Philippians 2:5-11 New American Standard Bible 1995
5 Have this attitude [a]in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be [b] grasped, 7 but [c]emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death [d]on a cross. 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The Word of God for the Children of God.
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.
The Only Higher Glory
Philippians 2:9 Amplified Bible
9 For this reason also [because He obeyed and so completely humbled Himself], God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
We have been talking about our having the mindset of Christ and following his example of humility.
When it comes to humility, no one can be humbler than Christ, who gave up his own life so that all who call on his name can be saved to have new life forever.
And because Jesus did that, the Word of God says that God also raised him from the grave and “exalted him to the highest place.”
He started out as the Son of God in heaven.
Then he willingly became a suffering servant who swooped down to the lowest of depths by dying on a cross for our sake.
Then God, as only God is able, reversed it all and swung Jesus upward to rule in heaven over everything.
The words Apostle Paul uses to describe this position have to do with the power of the highest name: “God . . . gave him the name that is above every name.” And what is that name? It is Jesus (meaning “Savior”), and it is Christ (meaning “Anointed One”). Jesus Christ is the Lord, the sovereign ruler, over all things.
His name is so glorious the day will come when every knee will bow to honor him, every tongue will sing songs to “acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord.”
Jesus Christ, who died and rose again, is Lord of the cosmos.
All glory be to him forever and ever!
The Only Rightly Exalted, The Only Greater Exaltation
Philippians 2:5-8 Amplified Bible
5 Have this same attitude in yourselves which was in Christ Jesus [look to Him as your example in selfless humility], 6 who, although He existed in the form and unchanging essence of God [as One with Him, possessing the fullness of all the divine attributes—the entire nature of deity], did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped or asserted [as if He did not already possess it, or was afraid of losing it]; 7 but emptied Himself [without renouncing or diminishing His deity, but only temporarily giving up the outward expression of divine equality and His rightful dignity] by assuming the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men [He became completely human but was without sin, being fully God and fully man]. 8 After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2:5-8 is a beautiful statement concerning Christ’s humanity, deity, ministry, and humiliation.
Having mapped the humility of the incarnate Son of God all the way to His death on a cross, where does your mind go next? Naturally, we think of the resurrection. But Paul does not. He takes us directly to Christ’s exaltation.
There is, Paul says, a logical connection between Jesus’ humiliation and His exaltation: “Therefore God has highly exalted him” (v 8, emphasis added).
What is this exaltation?
It is that the Father has given His Son the throne and ordered this world so that one day
“at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (v 10-11).
But why is His exaltation fitting?
Scripture gives us several answers.
First, Christ’s exaltation is fitting because it fulfills Old Testament prophecy and demonstrates that God keeps His word.
The worldwide recognition of Jesus as Lord will occur because God promised it would.
Six hundred years before Jesus arrived on the stage of human history, Isaiah recorded these words from God: “Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted” (Isaiah 52:13).
And so Christ came to bear the pain and sin of the world, fulfilling the role of Suffering Servant, lifted up on a cross, then raised to be exalted on His throne.
As Paul wrote elsewhere,
“All the promises of God find their Yes in him” (2 Corinthians 1:20).
Second, Christ’s exaltation is fitting because He is God.
The Bible teaches us all that the Son is One with the Father. On account of His divinity, exaltation is an absolute necessity; there is nowhere else for God to sit!
No other seat is suitable for the Son except at His Father’s right hand.
Finally, Christ’s exaltation is fitting because He is the dear Son of His Father.
God the Father watched the Son obediently go to the cross to fulfill the covenant of redemption and heard Him cry out in pain,
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46).
The Father knew that the Son underwent that agony out of love for the Father and love for His people.
Matthew 23:37 Amplified Bible
Lament over Jerusalem
37 “[a]O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who murders the prophets and stones [to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I wanted to gather your children together [around Me], as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.
The Father would not leave His perfect Son in that dire condition.
How could the Father’s love do anything other than exalt the Son from His lowly state?
Christ’s humiliation for us and exaltation above us are surely enough to bring us to the point where we bow in joyful submission to Him.
They show us that there is only one who has the absolute unchallengeable status to demand our obedience and the character to deserve our adoration.
They remind us that the best thing about heaven will be the most glorious person in heaven:
I will not gaze at glory, but on my King of grace;
Not at the crown He giveth, but on His pierced hand;
The Lamb is all the glory of Immanuel’s land.[1]
1 Anne R. Cousin, “The Sands of Time Are Sinking” (1857).
In the name of God, the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit,
Let us Pray,
Dear God, please help us to bow our knees and confess with our mouths the truth about Jesus’ cosmic glory. Make us witnesses of this splendid gospel truth. Amen.
Psalm 19 New American Standard Bible 1995
The Works and the Word of God.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
19 The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
2 Day to day pours forth speech,
And night to night reveals knowledge.
3 There is no speech, nor are there words;
Their voice is not heard.
4 Their [a]line has gone out through all the earth,
And their utterances to the end of the world.
In them He has placed a tent for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber;
It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.
6 Its rising is from [b]one end of the heavens,
And its circuit to the [c]other end of them;
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
7 The law of the Lord is [d]perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.
10 They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.
11 Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.
12 Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.
13 Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;
Let them not rule over me;
Then I will be [e]blameless,
And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.
Loving God, Living God, Loving Hope, Living Hope, Loving Living Life His Way! "Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues." - Brother Lawrence (1605-1691), Practicing the Presence of God (1692). 
The Nazi lies expressed by both Xtianity and Islam
Throughout history, various Xtian denominations have contributed to the spread of antisemitic attitudes and actions, creating a climate of hostility toward Jews. This includes theological teachings that slandered Jews in a Satanic darkness, and blamed them for the torture and murder of Jesus.
The Nazi regime, though not the Vatican (the Pope looked on as the Nazis deported the Jews of Rome to death camps), maintained a close alliance with the Lutheran Church in Germany and Rome. The Nazis frequently cited Martin Luther’s racist statements about Jews. Xtian churches in England and the USA refused to condemn the British White Paper of 1939. And in the United States, not a single Xtian denomination protested Roosevelt’s decision to close U.S. borders to Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazis ‘extermination camps’ mental insanity.
Many argue that the historical role of the Church in fostering antisemitism served as the foundations for Nazism. After the fact, formal apologies, educational initiatives, and interfaith efforts made by Christianity after the Shoah seem like cheap excuses—like teats on a boar: useless and too late. Simply view the latest Gaza Genocide blood libel slander! Historical antisemitism within Xtianity served as the spring-board of mental insanity that made the Shoah possible across Europe. The Church, as an institution, bears full guilt after over 2,000 years of blood libels, ghettos, and mass expulsions of entire Jewish populations. The words of the Gospel are tragically confirmed: “By their fruits you shall know them,” stands as a perpetual rebuke by their own God.
The assignment of criminal guilt, especially in connection with historical events and religious groups — the subject of this paper. Justice requires condemning guilt—and, where necessary, advocating for extreme measures like the death penalty. Throughout history, all Xtian denominations played their shared role, in solidifying antisemitic attitudes and actions. Thereby contributing to systemic discrimination and violence against Jewish communities throughout history. This includes theological doctrines that justified the kidnapping of Jewish babies through forced baptism and war-crime-level mass expulsions refugee populations across virtually all European States.
Taxation imposed by the Church – without political representation – constitutes, a form of European enslavement of the Jewish people. Religious Xtian organizations bear full responsibility for the actions of their followers and for the ideologies of racial violence they spread. No different than the Gazans who elect Hamas into power in the democratic elections of 2006. The failure of Xtian churches to denounce antisemitism and to take a stand against the atrocities committed during the Shoah reflects broader complicity in these historical injustices. Virtually mainstream priest or pastor denounced the Night of Broken Glass pogrom of 1938. Just as Leo Tolstoy failed to condemn the Russian pogroms and Protocols of Zion slander of the Jews in the 1880s.
The lack of accountability perpetuated repeated cycles of Jew-hatred and violence—and points to the need for a deeper reckoning with history. Simply essential to critique and hold Xtianity accountable, both theologically and institutionally. Xtian theologies have promoted, Love as the greatest commandment, Fire and Brimstone Heaven-Hell, God-Satan bi-polar emotional declarations – all expressions of Av tuma emotional spirits which indoctrinate mental insanity. That the term Av tuma Xtian theology has totally ignored, testifies to their treif translations of their corrupt bibles.
Impossible to not be under the Law, and yet thereafter authoritatively and unilaterally declare which of the multitude of T’NaCH and Talmudic commandments and Halachot qualifies as the most important of all Torah common law. The Church has forever denounced and rejected the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev. Xtian theology, this narishkeit nonsense, compares to the 666 mark of the beast and the Church declarations that the Christ-killer Jews bear the mark of Cain. In short, Xtianity no different than Nazism. Both promote hate propaganda in the name of some Cult of personality which preaches — Love.
Monotheism violates the 2nd Sinai commandment. Both Xtianity and Islam worship other Gods. Neither religion has any connection whatsoever with judicial common law justice which pursues the dedication to make fair restoration of damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B. The definition of T’NaCH and Talmudic faith. Both introduce substitution theology which replaces Jesus in the stead of the oath brit alliance sworn to the Avot concerning the chosen Cohen people. Islam’s replacement theology replaces Ishmael with Yitzak at the Akadah. Therefore both Av tuma religions worship their own versions of the Golden Calf.
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