All right, well, I do want to welcome you to the Deliberate Orthodoxy podcast. I think I'm having a little bit too much fun with these virtual backgrounds. I actually, I guess, let's see if I can get my head turned right. It's hard to look at the monitor and see what I'm supposed to do. All right, so I'm talking to myself over here. Talking Brother Shad over here. This may just be a little bit too much. So anyway, I'm going to try to look at the monitor and just press on through today. But certainly we are glad that you're here with us on Deliberate Orthodoxy podcast and certainly as we continue on through our family catechism for this week. We're looking forward to some really neat things coming up on the Emmanuel Discipling Network. Some of those things being some live streams that we're going to be doing this summer. And so you'll be hearing some more about that in the days to come. But really excited getting together a really good lineup, I think, for the summer for those live streams. And we really hope that you'll connect with us during that time and that we'll be able to interact with you, answer questions, those kinds of things. And so first one's coming up in a little less than two weeks, and we're going to start advertising for that probably the end of this week, first to next week. And so you should see some things related to that if you follow our Facebook page, the Emmanuel Baptist Church Facebook page, or if you follow any of our social media. So hopefully you'll see those things. But today we are getting back to our big question and answer, our catechism question and answer. And our question for this week is, how did God, excuse me, how did Christ, the son of God, become man? And the answer is he became man by assuming a real body and a reasoning soul. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary who gave birth to him, yet he was sinless. And today, continuing this week, our memory verse is, he made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. in 2 Corinthians 5.21. Our hymn for this week, we usually don't say anything about the hymn, but our hymn for this week is A Mighty Fortress is Our God. So if you have one of these little books here, you'll see that there, and it actually will give you a YouTube link, and that should be down in the show notes below this or the description below this. And I would encourage you to go and listen to that, sing along, the lyrics will be there. What a powerful hymn of the faith. Well, today our Bible passage is Philippians 2, verses 1 through 11, which is a powerful passage of scripture and has within it really a hymn of Christ's humility and exaltation. And so I'll begin to read that. Philippians 2, verse 1. If there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, make my joy complete by thinking the same way, having the same love, united in Spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. Instead, he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even to death on a cross. For this reason, God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name. so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." And so what a powerful passage of scripture there is. Paul is actually just pointing out to the church there in Philippi how they ought to live and how they ought to treat one another, that they ought to be humble in their dealings with one another, and that they ought to have the same attitude as that of Christ, who you know, as we read in verse three, I believe it's there in verse, excuse me, in verse five, or excuse me, verse six, I'll get it right in a minute. Existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. And other translations might say something to be grasped or something to be held on to. And the idea is that Christ was willing to humble himself. He's willing to do so for the glory, for the glory of God, for the glory, certainly his own glory that he would enter back into after the incarnation, after he had been here on the earth, even though he does still continue to exist as both God and man, the Lord Jesus Christ has been glorified now at this time. And so he has been glorified with the glory that he had with the Father from before time began. But he was willing to set aside certain benefits of being divine. He was willing to set aside his infinite nature and take on human nature in the incarnation. He was willing to do that on our behalf. He was willing to become a man and walk among us and be subject to all the trials and tribulations of this life and yet endure those things without sin so that he might become this Redeemer that we need, the Son of Man and the Son of God. And so we thank God for his blessings. We thank him for what he's done for us in Christ. And I hope today that you'll have a great day and that you'll be blessed throughout the rest of this week. And we'll continue to talk to you and share with you things that are coming up on the pod in the future. If you enjoy this, we would ask you to do us a favor and like this video, share it. You can share it there on YouTube, or you can share it through social media. That would be a great help to us. And also subscribe to this channel. We share scripture. We try to share things that are edifying and helpful to the body of Christ. And so I hope you found this helpful today. God bless you. You have a great day.