A practical teaching on Philippians 2:5–11 and the debated doctrine of kenosis (“He made himself nothing”), this Christology lesson explains what Christ’s “emptying” does not mean (no loss of deity, no partial divinity, no inability to exercise divine power) and argues it means Christ’s humble, voluntary restraint—not that He could not, but that He would not independently exercise His divine privileges. Drawing on parallel texts (John 14; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 1; 2 Corinthians 8:9; Isaiah 53; John 17; Mark 10:45), it highlights Christ’s self-imposed humiliation—adding true humanity for our salvation—while maintaining the hypostatic union (100% God, 100% man), clarifies that sonship is eternal and not kenosis, and recommends Gordon Fee’s Pauline Christology for further study.