{"podcast":{"title":"Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages","slug":"church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054","podcast_index_feed_id":2054,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cf92420/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://www.churchatthecross.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45026216/ab7a5066a9c123c0.jpg","author":"Church at the Cross","episode_count":672,"summary":"Welcome to the weekly podcast of Church at the Cross in Grapevine, TX, led by Pastor JR Vassar. Our mission is to help people and places encounter Jesus. Wherever you are today, our hope is that you would be encouraged, challenged, and inspired to take the next step in your relationship with Jesus. For more info, visit churchatthecross.com!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054"},"episode":{"title":"The Triumph of the Son | Philippians 2:3-11","slug":"the-triumph-of-the-son-philippians-2-3-11","published_at":"2025-12-15T16:33:24+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/the-triumph-of-the-son-philippians-2-3-11","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catc-media1/episodes/The-Triumph-of-the-Son--Philippians-23-11-e3ci8lm","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cf92420/podcast/play/112844918/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-18%2F414655220-44100-2-3c69ac879d8a2190.mp3","summary":"Scripture: Philippians 2:3-11 Who, for us and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father… John 17:5 John 17:24 \"...the supreme mystery with which the gospel confronts us...lies not in the Good Friday message of atonement, nor in the Easter Sunday message of resurrection, but in the Christmas message of Incarnation. The really staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth was God made man - that the second person of the Godhead...took humanity without loss of deity, so that Jesus of Nazareth was as truly and fully divine as he was human. Here are two mysteries for the price of one - the plurality of persons within the unity of God, and the union of Godhead and manhood in the person of Jesus.\" – JI Packer, Knowing God. + The Triumph of the Son's Obedience Luke 2:51 \"What Christ saw in Gethsemane was God with the sword raised. The sight was unbearable. In a few short hours, he would stand before that God answering for the sin of the world: indeed, identified with the sin of the world... Consequently, to quote Luther again, 'No one ever feared death so much as this man.' He feared it because for him it was no sleep, but the wages of sin: death with the sting; death unmodified and unmitigated; death as involving all that sin deserved. He, alone, would face it without a 'covering', providing by his very dying the only covering for the world, but doing so as a holocaust, totally exposed to God's abhorrence of sin. And he would face death without God, deprived of the one solace and the one res…","meta_description":"Scripture: Philippians 2:3-11 Who, for us and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was ma…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2857,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/episodes/the-triumph-of-the-son-philippians-2-3-11/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/the-triumph-of-the-son-philippians-2-3-11.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}