Message One Review from ‘Tis the Season
by Mark Alan on Dec.21, 2009, under General
Anybody here done with their Christmas shopping now?
Last week Message Review
We went shopping down aisles position, possession, adventure, relationships looking for the perfect gift
Immanuel – God with us
Greatest gift is “God with us” – Jesus put skin on
Conception is coming together
Female ovum supplies no blood to baby
Dna of mother and father forms blood cells – Jesus had blood type from his father / divine nature
Blood was pure – undefiled from curse of sin and death
Phillipians 2:5-8
Kenosis – emptying of one’s self
Incarnation does not mean Christ ceased being God, he simply added human nature to divine nature at Incarnation. Of his free will he made himself subject as God-man to Father’s will via total dependence on the Holy Spirit.
In self emptying Jesus:
1) gave up glory and majesty of outward expression of god head john 17:5
2) gave up form of God and took on form of a servant John 1:14, phil 2:6-8, 1 Peter 1:16-18
3) taught only what father told to say John 5:30, 8:28 and 35, 12:44-50
4) did only what father showed him John 5:36
5) exercised only authority the father gave him John 10:18
6) voluntary dependant on power of Holy Spirit and anointing Acts 1:2; 10:38, Luke 4:14-18, Matthew 12:38, Hebrews 9:14
7) laid aside independent exercise of divine attributes John 14:28, 3:16, 10:18, 1 Cor 11:3, 15:27-28
Jesus dropped – emptied himself to find us
We must drop and empty ourselves to find him
