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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:11 The exaltation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:11 Click to listen 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. The “and” here (καὶ) connects this with verse 10; the same people who bow their knees to Christ also confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and this gives glory […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:9
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:9 Recorded this but got snow-sidetracked and forgot to send it yesterday! Click to listen 9 Therefore God raised him to the highest height and gave him the name that is above every name, “Therefore,” following all of the things Christ did in his state of humiliation, up to and including […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:10 in the sphere of Christ
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:10 Click to listen 10 so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, The cause among mankind for the exaltation of Jesus is to give God glory, and especially to glorify Christ our Savior, Redeemer, and victor, the first […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:8 even death on a cross
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:8 Click to listen he appeared in human likeness, 8 and being found in the form of a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death– even death on a cross! Paul is walking us to the cross, not chronologically, nor in terms of the Apostles’ experience which is what […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:7b By laying aside his power
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:7b Click to listen by taking the very nature of a servant, born in human likeness. Christ came to conquer the enemies of man’s soul: sin, death, and the power of the devil. But he did not come armed and armored like a warrior or champion, or like one of the […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:7a He made himself nothing
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:7a Click to listen 7 but he made himself nothing, In what way did God make himself nothing? The verb here means to make empty, to deprive (a thing) of its contents, or to deprive (a man) of his possessions. In Jeremiah, the city gates “languish” (from neglect, Jeremiah 14:2), and […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:5-6 by nature God
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:5-6 Click to listen 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, though he is by nature God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped, Paul could have put any human being’s name into this sentence and we would only nod and […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:4 The debt of love
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:4 Click to listen Paul has been teaching us that self-denial is expected of Christians. He will give the ultimate example from the life of Christ beginning with verse 5, but first he has one more thing to say about the self-denial of the individual Christian: 4 not with everyone looking […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:3 Humility
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:3 Click to listen 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others to be better than yourselves. Paul brings us into the realm of things that lie in effect between all of the yes and no items in the law. This is what Luther […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:1-2 Be like-minded
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:1-2 Click to listen 2 Since there is encouragement in Christ, since there is solace from his love, since there is fellowship with the Spirit, since there is affection and compassion, 2 make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and concern. I have […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 128:3-6 Peace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 128:3-6 Click to listen 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vineall through your house.Your children will be like young shoots of an olive treearound your table.4 Look! This is how the man is blessed who fears the LORD! The greatest gift any person can give to the world is […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 128:1-2 They are blessed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 128:1-2 Click to listen Psalm 128 A Song of Ascents1 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD,everyone who walks in his ways.2 You will eat the labor of your hands.Blessed things and good things are yours. “Peace be upon Israel”– so this Psalm will conclude in verse 6, and that is […]
