Philippians 2:5-8

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Php 2:4–8.

1. Why would God choose to come to earth?

I think it is important to look at key parts of these verses specifically in 7 and 8. God separated everything from who he is. and became a man and was born in the likeness of men. in the form of a servant?

what is the lesson here? why a servant?

I think what we need to consider here is God came here to live life at the bottom of the burial. God could have chosen to be born into a wealthy family but he did not.

What happen God chose Mary to be the mother of Jesus. Matt 1:18 explains that. God chose a poor young woman to carry the most precise and Godly being to ever walk on earth. I couldn't imagine what was going through Mary's or even Josephs's minds that they were dispatched to protect the king of kings, the Lord of Lords while he was a child. It minds boggling, right?

But here's the reality I think it is a fair assumption to think that God wanted to come to earth as the lowest of the low so that the people of God could relate to God. When Jesus was born he was in fact just as vulnerable to anything that we face today. We see that clearly in Matt 27 at the cross when he died.

I think it is important to see how much God loves the creation. God sent the most precious thing His Son to save us that over many years have done nothing right but to portray the Creator of us(humanity) over and over again. We all have heard the term by the Grace of God. God could have wiped out the whole earth and just started from scratch or even nothing.

Son didn’t resist the call; he didn’t fight for what was rightly his. He didn’t negotiate the terms, and he didn’t counter with a list of demands.

2. What would our future look like without the birth of Christ?

Well for one we would be under the Mosaic covenant which is the law of Moses

We should consider this.

Jesus “did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.” You and I should be thinking right now, “Praise God, praise God, praise God that he didn’t!” If Jesus had wrapped his fists around his rightful position of absolute equality with God, you and I, as sinners, would be without hope in life and in death. If Jesus hadn’t been willing to make the earth his destination, we would have no hope whatsoever of the new heavens and the new earth being our final destination.

This is what we should be celebrating not just during the Christmas season but every single day of our lives. This willingness of the One who was God Almighty to leave the splendor of glory, to take on the normal limits and frailty of the human body, and to endure the daily realities of what it means to live in a terribly broken world is the definition of love.

3. It’s important to ask ourselves what fueled the Messiah’s earth-destination willingness.

I think it's important to maybe see it this way Jesus did what he did not because of something special he saw in us, but because of something holy and pure, that was inside him. The Christmas narrative simply removes from every one of us any reason for boasting. There was not and is not one person who has any ability to earn or deserve the greatest gift that was ever given.

Philippians 2 points us to the one and only thing that would ever make God willing to come to earth to rescue people who were more committed to worshiping themselves than worshiping him. In three words Paul tells us what motivated Jesus’s journey from glory to earth: “he humbled himself.”

You and I don’t really expect powerful leaders to be humble. We expect a bit of arrogant swagger. We expect some boasting of accomplishments and enjoyment of the results of acquiring power. But the Lord of glory didn’t choose to bask in his glory; instead, he emptied himself and took the form of not just a man, but of a lowly servant man. What humility! The Creator took on the body of a created man. The giver of the law submitted himself to the law.

What humility! The King of kings placed himself under the rule of human kings. The One who owns everything was willing to live with virtually nothing. The One who is worthy of human worship willingly exposed himself to human rejection. What amazing humility!

Jesus’s humility is our hope. His willingness to leave glory unleashed glory on us and guaranteed that we would live with him in glory forever. He made this broken world his destination so that our destination would be a place where every form of brokenness has ended, and where we would live with him in complete peace and harmony that will never end. But the humility of Jesus didn’t end with his birth; it shaped the way he lived. He lived a humble, homeless life of daily service.

The One whom creation was made to serve came not to be served, but to serve. It would have taken great humility for Jesus to leave his rightful place as God and live a lavishly rich life on earth because no human wealth or power could compare with his rightful place. But he willingly emptied himself of all those rights and privileges, because he didn’t come for himself—he came for us. But his humility didn’t even end with his humble servant’s life: Jesus’s humility carried him to the cross. Without words or actions in his own defense, he humbly became the final sacrificial lamb, dying so that we would live.

So, this Christmas remember that what you celebrate is a destination story. Jesus left what was his right, to guarantee for us a place that is not our right but is a gift from his humble hands.