The Humility of Jesus Christ - Leland Zehr

Good morning. I greet you in the name of Jesus. This morning,

it's special to be here. I've been blessed in Uh by the songs and

by the words that Jason has spoken, scripture that has been read. Welcome

you visitors. We have some visitors here this morning as well. It's good

to have you here. I greet you in the name of Jesus. As

Revelation says, who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead,

and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved

us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made

us kings and priests unto God and his Father. To him be glory and

dominion forever and ever. Amen, we're here too. As was mentioned,

to remember have a communion service this morning. We remember especially the suffering,

the death, the broken body, the blood that was shed of Jesus.

But as I was thinking about this, hopefully we can do more than remember

this morning. Remembering is good, it's a blessing. But my desire for

myself and for all of us, is that in remembering that we can worship,

that we can worship Jesus the one that we are remembering. How can

such an old, old story be meaningful? How can it be presented?

How can it be spoken about? How can it be sung about? When

something that is so familiar from before our consciousness we have been instructed. We

have looked at pictures in children's books well as one that stands before you and

speaks this morning. It's my desire to do my part in that, But

I would just say this that it will not be special unless it's special in

your own heart. I'm not that creative, I'm not that dramatic to be

able to produce something in you that is not there. As I thought about

this service and especially my responsibility in speaking this morning, I've thought a lot

about this the last week, and there's one ask spectrum. One thought has

come to me a lot in the last week, especially about the story of

Jesus death and suffering coming to earth. And it's easy to say that in

one sentence Jesus came and lived and suffered and died and rose again, But

there's a lot packed into that. There's a lot of details, there's a

lot of emotion, there's a lot of consequences. I'd like to ask you

a question, maybe just to get you thinking, is God, the God

that we serve, is God humble? It's God to humble God. I

don't know what you would say, would be interesting to have a discussion about

that. I've read arguments on both sides of that. Definitely he is and

definitely he isn't. I probably won't try to answer that question too directly this

morning. I'll let you try to answer that. Maybe I could ask ask

it and word it a different way. Is Jesus humble? The humility of

Christ? That is what I want to think about this morning. I've thought

about a lot about that, the humility of Jesus Christ. And I don't

want to try to get too deep into whether God is humble or not.

But I know one thing that Jesus was humble. He humbled himself. And

so the title of the message this morning is simply the humility of Jesus Christ.

And along with the Communion ordinance this morning, we generally plan to practice

the ordinance of feet washing, and so that of course is one of the

lessons that was in that ordinance of washing of feet that Jesus gave to his

disciples of humility, along with some other things he can turn to Philippians Chapter

two. I would like to read. I'm going to read just the first

eleven verses of this chapter, well known verses but packed with a lot of

a lot of meaning. And then I planned to go over the story this

morning, only hitting some highlights of especially things that as I thought about Jesus,

it just seemed to me. Maybe it's as I get older, it

just seemed more real to me in the last this round, as I considered

the awe in the magnitude of Jesus, the Son of God coming to earth.

Let's read Phlippians two, verse one. If there be therefore any consolation

in Christ, in any comfort of love, in any fellowship of the spirit,

if any vowels and mercies fulfill you my joy, that ye be like

minded, having the same love, being of one accord of one mind.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind.

Let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own

things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind

be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the

form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but

made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant,

and was made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion

as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the

death of the cross. Wherefore God God also hath highly exalted him and given

him a name which is above every name. That at the name of Jesus,

every knee shall bow of things in heaven, and things in earth,

and things under the earth, and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ

is Lord to the glory of God the Father. I want to just point

out a couple things here in this passage before we go into a little bit

more. The life of Jesus made himself of no reputation, and he humbled

himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Two

short sentences, but a lifetime of living and an eternity of consequences. He

made himself of no reputation. Well, what does that mean? And we

want to maybe as we go through the story this morning, but it is

to emptied himself. He set aside all his personal agenda. What was in

it for him, and he emptied himself, made himself of no reputation,

and humbled himself to the point of death. And humility is simply it can

mean various things, but the general idea is to bring low, to lower

from wherever he it was, or we are at to come down and on

a heart level, not just in word and indeed, but in spirit,

to come down. And we know that that's what Jesus did. Humility is

just a little bit about humility. Humility is not in any way weakness or

shame. It is not people hanging their heads and slumping their shoulders, not

looking the world in the eye, not self deprivation. Often that is just

a form of pride, but true God honoring Humility is one of the strongest

and admirable traits that a person can strive to attain, and yet, as

we know, it's so difficult to keep with their makeup. Humility is a

fascinating virtue. It is powerful, it is attractive, it is selfless,

it is surrendered. It's free of ambition, it is obedient and authority.

Genuine humility produces is redemption and peace and consideration. This kind it is not

easily offended it's humility. Humility is not loud and boisterous and flashy, but

it is a quiet strength. Humility is one of the most beautiful, in

my opinion, godly characters that we could strive to have. If a person

has humility, they have the foundation, godly human godly human miility. They

have the foundation, and I have something to work with, and they can

be accepted into God's grace. And we know the Bible says that really that

it's not really an option, it's not really a thing for the Christian to

either. It's better to have humility and not quite as good not to.

It's really the matter of innerction out of God's grace. Without humility, God

resists us, and with humility and a contrite heart he accepts us. Pride.

On the other hand, as tries in a thousand different ways to elevate

self, it produces division and strife contention. So I want to think about

especially that aspect of the humility of Jesus Christ this morning, and I feel

very inadequate in doing that. To get any kind of grasp and reality and

understanding, even partially of the humility of Jesus, we first have to understand

who he was, and how high he actually was, and in relation to

earth, and how low he came. And as we think about Jesus,

the son of God in heaven with his Father, before creation, before the

creation of the earth, before man was made, it says in Peter one

Peter one few verses that before creation and before man was that the plan of

Jesus coming to earth was in place. And I don't know about you,

but I don't understand that the things of God and Eternity go beyond my comprehension.

But it says in one Peter one eighteen, for as much as you

know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your

vain conversations received by traditions from your fathers, but with the precious blood of

Christ, as a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained

before the foundations of the world, but was manifest in these last times.

For you, you who by Him, do believe in God that raised him

up from the dead and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might

be in God. And so before before the earth was made, before the

universe was created, before mankind was even created, it appears that by these

verses that God the Father and Jesus there had been a conversation, there had

been a plan in their fore knowledge of what was to come, that what

Jesus would have to do, the plan of redemption for a wayward, sinful

man. And of course we don't know the conversations that they had and how

that all played out. But as I thought about that, no earth,

no mankind yet, and God and Jesus in heaven, and they talked about

creation and talked about man and making a being that was unlike the angels,

a being that had choice and had reason and had a living soul. And

in Genesis one and in John one, it would sound like Jesus was there

at the creation. In Genesis one, at twenty six, it says,

let us make man in our image, in our image. And I don't

know what if you pick those words apart exactly what all that means, but

it sounds like a pearl to me. And in John one one through three

it talks about the Word, and the Word has made flesh, and it's

referring to Jesus, and it says that he was there at the beginning of

time, and so as we think about that, the creation, and I

think about Jesus and God, and I don't know who did what they are

won, and yet they're they're not. And as Jesus got down and he

scraped the dust or formed the clan the dirt, whatever it might have been,

maybe like a child or a person with silly putty, and shaped and

formed and creating this form in the image and likeness of God. What was

going on in Jesus mind as he did that, as he knew what that

would impact him, what his role would be for these creatures he was creating

that he would give his blood some day. And I imagine when they got

the final touches on the form of Adam, and I guess he was just

laying out on the ground, his nose and his eyes and his ears,

and they stepped back, and I can imagine God and Jesus just looking at

each other in a human sort of way one last time before they breathed the

breath of life and put into motion for time and eternity something that would never

be stopped, the breath of life. It's it's amazing to me. I

don't I don't claim to even begin to understand it all. But why why

and go through all that, especially with the foreknowledge of what was to come

and the mess that it would be. I don't know that all either.

But it says in Revelations for eleven that creation was made for God's pleasure,

that God, God has pleasure in the in the creation the earth, the

animals, and especially mankind. He wanted a family, He wanted sons and

daughters. You fast forward through four thousand years and you have the fall of

man, this man that they created, the increase of wickedness, the flood

starting over, Abraham reproducing, the starting to reproduce again for a new and

faithful lineage, the bondage, and the deliverance of Egypt, which led to

the passover which they practice of a type of the perfect Lamb that was to

come someday. The judges, the kings, the prophets, and all the

stories that are in that ups and downs, the leaving God, the rebellion,

the repenting and coming back, and over and over. God and Jesus

must have looked down upon earth and just been grieved at the the wickedness that

was all over of mankind, which includes the wickedness of me and you and

then one day, one day is as a thousand years, the Bible says

with God. So I don't know what it was to God. But one

day the time came for Jesus to start his descent to Earth, to the

to these people. And he was in a high and a holy and a

perfect place and environment, abiding with his heavenly Father. And he wasn't just

leaving the good old USA to go to Haiti or Liberia or Bangladesh. You

know, that's a pretty big drop if you'd go there and live as they

did, give up a lot of conveniences. We could call that being humble

and lowly, but it's it's not even in the realm of what Jesus did,

and we cannot fully understand that. But he was leaving a sin free,

a pain free, a temptation free, problem free environment and descending far

down into the depths of hell for all practical purposes, where there was sin

filled and pain and suffering and lost in wicked world. I suppose as they

talked about God and Jesus at the beginning of time talked about a redemption plan.

I suppose they would have had the right as God to adjust the details

of that plan I suppose Jesus could have showed up in some glorious entourage of

a thousand on a white horse and a thousand angels, and came sweeping down

into Earth and did a two or three year term, shed his blood and

went back up into earth. And I suppose it could have produced in some

way salvation for mankind. But for some reason they didn't choose that. They

chose a from the cradle to the grave, a full experience of the life

of a man. It was a much more humble route to live, the

joys, the sorrows, the growing pains, and what all humans face.

And so he came as a tiny baby. We think about that at Christmas

at times, just helpless, unknown to the world. And if that isn't

amazing enough, he wasn't just your average born into a nice, average hospital

bed. But he was born in a lowly birth, in a barn with

the cat, with the animals. Two sevences. And she brought forth her

firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because

there was no room for him in the end, no room for him.

And as he grew up, it's there's very little we have a few glimpses

between the birth of Jesus and his public ministry, which is the vast majority

of his life, and to me that's significant. There's just not much said.

And the significance of that is to me is that I believe that Jesus

lived a very normal life for ninety percent of his life. There was no

flashiness, no publicity. He was just your average young Jewish carpenter, child

and boy and youth as he grew up in life with his mom and his

dad. But that was part of the plan. We don't know all the

details, all the hurts and the pains and the conflicts that I don't know

how he would have related to them in life. But the reason it says

in Hebrews four, or part of the reason Hebrews four, fourteen and fifteen

says, seeing then that you have a great high priest that has passed into

the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession,

for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling

of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are,

yet without sin. And so they chose that for a reason, so that

Jesus could be relatable to us and bridge that gap that our mind just kind

of blanks out on when we think about God and eternity and all those big

questions. But he came to earth as a man like one of us and

lived the whole life of it. He understands, and he's proving he understands,

even though he probably understood before he ever came. But it gives us

a connection. I believe as Jesus was a young man, he was average

youth. We know that at twelve years old he was found in the temple.

He seems like he showed an interest in the things of God. I

believe he was a well behaved, godly sort of a person. But beyond

that, I think he was probably lived an average life. He probably struggled

at times with coming under his parents' authority and decisions on certain things. I

suppose that he could have faced peer pressure in the moment, was tempted to

do things with his friends year after year. He just was a servant under

his father, the carpenter building things with his hands. Was a high and

lofty lawyer describe he just worked with his hands, humble job. Age sixteen

eighteen twenty twenty five no different than the average person. As far as most

people could tell, he was. He was of humble stature. And this

thought impressed me a little bit. I checked into this a little bit.

But Isaiah, says Isaiah fifty three to two says, for he shall grow

up before him as a tender plant, and as a roote out of dry

ground. He hath no form nor comeliness. And when we shall see him,

there is no beauty that we should desire of him. And to me,

that's simply saying that Jesus, in the body on earth was not a

man head and shoulders above the rest of mankind. He didn't command by his

physical looks and presence. He wasn't a strong man in that sense, like

maybe King Saul and other men. But it almost is like it was the

other way. It was almost like he wasn't super attractive. He was maybe

he was in some ways, maybe he had things about him that weren't attractive

as far as his physical features. And to me that is interesting. It's

a small detail. And of course we don't know the height of Jesus,

but it is believe that in that first century the Jews of that time,

the Jewish Men were like five one to five five little man, short,

small stature, and I have been impressed, and this isn't Bible, but

I have been impressed in different places around the world, from Europe to Israel

to Mexico, in churches and places where they're portraying Jesus on cross. I

don't know how many of you have seen that, but he's such a little

man that always stands out to me. He's just little, he's he's not

big, and that doesn't mean he was exactly like that, but with with

history and with the Bible, I think that probably he was just an average

man, pretty small, pretty little compared to today's standards. And that's a

little detail. But to me again, it's it's like God not only took

upon him the form of a man. He could have got the the x

lt lariat version of a body, the best one, and he would have

still been coming very very low from where he was. But he took he

took the time, you might say it to to pick out a body that

was maybe a little below average, I don't know, not not standing out

on purpose because he didn't want maybe he didn't want that to be the attraction

how he looked, and as I think about that compared with again to creation,

and I don't want to go into deep into creation here, but just

to give us just try to create a little bit of a glimpse again of

where we're at in this story. I was looking up and reading a little

bit about just size. That always impresses me, the size of Creation and

the universe and the Earth that we live in. It's a pretty big deal

for most of us to fly to the other side of the Earth. It

can take days of travel, millions and billions of people. It's an impressive

place. But the Earth and the big scheme of the universe and creation is

a drop in the bucket. It's nothing. Even with the Sun that we

can see. It's according to scientists, one point three million earths could fit

inside the volume of the Sun. Like we're not even a million of the

size our planet. And then if you want to take it one step further,

some of the biggest known stars. Now you can take the Earth,

which is like a million over a million times bigger than the Earth that we're

standing on, and fit or I'm not sure, yeah, fit five billion,

not million billion suns in that star, and so just the numbers of

how big the Earth has compared to that star is just mind boggling. And

then of course there's lots of stars, millions and billions of stars. A

five foot three man, let's say, the Creator walking around a little planet

Earth, had been involved in all the creation that we can't even comprehend.

Became low as a young man in a Jewish community. Jesus was single.

He stayed single, he didn't get married, and I believe he was tempted

in all points as we were. I believe he struggled with his thought life.

I believe that he probably wanted a companion that he could love and be

close to, even closer than his disciples. He would have loved to have

a little family and his own little children, but he had to give that

up. He had to. He had a different mission, a different calling.

He was on a mission to redeem mankind so that there could be a

family God, there could be sons and daughters for his heavenly father. So

he lived a single life. So ninety percent of Jesus life, no fanfare,

no popularity, virtually unknown. And then he started his public ministry,

teaching, healing, performing miracles, and that's the part we know about Jesus

just is really a short period of his life, maybe three years. And

as he started that, as he became coming into that stage of public ministry

and teaching, preaching, healing, feeding, ministering to people, he started

to rise in popularity. People started to know who this man was, and

the disciples started to sense that they were a part of something big. Something

big was going on. They weren't sure what, some kind of revolution,

some kind of kingdom, and they were the closest ones to Jesus and they

wanted to be a part of that. And it seems like with the success

and fame, the disciples started to maybe lose their focus how success often does.

They fell prey to success. And for a brief moment, we have

the story in Mark and maybe another Gospel where the crowds were coming to Jesus

and he was ministering to them, and people were bringing their children and trying

to get him to hold them or touch them. And the disciples started doing

crowd control and telling people to get back. And Jesus is a busy man.

It's got important things to do. Keep the children away. And we

see Jesus in Mark ten. When they brought the children, the disciples rebuked

them, and Jesus saw this. He was very much displeased, and he

said, suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not,

for of such is the Kingdom of God. Barely I say unto you.

Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he

shall not enter their en. And he took them up in his arms,

put his hands upon them, and bless them. And Jesus never let the

praise and glory and the fluctuation of the opinion of man derail his vision.

And this was one of those moments that could have been that didn't blur his

vision. He continued to operate with humility, and he used this little incident

to rebuke the disciples and warned them and all of us today that it takes

humility to even enter the Kingdom of God. And these children are the closest

example on earth that we can see that are godly. Jesus did not fall

into that I'm too busy and I'm too important trap of success, but he

ministered, looked to the lowly, to the hurting people. As Jesus came

closer to the end of his life, the Passover time. The last week

Jason talked about this a little bit. He gathered the twelve disciples together one

last time, and this will be the last time that these thirteen, him

and his twelve disciples would ever be together, including eternity as I would understand

it. And Jesus ate the Passover a feast with them, knowing that he

was about to fulfill the Passover as the perfect Lamb, the Lamb of God

that would be killed once and for all. After the Passover, he broke

the bread, gave it to his disciples, gave them the juice. This

is the blood of my body that was shed for you. Bread is of

his broken body. And I don't know how much they understood. I think

they figured something. They were starting to piece it together a little bit,

but not fully. And Jesus had one last lesson, one last ordinance that

he wanted to do to them. Jesus, as I said, the Master,

the creator of the universe, He got a base in of water,

and he went down at the feet of every one of those twelve disciples,

and he walked the one that created everything, all the way down on the

ground completely on his knees as low as a man can get and wash the

feet of his disciples. He dried them one by one, and of course

Peter resisted, but Jesus insisted, and Peter allowed that to happen. And

it wasn't a show, it wasn't a just something to impress people with,

but it was He did it in the spirit of love and in the spirit

of servanthood, and of course one of the primary lessons he was trying to

teach his followers. They kept they they requested to be exalted, to be

brought up, and Jesus was trying one last time to remind them humility at

equal brotherhood equality, You're not better than anyone else. You've spent three years

with me. Be a servant. Jesus exercised humility when these same friends betrayed

and forsook him. And as I thought about that, the close bond human

bond that they must have had, as these young guys men running around doing

all kinds of adventurous things together, amazing healing and feeding and up all night

and watching listening to Jesus, I believe they were a strong brotherhood at that

point, probably about as much as humans can be. But when it came

down to the very end, poor Judas, I feel so sorry for that

man. Somehow he succumbed to temptation. Somehow, money, it appears,

got blurred his vision of what was going on, and he sold out.

He sold out. He started working behind the scenes, whispering behind the backs

of the rest of them, making a deal with the enemies of Jesus to

betray him. Jesus knew it all along. He was still kind to him,

he was still humble, he still let him in at the last supper.

He didn't say, Judas, I know what you're up to. Sorry,

He almost acted like he didn't know. He got down and appears in

John thirteen that he washed Judas's feet because later in the chapter is when he

leaves. Once Jesus was arrested, to the disciples scattered, and you can't

blame him in a way. But again, what Jesus went through all alone,

no one was around, being arrested, pulled off. And yet I

think about that that was the last, well, one of the last things

Jesus seen of his disciples. There in the garden. He had been begging

them to pray with him. He'd been begging them to be with him.

He was trying to prepare them for this, and then they scattered, they

were gone. He was alone, and he went to the judgmental Peter was

followed afar Off and maybe some of the others. John was at the cross,

then we know that, But for the most part, it feels like

the disciples stepped back. They didn't want there, they didn't want to get

involved in and ended up on across themselves. So they disfellowshipped him. They

pulled back. But when Jesus rose and he met them the first time,

he he just said fear not, and he comforted them, and he encouraged

them, and he did not he just he just he did not rebuke them

for that necessarily. He was humble. He was merciful. Another area I

think about it, Jesus, you know, one of the greatest tests and

trials for a man is when he is wronged. And when I am wrong

and I have the power to do something about it, I can. I

have the authority, or I have the money, or I have the whatever

it takes to set this wrong right in my life. But he doesn't.

And that is a strength, that is not a weakness, that is what

man does. That's not what Jesus did. Jesus had the power, and

I tend to that one might have been one of his biggest trials and temptations

as I think about him and that whole process in that last week, being

mistreated and challenged and scorned, and yet he submitted, He is submitted to

his earthly authorities. He was arrested. Peter went to fight for him,

and Jesus told Peter to put the sword away, and he allowed himself to

be led off. He could have easily escaped through the crowds like he had

done before. He stood at trial before Pilot, before all those religious,

hardhearted scribes and pharisees, stood before Pilot like a criminal, submitted himself to

the trial. God, the creator of the universe, the king of kings,

lord of lords, the one that will one day judge all mankind,

stood as a little man before Pilot and listened, listened to the noose come

down around him with all their faulty evidence, claims and lies. Pilot at

the end said, I find no fault in him. But you know,

Pilot was in a tough political position, and so he did what he could

do as a man. He didn't know what to do. He was stuck.

He didn't really like the idea of condemning Jesus, but he did his

best. He washed his hands with water and said my blood, his blood

is not on me. But then he gave them over, ordered them to

whip him. He wanted to please the people, and so they scorged him.

The Bible talks about a scourging in a Roman Scorging is a very very

abusive thing. The Romans were masters at torture and pain. Their point wasn't

to just kill someone. They wanted to make them suffer and put fear into

the into other people. But a scourge they used a short little whip with

leather pieces on it and tied to iron or bone or something sharp and heavy.

So you can just imagine how a leather strips of a foot or eighteen

inches and a handle with whatever three five ten ounce weights on those things,

what kind of force that those could produce. And they would take the person

to be whipped, and they would tie his hands up on a post,

strip him of his clothes, and a strong Roman soldier would get a whip

in hand whip the back of that person's backside until it was punctured and torn

and bleeding. And one of the points of this whipping was to to bring

a person close to death, not to death, but close to death,

to where they've kind of entered into shock and were just just beat to a

pulp. It was. It was a file and vicious whipping. We read

in Phlippians too it said he humbled himself and became obedient too death, even

the death of the cross. That's an easy thing to say. It's an

easy thing to memorize the death of the Cross, the crucifixion. And there

again that was part of the romans whole torture, the plan of capital punishment,

the way that they did that to produce a slow, painful, drawn

out death. It was a process. It was public humiliation and shame,

stripped away the dignity of the person being crucified, and it was a warning

to all else not to defy the Romans. Humility, Humility and false accused

accusations, Humility and being misunderstood, Humility and being mocked, Humility and being

played around like a like a I don't know what, stuffing a crown of

thorns on his head, spitting in his face, and putting a purple robe

on him and just mocking him like a like a nobody child. As they

just na ailed him to that cross. And you've seen many pictures, but

just the process nailing a man to a cross. They stretched his hands out,

they put his feet up on a pedestal, nailed his feet so he

stood, nails driven through his hands and through his feet, very little clothes

on set up and in the up in a on a cross for the whole

public to watch. Mm hmm. Blood running down his face. I imagine

by that time he was a pitiful sight. You know, people probably barely

wanted to look at him. Blood and just at the end of his eye,

he couldn't carry his own cross. Simon had to carry his cross.

And as he as he was on that cross, and he was getting to

the end, even the soldiers and different ones walked by mocked at him and

said, there was a sign king of the Jews, and they said,

if you're the king of the jew if you're a god, come on down,

come down, prove it. But he stayed there. Father, forgive

them, for they know not what they do. That's what he said.

And I believe, as hard as it is for me to have that spirit.

I believe Jesus had that spirit. It was genuine to the core.

He felt sorry for those guys down there, his creation. They had no

idea what they were doing. He was the god of the universe, but

he sure didn't look like it, and he cried, it is finished.

Soldiers came by. They didn't break his legs that process if it went on

too long. My understanding is because the only way you could breathe on a

cross was to straighten your legs up and get another breath of air and then

hang back down because the weight pulling on your arms, you couldn't breathe in

that position. Physically, you just suffocated. So the only way to get

a breath was to stand up, take a breath, and go back down.

And so they would often finally break the legs of the people on the

cross so that they couldn't stand up anymore, and they just ran out of

air. But the Bible says that Jesus died before that, and when they

came by and they looked at him, not fulfilled the prophecy said, they

said there would be no bone broken in Jesus, and he was already dead.

But they went ahead, and they took the spear, and they stuck

it up in his side, and the bible so blood came running out of

his side. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet

we esteemed him not stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. He was wounded

for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our

peace was upon him. And with his stripes we are healed. All we,

like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own

way. And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us. All.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted. Yet he opened not his

mouth. He has brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a

sheep before her shears is done. So he openeth not his mouth. Isaiah

fifty seven fifteen says, thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabitth eternity,

whose name is holy. I dwell in the high and holy place with

him. Also that is of a contracte and a humble spirit, to revive

the feared of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Ones the humility of Jesus. It's hard for us to understand. Fully,

it's hard for us to grasp, but it was motivated by love. We

know that love for mankind at a level that we cannot understand. The humility

of Jesus. He came to redeem us, to redeem us, to buy

us back. We are in bondage. We have been in bondage under sin,

and it is only the redemption of Jesus blood that sets us free.

Although Jesus was humble, it says in those verses that we read that someday,

at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow of things in heaven

and things in earth, things under the earth, and every tongue shall confess

that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. And I

want to remind you of one more verse that we read in this chapter.

It's a it's a it's a lifetime assignment. It's something we never get done

striving for. It's in verse five says let this mind be in you,

which was also in Christ Jesus, let's kneel for pray. Mm hmm.