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Speaker: When it comes to humility, we can
choose to be humble or we can be humbled.

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We can choose to be humble
or we can be humbled.

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I often find myself humbled
in, in many ways, in this life.

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For example, when I, I travel, I get
in a plane and I fly over the, the,

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the farmlands and over the cities and,
and the crop circles not made by UFOs.

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In case you haven't been listening
with the the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Uh, if you are curious about that, you
should listen to the Daily Bible podcast.

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We talk about things like
aliens and UFOs in the Bible.

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Um, but, but flying over all of that
space, all of these people, and I

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don't know any of them, even sometimes
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Texas and I'm, I'm driving past other
cars and I'm driving past businesses,

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and I'm driving past neighborhoods,
and I'm driving past schools, and

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I just realized I don't know any of
these people and they don't know me.

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It's humbling to think about how
small we are in situations like that.

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I remember back in high school, I was
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and I thought pretty highly of myself.

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I was like, look at me, I still got it.

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And then my coach said, burner, you're on
the team because you're a good encourager.

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AKA, here's your spot on the bench.

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I was humbled in in, uh,
college as a freshman.

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I took Greek one and they tell you if
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be dangerous and enough to commit heresy.

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So I went back to take Greek
two and I walked in not having.

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Looked at my Greek all summer and
my Greek prof said, if, if you have

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not looked at your Greek all summer,
you need to drop my class right now.

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So I humbly got up and went to drop his
class, uh, in marriage and parenting.

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I can't tell you the number of times I've
been humbled just by my own sin, my own

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shortcomings, the way I failed my wife
sometimes the way my, I fail my kids.

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And, and, and I'm humbled by those things.

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But Peter's gonna tell us this morning,
he's gonna tell you and me this morning.

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That, that we as believers in Jesus can
actually choose humility instead of being

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humbled, and that that is far better.

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As believers, as Christians, we
are in dwelled by the Holy Spirit

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and the Holy Spirit enables us to
be able to choose to be humble.

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Something that certainly doesn't
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should start by asking ourselves
the question, what is humility?

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It's a word that we throw around.

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It's a word that sounds good.

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It's a word the world understands as well.

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But what is humility?

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Somebody once said, humility is
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but thinking of yourself less.

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You can also think of humility as
a relational term in that it has to

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do with your relationship to God and
your relationship to other people.

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Tom Shriner said this about humility.

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Humility is the oil that
allows relationships in the

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church to want to run smoothly.

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Humility is the oil that
allows relationships in

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the church to run smoothly.

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And Philippians the apostle
Paul, tells us that Jesus humbled

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himself, he humbled himself.

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In fact, Paul says, to the point
of death, even death on a cross.

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So as we consider humility, it's, it's
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Jesus, and it's one that you and I are
called to emulate, to model, to imitate.

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In fact, if, if Jesus humbled
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death on a cross, I think we could
conclude that humility is not just.

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Something a Christian should have, but
a, a trait that a Christian must have.

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If I want to be like Jesus and Jesus
demonstrated humility, then I should

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be one that also lives in humility.

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In fact, it's not only imperative
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for every single person that's
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Right after talking about how Jesus
humbled himself to the point of death,

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even death on a cross, the apostle Paul
goes on to say this, that there will come

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a day when Jesus will be exalted and at
the name of Jesus, every knee will bow

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and every tongue will confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father.

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And so at some point in time,
everyone's gonna be humbled by God.

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As Christians, we have the opportunity
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humble rather than to be humbled.

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And that is far better for us to
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to be humbled when it's too late.

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Take your Bibles and open up
to one Peter, chapter five.

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We're gonna be in verses five through
seven today, verses five through seven.

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One Peter chapter five, Peter
begins and he's continuing from

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our, our thought last week.

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We talked about what it looks like
to be a pastor who pastors last week.

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And so he is now, uh, uh, continuing
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first part of our verse here.

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He says this, likewise, you who are
younger be subject to the elders.

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Elders.

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There, I think is a reference back to the
pastors, the overseers, the elders, like

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we talked about last week, one office,
three different words that the Bible uses.

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So Peter's writing to this church and he's
telling those in the church, especially

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the younger ones in the church, Hey,
you need to be subject to the pastors

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in the elders, probably because those
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to subject themselves to authority than
those who have lived a little while.

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And so Peter's implication here is not
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to be sub subject to the elders, but
rather, hey, you who are, are young.

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Make sure that you're following the lead
of the elders that God has given to you.

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It's a, a posture of humility that
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not just the, the young people in the
church, but everybody in the church.

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And that's where he goes on and he
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you with humility toward one another.

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For God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.

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Clothe yourselves, all of you,
with humility towards one another.

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It could be argued that two of
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any sermon are the introduction.

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In the conclusion.

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In the introduction, my job is, is to
give you a reason to listen, to hook you.

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Right?

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So hopefully that's happened this
morning that you're listening 'cause

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you're thinking, okay, if humility is
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I, I wanna know what that looks like.

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I wanna know why.

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I wanna know how, but the
conclusion is equally important.

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Whether it's a sermon or a letter
that you receive or a book that you're

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reading, because the conclusion is,
is the, the parting words from the

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preacher or the author or the director,
and, and those parting words are more

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often than not, those are the ones that
are gonna stick with you when you go.

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And so it's fascinating to me that,
that Peter chooses in a letter that he's

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talked about so many amazing things.

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Think back to the introduction
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inheritance that's to be ours, this
imperishable unfading inheritance.

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That's, that's being prepared for us.

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That God is guarding us by power
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to be revealed in the last time.

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Think about the fact that Peter
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as a, a living temple for the Lord
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by the master builder, by God, and,
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returns back to is this idea, hey.

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Be humble with each other.

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Be humble with each other.

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Peter's talked about humility
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He talked about it in verse 22.

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He says, having purified your souls
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a sincere, brotherly love, love one
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I, I'm gonna find it hard to,
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humble towards that person.

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One Peter four, eight.

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Above all.

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Keep loving one another earnestly.

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Since love covers a multitude
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humility towards one another.

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That's not just loving, but that's
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I'm gonna cover that sin
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That requires a humility.

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And then in one Peter three,
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Here he says, finally, all of you have
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love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

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So when Peter says, clothe
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saying, clothe yourselves with.

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Humble mindedness.

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It has to do with our, our mindset,
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In fact, right after this, he's
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that's next week, be sober minded.

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And, and so our humility begins with
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it boils down how we think about our
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about our relationship with each other.

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And Peter says, we need to clothe
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The word there, it refers to enveloping
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in a garment, and fascinating.

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And, and we have to do that
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intentionality because that, that
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In fact, we wake up not clothed
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the vestiges of the old man who
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and yet he still lingers until the
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And so to be intentional about
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Peter commands it, clothe ourselves.

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We have to wrap ourselves in humility.

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I don't know for sure because it doesn't
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have something in, in his mind here.

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Think back to the, the, the passion week
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The, the disciples think that
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king, to establish the Kingdom.

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King.

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David is, is in the back of
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They're thinking Jesus is
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he's the promise Messiah.

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And then all of a sudden Jesus
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Uh, why don't you go prepare a,
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This is how you'll find the room.

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And, and so the disciples are great.

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They're not thinking anything
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So they, they go and they prepare
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and the, the disciples, they recline
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this time to eat the meal together.

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And maybe some of the disciples
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minds, oh, you know what?

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We didn't have the, the household
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But that's okay.

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That's okay.

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You know what?

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We're gonna have plenty of servants.

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Jesus is on the way to the throne.

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Everything's gonna be great.

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He's the Messiah, he's the king.

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He gets up.

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He takes off his outer garment, and
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a servant, and he washes their feet.

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Clothe yourself.

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Wrap yourself in humility, all
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Again, it doesn't happen naturally, but
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We have to be humble towards one another.

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Peter's giving the precious real estate
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to this church, at least in this letter,
to say to them, again, be humble.

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Why?

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Why?

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One of the reasons is given for us.

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In the text, he says, because God opposes
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The grace of God is far more than
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The grace of God is his favor.

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The grace of God is his
kindness towards you.

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The grace of God, I would even say is,
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his happiness, if I can make it that way.

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Point number one, if you're taking
notes is this, choose humility

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because it makes God happy.

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Choose humility because it makes
God happy and, and maybe I could

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alter this statement because God is
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So you are not fixing a bad
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That's not what I'm trying to imply.

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But because God is all of his
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same time, 'cause he never changes.

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So he is holy.

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He is wrathful, he is justice.

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He is mercy.

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He is grace.

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He is anger, he is love.

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He's kindness.

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He's happiness because he's all
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This is more about what
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your relationship with God?

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Is the way that you're living drawing his
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So that's what I mean when
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Choose humility rather,
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You will experience his
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I have these horribly ugly pajama
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They're, they're black and gray, and
if I don't even know what the shapes

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are on them, they may be braille.

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I have no idea what these things are.

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They're just ugly.

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And my favorite thing is now my
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when they're seen with them.

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So my, my twins will get up in
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and we do donuts on Saturdays
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And it's a common grace and don't,
you don't need to send me the emails.

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Um, we don't do it every day.

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It's just on Saturdays.

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Um, but we, we, we love to do
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it's cheaper than the donut shops.

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So they're like, dad, are we doing donuts?

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Yep, we're doing donuts.

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And then they look at me and they see
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like, dad, are you gonna change?

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And I'm like, why?

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Well, because we don't wanna be
seen with you in those pants.

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So I change in order in part
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I don't wanna embarrass them.

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When you choose humility,
it makes God happy.

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Not because otherwise it
would embarrass him, but even

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worse it would make him angry.

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Peter says, God opposes the proud.

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He opposes the proud, but gives
grace to the humble to oppose it.

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It it appears in James four six as
well says, but he gives more grace.

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Therefore it says God opposes the
proud, but gives grace to the humble.

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To oppose is to resist.

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And, and there it may be that
this is thinking about eternity.

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That that God's opposition to
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through their eternal damnation.

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And I would say yes.

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I, I do believe that that's
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But I don't think it's just eternity.

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And I think this is also
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it's relevant for believers.

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We need to take this warning as well that
that if we are prideful as believers, that

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God is going to be in opposition to us.

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Certainly we don't want that.

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Even if our eternity is secure in
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opposition in the here and now.

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So God opposes the proud, but gives
grace to the humble again, his

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favor that he gives to the humble.

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We'll get to that in just a second.

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Uh, but think more with me here.

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This is a quote from the step two agent.

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The step two agent is the Greek
translation of the Old Testament.

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So the Jesus and the Apostles,
this was their Old Testament Bible.

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This is what they quoted
from more often than not.

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And uh, and this is what they, they cite,
and that's why Peter goes to it so often.

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And so the Tugen, the Greek translation
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So it's a translation.

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Well, Proverbs 3 34, in the, he in
the, the Greek translation of it

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does say just this, God opposes the
proud, but gives grace to the humble.

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If you look it up in your English standard
version, which is what we use here and

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what what we preach from here, it's
gonna read this toward the Scorners.

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God is scornful, but to
the humble, he gives favor.

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Similar idea there.

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God opposes the prophet, gives grace to
the, to the humble toward the scorners.

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He's scornful, but to the
humble, he gives favor.

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The ESV is based on that,
the Hebrew text there.

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And I think that's helpful for us
because it reminds us that what this

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means when it says God opposed, the
proud is God is gonna mock the mocker.

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God is gonna be scornful to the one
that scorns him or his followers.

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And so this is the, the warning
that that Peter is providing here.

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Uh, that is one that, that we should
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okay, what would pride look like
then as a follower of Jesus, if I

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wanna be humble because I'd rather
have God's favor than his opposition,

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then I wanna make sure that I know
what pride actually would look like.

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This isn't an exhaustive list, but
if you wanna put yourself in the

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crosshairs of God's displeasure, and
I assume none of us in this room would

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would say, yeah, sign me up for that.

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This is what that might look like.

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It could look like just going
through the motions at church.

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You're not here because you
want to worship the Lord.

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You're here because you feel obligated.

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You're here because you're
worried about appearances.

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Because if you don't show up, then
maybe people will think less of you.

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You're here because your spouse has
nagged you enough to get you here.

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You're here because you have a twisted
view of, of Christian karma, which

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isn't a thing, and you think, well,
if I show up at church, then maybe

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this business meeting that I'm gonna
have this week is gonna go well.

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That's, that's a prideful
reason to, to show up at Church.

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Pride in a Christian's life also might
look like going to the Lord only when you

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need something from him and your prayer
life is, is dry until you need that thing.

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Lord, I, I need this promotion at work.

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Lord, the bills are, are, are mounting
and we don't have a way to pay it.

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Lord, my, my, my child is, is sick
when my marriage is, is hard right now.

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Lord, I, I need something from
you, but outside of that, you're

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not really going to him again.

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That's a prideful heart.

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It's not a humble heart recognizing that
we need everything from the Lord and

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he has given us so much to begin with.

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Another expression of, of pride
in a Christian's life might be

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harboring unconfessed and unrepentant
sin, thinking that it's okay.

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I, I'll deal with that later.

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I know it's sin.

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I know Jesus died for my sins, but you
know, it's, it's, it's just the one thing

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that I have and I'll get rid of it later.

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That's such a, a prideful
heart before God.

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Instead of being humble and broken
and contrite over our sinfulness and

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saying, God my sin, this sin that I'm
holding onto that I love cost you, Jesus.

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You put Jesus to death
because of this sin.

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Pridefulness in a Christian's heart
also might look like planning to sin.

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Thinking about that sin that you love
and thinking about, when's the next

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time I'm gonna be able to do that?

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That's an arrogance before the God of,
um, who is omniscient, that knows the

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thoughts of your hearts, that knows a
word before it's even on your tongue.

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Pride in your Christian's heart might look
like planning without seeking his will.

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We're gonna be studying James in the the
fall together and James says, you who

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say, Hey, today or tomorrow, we're gonna
go do this and that and the other thing.

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Hey, you better say instead,
if the Lord wills, then we're

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gonna go do those things.

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And so pridefulness in a Christian's
heart forgets that he is the sovereign

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God who ordains our steps and we need
to seek his wisdom and his guidance.

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A prideful Christian May also
be an L-shaped Amen Christian.

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And what we mean by that, and our
sending pastor used to say, this is you.

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You're listening to a sermon.

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You're like, come on this,
this, this works because this

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person over here needs it.

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And so you've got the, the L-shaped there.

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Instead of listening,
saying, man, I need this.

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A prideful Christian is steeped in
self-righteousness and self dependence.

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He says, man, my, my track
record is so impressive.

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Look at what I've done for the
Lord, or self-reliance saying,

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I, I, I don't need to pray.

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I don't need to ask the Lord for anything.

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I can figure my way out of this.

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The prideful heart is one
steeped in unforgiveness as well.

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It's a heart that says, yeah, I
know what God has forgiven me of,

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but I can't forgive this person
over here, what they've done to me.

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A prideful heart is a legalistic heart
as well, who says, if you wanna be

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as good of a Christian as I am, you
need to do this, this, this, and this.

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Those are all things that draw the
opposition of God, the ire of God that put

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you in the crosshairs of his displeasure.

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And you can't expect to, to
get away with a prideful spirit

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because God opposes the proud.

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That's what the, the scriptures say to us.

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God opposes the, I mean,
it's just right there.

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It's not just me saying this as
a pastor saying, Hey, be humble

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because God opposes the proud It's,
it's God's word saying, God opposes.

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Anytime we read those two words, it
should send a shiver down our spies to

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say, I don't want God to oppose me ever.

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And so we can't expect to get away with
a prideful spirit because God opposes

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the proud, and that might look like
his hand of discipline in your life.

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The Lord disciplines his children
like a father, disciplines his

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children because he loves you.

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And so maybe God's gonna go after
pride in your heart by bringing

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discipline into your life.

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Maybe God's gonna go after pride in
your heart because you are going to

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feel that your faith just dries up.

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You're gonna feel a distance from him.

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You're gonna feel like your
Christianity is sterile.

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It's gonna feel like going through
the motions because God's after

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that pridefulness in your heart.

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The worst case is you may be self-deceived
thinking that you're saved when you're

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not saved, and God may fully turn
you over to your pride and just say,

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if you want yourself, your agenda,
your pleasures, then fine have them.

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God opposes the proud, but
gives grace to the humble shows.

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Favor kindness to the humble.

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Uh, uh, uh, if we talked about what
pride looks like in a believer's

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life, let's do the same thing for what
humility can look like in our lives.

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I, if I wanna make God happy
with my life and how I live in

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humility, what does that look like?

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Uh, a few suggestions here.

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Number one, a, a consistent
awareness of your need for

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him in relationship with him.

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You desire to be in the word of God.

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You desire to pray, not because
you have a checklist of things

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to do, but because you love him.

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And humbly, you wanna come and sit before
his word and hear from him in his word.

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And humbly you wanna come before him
and pray and praise him and give him

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thanks for what he's done in your life.

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And so to be in the word, and, and,
and to pray, a humble Christian is also

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one who has prayers that are marked
by more adoration in Thanksgiving

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than a laundry list of your complaints
and, and, and supplications.

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You're gonna spend time just praising
God in prayer, saying, God, you are good.

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You are holy, you're powerful.

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You're kind, you're the provider.

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Even when you don't always see
all of those things showing up

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in your life, you're going to
acknowledge that he is those things.

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You're gonna humbly sit before him
in, in adoration also Thanksgiving.

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You're gonna say, God, thank you for
the blessings that are in my life.

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Even in those times where you are
sitting there saying, I've got this

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trial that I'm walking through, the,
the, the humble heart looks for the

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good things God has done and says, God,
I wanna return thanks to you because

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that's gonna get your, your favor.

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You're pleased when I
am thankful before you.

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A humble Christian also keeps
short accounts with God.

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You're not going to to let
sin remain in in your life.

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You're not gonna harbor unconfessed sin.

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You're gonna be like King David.

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You're gonna say, Lord, shake me
out and get the pocket lit of sin

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outta my life, wherever it is.

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I may not even know it's there,
but I want to know 'cause I want

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to keep short accounts with you.

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I wanna confess and repent from my sin.

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The humble Christian looks to grow
with every interaction with God's word.

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Whether that's a sermon or a podcast
or your time in the word during the

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Daily Bible podcast or whatever it is
you're looking to grow every single

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time you open God's word, Lord, shape
me by your spirit dwelling within me.

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Use the word of God as the medium
to make me more like Jesus.

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The humble Christian looks to
serve others and bless others.

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I would say even daily.

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And how can I serve another believer?

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How can I serve somebody at my workplace?

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How can I serve my family?

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How can I bless them?

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The humble Christian, pray for others.

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The humble Christian forgives others.

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Because they're aware of how much they've
been forgiven, and the humble Christian

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shares the Gospel with others as well.

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Again, this is a humility that's
gonna draw the favor of God.

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He's gonna be pleased with you.

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You will know his happiness,
you will know his favor.

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I want you to think about two passages.

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I I, I mentioned humility is
about our relationship, both

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with God and with other people.

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And so I want you to consider two
passages where we see this at work.

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The first is Luke 18, 10 through 13.

449
00:22:07,125 --> 00:22:08,565
This is a parable that Jesus tells.

450
00:22:09,090 --> 00:22:12,420
And so it says here, it says, two
men went up into the temple to pray.

451
00:22:12,870 --> 00:22:15,960
One a Pharisee and the other,
a tax collector, the Pharisee

452
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:17,250
standing by himself prayed.

453
00:22:17,250 --> 00:22:21,330
Thus, God, I thank you that I'm
not like other men, extortioners

454
00:22:21,330 --> 00:22:24,780
and unjust and adulterers, or
even like this tax collector.

455
00:22:25,410 --> 00:22:26,340
Stop there for a second.

456
00:22:26,820 --> 00:22:28,080
Think about that list
of things that I said.

457
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,090
This is what a, a prideful
person looks like.

458
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,320
You see in the the Pharisee, the
self-reliance and the self-righteousness,

459
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,620
and you see that, that he's more impressed
with himself than he is with God.

460
00:22:38,580 --> 00:22:40,710
Even to the point of saying,
God, I'm, I'm so thankful I'm

461
00:22:40,710 --> 00:22:42,540
not like this guy over here.

462
00:22:43,830 --> 00:22:48,300
Remember, pride exposes a a,
a wrong relationship with God.

463
00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:53,280
Humility exposes a right relationship
with God, and so the, the tax, the,

464
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,500
the Pharisees getting it wrong, and
you would expect the Pharisees would

465
00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:56,640
be the one that should get it right.

466
00:22:56,850 --> 00:22:58,800
Instead, let's go to the
tax collector in verse 13.

467
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,730
But the tax collector standing far
off would not even lift up his eyes

468
00:23:02,730 --> 00:23:05,580
to heaven, but beat his breast,
which is a, a sign of mourning.

469
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,520
Saying, God, be merciful to me, a sinner.

470
00:23:09,780 --> 00:23:13,260
That's the heart of humility, that's
the heart that, that is aware of

471
00:23:13,260 --> 00:23:17,760
God's kindness, even after salvation,
that we would always say, God, you

472
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,110
are so kind and merciful to me.

473
00:23:19,110 --> 00:23:20,460
I don't deserve your grace.

474
00:23:20,460 --> 00:23:23,460
I don't deserve your mercy,
and yet you bestow it upon me.

475
00:23:23,670 --> 00:23:24,780
I'm so thankful for that.

476
00:23:26,190 --> 00:23:29,550
Jesus is gonna say the, the tax collector,
he's the one that went away justified.

477
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,930
So our humility has to do with
our, our relationship with God.

478
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,540
Be the tax collector, not the Pharisee.

479
00:23:37,410 --> 00:23:38,850
But it's not just our
relationship with God, it's also

480
00:23:38,850 --> 00:23:39,810
our relationship with others.

481
00:23:39,810 --> 00:23:42,000
And we read this in Philippians
chapter two verses three and four.

482
00:23:42,750 --> 00:23:46,350
Do nothing from selfish ambition or
empty concede, but in humility, count

483
00:23:46,350 --> 00:23:48,510
others more significant than yourselves.

484
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,840
Let each of you look not only
to his own interest, but also

485
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,220
to the interest of others.

486
00:23:54,945 --> 00:23:58,155
Paul right after this says, and have
this mind among yourselves, which is

487
00:23:58,155 --> 00:24:01,575
yours in Christ Jesus, who though he
counted equality with God a thing, he

488
00:24:01,575 --> 00:24:04,935
didn't count equality with God a thing
to be grasped, but emptied himself.

489
00:24:05,655 --> 00:24:09,405
And he went on to say, humbling himself to
the point of death, even death on a cross.

490
00:24:10,125 --> 00:24:12,885
And so Paul is calling us to
a humility towards one another

491
00:24:12,885 --> 00:24:14,235
that is a Christ-like humility.

492
00:24:15,255 --> 00:24:18,225
And so this is what it looks like
for us to be humble with one another.

493
00:24:18,465 --> 00:24:21,705
And so humility that pleases God is
humility that's rightly oriented between

494
00:24:21,705 --> 00:24:23,595
us and Him and us and one another.

495
00:24:24,885 --> 00:24:26,445
And we see that here
in these two passages.

496
00:24:27,765 --> 00:24:30,495
To be a prideful Christian
is in many ways an oxymoron.

497
00:24:31,335 --> 00:24:34,965
To be a Christian is to be marked by
humility, as Peter said, to clothe

498
00:24:34,965 --> 00:24:36,735
yourself, to wrap yourself in humility.

499
00:24:38,655 --> 00:24:41,685
And Peter's gonna double down
on that to clothe yourself.

500
00:24:41,685 --> 00:24:42,765
That's the the opening command.

501
00:24:42,765 --> 00:24:44,325
He's gonna double down
on this in verse six.

502
00:24:44,325 --> 00:24:47,325
He says this, humble yourselves,
therefore, under the mighty

503
00:24:47,325 --> 00:24:50,355
hand of God, so that at the
proper time, he may exalt you.

504
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,220
Verse five, clothe yourself in humility.

505
00:24:53,220 --> 00:24:54,600
Verse six, humble yourself.

506
00:24:55,140 --> 00:24:56,160
Both of them are commands.

507
00:24:56,310 --> 00:24:58,110
Anytime we sign, we see repetition.

508
00:24:58,110 --> 00:25:00,360
In the Bible, it's like
God's highlighter at work.

509
00:25:01,350 --> 00:25:05,460
And so when we see two commands
right off the bat here, be humble.

510
00:25:05,460 --> 00:25:07,020
Having to do with our pursuit of humility.

511
00:25:07,170 --> 00:25:10,680
That should jump off the page for
us and say, okay, this is something

512
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:11,850
I need to really key in on.

513
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:13,410
Be humble.

514
00:25:13,410 --> 00:25:14,730
Clothe yourselves with humility.

515
00:25:14,730 --> 00:25:16,410
Be humbled under the mighty hand of God.

516
00:25:17,220 --> 00:25:18,000
Humble yourselves.

517
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,390
Therefore, the therefore, when we see
therefore in the Bible, we ask, what

518
00:25:21,390 --> 00:25:24,000
is the, therefore what, therefore why?

519
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:24,360
What's it?

520
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,870
Therefore, he's using this as a, a, a
way to call our minds back to something,

521
00:25:28,530 --> 00:25:29,760
and I believe it's what we just read.

522
00:25:30,570 --> 00:25:34,290
Therefore, because God opposes
the proud, but gives grace to

523
00:25:34,290 --> 00:25:36,000
the humble, humble yourselves.

524
00:25:36,825 --> 00:25:37,545
Humble yourselves.

525
00:25:38,175 --> 00:25:39,465
It's actually in the Greek.

526
00:25:39,465 --> 00:25:43,545
It's, it's a passive verb, which means
that this is something that means we

527
00:25:43,545 --> 00:25:45,405
are receiving the action of the verb.

528
00:25:45,795 --> 00:25:48,945
In other words, be humbled yourselves.

529
00:25:49,785 --> 00:25:52,005
So clothe yourself with
this, with humility.

530
00:25:52,005 --> 00:25:53,925
That's that's the act
of pursuit of humility.

531
00:25:54,255 --> 00:25:57,675
But to be humble as a Christian in a way
that pleases the Lord is gonna involve

532
00:25:57,675 --> 00:26:01,250
both an active pursuit of humility
and a passive pursuit of humility.

533
00:26:01,605 --> 00:26:04,365
And God is going to put us as Christians.

534
00:26:04,365 --> 00:26:07,815
In other words, in positions where
we will be humbled under his mighty

535
00:26:07,815 --> 00:26:11,865
hand following Christ in a christless
world is going to do just that.

536
00:26:12,915 --> 00:26:16,515
Following Christ in, in a world
that hates the Savior that we love

537
00:26:16,755 --> 00:26:19,215
is going to put us in positions
where we are going to be scorned.

538
00:26:19,215 --> 00:26:21,105
We are gonna be mocked, we
are gonna be persecuted.

539
00:26:21,555 --> 00:26:23,925
Remember Peter said, don't be
surprised at the fiery trial when it

540
00:26:23,925 --> 00:26:26,085
comes upon you as though something
strange were happening to you.

541
00:26:26,685 --> 00:26:26,925
Why?

542
00:26:26,925 --> 00:26:29,835
Because part of God's will in
your life is that you would be

543
00:26:29,835 --> 00:26:31,905
humbled under his mighty hand.

544
00:26:32,264 --> 00:26:35,625
At least right now, God's will for this.

545
00:26:35,625 --> 00:26:38,325
We seen it earlier in the,
the letter one Peter 2 21.

546
00:26:38,325 --> 00:26:42,764
For to this you have been called
because Christ also suffered for

547
00:26:42,764 --> 00:26:45,465
you, leaving you an example that
you might follow in his steps.

548
00:26:46,095 --> 00:26:51,045
God has called you to follow Jesus into
suffering, to be humbled as Jesus was

549
00:26:51,045 --> 00:26:52,514
humbled to the point of death on a cross.

550
00:26:53,264 --> 00:26:54,135
One Peter three 17.

551
00:26:54,135 --> 00:26:58,485
It's better to suffer for doing
good if that should be God's will.

552
00:26:59,054 --> 00:27:03,915
It's gonna be God's will for us at various
times in our life to suffer, to be humbled

553
00:27:04,365 --> 00:27:07,455
in pursuit of good one Peter four 19.

554
00:27:07,455 --> 00:27:11,655
Therefore, let those who suffer according
to God's will in trust their souls to

555
00:27:11,655 --> 00:27:13,665
a faithful creator while doing good.

556
00:27:14,355 --> 00:27:16,665
See, our pursuit of
humility is both active.

557
00:27:16,665 --> 00:27:18,314
Clothe yourself and passive.

558
00:27:18,375 --> 00:27:20,385
Be humbled under God's mighty hand.

559
00:27:21,375 --> 00:27:23,895
And it's a call for us not to resist that.

560
00:27:24,405 --> 00:27:27,825
In fact, it's, it's a perspective
shift that Peter's after to be

561
00:27:27,825 --> 00:27:29,625
humbled under the mighty hand of God.

562
00:27:30,135 --> 00:27:34,605
You might hear that and think of this
as be humbled under his thumb, right?

563
00:27:34,605 --> 00:27:37,695
We use that phrase sometimes if, if
you're under someone's thumb, then

564
00:27:37,695 --> 00:27:42,645
they're, they've got this lordship kind
of, they, they've got a control over you.

565
00:27:42,645 --> 00:27:44,745
It's not a, you don't wanna
be under anybody's thumb.

566
00:27:45,555 --> 00:27:46,305
That's not what it says.

567
00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:49,155
It says, be humbled under
the mighty hand of God.

568
00:27:50,070 --> 00:27:54,000
Running behind this, I believe, is the
exodus of Israel from the Old Testament

569
00:27:54,510 --> 00:27:57,390
because time and time again in the Exodus
account, it was referred to as God's

570
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,300
strong hand, let his people out of Egypt.

571
00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:03,420
In fact, we read about it in
Exodus chapter 13, verse three.

572
00:28:03,420 --> 00:28:03,990
It says this.

573
00:28:03,990 --> 00:28:07,020
Then Moses said to the people,
remember this day in which you came

574
00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:11,160
out from Egypt out of the house of
slavery for by a strong hand, the

575
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,870
Lord brought you out from this place.

576
00:28:13,514 --> 00:28:14,774
By a strong hand.

577
00:28:15,284 --> 00:28:18,615
The strong hand of God is meant for us to,
to understand two components about that.

578
00:28:18,855 --> 00:28:22,455
Number one, it's meant for us to think
about his authority and his power.

579
00:28:22,665 --> 00:28:26,115
The mighty hand of God, pastor
has, has alluded to it during

580
00:28:26,115 --> 00:28:29,475
our worship time, who he is, he's
the God of the universe, right?

581
00:28:29,475 --> 00:28:34,935
I often think about Exodus chapter
19, when God met with Israel in Exodus

582
00:28:34,935 --> 00:28:39,705
chapter 19, he descended upon Mount
Sinai and the mountain was shaking

583
00:28:39,764 --> 00:28:41,355
under the presence of the glory of God.

584
00:28:42,045 --> 00:28:44,835
And then it says Moses spoke
and God answered him in

585
00:28:44,835 --> 00:28:47,235
thunder, and the people fled.

586
00:28:48,045 --> 00:28:48,405
Right?

587
00:28:49,185 --> 00:28:52,065
That's the same God that we're
here singing songs to this morning.

588
00:28:52,995 --> 00:28:57,225
Same God, that's the same God
who you are praying to about that

589
00:28:57,254 --> 00:29:01,485
situation at work, or about having
another baby, or about your marriage

590
00:29:01,485 --> 00:29:03,014
or about your health problems.

591
00:29:03,195 --> 00:29:06,855
That's the same God,
the mighty hand of God.

592
00:29:07,875 --> 00:29:09,014
So it's about his power.

593
00:29:09,014 --> 00:29:11,085
And Pharaoh came to know that, didn't he?

594
00:29:11,850 --> 00:29:17,370
Because God used the mighty hand to cause
Pharaoh and Force Pharaoh, and to compel

595
00:29:17,370 --> 00:29:19,920
Pharaoh to eventually say, okay, go.

596
00:29:20,910 --> 00:29:23,700
And then we ultimately saw his mighty
hand as Pharaoh's army chase them, and

597
00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:25,680
then the Red Sea crashed back over them.

598
00:29:26,010 --> 00:29:28,920
So it's his power, but it's
also his power to deliver.

599
00:29:30,090 --> 00:29:33,930
So we are humbled under the authority
and the power of God and the magnitude

600
00:29:33,930 --> 00:29:38,280
of God, but also under the grace and the
mercy and, and the protection of God,

601
00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:40,920
which is also what his mighty hand does.

602
00:29:42,390 --> 00:29:47,370
To be humbled under that mighty hand
is not something that we should resist.

603
00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:52,110
It's not to be under his thumb, but
under his hand, under his guiding,

604
00:29:52,110 --> 00:29:54,510
protecting, delivering, leading hand.

605
00:29:54,780 --> 00:29:57,930
And so that's why Peter wrote, be
humbled, humble yourselves, therefore

606
00:29:57,930 --> 00:30:01,950
under the mighty hand of God, so that
at the proper time he can exalt you.

607
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:07,155
Uh, there is going to come
exaltation for the believer.

608
00:30:07,455 --> 00:30:09,825
If you're here this morning and
you're a follower of Jesus Christ,

609
00:30:09,975 --> 00:30:14,025
when you die and stand before Jesus,
you'll hear from him, him Lord.

610
00:30:14,025 --> 00:30:16,905
Willing, well done, good
and faithful servant, enter

611
00:30:16,905 --> 00:30:17,925
into the joy of your master.

612
00:30:19,125 --> 00:30:21,680
The apostle Paul said that Jesus
Christ has been raised and seated at

613
00:30:21,735 --> 00:30:24,675
the right hand of God, and he says
that we will also be raised and seated

614
00:30:24,675 --> 00:30:26,355
with him in the heavenly places.

615
00:30:27,345 --> 00:30:31,245
Your exaltation is going to
come, Christian, just not here.

616
00:30:32,774 --> 00:30:33,615
Be humbled.

617
00:30:33,794 --> 00:30:38,024
Trust him, knowing that one day
your exaltation will come and

618
00:30:38,024 --> 00:30:40,845
it'll be far better than anything
else this world can offer you.

619
00:30:42,345 --> 00:30:46,935
God's economy is paradoxical like
that, and God's economy the way up is

620
00:30:46,935 --> 00:30:49,574
down and the verse is true as well.

621
00:30:49,845 --> 00:30:51,225
The way down is up.

622
00:30:52,620 --> 00:30:55,440
If you desire that exaltation,
if you desire to be raised with

623
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,050
Christ, if you desire to hear well
done, good and faithful servant,

624
00:30:58,290 --> 00:30:59,520
enter into the joy of your master.

625
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,300
What that looks like here and now for
us is to pursue a life of cultivating a

626
00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:05,700
humility under the mighty hand of God.

627
00:31:06,390 --> 00:31:07,500
Point number two, this morning is this.

628
00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:09,690
Choose humility now for exaltation later.

629
00:31:10,980 --> 00:31:13,320
Choose humility now for exaltation later.

630
00:31:13,980 --> 00:31:16,020
This is about delayed
gratification, right?

631
00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:21,090
Nobody likes delayed gratification,
but it's good for us.

632
00:31:21,225 --> 00:31:24,885
If you think about somebody who's saving
money for a down payment on a house

633
00:31:25,725 --> 00:31:28,784
that's delayed gratification, you may
sacrifice some things here that you wish

634
00:31:28,784 --> 00:31:32,324
you had in order to save, to be able
to put the down payment on the house.

635
00:31:33,165 --> 00:31:35,264
Or you think about working, maybe
you've been working for four

636
00:31:35,264 --> 00:31:37,844
decades, five decades, and you're,
you're closing in on retirement.

637
00:31:37,844 --> 00:31:41,115
You've got a few years left, and you
think to yourself, man, I'd like to be

638
00:31:41,115 --> 00:31:45,645
done now, but I'm willing to continue to
put in the work now because the payoff's

639
00:31:45,645 --> 00:31:47,024
gonna be great once I'm able to retire.

640
00:31:48,135 --> 00:31:51,375
Or maybe it's just working out so
that when you get older, your, your

641
00:31:51,375 --> 00:31:54,465
body still is gonna operate in a way
that is, is gonna let you be there for

642
00:31:54,465 --> 00:31:56,505
your family and, and everything else.

643
00:31:58,065 --> 00:32:01,095
Or maybe it's just as simple as
putting the phone down at night

644
00:32:01,095 --> 00:32:03,375
when you're scrolling so that you
can get some rest and wake up in

645
00:32:03,375 --> 00:32:04,365
the morning feeling refreshed.

646
00:32:05,355 --> 00:32:10,695
Nobody loves delayed gratification
because they don't like the delay when

647
00:32:10,695 --> 00:32:13,725
it comes to us desiring, exaltation.

648
00:32:14,475 --> 00:32:16,365
We're gonna have those, those competing.

649
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,670
Voices in our life, one of those
voices is gonna say, Hey, get it now.

650
00:32:21,690 --> 00:32:22,980
Get exaltation now.

651
00:32:23,550 --> 00:32:25,170
Work for the applause of man in the world.

652
00:32:25,170 --> 00:32:25,560
Now

653
00:32:27,630 --> 00:32:31,920
the other voice is gonna
say, Hey, let it go now.

654
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,940
In fact, rather than seeking
exaltation, why don't you exalt Jesus

655
00:32:36,060 --> 00:32:39,510
now so that in the future, as the
word of God says, he will exalt you.

656
00:32:41,430 --> 00:32:42,540
Delayed gratification.

657
00:32:43,185 --> 00:32:44,925
Back in the parable about the
Pharisee and the tax collector.

658
00:32:44,925 --> 00:32:46,155
Jesus said this in Luke 18.

659
00:32:46,155 --> 00:32:50,264
He said, everyone who exalts
himself is gonna be humbled, but

660
00:32:50,264 --> 00:32:52,845
the one who humbles himself will
be exalted again in God's economy.

661
00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:56,625
The way up is down Mark 10 43 through 45.

662
00:32:56,625 --> 00:32:58,215
Jesus is talking to his disciples there.

663
00:32:58,215 --> 00:33:00,915
He says, it must not be so among you,
but whoever would be great among you

664
00:33:00,915 --> 00:33:06,105
must be the servant of all and whoever
would be first must be the slave of all.

665
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,770
And then he says, why for even the son of
man came not to be served, but to serve

666
00:33:10,770 --> 00:33:12,450
and to give his life as a ransom for many.

667
00:33:12,750 --> 00:33:16,560
Our pursuit of humility now for
exaltation later, a huge component

668
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,310
and drive of this is we want to be as
much like Jesus as we possibly can be.

669
00:33:21,570 --> 00:33:27,450
To follow Jesus now is to follow him in
humility, the example that he left for us.

670
00:33:30,030 --> 00:33:31,380
Have you ever wondered why though?

671
00:33:32,205 --> 00:33:33,555
Why does God want us humble?

672
00:33:33,555 --> 00:33:36,255
Now, why doesn't God put Christians
in some of the most powerful

673
00:33:36,255 --> 00:33:38,835
positions, faithful God, honoring
Bible, believing Christians?

674
00:33:39,045 --> 00:33:40,815
Why doesn't he make life easy on us?

675
00:33:40,815 --> 00:33:43,485
Now, why doesn't he put us in
positions where we do get exalt while

676
00:33:43,485 --> 00:33:45,825
the world looks at the church and
says, look how great Christians are.

677
00:33:45,825 --> 00:33:46,995
We love Christians.

678
00:33:47,205 --> 00:33:48,315
Go team Jesus.

679
00:33:48,315 --> 00:33:50,355
Why isn't that happening?

680
00:33:51,705 --> 00:33:52,815
I think there's a few reasons.

681
00:33:53,325 --> 00:33:54,435
First, we've just talked about it.

682
00:33:54,435 --> 00:33:55,785
He wants us to be like Jesus.

683
00:33:56,655 --> 00:34:00,645
And when Jesus came, Jesus came
not as the the, the glorified one,

684
00:34:00,645 --> 00:34:01,575
but he came as the humble one.

685
00:34:02,490 --> 00:34:06,209
And he's called us to follow him in
that second, I, I believe it's also

686
00:34:06,209 --> 00:34:08,489
because salvation really demands
our full surrender to the Lord.

687
00:34:09,705 --> 00:34:13,230
And, and when we find ourselves in,
in positions of abject humility before

688
00:34:13,230 --> 00:34:17,730
God, we are so much more aware of our
need for him in a dependence upon him.

689
00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,469
And so it's not just about coming to
him in faith, but then after that it's,

690
00:34:22,469 --> 00:34:26,040
it's about saying, man, my whole life
is, is meant to, to realize I need you,

691
00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:28,469
Lord, for everything full surrender.

692
00:34:30,690 --> 00:34:36,299
I think also it's because God desires
all of the glory and so he doesn't

693
00:34:36,299 --> 00:34:38,759
wanna put us in positions right now
where we would be tempted to say,

694
00:34:38,759 --> 00:34:41,880
when we get to eternity, did you
see the kind of life that I lived?

695
00:34:42,839 --> 00:34:44,040
Did you see how great I was?

696
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,870
People thought I was amazing.

697
00:34:47,670 --> 00:34:48,690
He doesn't want that at all.

698
00:34:49,350 --> 00:34:50,790
He wants us to stand before Jesus.

699
00:34:50,790 --> 00:34:52,440
Say, Jesus, thank you for getting me here.

700
00:34:54,750 --> 00:34:56,009
I you get the glory.

701
00:34:58,590 --> 00:35:00,540
I think he also wants it
because it's a sign that we

702
00:35:00,540 --> 00:35:03,000
are growing in christlikeness.

703
00:35:04,380 --> 00:35:05,280
So embrace that.

704
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,470
Choose humility now for
for the exaltation to come.

705
00:35:07,470 --> 00:35:09,360
Because the exaltation to
come is gonna be way better.

706
00:35:09,750 --> 00:35:13,890
We can't look for exaltation from the
world or expect it here because Jesus

707
00:35:13,890 --> 00:35:15,570
told us the world is not gonna exalt you.

708
00:35:15,990 --> 00:35:17,550
Jesus said The world is gonna hate you.

709
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,875
Uh, John said the world in all that's
in it, and he, he listed, he says, the,

710
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,270
the, the lust of the flesh, the lust of
the eyes, the boastful pride of life.

711
00:35:27,540 --> 00:35:28,950
He says, none of that is from God.

712
00:35:31,049 --> 00:35:35,069
Paul said before Christ, all of us
we're following the, the prince, the,

713
00:35:35,069 --> 00:35:38,130
the course of the world governed by
the prince of the power of the heir.

714
00:35:38,130 --> 00:35:40,290
That that's Satan who's
ruling over this world.

715
00:35:41,460 --> 00:35:43,620
Uh, Peter has said, this is not our home.

716
00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:47,235
We're exiles, we're sojourners,
we're aliens and strangers.

717
00:35:47,445 --> 00:35:50,625
James said, you wanna be a friend of the
world, you're gonna be an enemy of God.

718
00:35:51,404 --> 00:35:54,975
So do you see Christian, how we can't
pursue exaltation from the world and also

719
00:35:54,975 --> 00:35:56,865
expect God to welcome us into eternity?

720
00:35:59,654 --> 00:36:02,685
If you're seeking the acceptance and
the adulation, the exaltation from

721
00:36:02,685 --> 00:36:05,235
the world, instead of embracing the
humility that comes from identifying

722
00:36:05,235 --> 00:36:08,895
with Jesus, we should not expect that
the Father will welcome us in saying,

723
00:36:08,895 --> 00:36:09,945
well done, good and faithful serve.

724
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:10,080
Right.

725
00:36:12,270 --> 00:36:14,820
'cause our exaltation
isn't about this place.

726
00:36:15,510 --> 00:36:16,830
It's about being there with him.

727
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,120
If you find yourself battling pride,
which I think is every single one of

728
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,620
us in this room, if we're honest with
ourselves, the greatest cure for it is

729
00:36:25,620 --> 00:36:28,140
the gospel, is to go back to the cross.

730
00:36:28,170 --> 00:36:32,250
It's to go back to that moment where
we realize, man, I have nothing.

731
00:36:32,460 --> 00:36:34,110
I need everything.

732
00:36:35,970 --> 00:36:38,610
Where you cast yourself in full
surrender before the Lord and said, Lord.

733
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:40,920
I need you.

734
00:36:40,980 --> 00:36:44,790
I trust that you died on the cross
in my place to pay the penalty.

735
00:36:44,790 --> 00:36:48,779
I could not pay so that my sins might
be forgiven and that you gave me

736
00:36:48,779 --> 00:36:54,450
your full righteousness, something
I could never earn or merit, and

737
00:36:54,450 --> 00:36:56,820
that you rose again from the dead
so that I can live with you forever.

738
00:36:58,830 --> 00:37:02,759
The gospel is such a good thing for us
to go back to if we're battling pride.

739
00:37:02,759 --> 00:37:04,830
Choose humility now for exaltation later.

740
00:37:04,830 --> 00:37:06,720
The gospel is the message that says.

741
00:37:07,590 --> 00:37:12,690
Uh, God is gonna save us in spite of
us, and then he is gonna bring us to

742
00:37:12,690 --> 00:37:15,000
be with him, which is the exaltation
that we're talking about here.

743
00:37:15,810 --> 00:37:19,830
And so this is why Jesus and Peter,
I think, emphasized this because we

744
00:37:19,830 --> 00:37:24,960
need to be like our savior here so
that we'll be with our savior there.

745
00:37:26,615 --> 00:37:30,120
And this is not saying you have to
earn your salvation by being humble.

746
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,115
This is rather saying, if you
are saved, you will be humble.

747
00:37:34,740 --> 00:37:36,420
It's part of what it
means to follow Jesus.

748
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,260
It's why it's one of the essential
attributes of any follower of Christ.

749
00:37:41,340 --> 00:37:44,160
Again, let me take you back
to the triumphal entry.

750
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,570
Jesus is on a donkey,
humbly mounted on a donkey.

751
00:37:48,570 --> 00:37:51,540
It, it was a sign of a, a, a
king who was coming in, in a

752
00:37:51,540 --> 00:37:52,800
sense of peace into a town.

753
00:37:54,060 --> 00:37:56,700
But this was the Zechariah prophecy
fulfilled, and the disciples are

754
00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:58,590
excited, and the crowds are shouting.

755
00:37:58,590 --> 00:37:59,010
Hosanna.

756
00:37:59,010 --> 00:38:01,080
Blessed is he who comes in the name of
the Lord, and they're, they're there.

757
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:01,435
They're, they're.

758
00:38:02,265 --> 00:38:07,305
They're excited, they're hyped, and
then they get in and Jesus, the,

759
00:38:07,305 --> 00:38:10,155
the next morning proceeds to turn
over the tables in the temple and

760
00:38:10,155 --> 00:38:12,045
they're going, this, this, this is it.

761
00:38:12,105 --> 00:38:12,915
It's happening.

762
00:38:13,065 --> 00:38:15,045
They're looking at each other
going, it's gonna happen.

763
00:38:15,285 --> 00:38:19,815
He's gonna take the throne only to
find that three days later, he's gonna

764
00:38:19,815 --> 00:38:23,055
be betrayed, he's gonna be arrested,
he's gonna be beaten, he's gonna

765
00:38:23,055 --> 00:38:24,435
be flogged, he's gonna be mocked.

766
00:38:24,435 --> 00:38:26,715
He's gonna be stripped naked, he's gonna
have the hair pulled out of his beard.

767
00:38:26,715 --> 00:38:27,795
He is gonna be nailed to cross.

768
00:38:27,795 --> 00:38:28,135
He's gonna be killed.

769
00:38:31,350 --> 00:38:35,129
In all of their thoughts
of glory vanish like that,

770
00:38:37,290 --> 00:38:38,700
uh, most of them run away.

771
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,390
Luke 24, Jesus has now
risen from the dead.

772
00:38:42,390 --> 00:38:44,580
He comes on two guys
walking away from Jerusalem.

773
00:38:45,029 --> 00:38:49,350
They've heard this crazy rumor that Jesus
rose from the dead, but they don't buy it.

774
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:50,549
They're dejected.

775
00:38:50,730 --> 00:38:51,600
They're downtrodden.

776
00:38:51,750 --> 00:38:53,970
Jesus comes up to him
and says, Hey, what, why?

777
00:38:53,970 --> 00:38:56,734
So glum, and they look at him and they
say, do you not know what happened?

778
00:38:57,825 --> 00:39:00,794
Are you the only one
back there in Jerusalem?

779
00:39:00,794 --> 00:39:01,544
A few days ago?

780
00:39:01,754 --> 00:39:07,424
They crucified Jesus, the one
we thought was the Messiah,

781
00:39:10,185 --> 00:39:13,395
and then Jesus preaches the greatest
sermon ever preached when he goes back

782
00:39:13,395 --> 00:39:17,415
through the Bible and says, let me,
let me show you two how God has said it

783
00:39:17,415 --> 00:39:20,714
was necessary, that the Christ should
suffer first and then enter into glory.

784
00:39:23,220 --> 00:39:26,160
This says the eyes of them were eventually
opened after they have that meal with him.

785
00:39:26,190 --> 00:39:28,560
They see him and he
vanishes from their sight.

786
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,160
There Didn't our hearts burn within us
when he was telling us these things,

787
00:39:33,330 --> 00:39:34,589
and that was the light bulb for them.

788
00:39:34,799 --> 00:39:35,339
They got it.

789
00:39:35,339 --> 00:39:38,399
It wasn't about the kingdom
now, but the kingdom to come.

790
00:39:38,850 --> 00:39:41,761
And then Jesus is gonna gather
his disciples in Matthew 28.

791
00:39:41,795 --> 00:39:44,970
He's gonna say, Hey, listen,
I've got a mission for you.

792
00:39:45,450 --> 00:39:49,200
You need to go and make disciples
teaching them all that I've commanded you.

793
00:39:49,650 --> 00:39:52,110
Baptizing them in the name of the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

794
00:39:53,250 --> 00:39:56,010
And a little bit later, right before
his ascension, the, the disciples are

795
00:39:56,010 --> 00:39:56,970
there and they're still struggling.

796
00:39:56,970 --> 00:39:58,710
They're like, Hey, is now the time?

797
00:39:58,770 --> 00:39:59,340
Is it now?

798
00:39:59,340 --> 00:40:01,620
Do we get to be with is exaltation?

799
00:40:01,620 --> 00:40:02,340
It's now, right?

800
00:40:02,340 --> 00:40:04,050
Jesus, he says it.

801
00:40:04,350 --> 00:40:06,180
That's not your concern
or my concern right now.

802
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:07,380
Here's what I want you to do.

803
00:40:07,530 --> 00:40:08,670
Go and be my witnesses.

804
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:17,070
Listen y'all, if we're gonna be followers
of Christ, we need to understand that

805
00:40:17,070 --> 00:40:18,450
our exaltation is not gonna come here.

806
00:40:19,410 --> 00:40:20,100
It's gonna come there.

807
00:40:22,050 --> 00:40:24,630
And some of you may be like those
disciples on the road to Emmaus right

808
00:40:24,630 --> 00:40:25,500
now when it comes to your faith.

809
00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:28,260
You might be sitting there thinking, man,
I'm not getting the recognition that I

810
00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:30,210
deserve for all the good that I've done.

811
00:40:30,870 --> 00:40:32,640
Or maybe you're just sitting there
and you're thinking, you know what?

812
00:40:32,970 --> 00:40:35,010
Since coming to faith in Christ,
life hasn't gotten easier.

813
00:40:35,010 --> 00:40:35,760
It's gotten harder.

814
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,400
Man, my, my job is harder because
now I'm, I'm not compromising

815
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:42,420
anymore the way that I was.

816
00:40:42,420 --> 00:40:44,310
And now I don't know if I'm
gonna get that promotion.

817
00:40:44,310 --> 00:40:45,870
I don't know if I'm
still gonna be employed.

818
00:40:47,235 --> 00:40:50,505
Or you may be sitting there saying, man,
my, my marriage problems are still here.

819
00:40:50,595 --> 00:40:53,955
I thought coming to faith
in Jesus that that was just

820
00:40:53,955 --> 00:40:55,154
gonna make my marriage better.

821
00:40:56,625 --> 00:40:59,505
Or you're thinking to yourself,
man, I, I've lost relationships

822
00:40:59,505 --> 00:41:00,675
with people that I, I cared about.

823
00:41:00,675 --> 00:41:01,515
They've cut me out completely.

824
00:41:01,515 --> 00:41:04,515
They don't wanna be around
me anymore because of Jesus.

825
00:41:07,215 --> 00:41:12,975
Maybe that's you and you're sitting
there going, we, I, I, I thought things

826
00:41:12,975 --> 00:41:14,205
were gonna be different with him.

827
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:19,200
And so maybe this morning, this is an
encouraging reminder to you that the

828
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,740
exaltation, the hope that you have
in Christ is that one day he's going

829
00:41:22,740 --> 00:41:27,120
to exalt you to be with him there,
humble yourselves, therefore, under

830
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,770
the mighty hand of God, so that at
the proper time, he may exalt you.

831
00:41:33,990 --> 00:41:40,980
The way up is down the way down is up in
God's economy, so embrace that humility.

832
00:41:42,885 --> 00:41:47,085
In verse seven, our last verse, some
English translations start a new ver a

833
00:41:47,085 --> 00:41:50,145
new sentence here, but I think it's, it
is better the way that ESV has it just

834
00:41:50,145 --> 00:41:54,495
to continue the thought because he, he
goes on to say this, humble yourselves,

835
00:41:54,525 --> 00:41:58,305
therefore casting all your anxieties
on him because he cares for you.

836
00:42:00,045 --> 00:42:03,975
And so this is a way that this is, is
continuing a, a thought by modifying

837
00:42:03,975 --> 00:42:08,265
that command, humble yourself by
casting your anxieties on him.

838
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,210
In other words, if, if you want
more humility, it's gonna look

839
00:42:12,210 --> 00:42:13,620
like more trust in the Lord.

840
00:42:14,940 --> 00:42:18,270
The things that make us anxious,
our anxieties, they, they come from

841
00:42:18,270 --> 00:42:21,390
things that are so often traceable
to a lack of trust in the Lord.

842
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:27,840
And a lack of trust is more often than
not connected to a lack of humility.

843
00:42:30,255 --> 00:42:32,535
Peter says, casting all
your anxieties on him.

844
00:42:32,535 --> 00:42:35,925
The word casting, it's the same word
used when the disciples cast their

845
00:42:35,925 --> 00:42:38,955
cloaks on the donkey that Jesus
sat on as he wrote into Jerusalem.

846
00:42:40,395 --> 00:42:41,355
It's no longer mine.

847
00:42:41,355 --> 00:42:42,315
It's not in my possession.

848
00:42:42,315 --> 00:42:42,735
I'm gonna take it.

849
00:42:42,735 --> 00:42:44,475
I'm gonna, I'm gonna transform it.

850
00:42:44,655 --> 00:42:45,315
It's not mine.

851
00:42:46,755 --> 00:42:50,805
So you to cast your anxieties on
the Lord and, and just think about

852
00:42:50,805 --> 00:42:52,215
Peter's original audience here.

853
00:42:52,635 --> 00:42:55,275
And what they were up against, the,
the fiery trials that were going on

854
00:42:55,275 --> 00:42:58,845
there amongst them, that they had
Nero either on the throne or almost

855
00:42:58,845 --> 00:43:02,925
on the throne at this point they were
facing, uh, per they were exiles.

856
00:43:02,955 --> 00:43:04,425
They, they weren't home anymore.

857
00:43:04,785 --> 00:43:07,425
And then they just had all of the
other anxieties that every other human

858
00:43:07,425 --> 00:43:08,745
being has faced for all of eternity.

859
00:43:10,125 --> 00:43:13,185
And so think of, of those anxieties,
and Peter says, humble yourself

860
00:43:13,335 --> 00:43:16,665
and, and cast those on the Lord.

861
00:43:17,295 --> 00:43:17,655
Why?

862
00:43:19,035 --> 00:43:20,565
Because he cares for you.

863
00:43:21,645 --> 00:43:24,915
Because he cares for you whether
you've got your Bible on, on your,

864
00:43:24,915 --> 00:43:26,805
your device or, or the, the paper.

865
00:43:27,135 --> 00:43:29,505
Just look at that verse,
look at verse seven with me.

866
00:43:30,015 --> 00:43:33,045
'cause I don't want you to hear
the pastor saying, God loves you.

867
00:43:33,465 --> 00:43:34,185
God cares for you.

868
00:43:35,325 --> 00:43:36,645
God has a plan for your anxieties.

869
00:43:36,735 --> 00:43:38,235
I want you to look at what
the, what God's word says.

870
00:43:38,235 --> 00:43:40,455
I want you to see what God is
saying to you this morning.

871
00:43:41,385 --> 00:43:47,745
Casting all your anxieties on
him because he cares for you.

872
00:43:50,915 --> 00:43:54,390
The Psalm 55 22 says this,
cast your burdens on the

873
00:43:54,390 --> 00:43:55,860
Lord and he will sustain you.

874
00:43:56,010 --> 00:44:00,120
He will never permit the
righteous to be moved.

875
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,690
But again, that is a move to
cast your burdens on the Lord.

876
00:44:06,690 --> 00:44:11,190
That is a move that involves
a humble trust in God.

877
00:44:12,630 --> 00:44:14,760
The posture of humility
is a posture of faith.

878
00:44:16,484 --> 00:44:21,645
Trust in God to be faithful to us
and to himself and to his promises.

879
00:44:23,355 --> 00:44:26,924
The humble person has sought refuge as we
just looked under the mighty hand of God

880
00:44:27,134 --> 00:44:30,765
and trust him to deliver him and protect
him because he trusts that God does

881
00:44:30,765 --> 00:44:33,015
indeed, as this verse says, care for him.

882
00:44:34,904 --> 00:44:37,544
And so this final point that we're gonna
see this morning is that humility is

883
00:44:37,544 --> 00:44:41,805
anchored to our willingness to trust
that God is good and does care for us.

884
00:44:42,495 --> 00:44:45,915
Point number three is this, choose
humility because it shows off faith.

885
00:44:47,024 --> 00:44:49,064
Choose humility because
it shows off faith.

886
00:44:51,435 --> 00:44:56,084
We don't often think of anxiety
and humility as connected concepts,

887
00:44:57,044 --> 00:45:01,395
and yet Peter, Peter puts them in
close proximity here and here's why.

888
00:45:02,564 --> 00:45:04,484
Let's think for a minute
about our anxieties.

889
00:45:04,544 --> 00:45:06,645
What is often at the root of anxiety?

890
00:45:07,694 --> 00:45:09,104
I think the answer is fear.

891
00:45:10,770 --> 00:45:15,000
Fear and, and, and specifically we're
anxious about things that we are afraid

892
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,190
of because we can't control those things.

893
00:45:18,390 --> 00:45:21,660
That's when anxiety grips our hearts when
we come up against something that, I'm

894
00:45:21,660 --> 00:45:25,680
afraid of this because I can't control it,
and that's what we begin to experience,

895
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,200
that the, the worry that grips.

896
00:45:29,220 --> 00:45:32,550
So maybe it's, man, I'm, I'm anxious
about the results of a biopsy because

897
00:45:32,550 --> 00:45:34,200
I can't control those results.

898
00:45:35,805 --> 00:45:39,015
Maybe it's, it's you're trying to have
kids and you're thinking to yourself,

899
00:45:39,015 --> 00:45:41,984
I'm, I'm anxious about how the, the
pregnancy test is gonna come out

900
00:45:41,984 --> 00:45:44,415
because I can't control the results.

901
00:45:46,935 --> 00:45:50,685
Maybe you're anxious about your marriage
because it's been tense at home, and

902
00:45:50,685 --> 00:45:53,234
you're thinking to yourself, I'm anxious
about when there's gonna be peace and

903
00:45:53,234 --> 00:45:55,455
resolution and I can't control that.

904
00:45:58,005 --> 00:46:00,585
Or maybe you've got an adult child
that's not walking with the Lord and

905
00:46:00,585 --> 00:46:03,674
you're thinking, I'm anxious for their
soul because I can't control that.

906
00:46:05,775 --> 00:46:10,515
Our battle against anxiety is one that
is a battle for control, and the heart

907
00:46:10,515 --> 00:46:15,315
of our desire for control is in itself
a lack of humble trust in God's plan.

908
00:46:17,445 --> 00:46:20,745
Anxiety that won't seed to God
says this, God, I don't trust

909
00:46:20,745 --> 00:46:21,915
what you're doing right now.

910
00:46:22,635 --> 00:46:25,665
I feel like I know how I would
do it better, but since I can't

911
00:46:25,665 --> 00:46:29,025
control any of this, I'm just
gonna worry about it all instead.

912
00:46:31,515 --> 00:46:32,325
And you're exactly right.

913
00:46:32,325 --> 00:46:33,105
You can't control it.

914
00:46:34,275 --> 00:46:35,714
You can't control the biopsy results.

915
00:46:36,345 --> 00:46:37,725
You can't control the fertility test.

916
00:46:37,725 --> 00:46:40,694
You can't control the outcome of
the, the marital spat that you're in.

917
00:46:41,265 --> 00:46:44,565
To an extent, you can't control what
your grown children are gonna do.

918
00:46:44,745 --> 00:46:47,745
You can't control whether the strait
of her moves is gonna open or shut

919
00:46:47,745 --> 00:46:50,865
down or any of these things that could
cause fear and anxiety in your heart.

920
00:46:53,145 --> 00:46:57,375
But rather than be frustrated by that,
can I encourage you to look at that

921
00:46:57,375 --> 00:47:00,625
as a, a mercy of God because it's
part of his passive humbling of us.

922
00:47:02,279 --> 00:47:05,580
See God will often lead us Christian
to feel our infinitude, our,

923
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,620
our finitude and his infinitude.

924
00:47:08,370 --> 00:47:10,380
He will lead us to feel our limitations.

925
00:47:10,770 --> 00:47:12,990
He will lead us to
realize I can't do this.

926
00:47:12,990 --> 00:47:17,970
And he'll say Exactly, but you know,
the one who can and he cares for you.

927
00:47:21,089 --> 00:47:25,589
And that's why we're able to cast, to, to
take it from ourselves and to, to throw

928
00:47:25,589 --> 00:47:29,430
it onto him because he cares for you.

929
00:47:30,254 --> 00:47:32,355
God of the universe, the God
of creation, the God of Mount

930
00:47:32,355 --> 00:47:33,705
Sinai shaken the mountain.

931
00:47:35,835 --> 00:47:36,855
Look at the Bible again.

932
00:47:37,395 --> 00:47:38,384
He cares for you.

933
00:47:39,225 --> 00:47:40,035
He loves you.

934
00:47:40,154 --> 00:47:41,055
He cares for you.

935
00:47:45,015 --> 00:47:48,674
Humility doesn't look at anxiety as
an invitation to self-sufficiency.

936
00:47:48,674 --> 00:47:51,615
Humility looks at anxiety as an
invitation to trust God more.

937
00:47:57,855 --> 00:47:58,629
What does that trust look like?

938
00:47:59,549 --> 00:48:00,359
How can I do this?

939
00:48:00,629 --> 00:48:02,009
How can I cast my anxieties on God?

940
00:48:02,009 --> 00:48:03,960
What, what, what would that
practically look like for me?

941
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:05,339
Let me just give you a
few suggestions here.

942
00:48:05,609 --> 00:48:07,290
Uh, first and foremost is, is prayer.

943
00:48:08,970 --> 00:48:13,169
Uh, the feeling of anxiety should
be an immediate, like Pavlov's dog

944
00:48:13,379 --> 00:48:14,730
response to go to the Lord in prayer.

945
00:48:15,899 --> 00:48:16,770
Philippians four, six.

946
00:48:16,770 --> 00:48:21,450
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything
by prayer in suppli supplication, let

947
00:48:21,450 --> 00:48:22,770
your request be made known to God.

948
00:48:23,399 --> 00:48:24,600
And here's what I wanna suggest for you.

949
00:48:24,779 --> 00:48:28,085
If you're out there going, okay, so I
just pray, God, I'm worried about this.

950
00:48:29,939 --> 00:48:32,250
Then what I wanna suggest
a, A model for you.

951
00:48:32,250 --> 00:48:33,660
Maybe you're familiar
with it, maybe you're not.

952
00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:37,589
This is the ax model of prayer, adoration,
confession, thanksgiving and supplication.

953
00:48:38,730 --> 00:48:42,899
This is a great paradigm for you to work
through as you're praying just in general,

954
00:48:42,899 --> 00:48:46,709
but especially even as you're praying
about those things that cause you anxiety.

955
00:48:47,490 --> 00:48:49,410
Adoration battles are anxiety.

956
00:48:49,410 --> 00:48:53,040
When we praise God for who he is, it
battles our anxiety and increases our

957
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:57,000
trust in the Lord because it reminds
us of his character and his goodness.

958
00:48:57,870 --> 00:48:59,460
Lord, I'm gonna praise
you for who you are.

959
00:48:59,460 --> 00:49:02,190
You're good, you're sovereign,
you're, you're, you're kind.

960
00:49:02,190 --> 00:49:04,890
You have done good things in my
life in the past, and I'm, I'm

961
00:49:04,890 --> 00:49:08,070
praising you for that confession.

962
00:49:08,730 --> 00:49:11,970
Confession battles our anxiety by
allowing us to confess the sins of

963
00:49:11,970 --> 00:49:17,100
unbelief that abide at the root of
our anxious thoughts to say, Lord, I

964
00:49:17,100 --> 00:49:20,370
believe, help my unbelief in this area

965
00:49:22,860 --> 00:49:23,730
Thanksgiving.

966
00:49:24,180 --> 00:49:27,630
Thanksgiving battles our anxieties because
it, it, it gets our minds on the blessings

967
00:49:27,630 --> 00:49:33,030
of God, that our anxious thoughts so often
obscure when we're consumed with anxiety,

968
00:49:33,030 --> 00:49:35,100
we can forget how good God is to us.

969
00:49:35,430 --> 00:49:36,660
And forget to give him thanks.

970
00:49:36,690 --> 00:49:39,570
And so if we intentionally say, even
though I don't feel it right now because

971
00:49:39,570 --> 00:49:42,420
I'm, I'm worried about all these things,
I'm gonna stop and thank God for the

972
00:49:42,420 --> 00:49:46,140
good things that are going on in my life
right now, man, that will be so good to

973
00:49:46,140 --> 00:49:50,460
give your confidence a boost in God, if
you've been good to me in all these areas.

974
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,450
What's stopping me from believing that
you're gonna be good in this area?

975
00:49:55,260 --> 00:49:55,530
Right.

976
00:49:56,850 --> 00:49:57,690
And then supplication.

977
00:49:58,710 --> 00:50:02,070
This is where we ask, that's a
fancy word that just means requests.

978
00:50:03,060 --> 00:50:03,660
Supplication.

979
00:50:03,660 --> 00:50:06,090
This battles our anxiety by naming
those things that we're anxious

980
00:50:06,090 --> 00:50:08,850
about and asking the Lord to
bring the resolution we desire.

981
00:50:10,230 --> 00:50:10,770
And so pray.

982
00:50:10,860 --> 00:50:11,640
Use this model.

983
00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:14,700
If you've got a different model that
works great, but go to the Lord in prayer.

984
00:50:14,940 --> 00:50:16,830
It's a great way to roll
our anxieties over to him.

985
00:50:16,830 --> 00:50:17,910
In fact, I'd say it's necessary.

986
00:50:18,210 --> 00:50:21,360
The second way that that we can find
this is by just experiencing the

987
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:22,710
community of believers in this room.

988
00:50:23,730 --> 00:50:25,410
God has put you in a church
like this with brothers and

989
00:50:25,410 --> 00:50:26,490
sisters in Christ that love you.

990
00:50:26,490 --> 00:50:27,870
This is why we stress community.

991
00:50:28,634 --> 00:50:31,605
Getting connected in community groups
because you will have relationships

992
00:50:31,605 --> 00:50:34,935
with other believers that you can go to
them and say, Hey, will you pray for me?

993
00:50:35,415 --> 00:50:36,555
I'm battling anxiety right now.

994
00:50:36,555 --> 00:50:37,785
I'm, I'm worried about this right now.

995
00:50:37,785 --> 00:50:39,555
I need you to speak truth
in my life right now.

996
00:50:39,555 --> 00:50:42,794
I'm struggling to see God's
hand at work right now.

997
00:50:42,794 --> 00:50:44,294
Can you help me right now?

998
00:50:45,464 --> 00:50:47,325
Go to your brothers and
sisters in Christ with that?

999
00:50:47,384 --> 00:50:50,384
That's a humble posture before the
Lord that's trusting him to use them

1000
00:50:50,654 --> 00:50:52,605
to help you in that, that process.

1001
00:50:52,995 --> 00:50:56,145
And then finally, another asset
in your battle against anxiety

1002
00:50:56,145 --> 00:50:57,584
is having a robust theology.

1003
00:50:59,035 --> 00:51:05,100
Um, knowing God more deeply, does that
come through spending time in his word?

1004
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,380
Yes, absolutely.

1005
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,650
But maybe you're gonna pick up a,
a systematic theology, or maybe

1006
00:51:10,650 --> 00:51:12,930
you're gonna pick up a book like the
one on the back of your worksheet,

1007
00:51:13,170 --> 00:51:14,700
uh, knowing God by JI Packer.

1008
00:51:15,660 --> 00:51:18,900
And you think, well, how does
reading about God's holiness and

1009
00:51:18,900 --> 00:51:22,380
his omniscience and his omnipotence
help me right now in my anxiety?

1010
00:51:22,650 --> 00:51:26,850
It, it, it reminds you who, who you,
you know, who you love, who you serve.

1011
00:51:28,355 --> 00:51:30,510
And, and when you look at what
you can't, you're gonna be

1012
00:51:30,510 --> 00:51:31,650
reminded of the God who can.

1013
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:36,210
And so having a robust
theology is so, so good.

1014
00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:36,780
Towards that end,

1015
00:51:39,270 --> 00:51:42,240
humility looks at whatever
produces anxiety in our hearts

1016
00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:45,660
as an invitation, not towards
self-sufficiency, but to trust God more.

1017
00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:47,520
And when we do that,
man, it shows off our.

1018
00:51:48,930 --> 00:51:52,020
Maybe you're going through a, a stretch
right now and you've got coworkers, you've

1019
00:51:52,020 --> 00:51:54,390
got family members, you've got other
people that aren't believers that are

1020
00:51:54,390 --> 00:51:56,970
gonna say, how are you so calm right now?

1021
00:51:58,259 --> 00:52:02,220
Open door spotlight, center
stage for your faith in God?

1022
00:52:03,570 --> 00:52:07,435
Because I can't, but I know the God
who can, lemme tell you about 'em.

1023
00:52:09,755 --> 00:52:14,325
When it comes to humility, you can either
be humbled or you can choose to be humble.

1024
00:52:15,105 --> 00:52:19,875
And the better option is always gonna
be ch to choose to be humble, to choose

1025
00:52:19,875 --> 00:52:22,095
it because it makes God happy, right?

1026
00:52:22,095 --> 00:52:25,995
It draws his favor rather than his
opposition to choose to be humble

1027
00:52:25,995 --> 00:52:29,775
because it, it leads even though
you're walking through humility now

1028
00:52:29,775 --> 00:52:32,985
to, to exaltation later that we're
hoping and hearing the Lord say,

1029
00:52:32,985 --> 00:52:34,395
well done, good and faithful servant.

1030
00:52:34,395 --> 00:52:38,085
Enter into the joy of your master
and to choose humility because it

1031
00:52:38,235 --> 00:52:44,235
reveals and shows off your robust
faith in God because he cares for you.

1032
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:46,020
'cause he loves you.

1033
00:52:47,070 --> 00:52:47,460
Let's pray.

1034
00:52:49,380 --> 00:52:50,310
Father, what a glorious truth.

1035
00:52:50,340 --> 00:52:54,029
Even just that last couple of words that
I said was that, that you, the Lord of

1036
00:52:54,029 --> 00:52:57,420
creation, the Lord who is sustaining
all things, the Lord is keeping,

1037
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:58,860
who is keeping us on this planet?

1038
00:52:58,860 --> 00:53:01,200
Because you're sustaining gravity
and you're sustaining the spin of

1039
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,750
the, the planets and the planet,
your emotion and all those things.

1040
00:53:03,750 --> 00:53:07,980
Lord, you are the guy who loves
us, who cares for us, who says to

1041
00:53:07,980 --> 00:53:10,259
us, let me have your anxieties.

1042
00:53:10,650 --> 00:53:11,759
Cast them on me.

1043
00:53:12,299 --> 00:53:13,200
Throw them on me.

1044
00:53:13,935 --> 00:53:16,335
I will sustain you because I care for you.

1045
00:53:17,235 --> 00:53:18,825
Lord, what a glorious truth and reality.

1046
00:53:18,825 --> 00:53:22,785
That is what a a phenomenal reality is,
that we get to walk in humility before

1047
00:53:22,785 --> 00:53:25,515
you, and there's joy to be found there.

1048
00:53:26,444 --> 00:53:30,465
There's contentment, there's satisfaction
to be found there, and so God, I pray that

1049
00:53:30,465 --> 00:53:33,705
you'd guard our hearts from an infatuation
with an exaltation that might come from

1050
00:53:33,705 --> 00:53:37,275
men or from the world around us, but that
we would seek ultimately the exaltation

1051
00:53:37,275 --> 00:53:38,895
that awaits us when we go to be with you.

1052
00:53:39,525 --> 00:53:40,965
And to be with our savior, Jesus Christ.

1053
00:53:40,965 --> 00:53:41,835
We pray this in his name.

1054
00:53:42,100 --> 00:53:42,390
Amen.