Philippians 2:3-11

This week is finals week! Consequently, I do not have the time or energy to post anything too substantive. However, for one of my classes we have to memorize the following passage. It is a great passage and I can kill two birds with one stone by posting it here. I could post a lot about the Kenosis Theory or a bunch of other things. However, again, time and energy do not permit me to do so. Plus, I think there is a sense in which we should just look at this scripture and sit back and see the beauty of our Lord. Certainly, there is a time and a place for refuting nonsense like that heresy, but we musn't be inclinded to do this always.

³Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;

⁴do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

⁵Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

⁶who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,

⁷but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.

⁸Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

⁹For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,

¹⁰so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

¹¹and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Amen
mike