A Colony Of The King - Emptied [Ryan Ashley]

Philippians 2:5-11, John 10:17-18

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—
        even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

“These seven verses have received more attention from NT scholars and Christian theologians than any other passage in Philippians and easily qualify for inclusion among the most hotly debated passages of the Bible.”

Craig Blomberg

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:    

“God in Jesus became human and laid down the God card.”

“To bind a Roman citizen is an outrage; to scourge him a crime; it almost amounts to parricide to put him to death; how shall I describe crucifixion? No adequate word can be found to represent so execrable an enormity.”

Cicero from Against Verres

Cursus Honorum “Course of Honer” “Ladder of Offices”

1.   This is a Hymn about God!

“The decision to become human, and to go all the way along the road of obedience, obedience to the divine plan of salvation, yes, all the way to the cross – this decision was not a decision to stop being divine. It was a decision about what it really meant to be divine… his progression through incarnation to death must be seen, not as something which required him as it were to stop being God for a while, but as a perfect self-expression of the true God.”

N.T. Wright

1.   This is a Hymn about US!