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(Philippians 2:9-11)
I. Introduction.
A. Orientation.
We saw this morning,
That Jesus only did what He saw His Father doing
When He came into the world
He came in a role of complete submission to Fathers will.
B. Preview.
The Father has a plan to glorify His grace
In the salvation of His people.
But the way He chose to do it
Was to send His Son to do things
For which He would be greatly honored,
So that the Son, in return, might bring honor to the Father.
II. Sermon.
A. First, lets look at what the Lord did
To honor His Son before He came.
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More than anything else.
He is the One who is in the bosom of the Father from all eternity.
John writes in John 1:18, No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten
God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
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The Father loves the Son so much
He determined from all eternity
To glorify Him
By giving Him the honor of being the One
Through Whom He would bring salvation
And by richly rewarding Him for it,
As we read this morning in Isaiah 53:10-12, But the LORD was pleased to
crush Him, putting Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt
offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good
pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of
His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; by His knowledge the Righteous
One, My Servant, will justify the many, as He will bear their iniquities.
Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the
booty with the strong; because He poured out Himself to death, and was
numbered with the transgressors; yet He Himself bore the sin of many, and
interceded for the transgressors.
It was the Sons pleasure to glorify His Father
By giving His life to repair His honor,
And to redeem those His Father chose to love;
And it was the Fathers pleasure to honor His Son
For repairing His honor
And bringing His chosen to heaven.
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seed shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of
the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice (Gen.
22:16-18).
Paul tells us this seed, through Whom He would bless the nations, was Jesus,
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not
say, And to seeds, as referring to many, but rather to one, And to your
seed, that is, Christ (Gal. 3:16).
d. Of course, the Father had many more things to say about His Son.
The whole OT is filled with prophecies, promises and types
That all pointed to Him,
As we see in Jesus discussion with the two on the road to Emmaus.
After they expressed their disappointment
That Jesus whom they didnt recognize at that time
Had not been the Redeemer they hoped for,
Jesus said to them, O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the
prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these
things and to enter into His glory? Then beginning with Moses and with
all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all
the Scriptures (Luke 24:25-27).
The OT is full of references to Jesus
Because of the Fathers desire to honor His Son.
3. As we saw earlier,
The Father further honored Him at His baptism
When He publicly declared His love for Him.
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After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold,
the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove
and lighting on Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, This is My
beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased (Matt. 3:16-17).
4. He honored Jesus
By showing Him what He was doing
That is by revealing His plan to Him
And giving Him the power to carry it out
As we saw this morning.
Paul tells us in Philippians 2:9, For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and
bestowed on Him the name which is above every name.
Because Jesus was willing to lower Himself the most
Because being the Son of God from all eternity and equal with God,
He was willing to humble Himself by becoming a man
Without ceasing to be God,
Or giving up any of His divine attributes,
Or changing in any way
And because as a man,
He was willing to humble Himself further
By becoming a curse for us on the cross,
God exalted Him
As weve seen,
Hes seated at the right hand of God
As King over all creation
And has been given the greatest of all names
So that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in
heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (vv. 10-11).
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