VI. Conclusion:1. 1. (2) Believing, then, as we must, Christ as thus described by friends and foes alike, perfect and without sin, the religion He taught must be Divine. How shall there, without it, be any Christian grace, since all are the fruits of God's Holy Spirit, and He "resisteth the proud and giveth grace unto the lowly?" The Christian theory is unique in THE KIND OF LIFE THAT IT PROPOSES TO MAN FOR THE SATISFACTION OF HIS ACTIVE NATURE: a life devoted to the glory of God in redemption. In the 7th of Romans it is used for the principle of grace in the heart. The view dwarfs and deadens humanity. (2) "He took upon him the form of a servant." Instead of saying, "That is the way," He said, "I am the way." The believer, born from above, is spiritual, and minds heavenly things.3. or, Will this increase my fortune? To the souls of men.2. Generated by Divine grace.2. ONE WHO PRESENTS TO US FRESHNESS AND VARIETY OF MIND AND SOUL. He saw beyond the cross. He resolved to empty Himself of all the glories, prerogatives, and manifestations of the Godhead and animate a human nature. The rich may give to the poor, just as Christ for our sakes became poor.2. No bad man would originate a good cause, and no good man a bad one.2. Well indeed may the Christian be ashamed not to be humble, for whom God became humble. 1. How He waited those thirty years; how He bore with the ignorance of His disciples, and the malignity of His murderers.VI. Wheaton, Ill.: Victor Books. All comes as a matter of course. It is this selfish, so called morality that has brought the degradation of character, the general corruption.III. What do you owe to Christ?3. )The imitableness of Christ's characterJoseph Fletcher, D. D.1. "Forasmuch as Christ hath suffered for us, arm yourselves with the same mind."(C. Christ the Lord is at first the pattern of heavenly life to us, but becomes more the power of heavenly life within us. There was a concurrence of the Holy Trinity. ITS OBLIGATION. This is the first step in true human obedience, for before that can be rendered, pride, self-seeking, self-importance, must be subdued.4. Christ was ever thinking, planning, devising for others.IV. It was not merely death, but a humiliating and cursed death. "If any man will serve Me," etc. "How to obtain the mind of ChristC. We dare not attempt to define here: there is a danger in two directions. As to be in the form of a servant implies that he was a servant, so to be in the form of God implies that he was God. The Bible represents Christ as God and Creator. But Christ, who was infinitely elevated, stooped to servitude and death. The entire history of our Saviour's human existence was that of the mediatorial servant of God (Isaiah 42). "If any man will serve Me," etc. So in serving others we must identify ourselves with them. SUPREME DEVOTION. Some people manifest only feeling, but real charity like Christ's is always practical.3. Living on such principles our souls might grow as rapidly as our fortunes, instead of being blighted and dwarfed by covetousness.(Pres. Conclusion: The fitness of the wonderful paragraph as an argument to enforce the exhortation. who, though he was in the form of God,    did not regard equality with God    as something to be exploited,but emptied himself,    taking the form of a slave,    being born in human likeness.And being found in human form,    he humbled himself    and became obedient to the point of death—    even death on a cross. The King became a subject. This was the supreme thing in the life of Christ. He resolved to empty Himself of all the glories, prerogatives, and manifestations of the Godhead and animate a human nature. His Divine repute was for a season suspended, and He was reputed among the transgressors.IV. VOLUNTARY, not forced or reluctant. (1) What he was — a sinner, enemy of God, heir of hell, etc. The drop of water has all the power and freshness which He gave it on the morning of creation. Natural men mind earthly things, while the things of the Spirit of God are foolishness unto them. That character as depicted by the evangelists is the perfection of beauty, and the more we contemplate it the stronger must be our convictions of the divinity of His religion. Parker, D. D.)The mind of ChristJ. God made it: God wore it.2. (2) His exemplariness; as a servant of God, he is a member of the class to which all Christians belong.2. Great philanthropic programmes must begin at Bethlehem, and comprehend the mysteries of Calvary if they would ascend from Bethany to the heavens. In the spirit and temper which marked all His procedure. It is what we do combined with what we emotionally feel. The effect cannot be greater than the cause. You Philippians have been a great joy to me, but my joy is not quite full. Lastly, it is employed in a more comprehensive way, as in the text, where consecration of intellect, the aim of life, and temper of spirit are included. This mind is to be cultivated by a diligent study of His precepts and example with the help of His Spirit.(J. LET US TRACE THE HUMILIATION AND GLORY OF CHRIST.1. Rawnsley.)I. Girdlestone, M. A., H. B. Being thus Divine, He did not deem His equality with God a thing to grasp at and eagerly retain. He encountered it with joy that He might deliver us from bondage unto the fear of death.(C. But it was the Son's own act to conjoin with Himself this new man. SUBLIME BENEVOLENCE. Those who shall reign with Christ must first suffer with Him. A. P. We too must go down. Later on, "If any man love father and mother more than Me."7. His view of things, and to have that mind is to think and feel about things as He did. There is no escaping the fact that Christ exalted righteousness as the governing principle of the universe. As such He proclaimed Himself, and was proclaimed (Acts 3:26). Conclusion:1. The poor, themselves, should be helpful, just as Christ being poor was able to make many rich.II. Look to the glory and yet the humanity of His nature. He took our humanity only that He might serve in it. WHAT IS MEANT BY THE MIND OF CHRIST? He in greatness and glory coming down so far! II. This the tree cannot do; but God in Christ has thus bowed Himself to fallen man.III. B.The apostle enforces the previous counsels to the cultivation of self-denying love by the argument strongest of all to the Christian heart, the example of the Lord Jesus.I. It is hard to gain any adequate conception of how belittling and degrading such modern views are. The Incarnation one far higher. Notice that it was —I. Bradley, M. The gate of life is low as well as narrow. Christ answers all the requirements of an example to us. Christ answers all the requirements of an example to us. At the beginning of Philippians 2, Paul describes what it takes to make a good relationship with Jesus and His Father. Paul shows that all who are Christ's undergo in their degree His lot and share His destiny. Johnstone, LL. Self-sacrifice. "He made Himself," "He took," "He humbled Himself."1.

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