Good morning. Let me call your attention to Philippians chapter 2 again. In a few moments I will be reading verses 5 to 11. In the first hour I discussed verses 1 to 4 of this same chapter. I'm not going to review it if you weren't here. So, as Tim said or has said, go to Sermonadio and also to YouTube if you want to see my not so pretty face in person or more or less in person. If you want to do that, you can do it and I encourage you to do it, but so that you can I have to do a brief review of what I'm going to talk about here in verses 5 to 11, because this is what Pablo is doing with verses 1 to 4. The first four go to 5 to 11. If I don't do the review, then the background will not understand the impetus of what Pablo is trying to do with these seven verses. Therefore, in verses 1 to 4, I mentioned four issues with which Pablo is dealing and he wants to impress on his readers and these are of course as a result of what he had said in chapter 1 and he follows the context of thought there are some letters in the new testament santiago comes to mind when he The author goes from one subject to another without connection in particular, but in the Philippians, as in most of the letters of the New Testament, there is a logical fluidity of thought. And he does it here too. These commandments and encouragement that Paul gives us here now will lead to the context of verses 5 to 11, he wanted to encourage the believers to the light that they were going through persecution, reminding them that such persecution was given by God for their faith and for their good. It is as if he were saying, it is good to endure persecution because it does a lot of good. Obviously, In our flesh, we don't see persecution well. We don't see persecution as a gift, but it is a gift because it helps us to focus our minds on the Lord, on the Lord to whom we are serving and why we are serving Christ. Chapter 2 tells us how to carry out the burden that has been given to us In chapter one, Christians must be united and have the same things in common. They must be united in doctrine, in their theology, in their point of view, the Christian point of view, fill everything that is the believer. a believer inside and outside the Church, not only as you behave in front of the Christians, but also in front of the world, which is where we spend most of our lives. We spend our lives in front of unbelievers. It is important that we understand that it is just as important how we behave outside the Church as how we behave inside the Church. I mentioned that this does not mean that we have the same exact convictions on all issues. In fact, we are individuals and as individuals we have different convictions, different ideas about different things. For example, maybe how we are going to fulfill the work that God has given us. Some of us We are more digital adepts than others. Others use the internet for themselves. Others are better people with people. Direct interactions are not better than others. I mean, you have to find where your talent is and use it as much as you can. Second, we must have the same love. And of course, as I agreed among the messages, the word that is used here is Agape, which is love with purpose, a love with will, not merely emotions. Yes, emotions are involved in our love, it is part of us, we are not merely people of albedo, we do not have emotions and they are part of who we are. but it is not the complete of what love is, nor the most important part. Why do I say this? Because sometimes our emotions are not there for any reason. Maybe we are going through difficulties of one kind or another, and our emotions are not there when we love, but we still have the purpose of loving others. And the example that was given to me among the messages And I think that's very good. We sacrifice things for our children. It doesn't matter how we think or feel about a situation. Maybe at that moment they are making us angry about something. But we don't stop loving our children because we are angry, or whatever they have done. And it's the same with the believers. Even when emotions are not present, we still have the purpose of loving. Third, we have to be united in spirit. Our feelings for each other lead us to be united and to be careful for each other in the way that the world cannot do. The relationship between Christians is a relationship that is unique. It is not reproduced anywhere else on earth. There is no relationship that exists between men that can compare with the relationship between believers and even between relatives. The union that Christians have with each other is one that is beyond earthly union and will continue into eternity. They are bonds that unite us as members of the body of Christ. And fourth, we have to have an intention with a purpose, and that is to inherit the Kingdom of God in the future, in eternity. But while we are here, our intention is to glorify God, to serve God. That is what will lead us to our glorification in the world to come. We are here While we are here, we are going to serve and glorify the Lord. And one of the most important ways in which we serve the Lord is by serving each other. Our brothers and sisters are in the place of Christ by serving them. We serve Christ. Matthew 25. We have the lambs and the goats on the day of judgment. The Lord puts the goats on the left and the sheep on the right. And one of the things And what he says to them is, if you did this to them, you did it to me. What you didn't do, you didn't do to me. To serve not only us, we also serve the Lord. We live, in fact, for the glory of God by doing that. 1 Corinthians 10.31, Paul said to them, The believers were told that everything they do should be for the glory of God. He is talking about the context of food, but it also goes to our whole life. We do not live for ourselves, but we live for others, and we live especially to be able to glorify and exalt God before men. Therefore, the scenario is set for Paul to mention in verses 5 to 11 what he is going to say. and goes from exhortation to illustration. Let us then read this segment of the chapter. Let there be in you this attitude that there was also in Christ Jesus, who, although he existed in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something like clinging, but that he stripped himself, taking the form of a servant, and becoming like men, and finding himself in the form of a man, he humbled himself, being obedient until the death and the death of the cross. So God also exalted him to the summit and confirmed him. He confirmed the man who is above all men, so that in the name of Jesus all the knees of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth and all the tongue confess that Jesus, Jesus Christ, is the Lord for the glory of God the Father. I am sure that we can agree that this is one of the most important and beloved passages in the book of Philippians and in fact in the whole New Testament and in the Bible as well. It is often this passage that is mentioned by many Christians when they point out The fact that Jesus is God incarnate and serves as a proof that Jesus is more than a mere man. And it is that fact that God is God incarnate that has to be examined first before we truly understand the meaning that Paul is trying to fulfill here. It is the foundation of why Paul is using Christ as an example for us in this situation. An example of love and humility. It can be obvious. For Pablo to use Jesus Christ as an example, in the Bible Jesus is constantly put as the example. 1 Peter 2.21 tells us that Jesus left us an example of suffering. And that can extend to all aspects of our lives, beyond suffering. Jesus is the example. Jesus Christ is the example and you fill what is empty. He is an example of humility, an example of service, an example of holiness. But yes, it is important that Pablo points to Christ here in this passage for what he wanted to say his life for the purposes of the comparison that he is about to do in this portion of the chapter. This is what becomes the power behind the example. Pablo did not choose any example, he chose the best example. Let's start. to proclaim that Jesus is, in fact, Yahweh. And we do it by doing, by speaking, sorry, of Christ, the Carmen Christi. The Carmen Christi is translated, is the hymn O cantico a Cristo como Dios. Cuando nosotros hablamos de relaciones entre hombres, como Pablo hizo en los versículos 4 que precedieron esta sección del capítulo, podemos entender cuán humillante es humillarse ante el otro hombre. It is a source, and they are not natural things for the human mind. The sinful mind wants to do what it wants to do. It wants to be number one. But in Christ, it is the opposite. We must be secondary to the commandments that the Lord gives us to humiliate ourselves before others. And it is interesting, in that connection, that the word humility, in the original Greek koiné, did not exist. The term, the classical Greek, from where the word humility derives, is something abject and negative. To say to someone who was humble was to insult them in classical history, and we can see that the term before was a derision from which and people did not think well of a person who was humble. Pablo, so that Pablo and the other writers were trying to do, they had to invent the term. They did it in other instances too, but they invented this word. When Pablo, will discuss the best example, the supreme example of humiliation. It was because he was not merely a man who was being humiliated, but he was God. Therefore, Paul uses Jesus as the best example. Because he is Jesus Christ, he is not merely an angel, but he is God. God is the best example. There cannot be a better example than God, the one who gives himself. God is the supreme being in the universe. Therefore, if God does something, then he is the supreme being doing it. No one can be something better or greater than God who does it. When God sacrifices, it is the greatest sacrifice there is. In the ancient mythology, I know that some, many of you know, there were many gods who were part men. Hercules comes to mind. And even those gods who were not part humans, they still acted as humans. They behaved like men in general. They were vengeful, selfish and cruel. And often, They were making plans how to destroy each other. It is an interesting thing to see how the gods were against themselves and battling each other. Obviously it is not the way with the true God. And certainly it is not like that with Christ, although he was a man. And that, man, in every sense of the name, he did not behave like other men. And he did not behave like the gods of the impious. He was without sin and he was pure. We cannot merely point out the difference. It is important that we establish the fact that Christ is God incarnate. I do not want to assume anything. I would imagine that most of you sitting here are believers. And most of you believe. that Christ is God incarnate, that Christ is, as we refer to him, the second person of the Trinity. Even so, it is important that I review this and that I point out from the Scriptures where we find the reality of Christ as divine, because perhaps there are some among us who do not believe in that fact. or those who are confused about the divinity of Christ and the fact that he is part of the Triune God. Sometimes I think that it is... I overstep that many people do not understand how God can be a being in three people. Although we do not understand it, we are forced to conclude that this is the case because The New Testament says it. Therefore, we go to the New Testament. There are several instances in the New Testament that describe Jesus in terms like God. The first of them is John 1, 1. And this is one of the passages that almost all Christians know. Because if you have a Jehovah's Witness that goes to your door, maybe they have taken out their Bible and they have proved to them that Christ is God by going to Juan 1.1. If it is a Jehovah's Witness, he will argue it anyway, but Juan does call Christ God. And he says it to be, at the beginning the verb existed and the verb was with God and the verb was God. Notice that Juan speaks of God and the word as two different people. He is not saying that the word is the same as God, but that they are different people, but still they are God. And how is that possible? He tells us that the word was face to face with God, and because he is speaking here of two different people, one being the Father, the other being Christ. Then, in chapter 14, he will identify the verb as the one who became flesh. And this is an obvious allusion to Jesus Christ. Why? Because it was Jesus who became flesh, not the Father. If you look at verses 12 and 13, you can see that John is clearly talking about Christ. That is the point he is trying to make here in chapter 1. And then later, in verse 18, he will speak of Christ, and he will speak of him as himself, the God, the only one, the only begotten of God. It may sound strange to our ears, how can he be an only begotten? But even so, he is an only begotten by the Father. Some have had an objection to the characterization of Christ as God, saying that for the time that John wrote his gospel, in the 90s, there was a lot of evaluation, leading the Church to convert Jesus as God. In other words, they say that the Church invented the deity of Christ, not because he truly was God. Bart Ehrman is among those who are of that opinion. He wrote a book uh, Tim discussed not long ago, or elaborated, he says, of whom are the patriarchs, speaking of Israel, and of whom, according to flesh, proceeds Christ, who is above all things, God blessed, for all the centuries. Amen. Note that Paul speaks of Christ, number one, as being above all things. It is an echo of Ephesians 4, where it says that God, the Father, is above all things. And Paul equates Christ and the Father as one, the only God who is above all things. He says that Christ is not above all things, not only, but that he is also a blessed God. It is a de-identification of Christ as God and the context that he is using there in Romans 9. He is making the point that the Israelites had tremendous advantages. They had received the oracles of God. Christ came through the line of Israel and they still rejected the word. The idea is that Christ lived among the Jews, among the Israelites, and yet they rejected him. Also note that Paul wrote the book of Romans 34 years before John wrote his gospel. In the 50s, Paul wrote the book of Romans, contrary to John writing in the 90s. And this gives rise to the idea that John and the other New Testament writers supposedly invented the idea of Christ. We see that in the 50s, 20 years after Christ had risen from the dead, had ascended to heaven, He was still speaking as God. y si se le hablaba de él como dios en romanos 9 nosotros sabemos que eso era algo que era mucho más antes de lo que pablo escribió en romanos porque sabemos que era una sociedad que era una sociedad oral principalmente y eran cosas que fueron pasadas oralmente mucho más antes de que se pusieran a papel también tenemos a pablo y pedro identificando a jesucristo como Jesus Christ as God. In Titus 1.2.12 and he calls him God and Savior. Peter does it in 2 Peter 1.1 where he calls Jesus Christ our God and Savior. And in our own passage, Paul speaks that he was in the form of God. The word that is used is morphe. which is the root word for us, which is morphology or metamorphosis. There is some controversy as Pablo uses the word here, mainly because he makes the comment of Jesus not clinging to, or King James uses the word, stealing the deity. That is to say that he did not cling to the fact of being in the form of God. Some who have an objection to the deity of Christ see the part of this verse saying that Jesus was not God and that he did not want to steal the deity of the Father. And that is a strange idea, because how can you steal God from being God? Because no one can do that. The idea that Satan tempted Eve, that is, when he said that if you ate the fruit you would be like God, he must have said everything to Eve, everything she needed to know, because it is impossible for a man, for a human to become God, despite what the Mormons say. There is no one who can become God. It is clear that Paul is indicating that Jesus was in form, or in essence, God. the exterior appearance of what we see inside. What we saw in Carmen Cristo is the external appearance of the inner nature, and he did not cling to that, to that essence to become a man, as he mentions in the rest of the chapter. Let's go back to our passage to be able to examine how Paul describes humiliation. y su significado para nosotros. Noten que empieza en versículo 5 el decir que nosotros tenemos que tener la mente de Cristo o la actitud de Cristo. Él estableció que Jesús es Dios y ahora dice que el hecho de que Jesús es Dios nos provee con el mejor ejemplo de la humildad. Nos permite cumplir su cargo de versículos 1 a 4 y también versículos 2, 12 a 16 después. We will not cover it until Wednesday, but I hope you come and you can hear it at the end of this section of the chapter. He does not stop us from determining how we must humble ourselves to ourselves. We must be imitators of Christ, so he tells us, these are the things you have to do in verses 1 to 4, and now in verses 5 to 11, this is how it is done. As Christ did it, so you must do it. In 1 Corinthians 11, 1, Paul told the Corinthians, he told them that they have to imitate Paul as he also imitates or follows Christ. Therefore, Jesus is the last person that we must, or the first person that we must imitate. Ephesians 5, 1, Paul tells us, that they should be imitators of God, as Christ loved them, as Christ also loved them and gave himself for us. Therefore, we must imitate Christ in every way and be humble as he is. When he speaks of having the mind of Christ, he is saying that we must have the same attitude, the same point of view, the same mentality that he had. As a commentator said, it is to love the things that he loved and to hate the things that he hated, the thoughts, the desires, the motives of the Christian. They must be the motivations and desires that our Lord Jesus Christ had. We must yearn to imitate them and reproduce their image on the outside and on the inside. And the last part is very important because it is not merely to go for the emotions. I spoke earlier in the first hour that sometimes we have the emotions of love and we do it anyway. That does not mean that we are hypocrites, that we will do the things that we do not want to do for a person. We do not do good for a person if we hate that person. We do not think well. But we are going to do it well because we want to be seen as good people. Motivation is very important. Christ did not do things for us merely because he wanted to be an example. He did things for us because he truly had love for us. And that is the root of the question. We have to have true love to truly humble ourselves for others. Let's see the things that Paul tells us that we must imitate Christ. First, Paul tells us that Jesus Christ became a man. Obviously, we are already humans. and we cannot turn ourselves into other humans. But the point there is that Christ, that Jesus Christ becomes human, is the greatest humiliation. It is the principle of Emmanuel. He was born from a woman and is God with us. Matthew says that this principle, this prophecy, was fulfilled by Christ at his birth. en el primer capítulo versículo 23 de Mateo dice allí aquí dijo en el versículo 22 para que se cumpliera lo que el señor había hablado por medio del profeta diciendo que se llamara Emmanuel para que el único para que el único ser perfecto, inmaculado, se convirtiera en hombre, es el mayor ejemplo de ser humillante. Lo que Pablo está diciendo aquí es que Dios quería dar a su hijo the greatest sacrifice. How can he not give us things, other things, or do other things that are short of giving to his son? I often talk about Islam, and I use Islam as an example from time to time, because it is the most growing religion, it is the second largest by number of adherents, and I mention them often, mainly as a contrast to Christianity. In this case, I am contrasting the fact that in Islam, God cannot become a man. The Quran says in Surah 1, verse 12, verse 3, which is an example of our Gospel, it says that God cannot be born. They question how God can give birth to a human and become a creature. Bill. And the Christian says, exactly, because it is exactly what he did. All these things, God took a body as a man to ensure our salvation. In Galatians 4.4 it says that Jesus Christ was born of a woman and under the law. He was a complete man. Hebrews 4, 15-16 tells us that we don't have a high priest who can't feel our illnesses. He's someone who didn't have a human experience. And he was aware of our illnesses. He was hungry, he was thirsty, he was sleepy. We have moments in the Gospel when the disciples were on the boat and they were in the storm and Christ was sleeping. He was showing that he was tired, like us. It was not so different in that sense. He was tempted, in every way, like us. therefore he understands how we as humans are tempted and for that understanding he can help us when we ourselves are being tempted he understands all our weaknesses and let me mention what to quote from William Henriksen Concerning the nature of Christ, 1 Timothy 3.16 says, In the nature, to the human nature came Jesus Christ, was sent by Christ and was born of a virgin. The fact that someone so glorious in his pre-existence wanted to adopt the human nature in that weakness was a manifestation of infinite love. Therefore, That voluntarism was a revelation. From the beginning of his coming in flesh, he walked side by side with Christ. We see how Christ stripped himself of what Paul says later. Let me clarify something about what Paul is saying, which has not been understood by many. with disposing of himself, in verse 7. It is commonly referred to as the kenosis, which means emptying oneself. The point is that when some say that Jesus not only disposed of the privileges of the deity, but that he put aside the essence of his deity, that is, that he was merely a man when he was here. Take the example of Bill Johnson, who is a false preacher of prosperity and does false miracles. He said that what Jesus Christ did, he did it only as a man here, here on earth. He said, for example, that... that Gnosis, heretics, that Jesus Christ... Sorry, he said that every miracle that Jesus Christ did foreign foreign He was God at the beginning. Obviously, nowadays, when we talk about men and women, people are telling us, well, you can stop being a man or you can stop being a woman, but it's not true. They are people who are deceived, and they are no less deceived than the people who say that Jesus stopped being God when he was here. No, he is 100% God and he is 100% humanity. It was not 50-50. or 100% of one and 0% of another. We see in the Gospels, for example, the times when Christ shows a little to his disciples and his readers his divinity. Take the Transfiguration. When he goes to the mountain of the Transfiguration with his disciples, y todo de él se convierte en resplandecente. Y allí él demuestra la gloria que es suya. Cuando él caminó sobre el agua, cuando él paró la tormenta, cuando él paró la tormenta, hay calma completa. Y dijeron, ¿Quién es este a quien las olas y el mar le obedecen? Es imposible que nosotros entendamos cómo es que una palabra se puede hablar and the water and the storm stop. Christ had and still has that power today. Paul, when he speaks, that when Jesus stripped himself, it was with respect to his privileges as God and not stripping himself of his divinity. God has no hunger or thirst, God does not change, but Jesus He grew in stature and understanding, in knowledge, in his humanity. Jesus did change, but not in his divinity. He stripped himself of his riches. In 2 Corinthians 2, 8, 9, So because of the poverty of Jesus Christ, far from his riches, he became one of the poorest of the poorest to be able to fulfill our redemption. He also became a slave and obedient to death. Sometimes we speak the word servant here as the word hard. The word Doulos is not a servant. It is not a servant at all. It is a slave. Most translations do not translate it as a slave. The standard legacy of the Bible does translate it that way. Many are trying not to offend many people today in our society. They are offended by the term slave. But the reality is that this is the term that Pablo uses here that we have to use so that we understand or understand what Pablo is telling us here. Jesus not only humiliated himself, but he did it by becoming a slave. Not only did he become a man, he did not become a rich man, nor a man of skills, but a man as a slave, the poorest of the poor. Jesus said that he did not come to be served, but to serve. In Matthew 20, 28. and specified that ultimately his service would be to give his life as a rescue for many. which was the greatest demonstration of that service. Our passage tells us the same thing. It is Jesus who became obedient to death, and it is his death that ultimately demonstrates his wonderful condescension for the chosen ones. Jesus said to his disciples in John 15, 13, that there is no greater love than to give your life for your friends, and he said, that his disciples were his friends if they did what he commanded them. By extension, he tells us today that we are his friends and we keep his commandments. And by doing so, we show that the Lord is for us that God gave himself. His sacrifice is counted for us today and for that sacrifice we live lives that are holy and worthy of that calling. Pablo gives us another comparison. Christ not only gave his life, but he did it on the cross. Crucifixion was the most humiliating and most painful death. In Galatians 3.13, Pablo said that Jesus Christ became a curse for us, being hung on a cross. Not only the crucifixion itself was one of the most humiliating deaths. The condemned person was stripped of all dignity, not only of all his clothes, but of all dignity. And yet, Jesus Christ submitted to that curse for us. That is extreme suffering. And in that, Jesus shows the love that he has for his people. And the fact that He loved his father and submitted himself to him, to that point. What is the result of that humiliation? Paul says that it is his exaltation. It goes from the humiliation of Jesus Christ to the result of that humiliation. Because Jesus voluntarily humiliated himself to do what was necessary for our redemption. God the Father exalted him. Jesus gave himself to die, the Father resurrected him and gave him a name. Although Paul does not use the normal saying, he is mentioning the Old Testament, Isaiah 45. If the word has come out of my word and justice, and it will not return to me, but for me every knee will bend and every tongue will give loyalty. God is speaking to God right there, in that passage. We see that this is the context of that passage, and here we see that God is defending his deity of the false gods. Many have spoken of these passages in Isaiah 40. The judgment of the false gods when God challenges the false gods, which are in fact God, giving proof after proof that you are the only living God, It is enough to say that false gods fail the trial and the test. At the end of that challenge, God proclaims what we have read. And notice that Paul, word for word, Repeat what God says in Isaiah, which is another indication that Paul is declaring that Jesus is the God of the Old Testament. Remember, only God can be praised. Only God. It is only God to whom we address our praise, our worship, our glory. There is no other creature. Remember in Revelation, the angel goes to John and John is about to to prostrate himself in front of the angel and to praise the angel. And the angel says, don't do it. I am nothing more and nothing less than a servant. You have to praise God. Peter did the same with Cornelius, who wanted to kneel before him. And Peter says, no, no, don't do that. Imagine how horrified Peter was when he thought that, knowing that he was the miserable creature that he was. ¿Cómo afecta entonces esa exaltación? La exaltación de Cristo, por lo que Él hizo, nos afecta a nosotros, porque nosotros también seremos exaltados. Mateo 23, 12, el Señor dice que nuestra humildad llevará a nuestra exaltación. Dice, y cualquiera que se ensalce será humillado, y cualquiera que se humille será ensalzado. We don't do the work of God, or the work of the Gospel, or the work of the Kingdom to be exalted. That is not the purpose. Exalted, sorry. Even so, God in his condescension and his love for us will reward us even more. El libro de Apocalipsis que nosotros hemos estado estudiando en la Escuela Dominicana en Español es que Jesucristo va a conquistar, él va a vencer. Y su iglesia también va a conquistar con él o va a vencer con él. No es tan solo la victoria de Cristo, es una victoria que también nosotros tenemos y que nosotros lo hacemos sin merecerlo. solo porque Cristo el Rey ha decidido darnos a nosotros, su pueblo, la victoria, junto con él. Por tanto, si nos humillamos con él ahora, reinaremos en el futuro con él. Todos doblaremos la rodilla. Todos serán forzados a doblar la rodilla. We can do it voluntarily now, or we can do it on the day of judgment. If we do it voluntarily now, then what awaits us in the future is glory beyond comprehension. If we have to wait until the last day to be able to do it, then nothing more awaits us than misery and sorrow. There is a great paradox here. The fact that we are kings and priests with Christ, and yet we bend our knees. We can see that together we have a paradox of Christians where we are kings and we are servants and slaves on the other side. We inherit the reward but we also humble ourselves before our God and King. The more we understand the reality of the Incarnation, the more we understand the reality of who we really are and we should be more humble. And so we must act more humbly. Do you remember those who received the crowns in Revelation 4? What do they do? They throw the crowns at the feet of the conquering king. And that's what we do with our reward. No one will escape our destiny. We will all be before Christ in judgment. Let's look forward together, to be before Him as our Savior. not like our judge, who is going to condemn us. In conclusion, Pablo sends us to the believers, to the Filipinos who take care of each other. One cannot take care of one better than a Christian or another Christian. We must do the work of taking care of each other. We have to follow the example of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is how it is done, because he did not cling to the prerogatives as God, but he took off his clothes to serve his chosen ones. He humbled himself to become a man and gave us his privileges as God. And he humbled himself to submit to death and the type of death that is humiliating and painful. As a result of that humiliation, Paul tells us that there was exaltation. If we serve as Christ has served us, we will also be exalted. We will also reign with Christ. That is the goal of our Christian life. We all look forward to being with Christ. Sometimes my wife and I talk about the eternal state. She says, I don't want crowns, I just want to be with Christ, I want to see Christ. And that is the point. That we serve, that we love the Lord, and we make our goal to serve Him, because there will be a day of judgment. In 2 Corinthians 5, 9 and 10, we make our goal to please God, because we will all be before the throne of judgment of Christ. May we all receive the things we have done in the body. Our lives will be more effective if our lives are of service to each other. And by giving ourselves without reserve and in a holy way to the service of Christ and the care of his body, is to earn what cannot be desired. Let me finish with the words of Juan Calvino. Speaking of this passage and the humility of Christ, Christ left everything voluntarily. The only thing left for us is not to think higher of ourselves than what we should be. Let us consider that Jesus Christ proved himself as a human, not as God. He exposed himself. El condescendio tanto. Cuán absurdo que nosotros, quienes nosotros no somos nada, tengamos orgullo. El orgullo no tiene ningún lugar en el cuerpo de Cristo, sino la humildad. Los unos con los otros. Oremos. Nuestro Dios misericordioso y glorioso, te damos gracias porque nos has demostrado por tu Hijo lo que Humility, love and care are. We don't have to wonder how we should conduct ourselves. We have the clearest example in the way that Christ came to earth, conducted himself and died the death that we deserve so that he can pay the price of our redemption. Let us pray that Christ is before us and that all the days of our lives are dedicated to serving you by serving only us and by loving only us as Christ has loved us. Let us pray these things in the name of Christ. Amen.