Christ's Humiliation: God became Servant

As we begin to follow Christ's humiliation downward in Phil 2:6-8, we first look at Christ, who though in very nature God, condescended to take the nature of a bondservant.

Christ's example as a humble servant is seen in His laying aside His rights and privileges and serving those who deserve none of it. He exemplifies Paul's earlier exhortation in Phil 2:3-4 to lay aside selfish ambition and personal glory in order to consider others and their interests as more important.

Christ's purposeful example of washing His disciples' feet (John 13) is the almost perfect picture of what Paul writes for us in Phil 2:6-7.