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5 Sermon Illustrations on Christ's Humility

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Christ's humility reveals His voluntary descent from divine glory to human frailty, embodying selfless service and sacrifice (Philippians 2:6-8). He stoops to serve and save, showing a king who condescends to care tenderly for His people, emphasizing the power of meekness in redemption.

Jesus, Condescension of

Jesus voluntarily humbled Himself from divine glory to live among sinful humanity.

The most delicate and sensitive being trained from infancy in a home of purity and love, sheltered from the very breath of pollution, and then forced to live in some haunt of iniquity, and among the shameless and abandoned victims of profligacy, would not undergo the transition with such shrinking abhorrence as did Jesus that transition which he voluntarily underwent for us. An angel from the throne of God submitting to dwell amid blasphemies and wailings of hell would not exhibit a spectacle of voluntary humiliation such as His who stooped from infinitude to such a world as this.

— Dr. Caird

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster christ

Jesus, Humiliation of

Jesus humbled Himself to serve, stooping to toil for humanity's salvation.

The founder of the Russian empire left his palace and capital, the seductive pleasures and all the pomp and royalty, to acquire the art of shipbuilding in the dockyard of a Dutch seaport. He learned it, that he might teach it to his subjects: he became a servant, that he might be the better master, and lay in Russia the foundations of a great naval power. Nor has his country been ungrateful: her capital, which bears his name, is adorned with a monument to his memory, massive as his mind; and she has embalmed his deathless name in her heart and in her victories. Yet, little as men think of Jesus, lightly as they esteem him, a far greater sight is here. There, in a king becoming a subject that his subjects might find in him a king, there was much for men; but here there is much both for men and angels to wonder at, and praise through all eternity. The Son of God stoops to toil! — what an amazing scene!

— Dr. Guthrie

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster servanthoodjesus

King, A Condescending

Christ humbly serves His people even after winning them by grace, like a noble king.

Edward, the Black Prince, having conquered and taken prisoner King John of France, nobly conduscended to wait on his royal captive the same night at supper. Christ, having first subdued his people by his grace, waits on them afterwards to the end of their lives. Whitecross.

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster christ likeness

Condescension Of Jesus

Jesus endured a harsh transition from purity to sin’s world with profound humility for us.

The most delicate and sensitive being, trained from infancy in a home of purity and love, sheltered from the very breath of pollution, and then forced to live in some haunt of iniquity, among the shameless and abandoned, would not undergo the transition with such shrinking abhorrence as did Jesus that transition which he underwent for us.

Glory in humility

True glory is found in Christ's humility and lowliness, not in worldly grandeur or display.

When Sapor, the great Persian, jested with a Jew about his Messiah riding upon an ass, he said to him, "I will send Him one of my horses "; to which the Rabbi replied, "You cannot send Him a horse that will be good enough, for that ass is to be of a hundred colors." By that idle tradition the Rabbi showed that he had not caught the idea of the prophet at all, since he could not believe in Messiah's lowliness displayed by his riding upon a common ass. The Rabbinical mind must needs make simplicity mysterious, and turn lowliness into another form of pomp. The very pith of the matter is that our Lord gave Himself no grand airs, but was natural, unaffected, and free from all vainglory. His greatest pomp went no further than riding through Jerusalem upon a colt, the foal of an ass. The Mohammedan turns round with a sneer, and says to the Christian, "Your Master was the rider of an ass; our Mohammed was a rider of a camel; and the camel is by far the superior beast." Just so; and that is where the Mohammedan fails to grasp the prophetic thought: he looks for strength and honor, but Jesus triumphs by weakness and lowliness. How little glory is to be found in the grandeur and display which princes of this world affect! There is far more true glory in condescension than in display.

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