What did Jesus give up?

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What’s Your Question? for March 11, ‘09

Jesus prayed, “And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with THE GLORY which I had with You before the world was” (Jn. 17:5). Some believe that Jesus gave up His deity when He came to earth. No! He gave up the glory of heaven. Paul said Christ “being in the form of God” took the “form of a servant” (Phil. 2:6,7). He was everything that made God God, and everything that made a servant a servant! He gave up the glory of heaven to accomplish our redemption. He was “Immanuel…God with us” (Mt. 1:23). He had to become “partaker of flesh and blood” to be a sacrifice (Heb. 2:14). The Word was God and man (Jn. 1:1,14). He claimed to be “I Am” (Jn. 8:58), because “in Him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Col. 2:9 RSV).