Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:3-5

Philippians 2:3-5 I. There are two ways of doing even the best work: through strife and through love. This was seen in the first chapter, where two classes of preachers are described. II. Entire sympathy with Christ will always heighten man's appreciation of man. III. Christianity is thus the only humanising and fraternising religion. IV. Self-seeking is in utter antagonism to the spirit of Christianity. V. Christianity never encourages a degrading view of human nature. Man is to be esteemed by... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:5

Philippians 2:5 The True Imitation of Christ. Consider two or three simple instances of the mode in which we may catch something of the true mind of Christ, and carry out into our lives something of a true Imitatio Christi. I. There is, first of all, the readiness to forego, for the good of others, things to which we feel we have a fair claim. It seems a very homely lesson, yet so strong is the tendency to self-assertion and pride that we find both the Apostle and his Master laying on it an... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:5-7

Philippians 2:5-7 The Humiliation and Glory of Christ. Consider the practical purposes of the Apostle in bringing this subject before us. I. Among the chief of these is the inculcation of humility. This whole marvellous passage is brought before us, not for dogmatic teaching, but for moral example. The main intention is, not to reveal Jesus Christ as the foundation of a sinner's hope (although that is implied), but it is to point out the wonderful moral beauty of His condescension and to... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:5-8

Philippians 2:5-8 The Humiliation of the Eternal Son. I. In looking into these words, we observe (1) that St. Paul clearly asserts Jesus Christ to have existed before His birth into the world. By saying that Jesus Christ existed in the form of God before He took on Him the form of a servant, St. Paul would have been understood by any one who read him in his own language to mean that, when as yet Christ had no human body or human soul, He was properly and literally God, because He existed in the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:5-11

Philippians 2:5-11 These delineations of Christ reveal the true method of rendering moral service to man. Human deliverance and progress will remain a theory only until men come to work upon the method here stated. Great philanthropic programmes must begin at Bethlehem and comprehend the mysteries of Golgotha if ever they would ascend from Bethany into the heavens. To serve man, Christ became man; so in serving others we must identify ourselves with them. I. This identification of Himself with... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:6-7

Philippians 2:6-7 I. The Son of God was in the form of God: glorious as the Father; equal to the Father; the Creator and Upholder of the universe. Notwithstanding, He thought it not robbery to be equal with God, i.e. for the words are obscure as they now stand He deemed not His equality with God a matter eagerly to be grasped by Him; did not think of it as the robber does of his prey, so that he would not on any account let it go; esteemed it not matter of self-enrichment or self-indulgence.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:7

Philippians 2:7 Christ a Slave. The word servant will convey to us in this present age a very inadequate idea of the degree of the degradation of which it is the figure. For service has been dignified since Jesus was a servant. We know nothing now more really honourable than Christian service. But let us not forget that He first taught us to call servants friends. I. Notice one or two of the laws and customs respecting Jewish slaves, that you may see the correctness of the title and the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:8

Philippians 2:8 The Humility of Christ. I. Among the virtues of Christ's humanity brought to dwell among men was humility, a virtue which lies at the foundation of the Christian character, a virtue unknown to the moral philosophy of the ancient world. "Being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself." The Apostle is not now speaking of the infinite condescension whereby He as God left the glory that He had with the Father before the worlds were made, but rather he is speaking of the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:10

Philippians 2:10 I. Even angels are to worship in the name of Jesus. It is, however, more to the purpose for us to remember that God desires men, all men, so to worship. And it is a thought at once solemnising and comforting that not only living men, but the dead also, are required to call upon God in the name of Jesus. It is assumed in the words of our text that all God's creatures will bend the knee somehow. Prayer is an instinct of nature. God has so made us that we feel a power above us,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Philippians 2:5-8

DISCOURSE: 2145CHRIST’S HUMILIATIONPhilippians 2:5-8. 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. [Note: This subject might well be treated thus:–1. What the Lord Jesus Christ has... read more

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