on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this blind man you, who is also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the power of God, ought not to have a robbery in the evil of God. But maybe it's about three days to three weeks from now. That's what I would say. In verse number four, it talks about not every man looks on his own things. What does that mean? Oh, that's right, that's right. All right. Look not on your things of others, excuse me, look on your own things. On his own things. It's good to look on your own things, but don't just limit yourself to your own things. What does it mean to look on your own things? Put your hands on that. What does it mean to look on your own things? It's your own welfare, your own kids. Your own welfare, your home, your children, your house, your husband or wife, whatever it might be. Well, somebody made a big deal about it last week. No big deal. You're free, free, free. And then the last hard part of verse 4 is the opposite of that. Rather, yes, first of all, not on your own things, but also, but everything else on the things of others. Now, what would that mean? I thought about, you know, Vietnam. Saying, I want what they have. It's caring about making sure they're provided for. Right. Looking out for your neighbor. Being thoughtful of them, their needs, whatever they may be. And it's important to see that. So, not only your own self, but others. is what we have to look out for. And then in verse number five, there's a seven-fold self-humbling of our Savior in these verses here. First of all, what does God say about your mind? A Christian's mind should be what? The temple. Like Christ. Like Christ. About my being, which is in Christ Jesus. Now, in verse 6, he begins a kind of a line with, what did the Lord Jesus do? And then what did he also do next? Pastor Dan? The Lord Jesus is perfect God for every man. All right. He's God. And so we'd be applying what we're saying here, looked at every man in his own things, but in the things of others. He wasn't looking at his own things, looking upon his own things, but he was looking We need a redemption, we need a salvation for this fallen creation. He was in the form of God. Deity. Without any body, but he had a spirit, a soul. And he was without bodily form. He was in the form of God, which was without a body like we have here at present time. But what did he think about? He thought, well, what does this mean? He thought it meant robbery. to be equal to that. What does that mean? Tell me. Well, because he was equal with God, because he was God, there wouldn't be robbery for him to claim that he was equal with God, because he is. He is God. He is God. Always has been, for eternity past, for eternity future. Questions at BFTBC.org or 856-261-9010. Answer some of our questions. Glad to have you do it. So in verse number six, in the form of God's name, not robbery. He wasn't trying to take over something that he didn't have before. He was always in the form of God. It wasn't robbery. He was always equal with the Father and with the Holy Spirit. All three were equal, one with another, the Trinity. But, now there's going to be a change. What kind of a conjunction is this? Did we read that? Oh, we did. Oh, you're right, four, five, and six. Okay, let's read seven, eight, and nine. Thank you for that. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man. And being fashioned as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, All right, so there and seven, right? What is the type of conjunction in this word? How is it used? Yes, Tammy? It's used to show contrast. All right. The difference from the previous verse. All right. It's that version of conjunction, contrast. But on the other hand, something different. What is a different thing that's happening here in this verse? He is equal with God, but he made himself with no reputation. What would that mean? No reputation, made himself with no reputation? No, no. He was looking to make a name for himself. That's right. He was humble. Humble, that's right. And you see, even though he was God, the highest of anyone at all in the whole world, But he humbled himself and became a servant and became a different. He wasn't staying God-like. He's always God, but he made himself no repetition. And being a former God, he thought it not a robbery to be equal with God. What does it mean? He thought it not a robbery to be equal with God. Not a robbery. Oh, we already talked about that. Oh, we talked about that already? Yeah, we're under seven now. OK. Oh, yeah, we're on the bottom. No repetition. What does that mean? Did he have a reputation? What does it mean, made himself a guard? What does that mean? No special status. All right. And he didn't make himself to be someone that was special and high up. He just held himself, became a leader. No reputation. Now, what does it mean he took upon himself the form of a servant? What does that mean? Who made him a savior after that? I was going to say, God chose to send his son. Yes. So he was born of flesh, in the flesh. So it was God in the flesh, Jesus Christ. Antoinette was saying, yes, the father sent him, but he was also willing to go. Yes, willing to go. And also willing to make himself no repetition. Yes, Antoinette? Oh, I didn't say anything. I just said yes. Your hand was up to your head. I thought that was it. All right. No repetition. But he took upon him what? Ask your dad? The form of a servant. The form of a servant. In other words, he is God. He has perfect deity in it to perform the likeness of a servant. Do you think that would be easy for most people to do? No, if they're high and mighty, it's hard for them to be a servant. It's just some form of a servant. And the last part of verse 8 and 7, what does that mean? likeness to man. Well, he was made similar to man, but not exactly the same. OK, I connect. He was born fully God, fully man. So he was born a human being. Yes. He had the complete majesty of being God. He took upon himself the form of a servant, but also was made the likeness of man. He was a perfect man, wasn't he? Yes. Did the people on this earth treat him as God, or treat him as a man, or treat him as lower than a man? How was he treated? Bill? Some people thought of him as a prophet. Some people thought of him as another human being. I don't think anyone really understood that he was actually God. until we had the scriptures to clarify these things. In the time that Jesus lived, he probably astounded a lot of people with his miracles and with all the things that he did. And they probably wondered, but they couldn't really know. We have the words of the Bible, which clarify things for us. We have a great advantage over them. Someone else on the other hand, who was it? Was there a need for that? No, but I was just thinking what Bill was saying, and I was thinking when Jesus was in the boat, and the disciples were fearful, and he had calmed the seas, and they were saying they acknowledged that he was able to calm it. Who is this? Even the winds in the sea obey him. So they had a little experience there with God because of that miracle and all the other miracles. They knew him better than, let's say, the average person who was just walking around or coming to get, you know, a piece of bread or fish or whatever. Made him a likeness. What does that mean? A likeness. Did he renounce his deity? Because in the likeness of man, he had both deity and humanity. That's the tenet. He didn't have a sin nature. No sin nature, that's right. So he was only in the likeness, right? In the likeness, no, that's right. Right. So, yes. Well, I loved him, and I'll get back to this lately, because right before that was that it took part in the form of a servant. You know, we can read the scripture of how he was a servant to people, doing various miracles and so on and so forth, but the greatest service that he, the greatest act of being a servant he did for us was dying on the cross. Yes, I had to let that go. Oh, I don't know. I lost my thought. I wanted to say he was fully God and fully man. Fully God, fully man. Oh, and he couldn't sin because he was God. That's exactly right. There's a big word for what he was. He was Theanthropos. He was God in a perfect deity, in perfect humanity. So that's in verse 7, lightness of man. And then in verse number 8, we read it, didn't we? Being found in the fashion as a man. What does that mean, the fashion as a man? First it says lightness of man, now the fashion of man. Is there a difference between those terms? Yeah, excuse me. Answer that. He had the characteristics of a man. He was flesh and blood. Yes. And that was the fashion of man. If you're a human being, then you have flesh and blood. And that's what he had. That was the fashion. Did he have a human father? No. No human father. In the likeness of man, God just performed that miracle, but he did not have a human father. Questions at bftbc.org or 856-261-9018. Give us a call or comment. Glad to hear from you. Yes, John. If Jesus had had a human father, then his blood would be of no use for atonement. That's correct. Would John MacArthur agree with that? Probably would not. Remember his belief in the blood? He believes in the death. Yes. It's the death, not the blood. The blood doesn't open. Could be any kind of blood, any kind of person. Very serious heresy. He also believes that we have to have what kind of salvation is called? Lordship. Lordship salvation. You have to make the Lord Jesus Lord of your life before you can even be saved. Absolutely impossible. Impossible. We can't do that. And so the likeness, fashion, humbled himself. Are we on date today? Are we on date? We're on date. He found the fashion, so he humbled himself, and will beat it. To whom? To God the Father. God the Father. To God. Yes, on the death. That was a beating on the death. Yes, even the death of the cross. So, in the garden, in John chapter 17, before Calvary's cross, he and the Father discussed what this would be at Calvary. He didn't say no. He went right forward to it. I remember a strong prayer to the Father in chapter 7 of the New John. And he was absolutely sure and certain he was going to go to the cross and be obedient unto death, even unto the death of the cross. Is that what I mean? There's three more verses, right? You read through nine. I read through nine. OK. Wherefore. What type of a part of speech is that? What does that bring in that other parts of speech do not bring in? They bring in something else. What does wherefore bring in? Summary of what came before. OK. In other words, because of this, point, point, point, point, point, wherefore, because of all that went before, so-and-so, what is the so-and-so that wherefore brings up? Because the Son of Man did all these things, helping himself, being out of death, death of Christ. More for what happened. Because of that, what did God the Father do in verse 8 or 9? Yes, Antoinette? I don't think John was before that. John. Go ahead, John. OK. Go ahead. My father highly exalted him and gave him a name above every other name. See, because the son was willing, the son was obedient unto death, willing to obey his father, therefore God hath highly exalted him. That was the father's grace and the father's goodness because he did humble himself. So he exalted him. He gave him a name above every name. The name of Jesus. Does the world think it's the name of Jesus? John? Well, no, to answer that question, Bob, I'm going to add to what we were talking about. All right, go ahead. You know, we see in the Old Testament of the Tetraphrase and Solomon, where Solomon did not ask for a long life, for riches and all these things. He humbled himself and only asked for wisdom so he could guide the Lord's people. The Lord blessed him with all those things that he didn't ask for. That's true. All right, let's go on to three more verses. Verses 10, 11, and 12. But in the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth. And at every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Wherefore, my brethren, as ye have always been, not only have my brethren told me, but now much more in my absence, work now your own salvation with fear and trembling. All right, so verse 10. By the name of Jesus, what should happen? What should happen? Hands on that. 10. Every knee should bow. Every knee should bow. And what kind of knees? What sort of knees? Or knee-like substances? Both those in heaven and in earth. In heaven and thanks to the earth. And so these, the heaven things don't have knees, but the likeness is, they're bowing, they're worshiping, and they're taken under plates to the Son of God and to God the Father. And what else is verse number 11? What about the knees? Now here's the tongue. What should be true of the tongues? John? All will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. So it's important to have Lord Jesus the highest Lord, the Master. We should be servants of His and under His. And the tongue should confess, the knees should bow. What does it mean to bow? Excuse me, Anna. Oh, I just wanted to point out that it's not just things in heaven and in the earth. It's also things under the earth. OK. So what are some of those things? It could be a reference to both the those who are in heaven and those who are on earth and those who are in hell. They're all going to be means. Now we need to go on. All right. That's important. Verse number what? Verse number 10. Verse number 10. Yeah, on Earth and things under the Earth. That's correct. And those are things in Earth and under the Earth. In the Earth. So three places. Yes. So in the Earth, I guess it would be buried. Would it be buried in the Earth or on the Earth? But they're under the Earth. Under the Earth. In Earth, it would seem like they'd be like on the Earth. I see, yeah. Right. They were in and out of some kind for a second. Right, so that's... There's a hand. Oh. Come on, Shari. I'm sorry. Thank you. A reference in Revelation chapter 4 to the bowing of the knees at the end of the time of confession in verse 10 and verse 11. Where the 4 and 20 elders bow down before him and sit on the throne and worship him that liveth forever and ever. and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for Thou hast created all things, and for that pleasure they are and were created. Yes. So you're right about all these locations. In the name of Jesus, every knee should bow. Things in heaven should bow. omnipotent in the earth and things under the earth. So all stages of humanity should bow to the Lord Jesus Christ. And then verse 11, we talked about that, it's down to the tongue. It's a need to bow the tongue, what shall the tongue do? Confess. Confess, means agreeing, positively agreeing that Jesus Christ is Lord. was to the glory of God the Father. His glory and his mastery. I went through the book by John. What was the name of it? I think it was named. What's the man that? John MacArthur? No, not John MacArthur. The one that wrote the 8,000 Things, Differences, and The Three Differences of the World. Shake my head. It's Jack instead of John. And Jack Mormon wrote a book on three and fifty-six changes. And I'm going through that on doctrines, very serious doctrinal changes. It's very interesting, some of these things. They follow, many of these churches and schools follow the wrong New Testament Greek text, for example. This is mostly New Testament. And the New Testament Greek text is from Gnosticism. Gnostics are horrible. And I'm analyzing now some of these 356 that are basically doctrines, over 100 of them. And they just shred the doctrines of the Christian faith. Because that whole Westcott and Hoare type of text is based upon a group of manuscripts whose authors denied the deity of Christ, his political resurrections, bodily resurrections, come again, all these things. So it's a terrible thing that they've done. And to have some people who are Christians, the family of fundamental Christians, to follow that wrong text. I don't think the people who follow that text, who say they follow that text, have ever compared it with the truth. I don't know what they do. Why are they following it if it's so wrong? Anyhow, I'm working on that. We'll have to finish that up sometime, who knows when. So that's in verse, what was it, 11 or 12? Verse 11. 11. Every tongue should confess, what does confess mean? Agree with God. Agree with God. What should they agree with God about in verse 11? Jesus Christ is Lord. I'm sorry, I didn't see that. That's exactly what John just said. If that hand could go over in front of that white thing, that's better. OK. You're hidden. Jesus Christ is Lord, same thing as John just said. Jesus Christ is Lord. One thing that this blessed Bible text do, when they come to things, in order to say nothing about them, They underline it, which means they don't even appear. Sometimes they underline whole verses. They just wipe out these verses, and yet these people use this Westcott and Horton type of text. So that's verse 11. Every tongue should confess Jesus Christ is Lord, God, and Father. I see so often times I go into this text, the word glory is underlined. In other words, it's wiped out. They don't believe it should be. Jesus is in the land. They don't believe it. Christ is in the land. They wipe out verse after word after word after word. Horribly. Have we read 14 yet? Let's read 12, 13, and 14. Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obtained, let all in my presence be. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out the joy of my absence. Work out What kind of a junction is that, and what does it purport? Does it look back, look at front? In what way does it look back and forth? Wherefore. Remember, we talked about the word therefore. I mean, one of the wherefore earlier, but what is this wherefore meaning? When you're talking, talking, talking, and I say that word wherefore, yes? It's a conclusion. It's a conclusion, right? It's a conclusion of all that's coming forward. That's right. And because of all this in the past, Orford, you should do something about it. It's past now. What's up to you to continue the proper attitude and action after this? And that's in verse 12. It's called, he's looking at my beloved. Where's he writing from? Where's he writing from? From Rome. Rome, in jail. In jail. Rome in jail. Rome in jail. My beloved, he knows the Philippians. He's been in their town before preaching. So imagine a man in jail. Is that it? That's it. That's what that means. It goes fast. It goes fast on Confirmers Day because we have to have music and prayer. Oh, I know. If you have any comments, sum up what you want to say. Anything else you want to discuss before we close? If not, John, we'll close.