The NXR Podcast - August 24, 2022


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


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5 minutes

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153.6925

Word count

872

Sentence count

61


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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.

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00:00:19.680 Jesus said,
00:00:20.800 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25.460 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30.000 See, before God could supply us with His blessedness,
00:00:33.540 something else had to happen.
00:00:35.660 God had to send His Son into this world
00:00:38.360 so that for a time, He would be a man of sorrows,
00:00:41.940 as I spoke earlier, and acquainted with grief.
00:00:45.140 That's Isaiah chapter 53, verse 3.
00:00:47.700 See, prior to the incarnation, the Son,
00:00:49.880 that is Jesus Christ, was in need of nothing,
00:00:54.040 possessing all good things in Himself.
00:00:56.560 and yet Christ willingly chose to become nothing
00:01:00.160 so that he might give to us everything
00:01:03.240 he could possibly give.
00:01:06.240 This is Philippians chapter two, verse six through eight.
00:01:09.960 The Bible says, though he, that is Christ,
00:01:12.640 was in the form of God,
00:01:15.020 he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.
00:01:20.260 That is a thing to refuse to relinquish,
00:01:24.260 a thing to cling to, unwilling to open your hand and let it go.
00:01:29.540 So Christ, who was in the form of God, who was equal with God,
00:01:33.620 he did not count that equality with God, which he had a thing to hold on to,
00:01:39.080 a thing to refuse to relinquish.
00:01:42.040 But, verse 7, he emptied himself by taking the form of a servant.
00:01:47.900 He emptied himself in the sense, not that he removed the divine nature,
00:01:51.120 but it was subtraction by addition.
00:01:53.020 He emptied himself of the divine nature, as it were, by simply adding to himself a second nature, namely the human nature.
00:02:02.620 It is, as St. Augustine once said, it's divinity wrapped in flesh, divinity wrapped in humanity.
00:02:09.120 It is subtraction by addition.
00:02:11.660 He emptied himself by taking upon himself a lowly human nature.
00:02:18.880 Verse 8 now.
00:02:19.980 and being found in human form,
00:02:22.460 he further humbled himself
00:02:24.320 by becoming obedient to the point of death,
00:02:27.540 even death on a cross.
00:02:30.360 And that phrase,
00:02:32.340 even death on a cross,
00:02:33.460 is not just speaking about,
00:02:34.920 not just that he humbled himself
00:02:36.420 to the point of death,
00:02:37.380 even a very painful death,
00:02:39.240 aka death on a cross.
00:02:40.740 No, he humbled,
00:02:42.160 the emphasis is not on the pain of death
00:02:45.480 at this point,
00:02:46.240 although the cross, crucifixion,
00:02:47.820 was undoubtedly physically painful.
00:02:49.980 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.
00:02:58.880 He humbled himself to take on the form of a servant, to add to himself the human nature.
00:03:04.320 That was humility.
00:03:05.460 So the incarnation itself, Christ coming into the world, was an act of humility.
00:03:11.220 And then Christ furthermore, not only coming into the world in the incarnation, but then in the crucifixion,
00:03:15.800 Christ going to death was a further humility.
00:03:18.320 and not just any old death, not just the death of old age,
00:03:22.740 but death on a cross where he was stripped naked,
00:03:25.300 where he was spat upon, where he was mocked and laughed at
00:03:28.980 and scoffed by the ones who nailed him there.
00:03:32.800 Christ humbled himself by coming to earth.
00:03:35.960 He humbled himself by going to death
00:03:38.140 and he humbled himself even further in his death
00:03:40.780 by the particular death by which he died.
00:03:43.220 That is not just any old death,
00:03:44.920 but the most humiliating death you could possibly imagine, even death on a cross.
00:03:51.720 Christ emptied himself.
00:03:55.240 Our God is full of himself.
00:03:59.420 You think of that expression, that person's really full of himself.
00:04:01.960 Anytime we speak of a person being full of himself, it's an indictment.
00:04:05.760 It's not a compliment.
00:04:07.900 Right? It's a criticism.
00:04:10.380 That person's full of himself.
00:04:11.720 Well, why is it a criticism?
00:04:12.740 because no finite and fallen human being
00:04:16.760 should ever be full with their own finite and fallen self.
00:04:20.920 But God is full of himself, and righteously so.
00:04:25.900 God is absolutely full of himself.
00:04:29.160 And Christ, as God, the second member of the eternal trinity,
00:04:33.320 Jesus was eternally, that is, in eternity past,
00:04:37.080 full of himself, and righteously so.
00:04:40.740 And yet, according to Scripture,
00:04:42.740 The one who was full of himself emptied himself
00:04:45.920 so that we could be full with him.
00:04:49.080 That's the gospel.
00:04:50.780 And that is the gospel of the happy God
00:04:52.680 who shares his happy essence
00:04:54.640 with his becoming, ever becoming happy people.
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