Thursday | 22 May 2025
Emptying is the expression of the Son’s travail, which is enabled by Eternal Spirit from the Holy Spirit. This travail began, before, in the fellowship of Yahweh Elohim, when Yahweh the Son emptied Himself to the bosom of the Father in order to reveal the Father by becoming His Son. Having been brought forth as the Son of God by the word of the Father, He was enabled by the Spirit to further empty Himself to the womb of the virgin Mary and be begotten as the Son of God in the flesh. Through this birth, He was the Firstfruits Son of God in the flesh. The next expression of the Son’s travail was manifest at His baptism, where He was sealed by the Holy Spirit for the work of revealing the Father during His 3½‑year earthly ministry. Joh 14:9‑11.
At the conclusion of this earthly ministry, Jesus testified of His next action of ‘emptying’. This is when He said to His disciples that the hour for His glorification had come. He was going to be glorified as a Firstfruit, a second time. Through this emptying travail, He was going to be brought forth from the dead in a spiritual body as the first Man made in the image and likeness of God. Furthermore, He was going to become the Head of a corporate body, as the Chief Seed in a firstfruits Sheaf containing a great multitude of seed.
Jesus described this work of ‘emptying’ as a seed falling into the ground and dying for the purpose of bringing forth ‘much grain’. Joh 12:23‑24. Significantly, having established this point, Jesus then said, ‘Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? “Father, save Me from this hour”? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.’ Joh 12:27‑28.
Further Study:
Philippians 2
References:
Joh 14:9-11
Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, “Show us the Father”? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.’
Joh 12:23-24
But Jesus answered them, saying, ‘The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.’
Joh 12:27-28
‘Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? “Father, save Me from this hour”? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.’ Then a voice came from heaven, saying, ‘I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.’