We've all seen it; either in person or on a screen. Two people square off to fist-fight. As tensions amp up jackets get thrown down. After the fight the jackets are put back on.
This is a picture of Christ's incarnation. Our Lord Jesus was sent to earth to fight for our salvation. Only as a true man with a real body and reasonable soul could Christ defeat the devil for us. In his humiliation Christ laid aside the glory of the godhead. Jesus didn't cast off deity. But his divine nature never compensated for his human weakness.
In the state of his exaltation Christ takes up again, as it were, the robe of glory which he had laid aside. He had won the fight! Near the end of his suffering Christ prayed, "And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was" (John 17:5).
Christ's exaltation is the reversal of his humiliation in four stages.
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