1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,440 Thank you for being with us this morning. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:07,320 And I'm, I'm thrilled to know that we have some special 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,840 friends over here on the left side, about six or seven young 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:14,000 adults that are sitting over here and first time here. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,960 So welcome. Glad you're with us and anyone 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,440 else that's here. Glad you're with us as well. 7 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,600 And we don't say it often enough, but there are connection 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,640 cards in the back of the seats in front of you. 9 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:26,240 We would love to connect with you and all it takes is you 10 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:28,720 filling out one of those connection cards, putting that 11 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,439 in either the black boxes or the big grey box back in the middle 12 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,480 and give us an opportunity to get to know you, greet you and 13 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,280 speak with you. So if you would do that, that'd 14 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,920 be great. So today I get the honor to 15 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:45,320 speak to you. Pastor Alex began this series. 16 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:50,040 Be humble and humility in Unity was the first week and thinking 17 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,200 of others first was the second week. 18 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,640 And today if, if I was to title this, it is just simply more of 19 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,720 him and less than me. More of him and less of me. 20 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,680 So Pastor Alex is out. I actually had to think he and 21 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,000 him and Megan are sick right now. 22 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,920 But he was supposed to be in Guatemala and some things 23 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,920 happened and some things changed that trip and they were not able 24 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,840 to go. And praise be to God that he was 25 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:20,080 able to do what he does for Miss Lewis, not Hillary, but 26 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,760 Annabelle. Little Annabelle Lewis ended up 27 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,640 having some surgery 2 days ago. She was supposed to be in 28 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,400 Guatemala. Imagine having a surgery in a 29 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,280 third world country. And so we were able to pray. 30 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,040 She's doing well, she's in the hospital. 31 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:37,680 Continue to pray for the Lewis family. 32 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,240 But God knew what he was doing and he stopped them from going 33 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,240 to Guatemala, probably in my mind because of a couple of 34 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,920 reasons. But one of the main reasons is 35 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:47,800 little myth. Little Annabelle needed to be 36 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,840 home during this time. So pray for Kevin and Hillary 37 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,160 Lewis and and her children and being part of that. 38 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:59,080 So again today, more of him, less of me, if you would stand 39 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,120 to your feet, we're going to read the word of God. 40 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,120 We stand for those of you that are new. 41 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,760 We stand in honor of the word of God for what it represents, that 42 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,680 if the word of God is infallible, 100% accurate and 43 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,200 true, and we stand in honor of that. 44 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,560 So I know we don't always do this, but I'm going to ask you 45 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,080 to read with me. We're going to be in second 46 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,160 Philippians, Philippians chapter 2 again, reading verses one 47 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,520 through 11. And so I'm going to ask you to 48 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:29,120 read with me along this. So it says, therefore, if there 49 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,680 is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of 50 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:38,480 love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection 51 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,720 and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same 52 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:48,520 mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one 53 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,720 purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or 54 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:56,600 empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as 55 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:02,640 more important than yourselves. Do not merely look good. 56 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:08,960 I was seeing if you were saying it of the interest of others. 57 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,080 Good. All right, so let's start with 58 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,520 verse 5 and read it loud. Have this attitude in 59 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:19,080 yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He 60 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,560 existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a 61 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:28,000 thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a 62 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,680 bondservant and being made in the likeness of men. 63 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,920 Being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by 64 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,840 becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the 65 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,640 cross. For this reason also God highly 66 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,960 exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every 67 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:52,760 name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow of 68 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,760 those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and 69 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,480 that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the 70 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,120 glory of God the Father. Can you say Amen? 71 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,200 Amen. You may be seated. 72 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,040 Be humble. Be humble. 73 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,760 I'm going to throw you a little curve today, Pastor Bob. 74 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,440 I wrestled with this a little bit because I'm not sure this 75 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:25,640 was probably ever been preached on here at this church, but I'm 76 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,360 going to preach on starting the opposite of humility and I'm 77 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,560 going to throw out a word called leviathan. 78 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,920 Has anybody ever heard of the word Leviathan? 79 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,880 Mythology says that it was a great sea creature, a great 80 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:46,280 beast of the oceans, and that the leviathan actually had no 81 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,320 nothing that could take it out. It was it was bigger, stronger, 82 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,840 more powerful than anything else upon the earth. 83 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,240 It would go along the depths of the oceans, but also come about 84 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,400 just underneath the the water lines. 85 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,720 And when it would see a boat or something, they say it would 86 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,520 rear its big head up and it would take it out and everything 87 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,160 would be destroyed, right. So the leviathan being something 88 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:14,760 very powerful, a powerful force, a spiritual opposition. 89 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,920 And again, the the leviathan just disrupts everything, right. 90 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,920 So I, I should have had a picture up to get that image of 91 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:26,400 you think of it as a big serpent, like 100,000 times 92 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,320 bigger than like an Anaconda, right? 93 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:33,160 It's like massive. So I asked God why on earth I 94 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,560 was going to be preaching about the Leviathan today, and he said 95 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,880 there is a reason. And so he directed me to the 96 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:49,070 book of Job, chapter 41, 41 and you can read that at a later 97 00:05:49,070 --> 00:05:52,310 time. But again, the Leviathan spirit 98 00:05:52,310 --> 00:05:55,430 is the focus of what we're going to start with because it is the 99 00:05:55,430 --> 00:06:00,440 exact opposite of humility. Again, a powerful force of 100 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,120 spiritual opposition that distorts truth, hinders 101 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,600 communication, blocks a person's relationship with God, and 102 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,000 creates division. So there's a few scriptures I 103 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,480 highlighted out of the entire chapter of 41. 104 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,000 Verse 2 states can you put a hook in him? 105 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,680 That was a question mark. Can you put a hook in him? 106 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:23,200 The reality is no. Verses 7 and 8, can you fill his 107 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,800 skin with harpoons or his head with Spears? 108 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:31,000 Lay a hand on him. Remember that battle, and I love 109 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,640 the Scripture because it says, remember that battle because you 110 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,080 will not do it again, because the Leviathan is that big and 111 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,480 that strong. Verse 13 says who can strip him 112 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:45,080 of his armor? Verse 18 says his sneeze, that 113 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,680 sneeze we just had. His sneeze flashes forth light 114 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,640 out of its nostrils. Verse 19, out of its mouth goes 115 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,680 burning torches, sparks of fire leap forth. 116 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,880 Verse 33 says no one, nothing is like him. 117 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,440 Do you get the picture? Leviathan, powerful, strong, 118 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,880 nothing can take him out. The reason why it's about the 119 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,920 opposite of humility is in verse 34 it simply says he is the king 120 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,560 of the pride of the sons of pride. 121 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,960 Pride is the exact opposite of humility. 122 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,840 Why did God want to bring us into the understanding of the 123 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,800 Leviathan this morning? Because we must come to the 124 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,280 understanding that within every one of us as human beings, there 125 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,360 is pride within us. Every one of us. 126 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,960 There's not one that is exempt. There is a form of pride in some 127 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,600 manner, some way. I'm able to disciple some some 128 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,680 young adults and some young men, able to do marriage counseling 129 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,680 with some various couples. And inevitably, almost at all 130 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,520 times, pride is a key source of why there's problems and 131 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,120 tribulations and things going on. 132 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,600 Typically there's something there for my wife and I. 133 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,440 My wife is an A type personality. 134 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,920 I am a strong B to an A type personality. 135 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,240 And sometimes we don't even realize what we're arguing about 136 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:13,960 because we just don't want the other one to win. 137 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,720 And many times we've even looked at each other a little bit later 138 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:21,160 and said, what were we even talking about? 139 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,480 I don't remember, but it really comes back to the point of pride 140 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,080 that I can't let her win and she can't let me win. 141 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,240 And she asked if I was going to tell a story about her from our 142 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,840 travels this week. We travelled back to Oklahoma 143 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,520 this week for a funeral of a cousin. 144 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:41,720 I typically do all the driving typically because I just don't 145 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:48,320 like how she drives. And there was a point in time 146 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,080 that when we're talking about things that she thinks that 147 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:58,880 she's a race car driver and she will not let anyone pass her. 148 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,280 So if she's going 90 miles an hour and somebody's going to 149 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,640 pass her, she will speed up to 100 if she has to. 150 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,200 And so I jokingly say that and she knows I love her And, and 151 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:11,960 it's a joke, even though she does scare me. 152 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,600 We jokingly talk about that because of the fact that as 153 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,320 human beings and as mankind, each and every one of us has 154 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,040 something in our lives that we have pride in. 155 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,800 Sometimes it's good pride, sometimes it's pride in our 156 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,040 children and our grandchildren, and sometimes we're excited 157 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,640 about what they're becoming and who's happening and things like 158 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,720 that. But many times that can also 159 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,520 take the form of a bad pride in the fact that we're haughty and 160 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,280 spirited about it, that no one's like us, no one's like our 161 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,600 grandchildren, our children, nothing's like that. 162 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:49,240 And it becomes a haughty spirit. Pride is the exact opposite of 163 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:56,320 humility for many reasons. Again, in Job 4134, pride is the 164 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,040 leviathan spirit and it is roaming upon this earth. 165 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:03,960 Proverbs 16 and eight says pride goes before destruction and a 166 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:08,640 haughty spirit before stumbling. I've even had to check my spirit 167 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:13,400 this week, Cody, and say if I'm having troubles right now, why 168 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,440 Is it because I have pride and that pride is causing me not to 169 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,200 maybe ask for help or not to seek God's direction, but try to 170 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,960 do it myself? What is causing that stumbling 171 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:25,840 block? What is causing those arguments 172 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,240 between our spouses, our children, our families, our 173 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,200 friends? Probably a form of pride because 174 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,840 the Leviathan spirit is very strong, very powerful. 175 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,960 We just heard it in Joe 41. Its scales not even when can 176 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,920 penetrate it is so mighty and strong, its teeth are so vast 177 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:47,320 that nothing can be can be removed from it. 178 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,080 The strength of its of its of its body and its form is so 179 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,600 massive and strong that we as human and mankind, we do not 180 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,080 have the strength and ability to fight this battle. 181 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:05,760 Matter of fact, I would go out to say this pride thing is 182 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,760 actually probably biblically called a principality. 183 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,800 Have you ever heard that? Remember the scripture that says 184 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,000 we do not fight against flesh and blood, but against 185 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:21,080 principalities, against evil, evil rulers. 186 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:25,200 I believe in my heart that pride is so vast upon this world. 187 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,920 It is a principality that we are fighting and must fight against. 188 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,120 So why are we talking about it today? 189 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,640 Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before by 190 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,680 stumbling. Pride distorts truth and twist 191 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:41,360 scripture to suit its own agenda. 192 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,080 I've caught myself miss Jackie many times trying to pull out 193 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,360 one scripture out of a chapter and try to utilize that 194 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,080 scripture to justify what I'm saying and what I'm doing. 195 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,080 When in reality, when you look at the whole content of 196 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:56,800 scripture, it doesn't say that at all. 197 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,960 How many of us are doing those very same things? 198 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:04,040 The Leviathan spirit does that. It creates a spiritual barrier. 199 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,240 It hinders prayer, worship, the ability to receive the Holy 200 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,720 Spirit. The Leviathan spirit in our 201 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,520 lives causes us not to focus our lives on prayer. 202 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,640 We have a hard time praying. We don't read the Bible every 203 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,480 day because other things get in its place. 204 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,320 Why? Because we have to accomplish 205 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,440 all the things we're supposed to accomplish, all these things 206 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,680 happening. Psalms 10 and four says in his 207 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:31,200 pride the wicked man does not seek him in all his thoughts. 208 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,840 There is no room for God. Did you get that? 209 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,840 If you are prideful, you are not seeking God. 210 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,760 You can't have both. You're either prideful or you're 211 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:49,160 humble. Pride promotes self will, wants 212 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,400 everything to be ours for ourselves, hard and hard. 213 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,640 We've heard that the last couple of weeks from Pastor Alex. 214 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,800 Pride stops you from asking for help. 215 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,840 Woo, sorry, I need to pull the dagger out of myself because 216 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:06,000 that one hits home. Sometimes I get so prideful that 217 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,840 I want to do everything with excellence and I want to do 218 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,000 everything so well that sometimes I just need to say 219 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,440 help, help me. I need help. 220 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,360 I can't do this alone. I don't have the right answers, 221 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:18,560 I don't have the right ways. I need help. 222 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,520 I need Pastor Brad to help me pick up a table sometimes 223 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,920 because I'm getting older and I can't do it by myself. 224 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,920 I need help, but pride gets in the way sometimes and it causes 225 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,400 me to fumble, causes me to stumble, it causes me to go the 226 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,920 wrong direction. Paul includes pride among the 227 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,080 sins of the characterized the last days. 228 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,680 We're in the last days. With all my heart. 229 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:43,360 I believe that people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of 230 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:48,440 money, boastful and proud. According to Second Timothy 32, 231 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:55,080 pride, the Leviathan spirit, it's not a simple thing. 232 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:59,400 It is a powerful principality that goes against all that God 233 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,280 stands for. I just said it a minute ago. 234 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,800 I'll say it again. Ephesians 612 For we wrestle not 235 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,480 against flesh and blood, but against principalities, which 236 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,640 includes pride against powers, against the rulers of darkness 237 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:15,440 of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 238 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:21,080 And we do not have the power amongst ourselves to battle the 239 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:26,360 Leviathan spirit. The good thing is, humility is 240 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:31,840 the destroyer of pride. Sometimes it hurts, sometimes 241 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,560 it's not easy. But humility is the destroyer of 242 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,280 pride, and it brings us into the realm of godliness. 243 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:43,160 Humility and repentance is crucial to destroy the spirit of 244 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:48,800 Leviathan, humble ourselves before the Lord Jesus Christ to 245 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,840 accept his salvation and blood of Jesus Christ for me as I am a 246 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,320 Sinner, but also to humble myself to my family and my 247 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,200 friends of my church and my and my own family. 248 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,520 To say I'm sorry for the word that I spoke to you or I'm sorry 249 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:04,720 about the attitude that I've I displayed. 250 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,520 It wasn't about you, but I took it out on you to be able to 251 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,840 humble ourselves enough to seek repentance not just from God, 252 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,400 but from others. Humility seats God's power. 253 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:22,440 For in Joe 41, in the middle of all these things about how great 254 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,040 and mighty the Leviathan is, there is 2 scripture in there 255 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,400 that says, but I created all things, the visible and the 256 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,360 invisible, and I am more power than all the things that we're 257 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,640 mentioning. God is God and I am not. 258 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,200 And I need to humble myself to let his power be strong and let 259 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,880 his power flow through me in such a way that it removes my 260 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:48,400 mindset and my character and my being from the prideful ways of 261 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,160 thinking that I'm always right and I know how to do everything 262 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,520 and I don't need anybody else's help or opinions. 263 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,120 It takes me out of that to humble myself over here to say 264 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:03,960 help me. Does anybody watch movies? 265 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,960 I apologize. My wife asked me if I was going 266 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,040 to use a sports theme and I really wasn't. 267 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,040 But this movie just hit me. Remember the Titans? 268 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,880 Do you remember that movie? Remember the Titans? 269 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,160 Remember when they were in that final game at halftime and they 270 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,480 were getting beat bad? You remember the little girl 271 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:25,720 that walked up to her daddy and said, daddy, now is not the time 272 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,000 to be prideful. If we're going to win this game, 273 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,480 you got to get some help because what you're doing isn't working. 274 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,360 It's not time to be prideful. And he walks in that locker room 275 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:40,240 and looks at the head coach and says he's kicking behind in and 276 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:41,840 I don't know what to do. I need your help. 277 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,640 And then they won, right? Where's your pride today? 278 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:52,120 Are you too prideful to ask someone else for their thoughts 279 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,040 or opinions? Are you too prideful to listen 280 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,840 to what those are and maybe realize that there may be some 281 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:02,200 truth behind that? Humility creates spiritual 282 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,280 disciplines. Are you praying? 283 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,079 Are you reading God's word or is it a forgotten thing sometimes 284 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:14,240 and you're skipping days? I've challenged myself, Missy 285 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,359 and I actually challenged each other that we're reading the 286 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,200 Bible together as a couple. And there's some days that I'm 287 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,680 like, oh, I've got so much going on. 288 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,680 I've got too much time. And God smacked me around a 289 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,119 little bit like a like a daddy would probably smacked me on the 290 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,000 behind a little bit and said what's most important, me and my 291 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:38,040 word or your To Do List. And we have made it a challenge 292 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,320 of ourselves to make sure that the word of God is one of the 293 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,720 first things that we're putting into ourselves so that we can 294 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:47,040 read and understand the truth of what God has for us. 295 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,120 But I had to humble myself to remember that my To Do List is 296 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:54,160 not the most important thing, that my relationship with my 297 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,480 heavenly Father is the most important thing. 298 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,680 And I can't help other people that are in my life. 299 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:03,400 I can't serve you as a church. I can't do all that I'm supposed 300 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,600 to do if I'm not putting my priorities in the right place 301 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,280 and making sure that my relationship with God Almighty, 302 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,640 I must humble myself to be able to do that. 303 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,440 Humility creates a reliance on the word of God's truth. 304 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,720 Again, not taking one scripture out to justify my bad attitude, 305 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,160 but to look at the content of the whole scripture, the whole 306 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,360 chapter, the whole scripture to understand that I have a bad 307 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:32,360 attitude and that I need to relinquish that in humility to 308 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:35,320 God to be changing me into what He wants me to be. 309 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:42,800 The opposite of humility is pride, but the destroyer of 310 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:47,600 pride is humility. James 46 says God opposes the 311 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,480 proud but gives grace to the humble. 312 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:56,040 So in Philippians 2 we find Jesus Christ in verses 5 through 313 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,080 8 humbling Himself, not comparing Himself. 314 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:02,480 Our fact, I'm going to read the scripture very quickly because 315 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,680 of time. You'll see it on the screen in 316 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,040 Colossians chapter 115 through 20. 317 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,040 We're going to read about Jesus Christ. 318 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,480 It says He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of 319 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,360 all creation. For by Him all things were 320 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:18,480 created both in the heavens and on the earth, visible and 321 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,640 invisible, whether Thrones or dominions or rulers or a third 322 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,760 authorities, all things have been created through Him and for 323 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,680 Him. He is before all things and in 324 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,200 Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body of 325 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,760 the Church, and He is the beginning, the first born from 326 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,440 the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in 327 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,600 everything. For it was the Father's good 328 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,400 pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him and through Him to 329 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,720 reconcile all things to Him, having made peace through the 330 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,960 blood of His cross, through Him I say, whether things on earth 331 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:56,320 or things in heaven. Now when you hear that Jesus 332 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,520 Christ created all things for him, through Him and by Him, 333 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,160 don't you think He would have the ability to say I'm good and 334 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:08,880 I'm God? But yet in verses 5 through 8 we 335 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,640 hear that he emptied himself from the deity. 336 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:19,680 I guess the the deity portion of all the available aspects of it. 337 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,880 I don't believe he poured himself out from being God. 338 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,720 I believe he was fully God and fully man. 339 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,360 But when it says he emptied himself from being God, he 340 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:34,000 emptied himself from all the opportunities that being a deity 341 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,800 created. He didn't take on the fashion of 342 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,080 look at me, look at me, look at me. 343 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,480 But he became a servant to us by becoming a man. 344 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,600 Matter of fact, I'm going to tell you he, he is so amazing 345 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,040 and it challenges me so much that he humbled himself to 346 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:56,360 actually kneel before his disciples and wash their feet. 347 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,480 My wife's smiling because she understands that feet gross me 348 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:06,800 out. And I've wrestled with God and 349 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,920 thank be to God he changed this. But two or three weeks ago he 350 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,000 said, you're going to bring up one of your disciples and you're 351 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,320 going to wash their feet on stage. 352 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,800 And I was like, oh Lord, that is gross. 353 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,080 I cannot do that. That is not of me. 354 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:22,960 I can't do that. And God said, do you want to be 355 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,160 humble or you want to be prideful? 356 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,480 Do you want to follow me or you don't want to do it your own 357 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,720 way? Now thank God that Pastor Alex 358 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,560 talked about washing a feet last week and said I don't have to do 359 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:39,760 it. But when I look at you and smile 360 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:44,080 and say gross feet gross me out. I that was probably the heart. 361 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,200 I could eat anything on the earth but touch your feet. 362 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:54,240 Not going to do it unless God said go wash Cody Anderson's 363 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,280 feet because he's your disciple and you need to teach him 364 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,760 something. Then I would have to humble 365 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,360 myself and fall upon my knees and say, Lord, you got to help 366 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:04,640 me through this because I'm a puke. 367 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:11,080 But if that's what you want me to do, I will do all things that 368 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,280 you call me to do. I will humble myself and rid 369 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:18,160 myself of pride to be able to do the actions that you call me to 370 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:24,120 do to change someone's life. Jesus Christ did that very 371 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:27,840 thing. If Jesus, the Son of God, can 372 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,360 humble himself to fulfill the plan of God, then why can't we? 373 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:39,800 Being humble means having a heart of repentance, being in 374 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,000 right standings with relationships that are around 375 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,160 us. Being humble leads to a lack of 376 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,200 offensiveness or offensiveness or being offended or offended. 377 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,960 I don't have to be offended when I know who I am in God, when I 378 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,480 know who God is and I know how He created me to be and the 379 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,720 talents He's given me to be, and He's called me to be what I am 380 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,320 and how I am as long as I am humbling myself to fulfill the 381 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,240 will of the Father instead of my own will. 382 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,240 Then when someone says you're a loser, I can say no, I'm 383 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:18,680 victorious. When someone says you're never 384 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,360 going to make anything out of your life, I can say I'm already 385 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:26,560 a Son of God. When someone says your marriage 386 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,080 is never going to do anything, I can say, yeah, it is because 387 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,640 God's teaching me how to be a man of God and how to love my 388 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,800 wife. When I know who God is and I 389 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,560 know who I am. And God, your opinions, I'm 390 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,680 sorry, don't matter. So why are other people's 391 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:48,600 opinions mattering to you? Is that a prideful thing or is 392 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,560 that a humility thing? That's the question. 393 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,840 Humility leads to understanding of God's Word in such a manner 394 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,640 that we actually seek it out. Like a big old 20 ounce steak. 395 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 If you don't like steak, I'm sorry. 396 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:09,280 I love steak, but when you seek out the Word of God that you 397 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,800 want to dine on it and you want to eat it and you want to chew 398 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,200 it and you want to just just feel the essence of all that it 399 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,960 is and all that it has. And you seek after the Word of 400 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,240 God in such a manner that when you digest it, you know it is 401 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,520 transforming you from the inside out. 402 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,600 And then I am a new creation. Why? 403 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,360 Because I am digesting the Word of God and I am seeking after 404 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:33,400 what He has for me. I am able to humble myself 405 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:38,840 before Him, and humility causes us to be the best version of 406 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:43,120 what God has called us to be. Not being the best version of 407 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:46,920 what I think I should be, Cody, but being the best version of 408 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:51,200 what God has called me to be according to His Word, according 409 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,680 to all that He is giving us and wanting us to be, I can be the 410 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,760 best version that God has called and ordained me to be. 411 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,400 So let's go over a few other opportunities of stories of the 412 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,000 Bible. We just talked about Jesus 413 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,560 humbling himself and and doing the great things for God. 414 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,480 Let's talk about Daniel. Daniel, continue to pray even 415 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,560 though the world says stop. You must do what the king says. 416 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,280 Stop praying. There is no praying. 417 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,080 Daniel kept praying even to the point of being thrown in the 418 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,920 lion's den. He kept praying. 419 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,160 I have no doubt when they were throwing them in the lion's den, 420 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,680 he was praying. Oh, Lord, help me right now. 421 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,640 But he continued. Why? 422 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,000 Because he humbled himself to know that what God called him to 423 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,040 do is far greater than what man calls him to do, and that his 424 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,600 future is so much brighter and so much brilliant and amazing 425 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,120 when he's following the will of the Father than when he's 426 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:46,560 following his own desires and his own passions. 427 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:55,360 Joseph being thrown in the pit, being sold, being a slave, being 428 00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:59,160 lost from his family, but then coming to realize later that God 429 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,920 ordained the moment and opportunity. 430 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,920 Why? So that he could be the savior 431 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:09,720 of the Jewish nation. He humbled himself to take what 432 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,880 God gave him, gave forgiveness to his brothers when they came 433 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,720 back. I don't know about you, but my 434 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,720 pride would have stepped in and said, OK, don't kill him, but I 435 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:19,880 want you to hurt him a little bit. 436 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,160 That probably would have been me, but Joseph cried and said 437 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,760 they're my brothers and what they did, they did not do out of 438 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,480 their own conceit and pride. They did because God allowed it 439 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,480 to happen so that I could be in the right place at the right 440 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,360 time to do what God wanted me to do and save the nation. 441 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,680 The Pharisee in the public and in Luke, Luke chapter 18, you've 442 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,840 got the Pharisee, the religious 1 standing up, quoting 443 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,040 scripture, praying really loud, saying all the these and the 444 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,720 thou's to make themselves sound really great. 445 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:58,720 And you got the public then over hiding in the corner, kneeling 446 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,320 on their knees, beating their chest, saying, I am a Sinner. 447 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,240 I'm not even worthy to be in this temple. 448 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,200 I'm not even I'm not even worthy to be breathing. 449 00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:10,960 But you give me breath, you give me life and I come to you 450 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,520 humbly, heavenly Father, to ask for your Holy Spirit to move in 451 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,120 my life. Forgive me for my sins, forgive 452 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:21,120 me for my past and change me. Isn't that so much better than 453 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:23,960 standing over here saying, Yep, I got it all going on. 454 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,840 I know things you don't. I don't know about you. 455 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,240 I've spent my times of my life in this place. 456 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:36,160 God is calling us to do go to this place to fall upon our 457 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:41,000 knees, to humble ourselves before God in such a way that he 458 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:46,320 can use us. We have John the Baptist, one of 459 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,320 the great prophets that that began doing his work and he 460 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,920 looked at his own disciples and said less of me, more of him. 461 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:58,400 Go follow him. Years and years of teaching 462 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,600 these guys, teaching his disciples. 463 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,800 But when Jesus came on the scene and the Spirit of God came on 464 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,040 the scene, he said I'm nothing. He's everything. 465 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,920 Go follow him. That's who's going to change 466 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,400 your life. That's who's going to make you 467 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,440 whole. That's who's going to really 468 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,840 make you into the man and woman that you are to be. 469 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,240 We had the woman with the issue of blood. 470 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,280 One of my favorite stories because when you think about 471 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,520 humility, you see a woman getting down on her hands and 472 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,560 knees, not caring about the ridicule of those that are 473 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,200 around her. People probably needing her to 474 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,640 get her out of the way so they could get closer to God. 475 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,840 But she crawled upon her hands and knees. 476 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,680 Why? Because she just wanted to get a 477 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,400 touch off her fingertips of Jesus Christ. 478 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,760 She just, she just wanted a touch. 479 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,120 And she knew by faith that even that little touch would 480 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:52,200 transform her life. How many of us are the ones 481 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,400 standing in the crowd pushing each other around, wanting to 482 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,800 get an eyeful and an earful but not wanting to get close enough 483 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,400 to actually have an experience with Jesus Christ? 484 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,720 What about the 10 lepers that came to Jesus and asked to be 485 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,440 healed and he sent them back and said go back to the go back to 486 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,680 the priest and show yourselves and as they went they were 487 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:19,960 healed. 1 turned when they saw the healing take place and went 488 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,560 back to Jesus. The other nine went and 489 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,320 fulfilled what they were told. They went to the priest, but 490 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,640 then they went back to their lives. 491 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,520 They went back home. Now this is not going to be in, 492 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,000 you're going to find this in Scripture. 493 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,640 This is my own interpretation. I believe that they were healed 494 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,640 from leprosy just as the Bible says. 495 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,160 But I believe that those nine people that went on to their 496 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,560 lives to get back to normal, if there was a finger missing or an 497 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,720 ear missing or something else missing, I believe they went 498 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,280 back to their lives with those things still missing. 499 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,000 But they were healed from the disease of leprosy and it was no 500 00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:02,000 more. Are we those nine that get so 501 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,880 caught up in our actions and our To Do List and our things that 502 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:09,040 that we we are OK with some things being failed in us and we 503 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,480 just keep going on day by day? Or are we the one that came back 504 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,080 to Jesus Christ and turned around and came back and knelt 505 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,360 before the King of kings and the Lord of Lords and begin 506 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,520 worshiping him and Jesus looked at him and said thy faith has 507 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,320 made you whole. In my interpretation, Shane 508 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,160 Stone 101, I believe that he was not just made whole on a 509 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,480 spiritual realm through salvation and through Jesus 510 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,520 Christ. Of that I believe that if there 511 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,920 was a finger missing or an earlobe missing or something 512 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:41,320 gone, I believe Jesus said you are now complete and you are now 513 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,920 whole made back into what I created you to be. 514 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:53,200 Are we the 9 going about our day to days or are we the one? 515 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,280 Is the Leviathan spirit within us individually that we are so 516 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,880 prideful that we look around this room and say this message 517 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,080 is for everyone else instead of saying God, is this message for 518 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:14,280 me? Is it an opportunity for you to 519 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,160 say God's calling me to come to an altar of prayer and to pray, 520 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,400 but I'm too prideful to get out of my Pew because I'm worried 521 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:23,840 about what someone else is going to say? 522 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,200 Or would you rather come to a king of kings and the Lord of 523 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,480 Lords and be made whole and be made complete to be transformed? 524 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,680 You may need Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior to save you 525 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,360 from your sins and to bring you into the Kingdom of God. 526 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,200 You may have a state of depression in your mindset right 527 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,080 now that is just bogging you down and depression is just 528 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,240 beating you and it's that spirit that is just holding you back 529 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,480 and you need freedom from that this morning. 530 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,520 You may need a healing from God in your body, in your mind. 531 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,680 I don't know what your need is, but God does. 532 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,720 And I know that if we will just humble ourselves and come to an 533 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,840 altar of prayer and seek his face and lay things at the foot 534 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,240 of the cross and lay things at his feet and say you are the 535 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,000 strong one. I cannot handle Leviathan. 536 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,040 I cannot handle my my pains and my struggles. 537 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,600 I can't handle these things, but you can. 538 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,400 He said take my yoke. My yoke is easy, but yet we 539 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:25,240 still go through life holding on to all the baggage and God is 540 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,520 saying, humble yourselves before me, the Lord God, and release it 541 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,840 into my hands and let me transform you. 542 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:38,000 They're going to begin singing. I speak Jesus, the altars are 543 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,120 open. I would urge you to listen to 544 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:45,080 the voice of God, and I would urge you to humble yourselves 545 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,560 before the Almighty King of Kings and Lord of Lords, for 546 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,280 everything God has is so much greater than everything you 547 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,240 could ever do on your own.