Opus 2024-213: Monday Pulpit: Readers’ Digest Gospel

Last week our pastor spoke on one of my favorite passages of scripture.

(Php 2:5-11 KJV)  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  But made himself of no reputation, 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. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

He spent the first few minutes working through the passage and did a good job for moving through quickly.  The rest of the sermon, as usual, focused on evangelism and making a decision.

There is a progression in Paul’s writing that gives many of the basics of the Christian faith.  

He starts with a statement of the divinity of Christ,
Then we have the incarnation.
We have the crucifixion, and
The place of Jesus as Lord.

He doesn’t mention the resurrection of the place of faith but it is a powerful statement about Jesus.  If you are a believer you know all this and sense the joy that it involves.  If you are not a believer then it is something to think about.

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