Video from Historic Homilies
“Imitating the Incarnation”: B. B. Warfield Sermon - Humility of Christ Philippians 2:5–8
"Philippians 2:5–8, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man. He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921) was an American professor of Reformed theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921. He served as the last principal of the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1886 to 1902. Some Presbyterians consider him to be the last of the great Princeton theologians before the split in 1929 that formed Westminster Theological Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. (source: Wikipedia) In this powerful message, Warfield emphasizes the self-sacrifice of Christ as the ultimate example of humility which all Christians must follow. Here’s one of my favorite sections from the sermon: “Self-sacrifice means not indifference to our times and our fellows: it means absorption in them. It means forgetfulness of self in others. It means entering into every man’s hopes and fears, longings and despairs . . . It means not that we should live one life, but a thousand lives,—binding ourselves to a thousand souls by the filaments of so loving a sympathy that their lives become ours. It means that all the experiences of men shall smite our souls and shall beat and batter these stubborn hearts of ours into fitness for their heavenly home. It is, after all, then, the path to the highest possible development, by which alone we can be made truly men.” Topics Addressed: Jesus Christ, Gospel, Love, Humility, Compassion, Self-sacrifice, Selflessness, Service, Empathy" from video introduction
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