2Co_8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Imagine being the richest person in all the world and giving it ALL up so others could be rich.
Giving it ALL up, keeping none for yourself at all whatsoever, imagine it.
Our Savior- a GOD, gave up His immortality so we could have the promise of future immortality. He gave it up! Now before you jump in and say He did not give up His immortality, He's alive right now, remember when He became MAN, when He became FLESH, He divested Himself of His Godhood, He stripped off His immortality, He could NOT take His immortality with Him when He put on our flesh which has inherited the tendency towards sin. He put on that flesh, our flesh. He put on the same flesh as we have and the moment He was born His flesh was subject to the same events as ours is. He could get cut and bruised, He could feel hot and cold, His flesh grew as He aged just as ours does. His flesh began to age with lines, with tiny wrinkles just as ours does when we reach our thirties. His flesh like our flesh could be nothing else if He were to redeem us.
Php 2:5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Php 2:7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men
Php 2:8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. (ASV)
EMPTIED HIMSELF- taking the form of a SERVANT, being made in the LIKENESS of MEN.
He EMPTIED HIMSELF! He gave EVERYTHING up to save us! He DID not know beyond a doubt that He wouldn't fail. Yes, there are plans, there are ideas, there are prophecies and they do come to pass, however things don't always unfold as WE imagine. Remember Jonah? He didn't want to go to Nineveh, but he did and he told them to repent or else. He had no way of knowing they'd repent, and yet they did and they were spared the wrath of God. If they chose NOT to repent they would NOT have been spared. They had a choice to make. So while it was determined what would happen there were contingencies. Our Savior was TEMPTED, lest we forget! And to be tempted you have to have the ability to give into that temptation or it's not temptation at all. Our Savior became flesh and dwelt among us…
Joh_1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Heb_2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil
1Ti_3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory
1Pe_3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit
1Pe_4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin
1Jn_4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God
1Jn_4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
2Jn_1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
OUR GOD BECAME FLESH.
2Co_8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
OUR GOD WAS RICH and BECAME POOR for us!
For us.
By the grace of God may we realize just what our GOD gave up for us!
Please, LORD, please help us, save us, keep us all in YOU!
Imagine being the richest person in all the world and giving it ALL up so others could be rich.
Giving it ALL up, keeping none for yourself at all whatsoever, imagine it.
Our Savior- a GOD, gave up His immortality so we could have the promise of future immortality. He gave it up! Now before you jump in and say He did not give up His immortality, He's alive right now, remember when He became MAN, when He became FLESH, He divested Himself of His Godhood, He stripped off His immortality, He could NOT take His immortality with Him when He put on our flesh which has inherited the tendency towards sin. He put on that flesh, our flesh. He put on the same flesh as we have and the moment He was born His flesh was subject to the same events as ours is. He could get cut and bruised, He could feel hot and cold, His flesh grew as He aged just as ours does. His flesh began to age with lines, with tiny wrinkles just as ours does when we reach our thirties. His flesh like our flesh could be nothing else if He were to redeem us.
Php 2:5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Php 2:7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men
Php 2:8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. (ASV)
EMPTIED HIMSELF- taking the form of a SERVANT, being made in the LIKENESS of MEN.
He EMPTIED HIMSELF! He gave EVERYTHING up to save us! He DID not know beyond a doubt that He wouldn't fail. Yes, there are plans, there are ideas, there are prophecies and they do come to pass, however things don't always unfold as WE imagine. Remember Jonah? He didn't want to go to Nineveh, but he did and he told them to repent or else. He had no way of knowing they'd repent, and yet they did and they were spared the wrath of God. If they chose NOT to repent they would NOT have been spared. They had a choice to make. So while it was determined what would happen there were contingencies. Our Savior was TEMPTED, lest we forget! And to be tempted you have to have the ability to give into that temptation or it's not temptation at all. Our Savior became flesh and dwelt among us…
Joh_1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Heb_2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil
1Ti_3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory
1Pe_3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit
1Pe_4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin
1Jn_4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God
1Jn_4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
2Jn_1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
OUR GOD BECAME FLESH.
2Co_8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
OUR GOD WAS RICH and BECAME POOR for us!
For us.
By the grace of God may we realize just what our GOD gave up for us!
Please, LORD, please help us, save us, keep us all in YOU!
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