translated, "being one in ... purpose" (NIV), "of one mind" (KJV, NRSV)."[71]. So did Jesus. Pain was bad, shame worse, curse worst of all (Deuteronomy 21:23; Galatians 3:13; Acts 5:30).II. None but a spiritual kingdom could He have designed who submitted to this suffering.3. And further, there was the shameful burden of sin which He bore.IV. )The humiliation of ChristIn the text we have —1. (e) Every tongue shall do this, i.e., every speech and dialect in the world. 1. Such a covenant was made with Abraham (Hebrews 6:17, 18). (Galatians 4:4). To His people. His humility. ITS BEING MOST PAINFUL, which demonstrated —1. 2. )Christ's humiliation and exaltationBishop Andrewes. A. (1)Specified — "death. The merit of the Cross rested on the whole of His life: as He foresaw His passion, so He accepted it.2. Fallen man is the most servile thing in God's universe — a bond slave of Satan, "Sold under sin" — the servant of uncleanness. For God therefore to be liable to any claim, He must have graciously condescended to involve Himself in an obligation. Tempted of Satan.3. This is the only pattern for our holiness.(J. Harris. God, though He have so exalted it, yet reckons it not exalted until we exalt it too. They reproached Him for disobedience to the Father, and breaking the law which He gave. In HIS INCARNATION. But Christ's obedience was unto —(a) Death. Our Lord's humiliation may be regarded in four stages.I. IT WAS NOT THE BODY OF CHRIST ONLY WHICH WAS HUMAN WHILE HIS SOUL WAS DIVINE, BUT THAT SOUL AND BODY WERE EQUALLY IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN.1. Let us gain a clear idea of a meritorious act. (b) To us. He may become a shepherd on the him, a sailor before the mast, a servant of his own servants. Harris.During the wars of the first Napoleon, in a naval engagement, the son of the captain of a vessel was placed by his father at a certain post and charged to keep it till his return. The assertion that God cannot lay aside some of what we may call the accidents of His being, and invest Himself in another way, is almost to assert that He is not God at all.(A. Accordingly this death did not fall on Him by surprise or chance. Simon was compelled to humble his neck under the Cross. Had He suffered by private malice, His obedience had been less remarkable.4. Other fashions change. Hutchinson, D. D.His was no mere resignation, for that is the attitude of the soul toward the inevitable, h creature may risk his life, indeed, provided the aim be a true and noble one; but no right is his to throw it away. (4)As a man, He fulfilled the whole moral law. God has entered into covenant with man in Christ to crown with a reward those works which Christ first wrought in Himself, and after wards by His grace should work through His members. There is nothing derogatory to the sacred manhood of Christ in this covenant. "(1) Lord whereof? "Thy law is within my heart" was the language of His whole life. 9; Hebrews 2:9; Luke 24:26, 46; Psalm 110:7; Hebrews 12:2). (3) Let us praise Him exceedingly, and raise Him in our esteem above everything and every one else (1 Peter 2:7; 1 Corinthians 2:2; Philippians 3:8; Matthew 10:37). He prayed, and praying was heard, though He Himself was God. So Christ (Isaiah 53:3; Psalm 27:6). Harris. This obedience was the best part of His sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22; Matthew 26:39).3. Wherefore seeing that a superabundant dignity of person was required God's arm brought salvation.5. Barrow, D. D.)The Cross the fountain of meritW. "The Scripture marks the special stages of His humiliation.1. But although He merited for all, all do not receive the grace He purchased. Human nature was not left in a state of neutrality, as if God should look upon it without wrath or favour, hut was again to become the subject of Divine complacency.III. It was not simply glory for His body that He purchased, but exaltation and kingly power; a name above every name.2. THE CROSS AS ITS FOUNTAIN.1. No parade. Matthew 12:18), and "bondservant" (Psalm 11:6; cf. (3) The service He rendered you was hard service; the yoke He puts upon you is easy, and the burden light. It is well to drive away superstition, but it will be well not to drive away reverence with it. (b) Bow to His name. Personal effort freely made lies at the root of all sacrifice. AS A SLAVE CHRIST HAD TWO DUTIES TO EXECUTE.1. (3)He endured the cross to teach us self-denial.III. Born in a stable.2. (1) Otherwise our sins could not be atoned for. That He that hath the power of death might be destroyed (Hebrews 2:14).6. Nature, even when pure, cannot purchase a supernatural reward. The Atonement was no compromise between the demands of justice and the pleadings of mercy. Hutchinson, D. D.His was no mere resignation, for that is the attitude of the soul toward the inevitable, h creature may risk his life, indeed, provided the aim be a true and noble one; but no right is his to throw it away. Let us gain a clear idea of a meritorious act. How far obedient? To take away the meritorious cause of death, namely, sin (Romans 8:3; Romans 6:10-11; Daniel 9:24-26). A. Of all causes not for that, says the world. Here on earth it is otherwise. Our modern conception of death has been so illumined by the doctrine of Christian immortality that we are inclined to conceive of the death of Christ simply as an analogue of ours. (1 Peter 5:6). Vaughan, M. (a) To Him. By it God's special providence was discovered, and His glory illustrated in the propagation of the gospel; for how could such a sufferer gain so general an opinion in the world of being the Lord of life and glory without God's miraculous aid?V. (1) Your time is not your own. Jefferey, D. D.The phrase states the landing place of Christ's career of humiliation, the antipodes of the contrast, the nadir below which it was impossible for Him to go.I. "GOD HATH HIGHLY EXALTED HIM." The easiest death is painful, however downy the bed. We love obedience in a whole skin. It was very notorious, and lasted a competent time. In HIS PREMINISTERIAL LIFE.1. He forewent not things without Him only; He forewent Himself He, the Creator, not only made Himself to need the creatures which He had formed, and was without them — He was hungry and thirsty, and wearied — but even in the things which He wrought, He depended not alone on the Godhead within Him but on the Father. There is nothing so sharp and intolerable, not even pain, to a noble spirit as shame (Hebrews 12:2). For God therefore to be liable to any claim, He must have graciously condescended to involve Himself in an obligation. All his offices were derided: His Priestly (Matthew 27:42); His prophetical (Luke 22:64); His Kingly (John 19:2-3). (3) Shame and reproach. Where are they, then, who deny any tongue the faculty here granted, or bar any of them the duty here enjoined, that lock up the public confession in some one tongue or two?4. And so we read, "See if there be any sorrow like my sorrow."3. Sinless. He became subject to death, the penalty of sin. "The law is not made," in some sense, "for a righteous man" (1 Timothy 1:9), but is not made in any sense for the glorious God.3. IN HIS LIFE.1. That Scripture types might be fulfilled — Isaac, the offerings, the brazen serpent, etc. "GOD HATH HIGHLY EXALTED HIM." (2) Had He died otherwise, He might have seemed to purchase our welfare at a somewhat easier rate. Isaiah 59:2). We need not doubt that our Saviour, as a man, endowed with human sensibilities, felt these indignities; and not only so, but the infinite dignity of His person and the perfect innocency of His life must have enhanced His sufferings. The nature of His kingdom was thereby signified. Without a name what is exalting? (1) "He humbled" — so great a person. Even in Christ grace imparted worth to His natural actions (John 5:19). The character of His punishment.3. (d)Self-denial (Romans 15:3; John 12:27-28; Philippians 1:20). The merit of the Cross rested on the whole of His life: as He foresaw His passion, so He accepted it.2. (5) The extent of our obedience is a matter considerable. (d) See our lot. In this kind of passion (the death of the cross) consider divers notable adjuncts.I. That justice might be satisfied (Hebrews 9:22; Romans 3:25, 26).5. He lay close by under a tree, also snowed under, and heard all this: but, without noticing it, presently crawled out too, and, shaking off the snow, made some jocular remark to the nearest men, who had no idea he had ridden up in the night and lain down amongst them! The better sort get to their knees gladly, and cheerfully confess Him. Nay, if He must die, let Him die a honest fair death. (text and following): —I. Death, to us, is a surrender to an inevitable, from which we would prefer to be exempt, and at the best in most cases, it is a passive submission to a necessity, but the death of Jesus was Jesus in action.3. The cross was an ignominious death, and Christ endured it amidst circumstances of aggravated ignominy, nakedness, and scorn. The boy's position became dangerous, and he was urged to quit it. (2) Nor could He have become the Head of the Church. (3) It was not Absalom's humility, in show, his heart being full of pride and rebellion. To take away the meritorious cause of death, namely, sin (Romans 8:3; Romans 6:10-11; Daniel 9:24-26). So Christ, in the language of the slave, loves to say, "Mine ears hast Thou opened," and adds the reason, "I delight," etc.2. All his offices were derided: His Priestly (Matthew 27:42); His prophetical (Luke 22:64); His Kingly (John 19:2-3). We need not doubt that our Saviour, as a man, endowed with human sensibilities, felt these indignities; and not only so, but the infinite dignity of His person and the perfect innocency of His life must have enhanced His sufferings. (a) How given. )The humiliation of ChristIn the text we have —1. He is for ever in the form of God; this he could not renounce. Pride is madness in the presence of Him who made Himself of no reputation.5. The vehemence of His love.2. Not, however, that suffering in itself is acceptable to God; the thief suffered; it was the way in which the purpose for which it was borne which made it acceptable.3. In the latter sense the Cross outstrips all other portions of our Saviour's life in its value. WHY, IN THE ECONOMY OF GOD WAS IT NEEDFUL THAT JESUS SHOULD SUBMIT TO DEATH?1. But this grace is not the grace of adoption, but that of union. (2) The horrible and cursed evil of sin to need such a remedy. In the latter sense the Cross outstrips all other portions of our Saviour's life in its value. Not, however, that suffering in itself is acceptable to God; the thief suffered; it was the way in which the purpose for which it was borne which made it acceptable.3. His humility. (1) Your time is not your own. Any internal unity the It lies upon you to bear the punishment due to you for breaking away from your Lord and Master (Genesis 2:17).2. What surer ground can there be of faith and hope in God "If God spared not His own Son, etc." For one of mean estate to be humble is no great praise, it were a fault were he not; but for a king, nay the King of kings to show this great humility, is a cause indeed. So, to warm up your thinker, we’re going to have a little quiz: Name That Christmas Carol – match these words with the right Christmas carol… Of all causes not for that, says the world. Christ Powered Life (Rom 5-8) (b) Why the knee first — because we thereby put ourselves in mind of due regard to Him in reverence, and are therefore the fitter to speak of and to Him with respect. Where amongst men, one, however innocent, sufficient to do more than satisfy for himself? "The Scripture marks the special stages of His humiliation.1. But it is not to the syllables of the name that we are to bow. From death to life, from shame to glory, from the form of a servant to the dignity of a sovereign. The example for the Philippians. That justice might be satisfied (Hebrews 9:22; Romans 3:25, 26).5. It is esteemed more than any other title of Deity by Him; because His glory is in it joined to our safety. The merit of the Cross rested on the whole of His life: as He foresaw His passion, so He accepted it.2. But the Son of God is the Law Maker. Such a covenant was made with Abraham (Hebrews 6:17, 18). It will incline us to submit cheerfully to God's will to remember that Christ learned obedience by the things He suffered.(L. (2) "Every knee" —(a) "Shall bow," for what better way to exalt Him than by our humility, who for His humility was exalted. (3) Shame and reproach. Perfectly human, or it would be no example to us.3. The Cross is the great instrument in the acquirement of merit on two grounds. (b)By doing good as we have opportunity (Galatians 6:10). If Christ shed His blood for sin(1) let us shed the blood of sin (Romans 6:10, 11; Galatians 5:24). A king need not always wear the royal robes and sit on a throne. For all. How could this happy design be compassed in consistence with the glory, justice, and truth of God?3. The boy's position became dangerous, and he was urged to quit it. "To the glory of the Father," whose great glory it is that His Son is Lord of such servants, that men shall say, "see what servants He hath." A cause there is. And why should obedience come to that? The mystery of Christ in the form of a servant. His life of subjection and labour.III. What in reason can be more powerful towards working penitential sorrow and religious fear, and stimulating true obedience?8. In HIS INCARNATION. We deserve open condemnation and exemplary punishment, wherefore He was pleased to undergo not only an equivalent pain for us, but in a sort equal blame before God and man.3. (b) Bow to His name. His intercourse with the coarse and the sinful.5. WHAT HE ENDURED IN THAT FASHION.1. Our Lord's humiliation may be regarded in four stages.I. Christ always set His life to the meridian of Scripture — "It is written."4. Obediently. Our Saviour in any other way could hardly have displayed so many virtues to such advantage. His sacrifice was a free-wilt offering. He accordingly would be sued for mercy, nor would he grant it without compensation, and so did find us a Mediator and furnish us with means to satisfy Him.4. Let us trace on the likeness into His spiritual being. Him and others had it also (Hebrews 4:8; Haggai 1:1). This, ignominious in itself, exposed the sufferer to the scorn of the rude vulgar.2. But although He merited for all, all do not receive the grace He purchased. "His judgment was taken away."2. All judgment, as Moses says, is God's, or is administered by authority derived from Him, magistrates being His officers. The merit of the Cross rested on the whole of His life: as He foresaw His passion, so He accepted it.2. How far obedient? "He was numbered among the transgressors." (1)The Father giving the Son. Here it means "to develop an attitude All these Jesuses had need of and were glad "to lay hold of the skirts" of this Jesus to be saved by Him. They in heaven "cast down their crowns and fall down" and confess Him singing (Revelation 4:10); they under the earth are thrown down and made His footstool (Psalm 110:1); they on earth, as in the midst, partake of both. Rest and clothes and food and warmth He needed like us.2. (4)As a man, He fulfilled the whole moral law. )The humiliation of ChristJ. Thus if Adam in Paradise, and some of His fallen descendants were to perform the same virtuous action, the act of the former would have more merit in the one sense; the act of the latter in the other. For God therefore to be liable to any claim, He must have graciously condescended to involve Himself in an obligation. (2) "Every knee" —(a) "Shall bow," for what better way to exalt Him than by our humility, who for His humility was exalted. Rather than that sin should go unpunished He spared not His own Son (Romans 3:25). The removal of sin was the preliminary to Divine communications. The incident ran through the army in a few hours, and reconciled his followers to all the hardships of the expedition, and fully reestablished his popularity.(M. (c) But if given Him ἐχαρίσατο "of grace," where is the merit then? From death. God ever exalts for a cause. Remove the superstition and retain both. Our body is to afford her part, and not the upper parts, the tongue in the head, but also the lower, the knee in the leg. But as this contemplation doth breed sober humility, it should also preserve us from base abjectness of mind; for had not God esteemed us, He would not have debased Himself.6. (3)As citizen of the world He fulfilled the political law by paying taxes. (2) Whither. It will incline us to submit cheerfully to God's will to remember that Christ learned obedience by the things He suffered.(L. That Scripture prophecies might be accomplished (Isaiah 63:1; Genesis 3:15; Luke 24:25, 26).2. How imperceptible that was. There are things we come in contact with which, though not hurtful, leave a feeling of debasement.3. Had He suffered by private malice, His obedience had been less remarkable.4. It was a most convenient touchstone to prove the genuine disposition and work of men, so as to discriminate those who can discern and love true goodness though so disfigured, and not be scandalized by the Cross.4. H. Hutchings, M. "(3) Confess what? For information. )Christ's obedience unto deathJ. Even in Christ grace imparted worth to His natural actions (John 5:19). His intercourse with the coarse and the sinful.5. (3) Christ is willing to do anything for thee. But why such a death, since any would have been sufficient; and why such a death odious alike to Jew and Gentile?1. But death, in the person of Jesus, was the culminating catastrophe in the history of the "Man of sorrows." Let us trace on the likeness into His spiritual being. (3) Shame and reproach. And so listening in vain for the voice which alone he would obey, he perished in the explosion of the ship.(W. Corinthians 5:10). But it is not humble courtesy, but humble obedience here. His outward life was the reflection of His sense of duty. Other fashions change. Produced by the Spirit. To the state of an inferior creature, a man, not an angel,2. It is the figure of a warrior before an open grave. His outward life was the reflection of His sense of duty. "(3) Confess what? The Ruler of all brought to the state of a creature.1. Where was there a Mediator worthy to intercede on our behalf? Things that are exalted seem not to be so until their name go abroad in the world. (2)As a devout Jew, He fulfilled the whole ceremonial law. In John 5:30 , Jesus said, "I can do nothing on My own." (1)The Father giving the Son. His bodily presence stood forth always visibly and palpably a man. Death was the objective end of His mission. 5. Can we reflect on this event without detestation of sin, which brought such a death on the Redeemer.7. For it is the only name by which we can be saved. WHEREFORE HE ENGAGED in this service.1. All the nature of our race was gathered and concentrated into that one human life. ITS BEING MOST SHAMEFUL — a Roman punishment reserved for slaves, answering to the Jewish punishment of hanging up dead bodies. Had He not been righteous as a servant, He could not have justified the sinner. To us it is a victory over the last and mightiest form of evil; to Him it was a surrender to the masterful forces of disorganization and ruin. Where amongst men, one, however innocent, sufficient to do more than satisfy for himself? )Christ's obedience unto deathJ. God was pleased to prosecute it, as thereby no wise to impair but rather to advance His glory. Notorious villains were crucified with Him. His poverty and privation.4. 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