for me to be with you tonight. Maybe I'm a bit too casual, but I got here this

morning at about 830, but the fellowship was so wonderful. The families I stayed with had such beautiful children that I just couldn't pull myself away to put on my preacher clothes.

So here I am. So open up your Bibles to the Book of

of Philippians chapter 2 and let's pray before we read. Father, I come before you in the name of your son.

And Father, I pray that you would help your people, that you would even through me, speak and explain your word that your people might be helped.

Lord, so many today are storm-tossed and afflicted,

battered and beaten.

Lord, teach us to pray.

As you taught your disciples to pray.

So help us, Lord, please, in Jesus, name, amen.

So in chapter 2 of Philippians, verse 5, have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus. Jesus is our example in absolutely everything.

He's our example.

Now this is very, very hard for us to understand because we always can

fall back on the thing, well yes he's my example, but I mean, come on, he was God.

He was perfect.

I'm me. So yeah, I know he's my example, I know that he's the pattern that I should look for.

And when we have that kind of attitude, we're acknowledging that he was the pattern, but we're draining all the power from it

because there's something that we need to understand about our Lord's

incarnation that although he was God in the fullest and most complete sense of the term

and that his deity was never diminished you must understand that he emptied himself, not a deity.

Well, let my dear friend, John MacArthur, explain it.

I want to read something that I actually wrote what he wrote in

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