ADAM AND CHRIST: COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
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ADAM
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CHRIST
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Made in the Divine image
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Is the form and very Essence of God
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Thought it a prize to be grasped at to be as God
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Thought it not a prize to be grasped at to be as God
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Aspired to a reputation
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Made Himself of no reputation
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Spurned the role of God's Servant
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Took upon Hismself the form of a bondservant (slave).
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Seeking to be like God
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Coming in the likeness of Men
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And being made a man (of dust,now doomed)
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And being found in appearance of a man (Romans 8:3)
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He exalted himself
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He humbled Himself
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And became disobedient unto death
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And became obedient to the point of death
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He was condemned and disgraced
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God highly exhalted Him and gave Him the Name and position of Lord.
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