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Jun 13, 2021 · We are containers that, when empty, can be filled and used ( 2 Timothy 2:21 ). Recently, a new Christian movement has encouraged emptying oneself in order to receive from God. It’s called “contemplative prayer,” and it involves centering one’s focus on the presence of God, sometimes by repeating a word or phrase.
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Philippians 2:7 says that Christ "did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself" and became a human. But what does that verse a...
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The Apostle Paul teaches that in Christ’s humiliation, He “emptied Himself” (Phil. 2:6–7). How should we understand this statement? From one of our Ask Ligon...
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Mar 30, 2022 · What he says is that Jesus emptied himself by taking on something. If you remember from Philippians Chapter 2, he says that what Jesus took on was the form of a servant. In other words, he became human.
What does it mean that Christ “emptied Himself” in Phil. 2:6–7? John MacArthur. 1 Min Read. Philippians 2:6–7 does not mean that Christ became anything less than He was. It does not mean that He ceased to be God because then He would have ceased to be who He was.
Jul 15, 2020 · Why It Matters. Jesus adding a human nature has massive implications. After all, Paul tells us that Jesus emptied himself to become “obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”. If he only had a divine nature, he could not have died for our sins, because God cannot die.
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We are to empty ourselves, ‘looking not to our own interests, but to the interests of others’ (Phil. 2:4). This costly discipleship should transform our homes, energise our mission, celebrate our gifts and inform our hermeneutical practice as well.