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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the

mouth of God. You're listening to Daily Truth. See, before God could supply us with his

blessedness, something else had to happen. God had to send his son into this world so that for a time he would be

a man of sorrows, as I spoke earlier, and acquainted with grief. That's Isaiah chapter 53, verse three.

See, prior to the incarnation, the son, that is Jesus Christ, was in need of nothing, possessing all good things in himself.

And yet Christ willingly chose to become nothing so that he might give to us everything he could possibly give.

This is Philippians chapter 2, verse 6 through 8.

The Bible says, though he, that that is Christ was in the form of God

he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped that is a thing to to to refuse to relinquish

a thing to cling to unwilling to open your hand and let it go. So Christ,

who was in the form of God, who was equal with God, he did not count that equality with God,

which he had a thing to hold on to, a thing to refuse to relinquish. But verse 7, he emptied

himself by taking the form of a servant.

He emptied himself in the sense, not that he removed the divine nature, but it was subtraction by addition.

He emptied himself of the divine nature, as it were, by simply adding to himself a second nature, namely the human nature. It is as St. Augustine once said,

it's divinity wrapped in flesh, divinity wrapped in humanity. It is subtraction by addition.

He emptied himself by taking upon himself a lowly human nature.

Verse 8 now, and being found in human form,

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