Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church history.

Last week we were together, we were looking at the book of sermons, The Savior of the World by B.B. Warfield.

I want to return to that book. The final sermon, the ninth sermon, is entitled, Imitating the Incarnation.

And it is on Philippians 2, 5 to 8, about having the mind that Christ had. And Warfield plays

off of that to speak of imitating the incarnation. Warfield had a classical education. In fact, when he was younger, his family had a big cattle ranch, and he was often sent out to tend the cattle, and he would take classic books with him, books in Greek, books in Latin.

He was a very well-educated man, and that education paid off not only in his teaching, in his scholarly books, but in his sermons,

and his ability to craft the message. And so I just want to read some extended portions of

this sermon to you. I found them to be very encouraging to me, and I hope they are for you.

He begins, Christ, our example. After Christ, our Redeemer, no words can more deeply

stir the Christian heart than these. Every Christian joyfully recognizes the example of Christ.

In Christ, in a word, we find the moral ideal historically realized, and we bow before it as sublime, and we yearn after

it with all the assembled desires of our renewed souls. How lovingly we follow in thought

every footstep of the Son of Man, on the rim of hills that shut in the Emerald Cup of Nazareth,

on the blue marge of Ganeserate, over the mountains of Judah, and we long to walk in spirit

by his side.

He came to save every age, says Ireneus, and therefore he came as an infant, a child, a boy, a youth, and a man.

And there is no age that cannot find its example in him.

We see him in the wilderness, calmly rejecting the subtlest trials of the evil one.

We see him among the thousands of Galilee,

anointed of God with the Holy Ghost and power going about doing good,

with no pride of birth, though he was a king,

with no pride of intellect, though omniscience dwelt within him.

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