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We need to know who we are because when you know who you are you'll be able to submit yourself,

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you'll be able to move freely because when you're looking for other people to tell you who you are

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you'll be subject to their opinions.

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Welcome back to a deeper dive into Philippians. Today we'll be talking about the deity of Jesus

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So let's just jump into this because we have a lot of things to talk about.

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Go with me to verse 5 and to 7 of chapter 2 of Philippians 2.

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Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God did not consider

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it robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation taking the form of a bond servant

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and coming in the likeness of men. In this generation and in since the day Jesus came

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people have been questioning is Jesus God? That is the foundation of Christianity.

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If Jesus is not God then Christianity is not what it claims to be. We are our whole belief system

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is hinged on the fact that Jesus is God and so if people are questioned the Godhood of Jesus

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then they're by default questioning the value of Christianity and the whole Bible because the whole

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Bible will be useless if Jesus is not God and so that's what I want to tackle today. I want to

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prove to you that he is indeed God that the Bible is true that you need to be a Christian that you

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need to worship him because he is God and but before we jump into Philippians let's go to

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1st John chapter 4 verse 3. I'm actually going to read from verse 1 and 3.

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And this is the spirit of the antichrist which you have heard was coming and is now already

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in this world. Surprise surprise people are questioning about the deity of Jesus

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because the antichrist is already here and his purpose is what? It's very simple to convince

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people that Jesus is not God and so from those days of the Bible people have questioned. So the

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goal for us today in this episode is to give us a solid foundation of understanding that Jesus

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is God and a beautiful thing about this chapter about this verse in 1st John is it gives us a

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great rubric of testing the hearts of people. If they claim God the son has come in the flesh

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then they are of God. If they say otherwise then we begin to question them. Look at this verse in

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Proverbs 4 7. Wisdom is a principal thing therefore get wisdom and in all you're getting

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get understanding. Understanding is very important because it helps us discern what is of God

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versus what is of what is not of God. So we must be able to understand the scriptures that's why

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God gave us God the Holy Spirit so that he can help us understand this sometimes complicated

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truths that we read in the Bible. This is why every believer needs to learn to hear the voice of God

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because it's in that that he will begin to explain and give you revelation and give you understanding

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because this is spiritual truths that sometimes you can't get until God Holy Spirit reveals it

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to you. With that said I want to now jump into this verses and the main thing I want you to be

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be mindful of is depend on God the Holy Spirit to speak to you. Don't just take my words but as

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you're listening and you're looking at the verses you're going to look at be listening in your heart

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for God the Holy Spirit to confirm my words and to reveal more because it's only through him that all

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this works. Now let's reread the verses and I'm going to read in the complete Jewish Bible just

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because I like how he says some of the words.

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He took the form of a slave by becoming like human beings. The way I was able to understand and wrap my mind around about how Jesus is fully God and fully man is by understanding

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Spirit, soul, and body.

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And I'll explain that so you can have the same foundation as me.

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In 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 23, it says this,

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So in that verse we see that we are spirit being,

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we have a soul, and we live in this physical body.

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That we are triune being.

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And then in Ecclesiastes 12, 7, it says this,

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So there you see that we have a spirit and we have a body.

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And in 1 Thessalonians, it adds the soul.

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So in Ecclesiastes, it says,

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Let's go to Genesis chapter 1, from verse 26 to 27.

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Let us look at the creation of man and we'll get some insights from there.

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I'm going to read that last section again.

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God created man in his own image.

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In the image of God, he created him.

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Male and female, he created them.

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And what I want you to see there is God created man, the spirit,

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and male and female is a type of body that the spirit called man inhabited.

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I'm going to say that again.

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God created man, which is a type of spirit.

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And male and female is a type of body that hosted the spirit.

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In chapter 2 of Genesis, we see the details of the creation of man and woman.

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And the first person that God created was the male.

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And the male was called Adam.

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And the female's body came from the body of Adam.

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But the spirit, because it's the spirit of man,

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that is in both the man and the woman, came from God.

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And before the fall, this is an interesting thing that I saw.

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In Genesis 5.2, He said,

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So before the fall, they were both called Adam or man.

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And this shows the unity that you see with the Trinity,

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because the fall has separated us.

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And so now we see each other as separate.

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But before the fall, we were of one spirit.

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That understanding helps me because now we can take that into the Trinity.

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Man is a type of spirit.

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Male and female is a type of body.

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So now, hopefully that makes sense.

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Now let's go in understanding how Jesus is both man and God.

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What makes us human beings is not just our body.

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It's the kind of spirit we have.

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And we have the spirit of man in our physical bodies.

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What makes angels, angels?

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It's this type of spirit they have.

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Because in the New Testament, you see angels appearing.

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And sometimes those angels look like men.

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But why are they called angels and not men?

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Even though they look like men.

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It's the type of spirit they have.

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Our spirits determine who we are.

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We are mankind because we have the mankind kind of spirit in us.

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Angels are angels because they have the angelic spirit in them.

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Even when they look like men, even when they look like us.

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And I'm sure many of you have had encounters with angels and you did not

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know they were angels until they disappear.

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And you're like, wait a minute,

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was that an angel? Because they look exactly like you,

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but they had a different spirit, which is an angelic spirit.

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And it's the same thing with the Godhead.

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They have the God kind of spirit.

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The type of spirit, our spirits determine who we are.

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We sometimes look at God and his majesty and his power.

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And we see that as what makes him God. That's not what makes him God.

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That's the fruit of who he is.

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What makes him God is the kind of spirit that he has.

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And he has a God kind of spirit.

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And with that comes all these different powers, all these different things,

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all the glory, all the power, because he has the God

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kind of spirit.

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So when Jesus came in the flesh,

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He had the God spirit in a human body.

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Does that make sense? I'm going to repeat that.

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When Jesus came in the flesh,

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He had a God spirit in a human body.

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And that's why when you read the Gospels,

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a lot of times you'll see demons or people demonized.

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When they see Him, they're like,

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Oh, wait a minute, you're the son of man.

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They could tell that He was not just a regular human.

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There was something different about Him

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because the demons are looking not at His physical body,

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but at the spirit inhabiting the physical body.

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And that's how they could tell that is God,

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that is not just man.

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And there were a few occasions,

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actually, I'm getting ahead of myself.

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I almost jumped to the end.

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I'm getting a little excited.

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Let's go to verse 6 and 7 of Philippians.

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And I'm going to read this from the complete Jewish Bible.

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Though He was in the form of God,

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He did not regard equality with God

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something to be possessed by force.

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On the contrary, He emptied Himself

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in that He took the form of a slave

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by becoming like human beings are.

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How was Jesus in the form of God?

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He had the God kind of spirit.

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That's what makes God the Father,

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God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit,

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God, because they have the God kind of spirit.

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He did not regard equality with God

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something to be possessed by force

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because He was God.

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He didn't have to force

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or try to be something that He already is.

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And let's just take a little rabbit trail here.

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We need to know who we are

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because when you know who you are,

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you'll be able to submit yourself.

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You'll be able to move freely

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because when you're looking for other people

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to tell you who you are,

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you'll be subject to their opinions.

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But when you let God tell you who you are,

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you'll only be subject to Him.

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And that's the importance of understanding our identity

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is because once your identity is built in Christ,

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well, then if He tells you sell everything

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and go live on the streets,

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you'll do it no problem

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because you're not going to worry about

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what other people think about you.

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You're not going to worry about

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what other people try to say about you

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because your God told you do this

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and you'll be submitted to that.

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That's the power of being comfortable in your identity.

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is where a lot of the different assumptions are made.

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And I'm just going to read

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in the verse 7 verse specifically,

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is when it says,

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and he made himself of no reputation.

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I'm going to read that phrase in different translations

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so that you can see what they all say.

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In the complete Jewish Bible,

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he made himself of no reputation.

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he made himself nothing.

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And my favorite translation is the NLT.

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he gave up his divine privileges.

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I'm going to read the whole verse 7 in the NLT.

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he gave up his divine privileges.

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He took the humble position of a slave

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and was born as a human being

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when he appeared in human form.

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Our spirits determine who we are.

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The Godhead are not the Godhead because of their power.

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They are the Godhead because of the God kind of spirit.

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The power and the glory that the Godhead has

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that you see when Elijah went to Mount Horeb

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and God comes and it's the wind,

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it's the earthquake.

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All those different things are a result of who he is.

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That was God the Father coming down.

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he commands all this power.

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He commands glory because that's who he is.

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That's his identity.

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he gave up the privilege that comes with being God the Son.

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He never stopped being God.

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He just gave up the privileges.

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He was no longer omnipresent.

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He was no longer omnipotent.

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He was no longer omniscient.

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He was bound or he became a slave and limited to human.

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No human is omnipotent.

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No human is omnipresent.

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No human is omniscient.

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Even no angel is omnipresent.

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Only God.

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he limited himself of the power that the Godhead has.

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It's the kind of spirit that he has made him God.

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So you will see moments where we got a glimpse of His Godhead,

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of how He looks on the Mount of Transfiguration.

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We got a glimpse of that.

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When the soldiers came to arrest Him,

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we got a glimpse of His power when they asked Him,

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Who is Jesus Christ?

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And He said, I am, and everybody bit the ground.

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We got a glimpse of the power that He had.

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all those divine powers, He gave them up

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so that He can function as a man.

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He never stopped being God.

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He's always God because the kind of spirit that you are

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determines who you are.

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I really hope that if you're not understanding anything,

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I said, just go rewatch this and just take your time.

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Don't try to rush through this because that understanding the Godhood of Jesus

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is the key to our Christian life.

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When you understand that He's fully God and He came in the form of man

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so that He can be the perfect sacrifice,

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then your whole Christian life will completely be changed.

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He is God.

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He never stopped being God.

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And my last words are this,

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the kind of spirit that we have determines who we are.

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Join me in the next episode where we'll be talking about

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becoming a mature believer.