(2)The extension and distortion of His body. Here on earth it is otherwise. How often was "I must" upon His lips.3. To own that title you must not regard it as a figure of speech. He took the nature of all, and thus merited for all (Hebrews 2:14). In obedience to the Holy Ghost He goes into the desert and conquers by "It is written," etc.5. Even an heroic action loses its moral value if necessitated. A. Could He become a suitor to His offended self? That man was perfect. Adam was human, but he was not created mortal. From death to life, from shame to glory, from the form of a servant to the dignity of a sovereign. To us it is a shaft whose sting has been removed; to Him it was an arrow envenomed by the wrath of God against sin. Vaughan, M. Obedience in some petty matter is little worth. The expressions which assert Christ's incarnation imply His Deity. In this kind of passion (the death of the cross) consider divers notable adjuncts.I. He stood forth as the great representative man. He obeyed the law. His childhood and early manhood were subject to parental authority.3. From death to life, from shame to glory, from the form of a servant to the dignity of a sovereign. His humility. 3. Personal. He was tempted and overcame by the Holy Ghost.2. (5) Let us be willing, if need be, to shed our blood for Him (Acts 20:24; Revelation 12:11; Hebrews 12:4). At last, when the appointed period arrived, Christ "came after the flesh, born of a woman." great white throne of judgment where all are called to judgment and no longer In HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.1. "FOR THIS CAUSE."1. 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. Simon was compelled to humble his neck under the Cross. He came in order to do. (4) This is sad and dreadful news to all impenitent sinners (Hebrews 10:29).2. He submitted to the ceremonial law in His circumcision, and to the moral law in His life; all which subjection was not a debt to God, but a voluntary subscription. Their peculiar goodness arises from the absence of any stain of sin and any material defect: our good actions have both these drawbacks. Either fall on our knees now, or be cast on our faces then; either confess Him with saints and angels, or with devils and damned spirits. In the latter sense the Cross outstrips all other portions of our Saviour's life in its value. Our Saviour in any other way could hardly have displayed so many virtues to such advantage. Notorious villains were crucified with Him. And further, there was the shameful burden of sin which He bore.IV. IN WHAT MANNER CHRIST UNDERWENT THIS DEATH.1. (2) What He teacheth us by making Himself of no reputation. Of His own accord. Obediently. He stood forth as the great representative man.2. So painful was it in thought that Christ shrunk from it (Matthew 26:39). O. Mackay.During one of the campaigns in the American Civil War, when the winter weather was very severe, some of Stonewall Jackson's men having crawled out in the morning from their snow-laden blankets, half frozen, began to curse him as the cause of their sufferings. This death best suited the character of His undertaking. From death. Merit ceased with the Cross: what follows is reward (John 19:30).4. He is Lord of the Sabbath, but obeys the Sabbath.7. It was His will to die; and yet He died not of His own will, but of His Father's. It should breed a disregard for the world and its vanities, and reconcile us to even the worst condition? )The humiliation of ChristJ. Hutchinson, D. D.)Obedient unto deathW. His death was the completion of His life of obedience.(J. Vaughan, M. A.I. (1) God had made the power of Jesus to do His work depend on His faithfulness. Let us gain a clear idea of a meritorious act. Mortality, with Him, was a consequence of disobedience; and so Jesus, in becoming human, had He seen fit, might have been exempt from the law of death, or might have passed away by a translation, such as is recorded of Enoch and Elijah, and such as did transpire in His own history after He had risen, to die no more. Vaughan, M. A.I. We know nothing now more honourable than Christian service. Blessings and Benefits (2:1), A Call to Humility and With this name there is comfort in the name of God; without it none at all.3. A. Three things are in it. In it the activities of endurance were taxed to the utmost limit. monograph, An Early Christian Confession. Vaughan, M. (3) Our Lord's actions could have obtained no merit, whatever their perfection, had they resulted only from His natural powers. that Jesus is a Lord to save (Matthew 14:30), and a Lord to serve (Acts 9:6). Even in Christ grace imparted worth to His natural actions (John 5:19). Him and others had it also (Hebrews 4:8; Haggai 1:1). So we are to esteem it above every name, and to show our esteem by bowing with the knee and confessing with the tongue. "(1) Lord whereof? For what cause? The expressions which assert Christ's incarnation imply His Deity. This is the only acceptable service. Can we reflect on this event without detestation of sin, which brought such a death on the Redeemer.7. H. Giles, B. Look at SOME OF THE LAWS RESPECTING JEWISH SLAVES so as to estimate the humiliation of Jesus; and these were mild compared with those that obtained among the Romans.1. Respect a body which has such fellowships; be tender to the corporeal wants of the members of the body of Christ.(J. )The humanity of ChristJ. 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. He appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh (Romans 8:3). A. Sin was the inlet of shame (Genesis 3:7). The circumstances of His arrest and trial.2. The obedience of Jesus unto death became the exhaustive ground on which God could justly remit the penalty pronounced against the sinner.3. In amplification of this, the principal act of Christ's humiliation, note —I. How could this happy design be compassed in consistence with the glory, justice, and truth of God?3. 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. )The humanity of ChristJ. H. Giles, B. Where among angels, seeing that they cannot discharge more than their own debts of gratitude and service?4. 4. )The possibility of Christ's humiliationA. He was impeached of the highest crimes, and, although innocent, for them suffered death. Death is the wages of sin. All is traceable to Divine mercy as its first source (Psalm 62:12), yet it is the Divine justice which is represented as under an obligation to repay the services which are rendered (Hebrews 6:10). Can we reflect on this event without detestation of sin, which brought such a death on the Redeemer.7. The entering into covenant and confirming by an oath were human types and shadows of the great covenant between God and man in Christ (Hebrews 7:21). (4) But there is an obedience which cometh from natural reason; but some other there be wherein there is no other reason but the will of a lawful superior. His day was all work for the creature; His night communion with the Creator. (e) Every tongue shall do this, i.e., every speech and dialect in the world. (b) Bow to His name. Had Christ been made an angel it had been infinitely below Himself.2. 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