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@ghost-of-a-duke saidYou sound so silly goad! 😛
Apologies. I thought, back then, you would have been in your teenage years.
-VR
@ghost-of-a-duke saidYou sound so silly goad! 😛
Apologies. I thought, back then, you would have been in your teenage years.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidYes
Do you recall when Jesus said, 'The Father is greater than I'?
Do you recall when Jesus said, 'The Father is greater than I'?
You have heard that I said to you, I go away, and I am coming to you. If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I go to the Father,
for the Father is greater than I." (John 14.28)
"Even the Spirit of reality, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold HIm or know Him; but you know Him, because He abides with you and shall be in you. (v.17)
I will not leave you orphans, I am coming to you. (v.18)
Yet a little while and the world beholds Me no longer, but you behold Me; because I live, you shall live also. " (v.19)
Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him." (v.23)
And I give them eternal life, and they shall by no means perish forever, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. (v.28)
My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of My Father's hand. (v.29)
I and the Father are one." (v.30)
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Who existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped, (v.6)
But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men; (v.7)
And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of a cross. (v.8)
Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, (v.9) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth.(v.10), And every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. (v.11) (Phil. 2:5-11)
@ghost-of-a-duke saidOkay that was funny 😉 in a good way!
That's why God gave us sonship.
@sonship saidJesus did humble Himself for the glory of God to save our self righteous sinful
Christ Humbled Himself in Seven stages thus making His words "the Father is greater than I" consistent with His steps of humbling. Count the steps carefully below.
[quote] Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Who existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped, (v.6)
But emptied Himself, taking th ...[text shortened]... ) The death was the most shameful, humiliating, and tormenting death - "the death of a cross"