Thank you for joining us today for apostolic life in the 21st century.

We are so glad to have you join us on this podcast.

Dr. Bernard, one of the exciting things about this particular podcast, not necessarily this

episode, but many of the episodes that we've had previously, is we certainly have our share of critics who come on and want to attack onus Pentecostal theology.

But then we have a lot of people who are genuinely curious about what we believe.

Maybe they're encountering us for the first time.

They've never heard of the oneness of God, this particular doctrine.

And so they're curious

as to how we view certain passages. So that's the context of today's episode. We have a listener who

apparently is not a oneness Pentecostal, but has encountered our doctrine. And he wants to know

what oneness Pentecostal's view of Philippians 2, 5 through 11 is? I'll read it. So just for our audience

members who don't know what I'm talking about. In this passage, Paul said, let this mind be in you,

which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be

equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bond servant

and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself

and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God also has

highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee

should bow, of those in heaven and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every

tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. So to echo our

listeners question, how to oneness Pentecostals explain this passage, given its references to Jesus

Christ and God the Father?

This is a great question, a great passage.

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