Do You Know How Poor You Are? Christ Was Rich and Made Poor Like You! You Can Have His Riches Eternally by Repentance and Faith! A Point to Ponder . . .

Do You Know How Poor You Are? Christ Was Rich and Made Poor Like You! You Can Have His Riches Eternally by Repentance and Faith! A Point to Ponder . . .

A Devotional Thought for Friday April 17, 2425

From the Pen of Baptist Pastor John Bunyan

Author of Pilgrim's Progress

Jesus Became Poor for Us

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“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich”

2 Corinthians 8: 9.

To inquire into this grace, this condescending grace of Christ, by searching out how rich Jesus Christ was; then how poor he made himself that we through his poverty might have the riches of salvation.

How rich was Jesus Christ? To which I answer—Generally and Particularly:

Generally:

He was rich as the Father— “All things that the Father hath,” saith he, “are mine.” Jesus Christ is the Lord of all, God over all, blessed forever. “He thought it not robbery to be equal with God,” being naturally and eternally God, as the Father, but of his Godhead he could not strip himself (John 10: 30; 16: 15; Acts 10: 36; Philippians 2: 6; Romans 9: 4-5).

Particularly:

Jesus Christ had glory with the Father; yea, a manifold glory with him [from] which he stripped himself.

1. He had the glory of dominion; he was Lord of all the creatures; they were under him upon a double account—(a) as he was their Creator (Colossians 1: 16); (b) as he was made the heir of God (Hebrews 1: 2).

2. Therefore the glory of worship, reverence, and fear from all creatures, was due unto him. The worship, obedience, subjection, and service of angels were due unto him. The fear, honor, and glory of kings, and princes, and judges of the earth were due unto him (Psalm 148).

3. The glory of the heavens themselves was due unto him; in a word, heaven and earth were his.

4. But above all, the glory of communion with his Father was his. I say; the glory of that unspeakable communion that he had with the Father before his incarnation, which alone was worth ten thousand worlds, that was ever his.