Did Jesus / Yahshua Not Consider It Robbery to Be Equal to Yahweh / God? Philippians 2:6-9

Did Jesus / Yahshua not consider it robbery to be EQUAL to Yahweh /God? Let's Examine Phil 2:6-9 Shane Vaughn ——— First Harvest Ministries International 1 hello there is a lot of people that are confused about a scripture and I want to try to break it down for you uh it is found in the book of Philippians chapter 2 specifically verse 6 through N I want us to look at that because it can be very confusing and let's just read it together real quick and and I'll show you where the confusion is and then I'll break it down for you to help you know how to study it for yourself all right let's go look at it pull my Bible app up and we will read it together Philippians 2 start at verse six talking about Yeshua or Jesus who being in the form of God 2 thought it not robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross wherefore God has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name now the interesting thing about these verses uh we tend to assume this is what it's saying that yua was God in pre-existence and that yua divested himself or poured his godhood out came to Earth and still considered himself equal to God or the father 3 that's what most people think those verses are saying and that verse if not properly understood does say that however thankfully I'm going to show you how that most all modern translations found the error with these verses and thankfully have corrected them now I'm going to show you their Corrections but I'm not going to just do it the easy way once I show you how they've corrected them I'm going to come back and show you why they made the changes that they made so for example The New American Standard Bible uh the new King James translation says he was in the image of God he did not think of 4 equality with God as something to cling to the next verse who although he existed in the human form of God did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasp the Aramaic Bible he who while he was in the form of God did not esteem this as a prize that he was equal to God King James 2000 who being in the form of God thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God who subsisting in the form of God did not anyway on and on and on and on and on all right so I I want you to first of all just let's just try a little common sense to start off with all the way through the New Testament 5 especially the gospels when yua was on the earth he spent his entire Ministry refusing equality with his father he said said and you can find these scriptures on your own he said my father is greater than I am uh somebody called him good one time I think in Luke he said don't call me good the only good one is God all right and on and on and on many times he made those type of um condescending statements about himself so somehow when we get to Philippians chapter 2 all that changes and all of a sudden he did not think it was robbery to be equal to God perish the thoughts it's Tom Foolery and 6 thankfully these modern translations have corrected it but let me show you what led to the correction now before I do Satan hasatan Lucifer was also in the form of God the problem is when you see the word god you automatically think that's referring to Yahweh the Creator but the word God there is the word Theos and we're going to look all this up in a minute and it simply means Divinity or Divine Satan was Divinity Satan was in the form of divinity he was he was um created in the very likeness of God however Satan failed a very important test he thought that it was not robbery to be equal with 7 God after all he was Spirit like God he had eternal life like God so he never thought that there was anything wrong with wanting to be equal to Yahweh as a matter of fact he said I'll Ascend above the Stars of God I'll make the Throne of God mine in other words I'll be equal to God all right that's why he will not be the Son of God he failed to understand the pathway to power is humility okay so keep that in mind as we move forward in this journey so let's do this before we start breaking all the words down for you let's go find the context always go and find the context so let's scroll up a 8 little bit and let's read the context shall we all right let's see uh oh where did my okay I've got to give me a second I got to go back and pull it back up we are let's go Philippians 2 Okay so let's study this together the context and then we'll break down the words makes it a lot easier if there be therefore any consolation in Christ if any comfort of Love Fellowship of the spirit bowels of Mercy fulfill ye my joy that you be likeminded so here we find we start picking up on what the Apostle is saying here he is appealing to the church to be more loving and more kind he said having the same 9 love being on one Accord and in one mind verse three let nothing be done through Strife or what vain Glory okay you'll start getting your context here it's a warning against vanity it is a warning against esteeming yourself above above your other brothers and sisters vain Glory okay but in lowness of Mind in other words in your thinking Let each one esteem the other better than themselves that one verse gives you the context but let's keep reading look not every man after just his own things but every man also on the things of others let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus all 10 right let's pause there what is our context very simple don't be vain don't think yourself higher than your brother or sister on and on and on and then he says let the mind that was in Christ be in you but I want you to use your common sense there if the next verse says what we always thought it said that Christ didn't think there was anything wrong with claiming equality with God then how would that fit into the first four verses that's telling you to never think yourself uh higher than you ought to in other words if you're trying to teach me a lesson not to think of myself more than I ought 11 to why would you say let the mind of Christ be in me and then tell me in the next verse that Christ had no worries about considering himself equal with God that is totally a dichotomous juxtaposition I mean you've totally changed the concept but alas we're going to be fine because when we get to verse five let this mind be in you that was in Yeshua now when we get to verse six who being in the form of God so first of all let's go and just the word form is morphe okay let's see what morphe means just to get a general consensus all right uh basically being in the nature of God in the shape of 12 God or the appearance of God okay got it so we know what morphe means now so let's go see what God means in the Greek it is Theos a deity a supreme Divinity God God or Godly or God word a God or a goddess notice it's not capital G a general name of deities or divinities and then look here it refers to the things of God not just God himself his counsels his interest things that are due to him whatever can in any respect be likened unto God or resemble him in any way God's representative or his proxy or his vice Regent a magistrate or a judge is all God all right so yua was the representative of 13 God on Earth so he was the appearance of a representative of God but here's something you need to keep in mind the Apostle is writing this about 60 years after Christ CHR is already in heaven at the right hand of Yahweh as Divi he is a Divine Divinity at that moment so he's writing he says that uh let's back up where we started now who being in the form of God in other words be like Yeshua who right now is sitting at the right hand of God he is divine he is he is in the form now of divinity he's no longer in human form he is now in his Divine form or his Divine appearance sitting at yahweh's 14 right hand but this is where it gets tricky thought it not robbery to be equal with God first of all it's a Blasphemous statement for a human to be equal to Almighty Yahweh surely that's not what he means and it's not so the problem comes in right here with one word the word robbery if you'll notice in the other translations that I read earlier they've moved the word robbery completely why it should never have been translated as robbery the Greek word is haragos let's look at it now before we look at the meaning of harpagos let's click right here and check the root word of harpagos just to get 15 a feel of the the meaning of the whole word the root word is Harpo just a little different and what does it mean to seize or carry off by force all right keep that in your mind what did Satan say he was going to do Seize the Throne of God by force so this is actually a comparison between Satan and yua one failed the test one pass the test so we already see look at the meaning to pluck to pull to take by force all right now let's go back and let's get the meaning of the word harpagos which harpago was the root of there it is the act of seizing a thing seized or stolen anything to be seized upon 16 to held fast to be retained to plunder now why is this so very important if you take the word robbery out and you see it as seizing taking okay keep that in your mind now let's read it again all right let's read the verse again and you're going to begin to see an entire different meaning so let's go back to the scripture Philippians 2 and 6 who being in the appearance of divinity now sitting at the right hand of God he says he did not get there at the right hand of God by thinking that he could seize that position like Satan tried to do here's what he said thought it not in other words never 17 did it cross his mind to seize or claim equality with Yahweh okay that never crossed his mind he never got his position position by thinking he was equal no no no he had to earn it just like you will okay let's keep reading but he made himself of no reputation yua was born to be a what a king that was the whole purpose of his birth but and to to get on the throne he was born to have a throne his prom his father promised him the nations of the world that was his reputation he was born to be the king of kings all right but to get there he had to be willing from his birth to have no reputation 18 and to become a servant and that's why he was made in the likeness of men in the very Human family he was born to be a servant before he would be a king verse number eight and he was found in the fashion of a man he was not originally found in the appearance of divinity like he has now then he was in the fashion of a human he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross so he was so now how humble would it have been for him to think it was not robbery to be equal with God how would that be humility you can't take that one verse and desecrate the meaning of the 19 whole chapter no no no no no no it never crossed his mind to claim equality or to seize equality with Yahweh so what did he do as a human what did he do he humbled himself he never said hey I was born to be a king and that's what he went after he went after humility he learned what Satan never learned that the pathway to the throne is through the ministry of a servant yua taught that he saidy one of you that would be a ruler must first become a what a servant do you see it all clicking together all lining up perfectly and it keeps the gospel pure and simple now verse n says wherefore or in 20 other words because of this because it never crossed his mind to seize that equality to seize that Divinity he chose to do it the way of the Cross and because of that Yahweh has highly exalted him now here's a question if he was already equal with Yahweh then why would Yahweh have to highly exalt him okay keep that in mind and he's given him a name which is now above every other name why because he earned it because he went the path of a servant and he earned it so the other translations we'll look at them again have corrected it thankfully sorry wrong one who although he exist in the form of 21 God did not regard equality with God as something to grasp or the first one they think of equality with God is something to cling the Aramaic Bible while in the form of God he did not esteem this as a prize that he was equal to God on and on and on you can read so I hope that helps you understand that very confusing verse of scripture thank you for watching