1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,050 Speaker: we are gonna be in Proverbs chapter 12. 2 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:04,270 Proverbs chapter 12. 3 00:00:04,470 --> 00:00:06,449 We're gonna start in verse 15. 4 00:00:06,930 --> 00:00:12,040 All right, so, um, conveniently, I didn't make this whiteboard, but, um, I guess 5 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:14,950 someone was talking about humility, and we are gonna be talking about humility, 6 00:00:15,490 --> 00:00:18,529 which is really awkward for someone to come up here and talk about humility. 7 00:00:18,740 --> 00:00:23,159 I kinda feel like this guy, um, because it's really awkward for me to be like, 8 00:00:23,159 --> 00:00:24,440 "Oh, yeah, being humble is so great. 9 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:25,139 You should be humble." 10 00:00:25,740 --> 00:00:28,519 And then for me to be like, "Yeah, I'm, you know, I'm trying 11 00:00:28,519 --> 00:00:29,590 to be humble, too, and I'm…" 12 00:00:29,750 --> 00:00:30,099 You know? 13 00:00:30,140 --> 00:00:33,090 Kinda like in the Book of, uh, Numbers, is it? 14 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:35,860 Where Moses is, like, the most humble man to walk the Earth, and he wrote the book. 15 00:00:35,860 --> 00:00:36,300 So anyway. 16 00:00:36,869 --> 00:00:40,979 Um, it's kinda awkward, but I am, right, also trying to be humble, right? 17 00:00:40,979 --> 00:00:41,910 I'm not perfect at it. 18 00:00:42,219 --> 00:00:45,230 I'm not trying to be up here saying, "Oh, yeah, I'm the most humblest ever." 19 00:00:45,570 --> 00:00:49,019 Um, I'm also pursuing humility, just like you. 20 00:00:49,030 --> 00:00:51,770 So anyway, um, there you go. 21 00:00:52,729 --> 00:00:53,589 Don't be like this guy. 22 00:00:53,890 --> 00:00:57,970 Um- But what I did wanna tell you about, something that I, I learned recently, 23 00:00:58,050 --> 00:01:02,540 is, uh, there is this country that people believed to exist for about 100 24 00:01:02,550 --> 00:01:03,950 years, uh, more than that actually. 25 00:01:04,110 --> 00:01:04,870 It's called Frislandia. 26 00:01:06,370 --> 00:01:07,090 Frislandia. 27 00:01:07,140 --> 00:01:07,750 Ever heard of it? 28 00:01:08,310 --> 00:01:12,800 Um, it's not a real country, but it is really on real maps. 29 00:01:12,810 --> 00:01:16,190 So in the 1500s, back, you know, like think about explorers, right? 30 00:01:16,190 --> 00:01:20,410 Think like, you know, Magellan, and, um, Amerigo Vespucci, and 31 00:01:20,470 --> 00:01:21,930 Christopher Columbus, right? 32 00:01:21,930 --> 00:01:25,380 If you took your, your world history, or if you didn't, that's okay. 33 00:01:25,710 --> 00:01:28,359 Um, but when people were exploring, right, when they were trying to get to 34 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,649 America and they thought it was India, they thought there was a country up 35 00:01:32,679 --> 00:01:35,640 here by Iceland called Frislandia. 36 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,490 This is the best picture I could find, sorry. 37 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:40,459 Um, but hopefully you know that this is Iceland. 38 00:01:40,810 --> 00:01:44,200 Um, there was this country up here that people really thought existed, 39 00:01:44,470 --> 00:01:49,500 and for 100 years, like all the maps from this era have this country up 40 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:52,190 here, north of Ireland and the UK. 41 00:01:52,759 --> 00:01:56,940 And for a long time, and there, there's a explorer who, like, was one of the 42 00:01:56,940 --> 00:01:57,960 most famous explorers of the time. 43 00:01:58,479 --> 00:02:01,820 He went to Greenland and thought he was here. 44 00:02:02,709 --> 00:02:07,029 And so this whole time he had this map that was bad, right? 45 00:02:07,029 --> 00:02:07,960 He had a bad map, right? 46 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,228 This is supposed to be, I think Greenland, right? 47 00:02:10,589 --> 00:02:13,870 Um, G-R-O-E-N, right? 48 00:02:13,870 --> 00:02:15,750 That's like reading my notes from school. 49 00:02:16,019 --> 00:02:17,409 But Greenland, right? 50 00:02:17,410 --> 00:02:19,169 And then we've got Frislandia. 51 00:02:19,179 --> 00:02:22,020 So anyway, and look, there's like real cities that they thought 52 00:02:22,020 --> 00:02:23,949 existed on this, like, fake country. 53 00:02:24,650 --> 00:02:25,000 They like… 54 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,750 This is like a legit map from the time. 55 00:02:27,010 --> 00:02:31,779 Anyway, so this explorer basically, or this dude, his name is Zeno. 56 00:02:31,790 --> 00:02:35,668 He found a story from his ancestors about how they were exploring up here in like 57 00:02:35,668 --> 00:02:41,959 the 1300s, and he, like, just made up this island in his story about his ancestors. 58 00:02:42,309 --> 00:02:45,699 And he, it got published on like all the maps of the time. 59 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,009 And then actually, England claimed this land. 60 00:02:49,559 --> 00:02:51,529 They were like, "Yeah, that's our, that's our island. 61 00:02:51,629 --> 00:02:52,329 We own it." 62 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:53,559 They were like, "We were there. 63 00:02:53,559 --> 00:02:54,039 We did it. 64 00:02:54,049 --> 00:02:54,639 We got it." 65 00:02:54,690 --> 00:02:55,579 They really, I think… 66 00:02:55,610 --> 00:02:56,559 I don't even know where they went. 67 00:02:56,589 --> 00:02:59,789 They thought they landed here, and they were like, "We got it," right? 68 00:02:59,790 --> 00:03:03,530 Which is, imagine if you were, like, the explorer who, like, claimed this 69 00:03:03,530 --> 00:03:06,299 land for England, and then you found out actually, dude, you claimed 70 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:08,369 land that, like, doesn't exist. 71 00:03:08,779 --> 00:03:10,320 Like, literally does- it's not even there. 72 00:03:10,330 --> 00:03:12,839 Like, you could, you could sail to this spot on the map 73 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:14,290 and it wouldn't even be there. 74 00:03:14,679 --> 00:03:16,360 Would, like, would just be gone. 75 00:03:16,459 --> 00:03:18,920 You would just be like, "Uh, we should be on land right now," and you're 76 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:19,869 in the middle of the ocean, right? 77 00:03:21,044 --> 00:03:21,634 That would be… 78 00:03:21,644 --> 00:03:23,224 You'd feel so foolish, right? 79 00:03:23,224 --> 00:03:25,554 You'd be like, "Well, I'm- I feel like the dumbest person in the world." 80 00:03:26,014 --> 00:03:26,164 Right? 81 00:03:26,184 --> 00:03:29,994 My claim to fame is that I explored this land that doesn't even exist, right? 82 00:03:30,244 --> 00:03:35,704 So if you see the world the wrong way, you make a fool of yourself, right? 83 00:03:35,704 --> 00:03:38,824 If you, if you see the world, if you think things are, are one way and they're really 84 00:03:38,824 --> 00:03:40,644 not, it's really embarrassing for you. 85 00:03:41,094 --> 00:03:45,204 And what we're gonna see through God's word tonight is that God has set the 86 00:03:45,204 --> 00:03:50,344 world up a certain way, and that's, that's one way to view the world. 87 00:03:50,914 --> 00:03:53,704 But if you try to view it the opposite way, you're… 88 00:03:53,804 --> 00:03:55,853 You, you think maybe, "Oh yeah, I'm doing so good. 89 00:03:55,853 --> 00:03:57,224 I'm exploring, I'm discovering things. 90 00:03:57,224 --> 00:03:57,924 I'm d- I'm doing awesome." 91 00:03:57,924 --> 00:03:59,524 But really you're just gonna make a fool of yourself and 92 00:03:59,534 --> 00:04:01,464 be really, really embarrassed. 93 00:04:01,614 --> 00:04:01,934 Okay? 94 00:04:02,144 --> 00:04:05,144 And so really seeing the world is… 95 00:04:05,184 --> 00:04:06,404 has to do with humility. 96 00:04:06,644 --> 00:04:06,914 Okay? 97 00:04:06,914 --> 00:04:09,363 Humility, what I, what I want you to see tonight is that humility 98 00:04:09,364 --> 00:04:10,834 is a way of seeing the world. 99 00:04:10,934 --> 00:04:11,234 Okay? 100 00:04:11,234 --> 00:04:15,184 So we're gonna be in Proverbs 12, starting in verse 15. 101 00:04:15,324 --> 00:04:15,554 Okay? 102 00:04:15,554 --> 00:04:19,043 Humility is a way of seeing the world, and it's the right way to see the world. 103 00:04:19,334 --> 00:04:24,746 If you see the world In a proud way, right, a self-inflated way, you're 104 00:04:24,746 --> 00:04:27,206 gonna embarrass yourself or you're gonna make a fool of yourself. 105 00:04:27,376 --> 00:04:30,776 If you see the world as a humble person, that's the right way to see the world. 106 00:04:30,776 --> 00:04:31,076 Okay? 107 00:04:31,326 --> 00:04:34,026 Here's what we have in Proverbs 12:15. 108 00:04:34,406 --> 00:04:35,806 "The way of a fool," right? 109 00:04:35,806 --> 00:04:39,246 The, the path, the life, lifestyle of, of a foolish person. 110 00:04:39,246 --> 00:04:41,856 Remember in Proverbs, we got a wise person, foolish person, right? 111 00:04:41,856 --> 00:04:42,576 They're, they're opposites. 112 00:04:43,476 --> 00:04:45,106 "Is right in his own eyes." 113 00:04:45,406 --> 00:04:47,766 So this foolish person, he thinks … He's like, "Yeah, I got this. 114 00:04:47,846 --> 00:04:48,386 I'm smart. 115 00:04:48,436 --> 00:04:49,196 I know what I'm doing. 116 00:04:49,396 --> 00:04:50,466 I have my life together. 117 00:04:50,706 --> 00:04:51,476 I know what to do. 118 00:04:51,766 --> 00:04:53,886 I'm … I, I always am," right? 119 00:04:53,906 --> 00:04:55,436 "The, the smartest person in the room. 120 00:04:55,696 --> 00:04:57,906 I always have the winning side in arguing. 121 00:04:58,086 --> 00:05:00,376 I'm always the, the winner in the debate. 122 00:05:00,626 --> 00:05:02,956 I always know something that you don't know." 123 00:05:03,116 --> 00:05:03,336 Right? 124 00:05:03,336 --> 00:05:04,456 This, that's this type of person. 125 00:05:04,866 --> 00:05:07,486 I, "I always have something that you might not know," right? 126 00:05:07,486 --> 00:05:08,526 "I'm right in my own eyes. 127 00:05:08,976 --> 00:05:09,696 I got it figured out." 128 00:05:10,976 --> 00:05:13,576 "But a wise man listens to advice." 129 00:05:14,256 --> 00:05:18,556 So the person who's foolish thinks they're not, and that's what's so crazy 130 00:05:18,596 --> 00:05:20,166 about foolishness and wisdom, right? 131 00:05:20,166 --> 00:05:23,366 Is foolish people think they're not foolish, right? 132 00:05:23,615 --> 00:05:27,276 Foolishness is … It's kinda like one of the symptoms of being foolish is tricking 133 00:05:27,276 --> 00:05:28,925 yourself into thinking that you're not. 134 00:05:29,316 --> 00:05:32,926 Whereas being wise, you know I have more wisdom to gain. 135 00:05:33,275 --> 00:05:34,675 I'm not wise enough. 136 00:05:35,146 --> 00:05:36,135 I need advice. 137 00:05:36,186 --> 00:05:36,936 I need help. 138 00:05:38,466 --> 00:05:42,855 And so a wise person sees themself the right way. 139 00:05:42,906 --> 00:05:44,206 They see others the right way. 140 00:05:44,345 --> 00:05:45,926 They see God the right way. 141 00:05:46,006 --> 00:05:49,784 Whereas a foolish person, his, his world is all out of, out of sorts. 142 00:05:50,406 --> 00:05:53,616 He sees God as not very important. 143 00:05:54,205 --> 00:05:57,416 He sees himself as having it all together and having everything figured out. 144 00:05:57,416 --> 00:06:00,816 He sees other people as maybe, eh, sometimes useful, not that 145 00:06:00,816 --> 00:06:04,665 important, or maybe obstacles to what he wants to accomplish or what 146 00:06:04,665 --> 00:06:08,766 she wants to do, and that really is gonna end up being embarrassing. 147 00:06:09,375 --> 00:06:14,755 Whereas the wise person, they are humble, right? 148 00:06:14,756 --> 00:06:20,156 They, they know they need more wisdom, and that really is the best way to live. 149 00:06:20,866 --> 00:06:24,345 So all your points tonight, I don't know if you saw, start with look, right? 150 00:06:24,345 --> 00:06:26,095 So basically we're gonna, we're gonna see three looks. 151 00:06:26,116 --> 00:06:26,466 Okay? 152 00:06:26,606 --> 00:06:29,435 So we're gonna start with how do humble people look at God and 153 00:06:29,445 --> 00:06:30,586 how do proud people look at God. 154 00:06:30,586 --> 00:06:30,805 Okay? 155 00:06:30,805 --> 00:06:32,606 So first point, look at God, right? 156 00:06:32,606 --> 00:06:40,066 Look at God How do humble people see God versus how do proud people see God? 157 00:06:41,006 --> 00:06:44,226 And one of those ways will leave you really embarrassed and make a fool 158 00:06:44,226 --> 00:06:47,916 of yourself, and one of those ways will lead to life, to joy, right? 159 00:06:47,916 --> 00:06:49,456 To, to you being happy. 160 00:06:50,396 --> 00:06:54,436 To you standing before God one day and, and not having the 161 00:06:54,436 --> 00:06:55,746 worst day of your life, right? 162 00:06:55,886 --> 00:06:58,496 But having the, the best day of your life, where he says, "Enter 163 00:06:58,496 --> 00:06:59,786 into the joy of your master." 164 00:07:00,376 --> 00:07:04,426 So, how do wise people see God? 165 00:07:04,686 --> 00:07:10,026 Well, Proverbs 15:33 says, we talked about this before, "The fear of 166 00:07:10,026 --> 00:07:17,466 the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor." 167 00:07:18,646 --> 00:07:20,586 So we talked about this fear of the Lord, right? 168 00:07:20,586 --> 00:07:21,466 We talked about what that means. 169 00:07:22,136 --> 00:07:26,075 Basically, in case you, you, you haven't been with us in Proverbs, fear of the 170 00:07:26,075 --> 00:07:29,415 Lord means God is God and I'm not, right? 171 00:07:29,415 --> 00:07:31,266 Someone who fears the Lord, they let God be God. 172 00:07:31,596 --> 00:07:33,206 They don't just let God be life coach. 173 00:07:33,206 --> 00:07:35,056 They don't just let God be helpful. 174 00:07:35,226 --> 00:07:36,316 They let God be God. 175 00:07:36,556 --> 00:07:36,656 Right? 176 00:07:36,665 --> 00:07:37,546 God is in control. 177 00:07:37,546 --> 00:07:38,296 God is big. 178 00:07:38,395 --> 00:07:39,095 God is mighty. 179 00:07:39,096 --> 00:07:40,996 God is smarter than me. 180 00:07:40,996 --> 00:07:41,925 God loves me. 181 00:07:41,926 --> 00:07:42,916 He knows better than me. 182 00:07:43,985 --> 00:07:44,816 They let God be God. 183 00:07:44,826 --> 00:07:45,606 That's fearing the Lord. 184 00:07:46,555 --> 00:07:46,685 Right? 185 00:07:46,686 --> 00:07:50,295 It also means, in a sense, you, you do really fear the Lord. 186 00:07:50,896 --> 00:07:52,976 You do see, man, God is powerful. 187 00:07:53,096 --> 00:07:55,505 God is way bigger than anything I could come up with. 188 00:07:57,036 --> 00:08:01,746 That's what fear the Lord means, and it's related to humility, right? 189 00:08:01,746 --> 00:08:05,596 If you're proud, you will not fear the Lord, because y- you're not 190 00:08:05,596 --> 00:08:07,826 gonna think God is a big deal. 191 00:08:07,875 --> 00:08:09,066 You're not gonna think God is relevant. 192 00:08:09,066 --> 00:08:11,256 You're gonna think, "Well, you know, God is for people who need 193 00:08:11,256 --> 00:08:12,586 help sleeping at night," right? 194 00:08:12,735 --> 00:08:15,676 "Religion is just for people who, who need to make their conscience feel good 195 00:08:16,195 --> 00:08:17,725 or who need the warm fuzzies," right? 196 00:08:17,725 --> 00:08:19,485 Maybe you've heard an atheist say that, right? 197 00:08:19,875 --> 00:08:23,075 "It's just your moral crutch to, to help you deal with the problems in life." 198 00:08:23,695 --> 00:08:26,556 Or, you know, if you're a proud person, maybe you'll s- you'll say something 199 00:08:26,556 --> 00:08:29,276 like, "Well, you know, fearing the Lord, it's great for, great for you. 200 00:08:29,805 --> 00:08:30,385 I don't need it." 201 00:08:30,555 --> 00:08:30,745 Right? 202 00:08:30,746 --> 00:08:31,736 "True for you, not for me." 203 00:08:32,475 --> 00:08:34,655 That's something that a proud person would say about God. 204 00:08:35,216 --> 00:08:39,385 Or maybe something, something like, "Well, yeah, m- maybe that works 205 00:08:39,385 --> 00:08:42,926 for my parents, you know, or, or previous generations, but the, the 206 00:08:42,926 --> 00:08:47,266 Bible doesn't really have anything to say about my life right now in 2026. 207 00:08:47,646 --> 00:08:52,935 What God says in the Bible doesn't really matter for my problems, for my life, 208 00:08:52,946 --> 00:08:54,736 for my friends, for my circumstances." 209 00:08:55,525 --> 00:08:56,665 That's what a proud person says. 210 00:08:57,176 --> 00:08:57,266 Right? 211 00:08:57,275 --> 00:08:58,165 "God, you don't understand. 212 00:08:58,165 --> 00:08:58,616 You don't know. 213 00:08:58,625 --> 00:08:59,516 You don't know what it's like." 214 00:09:02,242 --> 00:09:04,392 If you're humble, you're gonna say, "God is God." 215 00:09:05,002 --> 00:09:05,172 Right? 216 00:09:05,172 --> 00:09:08,182 "God, God knows me better than I know me." 217 00:09:09,092 --> 00:09:09,272 Right? 218 00:09:09,272 --> 00:09:11,442 "God cares about me more than I care about me. 219 00:09:11,632 --> 00:09:14,122 God made me, and so I'm gonna let God be God. 220 00:09:14,342 --> 00:09:15,202 I'm gonna trust him." 221 00:09:15,782 --> 00:09:15,922 Right? 222 00:09:15,932 --> 00:09:18,202 That's what humble people do. 223 00:09:19,502 --> 00:09:22,372 And naturally, right, if you do fear the Lord, if you do think 224 00:09:22,372 --> 00:09:27,262 God really is who He says He is, you're gonna depend on God, right? 225 00:09:27,262 --> 00:09:30,932 Proverbs 13:13 says, "Whoever despises the word…" 226 00:09:30,942 --> 00:09:33,932 That word despise, we saw that in our very first series or our very 227 00:09:33,932 --> 00:09:35,102 first sermon in Proverbs, right? 228 00:09:35,292 --> 00:09:38,132 Despise, you think of someone who thinks something is, like, worthless. 229 00:09:38,572 --> 00:09:38,732 Right? 230 00:09:38,732 --> 00:09:39,792 Someone who looks down on something. 231 00:09:39,792 --> 00:09:43,921 Oh, not, you know, maybe, maybe you think, you know, you, you have a 232 00:09:43,922 --> 00:09:47,752 preference on, on what your favorite, uh, you know, ranch has been in the 233 00:09:47,752 --> 00:09:49,132 news lately, right, with, you know… 234 00:09:49,182 --> 00:09:50,702 You, you ever met a ranch snob? 235 00:09:50,792 --> 00:09:51,582 You know those people? 236 00:09:51,891 --> 00:09:54,352 They think, they're like, "Well, you know, this ranch is too watery, or 237 00:09:54,352 --> 00:09:57,381 this ranch or that, but, you know, that place, they've got the best ranch." 238 00:09:57,441 --> 00:09:59,092 Maybe you've never heard of anyone like that. 239 00:09:59,702 --> 00:10:01,882 Or I talked about my brother with his chocolate, right? 240 00:10:01,891 --> 00:10:04,612 He, he, he goes to Switzerland, and now he won't eat regular chocolate 241 00:10:04,612 --> 00:10:06,152 anymore 'cause he's had Swiss chocolate. 242 00:10:06,161 --> 00:10:08,572 He's like, "I'm not gonna eat milk chocolate in America. 243 00:10:08,572 --> 00:10:09,492 That's so lame," right? 244 00:10:09,532 --> 00:10:11,231 He despises American chocolate. 245 00:10:11,232 --> 00:10:12,132 He thinks it's beneath him. 246 00:10:12,522 --> 00:10:12,692 Right? 247 00:10:12,692 --> 00:10:13,471 It's not good enough for him. 248 00:10:13,482 --> 00:10:14,962 He's too good for it, right? 249 00:10:15,072 --> 00:10:17,862 If you're that way towards God, you're proud. 250 00:10:18,732 --> 00:10:21,651 You're saying, "What God says is beneath me, not good enough for me." 251 00:10:23,562 --> 00:10:24,922 Not relevant enough for me. 252 00:10:25,582 --> 00:10:26,742 Not important enough for me. 253 00:10:27,802 --> 00:10:28,902 That's being proud, right? 254 00:10:28,902 --> 00:10:30,502 Me, oh, it only matters when I'm older. 255 00:10:31,442 --> 00:10:33,912 That's you being proud, saying, "What God has to say doesn't 256 00:10:33,912 --> 00:10:35,022 matter for my life right now." 257 00:10:35,052 --> 00:10:37,152 You're despising it, right? 258 00:10:37,152 --> 00:10:41,812 So whoever despises the Word, right, God's Word, brings destruction on himself. 259 00:10:41,812 --> 00:10:43,042 This isn't just like a, oh, yeah. 260 00:10:43,082 --> 00:10:44,982 You know, I've heard Hindus say, "Hinduism's just the 261 00:10:44,992 --> 00:10:46,322 best way for you to live. 262 00:10:47,232 --> 00:10:49,412 It's one of the many ways, we just think it's the best way. 263 00:10:49,412 --> 00:10:50,342 That's why you should be a Hindu." 264 00:10:52,242 --> 00:10:55,572 What God says is, "It's the only good way for you to live. 265 00:10:56,472 --> 00:10:58,982 Every other way to live is self-destructive." 266 00:10:59,622 --> 00:11:04,242 And that's not God being prideful, right, and saying, "Oh, well, you 267 00:11:04,242 --> 00:11:09,181 know, everyone else who's, who's, who doesn't go my way is, like, way 268 00:11:09,182 --> 00:11:10,612 worse than people who go my way." 269 00:11:10,612 --> 00:11:12,712 The i- the idea there is God cares. 270 00:11:13,102 --> 00:11:15,692 He made you, and he says, "My way is so good for you, and 271 00:11:15,692 --> 00:11:16,752 I want you to live this way." 272 00:11:17,432 --> 00:11:17,512 Right? 273 00:11:17,522 --> 00:11:20,102 Every other way is self-destructive, and it's him protecting you. 274 00:11:21,192 --> 00:11:21,372 Right? 275 00:11:21,372 --> 00:11:24,002 If, if you knew someone was gonna drink poison, you wouldn't be 276 00:11:24,002 --> 00:11:24,772 like, "Oh, yeah, but it'll just… 277 00:11:24,811 --> 00:11:25,961 You know, that's just your diet. 278 00:11:26,202 --> 00:11:26,812 You do you." 279 00:11:27,791 --> 00:11:28,021 Right? 280 00:11:28,021 --> 00:11:29,971 If you cared about them, you'd say, "That's actually gonna kill you. 281 00:11:30,012 --> 00:11:30,682 That's bad for you." 282 00:11:30,901 --> 00:11:31,171 Right? 283 00:11:31,431 --> 00:11:34,842 Looking down on God's Word is poisonous. 284 00:11:35,012 --> 00:11:35,671 It's gonna kill you. 285 00:11:37,251 --> 00:11:40,271 But whoever reveres the commandment will be rewarded, right? 286 00:11:40,332 --> 00:11:43,761 Think about the opposites here, despise and revere, right? 287 00:11:43,762 --> 00:11:47,061 Someone who despises something, "It's not good enough for me." 288 00:11:47,361 --> 00:11:51,312 Someone who reveres something, like, "Wow, that's so cool. 289 00:11:51,681 --> 00:11:52,531 That's so awesome." 290 00:11:54,192 --> 00:11:54,412 Right? 291 00:11:54,422 --> 00:11:58,051 Like, imagine if, um, you know, you got a autographed jersey from, from 292 00:11:58,052 --> 00:11:59,552 your favorite, favorite player. 293 00:11:59,552 --> 00:12:02,371 Or imagine hypothetically, just hypothetically, imagine if you were 294 00:12:02,372 --> 00:12:07,342 golfing at, you know, PGA Omni, and, uh, you saw Cooper Flagg, right? 295 00:12:07,342 --> 00:12:09,312 And you got to take a picture with him, right? 296 00:12:09,321 --> 00:12:11,011 You'd be like, "Wow, this is so cool. 297 00:12:11,012 --> 00:12:13,542 This NBA player, you know, first pick in the NBA draft." 298 00:12:13,542 --> 00:12:15,402 It'd be so cool, right? 299 00:12:16,721 --> 00:12:18,491 You would have that, that sort of reverence. 300 00:12:18,512 --> 00:12:20,872 You know, maybe you'd even be scared to talk to him or something, right? 301 00:12:21,461 --> 00:12:25,841 Um, there's difference in attitude there, right? 302 00:12:26,262 --> 00:12:29,461 Humble people have a different type of attitude towards God and His Word. 303 00:12:30,342 --> 00:12:34,848 Prideful people don't Or there's this sense of dependence. 304 00:12:34,848 --> 00:12:37,658 I, I am helpless without God, right? 305 00:12:37,658 --> 00:12:40,558 If I don't follow God's way, I'm lost. 306 00:12:40,758 --> 00:12:41,518 I don't know what I'm gonna do. 307 00:12:42,218 --> 00:12:43,718 I, I'm, I'm gonna die. 308 00:12:44,528 --> 00:12:45,418 I need God. 309 00:12:45,468 --> 00:12:48,218 It's not just like, "Oh, yeah, I should do this 'cause my parents tell me to." 310 00:12:48,828 --> 00:12:49,718 It's that I need it. 311 00:12:49,828 --> 00:12:51,158 That's what humble people think. 312 00:12:51,568 --> 00:12:53,488 That's how they feel about God. 313 00:12:55,038 --> 00:12:58,988 It's not just like, "Oh, yeah, maybe sometimes I'll check 314 00:12:58,988 --> 00:12:59,968 out what God has to say." 315 00:13:00,658 --> 00:13:02,738 It's like, "No, I need to know what God has to say about everything 'cause 316 00:13:02,738 --> 00:13:04,808 I need God in every aspect of my life. 317 00:13:05,168 --> 00:13:09,398 I need God's wisdom for my friends, for how, who, who should I be friends 318 00:13:09,398 --> 00:13:10,208 with, how should I talk to them? 319 00:13:10,468 --> 00:13:13,138 I need God's wisdom for what job I should take, what college I should go to. 320 00:13:13,138 --> 00:13:15,168 I need God's wisdom for who I should date. 321 00:13:15,168 --> 00:13:17,638 I need God's wisdom for how I spend my time, how I spend my money." 322 00:13:18,188 --> 00:13:18,368 Right? 323 00:13:18,368 --> 00:13:21,418 You want it to impact all of you because you're like, "I need it." 324 00:13:21,938 --> 00:13:24,728 Not just, "Oh, yeah, it'd be helpful sometimes," but, "I need it." 325 00:13:24,768 --> 00:13:24,938 Right? 326 00:13:24,938 --> 00:13:27,528 That's how humble people feel about God 327 00:13:30,188 --> 00:13:32,658 Humble people also know, right, that they're not good enough, 328 00:13:33,378 --> 00:13:34,418 that they need God, right? 329 00:13:34,418 --> 00:13:35,628 That's, that's part of being humble. 330 00:13:35,818 --> 00:13:39,798 Proverbs 28:13 says, "Whoever conceals his transgressions will not 331 00:13:39,808 --> 00:13:45,048 prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy." 332 00:13:45,798 --> 00:13:48,488 Okay, so anyone who covers up their sin, right? 333 00:13:48,488 --> 00:13:50,438 If you're, if you think, "Oh, I'm gonna sin, but I'm not… 334 00:13:50,438 --> 00:13:51,278 No one's gonna find out about it. 335 00:13:51,278 --> 00:13:52,058 I'm not gonna tell anyone. 336 00:13:52,638 --> 00:13:54,258 I'm not gonna tell my friends, I'm not gonna tell my parents, I'm not 337 00:13:54,258 --> 00:13:55,148 gonna tell my small group leader. 338 00:13:55,498 --> 00:13:56,208 No one needs to know." 339 00:13:56,988 --> 00:14:00,368 Right, if you're that type of person, it's not gonna go well for you, right? 340 00:14:00,418 --> 00:14:01,358 You won't prosper. 341 00:14:02,268 --> 00:14:04,768 All the stuff you think you're gonna get out of hiding your sin, 342 00:14:05,808 --> 00:14:06,858 not gonna be helpful for you. 343 00:14:07,988 --> 00:14:08,938 That's what God's Word says. 344 00:14:09,998 --> 00:14:13,887 Now, if you think you can get away with it, oh, like, no, you know, no one, you 345 00:14:13,888 --> 00:14:16,958 know, I, I cleared my search history or, or no one heard the words I said 346 00:14:19,092 --> 00:14:20,272 That's not gonna go well for you 347 00:14:22,690 --> 00:14:23,700 'Cause one, God already knows. 348 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:25,400 He already saw you, right? 349 00:14:25,820 --> 00:14:31,220 But two, the way to, to obtain mercy from God, right, to have a s- restored 350 00:14:31,220 --> 00:14:34,680 relationship with God, is not pretending like you have it all together. 351 00:14:36,060 --> 00:14:37,410 It's to confess, right? 352 00:14:37,410 --> 00:14:39,130 To bring it into the light and say, "I am a sinner. 353 00:14:39,820 --> 00:14:41,190 I really thought those things. 354 00:14:41,620 --> 00:14:42,850 I really said those things. 355 00:14:42,860 --> 00:14:45,710 I really looked at those things," and own it. 356 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:46,890 Right? 357 00:14:46,890 --> 00:14:47,530 Confess. 358 00:14:47,780 --> 00:14:48,510 Agree, right? 359 00:14:48,860 --> 00:14:51,350 I say the same thing about myself that God says about me. 360 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:53,580 You don't try to minimize your sin. 361 00:14:53,580 --> 00:14:57,030 "Oh, well, you know, it was just, uh, just some white lies," or, "Uh, you 362 00:14:57,030 --> 00:14:58,790 know, everyone's anxious," or, "I just… 363 00:14:58,810 --> 00:15:01,500 They're just so annoying, I can't help but get angry," or, "I'm 364 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:02,760 just a guy," or, "I'm just a girl. 365 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:03,760 This is just how it is." 366 00:15:05,922 --> 00:15:06,862 You agree with God. 367 00:15:06,862 --> 00:15:07,472 This is sin. 368 00:15:07,492 --> 00:15:12,102 This is sin that deserves to be punished forever in hell 'cause it's against God. 369 00:15:13,452 --> 00:15:16,522 You say the same thing God says about your sin, and then you turn from it. 370 00:15:16,562 --> 00:15:17,202 You forsake it. 371 00:15:17,212 --> 00:15:17,652 You give it up. 372 00:15:17,672 --> 00:15:18,492 You say, "I'm not doing it anymore. 373 00:15:18,492 --> 00:15:19,232 I'm not living for that. 374 00:15:19,232 --> 00:15:20,152 That's not my life anymore. 375 00:15:20,152 --> 00:15:20,862 It's not who I am." 376 00:15:22,472 --> 00:15:27,552 And you run to God, and He gives you mercy, right? 377 00:15:27,552 --> 00:15:29,632 The, the people that hide their sin don't get mercy. 378 00:15:30,042 --> 00:15:32,602 The people who confess their sin get mercy. 379 00:15:33,302 --> 00:15:36,802 It's not the people who don't have sin that get mercy, right? 380 00:15:37,362 --> 00:15:38,692 'Cause everyone has sin. 381 00:15:39,592 --> 00:15:42,822 That's the whole point, is you're either hiding it or you're confessing it. 382 00:15:44,242 --> 00:15:45,731 There's n- there's no other option. 383 00:15:48,391 --> 00:15:51,712 And so a humble person is really the only type of person that goes to heaven. 384 00:15:52,782 --> 00:15:53,902 Maybe you've never thought about it that way. 385 00:15:54,032 --> 00:15:55,712 You will not go to heaven if you're proud 386 00:15:59,466 --> 00:16:01,586 James 4 says God opposes the proud. 387 00:16:02,696 --> 00:16:04,726 If you want God to be your enemy, be proud. 388 00:16:05,956 --> 00:16:06,766 Puff yourself up. 389 00:16:07,086 --> 00:16:08,226 Think you know better than God. 390 00:16:09,046 --> 00:16:10,256 Look down on other people. 391 00:16:10,576 --> 00:16:11,606 Focus on yourself. 392 00:16:13,466 --> 00:16:15,066 That's how you get God to oppose you 393 00:16:17,506 --> 00:16:24,196 But if you want a relationship with God that's full of grace, right, mercy, favor, 394 00:16:24,206 --> 00:16:27,736 love, you, you say, "God, I need you. 395 00:16:28,896 --> 00:16:31,116 I'm, I'm a sinner. 396 00:16:31,596 --> 00:16:32,226 I'm guilty. 397 00:16:32,756 --> 00:16:33,496 I'm not gonna hide it. 398 00:16:33,506 --> 00:16:34,606 I'm not gonna try to make up for it. 399 00:16:34,606 --> 00:16:38,686 I'm not gonna try to excuse it or minimize it or sanitize it or whatever. 400 00:16:39,886 --> 00:16:43,036 I'm gonna, I'm gonna confess it and turn from it." 401 00:16:43,976 --> 00:16:46,056 That's what humble people do with their sin. 402 00:16:47,926 --> 00:16:51,616 So humility starts with God, starts with who you think God is. 403 00:16:51,626 --> 00:16:54,686 Is God really God to you, or is He just kinda there? 404 00:16:55,906 --> 00:16:59,356 Is He sometimes helpful, or is He God, right? 405 00:16:59,356 --> 00:17:02,866 Is He the Lord of your life, or is He just, I hope I don't 406 00:17:02,866 --> 00:17:03,826 have to go to hell one day? 407 00:17:05,306 --> 00:17:09,445 Right, so humility starts with who you think God is, but then naturally 408 00:17:09,486 --> 00:17:11,454 it turns to who you think you are. 409 00:17:11,454 --> 00:17:13,726 So our second point is look at yourself 410 00:17:16,212 --> 00:17:17,051 Look at yourself 411 00:17:21,506 --> 00:17:26,866 See, humble people know that they don't have it all figured out. 412 00:17:27,726 --> 00:17:28,406 Right, there's a… 413 00:17:30,346 --> 00:17:33,716 Humble people have a healthy sense of distrust of themselves. 414 00:17:33,766 --> 00:17:36,376 They're like, "Oh, I might not be right. 415 00:17:37,956 --> 00:17:39,936 It's actually pretty likely that, that I'm wrong." 416 00:17:41,636 --> 00:17:46,236 There's a healthy sense of, "Okay, I think it should go this way, but I 417 00:17:46,236 --> 00:17:51,316 need other people to, to, to, to give their advice, and most importantly, I 418 00:17:51,316 --> 00:17:52,456 need to hear what God says about it." 419 00:17:53,076 --> 00:17:53,266 Right? 420 00:17:53,266 --> 00:17:57,866 Humble people know my ideas are usually not the best, and actually 421 00:17:57,866 --> 00:17:58,626 sometimes they're really bad. 422 00:17:59,986 --> 00:18:03,146 There's a, there's a healthy sense of distrust. 423 00:18:03,496 --> 00:18:07,196 Right, I don't know if you've ever felt that, where you're like, "You know what? 424 00:18:07,216 --> 00:18:09,136 I might totally have messed this up." 425 00:18:09,586 --> 00:18:10,786 Um, this happened a lot. 426 00:18:11,536 --> 00:18:14,626 I got to witness it, uh, firsthand when I was dating my wife. 427 00:18:15,056 --> 00:18:17,306 Um, she would often come home from work. 428 00:18:17,306 --> 00:18:19,976 She'd get halfway to work, and then she'd come back 'cause she'd be scared 429 00:18:19,986 --> 00:18:22,646 she'd left her hair straightener on and was gonna burn down her apartment. 430 00:18:23,705 --> 00:18:25,625 Guys, you ever, you ever felt that before, right? 431 00:18:25,976 --> 00:18:27,745 You ever feel like you left the hair straightener on, you're like, "Oh, 432 00:18:27,746 --> 00:18:28,956 my goodness, I might totally…" 433 00:18:29,156 --> 00:18:29,526 You know? 434 00:18:30,036 --> 00:18:30,326 Yeah. 435 00:18:30,686 --> 00:18:31,106 Um, 436 00:18:33,296 --> 00:18:37,656 so anyway, but there's a, the reason she goes back and doesn't go like, "Oh, it's 437 00:18:37,656 --> 00:18:44,106 fine, I got this," right, is because she knows, oh, I might have forgotten it. 438 00:18:44,106 --> 00:18:45,085 I really might have. 439 00:18:45,606 --> 00:18:45,776 Right? 440 00:18:45,786 --> 00:18:48,505 She's humble enough to say, "I really might have forgotten that. 441 00:18:48,955 --> 00:18:51,246 I really might have left it plugged in and left it on." 442 00:18:52,555 --> 00:18:52,915 Right? 443 00:18:53,176 --> 00:18:55,305 She, she knows I could have done that. 444 00:18:55,305 --> 00:18:55,375 Right? 445 00:18:55,396 --> 00:18:56,745 If, if you were proud, right, if my… 446 00:18:56,746 --> 00:19:00,006 If, if Shay was proud, she would've been like, "Oh, I, I never do that. 447 00:19:00,146 --> 00:19:00,786 Who would do that? 448 00:19:00,816 --> 00:19:01,726 Only losers do that. 449 00:19:01,726 --> 00:19:03,695 Why would I ever leave my hair straightener plugged in?" 450 00:19:04,125 --> 00:19:04,435 Right? 451 00:19:05,335 --> 00:19:08,435 But she distrusted herself enough to go back and check. 452 00:19:09,665 --> 00:19:09,945 Right? 453 00:19:09,985 --> 00:19:11,885 And that's what humble people do. 454 00:19:13,625 --> 00:19:14,426 They say, "You know what? 455 00:19:14,455 --> 00:19:16,315 I might not have done that right. 456 00:19:16,816 --> 00:19:19,375 I might not have done that perfectly, and honestly might not 457 00:19:19,375 --> 00:19:20,295 have even done that very well." 458 00:19:21,375 --> 00:19:25,176 There's a, there's a healthy sense of my way isn't always the best way. 459 00:19:25,585 --> 00:19:29,505 Proverbs 14:12 says, "There's a way that seems right to a man," right, or to a 460 00:19:29,506 --> 00:19:33,275 woman, "but its end is the way to death." 461 00:19:35,006 --> 00:19:39,756 What the Bible says about you and me is that we are messed up. 462 00:19:41,036 --> 00:19:45,756 Our sense of what's good for us and what's bad for us are often backward. 463 00:19:46,446 --> 00:19:47,155 They're often flipped. 464 00:19:48,575 --> 00:19:51,795 There's, there's a way that, that you and I think, "Oh, that, that's so good. 465 00:19:52,185 --> 00:19:53,225 I'd love to do that. 466 00:19:53,655 --> 00:19:55,215 I'd love to be friends with those people. 467 00:19:55,715 --> 00:19:57,005 I'd love to go to that school. 468 00:19:57,336 --> 00:19:59,695 I'd love to, to have this much money. 469 00:20:00,116 --> 00:20:01,795 I'd love to wear those clothes. 470 00:20:02,905 --> 00:20:04,775 I'd love to, to look this way. 471 00:20:06,226 --> 00:20:07,965 I'd love to, to be in that group." 472 00:20:10,624 --> 00:20:12,094 And it's actually horrible. 473 00:20:12,594 --> 00:20:15,264 Like, it's not even, right, it's not even just like, "Oh yeah, you 474 00:20:15,264 --> 00:20:18,004 know, that's like 10% worse than the other thing you could have picked." 475 00:20:18,144 --> 00:20:19,794 No, no, it's like gonna kill you. 476 00:20:20,584 --> 00:20:21,814 Then we're like, "Oh, that sounds great. 477 00:20:21,814 --> 00:20:22,304 I love that." 478 00:20:25,812 --> 00:20:25,892 Right? 479 00:20:25,932 --> 00:20:29,382 The Bible is very clear that, that you and me are really bad 480 00:20:29,382 --> 00:20:31,012 at knowing what's good for us. 481 00:20:32,242 --> 00:20:35,332 And that's how humble people look at themselves. 482 00:20:35,332 --> 00:20:35,972 They say, "You know what? 483 00:20:36,042 --> 00:20:43,812 I, I, I have a, a messed up way of looking at the world because I'm a sinner. 484 00:20:43,932 --> 00:20:44,632 I'm infected" 485 00:20:47,690 --> 00:20:51,410 I often think that things that are good for me are actually bad for me, right? 486 00:20:51,410 --> 00:20:54,110 I often think that, oh, time in God's Word, it's boring, it's hard to 487 00:20:54,110 --> 00:20:55,270 understand, it's a waste of my time. 488 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,620 I often think that praying is just, uh, uh, well, it's hard to focus, it's 489 00:20:59,620 --> 00:21:00,660 not worth it, I'm not gonna do it. 490 00:21:01,140 --> 00:21:04,560 I often think that, oh, hearing a sermon, going to church, it's, you 491 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:08,070 know, it's just, it's old, it's hard to, to, you know, it's what adults do. 492 00:21:08,070 --> 00:21:08,980 It's not on my level. 493 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,420 It's not relatable to me, right? 494 00:21:12,672 --> 00:21:14,662 I think things that are good for me are bad for me. 495 00:21:16,592 --> 00:21:16,682 Right? 496 00:21:16,722 --> 00:21:18,742 Or, or talking to that person, being friends with that person 497 00:21:18,742 --> 00:21:22,842 that no one else is friends with, oh, that's, you know, that's gonna 498 00:21:22,842 --> 00:21:26,302 make me look bad, or, uh, it's not very cool, or something like that. 499 00:21:27,882 --> 00:21:29,412 We think that's, that's a good thing to do. 500 00:21:29,612 --> 00:21:31,192 That's a loving thing, a humble thing to do. 501 00:21:31,322 --> 00:21:32,592 And we think, "Oh, it's not my thing. 502 00:21:33,272 --> 00:21:34,042 Someone else can do that." 503 00:21:34,762 --> 00:21:34,882 Right? 504 00:21:34,882 --> 00:21:39,262 Or, or obeying my parents, or loving my siblings, or being patient, right? 505 00:21:39,262 --> 00:21:40,672 We think those things are gonna be bad for us. 506 00:21:40,852 --> 00:21:42,552 But really, those are, those are the best things to do. 507 00:21:42,832 --> 00:21:45,272 And then we think the things that are bad for us are good for us. 508 00:21:45,272 --> 00:21:46,332 We're like, "Oh, yeah, sign me up. 509 00:21:46,882 --> 00:21:52,742 I'd love to, to embrace the world and all the values that, that the world has. 510 00:21:52,771 --> 00:21:56,102 I'd love to, to wear the clothes that the world wants me to wear. 511 00:21:56,102 --> 00:22:00,202 I'd love to, to go hang out with the people that the world 512 00:22:00,202 --> 00:22:01,342 wants me to hang out with. 513 00:22:01,412 --> 00:22:05,242 I'd love to pursue myself and, and my desires and, and my pleasures 514 00:22:07,458 --> 00:22:11,678 So we often think that those things are good for us, and 515 00:22:11,678 --> 00:22:12,578 really they're gonna kill us 516 00:22:14,988 --> 00:22:17,598 A couple other proverbs that, that show that same thing. 517 00:22:19,078 --> 00:22:21,158 And there are those who are clean in their own eyes, but 518 00:22:21,158 --> 00:22:22,988 are not washed of their filth. 519 00:22:23,148 --> 00:22:25,528 That was just, like, such a memorable proverb, I had to put it in here. 520 00:22:26,598 --> 00:22:27,198 And maybe that's you. 521 00:22:27,228 --> 00:22:28,898 Maybe you think, "I'm right with God. 522 00:22:29,328 --> 00:22:30,078 I go to church. 523 00:22:30,238 --> 00:22:31,058 I know the Bible. 524 00:22:31,988 --> 00:22:32,838 I'm a good person. 525 00:22:33,198 --> 00:22:33,998 I don't do drugs. 526 00:22:34,968 --> 00:22:37,778 I eat my vegetables," right? 527 00:22:37,818 --> 00:22:38,568 "I'm a good person. 528 00:22:38,788 --> 00:22:40,968 I drive only five over the speed limit. 529 00:22:40,988 --> 00:22:41,888 I'm a good person," right? 530 00:22:41,888 --> 00:22:42,448 Maybe that's you. 531 00:22:43,568 --> 00:22:47,768 Maybe you're clean in your own eyes, but before God, you're filthy. 532 00:22:48,828 --> 00:22:54,488 Because on the inside, you're a hypocrite, you're prideful, you're distrusting Him. 533 00:22:55,357 --> 00:22:56,348 You think God's lame. 534 00:22:58,158 --> 00:22:59,568 You gossip behind people's back. 535 00:22:59,598 --> 00:23:01,288 Maybe you, you get angry at people, but you don't say 536 00:23:01,288 --> 00:23:02,288 anything, you just hold it in. 537 00:23:03,148 --> 00:23:06,767 You think you're clean, but before God, you are guilty. 538 00:23:07,308 --> 00:23:07,877 Maybe that's you. 539 00:23:09,677 --> 00:23:11,478 It's really easy for us to think that way. 540 00:23:11,478 --> 00:23:12,328 That's what humble people think. 541 00:23:12,328 --> 00:23:15,158 Humble people think, "Oh, it'd be easy for me to trick myself into 542 00:23:15,158 --> 00:23:16,348 thinking I'm okay when I'm really not." 543 00:23:17,308 --> 00:23:18,817 A proud person thinks, "Oh, no way I'm wrong. 544 00:23:19,158 --> 00:23:19,608 No way." 545 00:23:22,466 --> 00:23:23,256 Similar idea here. 546 00:23:23,916 --> 00:23:27,736 "Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks 547 00:23:27,736 --> 00:23:29,346 in wisdom will be delivered." 548 00:23:30,536 --> 00:23:35,076 All right, someone who relies on their own ideas, their own conception of 549 00:23:35,086 --> 00:23:37,506 the world, God says that's foolish. 550 00:23:38,576 --> 00:23:38,736 Right? 551 00:23:38,736 --> 00:23:39,756 You never ask people for help. 552 00:23:40,536 --> 00:23:43,326 You don't ever wanna talk to people who are older than you or wiser than you 553 00:23:43,356 --> 00:23:44,946 to get their, their input on things. 554 00:23:45,376 --> 00:23:46,446 You think you got it figured out. 555 00:23:47,096 --> 00:23:49,336 You think your parents are lame and boring and they don't have 556 00:23:49,336 --> 00:23:50,176 anything good to say to you. 557 00:23:52,036 --> 00:23:53,166 You're trusting in yourself 558 00:23:57,620 --> 00:23:57,690 Right? 559 00:23:57,730 --> 00:24:00,290 Humble people are, are ready and willing to be wrong. 560 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,340 They're not holding on to, "I need to be right. 561 00:24:03,340 --> 00:24:03,860 I need to be right. 562 00:24:03,860 --> 00:24:04,380 I need to be right." 563 00:24:05,990 --> 00:24:08,360 And humble people assume that we have a lot of problems. 564 00:24:09,590 --> 00:24:12,550 And that's true, right? 565 00:24:12,550 --> 00:24:14,700 If you don't think you are, then you're actually… 566 00:24:14,930 --> 00:24:16,750 If you think you have it all together, you're actually crazy. 567 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:18,590 Maybe you never thought about it like that 568 00:24:20,852 --> 00:24:24,372 Um, another angle to take on that, 'cause maybe you're thinking, "Oh, 569 00:24:24,372 --> 00:24:26,842 does that mean God just wants me to hate myself and think I'm a loser 570 00:24:26,842 --> 00:24:27,842 and I can't do anything right?" 571 00:24:30,722 --> 00:24:33,362 The, the Bible talks about looking at yourself. 572 00:24:33,372 --> 00:24:35,062 It uses this word called sober judgment. 573 00:24:35,062 --> 00:24:40,082 Okay, in Romans 12:3, he says, "Everyone among you, don't think of 574 00:24:40,082 --> 00:24:41,662 yourself more highly than you are." 575 00:24:41,802 --> 00:24:41,982 Right? 576 00:24:41,982 --> 00:24:44,092 Don't have an inflated opinion of yourself. 577 00:24:44,872 --> 00:24:44,982 Right? 578 00:24:45,002 --> 00:24:46,382 Don't think, you know… 579 00:24:46,572 --> 00:24:49,502 You ever see those videos of the NFL players or NBA players, they see their, 580 00:24:49,502 --> 00:24:51,392 like, Madden ratings or their 2K ratings? 581 00:24:51,602 --> 00:24:55,421 And they're like, "There's no way I'm a s- 86 sprint speed," or, you 582 00:24:55,422 --> 00:24:56,722 know, "There's no way I, I'm…" 583 00:24:56,722 --> 00:24:57,162 Whatever, right? 584 00:24:57,162 --> 00:24:58,242 They're, they're like, "There's no way. 585 00:24:58,542 --> 00:24:59,671 I'm way higher than that." 586 00:24:59,852 --> 00:25:00,102 Right? 587 00:25:00,102 --> 00:25:00,592 They've gotta… 588 00:25:00,631 --> 00:25:02,272 They think of themselves more highly than they are. 589 00:25:02,762 --> 00:25:02,962 Right? 590 00:25:02,962 --> 00:25:04,422 They have an inflated view of themself. 591 00:25:05,722 --> 00:25:08,732 Instead, it says, "Think of yourself with sober judgment." 592 00:25:08,872 --> 00:25:08,962 Right? 593 00:25:09,002 --> 00:25:12,952 Maybe you only heard the word sober in a, in an alcoholic context, right? 594 00:25:13,292 --> 00:25:16,451 But the idea here is you're looking at yourself the right way. 595 00:25:17,142 --> 00:25:17,212 Right? 596 00:25:17,222 --> 00:25:19,162 You're not saying, you're not looking at yourself… 597 00:25:19,162 --> 00:25:19,341 Don't… 598 00:25:19,521 --> 00:25:22,312 Notice he doesn't say, "Think of yourself more lowly than you are." 599 00:25:23,702 --> 00:25:26,172 He says sober, right? 600 00:25:26,172 --> 00:25:27,291 Clear, clear-headed. 601 00:25:28,141 --> 00:25:29,202 You see it the right way. 602 00:25:29,222 --> 00:25:31,092 You see yourself for who you really are. 603 00:25:32,022 --> 00:25:35,062 Not less than you are, but not more than you are. 604 00:25:36,042 --> 00:25:36,802 Who you really are. 605 00:25:37,622 --> 00:25:40,342 When I was in, in health class in school, they gave us these, uh, 606 00:25:40,641 --> 00:25:42,012 they called them drunk goggles. 607 00:25:42,832 --> 00:25:46,111 And so, 'cause, uh, what they did, 'cause you know how if, like, so if 608 00:25:46,141 --> 00:25:49,432 you're driving and, and the, and the, your, the police officer pulls you over 609 00:25:49,432 --> 00:25:51,911 'cause he thinks you're intoxicated, he's gonna have you do, like, some tests. 610 00:25:52,131 --> 00:25:53,132 You know, he has you, like, walk… 611 00:25:53,151 --> 00:25:55,042 Well, you don't know this 'cause you've never done this, right? 612 00:25:55,442 --> 00:25:56,121 Um, I hope. 613 00:25:56,361 --> 00:25:57,672 Um, but he… 614 00:25:57,732 --> 00:25:58,912 Uh, I don't know this from experience. 615 00:25:58,912 --> 00:26:00,931 Never happened to me, just so, just so we're clear. 616 00:26:01,192 --> 00:26:04,461 Um, but what they told me is that if you're, if the police officer 617 00:26:04,461 --> 00:26:06,431 pulls you over, he thinks you're intoxicated, what he has you do, he 618 00:26:06,431 --> 00:26:09,781 has you, you know, sometimes they make you, like, say, you know, some, some 619 00:26:09,781 --> 00:26:12,962 sentences to, to, to, you know, if you're slurring your words, whatever. 620 00:26:13,151 --> 00:26:15,321 But one thing they have you do is they have you, like, like, walk in 621 00:26:15,321 --> 00:26:18,351 a line like this and then, like, touch your, your fingers to your 622 00:26:18,351 --> 00:26:20,111 nose and do something like that. 623 00:26:20,501 --> 00:26:23,042 And so they gave us the drunk goggles, and they put the drunk 624 00:26:23,042 --> 00:26:26,041 goggles on, and what those do is they make it feel like you're drunk. 625 00:26:26,311 --> 00:26:27,062 And so you can't… 626 00:26:27,071 --> 00:26:32,592 Y- your balance is totally off, and you c- you literally cannot do this when you 627 00:26:32,592 --> 00:26:36,072 have the goggles on because you, you're not seeing the world the right way. 628 00:26:36,781 --> 00:26:38,661 It's like, you know, when you get o- get off a… 629 00:26:40,011 --> 00:26:40,251 Not… 630 00:26:40,281 --> 00:26:42,411 The, you know the teacup ride, the thing that spins, right? 631 00:26:42,412 --> 00:26:43,071 What are those called? 632 00:26:44,942 --> 00:26:45,062 Teacups. 633 00:26:45,062 --> 00:26:45,082 Teacup rides. 634 00:26:45,082 --> 00:26:46,592 No, but, like, 'cause they're at parks, too. 635 00:26:46,942 --> 00:26:48,181 But they're not teacups all the time. 636 00:26:48,181 --> 00:26:48,421 Anyway. 637 00:26:50,031 --> 00:26:50,362 Spinny things. 638 00:26:50,362 --> 00:26:51,381 The spinny things, yes. 639 00:26:52,832 --> 00:26:53,172 Spinning teacups. 640 00:26:53,172 --> 00:26:53,551 Spinning teacups. 641 00:26:53,641 --> 00:26:53,931 Okay. 642 00:26:54,121 --> 00:26:54,831 That sometimes aren't t… 643 00:26:54,841 --> 00:26:55,652 Those things, right? 644 00:26:56,311 --> 00:26:59,601 You're, you can't walk because the world is spinning, right? 645 00:26:59,602 --> 00:27:01,271 You're not seeing the world the right way. 646 00:27:01,772 --> 00:27:03,632 In a sense, you're, you're not sober, right? 647 00:27:03,632 --> 00:27:04,531 You're not clear-headed. 648 00:27:11,766 --> 00:27:11,796 Right? 649 00:27:11,796 --> 00:27:11,896 Humility is not hating yourself or putting yourself down, okay? 650 00:27:11,896 --> 00:27:12,806 It's seeing yourself for who you really are, right? 651 00:27:12,826 --> 00:27:15,336 So, so maybe you think, "Oh, I'm so humble because I think 652 00:27:15,336 --> 00:27:16,506 God would never forgive me." 653 00:27:18,526 --> 00:27:19,716 That's actually not being humble. 654 00:27:19,716 --> 00:27:22,416 That's being prideful, 'cause that's you saying, "God's grace is 655 00:27:22,416 --> 00:27:24,266 too small and my sin is too big." 656 00:27:25,766 --> 00:27:27,776 That's really self-focused of you. 657 00:27:28,776 --> 00:27:31,016 That's actually you minimizing God, right? 658 00:27:31,016 --> 00:27:34,316 If you think God would never forgive you because of what you've done, or 659 00:27:34,316 --> 00:27:36,616 maybe you're someone who thinks, "Oh, well, people just don't understand me. 660 00:27:36,616 --> 00:27:37,966 They don't know what my problems are like. 661 00:27:38,016 --> 00:27:39,576 They don't know what my circumstances are like. 662 00:27:39,696 --> 00:27:41,326 They don't know, you don't know what it's like to be me." 663 00:27:44,322 --> 00:27:47,332 That's actually really prideful of you to say that. 664 00:27:48,252 --> 00:27:51,392 'Cause what you're saying is, "No one in the history of the world has ever 665 00:27:51,402 --> 00:27:52,862 been through what I'm going through. 666 00:27:53,462 --> 00:27:55,952 I'm the only person who knows what it's like to feel like this." 667 00:27:56,572 --> 00:27:57,672 Which first of all, God knows. 668 00:27:58,502 --> 00:27:59,292 God knows everything. 669 00:28:00,222 --> 00:28:05,802 He can empathize with you and how you feel, right? 670 00:28:06,412 --> 00:28:11,112 Um, but also, you're, you're saying that, "Yeah, no one else can understand me." 671 00:28:11,772 --> 00:28:11,872 Right? 672 00:28:11,872 --> 00:28:12,992 It's very self-focused. 673 00:28:14,742 --> 00:28:16,372 Or maybe you're saying, "Oh, I wish I was different," right? 674 00:28:16,372 --> 00:28:16,872 "I hate myself. 675 00:28:16,872 --> 00:28:17,972 I wish, I wish I looked different. 676 00:28:17,972 --> 00:28:19,202 I wish I felt different. 677 00:28:19,202 --> 00:28:22,032 I, I wish all this stuff was different about me." 678 00:28:23,912 --> 00:28:25,142 But again, that's not being humble. 679 00:28:26,562 --> 00:28:26,722 Right? 680 00:28:26,722 --> 00:28:30,821 If you're out there saying, "Oh, I wish I had, you know, more of this or, or less 681 00:28:30,822 --> 00:28:34,372 of this," or, "I wish I looked like this," or, "I wish I wasn't like that," right? 682 00:28:34,642 --> 00:28:37,251 That's a lot of self-focus, right? 683 00:28:37,252 --> 00:28:41,412 And we're gonna talk about this, this soon, but really that's you focusing on 684 00:28:41,412 --> 00:28:46,332 yourself, and it's you looking at yourself in a way that's not even true, right? 685 00:28:46,332 --> 00:28:48,472 'Cause what you're saying is, "God, you made me wrong. 686 00:28:49,612 --> 00:28:50,522 You messed up, God." 687 00:28:52,732 --> 00:28:55,272 You're accusing God which is not a good place to be 688 00:29:00,674 --> 00:29:05,934 So really, if you're someone who thinks of yourself too highly, 689 00:29:05,934 --> 00:29:08,784 obviously you're, you're crazy, right? 690 00:29:08,904 --> 00:29:09,904 You're, you're not sober. 691 00:29:10,514 --> 00:29:13,534 But if you think of yourself too lowly, right, if you're someone who maybe 692 00:29:13,534 --> 00:29:18,094 hates themselves, um, you're, you're not seeing yourself soberly either, right? 693 00:29:18,094 --> 00:29:19,184 You're not seeing yourself clearly 694 00:29:21,378 --> 00:29:23,568 Or you're looking at yourself with the wrong eyes, right? 695 00:29:23,568 --> 00:29:25,598 You're listening to the wrong voice, right? 696 00:29:25,898 --> 00:29:28,978 You're judging yourself by the wrong standards. 697 00:29:30,288 --> 00:29:33,438 You're judging yourself by maybe the world's standards or the standards 698 00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:36,358 you see on Instagram, and that's why you feel the way you feel. 699 00:29:37,158 --> 00:29:39,278 Or you're telling yourself the things that the world tells you. 700 00:29:39,278 --> 00:29:40,998 You're not telling you what God says to you. 701 00:29:41,008 --> 00:29:41,028 All 702 00:29:43,348 --> 00:29:43,528 right. 703 00:29:43,528 --> 00:29:46,138 My mom had this sticky note, and it's been ingrained in my head, and 704 00:29:46,138 --> 00:29:48,778 it was really cheesy, but it works, and it says, "The truest thing about 705 00:29:48,778 --> 00:29:49,968 you is what God says about you." 706 00:29:51,178 --> 00:29:51,358 Right? 707 00:29:51,358 --> 00:29:53,158 You can make up whatever you want about yourself. 708 00:29:53,278 --> 00:29:55,688 The world can tell you whatever it thinks about who you are and what 709 00:29:55,688 --> 00:29:57,298 you're like and what you're supposed to do and what you're supposed to be. 710 00:29:58,608 --> 00:30:01,148 But what really matters is what God says about you, 'cause that's what's true. 711 00:30:01,977 --> 00:30:02,688 That's what you can rely on. 712 00:30:02,688 --> 00:30:03,458 And that's what humble people do. 713 00:30:03,458 --> 00:30:04,448 They take God at His word. 714 00:30:04,748 --> 00:30:08,528 God gets to define who I am and what I'm like and what I should be, right? 715 00:30:08,528 --> 00:30:10,777 Not the world, not myself, not my expectations, not 716 00:30:10,778 --> 00:30:11,857 my parents, not my friends. 717 00:30:12,757 --> 00:30:14,348 God defines who I am. 718 00:30:15,038 --> 00:30:19,117 What He says about me is true, and you take Him at His word 719 00:30:22,562 --> 00:30:28,042 But also, we talk about how humble people look at themselves, right? 720 00:30:28,042 --> 00:30:29,492 We said they don't really trust themselves. 721 00:30:30,122 --> 00:30:31,452 They look at themselves clearly. 722 00:30:31,822 --> 00:30:34,402 Um, but also they don't look at themselves very much. 723 00:30:35,432 --> 00:30:39,622 Uh, Philippians 2:4 says, "Let each of you not look only to his own interests." 724 00:30:39,622 --> 00:30:41,322 This is kinda Yoda speech right here, right? 725 00:30:41,332 --> 00:30:44,592 Don't look out for only your own interests, but also to 726 00:30:44,592 --> 00:30:45,452 the interests of others. 727 00:30:45,972 --> 00:30:49,062 So don't just think about what do I want, what do I need, what do I need to have 728 00:30:49,062 --> 00:30:52,122 a good day, what am I gonna do today, how am I gonna make myself happy, right? 729 00:30:52,132 --> 00:30:54,262 Think about other people, right? 730 00:30:54,262 --> 00:30:56,121 How can I encourage someone? 731 00:30:56,621 --> 00:30:57,462 How can I serve someone? 732 00:30:57,462 --> 00:30:58,342 How can I love someone? 733 00:30:59,371 --> 00:30:59,542 Right? 734 00:30:59,542 --> 00:31:02,071 Humble people don't really think about themselves. 735 00:31:02,812 --> 00:31:04,632 It … And maybe this is kinda sound weird to you. 736 00:31:04,632 --> 00:31:08,902 Humble people aren't really worried about how humble they are, 'cause they're 737 00:31:08,902 --> 00:31:10,781 too busy worrying about other people. 738 00:31:11,432 --> 00:31:15,141 They're too busy worrying about how can I, how can I be a blessing to my friends? 739 00:31:15,312 --> 00:31:16,392 How can I be a good friend today? 740 00:31:16,972 --> 00:31:18,781 How can I be a good son or daughter today? 741 00:31:18,781 --> 00:31:20,042 How can I be a good sibling today? 742 00:31:21,911 --> 00:31:24,132 They're not stopping to worry about, oh, am I being humble enough? 743 00:31:25,722 --> 00:31:28,172 What they're worrying about is how can I, how can I love someone? 744 00:31:28,181 --> 00:31:29,192 How can I honor God today? 745 00:31:29,322 --> 00:31:30,052 What does that look like? 746 00:31:30,761 --> 00:31:32,522 If you're worried about that, you don't really have to worry 747 00:31:32,522 --> 00:31:33,972 about how humble you are, right? 748 00:31:35,422 --> 00:31:39,072 Uh, the phrase that a lot of people talk about with humility, they say, 749 00:31:39,242 --> 00:31:41,181 "Humility isn't thinking less of yourself. 750 00:31:41,522 --> 00:31:43,502 It's thinking of yourself less." 751 00:31:44,882 --> 00:31:48,941 You're not, you're just not that concerned with oh, w- what do I get out of this? 752 00:31:49,702 --> 00:31:51,261 Doesn't really bother you, 'cause you're not in it for that. 753 00:31:52,382 --> 00:31:53,972 You're in it for how can I honor God here? 754 00:31:54,181 --> 00:31:55,051 How can I serve the Lord? 755 00:31:55,051 --> 00:31:55,871 How can I make him look good? 756 00:31:55,882 --> 00:31:57,262 How can I bless my friends? 757 00:31:58,062 --> 00:32:00,011 That's what you're in it for, and so you're not really worried about oh, 758 00:32:00,011 --> 00:32:03,972 I didn't get everything I wanted out of that, 'cause it's like, "Oh, cool. 759 00:32:04,401 --> 00:32:10,071 I encouraged my friend, or I grew from … I gained wisdom from that." 760 00:32:12,011 --> 00:32:17,451 So the way humble people look at themselves is kind of just not very much. 761 00:32:18,282 --> 00:32:18,442 Right? 762 00:32:18,442 --> 00:32:22,431 They look at themselves some, but mostly they're concerned about, about 763 00:32:22,431 --> 00:32:26,042 God and His glory and about other people and how they can serve them. 764 00:32:26,042 --> 00:32:28,002 And so our third point is look at others. 765 00:32:29,361 --> 00:32:33,261 And humble people usually look outward, not inward. 766 00:32:40,436 --> 00:32:44,246 So Philippians 2:4 is what we just saw, right? 767 00:32:44,246 --> 00:32:46,266 Don't look at, out for yourself. 768 00:32:46,266 --> 00:32:49,096 Don't always be coming to, coming to your, your class or, or 769 00:32:49,096 --> 00:32:52,036 True North, or, you know, going home thinking, "What do I need? 770 00:32:52,036 --> 00:32:52,666 What do I want? 771 00:32:52,686 --> 00:32:56,306 How do I establish my rules," right? 772 00:32:56,996 --> 00:32:57,896 But think about others. 773 00:32:57,896 --> 00:32:59,266 But right before that, here's what it says. 774 00:32:59,486 --> 00:33:02,876 "Do nothing from selfish ambition," right? 775 00:33:02,946 --> 00:33:04,336 So you all know what that means, right? 776 00:33:04,416 --> 00:33:05,216 I want this. 777 00:33:05,226 --> 00:33:07,796 These are my goals for today, my agenda for how this is gonna go. 778 00:33:08,766 --> 00:33:09,976 Or conceit, right? 779 00:33:09,976 --> 00:33:12,236 That means basically, uh, when someone's conceited, it's, they 780 00:33:12,406 --> 00:33:13,336 think they're better than you. 781 00:33:14,726 --> 00:33:17,276 Right, and something interesting about how God set up the world, do you notice that 782 00:33:17,276 --> 00:33:21,166 whenever you see someone who you think is prideful, you wanna, like, tear them down? 783 00:33:21,556 --> 00:33:25,616 You want them to, like, you know, come down to Earth a little bit. 784 00:33:26,156 --> 00:33:28,236 Like, maybe you're watching the World Cup and there's a player who's, 785 00:33:28,236 --> 00:33:31,076 like, s- you know, bragging all the time and doing all this stuff. 786 00:33:31,076 --> 00:33:32,976 Like, did you see that guy from France was, like, yelling at 787 00:33:32,976 --> 00:33:34,276 the goalkeeper from Cape Verde? 788 00:33:34,276 --> 00:33:36,626 And I was like, "Dude, seriously? 789 00:33:36,716 --> 00:33:39,366 You're, like, angry at the goalkeeper from Cape Verde? 790 00:33:39,456 --> 00:33:42,025 Like, you just won a game, and now you're yelling at this…" 791 00:33:42,066 --> 00:33:43,746 Anyway, right, but we want him to… 792 00:33:43,746 --> 00:33:44,896 Like, we're like, "Oh, that's so lame. 793 00:33:44,896 --> 00:33:45,435 Why is he doing that?" 794 00:33:45,896 --> 00:33:46,156 Right? 795 00:33:47,216 --> 00:33:50,035 But then when you see someone who's humble, who's, like, not getting what 796 00:33:50,036 --> 00:33:53,216 you think they should, you're like, "Oh, they, they deserve recognition. 797 00:33:53,216 --> 00:33:54,265 They deserve praise," right? 798 00:33:54,575 --> 00:33:58,625 God has set up the world for you to, to think humility is awesome 799 00:33:58,706 --> 00:34:00,315 and pride is so unattractive. 800 00:34:00,816 --> 00:34:01,006 Right? 801 00:34:01,006 --> 00:34:03,866 You don't wanna be around someone who's all about themselves. 802 00:34:04,895 --> 00:34:04,995 Right? 803 00:34:05,005 --> 00:34:08,745 The way God has set up the world is we love humble people. 804 00:34:09,735 --> 00:34:14,286 We just don't always wanna be a humble person because that hurts us, right? 805 00:34:15,856 --> 00:34:16,554 Here's what he says. 806 00:34:16,636 --> 00:34:21,056 "Don't do anything from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others 807 00:34:21,215 --> 00:34:23,065 more significant than yourselves." 808 00:34:23,856 --> 00:34:25,235 Which that's really hard to do, right? 809 00:34:25,235 --> 00:34:27,786 Because the problem is, is, is you and me, if we're honest, we're 810 00:34:27,786 --> 00:34:30,005 wired to put me first, right? 811 00:34:30,014 --> 00:34:31,356 You're wired to put you first. 812 00:34:32,005 --> 00:34:36,324 And so really being a Christian is undoing yourself. 813 00:34:37,596 --> 00:34:42,195 'Cause you take yourself off the throne of your life and you put God on the throne 814 00:34:42,196 --> 00:34:46,165 of your life, and now your main concern isn't, "What do I get out of this?" 815 00:34:47,284 --> 00:34:52,005 But instead you're saying, "Oh, other people, what they need is 816 00:34:52,005 --> 00:34:53,085 more important than what I need." 817 00:34:54,076 --> 00:34:54,666 Isn't that crazy? 818 00:34:55,344 --> 00:34:59,086 When you become a Christian, if you, if you say, "I'm gonna follow Jesus," 819 00:34:59,705 --> 00:35:02,146 you're signing up to say, "Other people are more important than I am." 820 00:35:04,290 --> 00:35:05,480 That's how humble people live. 821 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:06,640 That's how people follow Jesus 822 00:35:09,354 --> 00:35:09,544 Right? 823 00:35:09,544 --> 00:35:13,234 When you show up to, to school, you're not thinking, "How do I have a good day?" 824 00:35:14,614 --> 00:35:17,854 You're thinking, "What do my classmates, my teachers, my 825 00:35:17,854 --> 00:35:19,434 friends need from me today?" 826 00:35:20,694 --> 00:35:20,854 Right? 827 00:35:20,854 --> 00:35:21,794 What words do they need? 828 00:35:21,884 --> 00:35:23,844 What conversations and topics do they need? 829 00:35:25,084 --> 00:35:25,774 What encouragement? 830 00:35:25,774 --> 00:35:28,074 D- does somebody need to hear the gospel from me today? 831 00:35:29,524 --> 00:35:30,244 That's what you're thinking. 832 00:35:32,964 --> 00:35:35,504 Or maybe when you're at home, you're not thinking, "Oh, well, 833 00:35:35,504 --> 00:35:37,074 what can I do with my free time?" 834 00:35:38,184 --> 00:35:40,274 You're thinking, "How can I serve my family?" 835 00:35:42,626 --> 00:35:44,116 That's what humble people do. 836 00:35:44,416 --> 00:35:45,196 Say, "Oh, maybe…" 837 00:35:45,226 --> 00:35:49,236 And I mean, this, this is, is so relevant to so many things because 838 00:35:49,506 --> 00:35:54,036 if you think about this, if you are, are selfish, you are never going 839 00:35:54,036 --> 00:35:58,976 to share the gospel with anyone because they probably won't like you 840 00:36:02,114 --> 00:36:06,134 But you have to sacrifice your own ambition, your own desire to be liked, 841 00:36:06,344 --> 00:36:11,704 your own desire to, to be included or to be looked at as cool, and you 842 00:36:11,704 --> 00:36:14,744 have to be willing to, to kill that and say, "No, I'm gonna risk it for… 843 00:36:14,834 --> 00:36:15,804 'cause I love this person. 844 00:36:15,874 --> 00:36:17,434 What they need is they need to know Jesus." 845 00:36:17,684 --> 00:36:17,934 Right? 846 00:36:18,204 --> 00:36:19,154 Someone did that for you. 847 00:36:20,344 --> 00:36:20,404 Right? 848 00:36:20,414 --> 00:36:23,864 They loved you enough to say, "I'm, I'm gonna risk my friendship," or maybe your 849 00:36:23,864 --> 00:36:27,154 parents did that, "I'm gonna risk my kids not liking me 'cause I force them to 850 00:36:27,154 --> 00:36:29,244 go to church, 'cause I care about them. 851 00:36:29,244 --> 00:36:30,594 I want them to hear the gospel." 852 00:36:32,614 --> 00:36:32,814 Right. 853 00:36:32,814 --> 00:36:36,604 So we look at others as more important if we're really humble. 854 00:36:37,304 --> 00:36:37,474 Right? 855 00:36:37,474 --> 00:36:40,634 We see that person's needs, what they need from me is more important 856 00:36:40,634 --> 00:36:42,194 than what I should get from them. 857 00:36:43,204 --> 00:36:43,414 Right? 858 00:36:43,414 --> 00:36:47,764 But also, humble people come to, to give, not to take, right? 859 00:36:47,764 --> 00:36:49,873 And this is very similar, but we see this from Jesus, right? 860 00:36:49,894 --> 00:36:52,404 Jesus says in Mark 10, "If you wanna be great," right? 861 00:36:52,404 --> 00:36:55,204 If you wanna be cool, you wanna be awesome, you want God to 862 00:36:55,313 --> 00:36:59,734 think, "That's someone that I want to, to, to lift up," right? 863 00:37:00,774 --> 00:37:01,724 "You should be a servant. 864 00:37:02,493 --> 00:37:05,094 And if you wanna be first, you should be a slave." 865 00:37:06,163 --> 00:37:10,164 And notice he doesn't just say slave of some people, nice people, people you like, 866 00:37:10,364 --> 00:37:12,484 people you think deserve your effort. 867 00:37:13,504 --> 00:37:13,944 Everyone 868 00:37:16,226 --> 00:37:17,846 You should serve all kinds of people. 869 00:37:17,946 --> 00:37:21,226 You should count all sorts of people as more significant than you. 870 00:37:21,786 --> 00:37:26,476 Not just your friends, not just people that will love you back, but anyone. 871 00:37:27,766 --> 00:37:34,126 For even the Son of Man, right, even the King of Kings came not to be 872 00:37:34,126 --> 00:37:38,516 served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many, right? 873 00:37:38,526 --> 00:37:39,676 Jesus came to give. 874 00:37:40,056 --> 00:37:41,026 He gave Himself for you. 875 00:37:41,026 --> 00:37:41,886 Didn't have to, right? 876 00:37:41,886 --> 00:37:43,326 You didn't ask Him, Jesus, to come die for you. 877 00:37:44,236 --> 00:37:44,326 Right? 878 00:37:44,756 --> 00:37:48,446 You didn't ask God to, to make salvation available to you 879 00:37:50,594 --> 00:37:52,834 But Jesus came to give, right? 880 00:37:52,834 --> 00:37:56,734 And so maybe you're like, "Well, I'm not really that prideful, you know. 881 00:37:56,734 --> 00:37:57,634 I'm, I'm a nice person." 882 00:37:59,404 --> 00:38:06,274 Um, but maybe the reason you're nice is so people are nice to you, right? 883 00:38:06,274 --> 00:38:07,624 That's really you being selfish then. 884 00:38:07,884 --> 00:38:09,404 You're nice because you're, you're selfish 885 00:38:12,256 --> 00:38:14,836 Or maybe, you know, you're someone who you're always harsh with people. 886 00:38:15,356 --> 00:38:19,386 Your words, your tone, you're always, you're always harsh. 887 00:38:20,176 --> 00:38:21,006 You're always grumpy. 888 00:38:21,156 --> 00:38:22,776 You always sound like you don't like people. 889 00:38:24,546 --> 00:38:29,086 Or maybe you're someone who you, you always find problems 890 00:38:29,266 --> 00:38:30,586 with everyone and everything. 891 00:38:31,916 --> 00:38:32,066 Right? 892 00:38:32,076 --> 00:38:34,226 That's probably because you're, you're proud 893 00:38:36,828 --> 00:38:41,178 Or maybe you're someone who, uh, you're like a, you really 894 00:38:41,178 --> 00:38:42,758 care about how things look. 895 00:38:42,978 --> 00:38:44,358 You don't really care about how things really are. 896 00:38:45,388 --> 00:38:45,418 Right? 897 00:38:45,508 --> 00:38:46,858 You just wanna look good in front of people. 898 00:38:47,638 --> 00:38:49,878 You just, you just want people to, to see you and be like, "Oh, yeah, they, 899 00:38:49,888 --> 00:38:53,558 they dress really well," or, "They, they know a lot," or, "They're really 900 00:38:53,558 --> 00:38:55,008 smart," or, "They're really athletic." 901 00:38:55,158 --> 00:38:57,148 You, you just wanna … You do it because you wanna be seen. 902 00:38:57,718 --> 00:38:59,258 Or maybe you even do religious things for that. 903 00:38:59,258 --> 00:39:02,508 You, you serve at church, or you, you memorize the Bible, or you 904 00:39:02,518 --> 00:39:05,148 answer questions in small groups 'cause you wanna be seen, right? 905 00:39:05,148 --> 00:39:07,848 'Cause you care more about how things look than how things are. 906 00:39:08,578 --> 00:39:08,798 Right? 907 00:39:08,798 --> 00:39:09,508 That's a proud person. 908 00:39:10,458 --> 00:39:12,268 And that's how … that's, that's the type of person that doesn't confess 909 00:39:12,268 --> 00:39:14,728 their sin, like we talked about earlier, 'cause they're too scared 910 00:39:14,788 --> 00:39:20,418 about messing up how things look that they hide how things really are. 911 00:39:21,918 --> 00:39:22,068 Right? 912 00:39:22,068 --> 00:39:23,758 That's a sign of being proud. 913 00:39:25,018 --> 00:39:26,038 Maybe you're really defensive. 914 00:39:27,018 --> 00:39:27,048 Right? 915 00:39:27,048 --> 00:39:29,568 You're gonna talk about this, I think some of you, in small groups. 916 00:39:30,488 --> 00:39:35,058 A good sign of how humble you are is how easily it is for you to be corrected, 917 00:39:35,878 --> 00:39:38,568 for someone to say, "Hey, I notice this about you, and it's not good." 918 00:39:40,258 --> 00:39:42,678 If you're a proud person, you're gonna get defensive really fast. 919 00:39:42,868 --> 00:39:45,118 "Oh, but, uh, uh, I don't really like you. 920 00:39:45,118 --> 00:39:46,118 I don't wanna talk to you anymore," right? 921 00:39:48,802 --> 00:39:50,742 That's what proud people do, right? 922 00:39:50,742 --> 00:39:54,212 Where humble people, they're not afraid to be disliked, right? 923 00:39:54,212 --> 00:39:56,752 They don't rise or fall on, on people's opinions of them. 924 00:39:58,022 --> 00:40:00,022 They're, they're really loose with their preferences. 925 00:40:00,032 --> 00:40:01,342 They're not like, "Oh, it has to be this way. 926 00:40:01,392 --> 00:40:03,042 I can't believe y- y- you do it this way. 927 00:40:03,042 --> 00:40:03,562 It's so dumb. 928 00:40:03,562 --> 00:40:04,252 Why do you do that?" 929 00:40:05,602 --> 00:40:08,482 Or humble people, they're always ready to give, whether it's 930 00:40:08,842 --> 00:40:11,022 they're really generous, right? 931 00:40:11,022 --> 00:40:13,272 They'd rather see you be happy than them be happy. 932 00:40:14,432 --> 00:40:17,392 They love when other people succeed, right? 933 00:40:17,392 --> 00:40:21,681 When someone else gets the spot on the team that you wanted, or when 934 00:40:21,682 --> 00:40:22,872 someone else gets the grade that… 935 00:40:23,062 --> 00:40:25,642 Or, or the, the person, right, that you wanted to have. 936 00:40:27,612 --> 00:40:30,002 Are you happy for that person, or you wish you had it? 937 00:40:30,752 --> 00:40:32,902 Good test of how humble you are 938 00:40:35,906 --> 00:40:40,636 So humility, right, is all about how you see the world, right? 939 00:40:40,636 --> 00:40:41,540 It starts with how you see God, right? 940 00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:42,996 Do I see God as God, or do I see God as 941 00:40:45,606 --> 00:40:45,846 meh? 942 00:40:47,386 --> 00:40:49,676 And then that shapes how you see yourself. 943 00:40:49,946 --> 00:40:51,396 If, if God is God, you're not. 944 00:40:52,086 --> 00:40:52,306 Right? 945 00:40:52,306 --> 00:40:53,176 And so then you say, "You know what? 946 00:40:53,176 --> 00:40:54,516 I, I'm a s- I'm sinful. 947 00:40:55,026 --> 00:40:55,856 I disobey God. 948 00:40:55,856 --> 00:40:56,596 I need God. 949 00:40:56,906 --> 00:40:57,986 I'm helpless without God. 950 00:40:58,316 --> 00:40:59,836 My own way isn't the best way. 951 00:41:00,176 --> 00:41:01,416 In fact, it's really bad." 952 00:41:02,146 --> 00:41:03,356 And then you realize, you know what? 953 00:41:04,026 --> 00:41:10,216 If God is God and, and I'm me and, and I'm a sinner, then I wanna 954 00:41:10,216 --> 00:41:11,466 live His way, so I trust Him. 955 00:41:12,625 --> 00:41:16,336 And then you see, oh, well, God's way to live is really 956 00:41:16,346 --> 00:41:18,796 that you give yourself away. 957 00:41:19,756 --> 00:41:21,286 You give yourself for the good of others. 958 00:41:22,445 --> 00:41:25,566 And so then you don't really worry about yourself so much, and you 959 00:41:25,576 --> 00:41:28,806 start worrying about other people, and you, you show up to, to things 960 00:41:28,816 --> 00:41:29,786 thinking about, "Who can I… 961 00:41:31,166 --> 00:41:32,326 How can, how can I help people?" 962 00:41:32,426 --> 00:41:32,556 Right? 963 00:41:32,556 --> 00:41:33,906 "How can I encourage people? 964 00:41:33,956 --> 00:41:34,825 How can I bless people?" 965 00:41:34,866 --> 00:41:37,335 Or maybe, "How can I correct someone?" 966 00:41:37,926 --> 00:41:40,556 Not because you wanna be right, but because you wanna help them. 967 00:41:42,535 --> 00:41:45,446 So it's all about how you see things, right? 968 00:41:45,446 --> 00:41:49,045 You, you gotta see God as God, you gotta see yourself as, as you, and you gotta see 969 00:41:49,046 --> 00:41:50,655 other people as more important than you. 970 00:41:50,785 --> 00:41:53,155 So let's pray, and we'll talk about that more in small groups, okay? 971 00:41:55,810 --> 00:41:59,340 Father, we want to right now just acknowledge that 972 00:41:59,340 --> 00:42:01,470 you are God and we're not. 973 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:06,700 That you are everything you say you are, and everything you say about us is true. 974 00:42:07,490 --> 00:42:13,730 And so I pray that you give us the humility to embrace that, to not 975 00:42:13,830 --> 00:42:17,080 push back against what you have to say, but to take you at your word. 976 00:42:17,980 --> 00:42:21,610 And I pray that you help us to grow into people who are focused on others, 977 00:42:21,610 --> 00:42:24,760 who really care about other people, who love other people, who want 978 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,270 what's best for other people, even more than what we want for ourselves. 979 00:42:28,570 --> 00:42:31,150 So even right now, as we go to small groups, help us to be humble. 980 00:42:31,190 --> 00:42:34,100 Help us to be thoughtful about other people, be thinking about, about 981 00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:35,840 how we can serve you and serve them. 982 00:42:36,610 --> 00:42:42,639 And I pray that you help us to rely on you and not rely on ourselves. 983 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:44,110 We pray this in Jesus' name. 984 00:42:44,660 --> 00:42:45,000 Amen.