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Chapel Harvest Valley in Prosser
before me and Faye came up this 

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way, we were on his elder board 
and it's a it's a fun, fun 

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little church and he he's great.
So welcome Joe Kata, and he's 

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pretty awesome. 
Thank you, it's awesome to be 

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here. 
I'm from California. 

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That's when I was born and 
raised in a family farm and then

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moved out to Missouri for five 
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2009. 
That's where my wife and I 

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really grew up in the Lord. 
And, you know, we'll talk a 

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little bit, Dave, today about, 
you know, finding your flock 

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and, you know, the people that 
you want to hang out with and 

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grow with and people that can 
pour into you and people that 

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you need to pour into. 
And man, it was just a great 

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friendship with Nick and Faye 
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moving there. 
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them. 
They've been pretty awesome in 

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our lives. 
Let's pray. 

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Lord Jesus, we love you, Lord, 
and we just thank you for all 

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the good that you give us in our
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Lord, we come here wanting to 
hear a word from you. 

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And so, Lord, I pray as we go 
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examine your word, that you're 
speaking to our hearts, You're 

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changing us, You're making us 
more like you, and you're 

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bringing us to a place. 
Of. 

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Spiritual maturity, Lord, more 
and more every day that we 

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desire to grow in you and and 
you are satisfying us Lord, as 

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we continue to grow and desire. 
Thank you Jesus, Amen. 

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You know, we all have a 
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parent, a spouse, if you're a 
Christian, you have a ministry 

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just in regard to the people 
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And it's just how and where you 
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Effectiveness of the Kingdom and
so today we're going to talk 

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about the one thing that's going
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success in that ministry and the
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Is. 
Humility, and we're going. 

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To be spending most of our time 
in first Peter 5 and verses 5 

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through 7. 
You can begin turning there if 

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you'd like, but we're going to 
pick that apart and examine that

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passage, so. 
You know what gives me the right

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to talk about humility? 
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If I tell you, it's because I'm 
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more like me. 
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Actually, it's the opposite, and
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humility of Jesus. 
But I do know what happens when 

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you plant the flag on pride. 
Things do not go very well, and 

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I'll give you some of those 
examples as we go through the 

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study. 
Why Will? 

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The success of your ministry be 
determined by humility. 

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Because I can't learn, I can't 
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can't forgive, I cannot show any
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humility. 
You know where where the the 

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point in which humility ends and
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All the understanding stops. 
All of the repenting stops. 

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All the forgiving stops. 
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It all stops when humility 
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Pride is the brick wall of your 
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To your wife, to your kids, to 
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work in anything. 
Pride is the brick wall that 

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ends everything. 
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the single greatest say on where
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effectiveness of our Christian 
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Humility is actually the most 
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It's not how much he knows, it's
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It's his humility. 
When I started going to Calvary 

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Chapel tri-cities in 2009, I was
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at that church. 
I'd been there three times and 

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just, you know. 
Anytime I try to go somewhere 

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else, God would. 
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And and then I had some concern 
about picking Pastor Steve as my

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pastor. 
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that was a problem. 
For me, because I was arrogant 

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and you know, 2 arrogant people 
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happy church, so that wasn't 
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And so my wife and I, we went 
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office and we were going to 
leave or or go based on how this

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this discussion went in his 
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And so I just prayed, God, you 
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where you want me to be. 
There's a lot of things that are

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working out here really well, 
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that this one hurdle is, is is 
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I had just come out of the 7th 
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I thought I knew way more than 
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end times prophecy, and he 
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Millennium. 
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Talking, that sounded good. 
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believe that too. 
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And he's kind of raising an 
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I I don't think that's what 
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I'm just like, oh. 
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to swallow and that I didn't 
think I was a Bible expert or 

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anything like that, but I, I 
thought I knew more than I 

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actually did. 
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learned, you know, in just three
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him as a pastor. 
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that conversation, I didn't say 
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was thinking about or what I 
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been rude. 
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way for the Lord to reveal. 
Something in the conversation 

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and in the in the middle of the 
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he's completely off the subject.
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He starts talking about 
humility, and he says, you know,

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it's just easy to get a big head
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And I need to be on guard for 
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careful of that. 
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I got to watch out for pride was
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You know, I mean, number one, 
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And #2 this guy, I realized, is 
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like I'm trying to follow the 
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And neither of us are going to 
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mistakes. 
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around. 
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actually naturally hope that the
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You know, we lift them up. 
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underdog. 
The champion gets prideful and 

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we don't like the champion 
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Once he becomes a champion for a
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the. 
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humble person. 
Our success is determined by our

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humility. 
It's not by our spiritual gifts,

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it's not by our talents, it's 
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It's really easy to try to 
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It's good. 
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knowledge either. 
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Because without humility, over 
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tragically wrecked by pride. 
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and pride will ruin all of it. 
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asked about his identity and he 
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Are you? 
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Humility is not just knowing who
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The reason John the Baptist is 
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thing you need to know to know 
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Now you need to know Jesus. 
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John knew who he was, and he 
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began to leave his ministry and 
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John the Baptist humbly said he 
must increase and I must 

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decrease. 
So the main scripture we're 

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going to be into today, first 
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Let's take a look at first Peter
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And Peter says likewise. 
You younger people, submit 

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yourself to your elders yes, all
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another and be clothed with 
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proud but gives grace to the. 
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yourselves under the mighty hand
of God, that He may exalt you in

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due time, casting all your care 
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It's just kind of interesting 
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submission and humility, the 
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is, oh, the young people, they 
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Then he quickly considers that 
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This command be submissive to 
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humility. 
It applies to everyone for 

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perhaps especially young men. 
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Wasn't mature until he got 
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He knew what it was like to be a
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Peter knows the younger people 
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That's really what's. 
Easy admonishing people to do 

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here you know one young person 
plus another young person does 

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not make wisdom it brings 
passion and it brings you know 

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volume when young people to get 
the other not a lot of wisdom 

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when I was younger I. 
Found some guys that had been 

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through some battles in life and
I leaned into them and tried to 

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get everything from them that I 
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They the advice that I received 
for them, it was extremely 

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valuable. 
See the the first part of first 

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Peter 5 here talks about 
shepherds and pastors and it's, 

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you know, for for us, it's like,
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This is what 1 looks like. 
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you find the guy that can 
biblically lead you through your

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difficult circumstances that you
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You find your flock. 
You know, who are the people 

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that the friends that you're 
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need to find people that you're 
going to build up and you need 

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to find people that can build 
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You know, the older guys mentor 
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age guys mentor the the younger 
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It's the younger guys. 
They don't have anybody to teach

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yet. 
Not that we can't learn anything

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from them, but they especially 
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your elders. 
To everyone else, Peter says, be

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submissive to one another and be
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Being clothed with humility is 
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This is to put away our own 
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This applies to pastors too, 
Obviously. 

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It's easy to define submission 
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And your pastor. 
But the submission is actually 

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collectively to God's will. 
You know, the pastor and the 

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elders are just leading people 
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A bad pastor will lead people in
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desire. 
But a bad congregation will do 

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the same thing. 
They won't submit to the pastor 

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due to their own selfish will or
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And so Peter says, be clothed 
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Humility submitting to one 
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Nobody's perfect at this. 
We all make mistakes. 

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We offend people when we should 
probably be more gentle and more

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gentle to people when we should 
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offensive. 
It's a hard thing to do 

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sometimes, but our desire. 
Is to be humble and submissive 

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to God's will. 
A person that desires to be 

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humble and submissive to God 
will apologize when he realizes 

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he's made a mistake. 
Sometimes it takes a while to 

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figure it out. 
Peter is saying that's what 

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everyone should be doing, 
especially younger people, but 

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also everyone else submitting to
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That phrase be clothed is a rare
word that refers to a slave 

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putting on an apron right before
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Jesus did this before washing 
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John 13. 
You know, so when we're thinking

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about humility, we want to be 
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Christ. 
You know, washing feet was the 

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job of the lowest servant in 
that culture. 

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You know, are you willing to 
perform the lowest and smallest 

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services for the sake of Jesus? 
This is a good thing to take 

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pride in, you know, doing The 
Dirty work, you know, men, 

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you'll be the first guy to do 
that job that nobody else wants 

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to do. 
And when you get there before 

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the rest. 
Of the guys you call them girls 

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and you say you know you what 
are you doing I beat you to this

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job good thing to take pride in 
are you conscious of. 

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Your own inability to do 
anything apart from God, Jesus 

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said. 
Without me you can do nothing. 

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Yeah. 
What's nothing? 

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Yeah, nothing. 
Exactly. 

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Good job. 
Most people don't get that. 

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And we have to have a 
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is. 
I'm kidding. 

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Are you willing to be ignored by
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You. 
Know when you do The Dirty job 

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that nobody else wants to do, 
Will it matter to you when no 

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one notices? 
Or will you get irritated when 

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you don't receive praise for 
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Jesus to do anything of 
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tasks can can. 
My service to God can be ruined 

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by a bad attitude when I'm not 
relying on the Holy Spirit. 

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Are you others centered or are 
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You know, honestly, to some 
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I'm, I'm negative on all these 
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I can say no, it's all these 
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I, I don't want to do The Dirty 
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I'm going to be upset when I 
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It I'm going to be a little 
irritated when I get nothing in 

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return. 
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myself not having the right 
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Lord. 
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grateful because God knows all 
about my bad attitude and he 

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paid for it anyway through the 
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humility, because Jesus just 
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the Gospel. 
I become more submissive and I 

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become more humble. 
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quotes Proverbs 334 For God 
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grace to the humble. 
The word resist is not a word 

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that means. 
God, you know, like passively 

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ignores you. 
He passively ignores the proud. 

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It's a verb that pictures God 
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Battle standing against the 
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If you pick pride, you're 
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You know, if you build it in 
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he's going to knock it down. 
There is one specific time when 

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God told me that the guy who was
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being a really big jerk, you 
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Yeah, I, I. 
Sympathize. 

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He's being a really big jerk, 
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And then he said to me, if you 
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side. 
That's your authority and you 

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need to submit. 
And if you don't submit, things 

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are going to go really bad for 
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And I, I had to submit to the 
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submit to my authority, the, the
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And I had to trust God in faith 
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because I was young and I was 
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I was one of those young people 
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people. 
And I want to say young, I was 

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like, oh, 33 years old. 
But God didn't need me to be 

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right. 
That's not what he was trying to

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teach me. 
He was trying to teach me to be 

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humble so that I could grow. 
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that he wanted to teach me to do
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But submitting in that moment is
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Can't imagine where I would 
ended up if I want to submit it 

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in that point in time. 
God would have gone to war 

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against me if I had decided to 
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that situation. 
Pride causes most of our 

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problems. 
I mean, how's. 

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It going to show. 
How's it going to go when you 

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show pride to your wife or your 
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You're just going to get pride 
right back at you because you 

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reap what you sow. 
It's not going to be not going 

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to be a good time. 
What happens if you show 

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humility to that? 
Person your hearts get softened 

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and then you can start working 
through the issue because people

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start getting a lot more genuine
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Humility allows you to take a 
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what's really going on here, 
Lord, like, what do I need to do

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to reconcile the situation? 
What do I need to do to behave 

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more like you in this situation?
When you show pride to your 

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kids, you know then your kids 
get attitude. 

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It doesn't work really well. 
You know when dad shows pride to

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his kid, kids gets all mouthy 
and it's like, oh, you're going 

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to be mouthy OK, And then then 
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Then dad double S down the. 
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That's not good. 
If mom has a mockery for one of 

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her kids, that's going to harden
his heart. 

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He's going to get all ticked 
off. 

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He's going to show rebellion. 
Pride makes arguments go nuclear

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and there are some topics that 
you just can't even bring up 

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with. 
People, because of their pride, 

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you know that things are just 
going to erupt if you bring that

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thing up. 
God resists the proud. 

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He opposes pride to the married 
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You know your your wife is God's
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Your kids are his kids. 
In first Peter 37, it says 

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husbands likewise dwell with 
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Your wives with understanding. 
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don't understand giving honor to
the wife as to the weaker vessel

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and as being heirs together in 
the grace of life, that your 

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prayers may not be hindered. 
If you show pride to your wife, 

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God will stand against you. 
And it's certainly, you're 

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certainly not going to be 
answering your prayers, is what 

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he's saying there. 
In Malachi chapter 2, God says 

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he'll reject the offering of a 
man who deals with his wife 

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treacherously. 
How would you respond? 

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To someone showing pride to your
wife, How would you respond to 

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someone showing pride to your 
daughter? 

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I mean, it's standing against 
that. 

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That's what the word means. 
That's what the word word resist

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means. 
That's what God's going to do 

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with you when you show pride 
against his daughter. 

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God will stand against you and 
it's going to turn into a 

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disaster. 
You know, what if somebody shows

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humility to your wife? 
What if somebody shows humility 

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to your daughter? 
Well, I'm going to go out of my 

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way to. 
Do things for that guy and so 

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God will shower you with grace. 
God resists the proud, but gives

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grace to the humble. 
Humility brings grace. 

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You get good things that you 
don't deserve when you're 

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humble. 
Humility brings heaven down. 

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Pride brings hell up. 
You know when you're giving 

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somebody hell or you're giving 
somebody. 

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Pride. 
That's how that goes. 

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When you show humility, you're 
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the heart of Jesus. 
Humility ultimately comes from 

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the Holy Spirit. 
But it's interesting that the 

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Bible says to humble ourselves. 
This is something we have to do 

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in us. 
We have to voluntarily submit 

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and be humble first. 
Peter 5-6 the verse 6 it says 

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therefore humble yourselves. 
Under the mighty hand of God, 

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that He may exalt you in due 
time. 

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Some people think that going 
through a disaster or a 

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difficult circumstances can 
humble. 

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People. 
But that's not the case you. 

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Know when someone gets a beat in
a competition, sometimes they'll

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say well they got humbled, but 
truthfully they probably became 

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more prideful people. 
Can either harden their hearts 

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or soften their hearts when they
lose a battle in life when dads 

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compete with their kids and beat
them all the time, there's an 

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unfair. 
Advantage there so it can make 

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the kids bitter and prideful, 
you know, they'll try to prove 

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their value then in annihilating
their opponents and their pride,

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you know, pride just breeds 
more. 

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Pride. 
It doesn't soften their hearts 

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just because they lost is my 
point. 

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It. 
Actually makes them more 

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prideful When the marriage fails
and there's divorce, it doesn't 

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mean that you know, people are 
now humble and everybody learned

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their lessons. 
You have to humble yourself 

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hopefully before it gets to that
point. 

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God gives grace to the humble. 
You know, grace and pride are 

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just eternal enemies. 
Grace demands that God bless me 

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in light of what I think I 
deserve. 

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God deals with me. 
Or grace is when God deals with 

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me on the basis of what's in 
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You know, your salvation is 
about God being good, not you 

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being good. 
And when pride gets in the way 

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of that, God mightily opposes 
it. 

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You know, pride is the worst sin
and it's the one we all suffer 

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from. 
Pride was found in Lucifer and 

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that led to his fall. 
Pride was what led Adam to. 

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Sin. 
And now we all have sin. 

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Pride. 
It's something that starts out 

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really small and we make 
different names. 

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For it so that's not so bad 
sometimes we call it 

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independence and self-reliance 
now look I'm. 

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I'm just as patriotic as 
anybody, but I'm talking about 

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independence and self-reliance 
because you care more about you 

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than your team. 
You know you can be, you can't 

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be independent in your marriage,
you can't be self reliant on a 

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job that requires teamwork, and 
you certainly can't be 

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independent and self reliant in 
a relationship with God. 

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Some people realize this, so 
they start modifying their 

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behaviour. 
Some people hear the sermon on 

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grace and humility. 
And so they say, well, I can act

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humble because I know what 
acting humble looks like, but 

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they're really not humble. 
And if you take your eyes off 

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Jesus while you're trying to 
fake humility, it's it's going 

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to go radically bad. 
However, if you're willing to 

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give up pride, you you're 
probably going to be surprised 

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with how much grace Jesus gives 
you. 

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Humility is the key to receiving
more grace. 

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It's the, the way that the, 
it's, it's, it's the way of the 

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church. 
When you, when you're thinking 

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about climbing the church 
ladder, it's kind of a 

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disgusting thing. 
Like you're going to climb the 

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church ladder like people climb 
up in corporate America. 

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But the lesson of humility 
teaches us that if you want to 

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climb the ladder, you aim for 
the bottom. 

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That's humility, Peter says. 
Therefore, humble yourselves 

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under the mighty hand of God, 
that he may exalt you in due 

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time. 
That's Peter encouraging 

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Christians to be patient. 
You know, we all want to bear 

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fruit in our ministries and a 
relationship, all of our 

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relationships. 
Maybe it's to your family. 

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When you're raising your kids, 
sometimes it feels like you're 

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just poured into a black hole 
and there's. 

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Nothing coming out yet. 
You know, I don't see the fruit 

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yet. 
Lord, you know what's going on. 

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I pray with my kids. 
I'm teaching them the Bible. 

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I'm surrounding them with 
Christian influence, but they 

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act like they don't care, Peter 
says. 

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Humble yourself, be patient. 
Keep doing the things that God 

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has told you to do. 
You know, maybe it's a Sunday 

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school ministry, maybe it's a 
service ministry, a home Bible 

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study. 
Sometimes it's just a service 

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project. 
You're building something. 

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You're doing something at your 
job. 

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With with a, you're doing it, 
showing Jesus how you do it. 

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That's a ministry. 
And there are a lot of times 

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when you're going to do all the 
right things and you're going to

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be in the will of God, but you 
will not be exalted. 

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Yet it's going to take some time
for that to happen. 

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You know, nobody knows what 
you're doing. 

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The ministry is not growing. 
You're struggling to get things 

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off the ground. 
You know, maybe something's gone

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wrong. 
You know somebody. 

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Slandered you. 
Somebody since stopped the 

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progress of whatever you were 
trying to do. 

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Maybe you got injured and that 
stopped the progress of whatever

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you're trying to do, Peter says.
Don't get frustrated. 

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Don't start acting like God owes
you something. 

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That's pride, he says. 
Remain humble. 

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God will exalt you in due time. 
Humble yourselves and at the 

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right time God will lift you up.
Humility is a constant journey. 

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It never ends. 
We need it more and it. 

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Surprises us when we learn that 
we don't have it. 

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It's like that in marriage. 
It's like that in finding a job,

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you know, ministry, raising a 
family. 

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In 2004, I left California. 
I took a job to manage a 

455
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vineyard in Missouri. 
And it was a good opportunity to

456
00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,960
farm in really adverse 
conditions and just learn how to

457
00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:04,520
be a better farmer, a godly guy 
that helped lure me out there. 

458
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,560
Once I, I got started and, and 
he said you should start a 

459
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,960
vineyard business. 
And so I prayed, you know, I was

460
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,560
young in the Lord, definitely 
immature. 

461
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,000
I didn't really know how to how 
to listen to the Lord 

462
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,360
completely, but I didn't pray 
about the little things. 

463
00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:19,240
But this was a big thing, so I 
prayed about the big thing. 

464
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:25,240
And so I prayed and as I sat in 
the quiet there, I just felt a 

465
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,280
piece of God come over me like 
this was a confirmation of this 

466
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,520
is what I was supposed to do to 
start this business. 

467
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,480
So. 
It was kind of an awesome thing,

468
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:33,880
you know, I knew God's will for 
me. 

469
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,240
Now I know what to do. 
And so I made a business plan 

470
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,800
and there was a lot of interest 
and it looked like it was going 

471
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,360
to be lucrative right out of the
gate. 

472
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,480
But Long story short, everyone 
backed out at the last minute 

473
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:50,120
with no time for me to react or 
seek more opportunities. 

474
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,000
You know, leaving me with no 
income. 

475
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,240
So I explained the situation to 
my wife and we prayed. 

476
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,480
That's a humble thing to do. 
And so, and the prayer was just 

477
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,280
like, you know, God, if I messed
up, if I've been disobedient to 

478
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,680
you, let's, let's, let's make 
this quick and painful, not slow

479
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,520
and painful. 
Let's lose the house now, get 

480
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,440
things right now, start over. 
Now. 

481
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,720
I'll think about how dumb I was,
how smart you are, and we'll 

482
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,400
just get things right right now.
And that was pretty much it for 

483
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,480
about 20 minutes. 
And then the phone rang. 

484
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,280
And I just went and answered the
phone being exhausted from 

485
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:24,080
prayer, and it was a consulting 
call and it wasn't $1,000,000 

486
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,160
call or anything, but that peace
of God was something that I felt

487
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,200
returned in that moment. 
I just told Jenny, I think God 

488
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:30,560
wants us to go forward with 
this. 

489
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,640
I think that peace and that. 
Call is something telling us to 

490
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:38,160
go forward and I had two 
appointments on my work calendar

491
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,200
going into the month of May and 
they were only going to make a 

492
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,880
day's wage at the end of the 
month. 

493
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,680
I only did not work 2 days. 
That was pretty amazing. 

494
00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:50,720
Now I'm looking at the month of 
June and I've got three 

495
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,480
appointments on my calendar at 
the end of June. 

496
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,840
I only did not work. 
Three days now, I'm getting up 

497
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,440
in the morning and many times 
somebody would just call, you 

498
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:00,960
know, you wouldn't happen to be 
available today. 

499
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,320
Oh, actually, I am available 
today. 

500
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:03,720
I could. 
Come and see you right now. 

501
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,120
And so that that happened for 
five consecutive months and that

502
00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,080
was just God saying you're not 
going to be the one that builds 

503
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,720
this company. 
I am. 

504
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,040
And everything that you 
scheduled, everything that 

505
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,840
you're doing, I am taking away. 
This is only going to be me. 

506
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,200
It was a pretty amazing time, an
intimate time with God where I 

507
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,640
was learning how to trust Him. 
And I was in 2005. 

508
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:31,240
By 2008 the company was 
flourishing and growing, but I 

509
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,600
needed more labour to commit to 
the large jobs that I wanted to 

510
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,360
take on and so I decided it 
would be a good idea. 

511
00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:39,280
This is this is the humble part 
of the testimony. 

512
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,560
Here to break all kinds of laws 
and take matters into my own 

513
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,760
hands because my company was not
being exalted the way that I 

514
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,840
wanted it to be exalted. 
And so then I got caught. 

515
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,720
To the level where the senior 
prosecuting attorney from the 

516
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,200
state attorney general's office 
was calling my house. 

517
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,560
And my immigration attorney said
this is out of my league. 

518
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,400
This is really scary. 
You need a criminal attorney. 

519
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:01,960
Went and got a criminal 
attorney. 

520
00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:06,440
He took every dime that I had 
and and I was immediately 

521
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,680
repentant in the thing. 
You know the way the whole deal 

522
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,640
went down, don't have time to 
get into all of it, but it was a

523
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,720
set of circumstances where as 
soon as it happened. 

524
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,880
It was like, oh, this is 
definitely from you. 

525
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,160
This isn't just something that 
happened on accident. 

526
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,040
Not that anything does, but in 
that point in my life, it's. 

527
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,600
Just how it felt I I repented. 
I knew it immediately was from 

528
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,160
the Lord. 
I had two young boys at home. 

529
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,160
I had my my wife. 
And I thought I was going to be 

530
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,840
without them for a. 
Very long time. 

531
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,800
I was looking at a minimum 
sentence of around 20 years. 

532
00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:39,320
And so after two months of just 
kind of being in limbo, my 

533
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,320
humble wife cried out to the 
Lord and confessed that she had 

534
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,880
made me her Jesus. 
You know she was humble to me, 

535
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,240
but not to God you. 
Know she trusted me to take care

536
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,240
of everything and didn't take a 
stand when I chose to do what I 

537
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,840
did. 
She warned me hey you better not

538
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,760
do this. 
And then when I didn't listen to

539
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,560
her, she helped me do it. 
And so she tells the Lord, I 

540
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,840
realize I need to follow you, 
not him. 

541
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,040
But I beg you, Lord, will you? 
Please have mercy on this 

542
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,320
situation. 
The same day. 

543
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,040
I wasn't expecting a call, but I
get a call from my lawyers and 

544
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,000
these guys say we met with the 
prosecuting attorney and they 

545
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,800
aren't going to press any 
charges. 

546
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,560
You're probably still going to 
have some fines even later on. 

547
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,120
We didn't even pay any fines. 
It was complete mercy. 

548
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,560
I asked the attorney why, you 
know what, what could have 

549
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,120
possibly led to this outcome, 
and he just kind of got out 

550
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,760
awkward and said things that 
didn't make a whole lot of 

551
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:31,960
sense. 
You know what did? 

552
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,040
You say, how did this happen? 
I don't understand. 

553
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,480
And I just knew it was from the 
Lord. 

554
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:37,920
He didn't have a straight answer
for me. 

555
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,280
So God answered my wife's prayer
at that moment, You know, she 

556
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,640
humbled herself before God, and 
He gave grace. 

557
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,000
The business was wrecked, but I 
could find more work. 

558
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,240
I just needed people. 
I only had one employee at the 

559
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,840
time and he was one of those 
guys, though, that would go do 

560
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,040
The Dirty job and call you a 
girl if he beat you to it. 

561
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,720
So that was really helpful. 
Eventually, through that summer 

562
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,160
season, I hired and trained and 
fired about 60 employees. 

563
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,160
None of them could do the work. 
I'd get him started and 

564
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,120
eventually have to let him go 
and try to find other people. 

565
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,920
But we got through the growing 
season with something to show 

566
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,640
for it. 
We kept things afloat, and then 

567
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,640
God presented me with a 
tremendous opportunity through 

568
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,880
an equally amazing alignment of 
circumstances. 

569
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,120
And God made the business even 
bigger and better than it was 

570
00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:29,840
before. 
Then a year later, in 2009, he 

571
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,320
told us to walk away from it. 
You know, bag it and walk away. 

572
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,400
Last year was our best year, so 
that was a hard thing to do. 

573
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,000
But he wanted us to go to 
Washington. 

574
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,480
God revealed that to us and we 
knew that if we were offered 

575
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,800
this job in Washington that we 
were supposed to take it. 

576
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,400
It didn't even matter what the 
offer was. 

577
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,240
And the offer was about half of 
the income we were making in 

578
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,880
Missouri. 
But we took it because we we 

579
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,640
just knew God's will was in it 
and we had learned some lessons.

580
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,960
So faith is radically increasing
and changing, humility changing 

581
00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:02,000
and increasing. 
I don't need money. 

582
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,360
I just need to follow the Lord. 
I was also transitioning out of 

583
00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:08,640
the 7th Day Adventist religion 
at the time, as I mentioned 

584
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,920
before, and I found Calvary 
Chapel where my wife and I 

585
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,720
learned the Bible. 
We picked our shepherd, we found

586
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,160
our flock guys like Nick and 
ladies like Faye. 

587
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,000
And my wife and I learned 
ministry. 

588
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,960
We received amazing mentorship, 
and I learned how to lead my 

589
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,040
family in the Lord. 
After being in Washington less 

590
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,440
than a year, I was called the 
ministry. 

591
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,560
You know, there was a job offer 
in California and there was 

592
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,680
continued opportunity in 
Washington state. 

593
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,440
And so I was praying about those
two options and God did this 

594
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,840
thing. 
I'm not that emotional of a guy,

595
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,800
but he broke me. 
I guess I'm a little more now 

596
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,440
than I. 
Was then, but then definitely 

597
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,280
not. 
He broke me down five times and 

598
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,480
I did not know what was going 
on. 

599
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,120
On the 5th time I was exhausted 
and I just cried out to the. 

600
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:52,840
Lord, you know what is going on 
here. 

601
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,440
What are you doing? 
And he said you're going to 

602
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,760
build a church. 
Long story really short. 

603
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,280
I spent the next 12 years in in 
volunteer ministry, teaching. 

604
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,600
I spent nine of those years in 
Prosser. 

605
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,120
That took us to 2022, when a 
pastor gave. 

606
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:13,040
Me, his church building, I did 
three more years of a volunteer,

607
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:18,080
you know, pastoring at that 
church and then in 2000. 25 I 

608
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,200
lost my job of of 16 years, you 
know, being a vineyard manager 

609
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,960
because the entire industry 
there is just radically 

610
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,640
shrinking. 
And I didn't know what to do 

611
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,600
because my church wasn't big 
enough to support me yet. 

612
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,960
And then it was. 
And I I still need to have. 

613
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,520
A a part time job in to pay the 
bills and things like that. 

614
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,840
But now I'm supported by my 
church and got opened a door for

615
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,840
me to sit on the Pasco City 
Council. 

616
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,800
The houses where I live in is in
Pasco and that has a little bit 

617
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,280
of income that supplements where
I am. 

618
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,200
So that just worked out. 
And my wife has a part time job 

619
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,120
where she prayed Lord. 
I think it could be a secretary 

620
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,880
at Calvary Christian School. 
She didn't ask anybody, tell 

621
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,760
anybody or anything except God 
and me. 

622
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,840
And the principal calls up say, 
hey, we'd like you to work a 

623
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,000
couple days of work at the. 
Calvary Christian School be a 

624
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,560
secretary for us and so God is 
miraculously providing you know 

625
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,760
why am I telling you this? 
Well, I I was proud and I didn't

626
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,720
need God, you know, to build my 
business. 

627
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,960
That plan failed and then I 
humbled myself and then God 

628
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,440
built up the business. 
I created my God, created my 

629
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,520
business in due time and his 
power not mine. 

630
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:22,880
Then I got proud. 
Again. 

631
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,520
And God, you know, I said, God, 
I could do this without you. 

632
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,160
And that plan failed, which is a
radical understatement. 

633
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,000
And then I got humble. 
Then my wife got humble and he 

634
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,600
showered us with grace. 
After that, we decided it was a 

635
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,520
lot better to be humble than to 
be proud. 

636
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,920
And so we fully submitted to 
God. 

637
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,160
My wife and I had another baby, 
we had a daughter, Julia, and 

638
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,800
God LED us to adopt two kids 
from Columbia in 2013. 

639
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,480
We learned a lot about ministry,
and we are still learning a lot 

640
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,800
about ministry. 
The most important ministry is 

641
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,600
to your family. 
You know what happens if you're 

642
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,800
the leader in your home and 
someone is in rebellion? 

643
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,640
They have all kinds of pride. 
You know if you answer them with

644
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,880
pride, that's that's going to be
a total train wreck. 

645
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,000
If you answer them with 
humility, that's not going to 

646
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,760
work either. 
The prideful person in their 

647
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,360
rebellion will probably just eat
you for breakfast if you show 

648
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:13,080
them. 
Humility. 

649
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,560
And so you have to employ very 
disciplined leadership that 

650
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,480
involves humility and no pride. 
But humility alone will not 

651
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,640
resolve this issue. 
You know, there I'm saying that 

652
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,400
just because I'm giving a caveat
because there there are a lot of

653
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,960
men that need to stand up to 
their wives and the culture that

654
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,440
we're living in today. 
And you know you can't tolerate 

655
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,600
behaviour in your family that 
you know is destroying your 

656
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,040
family. 
Stop it. 

657
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,680
So that's a different Bible 
study, but I just want to give 

658
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,640
that that caveat, that humility.
Is not the answer to rebellion 

659
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:48,760
in your family. 
It's part of it. 

660
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,920
It's a necessary component. 
When that happens, you need to 

661
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,560
stand against the proud like 
Jesus stands against the proud. 

662
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,560
So are you pursuing humility 
before God? 

663
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,400
You know, one thing that God has
done in my life to remind me 

664
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,840
that I don't deserve anything 
that I have is that He uses this

665
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:10,080
number 5 in my life. 
God made work fall from the sky 

666
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,040
for five months. 
He gave me a job for five 

667
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,600
months. 
He provided for five months. 

668
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,280
Then He blessed me with five 
kids. 

669
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,840
That wasn't the plan. 
We were just answering a call 

670
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,680
and then he called me into 
ministry and he broke me down 

671
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,280
five times. 
And so that's a God saying, I'm 

672
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,840
giving you a job that you don't 
deserve, I'm giving you kids 

673
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,680
that you don't deserve, and I'm 
giving you a ministry that you 

674
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,840
don't deserve. 
God has done a work in me far 

675
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,000
beyond, you know, the personal 
testimony. 

676
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,520
I still get mad at myself 
because I still have feelings of

677
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:39,800
pride. 
You know, God doesn't stop 

678
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,520
revealing your pride to you. 
Pride gets revealed. 

679
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,920
It's like looking in the mirror.
You know you bring your sin to 

680
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,000
the light. 
And God starts dealing with it. 

681
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,880
You're looking in the mirror. 
You're cleaning yourself up. 

682
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,480
Things look pretty good now. 
OK, I'm better. 

683
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,040
I look a little bit more like 
Jesus today. 

684
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,880
And then God brings some more 
circumstances and adversity to 

685
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,720
your life, and he brings a 
bigger light. 

686
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,520
And so then you look in the 
mirror, he goes like, you know, 

687
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,760
he's like, Oh no, where'd all 
this stuff come from? 

688
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,400
I didn't know I was there. 
And he just starts dealing with 

689
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,960
it. 
That was how the Doing Ministry 

690
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,480
Well conference went for me. 
You know, that's how God was 

691
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,040
dealing with me when I was there
two weeks ago. 

692
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,200
Some of you were there. 
I was mortified for. 

693
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,720
About a day at the pride that I 
sensed in my heart and I learned

694
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,520
again how I just need to be 
really humble before Jesus and 

695
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,800
that Jesus humbled himself for 
me on the cross. 

696
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,840
You know, thankfully I didn't 
act on my pride and embarrass 

697
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,000
myself. 
You know, I've learned some 

698
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,920
things being a Christian for a 
number of years now. 

699
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,400
And being a hypocrite. 
For a number of years as well. 

700
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,160
But I need to, all I needed to 
do was pray to God. 

701
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,440
I mean, he, he is so faithful 
when you're just like, Lord, 

702
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,360
please change my attitude. 
He's so faithful to do that and 

703
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,840
bring you to that place of 
humility when you humbly ask. 

704
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,040
I become overwhelmed with a 
sense of gratitude and hope 

705
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,320
because I know that God's going 
to work out His plan for me. 

706
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:59,840
His plan is the best one. 
I want God to give me everything

707
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,720
that I receive in my life. 
I don't want to be going out and

708
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,160
getting stuff for myself because
I'll glorify God much better 

709
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,199
that way. 
First, Peter 5 verses 5 through 

710
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:09,480
7. 
Let's let's read through it here

711
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,920
and we can add 7. 
Likewise, you younger people, 

712
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,239
submit yourselves to your 
elders. 

713
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,080
Yes, all of you be submissive to
one another and be cold with 

714
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,920
humility. 
For God resists the proud but 

715
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,320
gives grace to the humble. 
Therefore humble yourselves 

716
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,080
under the mighty hand of God, 
that he may exalt you in due 

717
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,800
time, casting all your care upon
Him. 

718
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,920
For He cares for you when you 
know God's will, but you're 

719
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,840
waiting for His timing. 
That can feel like God doesn't 

720
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,040
care about you. 
And so Peter says God cares for 

721
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,400
you, He loves you, you just need
to wait on him. 

722
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,760
You know when you have anxiety, 
when you have stress, when you 

723
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,000
have trouble, when you have 
impatience, you just need to 

724
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,520
give all of that to the Lord and
He will do what's best for you, 

725
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,040
casting all your care upon Him, 
for he cares for you. 

726
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,840
Humility can be measured. 
You can know how humble you are 

727
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,400
by this measurement. 
You can measure it by how many 

728
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,200
of your problems you are giving 
to the Lord. 

729
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,480
If you're giving all your 
problems to the Lord, that's a 

730
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,320
lot of humility. 
But if you try to manage and 

731
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,200
worry and solve. 
Those concerns yourself, that's 

732
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,040
pride. 
Casting is not laying down. 

733
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,560
Casting is a really energetic 
term when it talks about casting

734
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,280
your care upon him, and it 
doesn't. 

735
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,960
Say you like like lay your cares
on him. 

736
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,680
This is not a something you just
kind of do. 

737
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:27,000
It should not be slow and 
methodical is the point. 

738
00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:28,760
You actually throw it away from 
you. 

739
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,120
That's casting. 
If God wants your burden and he 

740
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,480
wants it immediately dumped on 
him and the faster you get to. 

741
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,520
The point where you realize I 
can't do this on my own, the 

742
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,080
faster that burden is cast to 
God. 

743
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,080
He cares for you. 
Most people don't have a problem

744
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,760
with realizing. 
And envisioning a good God, the 

745
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,280
problem comes. 
The harder thing to accept is 

746
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,440
that God actually cares for you,
that He specifically loves you. 

747
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,240
Peter, through the inspiration 
of the Holy Spirit, is reminding

748
00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:00,200
us of the character of God. 
He loves you and cares for you. 

749
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,480
The key to navigating a crisis 
in the future is humility. 

750
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,720
In the present. 
We're all on a continuum of 

751
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:12,520
humility leading to pride. 
And so I got an ugly heart just 

752
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,800
like everybody else. 
You know, I'm teaching a study 

753
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,560
on humility because God is 
hilarious. 

754
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,200
You know, We're having dinner 
with Nick and Faye. 

755
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:19,800
Last night, Nick says, what are 
you teaching on? 

756
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:21,960
I said humility. 
And they both look at me like, 

757
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,440
really, I know, I don't know, 
it's just what I got. 

758
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:33,000
All I can tell you is I am a 
proud person seeking humility by

759
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,360
the power of the Holy. 
Spirit, if you stop seeking 

760
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,440
humility, pride will get you. 
Anytime you get attention for 

761
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:44,280
service or your hard work, 
you're in a great environment to

762
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,280
cultivate pride, and we all have
to be guarded against that. 

763
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,240
In times where I acknowledge my 
pride, I'm listening to the Holy

764
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:52,480
Spirit and I'm going where He 
leads me, which is a path to 

765
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,200
humility. 
You know, humility. 

766
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,320
It's just an honest 
understanding of your ability to

767
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,600
serve according to how Jesus 
directs you through the Holy 

768
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,920
Spirit. 
The key to humility is focusing 

769
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,520
on Jesus's humility. 
Humility says that God is the. 

770
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,280
Center of the universe. 
I am orbiting around God, and 

771
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,600
there's plenty of room for 
people to orbit around God with 

772
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,840
me. 
Pride is obviously. 

773
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,840
Putting you in the center of the
universe and everybody orbiting 

774
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,640
around you. 
The key is not focusing on your 

775
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,040
humility but Jesus's humility. 
This is Philippians 2 verses 5 

776
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,920
through 11. 
It says let this mind be in you,

777
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,680
which was also in Christ Jesus, 
who being in the form of God did

778
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,200
not consider it robbery to be 
equal with God. 

779
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,520
It just means that Jesus didn't 
cling to His deity like a robber

780
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,520
clings to his treasure, but made
himself of no reputation. 

781
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,960
Taking the form of a bondservant
and coming in the likeness of 

782
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,760
men and being found in 
appearance as a man, He humbled 

783
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,800
himself and became obedient to 
the point of death, even death 

784
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,760
on the cross. 
Therefore God also has highly 

785
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:01,320
exalted him and given His, given
Him the name which is above 

786
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,440
every name, that at the name of 
Jesus every knee should bow of 

787
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,040
those in heaven, of those on the
earth and those under the earth,

788
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,600
and that every tongue should 
confess that Jesus Christ is 

789
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:10,920
Lord. 
To the glory of God the Father. 

790
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,760
Jesus committed the most humble 
act, and so he receives the 

791
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,960
highest exaltation. 
Jesus is not fighting for 

792
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,200
position here, He is humble unto
death. 

793
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,040
Without humility, Jesus would 
have never come to serve us. 

794
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:30,560
In Mark chapter 10, the 
disciples James and John, they 

795
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:35,160
ask if they can sit be seated at
the right and left hand of Jesus

796
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:36,480
when he. 
Reigns and is. 

797
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,160
His millennial Kingdom and that 
really ticked off the other 

798
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,880
disciples. 
That's what happens when we show

799
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:41,520
pride. 
You show pride. 

800
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:42,800
Everybody wants to knock you 
down. 

801
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,280
That's everybody's mad about 
that. 

802
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,000
You show humility. 
Everybody wants to lift you. 

803
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,280
Up. 
But when you are proud, people 

804
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,920
want to knock you down. 
A number of times the disciples 

805
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:57,600
asked Jesus who is the greatest.
People who have the ability to 

806
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,840
lead. 
Are typically very driven and 

807
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,160
they're always trying to get 
better. 

808
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,760
They're always trying to win. 
They like competing, that it's a

809
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,760
fun thing. 
They want to get better. 

810
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,640
They want to be the. 
Best at what they do. 

811
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,800
And some of those guys are the 
types of guys that Jesus picked 

812
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,600
for ministry. 
They're the same way. 

813
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,680
Those kind of people, they 
really need Jesus and they need 

814
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,920
his example of humility. 
If they don't get Jesus and they

815
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,880
start getting prideful, then the
wheels come off the cart. 

816
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,360
Really quickly, it turns into a 
really ugly situation. 

817
00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:30,280
If they do receive the humility 
of Jesus, that's a lot of energy

818
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,240
pointed in the right direction. 
Now, when they ask the question,

819
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,040
Jesus doesn't rebuke their 
desire for greatness. 

820
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,040
He just redirects it and he 
tells them to serve. 

821
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,240
You know, valuing greatness is 
not necessarily a bad thing. 

822
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,960
If they didn't value greatness, 
they wouldn't be able to value 

823
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,440
the greatness of Jesus or the 
attributes that make Jesus 

824
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,920
great. 
So Jesus responds in Mark 10 

825
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,480
verses 43 and 45, he says. 
Whoever desires to become great 

826
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,360
among you shall be your servant,
and whoever of you desires to be

827
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,800
first shall be slave of all for.
Even the Son of Man did not 

828
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,360
become to be, did not come to be
served, but to serve and to give

829
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:11,880
his life a ransom for many. 
Serving is a great way of 

830
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,000
redirecting your energy and 
desire to be great. 

831
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,120
If you want to be great, serve 
others. 

832
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,880
Pride and selfishness, they make
others serve us, and it's tough.

833
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,840
Because pride is how we win in 
the world. 

834
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,400
You know, pride is really bad in
the Bible, but it is talked 

835
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,960
about favorably in the world. 
You know, we have a whole pride 

836
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,400
month, right? 
You know, we don't have a 

837
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,520
humility month and we're going 
to, you know, and I understand 

838
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,840
it's a, it's a sexual morality 
kind of pride. 

839
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,000
We don't have a purity month. 
We don't, we don't have a parade

840
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,600
where people wear 5 belts to 
make a point. 

841
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,160
And you know, we don't have 
anything like that. 

842
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,320
So, so, So what are some? 
Things you can do to express 

843
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,120
humility. 
These are 5 actions that 

844
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:54,120
demonstrate humility #1. 
We pray, you know, pray before 

845
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,960
the confrontation, you know, 
pray before you walk into your 

846
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,120
house, you know, you dad's 
getting home from work, you've 

847
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,240
been beaten down by the man or. 
Whatever's going on, pray before

848
00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:05,280
you walk through that threshold.
You know when your spouse gets 

849
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,080
upset with you, take the 
criticism to the Lord and pray 

850
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,400
hopefully before you respond. 
You know if you disagree with 

851
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,720
your spouse, pray anyway. 
Send the Holy Spirit to you. 

852
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,720
Argue with your spouse. 
There's nothing wrong with that,

853
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:18,000
you know. 
Take your wife under your arm if

854
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,840
she'll let you, and invite Jesus
into the conversation before you

855
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,320
start it. 
You know, seek His will and pray

856
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,160
from your heart, because that 
person listening to you pray is 

857
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,120
listening to you reveal your 
heart to God. 

858
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,200
It's an act of humility. 
And if you still can't figure it

859
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,000
out and you know, just keep 
praying together. 

860
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,720
Number two, serve serving 
expresses humility. 

861
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,560
You do the hard work even if no 
one. 

862
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,160
Appreciates it and including 
including if your wife doesn't 

863
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,280
appreciate it you know we always
like to do that little chore 

864
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,240
around the house and then oh, I 
did this one little thing and we

865
00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:54,920
have to make sure that she knows
about it go find your way go out

866
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,760
of your way to serve and be kind
you know do something that makes

867
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,720
the other person's life easier 
that's. 

868
00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:05,240
Service take some stress out of 
the other person's day #3 

869
00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:08,000
humility. 
Humility gives grace giving 

870
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,480
grace you. 
Know when you're having an 

871
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,200
argument with your teenage kid 
and then you go and fill his gas

872
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,160
tank. 
That's that's grace. 

873
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,160
You know, take the wife to 
dinner. 

874
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,160
You know when you know you've 
got to have a tough conversation

875
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,120
with the kids, You don't do 
something, eat dinner, eat 

876
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,080
dessert first, do something. 
It just kind of just kind of 

877
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,640
lightens. 
Everything when you show grace 

878
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,880
#4 apologize, saying I'm sorry, 
it's my fault. 

879
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,280
That can radically change the 
trajectory of the relationship. 

880
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,120
Don't give the legal. 
Briefing about how right you 

881
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,880
are. 
Don't defend yourself. 

882
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,880
It never works because it's 
pride. 

883
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:46,000
Just apologize for the things 
that you did that were wrong and

884
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,880
forgive the things that the 
other person did that was wrong.

885
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,360
If they don't ask for 
forgiveness, move on. 

886
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,240
You know, if you're getting 
bullied because the prideful 

887
00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:57,120
person is taking advantage of 
your humility, let them know, 

888
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:01,000
hey, when you do this, when you 
say this, this is how I feel. 

889
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,840
And as opposed to saying you 
know you're a terrible person, 

890
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:06,080
you don't have, you know you. 
Have pride. 

891
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:11,840
You need to say sorry #5 listen.
Don't articulate your response 

892
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,680
while they talk. 
Seek to understand. 

893
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,040
Ask them to explain it again. 
Repeat what you are hearing. 

894
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:19,920
Ask them. 
Ask them if you understand, you 

895
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:20,800
know. 
Is this correct? 

896
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,600
You know if you've listened and 
the other person is telling you 

897
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,120
no, you're you're still not 
getting it. 

898
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:26,720
Go back to the first four 
things. 

899
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,520
Pray, serve, give grace, 
apologize. 

900
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,040
So the five examples of humble 
actions, Pray, serve, give 

901
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,600
grace, apologize. 
Listen, you won't be able to do 

902
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,120
those things without some 
measure of humility. 

903
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,840
Those are humble actions. 
But what if you're really not 

904
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,680
humble? 
I mean, these actions are the 

905
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:50,000
result of having some humility, 
but how do you actually get more

906
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,040
humility? 
And this is probably the most 

907
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,640
important part of the Bible 
study here. 

908
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,440
If I want you to walk away with 
anything, it's it's the last 

909
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,520
kind of closing of the Bible 
study here. 

910
00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:00,880
How do you get more? 
Humility because when you break 

911
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,920
down humility and pride in the 
Bible, you basically get these 

912
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,280
three principles that show up. 
And the first one is that you 

913
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:12,440
need to desire to spiritually 
grow, that you should desire to 

914
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:16,280
grow spiritually in the love of 
God and seek humility. 

915
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,600
When you stop growing, it's due 
to pride. 

916
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,800
You know, pride says I know 
everything that I want to know 

917
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,920
about this thing. 
You know I'm going to stay here 

918
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,040
because I've made it to the top.
Or I'm satisfied with what I 

919
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,360
know or what I'm doing, so why 
should I do more? 

920
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,160
Paul writes after being saved. 
For 30 years and leading the 

921
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,840
ministry of the church. 
He says this in Philippians 3 

922
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,680
verses 12 through 14. 
Not that I have already attained

923
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,960
or am already perfected, He's 
saying. 

924
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:47,480
I'm not the picture of Christian
maturity or humility, but I 

925
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:52,160
press on that I may lay hold of 
that for which Christ Jesus has 

926
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,920
also laid hold of me. 
You know, I know Jesus has more 

927
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,840
for me, so I'm pressing on to go
get it. 

928
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,320
Brethren, I do not count myself 
to have apprehended He has an 

929
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,760
apprehended humility or 
spiritual maturity. 

930
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,480
But one thing I do know, you 
know, this is what I have 

931
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:07,720
apprehended. 
This is one thing I do 

932
00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:09,840
understand. 
Forgetting those things which 

933
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,640
are behind and reaching forward 
to those things which are ahead.

934
00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:17,840
We make a lot of mistakes in our
pride, but you can't give up, 

935
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,800
you know, forget about your past
sins, receive forgiveness from 

936
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,280
Jesus and move forward. 
He says, press toward the goal 

937
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,720
for the prize of the upward call
of God in Christ Jesus. 

938
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,240
In second Timothy 4, Paul writes
from prison. 

939
00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:34,600
This is at the end of his life. 
He's about to be beheaded. 

940
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,600
I think he understands that this
is his last stop here. 

941
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:40,840
And he writes to Timothy and he 
says. 

942
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,040
Luke is the only one who's still
with me. 

943
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:44,920
Bring Mark. 
I have use for him. 

944
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:50,240
I sent to Caicus, to Ephesus. 
But Timothy, when you come bring

945
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,000
the books and he says especially
the parchments, you know, Paul 

946
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,960
still wants to grow. 
You know, he still wants to have

947
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:58,680
those moments where he reads the
Scripture. 

948
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,320
He says, wow, I've read this 100
times and I never saw that 

949
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,240
before. 
He wants to continue to grow. 

950
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:10,120
The gap between what we teach 
and the way that we act should 

951
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,280
always be narrowing. 
It should never be widening. 

952
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,640
We can't be deceived by the 
temptation to measure our 

953
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:22,200
spiritual maturity based on what
we know you know, It's actually 

954
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:23,760
based on how much knowledge is 
applied. 

955
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,920
So to increase humility, you 
need to desire to grow 

956
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,200
spiritually. 
The second thing is that you 

957
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:35,640
need to be teachable, express a 
willingness to be taught. 

958
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,720
Apollos is a great example of 
that in Acts 18. 

959
00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:42,600
I'm going to read to you Acts 18
verses 24 through 28. 

960
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,320
It says now a certain man named 
Apollos, born at Alexandra 

961
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,960
Xandra. 
He's from Egypt, an eloquent man

962
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,880
and mighty in the Scriptures 
came to Ephesus. 

963
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,320
This man had been instructed in 
the way of the Lord, and being a

964
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,800
servant in spirit, he spoke and 
taught accurately the things of 

965
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,440
the Lord, though he knew only 
the baptism of John. 

966
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:09,320
Apollos is a he has expert 
knowledge of the Bible, and he's

967
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,680
probably inspired by John the 
Baptist. 

968
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,920
We know that he knows about the 
ministry of John the Baptist. 

969
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,120
But apparently he's been living 
under a rock, maybe all the way 

970
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:22,040
back in Egypt, in some part of 
the world where he did not know 

971
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:27,120
that Jesus came and died and was
resurrected, Verse 26 says. 

972
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,480
So he began to speak boldly in 
the synagogue, and Aquila and 

973
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,680
Priscilla heard him. 
They took him aside and 

974
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,520
explained to him the way of God 
more. 

975
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,280
Accurately, you can even tell 
like the way that Luke writes 

976
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,160
this, this is a sensitive 
situation. 

977
00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:44,000
Apollo's had to humble. 
Himself to receive their 

978
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:50,320
teaching he's there's a a humble
couple in the audience listening

979
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,840
to Apollo speak. 
And they say we need to talk to 

980
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,520
you about your teaching. 
And Paul says, really, Are you 

981
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,760
guys teachers? 
Well, no, we're we're tent 

982
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,680
makers. 
OK, well, what do you have to 

983
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,440
say? 
Well, we need to explain that 

984
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,200
your message is not quite. 
It needs to be more accurate. 

985
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,160
There's some things that you. 
Need to know, verse 27 says. 

986
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:16,040
And when he desired to cross to 
Akaya, the brethren wrote, 

987
00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:18,560
exhorting the disciples to 
receive. 

988
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,240
Him, and when he arrived, he 
greatly helped those who had 

989
00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:25,360
believed through grace, for he 
vigorously refuted the Jews, 

990
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,840
publicly showing from the 
Scriptures that Jesus is the 

991
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,800
Christ. 
And so if Apollos doesn't humble

992
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,120
himself, his ministry stops to 
growing, and so does he. 

993
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,120
But now, because he humbled 
himself, the disciples are 

994
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,880
telling the. 
Other disciples, they said you 

995
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:41,440
need to receive this guy. 
He can. 

996
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,520
He can explain the gospel as 
well as anyone. 

997
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,480
He's teachable. 
Teachableness is a mark of 

998
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,720
maturity. 
So humility is to desire growth,

999
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,960
desire spiritual growth #2 be. 
Teachable. 

1000
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,200
And the third one is probably 
the one that a lot of us get 

1001
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,680
hung up on. 
Let God pick the teacher. 

1002
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,440
That's the third one. 
Be willing to be taught by 

1003
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,840
whatever instrument God chooses 
to use. 

1004
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,800
It's easier. 
To be humble and humble yourself

1005
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,840
before God because he's God. 
He. 

1006
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,560
He's in control of everything 
and is all powerful and knows 

1007
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,360
everything. 
We have a natural fear of God, 

1008
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,120
so being humble towards God just
kind of makes sense. 

1009
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,360
But what about to the man that 
God wants to use to teach you 

1010
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,320
and. 
What about your pastor? 

1011
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,000
You know, are you going to try 
to outsmart your pastor or are 

1012
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,760
you going to humble yourself 
before your pastor? 

1013
00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:34,400
You know, sometimes submitting 
to a pastor is easy and 

1014
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,440
sometimes it's not. 
You know, pastors have a lot of 

1015
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,480
things to share and we look at 
them as leaders and so humbling 

1016
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,360
ourselves are not that bad. 
But what about if you have this 

1017
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,320
person in authority that that 
has not earned your respect yet?

1018
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,760
You know what if you know more 
than the person in authority, 

1019
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:53,000
maybe you know a lot more. 
Apollos didn't know anything 

1020
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,760
about Akula and Priscilla. 
He knew way more about the 

1021
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,120
Bible. 
He has expert knowledge and can 

1022
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,160
explain explain the scriptures 
all pointing to the coming of 

1023
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:02,520
this Messiah. 
He's going to come. 

1024
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,400
He's going to die, Apollos. 
And then? 

1025
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,400
So like, you know, he doesn't 
know. 

1026
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,400
He was a way better teacher than
they were, yet his ministry 

1027
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,400
became more fruitful because he 
humbled himself. 

1028
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,560
Probably a bit of a difficult 
pill to swallow. 

1029
00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:18,400
For Apollo's, you know, Okola 
and Priscilla, they're not 

1030
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,760
teachers. 
But they know that Apollos's 

1031
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,000
teaching is irrelevant and 
radically outdated because he 

1032
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,320
didn't know about the most 
amazing event in world history. 

1033
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,480
And so if we're seeking 
humility, we can't just be 

1034
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,960
willing to be taught by those 
who excel and know and 

1035
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:39,280
experience more than we do, but 
by those who know less and have 

1036
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:43,280
experienced less than us. 
We can't say God, I received the

1037
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,080
lesson, but I have the problem 
with the person that you're 

1038
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:49,440
using. 
To teach me the lesson, it's 

1039
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,040
actually a lot. 
Easier to just not care about 

1040
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,760
it, not care about who God uses.
It's a ton of work. 

1041
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:58,960
It's a waste of energy. 
Pride is always a waste of 

1042
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:00,800
energy. 
And you're just fighting the 

1043
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:02,760
teacher. 
It's it's don't fight the 

1044
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:06,960
teacher that God picks. 
So you desire spiritual growth. 

1045
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,320
You're teachable and you let God
pick the teacher. 

1046
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,840
Pride will RIP away. 
Humility and kill your ministry.

1047
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,440
It's so dangerous because it's 
so well hidden. 

1048
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,920
You know, sometimes the prideful
guy gets a pass. 

1049
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,600
It's not this grievous sin like 
you see in some other 

1050
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,920
situations. 
And when we give that guy the 

1051
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,400
free pass, it turns out to be a 
train wreck later on because 

1052
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,200
nobody stopped it. 
Then it's too late. 

1053
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,600
Pride is the most dangerous 
thing because once it gets 

1054
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,920
established, we become too proud
to recognize it. 

1055
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:40,680
Humility is undervalued and 
ignored in the culture, but it's

1056
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:44,400
the quality that makes the 
church and you attractive to the

1057
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:45,880
world. 
It's humility. 

1058
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,560
We all love the humble guy. 
Humility pleases God. 

1059
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:54,040
It sets us free from pride. 
I'd never be where I am without 

1060
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,360
continually practicing humility 
and choosing to continually 

1061
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:01,080
practice humility. 
Humility determines where your 

1062
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:02,960
spiritual maturity is going to 
end. 

1063
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:08,280
And the ultimate way that God 
tells us to remain in humility 

1064
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,840
is to remind people of the 
gospel. 

1065
00:52:11,720 --> 00:52:15,720
The gospel is that God made you 
to have a relationship with Him.

1066
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:19,400
But we do things that are wrong.
We fail to do things that we 

1067
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,440
know are right every day. 
And so God loves you. 

1068
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,920
He made you for a relationship 
much like a a husband and a wife

1069
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,200
will decide to have. 
A child, they want to share 

1070
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,560
their lives with that child, a 
different kind of relationship 

1071
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,960
than with anybody else. 
They want it to be a family. 

1072
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:34,120
That's what God wants to do with
you. 

1073
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:35,840
He wants to bring you into his 
family. 

1074
00:52:36,240 --> 00:52:37,960
And then we have this sin 
problem where? 

1075
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,240
When we're like the only species
on the planet that knows right 

1076
00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:43,760
and wrong and continually 
chooses to do what's wrong, and 

1077
00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:45,760
there's something radically 
wrong with us. 

1078
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:51,000
And we sin, and then we can't 
stop sinning, even though we 

1079
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:55,280
know it's wrong, it's a curse 
and we have no hope because we 

1080
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,840
understand that people who do 
things that they know are wrong 

1081
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,720
deserve a punishment for those 
things. 

1082
00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:04,560
And so we are without hope, 
sinning and continually sinning 

1083
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,440
and waiting for judgement. 
And So what God does is he 

1084
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:10,360
writes himself into human 
history. 

1085
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,360
Jesus comes to the earth, God 
the Son, always teaching, always

1086
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:18,360
loving, always giving. 
He came to reveal God to us. 

1087
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:22,160
And then he goes to the cross 
after living a perfect life and 

1088
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,000
dying a sinner's death. 
He bore the wrath of God in our 

1089
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,760
place. 
We did not. 

1090
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:30,120
He did not deserve the wrath of 
God. 

1091
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:31,600
We did. 
We're the ones doing things that

1092
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,600
we know are wrong. 
But he went to the cross in our 

1093
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:38,040
place, suffering the wrath from 
the of the Father in our place. 

1094
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,160
Then he died. 
He was buried. 

1095
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,480
He rose again on the third day 
according to all the scriptures 

1096
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,800
that foretold He would do, so 
that when you receive Him, He 

1097
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,120
brings you into relationship and
you receive eternal. 

1098
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,760
Life He comes back and he says I
love you, I've always loved you,

1099
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,280
I'll never stop loving you. 
All I want is a relationship. 

1100
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:58,920
With you and and that gospel and
we receive eternal life. 

1101
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:00,960
We get heaven, we begin living 
our eternal lives now we get the

1102
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,320
Holy Spirit. 
Everything changes and that 

1103
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,880
brings us to a place of humility
where we can humbly go suffer 

1104
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:11,040
for Christ, serve Christ, love 
him, do battle for him, lose 

1105
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,080
battles for him. 
We don't care. 

1106
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,800
We're just doing what his will 
is and and we're humble when we 

1107
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,440
do it because of what he did for
us. 

1108
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:22,160
Let's pray Lord Jesus, we love 
you and again Lord, we thank you

1109
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:26,240
for the tremendous sacrifice 
that you made for us. 

1110
00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:29,560
Lord, it was this ultimate 
sacrifice where there's nothing 

1111
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:34,640
we can do to to. 
Trump, what you did, you just 

1112
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,600
did it, and it's the most. 
Amazing act, you leaving your 

1113
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,680
place in heaven to humble 
yourself, become becoming a man 

1114
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,080
here. 
And Lord, we're so grateful 

1115
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,440
because you saved us. 
You saved us from hell. 

1116
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,640
We are eternally grateful and we
just give all of our lives to 

1117
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:49,720
you. 
Lord, we want to be filled with 

1118
00:54:49,720 --> 00:54:53,480
your Holy Spirit to be poured 
into us so that we can go out 

1119
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:54,920
and pour on to other people 
around us. 

1120
00:54:55,240 --> 00:54:57,840
Lord, I pray that you bring 
great blessings to this church 

1121
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,320
and to this ministry. 
Lord, we know you're going to do

1122
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,280
it through humility. 
Thank you Jesus, we love you, 

1123
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:02,960
Lord, Amen.