God Highly Exalted Him

Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Philippians 2:9-16 KJV 

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. 12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) Because our Lord Jesus humbled himself and became obedient unto death, what did Father God do for Him? (v.9)
2) Because Jesus' name is exalted how will things on earth respond to that name? Why? (v.10-11)
3) What does the Apostle Paul encourage believers to do and why? (v.12-13)
4) What else does Paul encourage Christians to do? Why? (v.14-16)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
5) How do you invoke the Name of Jesus in your life?
6) What do you do to work out your salvation?

LIFE LESSONS
7) The Name of Jesus is not an incantation, but invokes the power of God in every situation in which we need His power.
8) The Lord saves us, but we yield to His sanctifying work by yielding to the leading of the Holy Spirit.