"From beginning to end, Jesus' life on earth was marked by humility. 'Though he was in the form of God, [he] did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross' (Philippians 2:7-8).
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"An incomparable condescension. The Son of God gave up his seat at the right hand of the Father for a place at the table with sinners and tax collectors. 'The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many' (Mark 10:45). 'Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich' (2 Corinthians 8:9)."
