All right, welcome back to the study of Philippians. Obviously, I'm not Darren Hawke, so I'm Mike Germany. I'm filling in for him as he's away roughing it in the wilderness of, what, Switzerland? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure he's roughing it. Very difficult, stressful environment there. All right, so let's go ahead and turn to Philippians chapter two. We're gonna start in verse one to get a little bit of context. Who would like to read verses one, three, four for me? Go ahead. So if there's any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord in one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. All right, so what are these verses, what's the focus on? What aspect is Paul really trying to drive home to his audience here? I want you to be what? Loving. Loving. Unified. Unified. One more. Humility. Humility. Humility. And the rest of these verses that we're about to look at, verses 5 through 11, are going to zero in on this idea of humility and its importance in both the life of Christ and accordingly to us as Christians. Who wants to start reading in verse 5 all the way through 11 for me? I will. Alright, go ahead. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men, and being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above everything, So that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. to the glory of God the Father. And let's pray. Father, thank you for everyone that's here. I pray this will be a productive time of study, that you will be glorified. And as we look at this incredible passage, I pray that the truths that are in it will become very, very clear and will have a profound impact on us and our understanding and appreciation of who you are and what you have done for us. In your name we pray, amen. All right, so continuing this idea of humility, How did Christ show humility? According to verses 6 and 7. Now there's a billion ways he showed humility. But according to this passage, what is the example of humility that Christ showed only in verses 6 and 7? Took on human form. Okay, took on human form. And what's the big fancy theological word that we use when we say Christ took on human form? Hyperstatic union and what's the event called? The incarnation. So this is Luke chapter 2. So Paul says we are supposed to be of one mind, we are supposed to be humble, putting others above ourselves, and we're supposed to have the same attitude in our lives that Christ had. How humble was Christ? He gave up the glories of heaven to be born in the flesh, to take on humanity, to be born as a little bitty baby. Now let's think for a moment how significant of a transition that was. Because prior to the incarnation, where was Christ and how did he exist? He was in heaven and how did he exist? He was, ooh, where's that from? Where's that? John 1 1 and of course that ties back to Genesis. Of course next to this passage right here go ahead and if you write in your Bible which all of you should put down John 1 1 through 3 and 14 next to it. So Christ existing in with God in heaven had all of the splendor and glory that's associated with that. So to willingly give that up and take on a physical body, what hardships did he willingly take on doing that? So he was in a spirit form with God in heaven and all the glories and angels and all that stuff, and he gets born as a human. What did he willingly take upon himself? Okay, there's a distance there. There's not the same fellowship that there was before. What else? In what way? Okay. How else? Think about it. Infinite power, glory. As a human, you mentioned suffering, right? How do humans suffer? Okay, aches, pains, weakness. You get tired. Jesus got hungry. Did he ever have to experience any of that prior to the incarnation? Okay, now think, he's born as a baby, so what's the added humility there? Complete dependence. You had the creator God of the universe who spoke everything into existence, limiting himself to an itty bitty baby. No, these are all aspects of what Christ gave up and what he willingly took upon himself. So, infinite God, creator of the universe, poops his pants, gets sick, throws up, stubs his toe, has to go through the awkwardness of puberty, his voice cracking in public, people making fun of him. All of this stuff, the creator God of the universe willingly took on. So when you think about the incarnation, it's not that, yeah, he left the glories of heaven. I mean, that is significant, but look at what he took on. And we haven't even gotten to the greatest act of humility, which we'll get to eventually. This passage here that we're reading, even in the Greek, is very, very poetic. In fact, it's been called the Hymn of Christ, something that this passage may have been a hymn that the early church sang. And Paul took the lyrics of that and put it into his passage here. Maybe, maybe not, but even if that is a true statement, the fact that Paul used it in scripture makes it authoritative and makes it accurate. But the hymn of Christ, I thought that was a neat little thing there. So what attribute of Christ, we've already touched on this. It says he existed as God and he took on human form. What do we call that attribute of God, of Jesus, when we say he existed prior to? pre-incarnate, pre-existence of. So, and the importance of that is some people will like to say, you know, we like Jesus, we like the idea of this man who taught, he said some good things, but he being pre-existent or any deity ascribed to him, well that's a bridge too far for us. But the reality is you can't separate Jesus' pre-existence from Jesus, because then at this point you're talking about somebody completely different. So it says he took on the form or first he emptied himself. He gave up all of these divine attributes to an extent. I want to be careful here. I read about how people debate what it means when it says he emptied himself. What did you know what? Let's do this first and then we'll go back to it. Let's talk about these attributes of God because it says Christ emptied himself. Let's find out what he is after himself. So I talked to you about the attributes of God. Those are the blanks. What do you think are the attributes of God that make him separate from humanity? I'm not looking for love and mercy, because humans can demonstrate that. What are the attributes of God that are uniquely God? Omniscience. OK. Omniscience. I have to say this out loud. omnipresent there's one more omni omnipotent all right so we have omniscience all-knowing omnipresence everywhere all at once and omnipotent all-powerful right what are some of the other attributes that exist for God and God alone I think I had that as holy. My complete holy is holy, holy, holy. What else? What are the attributes that only God possesses? Eternal, yes. I'm gonna spend a little bit of time on that one. I already said several times this one particular aspect of him. He is the blank God of the universe. Did you say only? Yes. That is uniquely God, creator of God and universe. And the last one, transcendent. What's that mean? Above all. Above all. He is separate from his creation. That's just to separate God from some of the pantheistic gods around the age. He is transcendent. He is the creator and he is separate from and above. You know, a lot of the Greek gods and other pagan deities, if you destroy the sacred tree or whatever, you could, in theory, weaken their deity. Our God is completely separate from his creation. So when Jesus, which we believe existed as the second person of the Godhead for all eternity, was omniscient, he was omnipresent, he was omnipotent, eternal, holy, just as much creator as God the Father and the Holy Spirit, and he is transcendent. So when he took on this human flesh, he emptied himself What did he give up? Because did he give up being God? No. That's why we have this idea of this hypostatic union. 100% God and still 100% man. But he emptied himself of something. What did he give up? So if we're looking at this list, what did he give up? How do you figure? He limited himself to one body in one location at a time. So there, to some degree, some of the divine attributes he didn't possess for a very limited time, okay? So was he omnipotent still? I think sometimes there's this discussion with theologians between his God nature and his man nature. Though they were connected and inseparable, there was a divine essence and human essence, and the human essence can't do the divine things, but the divine essence did not cease to be, right? Yes. And there's like 14 different interpretations. That's a little bit of hyperbole. And a lot of people disagree on exactly what it means. The way I use this, Jesus could still do everything. There was nothing he couldn't do. But what limited him? He only did what? He only did what the Father said he would. He could do anything. But he limited it. His omnipotence was limited to what the Father's will was. Alright, eternal. Yep. Jesus was definitely eternal. He continued to exist. Still holy, still creator, and he is still above creation, but for a moment, the creator stepped into creation. He's still eternal. He's still eternal. And I'm glad you asked that question, because now I get to draw some charts. All right. Who remembers taking geometry in high school? Okay, cool. What is the difference between that That and that. Does anybody remember? Okay. Okay. What's that? It's finite. Yes. And what's this one? It's a ray. Has a beginning. But then it goes on forever in one direction. Goes on forever in this direction. And what's this? No beginning, no end. This is a true line. According to math, this is a true line. So I have two dots connected with the line. I have one dot here with an arrow going to the right. And the other here, I have an arrow going to the left, an arrow going to the right, and a line connecting them. Yes, I am going somewhere with this. So we understand God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Father, God the Son, as being eternal. There is no beginning, and there is no end. Now yes, at some point, Christ, in human form, the incarnation, stepped into creation, was limited to a physical body, but he still had always existed. He didn't cease to exist. and continue to exist. So how this differs and why this is very important to understand because you're going to run into various cults who will tell you different things about Christ, have a different understanding. Most of your do-good Hippie type people, the Kumbaya stuff, they love Jesus's teachings, but they don't, this idea of Jesus being divine is too much. They'll say Jesus had a definite beginning, he was a wonderful teacher, taught good things, and he died at the end. Obviously, that's wrong. But who can name a group that would teach Jesus had a beginning, but he will exist forever? Anybody have some clue who might teach this? Yes, you do. We've covered this in Sunday school. This is my daughter, Anna. Anna, what groups did we talk about that teach that Jesus began to exist? One of them does. Well, Muslims, yes. Jehovah's Witness and Mormons. Okay, there we go. So you mentioned John 1. Okay, so everybody flip there. Everybody just move quick. Let's turn to John 1. And let's look at verse 1. And I would like somebody to read verses 1 through 3, and then skip and read verse 14. Go ahead, Anna. Okay, stop right there. In the beginning was the Word. The Greek word there is logos or logos if you want to be that guy. Okay, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. So you have the beginning, the beginning of what? The beginning of everything. The Logos existed. The Logos was with God and the Logos was God. Now our Jehovah's Witness buddies, I'm not going to quite call them brothers and sisters because they're not, they say, they changed theirs. The word was a God. That's a significant addition to that passage. We're not going to dwell too much time on that, but he was God. Keep reading. She was in the beginning with God, all things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made. Okay. She's reading very fast. Can everybody hear her? What aspect of the Logos is being emphasized in that last verse she read? Creator. Okay, Creator. We're emphasizing this Creator aspect. Okay, read a little bit slower, please. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory. Okay, so John, by the way, you got a blank that says four key blank passages. The first one you should have there is John 1, 1 through 3, 14. So this tells us that Christ existed in eternity past. as the Logos. He was with God, and he was God. Not a God, he was God. And this God, this Logos, took on human flesh. And this is who John says, we, the disciples, we've seen him. All right, let's carry on. All right, so we got this right here, this word is Christological. Christological. There we go. Christological. What's the root word? Christ. Lovely. All right. So the other one is the passage we're reading right now. It is? Okay. Order doesn't matter. All right, so what we are reading right now, along with John 1, 1 through 3 and 14, are two of the four key Christological passages. And we're going to look at them tonight. And you're going to see the similarities to them, these themes that run through all of them. And hopefully you're starting to see how all of these create a complete picture of who Christ is. Anybody want to take a guess at the others? Anna? I'll give you a minute. Anybody want to guess? I know you have it, because I made you write it down. Colossians 1. What verse? It is Colossians 1. You're correct. 15 through 20. Yeah, I was about to say that. Yeah, I mean, you got Colossians 1. If you can get the chapter, I mean, that's incredible. And if you don't have these passages underlined in your Bible, I highly recommend it. And I highly recommend you write the other three next to them. So when the Mormon or Jehovah's Witnesses knocks on your door, you know where to go. I had to come to my house and knock on the door, and I read to them John 1, 1 through 3, because it's the easiest one. And they had never read that before. I mean, what do you mean you've never read John 1, 1 through 3 before? And these are, you know, they're college age. They're sent out as missionaries to knock on people's doors, and they haven't read the Bible. Anyway, moving on. Well, they have. They read parts of it out of context. All right. Anybody else want to take a guess? What's that? Hebrews. Do you know our chapter? Hebrews 1. The whole chapter is incredible. Yes. I think it's 4. Is it 1-2-4 or 1-2-3? 1-2-4. 1-2-4. Okay. Alright, so we've already looked at Philippians, obviously. We've looked at John. Let's flip over to Colossians chapter 1. Who would like to do some reading? Well, by Him, all things were created in heaven and on earth. Okay, right there, again, what are we looking at? What aspect of deity? Creator. Aspect creator, okay? Keep going. Visible and invisible, whether throne or dominion or rulers or authorities, all things were created through Him and for Him. Okay, let's pause on that one right there. All things were created through Him and for Him. So if anything has ever begun to exist, Christ is the originator. So in other words, I need some more space here, you have within this circle everything that has begun to exist. So sun, moon, stars, galaxies, supernovas, black holes, Mount Everest, iPhones, Elvis, everything that has ever begun to exist is within this circle. Everybody understand that? So can Christ be inside that circle? No, because anything that began to exist was created through him and for him. So therefore Christ has to be where? Outside of the circle. Okay, so again, this is one of those logical things where you can catch people who want to say Jesus is a created being. That doesn't jive with scripture. All right, keep reading. Be prepared to be interrupted. I do that often. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body of the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. All right. In him all the fullness of what? all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. That's not something you say about a created being. That's not something that can be said of an angel. That's nothing that can be said of any earthly king or any prophet. This is something that is unique to deity. All right, keep going. And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether from earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his Word. All right, so obviously, talking about Jesus, God just talks about the blood of this cross. All right, in Hebrews 1, 1 through, no, read 1 through 6, because that's fun. First one there, just to blurt it out. Hebrews chapter 1, read verses 1 through 6. Long ago and many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets. But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his son, and he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God, and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. Having become as much superior to angels as they may, he has inherited Okay, hold on right there. What has been, what aspect of deity has been mentioned here, yet again? Okay, yet again, once again, Christ is the creator. All right, keep going. For too much of the angels did God ever say, you are my son, today I have forgotten you. All right, so now at this point, the author of Hebrews is quoting from Psalms. So, to which of the angels, and he's gonna start comparing Jesus to angels, and saying which one's greater, and who do you think's going to win? Who's better, Jesus or angels? Jesus. Jesus is, yeah. See, Jesus is pretty much always the answer when you get asked a question. So the author's comparing Jesus to angels. He's saying, to which of the angels has Jesus ever said, you are my son? The answer is none. All right, and now listen to this one. This one's great. Go ahead. Or again, I will I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, let all of God's angels worship him. All right. Let all of God's angels do what? Worship. To worship him. OK. Keep that in mind. So let all of God's angels worship him. So here you have, yet again, this idea of Christ being the creator. And this is what introduces this aspect All the angels in heaven are commanded to worship Jesus. All right, so we talk about what did Christ empty himself of? To an extent, these were limited. Obviously, he wasn't omnipresent. His omnipotence was limited by what factor? His Father's will. Did he know everything? There's one specific thing that he was asked, and he says, I don't know. One specific thing. Does anybody remember what that one specific thing was? Yeah, when he comes back. So to some degree, this was limited as well. I don't know how much, so I'm just going to put a question on it. Fair enough? So Christ emptied himself. He willingly gave up a lot to be born in a stinky human body, to live as a, not even a king, he was born to a poor family, to an oppressed people. That's the level of humility. The closest example I could think of for us to grasp what Christ gave up would be for us to live our pleasant first world life. And if you're an American, you have a car and a refrigerator, you're in the top 10% richest people in the world. So if you think you're poor, you have no idea. to give up our life in America, and not to go to the jungles of Africa or Southeast Asia, but to go live with monkeys that throw their poo at each other. Okay? That would be how debased we would have to make ourselves to come anywhere close to what Christ did to come live among us. I don't know who Jane Goodall is, the lady, the British lady who went and lived with chimpanzees for 40 years or something. Yeah, close to that, but she still, you know, wore clothing and had hot meals and a tent to go back to. But us living with animals is still not the same degree as Christ coming to live with us. All right, let's go back to our main text here. Let's look at verse 8. And being found in human form, He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross. So what is the ultimate act of humility on Christ's part? The death on the cross. Yeah, being obedient to that extent. And the crucifixion is the most extreme form of execution that man has ever devised. When you drive a nail through the palms or the wrist here, more like it was through there to the bones, could hold it up, it would hit the nerves, like a big bundle of nerves there that would send shockwaves of pain through every member of your body. It was an excruciating form of punishment. So, and you were hung up on that thing naked. So it was humiliating in that regard. And everything leading up to it, it was just a horrible, horrible experience. So when it says Christ humbled himself, the greatest example is the cross. And again, we're being told to have the same attitude amongst ourselves. Because of his obedience, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. Now, I'm going to admit, I don't know exactly what that means. What's the difficulty with that verse? Think about this, okay. Because he was obedient, God exalted him. Okay, this is the, he ascended back into heaven, right? Acts chapter two, or Acts chapter one, he ascends to heaven. and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. What name was given to him that he didn't already possess? I never thought about it until preparing for this. I've heard it said that the name was Lord. Okay. In verse 11, because every tongue will confess that he is Lord and that is yet to come. Okay. Any other ideas? I'm going to get a different color. Lord is possible. How do you want to spell that Lord out of curiosity? It matters. Okay. Okay. Now my counter argument to that, and I don't know if I'm right or not, is Every time someone sees God in the Old Testament, it's a, I would say that's a Christophany, a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ. So he would have already had that name because in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, the word was God. The voice that spoke out of the burning bush to Moses was probably pre-incarnate Christ. Is this where the pastor was talking about joy? Well, right, so I was saying like he already was, so I don't know if this is the title that was given to him. I mean, it could have been Jesus, but he got that at birth. I asked around, someone said he had never been called King of Kings of Lord of Lords until the ascension. So the answer is I don't know exactly. Is everybody okay with that answer? I never really thought about it before until I was studying this. Like, what name was he given that he did not already possess? And some, of course, say it is Jesus. But he was given at his birth. So let's keep reading. The point is, he's been highly exalted. So that. No, no, no. He's highly exalted and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. Which name? Is it above? Every name. So there's not a single name that's above it. So it has to be at least Yahweh, right? I mean nothing can be above Yahweh. So that brings me back to maybe it is this. The point is whatever name Jesus has, there is not a single name that is possibly higher. Now if you deny the Trinity, why does this become a problem? If you deny the Trinity and you say Jesus has a name that is above every single other name you can conceive of, why does that become a problem? Because nothing can be above God's name. Yes. Yes. So even though I can't say exactly what that name is, I mean, that's what makes me say it has to be this one. But then I also argue, well, he's always had that name. So how was it bestowed after his death, burial, resurrection? Because he emptied it out. That may be it. Maybe he, maybe. He became human only if not the Lord, like Yahweh and Moab. Possibly. And this is where, again, I'm comfortable saying I don't exactly know. but all of us should be willing to deal with these difficult questions. The reason why is because you have these groups that teach very obvious false doctrine about who Christ is. And they're going to come at us with these type of questions. Okay? So the name that he's given is above every name, verse 10. So that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, both in heaven and on earth and under the earth. That's a very poetic way of saying all everywhere for all time. And every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. All right, so when we say, so what name is higher than Jesus? None. Whatever name he was given is higher than anything. becomes a problem if you deny the Trinity. Who is excluded from bowing before Christ? It says every knee in heaven. God is depicted in human type form sitting on a throne. So who's exempt from bowing to Christ? And when you bow to someone as Christ, the way it talks about in the Bible, and we're going to look at it, What are you acknowledging when you confess that Jesus is Lord, when your tongue confesses? So every knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess that Jesus is Lord. What is that an admittance of? Who do you bow before? Okay, you bow before kings. And at every single knee, above the earth, under the earth, in the heavens, if every knee is bowing to this individual, what does that individual have to be? You think, when it's saying every knee, it doesn't mean things that have literal knees. It means anything with a conscience and an intellect. So we're going outside of humanity. What is all going to bow and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord? Everything. Everything. So not just humans, but what else? What else has intellects? Okay, we're talking about other, other spiritual beings. What is the only entity that spiritual entities will ever be forced to bow and accept as God? Yahweh. Let's start using this word. Yahweh. You don't say things like every single knee and every single tongue is going to worship and admit ultimate authority and power belongs to one entity if that one entity is not Yahweh. Everybody follow me on that. You don't use language like this to describe an earthly king. You don't use language like this to talk about a good man and a good preacher or a prophet or a guy who said some nice things in the desert 2,000 years ago. This is divine language. This entire passage is talking about worship of Yahweh. But it's not talking about God the Father, it's talking about God the Son. All right, I'm going to prove that. I want somebody to look up Isaiah chapter 42. It's not on your paper. Isaiah chapter 42, verse 8. Wow, okay, so what else? Oh, okay, so not paying attention to me, just doing your own thing. Okay, so if you were a Jew reading this in 700 BC, I am the Lord and I give my praise or I share my praise with no one else and I'm not going to let any idol get any of my praise. God is not going to share the glory due Him with anything else. Right? And the Jews understood that. Strict monotheist. There's one God. He is a jealous God. And He will not share His glory with anything else. Got it? Cool. Somebody read Isaiah 45, 23. That is one of the little notes I have there for you. has gone out in righteousness, a word that shall not return. To me, every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance. All right, that sounds similar to what? Philippians. That sounds, yeah, very similar. So again, when Paul, the author of Philippians, is taking that verse from Isaiah, which every Jew would have known is talking about Yahweh, and he takes that language out of Isaiah and he says that's talking about Jesus. What does Paul want his audience to know? He is demanding that they recognize that Jesus is Yahweh. Paul is not leaving this ambiguous. Every Jew would have known instantly this, every knee bow, every tongue confess language is coming from Isaiah. And that was speaking exclusively about Yahweh, because they didn't have an understanding of the Trinity back then. That didn't develop until Daniel. We can talk about that later. All right. We're running out of time here. Flip to Revelation chapter, no, no, John chapter 17, verse 5. John 17, verse 5. Somebody read that when you get there. And pay attention to the words of Christ. He just went over this. Pastor Sean just taught on this relatively recently. Somebody who hasn't read yet. He said 17.5. 17.5. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you What does Jesus claim that he shared with God prior to the incarnation? But I thought God didn't share his glory with anyone or anything. So when you start looking at these passages, like you start putting all four of these together, it becomes very clear who Jesus is. and that Jesus is Yahweh. And yes, he does demand to be worshiped. So now in the last few minutes here, we're going to look at the clearest example of Jesus being worshiped. So Anna, you read back in Hebrews chapter one, verse six, let all God's angels worship them, right? All right, look at Revelation chapter four. So Book of Revelation, this apocalyptic literature, which means it has a bunch of weird imagery. It has a lot similarities with Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, and a reoccurring theme in these type books is God's throne. In Revelation 4, we're not going to read it for time's sake, but John sees an image of the Ancient of Days, or God the Father, sitting on a throne. And surrounding this throne, you've read these passages, what's surrounding this throne of God? What are some of the images that you see? Angels. Now you see these weird four living beasts that have four faces and all this weird stuff. But all of these entities that are described in Revelation chapter 4, they are worshiping He who is seated on the throne, the Ancient of Days. And if you look at some of the language, look in verse 8. It says, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come. And then look in verse 11. Worthy are you, our Lord and God, in case you're wondering who the Ancient of Days is, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created. Right? So you have holy, you have glory, honor, power, and allusion to the Creator aspect of the deity, right? All of these things, these angelic beings are worshiping the person sitting on the throne. In verse 5, you see this lamb approaching the throne of God. And this lamb looks like it's been slain. Okay, now who is this? Okay, this is Jesus. So he approaches the throne and he takes this scroll from the Father's hand. And at this point, all of those heavenly beings that were just saying, holy, holy, holy, and glory, honor, power to God the Father, they all look at the Lamb and they start saying these words. Look in verse 9, chapter 5, verse 9. This is to the Lamb. Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain by your blood. You ransom people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation, and you have made a kingdom and priest to our God, and they shall reign on the earth. So this is obviously Christ. Let's keep going. Look in verse 12. These are the words they say. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. What are they doing to the Lamb at this point? They're worshipping Him. The same creatures that were worshipping He who was seated on the throne, they're using the exact same language and directing it to the Lamb. Now finally, look in verse 13. And I heard every creature in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, this sounds familiar to what Paul wrote, and under the sea, and all that is in them saying, to him who sits on the throne, what are the next few words? And to the Lamb. And to the Lamb. So now who are they singing to? What's that? The Father and the Son at this point. And listen to the words they use. be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever. So every tongue will bow, every knee will confess, that is straight from Isaiah. Isaiah says that God shares his glory with absolutely no one. Yet Revelation, you clearly see the host of heaven worshiping God the Father, And in chapter five, you see those same angelic beings using the same language directed to the son. All right, so let's go back to Philippians. So now, keeping all in mind that we've read, I'm gonna read verses five through 11 again. Have this mind among yourselves. which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, or a thing to hold on to, or a thing to determine, this is my prize that I've won and is to be held on to at all cost. He had equality with God and he did not consider it something to be held on to. He willingly gave it up. He emptied himself. How? By taking the form of a servant. Being born in the likeness of men and being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth. And every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to whose glory? To the glory of God the Father. All right, anybody have any closing thoughts? Anything that I wrote on the board that you need me to go over again? I take your silence as that was perfectly explained. There are no questions that need asking. We have a complete and total understanding of everything. All right, is that the case? Have a lovely day. Now, yes. I have a question. Okay. Just for the tape. Okay. So what was that name that was bestowed on you? Well, remember I said I don't know. Okay, so you just want to keep bringing up my ignorance. Yes, I will admit I don't know. It does say at the name of Jesus, every tongue will confess. In Revelation 14, He is called King of Kings and Lord of Lords. When He comes back, So yes, all of those. Other than maybe, maybe that it wasn't until his Ascension that from a human perspective, he was fully recognized as Yahweh, as Messiah, as Christ, as Yahweh, the anointed one. Maybe at that point from a human perspective, he earned that name. Maybe. Look it up, we'll discuss it next week. All right, if there are no further questions, I will see you next week.