The incident ran through the army in a few hours, and reconciled his followers to all the hardships of the expedition, and fully reestablished his popularity.(M. A fountain is useless to the thirsty unless they drink. Personal. Perfectly human, or it would be no example to us.3. In it the activities of endurance were taxed to the utmost limit. Let us gain a clear idea of a meritorious act. Even so; rather than lose His obedience He lost His life. Having suffered all His life long, He completed and finished His service in His death and burial; thus answering for them the law's demand of satisfaction for sin (John 19:30). Barrow, D. D.1. Christ's actions were of this character (Romans 15:36; Luke 22:42). All judgment, as Moses says, is God's, or is administered by authority derived from Him, magistrates being His officers. This death best suited the character of His undertaking. )Christ's obedience unto deathJ. A. To us death is the chalice whose poison has been changed by the chemistry of redeeming love into nectar; to Jesus it was a cup full of the concentrated dregs of woe. Not so. And so we read, "See if there be any sorrow like my sorrow."3. Three things are in it. 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. (e)Be humble (John 13:14-15).(T. ITS NATURE.1. He stooped to become a man. Philippians
But what name was given here? Actions claiming the highest regards of God are those which have an intrinsic perfectness, and which, when looked at on all sides, are in entire correspondence with the mind and will of God. (1) It must be good. There are things we come in contact with which, though not hurtful, leave a feeling of debasement.3. The exemplification of the hardest duties of obedience and patience. IN WHAT MANNER CHRIST UNDERWENT THIS DEATH.1. (1) These are outward acts: so the exalting of the soul is not enough. Hutchinson, D. D.His was no mere resignation, for that is the attitude of the soul toward the inevitable, h creature may risk his life, indeed, provided the aim be a true and noble one; but no right is his to throw it away. He is, on the contrary, bound to conserve it, if he car, do so without the sacrifice of higher interests. The yoke He imposes on His disciples is His own — obedience.6. That He that hath the power of death might be destroyed (Hebrews 2:14).6. In it the activities of endurance were taxed to the utmost limit. come to unity over the issue. In the latter sense the Cross outstrips all other portions of our Saviour's life in its value. Where among angels, seeing that they cannot discharge more than their own debts of gratitude and service?4. It grew with the growth of obligations.4. (Bishop Andrewes.)HumilityJ. Of His own accord. THE FASHION IN WHICH CHRIST WAS FOUND — that of a man.1. But it is not humble courtesy, but humble obedience here. To us death is the chalice whose poison has been changed by the chemistry of redeeming love into nectar; to Jesus it was a cup full of the concentrated dregs of woe. Had He been privately or suddenly dispatched, no great notice would have been taken of it, nor would it have been so fully proved.2. It is esteemed more than any other title of Deity by Him; because His glory is in it joined to our safety. The entering into covenant and confirming by an oath were human types and shadows of the great covenant between God and man in Christ (Hebrews 7:21). He is Lord of the Sabbath, but obeys the Sabbath.7. 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. To us it is a shaft whose sting has been removed; to Him it was an arrow envenomed by the wrath of God against sin. Exalted He shall be with our wills or without them. (4) Heaven is opened to thee (Hebrews 10:19).(J. O. Adam was human, but he was not created mortal. But although He merited for all, all do not receive the grace He purchased. 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. (6) By faith and hearty acceptance of Christ, let us put in for a share of, and get an interest in Christ's blood (Romans 3:25; Hebrews 9:14).3. How often was "I must" upon His lips.3. (5) Christ served you ungrudgingly, do not grudge what you give or do for Him. 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. Christ cannot be the name of God, for God cannot be anointed. (Galatians 4:4). We are hence obliged with affection and gratitude to adore each person in the blessed Trinity. detail. Humbly and meekly — (Isaiah 53:7) — from His expostulation with Judas (Matthew 26:50) to His last prayer (Luke 23:34) all is that of One who, when He suffered He threatened not (1 Peter 2:23).III. Exalted He shall be with our wills or without them. )The passion of our blessed SaviourL. That which is due may be cheerfully parted with as though it were a gift. But it behoved Jesus to die. By successive processes He attained it. Vaughan, M. 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. Jefferey, D. D.)The death of the cross wasR. Our body is to afford her part, and not the upper parts, the tongue in the head, but also the lower, the knee in the leg. What in reason can be more powerful towards working penitential sorrow and religious fear, and stimulating true obedience?8. (2)The Son giving Himself. Christ cannot be the name of God, for God cannot be anointed. (3) The service He rendered you was hard service; the yoke He puts upon you is easy, and the burden light. So did Jesus. That man was perfect. Our modern conception of death has been so illumined by the doctrine of Christian immortality that we are inclined to conceive of the death of Christ simply as an analogue of ours. H. Giles, B. or "Who is My mother?"2. To the state of an inferior creature, a man, not an angel,2. Sin was the great bankrupt that brought all to beggary, and so poverty is the likeness of sin. (1) It has been well said that "no man expresses such a devotion to virtue as he who forfeits the repute of being a good man, that he may not lose the conscience of being such." Without a name what is exalting? 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. Year A. And so listening in vain for the voice which alone he would obey, he perished in the explosion of the ship.(W. If the Son could address the Father, and say, "Lo, I come," etc., we can conceive the human will of Christ in fulfilling the Father's will as resting on the Divine promise (Psalm 16:10, 11; Acts 1:4).II. The merit which appeals to goodness sets up no claim; that which rests on fidelity involves a promise; that which trusts to the justice of the rewarder implies a covenant. God was pleased to prosecute it, as thereby no wise to impair but rather to advance His glory. The cross was an ignominious death, and Christ endured it amidst circumstances of aggravated ignominy, nakedness, and scorn. Infidels and Christians little better are forced to "fall backward," and in the end to cry "Vicisti Galilaee," though they guard their tongues when they have done. )LinksPhilippians 2:7 NIVPhilippians 2:7 NLTPhilippians 2:7 ESVPhilippians 2:7 NASBPhilippians 2:7 KJVPhilippians 2:7 Bible AppsPhilippians 2:7 ParallelPhilippians 2:7 Biblia ParalelaPhilippians 2:7 Chinese BiblePhilippians 2:7 French BiblePhilippians 2:7 German BiblePhilippians 2:7 CommentariesBible Hub, (b)Humility. The removal of sin was the preliminary to Divine communications. (5)As a child of God He fulfilled the spiritual law.2. 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. This never. All the nature of our race was gathered and concentrated into that one human life. B. Pusey, D. D.All His attributes He veiled and hid; His infinity, to abide, like other unborn babes, within the virgin's womb; His eternity, to receive birth in time, younger than His creatures; His unchangeableness, to grow in stature, and (as it would seem) for His earthly form to decay, and be worn by His sufferings; His wisdom, "for our sake and among us to be ignorant, as man," "of that which, as Lord, He knew"; His self-sufficingness, that He, who had all things, became as though He had nothing. 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. Because His subjection to the law of death was the highest, and an exhaustive test of the absolute subordination of His will to the will of His Father.2. But it is not to the syllables of the name that we are to bow. (c) But if given Him ἐχαρίσατο "of grace," where is the merit then? 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