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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Presence & Humility
Publishing Date: 2023-02-12T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/presence-humility/

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Okay, let's go.

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Hey Aaron.

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There's more to life than coffee man, we're having church here.

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What are you doing out there? Oh you are.

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Hey is the food downstairs

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and Aaron and Sheldon and the kids downstairs? This is not good for the women's baby shower.

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Any baby shower

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announcements?

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Okay there's a baby shower after the service, guys are not invited.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Hey so as we continue talking about presents,

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I forgot to tell you, Sheldon and Jane have gone to Hawaii, they've come back

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and they met some people there that we can work with,

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God willing in the future if we build a relationship with them. So we'll be going back again in April or May.

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And Tuni and Anilay and Sue are in Vernon

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because Eric went to Guatemala, actually he's in New York, he leaves this afternoon

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for a mission trip there. So Tuni, Anilay and Sue were doing the service last night.

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And next week Don and Emily are going to Vernon.

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Friday and Saturday I go to LA and then

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a whole lot of people are coming from New York and LA

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to Vancouver the week after.

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So Manoj has graciously, as one of his last acts of kindness,

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decided to host them and so we just want to thank you Manoj. Because these are guys from the US

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and this would be the brotherly thing to do.

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Alrighty, that takes care of accommodation for them.

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So let's talk about...

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Hey, so one of the things that's happening in New York is

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I met with the five different house churches there that we've started and they're coming together,

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so it's going better than I thought.

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Yeah, those guys are really jelling. When you see the people they reach out to,

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it's fascinating. I mean right from the homeless to people that are

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from every strata of society. And these guys are really doing well.

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They have a way to go and get people. They remind me a little of Prashant and Pawan.

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Put Prashant and Pawan in New York and that's all that will happen.

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So praise God.

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We'll continue talking about presence, only today we talk about presence and humility.

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And remember, he's here, eh?

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Even while I teach I have to be aware of the fact that he, as in Jesus who is king and is kinging,

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one of the things he loved to do when he walked the earth as king was teach.

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You have to be aware that he is here and he wants to teach.

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And you have to be aware that what if he's here and what if I was listening to him teach,

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how would it affect my heart? So if we could remove your ears and my mouth from the equation,

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this might work out really well. Because the Spirit of God will help us decode stuff,

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find stuff that doesn't fit, find stuff that fits.

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Close the echo.

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Echo, echo, echo, echo.

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Still there.

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Cool.

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So guys, one of the conditions for God's presence is humility.

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One of the conditions for God's presence is humility.

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So if you go to 1 Peter 5,

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verse 5 and 6, 1 Peter 5,

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5 and 6.

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So if you're saying, Father, we really want to be aware of your presence,

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it's not that his presence is not here. His presence is continuously here.

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Continuously here. And if his presence is here, then the kingdom is here.

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He's crowding the earth with his presence.

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He's crowding the earth with his presence.

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Like I said over the last two or three weeks,

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it's like this heavy balloon full of water that's pressing down on the earth,

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pressing down on us. We just aren't aware of it,

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but what if we became aware of it? What if we became aware of the King and His presence?

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Then I could stop at any moment, turn on a dime and do what He wants me to,

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because I'm no longer the preacher or the pastor. I'm just aware of His presence.

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Then He gets to do what He wants to. He can have a little more volume.

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So His presence is here,

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but some of the conditions that make it easy for us to always be aware of His presence

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is humility. So if you go to 1 Peter 5,

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verse 5 and 6,

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it says that,

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Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders.

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Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility towards one another. For God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

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Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time He may exalt you.

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In some versions it says,

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This is the idea of being brokenhearted or contrite,

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one of the older words.

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The Lord is near, as in His presence is near,

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to the brokenhearted and He saves the cross from the cross.

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So we have to be humble.

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As in His presence is near to the brokenhearted and He saves the crushed in spirit.

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The message puts it this way,

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If your heart is broken, you will find God right there.

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Let's go to

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Isaiah 57.15.

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I love this one.

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Because He lives in two places very happily. One of the things God does really well is live in two of these

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places so easily. The first place is

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heaven. The high and lofty one who lives in eternity, the holy one says,

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I live in the high and holy place with those whose spirits are contrite and humble.

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I restore the crushed spirit of the humble. I revive the courage of those with repentant hearts.

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Let me read from the NIV. For this is what the high and exalted one says. He who lives forever,

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whose name is holy, I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly

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in spirit. Let's take one more. Numbers 12.3.

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Here is a guy who actually saw

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the glory of God. He wanted the presence of God. He asked for the presence of God. He saw the glory of God.

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No other human being on earth had been able to dare to ask for it or see it before.

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But look at what it says about him. Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than

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anyone else on the face of the earth. Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble

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than anyone on the face of the earth. That was his condition.

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So there is this ability to become aware of God's presence

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when humility is part of who I am.

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Jesus himself said it in Matthew 18, verse 3 and 4.

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Guys, the best measure

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for a person's readiness

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for kingdom and king is that of a child.

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In Matthew 18, verse 3 and 4 it says that if you are as humble as a child,

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you will know the presence of both king and kingdom.

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Matthew 18, verse 3 and 4. Let's just read it.

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Matthew 18, verse 3 and 4.

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Matthew 18, verse 3 and 4. And he said, truly I tell you, unless you

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change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore,

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whoever takes a lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

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There is something to being aware of the presence of God that requires

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lowliness and humility. And so we are saying that one of the things

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that we need to do in the next 50, how many ever weeks, is an awareness of the presence of God.

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We're not asking for the presence of God. He's already here. Like I said last time,

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and I think I said it, there are four things we need to do. Look up. Revelation chapter 4.

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Look up. There's a throne and there is a king seated on it. And there are creatures

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and angels around him, thousands upon thousands, worshipping him. Look up.

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Because the same king has decided to live inside me. There's a throne in this temple.

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Then look in our midst, because this is his favorite resting place,

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his people. And then look out there, because he's crowding the earth with his presence.

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The moment Jesus came, he decided that he would crowd the earth with his presence,

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that he's already there before I get there.

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The idea of king is that the king is kinging. Where? Here on earth,

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and he's also in heaven. He's in me, he's in our midst, and he's out there.

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We're at a distinct advantage as people of the kingdom, eh?

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Yes, there is a prince of the power of the air, but he's created.

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And in the end, he's removed by a blast of the nostrils of the king.

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That's how he's removed.

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So, we are aware that he's here, but if I walk in humility,

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it's good soil for him to have traction in.

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Guys, the thing is, humility was discarded.

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Humility was one of the first things discarded in heaven.

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Lucifer discarded humility. It was one of the first things that was lost.

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What was his intent? I want to be equal to God.

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The first thing that was removed from heaven was humility.

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There are two ancient spirits, and by ancient spirits I don't mean very old spirits.

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As in ancient spirits, as in spirits that showed themselves first.

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The first spirit that showed itself was the spirit of pride.

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And the second spirit that showed itself was the spirit of fear.

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The spirit of pride was what caused a created angel to rebel against the most high God,

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saying, I will sit on his throne and receive his worship.

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He comes down to the earth and he baits Adam and Eve with the same thing.

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He says, I will sit on his throne, eat of this fruit and it will open your eyes and you will become like God.

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It's an ancient spirit, pride, which is why it is necessary that we oppose it,

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because what was lost in the garden at the end of the day was presence.

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It might be an inappropriate question, but where does the spirit of pride come from if it's not from Satan himself?

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If it is not from? Satan himself.

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Yes, so it is an ancient spirit.

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When what was good turned to evil, it would be like asking, and I mean this sincerely,

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it would be like asking, how did roses develop thorns?

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How did bacteria turn into harmful virus?

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With sin and the fall, things mutate.

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One that was supposed to be the ultimate expression of angelic glory

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decides that because of free will that I will choose to be like God.

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So it was sort of in tandem with what Satan was doing as opposed to that creating Satan's rebellion.

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I don't understand.

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It's okay, it can wait.

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So pride entered, and pride is the opposite.

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We must remember something, sin is the opposite of what God is, and one can always choose it.

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Sin is the opposite of what God is, and one can always choose it because one has free will.

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It is free will that allows us to choose what is not God.

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And so here is Lucifer who chooses pride,

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and then he has the same bait here on earth to draw Adam in.

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And Adam does the same thing, wants to be equal with God.

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And then comes the spirit of fear. The spirit of fear is what causes a man who used to walk with God face to face, heart to heart.

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It causes that man to begin to hide.

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And these things are still active, right? That is why it's important that we realize that humility

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is something that must be practiced for presence.

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Humility is key to an awareness of presence.

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You okay, Gene? Humility is key to an awareness of presence.

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Because what was lost in the garden, what was lost in the garden was presence.

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What was lost in the garden was presence, and it was lost because of pride.

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And so how can you define humility for our sake?

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The essence of humility is the absence, this is a hard one, guys, is the absence of personal concern.

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Is the absence of personal concern for our worth,

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for our skills,

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for our achievements,

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for our status,

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for our entitlements.

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Humility, the essence of humility,

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the essence of humility is the absence of personal concern.

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As in, what would it look like if everybody in this room began to have no personal concern

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as in, what would it look like if everybody in this room began to have no personal concern

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for their worth, their skills, their achievements, their status, their entitlements?

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We are no longer concerned. We are no longer concerned.

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What's the difference between the personal concern for them and the drive to achievement in the first place?

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What's the difference between personal concern for them and the drive to achievement

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and the skills and achievements and the status of a lot of the person?

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We push towards achievement, we push towards entitlement, we push towards honing our skills.

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Self-worth is highly prized. What if there was no personal concern for these things?

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We would achieve anything if that wasn't the case.

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Yeah, so I'm saying that ambition is not a

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kingdom quality.

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Ambition is not a kingdom quality.

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Our goal is to be obedient and to serve. Christ is the ultimate poster

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person for this. If there was anyone who was skilled, if there was anyone who could have achieved,

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if there was anyone who could have done whatever he wanted, it was Christ. Paul was

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at one time someone who lived like that and then he says, it is dog dung.

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That's the actual translation. That all the stuff I have achieved is dog dung.

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This is why humility goes so against what

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we see as present culture.

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The acquiring skills would be, let's say

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Emily knows how to sing, her acquired skill would be, I've been given a gift for

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singing, I'm going to train it. I'm going to train it because I will serve King, Kingdom and his guests.

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Where there is no personal concern for

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her singing, her worth that comes from singing, skills, achievements, status

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and talent, no personal concern. It's a very extreme way of living, man.

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Why are we offended? We are offended because when these things

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are not given the value that they must be given by those around us, it bothers us.

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But this kind of living,

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it will have the presence of God tent on you. You will be aware of it constantly.

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Ambition is not a kingdom quality.

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What will it do to us? It will hollow us out in the world

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and yet it says humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and he will

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exalt you. Look at what happened to Daniel and the three boys.

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Decided not to take part in the fancy stuff that was set up by the King.

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Decided not to eat of it. The guy who was in charge said,

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you guys are going to have my head cut off because you guys will be worse off.

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And what does he do? He says, give us ten days. Just give us ten days. And after ten days they were ten times better than everybody else.

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Humiliation

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Humiliation, and that's a word we would never equate with Christianity today.

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Humiliation and exaltation are two sides of one coin.

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What happens when you're not

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included or recognized? What happens

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when you are not included?

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When you're not recognized?

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When my good deeds are overlooked?

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Or worse yet,

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it's attributed to someone else?

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Could you care less about such things?

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Could you care less about such things?

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Amazing, eh? So difficult.

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What happens when you're not included?

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What happens when you're not included?

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When you're not part of the in-crowd or the inner core?

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What happens when you're not recognized?

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What happens when your good deeds are overlooked? What happens when you do a whole lot of good and then it's attributed to someone else?

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Could you care less about such things?

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Something bristles inside us saying,

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but I'm entitled to that. I earned it. I deserved it. I worked for it.

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The fear is though, if I behave like this, what will happen to me at work? Will I be promoted?

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Will I get that job? Will I be lifted up? And God is saying,

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since when has man been in charge of your life?

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Since when does mortal man decide

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your progress? Really, if mortal man decided your progress,

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Don would not get into UBC. Derek would definitely not get through UBC.

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Don was not even accepted in UBC Okanagan.

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Don was not even accepted in UBC Okanagan.

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And yet he got it in Vancouver. How is that even possible?

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Sorry, Don. You always come up in wrong examples.

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Go, Butler.

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Sorry, I said Go, Butler. Go, Mark.

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What is your name? Yeah, Go, Mark.

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Yeah, so God is a profitable God.

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And so there are principles that you will not hold.

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You will not gouge. You will be profitable. You will multiply.

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You won't hold away for a rainy day. You will treat employees well.

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Paul outlines them in all his letters. So there are principles.

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Oh, I thought you were running to me and calling me mama.

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Aaron, you're supposed to keep the kids down, not here.

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We've got guests today.

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I'm trying to impress them and you're ruining it.

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Yeah, so he is a profitable God.

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But he is also a super kind God.

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So it's very hard for businessmen to balance both. Very few succeed.

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Because at some point the need to be profitable begins to change who you are to your employees and with your customers.

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Yeah, I would say as a businessman, if you can take Isaiah 61, 1-5,

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and use that as a business model,

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the Spirit of the Lord has anointed me as a businessman to preach the good news to the poor,

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to open the eyes of the blind, to set captives free.

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If that becomes why you run a business, then verse 6-11 goes into play.

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And verse 6-11 says this. Foreigners will come and dig up your vineyards.

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You will have double the profits. God will honor you with a double portion.

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He will make sure that shepherds take care of your sheep and farmers take care of your vineyards.

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He will crown you with whatever you need to.

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And so 1-5, if we follow as businessmen and nurses, as mothers, as fathers,

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then verse 6-11 just takes care of itself.

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Because Jesus was a businessman. We don't remember that. His father dies early.

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He runs a carpentry business. I don't know if he had employees, but perhaps his brothers and sisters helped,

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because usually that's how family businesses were run. He had to take care of a mother and about six siblings.

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And he was the oldest by far. And now here is a man who has to run this business

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and make sure that his family is fed. And he's the same one who said

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anyone who does not take care of his family and offers offerings to God is an infidel.

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So he must have really worked hard at it. Oh my God, it must have been fun watching him

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as a businessman.

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So a follow-up question. So humility doesn't always have to mean like helping out everyone.

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It can just mean like, because sometimes when you buy, you have to buy low

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and somebody else is kind of, is taking the loss, so to speak, from your game.

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Yeah, not always. Sometimes you have to do it, but it's not a flat thing.

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To be humble is to let my family die of starvation

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while you give Jacob a good deal.

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But humility at the end of the day,

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this part is important. C.S. Lewis put it this way. I love the phrase he uses

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for humility. Self-forgetfulness.

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Jacob, can you do things and then not just completely forget yourself?

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Can you sing a song and then not even bother that someone else is singing better than you?

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Can you write a book that is a bestseller and then Mark comes along

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and he took you eight months to write the book. He takes eight days to write the book and it sells more than yours.

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Part of the reason

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we need to talk about this is because humility is a condition of the heart.

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And the strange thing about pride and humility is those who possess it do not know it.

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Do not know it. Others see it, but those who possess pride or humility do not know it.

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Soon as you know it, no, you just don't know it.

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One who is proud does not know it and others see it.

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One who is humble does not know it and others see it.

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Like, I just don't know that I'm humble.

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It's strange. You see it, but I don't.

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Yes, sorry.

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I think that

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one of the things that I think is hard is when

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so if I'm at work and my boss asks me to do a project

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but then doesn't include me in the meeting about that project but still wants me to do it.

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That's different. It's when you're being deliberately excluded for

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wrong reasons, but the heart is still humble as you go and argue to be included.

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The heart doesn't thirst, heart doesn't crave, heart doesn't

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desire to be included in everything. You're okay not being included

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and then you go up to her and say, why didn't you include me because this is a project I'm doing.

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But it comes from a heart that does not demand, is not entitled, is okay being humiliated.

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How many people here are actually okay being humiliated?

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Our immediate responses, but we shouldn't be a doormat,

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we should stand up for our rights, all that is true, but let's swing to the other side for a second

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because that part we have nailed down really well. Let's do the other part.

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How many here actually are okay being humiliated?

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Don't put up your hands altogether. Just take it easy.

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True, but let's just take that statement for

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how many of us are really okay being humiliated. Okay being humiliated as in

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it's alright. Yes it is situational. There are places where you need to stand up.

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But what I know is that I'm not okay with it yet.

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I'm not okay being humiliated. Something in me rises up when I'm humiliated.

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Pardon?

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It is situational. Everything is gray. Nothing is necessarily always black and white.

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But I'm finding out that something bristles in me when I'm humiliated and then I have to kick in my Christian.

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Aha! Always stand up for justice for others but never fight for it for yourself.

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When he was reviled, when he was humiliated,

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when he was insulted, he went like a sheep to the slaughter.

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That's the odd thing. I'm supposed to stand up and

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fight for justice for others but I'm not supposed to insist that justice

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be done to me. This is the part where I think we are not like Jesus yet.

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Boy I'm not getting past the introduction today. Go ahead.

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Yeah.

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I am thinking that people that I know who are in really bad situations who don't stand up for themselves.

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Well there is like job situations where they say this or this or this or this. And I'm wondering how do you frame that in that situation?

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Yeah. If Jelan is not standing up for himself in his situation

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and then maybe I can stand up for him.

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Yeah.

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This is good to lean on you like this.

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So talking about not standing up for justice for yourself, I don't feel the same way I have personally.

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It's okay.

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Good.

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So we are talking about justice,

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we are talking about humiliation,

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we are talking about speaking up,

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and we are talking about evil and turning the other cheek.

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All this

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will go together and it's, and while Jelan's experience

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is really painful for her, we still can't leave out these other things.

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So in Jelan's case, she was abused by

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the person who really treated her badly and nobody else stood up for her so she would have to speak up against

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and mark boundaries and if you don't mark boundaries you get taken advantage of again and again

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and again and so much so that even talking about it

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and trust me she's a private person for her to bring this up like this is a big deal.

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It's very painful for her. So there is that on one hand. On the other hand, there is the turning the other cheek

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when evil is done to me. There is the humiliation that

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Jesus Christ suffered at the hands of those that treated him unfairly and were abusive towards him.

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There is the speaking up that needs to happen when he turned the temple upside down.

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He didn't just speak up, he took a whip and spoke.

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And there is the fair God who gives out justice and I'll tell you something else. Because she went through

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what she went through, these are not words that I'm throwing out just for the heck of it.

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Blessed are those that mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are those that are persecuted

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for my name's sake. Blessed are those that are poor in spirit.

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These things suddenly come crashing down on her head. She may not be able to measure it

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but there is a God who is faithful who does it. So the easiest thing for me right now

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would be to say, man this is a terrible story, we must stand up for our rights. In her case

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nobody stood up for her rights, she had to stand up herself and it still traumatizes her.

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But when we look at the overall picture, humility requires all these things to be at work

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and we cannot avoid it.

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I know how difficult it was to share it so I'm grateful.

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What is

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going to happen at the end of the day

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as we learn to walk in greater humility, we become more aware of his presence.

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That aside, Matthew 5 begins to break on her

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and break on you. There was a reason Jesus

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shares the Beatitudes. The Romans were some of the most abusive masters that ever existed.

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Judea was under the tyranny. They are waiting for a king who has not come.

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And when he comes, he doesn't come as a conquering king.

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He stands there and he is saying, blessed are you if you are bankrupt. Blessed are you if you are crying.

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It seems unreal for us.

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But this is what she gets. And I'm not just making it, just saying it.

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This is what she gets. If she wants to measure it from today on, she will see Beatitudes break over her.

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Because God is awesomely faithful.

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C.S. Lewis uses the word

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self-forgetfulness. He says humility is

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self-forgetfulness. And self-forgetfulness is the opposite of self-engrossment.

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I don't know who said this line, but I love this line.

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Humility follows God like a shadow.

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Humility follows God like a shadow. So if there is a shadow God casts, it's humility.

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If there is a shadow God casts, it's humility.

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When man is present with God, humility prevails.

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When man moves away from God,

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pride seeks him out. When man moves away from God,

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pride seeks him out. When man

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walks with God, humility prevails.

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When man separates himself from God, pride seeks him out.

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And the problem with pride

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seeking me out is when pride seeks me out and I walk with it,

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God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. It's this virtuous and

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vicious cycle. The shadow that God casts is

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humility. We just need to look at the sun as in S.O.N. Everything he did.

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We'll read Philippians 2.69. It's marvelous what he talks about there.

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One who is king decides not to grasp equality with God and becomes a servant.

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The shadow he casts is that of humility. When man walks with God,

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humility prevails. When I separate myself from God, and it happens a hundred times a day,

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when I separate myself from God, pride seeks me out.

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It seeks me out. When it seeks me out and if it can have me,

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then God resists me. God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.

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Presence is...

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Presence proves you. P-R-O-O-F-S. Presence proves you against

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pride. Presence proves you against

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pride. It is very hard to be in the presence of the king and be proud.

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In fact, it says Leviathan is the king over the children of pride.

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Job 42 or somewhere there. Leviathan is king over the children

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of pride. While Jesus Christ is king over those that walk

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humbly. Think of the word self-forgetfulness. Play around with it.

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I remember being in a situation once where I'd done a lot of work

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there. Lot of work. And contributed tremendously. And they're sitting

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and they're talking about the different people that contributed and it completely left me out.

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And I knew I was the one who did most of the work there. Rarely happens, but this time I did.

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And I'm listening and there was this

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What was this C.S. Lewis phrase? Self-forgetfulness. And it was so comforting.

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So what if you did a lot of work and nobody recognized you?

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Self-forgetfulness. So hard man. Something in us

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wants to be applauded and recognized.

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Thank God for a Jesus of extremes.

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Again, C.S. Lewis said this too. Spiritual pride is when I'm proud of something

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Christian. For reasons other than Christ.

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Spiritual pride is when I'm proud of something Christian. For reasons other than Christ.

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I'm proud of something Christian.

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For reasons other than Christ. Suddenly, spiritually I want to

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increase. Why? So that I can be better than Jillian or better than Sheldon. For reasons other than Christ.

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For reasons other than Christ.

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Boast in him.

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He's the one who made it possible for me. But when you do it for reasons

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other than Christ, it has changed his things.

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I mean, in pastoral circles this happens.

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Forget pastoral. Oh, let me just say. So there will be a pastor sitting with you and he'll say,

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yeah, I went to Asia and I prayed for two blind people

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and they both got healed. And so you'll sit and listen to it and then you think,

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you went to Asia and I think there were two and a half blind people healed. So you're waiting for him to finish his testimony because now it's your turn.

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Yeah, I went to Asia and there were two and a half blind people healed because one guy only had one eye and then one deaf ear.

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Now you up the ante. Now the next pastor, he has to come up with another story.

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And around the table stories go, man. Each trying to up the other.

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And then at the end of every story you will say, praise God, it was all him.

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So we do this.

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Trust me, Marcus.

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They do it and I've been part of it too.

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And then you leave the place and you think to yourself,

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my God, that was the most ungodly testimonies that God, of God, that we have heard.

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I realize that as soon as I leave what I believe is the truth,

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I realize that as soon as I leave what I did.

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See, my humility, I'm not aware of it.

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Okay.

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For presence and humility to work, there are things I must recognize about myself.

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There are things I must recognize about myself.

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You're still stuck with Lucifer. We moved on to God.

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Okay, but go ahead.

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Yeah, but that was because he willed otherwise, right?

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He chose. He chose.

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It must have been some kind of rebellion to be in the presence of Holy,

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to be in the presence of Creator and yet choose

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to rebel and then go and get

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one third of the angelic armies to rebel with him.

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And Christ was slain before the foundations of the earth,

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which is even nuttier, or more nuts, like in the sense that

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he knew this was going to happen and he had already made provision for it.

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Before there was a church, Satan was already saying, I want to sit on Mount Zion.

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Before the earth existed.

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It's the most,

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it's the most precious thing that God has given us,

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is free will.

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And because free will is the most precious thing God has given us,

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to use power, love,

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pressure, manipulation, deceit, to hijack,

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control, affect, color, groom anyone's self-will

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is something that God does not do.

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And so as a pastor, if I ever try to force your will to do something,

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then suddenly it reeks of ungodliness.

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As a parent when you try doing it, you advise, you counsel, you correct, you admonish, you do all that.

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But a point comes where once a person is of a certain age, not for little children,

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once a person is of a certain age, you have to let them make a choice.

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And when we take away that through pressure, force, carrots,

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not carrots, like cake, any such thing, carrots wouldn't help.

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But you never hijack someone's self-will.

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You never use deceit or manipulation to take it away.

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Because it's one thing God doesn't do.

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When you are with such people like people in your family,

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where you know that they are following you, moving out of this,

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is it not easy?

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When I'm with people who are trying to manipulate my self-will, I have to create distance. I don't have to separate, but I have to create distance.

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When it happens again and again, then I have to create distance

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so that I'm not as influenced as I would otherwise be.

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Yeah.

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That's the simplest way to start.

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Nothing is black and white. I wish everything was black and white. Life would be so easy.

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Cats, bad. Dogs, good. It's not like that.

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You might find out soon that there are one or two cats that may have made it into good.

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But not more than two.

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Who brought her?

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Someone in Vernon

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sent me a text from the last message.

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The only point I really got,

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no she didn't say that, was when you said,

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what if God gives you a cat as a pet when you get to heaven?

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Guys, our humility is so contrary to the world.

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Which is why, how do you handle Trump as a Christian?

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Everything he does goes against the grain of what we are talking.

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And yet, we think that

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we are not going to be able to do anything about it.

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And yet,

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we think he's godsent and he's, maybe he's godsent, but he's definitely not godly.

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Everything that we are talking about

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is contrary to the world system.

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Because humility, according to God, requires a glad acceptance.

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A glad acceptance of weakness,

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of dependence,

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and of even humiliation.

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Yeah, we'll get there in the next three or four minutes.

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So when you look at the Beatitudes,

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what are the Beatitudes basically about? The Beatitudes are Jesus saying,

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rest in your neediness,

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rest in your weakness,

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rest in your meekness, and you will be blessed.

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How crazy is that, man?

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Rest in your meekness, rest in your neediness, rest in your weakness,

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and you will be blessed. That's what the Beatitudes are about.

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We try to take the Beatitudes and mix it with a little bit of how we should be in the world to succeed.

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And then we create our me-attitudes.

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Jesus was me-attitudes, not me-attitudes.

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And we mix it up. And we can't afford to mix it up,

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because that's why Christians don't look very different from the world.

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They look slightly different.

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What this means is I no longer generate, I no longer try to generate

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confidence.

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But I actually groove in my weakness

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and my inadequacy.

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Man, we can get here, guys. We can get here.

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We don't try to generate a drum up confidence.

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We groove in our...groove is an old 60s word that some of us will understand.

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We groove in our weakness and our inadequacy.

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Okay, we embrace. Embrace sounds like...

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Groove has become very comfortable in it.

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Like the beat just gets...so we groove in our inadequacy

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and our weakness. It's okay. We are okay with it.

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One of the things that at least I can say happens

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for me when I'm in your midst is I don't care about my weaknesses

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and my inadequacies. I'm not scared of them.

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You're partly responsible for it, because you make it easy. You make it easy.

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Don't have to put up any show here.

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This is what Jesus is asking for. So now when I behave like this,

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when I am weak,

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his strong presence

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tends over me.

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Where is that from? 2 Corinthians 12.9.

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His strong presence tends over me.

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The first time I went to Mongolia,

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first time I went to Mongolia, God did a whole lot of signs and wonders.

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I was there, they're expecting the same thing.

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I don't know how to recreate it. So they're doing worship up front.

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I'm in the last room, walking up and down, speaking in tongues, making declarations, praying like crazy,

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because they expect the same thing. And thank God the worship was long, because I got about 10 minutes in.

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After 10 minutes, I hear the Lord saying, did you do it last time?

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Can you stop speaking in tongues and pacing up and down, because it's not helping.

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So I stop, because you almost try to generate this.

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Can I do what it takes to make this happen, and you do not make it happen.

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Presence makes it happen. You were just fortunate that last time I turned up and you were aware of it.

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You can't create this. So you groove in your weakness. You groove in your inadequacy.

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You have this squat you can do. And that is when the presence of God begins to tent over a person or a people.

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Second Corinthians 12, 9 comes to pass.

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And therefore, Paul says,

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no longer do I regard these limitations and weaknesses as something that I have to hide.

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I begin to revel in them. I begin to boast about it.

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I begin to talk about it like it's a plus point.

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That's what he says.

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Weakness is no longer a regrettable limitation.

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It becomes what enriches presence over me.

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Weakness is no longer a regrettable limitation.

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One of the things we love doing during encounter is to ask ones who don't know how to do things.

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Hey, can you try and hear what God is doing and let God flow through you?

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Because in your weakness, he becomes super strong.

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Instead, we try so hard to pretend that everything is okay.

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Come on, man. Everything is not okay most of the time.

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Here's the part that

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talks about, addresses the question

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Jill was asking.

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So once we embrace it and groove in it,

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now you begin to recognize

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your weakness.

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You begin to recognize your limitations.

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And then some of it

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should disturb me.

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And I must take it seriously.

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And I must take it seriously.

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And I must work on it humbly.

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With God

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and with man.

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So on one hand, I'm okay with my inadequacy and weakness.

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But as I see these weaknesses, some of them will begin to disturb me.

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These are areas I can improve in.

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And because I can improve in them, I take them seriously.

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And when I begin to take it seriously, I go to God for help and I go to man for help.

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Yes, my arm is weak.

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God's arm is strong, he lifted. But as I'm growing, God will say,

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hey, I want to try and build some muscles into this arm of yours so that I can go help someone else

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while you lift stuff up. And so you now begin to work on certain weaknesses.

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But if you're planning to work only with God, God will say, oops, sorry, you'll have to go to

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so and so because they know how to strengthen your left arm. And so with both God and man,

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it's not, I will embrace my weakness and I'll never get better.

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These are my weaknesses. God will tend with great strength. But now I begin to improve them.

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So what Jesus expects

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is that he expects us to live in the tension

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of, he expects us to live in the tension

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of, he expects us to live in the tension

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of John 5 19. What does John 5 19 say? Apart from you, I can do

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nothing.

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He expects us to live in the tension of John 5 19 and then Matthew 11

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27 to 29. What does that say? Come to me, all you that are heavy laden.

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I'll give you rest. I'm gentle and meek. Take my yoke upon you. Walk with me.

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And Ephesians 4 12 to 13.

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Hey, I've also appointed people to help you so that we can

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all grow together into maturity. He expects us to live in the tension of these.

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Take my yoke. I'll go over things with you.

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I'll teach you. So it's all three. On one hand it says,

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on one hand you say, oh God I can't do anything without you. And then Jesus comes and says,

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well then walk by my side, take my yoke upon me. I'm really gentle, I can teach you well. Great oh God, you and me.

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Oh by the way, I've also appointed some guys to help you so you've got to go to them too so that you can become mature.

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And we live in the tension of all three.

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That's how we, on one hand, walk in our inadequacy, on the other hand we keep increasing in our strength.

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Yeah, as you practice you get better.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's easy to do

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one and two.

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Yes, it is easy to do one and two. Yeah, third one is a little harder.

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But we are learning. We are learning. Guys, we must, I must say this to you,

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like because I preach hard every Sunday, you don't get to hear how much you've changed

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and how amazing you are.

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My God.

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Personally not concerned about

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worth or achievement or accomplishment. Yeah.

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No, it is coming from the heart because I know

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each of you quite well and you perhaps don't see the change.

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Just as you who have been here for 15, 16 years have seen changes in me.

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And so we are changing, guys.

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But because what we teach is hard, sometimes it doesn't appear so,

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but we are changing. We are changing to become like Christ, eh?

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I mean, you think Renny hasn't changed?

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You think Jill hasn't changed? She's only been here for three years.

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Me? Oh my God. Don? Let's not even go there.

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He was planning to leave the church, by the way.

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Oh.

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Guys,

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guys, as much as all this is true, most of us, and I pray God that this doesn't

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continue for us, most of us are trying to become one, what we are not,

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and let's abandon this. Or we are trying to become

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what someone else is,

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or we are trying to prove what we have, prove what we have already become.

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There was this guy called Ahimaaz in 2 Samuel 18, 19.

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He wanted to become what he was not. He was Zadak's son.

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Zadak was a high priest. He was supposed to walk before God. He wants to run.

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He wants to be a runner. Sometimes we desire what someone else,

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we want to become what we are not.

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Then sometimes we want to become what someone else is. Someone else is this,

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so I want this too. And then when you don't get it, James 4, verses 1-6

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kicks in. What does it say? Why is it that you have conflicts and quarrels

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within Jacob? Isn't it because you desire what someone else has and you don't get it?

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But you don't come and pray to me. Instead you begin to pray amiss and the conflict

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increases. You try to become what you are not,

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you try to become what someone else is, or you are continuously trying to prove what you become.

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If you become something, people will see it. Don't keep supplying evidence for it.

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She doesn't need to supply any evidence. They are both pregnant. It's very obvious.

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I am not.

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I am not. Just so you know.

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Everyone is looking at me.

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One of the ways to avoid

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our weaknesses from being recognized is to isolate ourselves.

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Isolate ourselves, create distance,

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shield myself from correction.

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Let's not do this. Let's not do it.

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We want our weaknesses to be strengthened.

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We want our weaknesses to be strengthened. So let's not isolate ourselves.

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Let's not create distance. Let's not shield ourselves from correction.

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The strange thing is if I am an elbow and I am not connected to the rest of the body,

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I will not know my weakness. It's sin being connected to the rest of the body

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that you recognize whether the elbow is working well or not. An elbow by itself,

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you don't know whether it's greased, you don't know whether it's rusty, you don't.

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It's in the context of being with you that my weaknesses will be shown.

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And when those weaknesses are shown, now I have a choice to get better.

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So as I am writing stuff on humility, I know one thing.

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Nobody has ever said this of me except Sue's mum.

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She said that when I think of Jacob, I think of a really humble guy.

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Some of you are smiling. Wipe that grin off your face.

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But nobody says that. People may say when I think of Jacob, great faith.

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But they wouldn't say when I think of Jacob, I do not think of someone who is humble.

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Sue's mum said that. And I'm sure she got a bigger mansion just for that.

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I would like some words to be associated with me and this is not one of the words associated with me.

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And so it's in the context of a body that weakness is exposed.

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And therefore it can be strengthened.

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So if I shield it, then it's not corrected.

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I think half the church is outside there.

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I just want to touch on one more thing before we go to solutions.

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And here's that one thing.

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Pride often leads to self-seeking.

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It leads to bitter envy.

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And we've got a God against us in this church.

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Because self-seeking is when you want to be chosen.

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When bitter envy comes in when someone else is chosen.

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And here's the problem with this, guys.

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It says in James chapter 3, verse 14, it says,

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where self-seeking and bitter envy exist,

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there will always be the demonic,

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the soulish,

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what is soulish and sensual,

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and what is

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unspiritual.

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So eliminate this from your life, guys, because we can't afford it as a church.

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Where there is self-seeking and where there is bitter envy,

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and both are provoked by a lack of humility or provoked by pride,

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as in when I am slighted, when I am not chosen,

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and I am not included, when someone else is chosen,

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bitter envy and self-seeking kicks in.

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And the moment it kicks in, immediately in the church or in the group or wherever,

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these three things are released. The demonic, what is sensual or soulish,

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and what is unspiritual. And then it says in verse 16 that with that comes

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all forms of disorder, ungodliness, and uncleanness.

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We got to be free of this, eh? Whenever this happens to you,

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just make sure you run to a safe place because it pollutes the entire body.

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Even when you're being treated unfairly, think of the rest and choose not to.

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All righty, solutions.

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Any questions, guys?

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James 3, verse 14 to 16.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, if you know that someone is feeling slighted or overlooked,

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you should come and tell someone who may be able to help with them being slighted or overlooked.

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Yeah. Because it doesn't mean that when something is done wrong,

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we let it slide. But there's two things that happens when something is done wrong.

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When something is wrong, you must choose to rise over being wronged

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because that's what we are called to do. And then the person who is wrong

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must either approach or have someone else talk to the person who can help fix

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the being wronged. It's both. It's not one or the other.

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But you have a role to play in not being slighted, offended, bitter,

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what is the other word?

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No. Oh, shucks. Nothing there. The other word. Yeah.

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Bitter envy and self-seeking.

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Gotta work against it, eh? Okay, solutions. How do we

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go into this place of humility? So let's take 1 Peter 5,

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1 Peter 5, 5-7. Let me just quickly read it

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and then we can use that. 1 Peter 5, 5-7.

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It says that in the same way you who are younger submit yourself to the elders,

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all of you clothe yourself with humility towards one another. This applies to spouses also, eh?

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Some of the places where this humility priding really kicks in between spouses,

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all of you clothe yourselves with humility towards one another because God opposes the proud

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but shows favor to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under God's mighty hand that He may lift you up

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in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.

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And then it goes on to tell, remember, Satan's roaming like a lion. So the first thing is

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wrap the

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apron of servant humility

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towards

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each other.

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There are days when I don't like some of you, for whatever reason. Those are the days when I will wrap

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myself in an apron of humility so that when I meet you and I come here,

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I'll be extra nice to you.

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Maybe you've done nothing to be in a space where I should have anything against you.

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But for whatever reason, let's say I'm annoyed or irritated with you.

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I'm not saying it's right. But those are the days when if I come in here with that attitude,

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I'll screw up this entire place.

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I have to wrap myself with an apron of humility. But Jacob, wouldn't it be better if you were not annoyed?

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Yes.

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Once you wrap yourself in the...

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It's amazing. You can tell a servant to do multiple tasks and they keep doing it without

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grimacing, without letting things get in the way. That's not how we see servants today.

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But in the Old Testament and in certain parts of the world, if you're a servant, it doesn't matter how many times

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Elijah tells you to climb up the mountain to see a cloud that doesn't exist. You go happily and come back happily.

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Thank God I was not Elijah's servant up and down the mountain.

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And so the idea is, can you wrap yourself in an apron of humility

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so that when you know you are not doing well with a person, that is when you

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begin to serve the person even better.

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Second,

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be okay about humiliation.

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Be okay about humiliation. Look at what it says there, man.

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It says, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God.

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What's he trying to say? He's saying there will be times

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when God will be okay with bringing you low

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so that self dies.

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This goes against Pentecostal thinking. This goes against what I really want. What do I want?

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I want to be the head and not the tail. I want to be above and not below.

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If you come from a Pentecostal background, those are powerful scriptures that you've used.

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But there are times when it is okay for God to have me be humiliated

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so that self may die

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and I may be brought low.

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No, Jacob, God would never do this. He did it to his son

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for good reasons.

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And he will do it to you for good reasons too.

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That you may be obedient unto death.

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If it's not clear, we must be okay about humiliation

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under the mighty hand of God because he sometimes uses it to bring me low

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and to have myself die.

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Guys, the dangerous thing is if we take the scripture and apply it to everything that's happening in our lives.

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But I'm assuming you have more sense than that.

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This is when Don used to say, Amen.

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It doesn't apply to everything, but there are times when I must recognize that it's okay, Jacob.

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It's okay.

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I've gone to places where people have shouted at me

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in front of their family, in front of their children for no good reason.

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There was no good reason. And you walk out of there with your head low but your heart high

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knowing that you're not going to say a word back.

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Because if you say a word, you don't want to visit them with anything that they're visiting you with.

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And you walk away humbly.

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You walk with your face down with your heart high knowing that you have done what you're supposed to do.

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That's completely okay. Now do you want vindication? You don't write a psalm after that saying,

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vindicate me, O Lord. Let their dog or whatever.

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Third one from 1 Peter 5.57.

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Cast your cares on him. Cast your cares on him.

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It's strange how that is added after humility. Cast your cares on him. Why?

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Because when we do not cast our anxieties on him, we sometimes go into self-reliance, distrust,

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and pride. Pride in our own ability to solve it.

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So what does that mean?

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Remember when a man is separate from God, pride seeks him.

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And if pride can have him, then God will resist him.

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When anxiety, cares, and worries come and you begin to pull away from God because you think

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you can be the architect of your future and you can solve it. When a man is separate from God, pride goes seeking for him.

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The next one is Philippians 2.6-7.

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It's such a beautiful passage. Just read with me, guys.

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Philippians 2.6-7 and we'll end with this.

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Philippians 2.6-7.

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He said,

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So,

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not at all.

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So,

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it's a way of thinking, guys.

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The first thing we need to realize is humility is a way of thinking.

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It is how God thinks.

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So,

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it is how God thinks.

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And so, to be like-minded will

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make us aware of his presence. Be like-minded.

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Be aware of presence. It's a way of thinking. And if it's a way of thinking,

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then, like Marcus was saying earlier, when you practice it, it becomes real.

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It's a way of thinking. I have to practice it. It is a way of thinking.

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Humility is a way of thinking. It says, think like Jesus.

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Be like-minded with him. Like-minded. Have the same mind as him.

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It's a way of thinking.

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So, how does his way of thinking work? Beautiful. How he says, he doesn't say, oh, I was a worm.

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No, he says, I was equal. I am equal with God.

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It begins with an accurate estimation. It begins with an accurate

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estimation of one's

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standing positionally with God, which is

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sun and perfect forever and practically. And practically,

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it's harder to measure. Positionally, we know who we are. We are perfect. We are holy.

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We are heaven bound. We have Christ living in us. There's no

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sin in us. We have been made perfect forever by one sacrifice. Positionally, we must

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have an accurate estimation of ourselves. And then practically, too, we must have an estimation of ourselves.

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That's a little harder. But when you live with the people, practically, it becomes a little easier.

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When you live by yourself, you don't know what you don't know.

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Marriage is one of the

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easiest ways to find out what you don't know. Stay single

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and you don't have that problem.

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So, accurate estimation of oneself. After that, the next thing is

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don't grasp,

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don't seize, don't sulk,

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don't jockey for

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inclusion, recognition,

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privileges,

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or equality.

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That's the third thing Jesus does. First, he says, hey, think like me.

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Be like-minded. Second, he says, have an accurate estimation of who you are positionally and

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practically. Jacob, I know this is who you are. I told you positionally you are this with me.

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How about practically? How's it really working out in your life, Jacob? That you'll only

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know when you live with people. Because every fruit of the spirit,

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every gift of the spirit other than the gift of tongues, only works in

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relationship.

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Third, he says, now that you know yourself positionally and practically,

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don't grasp, don't seize, don't sulk, don't jockey for

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inclusion, don't jockey and sulk and seize and grasp for recognition, for privileges or

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equality. Stop it! Because I didn't. I let go of all of that,

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even though I had an absolute right to be one with the Godhead. I set it aside

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and I never grasped for it while I was on the earth. They said to me, you can call

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on a legion of angels and I refused.

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Set it aside.

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And then,

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even when the devil comes to tempt you,

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don't

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inflict or lick your wounds.

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So remember I was telling you that story where I went and I had done a lot of work and

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no credit was given to me? And it didn't bother me because it was self-forgetfulness.

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And then I remember going back home and I get home and then these voices

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start coming up in my head. Do you realize that you weren't recognized?

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Do you know how much you sacrificed?

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Maybe they don't think you're sophisticated enough. Maybe they didn't want to introduce you to their friends.

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Well, next time be careful about how much you give.

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Some people are not grateful. And these little voices

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are like a fool. Instead of shutting it down, I gave it some

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airtime, man. I didn't realize that I was doing it wrong.

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I gave it some airtime, man.

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And it was fascinating how pride, which is basically

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why I was beginning to get hurt and offended, crept in.

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And then I suddenly realized that I ran out to my balcony because it was winter when this happened.

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And cold air always does things to you. It makes you think right.

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I ran out to my balcony and I stood there for a while and walked around and the cold air brought me back to my senses.

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It was not the cold air, it was the Holy Spirit, but it felt cold.

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At the end of the day after I was done, I went back in and I was thinking to myself, Jacob, why did you even give it airtime?

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This is what we do. We sometimes walk away from situations without a scar and we go home and we give it airtime.

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And that is when he comes and says, if you were the son of God

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and you begin to inflict or lick your wounds, pride causes offense.

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Then he goes on to say, I deliberately make myself

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I deliberately make myself, I deliberately make myself

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of no reputation.

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Beautifully. Giving up privileges.

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Earned privileges that have been earned

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or bestowed or deserved. I give it up.

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This is what Jesus did. He's telling us how to go about this from Philippians 2.

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I deliberately, I know some of you old timers have heard this story before, but

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there was a lady at Acts 29, her name was Betty.

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Not the present Betty, this is the past Betty. And so Betty brought

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two well-known prophetic preachers from Ontario.

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And they came and Betty said, Jacob, is it okay if they preach?

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And I said yes. And so they came and she said, can you meet them?

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I said okay. So I went and picked them up. And they thought I was a taxi driver.

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So they came and then

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they told me they wanted Starbucks. Can I go get them some Starbucks?

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They thought I was hired for the entire day. So I went and got them Starbucks.

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Maybe I wasn't dressed well or whatever. I don't know.

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Ah, that was it.

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I didn't even realize because when you are humble, you don't realize.

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So then

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I had to go drop them at the shopping mall, wait for them. Then they said drop us back and then

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come and pick us up after we slept. And at some point I realized

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this is actually enjoyable when you deliberately make yourself of no reputation.

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So I actually took on that role. Like I wasn't even pretending.

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But I was also looking forward to the evening service.

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That is a part of me that was slightly sneaky because I thought to myself, alrighty, when they come for the evening

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service and Betty comes and introduces them to me, this is the past I wanted to see their face and it was priceless.

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But the point is, can I deliberately make

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and then they had an amazing prophetic word for me, which included humility.

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So I deliberately

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make myself of no reputation. This is something Jesus did.

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He took on the role of a servant.

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He took on the role of a servant.

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Giving up privileges that are earned, bestowed, deserved.

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Privileges you have earned, privileges you have been bestowed, privileges that you deserve.

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And then the last one is

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you come down to the lowest level in the room.

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You come down to the lowest level in the room.

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That of a born man.

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That of a born servant.

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That's how low he went. And when that happens, the highest one

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tents on you.

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Always remember guys, the grace of God

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looks for the greatest depression.

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Because like water, the grace of God looks for the greatest depression.

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In this room, the grace of God finds someone

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who actually in their heart thinks nothing of themselves.

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Because like water, it will find the lowest place

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and that is what it begins to fill first.

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And this is why sometimes some of the richest things come from some of the most

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unexpected, unknown places. What good can come from Nazareth?

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Some of the lowest places in Galilee.

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That's why I marvel at some of you. You have such low places

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but I just am fascinated at how God is using you.

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I don't pick on names but I'm in awe of you.

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To walk in presence we have to be obedient. To be obedient we have to be humble.

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To be humble we have to depend on others.

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To walk in presence we have to be obedient. To be obedient we have to be humble. To be humble we have to be dependent.

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In a sense, salvation is the restoration of lost humility.

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To walk in presence you have to be obedient.

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To be obedient you have to be humble. Jesus, Philippians 2, 6-7.

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He was obedient. He humbled himself. He was obedient unto death.

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To walk in presence you have to be humble. To be humble you have to be dependent.

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To be humble you have to be dependent.

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And so salvation in a sense

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or redemption is the restoration

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of lost humility.

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And so that makes us entirely dependent upon the presence of God.

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So I'll stop there.

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Can someone lead us in prayer with regard to this church

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walking with greater humility? Can someone pray that I walk in greater humility?

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I don't want to say word of caution, but some people say,

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Oh God, humble us.

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And to me that's scary because you said humble yourself.

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I'd rather humble myself and have God.

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I was reading a story of a Jewish rabbi who stood before the Lord and said,

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I'm nothing. And then his cantor came and he also knelt before the Lord and said,

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I'm nothing. And then there was a janitor. He came and said, I'm nothing too.

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And the rabbi turned to the cantor and said, who does he think he is?

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So it can get quite nasty when everybody is crying out humble us, humble us.

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But let's ask God with this caution for humility in this church

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where when we ask that strange thing happens, God begins to point out the areas of pride,

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areas of elitism, areas of exclusivity.

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And then please pray that

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I'll walk in greater humility.

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Humble yourselves in the sight of God. So we are going to God and saying, Oh God, we want this.

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Please help us.

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So pray the best you can because I think

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there's a point to what Jill is saying. It always says, hey, humble yourselves.

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Otherwise God has to humble us, but I would prefer if we humbled ourselves.

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So pray the best you know how.

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And pray for me. Why am I asking you to pray for me?

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One, because it's an admission that I needed.

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And two, if that happens, it will benefit me and it will benefit us all.

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Yeah? So.

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Father, right from 2 Chronicles 7 or 1 Chronicles 7,

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you've been saying stuff like, if my people humble themselves.

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In the New Testament, Paul says, humble yourselves or humble ourselves.

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And then Jesus, you showed us how this works.

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We just talked about it.

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Because we want to be aware of your presence, because your presence never leaves.

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Because we want your presence to have the freedom, the unrestrained freedom to flow through us across the earth.

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We are asking for this soil.

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Actually the word humility, guys, comes from the word humus. Humus means ground or soil.

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And to be humble is to walk close to the ground or soil.

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To eke out an existence from the dust of the earth is what the word humble comes from. Humus.

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So Father, I ask for good ground above for us.

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So please help us pray and be Holy Spirit.

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And then the Lord will answer our prayers when we pray according to his will.

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So that we begin to reflect this nature of you to the world.

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That we stand out. There's a difference because we're okay to be humiliated.

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We're okay to say, hey, it's not my shadow that I want people to see, but I want people to see Christ shatter.

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And to let your shadow be what shines through me, requires that I humble myself.

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That I humble myself.

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So it's no longer me, but it's you.

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And Father, you know the conditions of our hearts.

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And there's too much deceitfulness in our hearts.

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And pridefulness.

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And just the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us with your heart at times.

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Because through things where we become servants who follow you wholeheartedly,

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we can be a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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And I think that you are a shepherd who will guide us through the things that we want to change.

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I just want to ask as an example to us Father, what his weaknesses are.

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And I just thank you that he's able to bottle that for us.

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Because I think that's the first thing to humility is willing to be honest with ourselves and others, Father.

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What we need to change, Father.

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I pray for myself, Father, and the things that you show me that I can be honest and be willing to change.

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Thank you. Father, I struggle with entitlement.

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And when that is challenged, when privileges that I have either earned or deserved or have been bestowed upon me

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not given the attention or the respect, high bristle, Father,

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just take your finger, Father, and remind me so that that area changes, Father.

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That area changes.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Thank you, Father.

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Yeah, man.

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Yeah, Jesus. Yeah, Jesus.

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Yeah. Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Thank you. Yeah.

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Yeah, man. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah, man.

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Have the same mind as that of Christ.

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He's here. He's listening. He will answer.

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So feel free to pray if you want to.

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He's praying for us.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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The joy of humility. Crazy.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome.

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John 13, verse one to three, knowing where he had come from and knowing where he was going,

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he took off his robes and he began to wash the disciples' feet.

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Help us know, Father.

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Anyone else?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Amen. Hey, can you pull up on a hill far away?

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Stood an old rugged cross. We'll end with that.

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How many know this song without the words?

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Anyone who's about 30.

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Hey, feel free.

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It's called the old rugged cross.

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On a hill far away.

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Stood an old rugged cross.

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The emblem of suffering and shame.

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And I love that old cross.

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Where the dearest and best.

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For a world of lost sinners was slain.

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So I'll cherish the old rugged cross.

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Till my trophies at last I lay down.

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And I will cling to the old rugged cross.

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And exchange it someday for a crown.

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Oh, that old rugged cross.

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So despised by the world.

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As a wondrous attraction for me.

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For the dear lamb of God.

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Left his glory above.

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To bear it to dark Calvary.

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So I'll cherish the old rugged cross.

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Till my trophies at last I lay down.

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And I will cling to the old rugged cross.

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And I'll exchange it someday for a crown.

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In that old rugged cross.

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Stained with blood so divine.

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A wondrous beauty I see.

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Thoughts was on that old cross.

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She's a sufferer that dith.

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To pardon and sanctify me.

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So I'll cherish that old rugged cross.

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Till my trophies at last I lay down.

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And I will cling to the old rugged cross.

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And exchange it someday for a crown.

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To the old rugged cross.

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I will ever be true.

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It's shame and reproach gladly bear.

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Then he'll call me someday.

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To my home far away.

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Where is glory forever I'll say.

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So I'll cherish the old rugged cross.

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Till my trophies at last I lay down.

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I will cling to the old rugged cross.

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And exchange it someday for a crown.

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We bless you father.

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We bless you father.

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You never stop amazing us Sunday after Sunday.

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Monday after Monday.

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Weekday after weekday.

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How are you always so new?

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We bless you.

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Alrighty guys, ladies you know where to go guys.

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I don't know where you're supposed to go.

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If you need prayer feel free to come up

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and someone will pray for you.