JESUS CHRIST – OUR EXEMPLARY 

JESUS CHRIST – OUR EXEMPLARY: THE CLARITY OF PURPOSE LEVERAGE THE SPIRIT OF CONTENTMENT – TO BE ABASED AND TO ABOUND IN THE GRACE! 

As I write this epistle, I recall growing up in both my primary and secondary schools, and in attendance of the pupil’s assembly ground, and with the hymnal book, wherein we sing the song that’s mostly often forgotten today: 

“He that’s down need fear no fall, 

He that’s low no pride, 

He that’s humble ever shall, 

Have God to be His guide.” 

As I sing now and meditates over this song today, the concept and context of our beloved Saviour and Lord Jesus, in HUMILITY and OBEDIENCE to God’s purpose for Him, in God’s kingdom redemption services, came to lighten up and illuminated my innermost being of the path to exaltation and fulfilment, in the course and cause of advancing the kingdom of God and keeping the enemy and cohorts at bay.  

For to be ABASED in scriptural context of Philippians 4:11-13, is to be humbled and not the purported concepts of degradations. It’s to be lowly and not depravation to being stricken in poverty and such like, as to be out of purpose for living and fulfilment. For in OBEDIENCE and HUMILITY to God’s purpose, our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ was able to fulfil God’s intent and was then highly EXALTED by Father God above all. DO YOU WANT TO BE ABOVE ONLY? Then, have the mind of Christ; put on the mind of Christ; and in redemption, you have the mind of Christ Jesus by the indwelling Holy Spirit of grace to make obedience and humility possible for your exaltation. 

“For who hath KNOWN THE MIND of the Lord, that he may instruct him? BUT WE HAVE THE MIND of Christ” 1 Corinthians 2:16. 

“. . . [5] Let this MIND be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: [6] who, BEING IN THE FORM OF God, thought it not ROBBERY to be EQUAL with God: [7] but MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became OBEDIENT unto death, even the death of the cross. [9] Wherefore God also hath highly EXALTED him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] that at the NAME of Jesus every KNEE should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; [11] and that every tongue should CONFESS that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” Philippians 2:1-11. 

The scripture thus says that our Saviour and Lord, Jesus Christ, became poor that we, who have come to embrace redemption rights and privileges might be enriched. Does it mean then that Jesus Christ was poverty stricken? Or stricken of any such likeness to limits God’s purpose through Him? Not at all. It only thus mean, that He HUMBLED Himself from the affluence of the heavens as being a part of the person of the trinity to become the Saviour of mankind in OBEDIENCE of being human; and by Him doing so, mankind [humanity], might be saved and redeemed back to the creator and Father God. He BECAME poor, thus indicates, He LOWERED Himself, from divinity in all essence to be God-man in humanity, that He might win us to God by sharing in our humanity and dying to fulfill the cause for our total salvation. That’s the mark of being of His nature as being meek and lowly in spirit as the scripture describes him. 

“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, THOUGH HE WAS RICH, YET FOR YOUR SAKES HE BECAME POOR, that ye through his poverty might be rich” 2 Corinthians 8:9. 

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am MEEK and LOWLY in heart: and ye shall find REST unto your souls” Matthew 11:29. 

“Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that BELIEVETH that Jesus is the Son of God? [6] This is He that came by water and blood, even JESUS CHRIST; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. [7] For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, THE WORD, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” 1 John 5:5-7. 

“And THE WORD was MADE FLESH [HUMAN, HUMANITY], and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” John 1:14/Emphasis Mine. 

Our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ knows the essence to be ABASED as He knows also to ABOUND. So, concerning Jesus, we know by the scriptures, that though He was God, He humbled Himself, meaning, He submitted and subjected Himself through obedience to God’s cause for redemption, that He might fulfill purpose. Can you ever imagine that in this generation that’s consummated more of ONLY prosperity message without cause [purpose] in heart and thoughts? For though He’s God’s Son, He didn’t allow that to overrun and overtake the cause and purpose of God for human redemption. Humility and obedience to the cause, for our example in the grace. For to be ABASED is  been humble to God’s Kingdom assignments and not a degradation.  

“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this PURPOSE the Son of God was MANIFESTED, that he might DESTROY the WORKS of the devil” 1 John 3:8. 

“Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this CAUSE came I into the world, that I should BEAR WITNESS unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice” John 18.37. 

“. . . [4] And NO MAN TAKETH THIS HONOUR UNTO HIMSELF, but he that is CALLED of God, as was Aaron. [5] So also Christ GLORIFIED NOT HIMSELF to be made an high priest; but He that said unto him, Thou art my Son, Today have I begotten thee. [6] As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchisedec. [7] Who in the DAYS OF HIS FLESH, when he had offered up PRAYERS and SUPPLICATIONS with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; [8] though he were a Son, yet LEARNED He OBEDIENCE by the things which He SUFFERED; [10] called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec” Hebrews 5:1-10. 

We have to come to the adherence in obeying the instructions of the scriptures in order to be like Jesus, in fulfilling purpose in all situations, in time to be ABASED and in time to ABOUND in the grace. For while you walk in God’s cause for your life, to be ABASED and to ABOUND, makes no difference to your living in the grace; but when you lack the clarity [clear cut] purpose of God for your life, to be ABASED becomes ludicrous, and the mindset to ABOUND will be the only focus. Such act will rob any kingdom Believer of God in Christ Jesus, the spirit of CONTENTMENT in the grace. For the spirit of CONTENTMENT doesn’t mean STAGNANCY, but the ability and capacity to be malleable to any shape still unchanged, without cracking or breaking and fulfilling mission and assignments in the grace. That was the capacity Apostle Paul was ensuring and assuring in Philippians 4: 10-13, 19; the capacity to know that the God of all sufficiency is there at any phase to supply and meet all needs in Christ Jesus, no matter what’s betides us in fulfilling God’s purpose for our living. 

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT, and the SIN WHICH DOTH SO EASILY BESET US, and let us RUN WITH PATIENCE the RACE [PURPOSE, CAUSE] that is SET before us, [2] LOOKING unto Jesus the AUTHOR and FINISHER of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him ENDURED the cross, DESPISING THE SHAME, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” Hebrews 12:1-2. 

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, [2] hath in these last days SPOKEN unto us by his Son, whom he hath APPOINTED heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; [3] who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; [4] being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance OBTAINED a more excellent name than they. [5] For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son?” Hebrews 1:1-5. 

We have to come to this conclusion in knowledge and understanding in the grace, that without Jesus, there was nothing ever made or created that was made and created; and yet, He ABASED [HUMBLED] Himself and submitted unto God in humility. How humble enough are you ready to stoop down [means to condescend, lower oneself, be lowly], that others might rise and find their voice and place in life? 

Beloved reader, there’s more to the cause of God, and it comes through obedience to the faith wherein God has enabled you to be a part of His work on earth. Jesus was humble and obedient, and such spirit of CONTENTMENT makes it easier to be ABASED and to ABOUND, thereby accomplishing the reason for human redemption. 

WILL YOU MAKE A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TODAY TO FOLLOW JESUS EXEMPLARY FOR US? 

Be BLESSED in God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus, in the spirit of CONTENTMENT, to be ABASED and to ABOUND in the grace. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“. . . [5] Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: [6] who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. [9] Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; [11] and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” Philippians 2:1-11. 

“. . . [4] And NO MAN TAKETH THIS HONOUR UNTO HIMSELF, but he that is CALLED of God, as was Aaron. [5] So also Christ GLORIFIED NOT HIMSELF to be made an high priest; but He that said unto him, Thou art my Son, Today have I begotten thee. [6] As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchisedec. [7] Who in the DAYS OF HIS FLESH, when he had offered up PRAYERS and SUPPLICATIONS with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; [8] though he were a Son, yet LEARNED He OBEDIENCE by the things which He SUFFERED; [10] called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec” Hebrews 5:1-10. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI