He Humbled Himself

 

God Jesus stripped off His divinity when He chose to humble Himself knowing that when He took on the flesh of humanity, He was taking on death.  He died for us unworthy creatures. 

Satan longs to be a god, equal with God the Father, equal with God Jesus. Satan's twisted mind, warped through pride, has Him believing he is a god- not equal, but better than the Father and Jesus, as well as the Holy Spirit. Satan took one third of God's created angels, angels just as He was an angel and through deception, the angel gathered other angels and began a life separated from the Gods of Heaven. Satan chose to target God's created human beings and was able to deceive them. They were now Satan's! They belonged to him! However, they were destined to die. He could NOT offer them eternal life, he didn't even try, it wasn't his to give. He offered them deception. He convinced them they needed to live their lives for themselves just as he lived his life for himself. He set up lie after lie, after lie. The first lie he set up was telling mankind they wouldn't die. He lied. To spin his lie, he told them once this body they possessed stopped living they had another body waiting for them, a body like his, a spirit body. He lied. 

Satan is the Father of lies and proud of it.

Jesus God who was in every way equal to God the Father willingly gave up His God power just to become a human being, to become part of a created race. Not only did He become part of a created race, but part of a created race that had succumbed to a created fallen angel's lies, a race of weak, sin inclined flesh. He humbled Himself. 

Php 2:6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 

Php 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 

Php 2:8  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 

A.T. Jones

'Then, when the fullness of time was come, the Father would reveal Himself to mankind as He really is, and His bearing toward the world of sinners. And in order that this might be done in its fullness and perfection, Jesus emptied Himself, and "took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." Phil. 2:6-8. 

"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." John 1:14.

So entirely did He empty Himself of all self that He could say with perfect truth, "I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." John 6:38. "I can of Mine own self do nothing: As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just because I seek not Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." John 5:30. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do; for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." Verse 19. "The Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." John 14:10. "My doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent Me." John 7:16. "The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of Myself," "But the Father which sent Me, He gave a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak." John 14:10; 12:49.'