town called Nazareth. Then wasn’t Jesus in the line of David? Oh, yes. David was anointed king, but his father Jesse was a farmer in Bethlehem, and his line had dropped back to the place of a peasant. Our Lord was born into a peasant family. “He took upon him the form of a servant.” The fourth step in His humiliation is this: “And was made in the likeness of men.” For years this did not impress me at all, because I am a man and I like being a man. I couldn’t see that being a man was a humiliation.