Tune in as Pastor Leighton preaches from Mark 13, the Olivet Discourse, this morning:
“Much has been said about the seeming contradiction put forward here: that only the father knows when he will send the son. Is Jesus not fully God? How then could he not know what he, in fact, does know? The false teaching of kenosis asserts that Jesus gave up his divine powers when he came to earth as helpless babe. That he emptied himself of his glory and omniscience and might. Taking Philippians 2:6-7 to a grotesque extreme. (Philippians 2:6-7 [Jesus] who, though he was in the form of God, 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.)…The truth is, these verses show how Jesus was willing to be emptied of his very life, in total obedience to the Father through the power of the Holy Spirit. But they never deny his full humanity nor his full deity. Some translations say he laid aside his might and glory through the incarnation. But remember the might of his miracles and how he did reveal his glory in specific moments such as the transfiguration or when he raised Lazarus from the dead…”