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December 4, 1994
During the Christmas season, it can be easy to think of Christ’s birth merely as an inspiring story—but it is far more meaningful than that. In this meditation on Philippians 2, Alistair Begg highlights the steps Christ took downward from heaven, starting with His birth as a human baby and leading to His willing, obedient death on the cross. Ultimately, Christmas finds its true meaning through Christ’s obedience to God, shown in His death, resurrection, ascension, and promised return.
5oHave this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,1 6pwho, though he was in qthe form of God, did not count equality with God ra thing to be grasped,2 7but semptied himself, by taking the form of a tservant,3 ubeing born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by vbecoming obedient to the point of death, weven death on a cross. 9xTherefore yGod has zhighly exalted him and bestowed on him athe name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus bevery knee should bow, cin heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and devery tongue confess that Jesus Christ is eLord, to the glory of God the Father.
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