The NXR Podcast - August 24, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Gospel： How God Makes Miserable People Happy In Him

Topics
incarnation and crucifixion
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ Jamie White Joseph Boot Gary DeMar Joel Webin Isaiah
THEOLOGY APPLIED - Theonomy： Why Many Fiercely Oppose It with Dr. Joe Boot QUESTIONS - Should Churches Enforce Dress Codes？

Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

153.69

Word count

872

Sentence count

62


Summary

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Before the incarnation, the Son, that is Jesus Christ, was in need of nothing, possessing all good things in himself, and yet Christ willingly chose to become nothing so that he might give to us everything he could possibly give. He humbled himself by coming to earth, by going to death, and by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Transcript

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00:00:00 Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request.
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00:00:19 Jesus said,
00:00:20 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30 See, before God could supply us with His blessedness,
00:00:33 something else had to happen.
00:00:35 God had to send His Son into this world
00:00:38 so that for a time, He would be a man of sorrows,
00:00:41 as I spoke earlier, and acquainted with grief.
00:00:45 That's Isaiah chapter 53, verse 3.
00:00:47 See, prior to the incarnation, the Son,
00:00:49 that is Jesus Christ, was in need of nothing,
00:00:54 possessing all good things in Himself.
00:00:56 and yet Christ willingly chose to become nothing
00:01:00 so that he might give to us everything
00:01:03 he could possibly give.
00:01:06 This is Philippians chapter two, verse six through eight.
00:01:09 The Bible says, though he, that is Christ,
00:01:12 was in the form of God,
00:01:15 he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.
00:01:20 That is a thing to refuse to relinquish,
00:01:24 a thing to cling to, unwilling to open your hand and let it go.
00:01:29 So Christ, who was in the form of God, who was equal with God,
00:01:33 he did not count that equality with God, which he had a thing to hold on to,
00:01:39 a thing to refuse to relinquish.
00:01:42 But, verse 7, he emptied himself by taking the form of a servant.
00:01:47 He emptied himself in the sense, not that he removed the divine nature,
00:01:51 but it was subtraction by addition.
00:01:53 He emptied himself of the divine nature, as it were, by simply adding to himself a second nature, namely the human nature.
00:02:02 It is, as St. Augustine once said, it's divinity wrapped in flesh, divinity wrapped in humanity.
00:02:09 It is subtraction by addition.
00:02:11 He emptied himself by taking upon himself a lowly human nature.
00:02:18 Verse 8 now.
00:02:19 and being found in human form,
00:02:22 he further humbled himself
00:02:24 by becoming obedient to the point of death,
00:02:27 even death on a cross.
00:02:30 And that phrase,
00:02:32 even death on a cross,
00:02:33 is not just speaking about,
00:02:34 not just that he humbled himself
00:02:36 to the point of death,
00:02:37 even a very painful death,
00:02:39 aka death on a cross.
00:02:40 No, he humbled,
00:02:42 the emphasis is not on the pain of death
00:02:45 at this point,
00:02:46 although the cross, crucifixion,
00:02:47 was undoubtedly physically painful.
00:02:49 But the emphasis of this portion of the text, Philippians chapter 2 verse 8, is on not the pain of the cross, but rather the humility.
00:02:58 He humbled himself to take on the form of a servant, to add to himself the human nature.
00:03:04 That was humility.
00:03:05 So the incarnation itself, Christ coming into the world, was an act of humility.
00:03:11 And then Christ furthermore, not only coming into the world in the incarnation, but then in the crucifixion,
00:03:15 Christ going to death was a further humility.
00:03:18 and not just any old death, not just the death of old age,
00:03:22 but death on a cross where he was stripped naked,
00:03:25 where he was spat upon, where he was mocked and laughed at
00:03:28 and scoffed by the ones who nailed him there.
00:03:32 Christ humbled himself by coming to earth.
00:03:35 He humbled himself by going to death
00:03:38 and he humbled himself even further in his death
00:03:40 by the particular death by which he died.
00:03:43 That is not just any old death,
00:03:44 but the most humiliating death you could possibly imagine, even death on a cross.
00:03:51 Christ emptied himself.
00:03:55 Our God is full of himself.
00:03:59 You think of that expression, that person's really full of himself.
00:04:01 Anytime we speak of a person being full of himself, it's an indictment.
00:04:05 It's not a compliment.
00:04:07 Right? It's a criticism.
00:04:10 That person's full of himself.
00:04:11 Well, why is it a criticism?
00:04:12 because no finite and fallen human being
00:04:16 should ever be full with their own finite and fallen self.
00:04:20 But God is full of himself, and righteously so.
00:04:25 God is absolutely full of himself.
00:04:29 And Christ, as God, the second member of the eternal trinity,
00:04:33 Jesus was eternally, that is, in eternity past,
00:04:37 full of himself, and righteously so.
00:04:40 And yet, according to Scripture,
00:04:42 The one who was full of himself emptied himself
00:04:45 so that we could be full with him.
00:04:49 That's the gospel.
00:04:50 And that is the gospel of the happy God
00:04:52 who shares his happy essence
00:04:54 with his becoming, ever becoming happy people.
00:04:59 Big news, really big news.
00:05:02 Our next Right Response Conference is in the works.
00:05:05 We've got a number of things already lined up and organized.
00:05:09 This is what we've got so far.
00:05:10 the whole conference, three days long
00:05:13 on post-millennialism and theonomy.
00:05:16 And the speakers, Dr. James White,
00:05:19 Dr. Joseph Boot, Gary DeMar,
00:05:22 and of course, yours truly, Pastor Joel Webin.
00:05:24 We've got a great lineup.
00:05:26 We've got great topics.
00:05:28 If you wanna find out dates and location
00:05:30 and registration and anything else,
00:05:33 go and visit our website,
00:05:34 rightresponseconference.com, rightresponseconference.com.