Philippians 2:8 – Three Minute Bible

July 30, 2025July 30, 2025

Philippians 2:8c – Life and Death

… even death on a cross!

Summary: The challenge of understanding who Jesus is continues to haunt us as we read more of Paul’s words. It is one thing to jump on a grenade to save your friends; it is entirely something else to allow yourself to be flayed alive and hung on a wooden cross until dead.

In our last meditation, “Our Selfless God,” we stumbled across what the Bible calls the “stumbling stone.”* In our version of the “stumbling stone,” we realized:

July 29, 2025July 30, 2025

Philippians 2:8b – Our Selfless God

Silhouette of Jesus in a garden (Pixabay)

… he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—

Summary: Examining Christ’s humility and obedience opens a fascinating line of inquiry into our Lord’s personality and the world we live in.

Arrogance is the opposite of humility.

Another way of putting it is that arrogance is “self-centered,” while humility is not.

July 28, 2025July 29, 2025

Philippians 2:8a – Two Things

A picture of a leaf with two drops of water on it (Pixabay)

And being found in appearance as a man…

Summary: Paul is walking us through what it means to think like Jesus. His understanding of the Lord is reflected in the clarity of his description of what sets Jesus apart.

Paul is in the middle of describing the mindset of Jesus Christ.

Whatever you might think of Jesus, it seems obvious he was in a pickle. Here he was, the one through whom all things were made (John 1:3), reduced to being a social outcast in his own creation. (His disciple, Nathanael, when he found out Jesus was from Nazareth, said: “Can anything good come from there?” — John 1:46).