It's been an
encouraging and inspiring
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to be together with
you this beautiful day.
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The Lord just
bless with the great day.
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Amen. And you feel a
different kind of energy
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in a roomful of men.
Where to say a lot of
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leadership and lot
of potential, yeah,
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I have really prayed
a lot about what to say?
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I actually had
about 40 different things;
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I had to try and
coalesce less down
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to three
presentations. I wanted to talk
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about enclosing this afternoon.
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I like to speak to
you about a different
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kind of mighty
men. And these are
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what I would call
the Kings of Pride.
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The Kings of Pride
and I know that maybe
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a little different
then what you saw in your,
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in your outline
earlier today, but I tell you
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where I'm coming from.
I would like to see God
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pour out his Spirit
on his people. Amen.
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And so, and I
know the Lord wants to.
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And so, I pray and I
say God, what is preventing
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you from pouring out
your Spirit on your church,
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the way you wanted
to. And then I read
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in the word that,
it's a same problem
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there is always been.
Why did Lucifer get evicted
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from heaven? Pride.
Pride, why was Nebuchadnezzar
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driven from the
social interaction
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of other people
started with pride.
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And what were the
disciples arguing about
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in the upper room, which
of them was the greatest?
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Now, one thing that
you will see that is,
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it's not totally unique
to men, but it's manifested
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a certain way among men is that
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men are very territorial,
if you put a lot of ladies
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in a room and it's a
small room and they are
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all squashed
together, they love it.
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It helps them get
intimate, but you do that
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to men, they started
to get a little bit edgy.
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Because we like to
know, who gets the arm rest
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on the airplane?
This is my territory.
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I have stick to
that, when I go camping
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with my friends and you
know, every year I have,
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I have lot of fun, I, I go out
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with the bunch of
Christian gentlemen,
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we were camping in the desert,
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we take these
ATVs. I think one year
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we had 16 of us
just Nevada will never
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be the same. We go
way out in the desert,
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but its funny when
we first get to the camp
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everybody starts
staking out there place,
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their camp. And men
are kind of territorial
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that way. You even see
it in the animal kingdom,
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it's something,
something where we are wired
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for you know we
want to have our place.
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And if men are telling
stories of some adventure.
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No sinner has one
taking his last breath telling
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about his adventure,
but what are the other
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guys do? Let me
tell you, my adventure,
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but my adventure
taught you adventure.
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One guy says, you know,
I caught a fish this big,
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the other guy
goes mine was this big.
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And this is competitiveness.
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And that's why the
disciples just before
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three and a half years
following the humblest man
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in the world in the upper room.
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God wants to
pour out his spirit.
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What was the
obstacle? He said what were you
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talking about on the
way? We weren't talking
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about any. He knew what
they were talking about?
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They were
debating among themselves,
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which have them
was the greatest?
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And I don't you know,
I'm not suggesting there is,
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this spirit of
competition here going on
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this seminar, but when
you leave in our lives,
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it's typically true that
we all grapple with pride.
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We are proud about our person,
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about our position
and about our possessions.
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I think it was
spurgeon that said we should
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never be proud of
race or place or face.
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And yet, it's
kind of an ingrained
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in all our hearts and it
springs from selfishness.
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I've got a little study that I,
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I did in the Bible
looking at some of the kings
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and some are
good and some are bad,
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but many of them
struggled with pride.
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And if we will humble
our service before the Lord
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and if we will
have the mind of Christ
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it opens our hearts
to receive the baptism
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of the Holy Spirit. What
had to happen with Israel
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before God poured
out the Holy Spirit
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in the days of Elijah?
After God sent the fire
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down from heaven, the
people fell on their faces
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they said the Lord he
is God, the Lord he is God,
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they humble
themselves then the rain came.
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And when we as men can have that
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spirit of Christ. I
think that's all the Lord
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is waiting for is for
us to humble ourselves
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and pray and
seek his face and turn
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from our wicked
ways, then he will hear
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from heaven, he
will forgive our sin,
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he will heal our land. You know,
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what healing the
land means? He would send
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the rain to
counteract the family.
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We are talking
about the Holy Spirit.
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Now, you know, what I mean?
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So, as I look
in the word of God.
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I notice that as
Christ began his ministry;
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he zeroed in his
side specifically on pride
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and he got to even
pride in the church.
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You talked about Pharisees,
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who were very
religious, but they prayed
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to be sin of men.
What will they think of me?
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They gave their
offerings to be sin of men.
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They fasted to be sin of men.
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They were more pre-occupied
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with what people thought
about then and Jesus said,
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don't let your
left hand know what
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is your right hand is
doing. Be more interested
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in the reward that comes
from your Father in heaven
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then what your friends think.
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And I'll tell you
when God is gonna pour out
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his spirit on the
church is when we end up having
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that attitude would
really are much more concerned
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with what God thinks of
us in this relationship,
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in this relationship.
But we are so pre-occupied;
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the devils got us soul
wrapped up in being proud
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of our person, our position
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and our possessions that we lose
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the eternal
perspective. And we have got
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some case studies in
the Bible and these were
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some great men that
are here for our example.
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For instance,
in the Exodus story
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if Moses says, let my people go
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and he represents
Jesus, who with the pharaoh
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represent? The devil,
how many of you would agree
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that the pharaoh
probably had a pride problem?
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His kingdom is
disintegrating around him
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and all he has got
to do is humble himself
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and say the Lord is
God, but he won't do it
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and as soon as
the plague is removed
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he briefly humbles himself
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because he really
left with no alternative,
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but as soon as
that plague is removed
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he hardens his heart again,
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well it came over me
I don't deserve this,
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these are our
slaves. Matter of fact,
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his pride was so
terminal that even after God
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parts the sea,
he goes charging off
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into this
miraculously parted ocean
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to get his way. I
would think after God parts
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the sea to deliver
his people, I would say
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you went I'm not going in there,
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but he just couldn't give up.
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Pride makes you
stupid, how many know that?
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Can I get? I
have got three scars,
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I won't show you.
I got one right here
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on my hand, I just showed you.
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Left hand, left foot,
and left eye all three times
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I was showing
off. Up in the cave,
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I was gonna go dive
off these rocks and impress
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my friend, how I
could a high dive,
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walking across
the creek barefoot,
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I stepped on a
gerber baby jar, you know,
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the little glass
jars they used to have.
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It cracked under my
foot, cut my foot open
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had to stitch
myself up and very humble,
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I never did get to do the dive.
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Holy Spirit goes before fall.
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Again I was up in the mountains,
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I was gonna show my friend how I
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could spear fish? I
sharpening the stick.
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This, you know,
one-on-one and using the knife
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and the stick don't
cut towards yourself,
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cut toward to
myself, cut myself right down
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to the bone here,
it still the nerves
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as looking at
today, they are still dead.
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Had to stitch myself
up again too far away
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from emergency. I had
to stay up in the hills
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for a while showing off
some girls were watching,
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I wanted to do a
jump with the bike,
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went over this
jump, try to impress them
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and they were
impressed I promise you that,
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bike flow up in the
air came down landed
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on my face, cut under my
eye, I had to get surgery
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and stitched up and
patch and thankful I can see.
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And I have notice
through my life that
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and I'm kind of
open myself up to,
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you take as a fate you probably
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not that different.
Maybe you will thinking
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what Doug you
really are different.
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When it gets done, but you know,
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it's just one of the
things, I think the Lord
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is always
hammering on me is the pride
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and
selfishness. And I usually go
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hand-in-hand
because pride is all
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about yourself. Matter of fact,
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in First
Corinthians 13, what is it says,
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"Pride or love
is not puffed up."
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The antithesis of love
is pride and selfishness
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and Christ is love,
the devil is selfish
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and proud. And so
often pride is like a
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compass needle that
always points inward.
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It's always seeing
me, what would they think
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of me? Look at me, and what this
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is gonna mean to
me. And it's only when
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we humble ourselves
and say, Lord it's not
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about me, it's about
you. I wanna have your mind
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and you know you can't do that
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without the Holy
Spirit, you can't receive
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the Holy Spirit
until you humble yourself.
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Now, show me where in the Bible
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that we are supposed to
pray that God humbles us?
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It's not in the Bible.
The Bible says, God says,
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humble yourself. That
means you don't just walk
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through life and
say God you give me the
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gift of humility,
it's a choice you can make
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to behave and to
think with humility.
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God says humble yourself,
you can choose to think
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and behave in a
humble way. And when you are
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tempted to selfish and
proud you can counteract
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to that consciously. God
tells us humble yourself,
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humble yourself.
Because you see, it's like love.
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The God can't force
love. He can humiliate you,
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he can embarrass
you, but you can still be
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as proud as the
pharaoh and marched off
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to your destruction.
The great sin originating
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with Satan is pride.
And the devil is gonna self
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destructing and
even though he knows,
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he has a short time,
he knows he is domed.
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Will he change?
Is he gonna give up?
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He is going down, he
knows he is going down
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and he is so stubborn and proud,
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he is gonna take as
many with him as he can.
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Has lot of lost people
out there. And you know,
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men in particular. I
think this is a bigger problem
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you know technically
there are more women.
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I know more women
are alive than men,
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but even beyond that statistic
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a higher percentage
of women demonstrate
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spirituality and
join churches than men.
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And part of the reason
is because of a man's pride
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it's very difficult
for us to say, I need help.
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I mean we don't like
to ask for directions,
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do we? One kid
was asking his mother,
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she sat in the backseat
and dad is driving around
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town trying to figure
out where he is going?
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Is this why or he said
how long was the flood?
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And mom said, 40
days and 40 nights.
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Mom how long was
Noah on the boat?
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Oh! Nearly a year. Was
he afraid to ask directions,
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just like dad? In
the Christian life,
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the only way you
win is by surrender.
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Who here wants to
brag about surrender?
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Men don't want to say
I was wrong, I need help,
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it's a sign of
weakness to say I need help.
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You see, that's
one reason we struggle
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with this issue in
a different capacity
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then women typically
do. Is because for us
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to come to the place,
where we get on our knees
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and say Lord depart
from me, I'm a sinful man.
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Then God, he can't say alright
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will you follow me? And
I'll make you fishermen.
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Whenever the
disciples or John the Baptist
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or anybody humbled
themselves before the Lord
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with the attitude
of he must increase,
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I must decrease then
God could do something
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spectacular, but
it's not easy for us.
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Because we want to
think we are in charge,
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it's an
illusion. We want to think
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we are in control.
Who usually monopolizes
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the self control?
The men or the women.
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Come on fess up. We
want to be in control
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and yet we know we
are not. "Pharaoh saw
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the rain and the
hail and the thunder
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and he hardened his heart more."
00:14:34.39\00:14:36.56
Exodus chapter
10:17, pharaoh servant
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said to him, "Let
the people go to serve
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the Lord, don't you know
that Egypt is destroyed?"
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And he just couldn't let go.
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Until you finally
drown. God choose the young men
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to be king. Head and shoulders
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taller than everyone
else. All dark and handsome.
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And you know, in the beginning
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he had something
of a humble attitude.
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Matter of fact, when
they went to coordinate them
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they couldn't find
them because he was hiding.
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Finally after
becoming king and getting
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the accolades of
the people and having
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the few victories,
you began to get proud.
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You know, whom I'm
talking about? King Saul
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and it got so bad that
he just had to have his way.
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And you heard the expression,
00:15:27.51\00:15:29.13
power corrupts, absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
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It's very important,
if you are in any kind
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of position of a
leadership and authority
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and influence that
you have accountability,
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you need to
invite accountability,
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you need to welcome
accountability because
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if you get the
position, where you have got all
00:15:47.15\00:15:49.09
that power influence and
money can destroy people.
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I saw that first him,
and again I don't mean
00:15:52.32\00:15:55.71
to be disrespectful,
but my father had hundreds
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of millions of
dollars when he died.
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And I saw all my
life people treated him
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differently.
Because instead of saying
00:16:07.50\00:16:11.68
Mr. Batchelor you
are acting like an idiot.
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And sometimes he did,
I don't mean disrespect,
00:16:15.21\00:16:17.75
but after he was
gone people said,
00:16:19.47\00:16:20.76
I mean he was impossible,
but they never tell him
00:16:20.79\00:16:23.26
that because he
would somehow penalize them
00:16:23.29\00:16:27.05
or cut their wages
or something like that,
00:16:27.08\00:16:29.56
and he didn't
surround himself with people,
00:16:29.59\00:16:31.47
George that's wrong,
you shouldn't do that.
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And so basically
you lost that sense
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of accountability and
it hurt his character.
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You need to
invite people around you
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that will be honest
with you and maintain that.
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Well Saul, he was more
concerned with what the
00:16:49.38\00:16:52.85
people thought of
him. And even when
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he was confronted
by Samuel the prophet.
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God had told him to
go destroy all of the
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Malachite's and he didn't do it,
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he kept the king
alive. And he said,
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I'm not gonna
destroy all the cattle,
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he was told to kill them too.
00:17:06.82\00:17:07.79
So, these are good
ones, let keep these
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and will make bring them
back, we will parade them
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through the
city, offer sacrifice,
00:17:13.39\00:17:15.10
the people said, you
know, why do you want to
00:17:15.13\00:17:17.25
destroy and Saul
wanted to be popular
00:17:17.28\00:17:19.30
with the people that
even when he was confronted
00:17:19.33\00:17:22.09
with that by
Samuel, and Samuel said
00:17:22.12\00:17:24.26
you can't be king
anymore. And Samuel turned
00:17:24.29\00:17:27.71
to walk away. Saul
said, no at least comeback
00:17:27.74\00:17:31.74
and honor me before the people.
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What do the people gonna think?
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I mean I would think
that after the Lord had said,
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you are not king
anymore, you would humble
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yourself, but he
was so pre-occupied.
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Why did King Saul
want to kill David?
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Because Saul heard
the lady is singing,
00:17:46.49\00:17:48.75
Saul is slaying
thousands and he like that,
00:17:48.78\00:17:51.39
but he didn't like
to chorus. And David has
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killed his ten
thousands. And instead of being
00:17:55.25\00:17:57.96
thankful they were
singing about him at all.
00:17:57.99\00:17:59.56
He was mad that
anybody would get more honor
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than him or be
describe the higher number
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than him, and he
spent the rest of his life,
00:18:05.51\00:18:07.87
he wasted years, he
could have been fighting
00:18:07.90\00:18:09.70
the enemy,
fighting someone that wasn't
00:18:09.73\00:18:11.58
a threat, fighting
someone that should
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have been NLI because of pride.
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I have seen that
even among Christians,
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I have seen it in the
church. Who has gotten
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the most
baptisms? Who has got the
00:18:22.62\00:18:26.47
biggest church? And
you know get a bunch
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of pastors together
say how many members
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do you have? Oh!
Yeah, but how many here
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on in your church
Sabbath morning and you know,
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I'm, I'm telling
you we are not immune.
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Same thing that you
saw among the apostles,
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Nebuchadnezzar, God
blessed him with success,
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you didn't want to
give God the credit
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phenomenal
success, a very bright king,
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I mean after all he
is the one who tested
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in Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego and Daniel.
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He was a pretty smart
king and after conquering
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all of the surrounding empires
00:19:03.36\00:19:05.78
and building a Babylon,
so it was the golden empire
00:19:05.81\00:19:08.84
of history. He stood
up on his balcony one day
00:19:08.87\00:19:13.42
and the sun was going
down and it was just a
00:19:13.45\00:19:15.52
glorious spectacle as
he surveyed that panorama.
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His heart swells
with pride and instead of
00:19:19.52\00:19:21.51
saying thank you
Lord for giving me
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this opportunity,
to help these people.
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He said, is this not
the great Babylon that
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I have build for my
majesty and my glory
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and I mean he was
basically will become a
00:19:32.58\00:19:35.03
maniacal narcissistic
king. Me, me, me, I, I, I,
00:19:35.06\00:19:41.51
what was that the
devil said in heaven?
00:19:41.54\00:19:44.00
I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God,
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I will be like
the most, I, I, I.
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And then God took away
Nebuchadnezzar's wisdom
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also and he was a raving idiot,
00:19:56.15\00:19:57.66
grabbling on the
ground, eating grass
00:19:57.69\00:19:59.56
like a donkey. And
they had to kick him out
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some back 40
somewhere for seven years until
00:20:03.34\00:20:05.77
finally God
gave him senses back,
00:20:05.80\00:20:07.53
have any humble
himself, he humbled himself.
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Prayed to God, gave him credit.
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You are smart
when you are humble.
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The fear of the Lord
is beginning of wisdom
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and before honor there
is humility. By the way,
00:20:22.93\00:20:28.21
that's proverb
15:33, "The fear of the LORD
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is the instruction of
wisdom; and before honor
00:20:30.57\00:20:33.05
is humility." Proverb
12:15, by the way written
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by the Wisers Men,
"The way of a fool is right
00:20:36.08\00:20:38.79
in his own eyes:
but he who heeds counsel
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is wise." When
people are demanding,
00:20:41.29\00:20:43.05
I have their way all
the time, not very smart.
00:20:43.08\00:20:45.71
Proverbs 11 verse
2, "When pride comes
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then comes shame,
but with the humble
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there is wisdom."
I need all the wisdom
00:20:52.22\00:20:55.30
I can get and so God
cannot give divine wisdom
00:20:55.33\00:20:58.55
to those who are
proud. So, if you would
00:20:58.58\00:21:02.38
need wisdom
starting place and say Lord
00:21:02.41\00:21:05.00
I don't know, I'm a
little child. You know,
00:21:05.03\00:21:08.53
I, I probably on a
pause there and look at what
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Solomon said, when you read,
00:21:10.85\00:21:14.37
if you look at First
Kings chapter 3 in your Bible.
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Matter of fact, there
is not in my notes here,
00:21:19.03\00:21:21.29
but I think
this would be a good.
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First Kings chapter 3, verse 3,
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"And Solomon loved the LORD,
00:21:30.22\00:21:31.76
walking in the
statutes of his father David."
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And then he go on
and says in verse 5,
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In Gibeon the Lord
appeared to Solomon
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in a dream by night and He said,
00:21:40.05\00:21:41.88
"Ask what I will give
you." Now, here is God
00:21:41.91\00:21:45.32
almighty of the
cosmos asking Solomon,
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what do you want,
ask? Solomon said,
00:21:49.43\00:21:53.12
"You shown great
mercy to your servant David
00:21:53.15\00:21:56.49
my father because
he walked before you
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in truth, in righteousness,
00:21:58.71\00:22:00.39
in uprightness and
heart with you, you have
00:22:00.42\00:22:02.36
continued this
kindness to him and that you
00:22:02.39\00:22:04.44
have given him a
son to sit on his throne
00:22:04.47\00:22:06.82
as it is this day.
And now, O LORD you have
00:22:06.85\00:22:09.98
made your servant
king instead of my father
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David, but I am
just a little child.
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I don't know how
to go out or come in.
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And your servant is in
the midst of your people
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who you have
chosen; therefore give
00:22:19.54\00:22:22.47
your servant an
understanding heart
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to judge your
people." Who is the focus
00:22:25.02\00:22:27.56
of Solomon's
prayer? Is Solomon saying,
00:22:27.59\00:22:30.38
me, me, me, mine,
mine, mine, mine, mine, mine,
00:22:30.41\00:22:32.54
or he is saying Lord,
you, you, you, you, you.
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And does God give him wisdom?
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The fear of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom.
00:22:39.32\00:22:41.36
He humbled
himself; he recognized
00:22:42.32\00:22:44.95
what his need was? He
said, Lord I don't know
00:22:44.98\00:22:47.59
what I'm doing. I
don't know how to go out
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or to come in? Help
me, give me this wisdom.
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And God answered his prayer.
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How very different
from some other kings.
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Take for instance King Hezekiah;
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you might turn in
your Bibles Isaiah 39.
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This is the antitheist
I love using that word
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of what just happen
there in First Kings.
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Isaiah 39, you remember
when God healed Hezekiah,
00:23:18.72\00:23:24.88
he was gonna
die, he had this boil,
00:23:24.91\00:23:26.11
and the fever and
God said, set your house
00:23:26.14\00:23:28.93
in order you are
going to die and not live,
00:23:28.96\00:23:30.60
and he cried and prayed and God
00:23:30.63\00:23:32.18
he humbled himself.
God heard his prayer,
00:23:32.21\00:23:34.80
he healed him of his
terminal problems that
00:23:35.68\00:23:38.75
you are gonna
have 15 more years,
00:23:38.78\00:23:40.10
you still terminal,
but now you have 15 years.
00:23:40.13\00:23:41.97
And then the son stood still.
00:23:44.75\00:23:47.18
He said what's
sign shall I give you?
00:23:48.98\00:23:50.91
You want the son to go forward
00:23:50.94\00:23:52.57
or you want the
son to go backwards.
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He didn't stand still
actually went backwards
00:23:53.86\00:23:55.30
10 degrees. And
the people in Babylon
00:23:55.33\00:23:58.10
they were watching the sundial
00:23:58.13\00:23:59.61
and observing the
heaven. They said, Oh!
00:23:59.64\00:24:01.13
What is this?
What's cause this sign?
00:24:01.16\00:24:02.86
To what do we
describe, this is a pretty soon
00:24:04.02\00:24:05.61
word reach
them, it's the God of,
00:24:05.64\00:24:07.21
of King Hezekiah
did this. And emissaries
00:24:07.24\00:24:10.62
and ambassadors are
sent from Babylon to find out
00:24:10.65\00:24:12.79
about the God of King Hezekiah,
00:24:12.82\00:24:15.09
who has done
this marvelous sign.
00:24:15.12\00:24:16.91
And how Hezekiah know,
I have told you be aware
00:24:17.65\00:24:21.35
when you are at the
top, you got to be careful,
00:24:21.38\00:24:23.21
it's like the momma
whale said to the baby whale.
00:24:23.79\00:24:26.01
Be careful, when
you get to the surface
00:24:26.04\00:24:27.39
and you start
to blow that's when
00:24:27.42\00:24:28.62
you get
harpooned. And sometimes,
00:24:28.65\00:24:31.10
when God blesses
us and were successful
00:24:31.13\00:24:33.26
and here Solomon
thought you know,
00:24:33.29\00:24:35.25
we have got peace with
our surrounding neighbors,
00:24:35.28\00:24:37.80
the economy is
great, I'm healed,
00:24:37.83\00:24:40.45
I got 15 more years,
I'm on top of the world
00:24:40.48\00:24:43.34
and then to top
things off look at that,
00:24:43.37\00:24:45.18
I have got
emissaries from Babylon.
00:24:45.21\00:24:46.89
Babylon is the center of
intelligence in education.
00:24:46.92\00:24:49.63
They are coming to
me to ask me question,
00:24:49.66\00:24:52.30
well I'm really
something. Right after that
00:24:52.33\00:24:54.95
wonderful miracle
God did for Hezekiah.
00:24:54.98\00:24:57.13
He now become self centered.
00:24:57.16\00:24:58.93
He was a good
king. We are all at risk.
00:24:58.96\00:25:02.70
So, what does
he do? You can read
00:25:05.23\00:25:09.15
in Isaiah chapter 39,
verse 2, "And Hezekiah
00:25:09.18\00:25:14.48
was pleased with
them, and He showed them
00:25:14.51\00:25:16.76
the house of his
treasures; the silver
00:25:16.79\00:25:19.86
and the gold, the
spices and precious ointment,
00:25:19.89\00:25:21.64
and all his armory; and
all that was found among
00:25:21.67\00:25:24.35
his treasures. There
was nothing in his house
00:25:24.38\00:25:26.59
or in his dominion that Hezekiah
00:25:26.62\00:25:28.66
did not show them."
I might add never says
00:25:28.82\00:25:31.47
he showed them the
temple of the Lord.
00:25:31.50\00:25:33.68
Never says, he showed them God,
00:25:34.48\00:25:37.44
that's what they
were coming to find out
00:25:37.47\00:25:39.24
about Bible tells us
that God tested him in that,
00:25:39.27\00:25:42.75
he send these emissary
to enquire about the wonder
00:25:42.78\00:25:45.64
that was done. They
were coming to find out
00:25:45.67\00:25:48.05
about God, what a
great opportunity,
00:25:48.08\00:25:49.64
how different
would history have been?
00:25:49.67\00:25:51.73
And Hezekiah had
given them a Bible study
00:25:52.99\00:25:55.50
on Jehovah to
take back to Babylon.
00:25:55.53\00:25:58.31
People are gonna want
whatever your treasure is?
00:25:59.55\00:26:01.86
You brag about all
your stuff, do you think
00:26:01.89\00:26:04.83
they are gonna love you more?
00:26:04.86\00:26:05.83
Do you love your neighbor more,
00:26:06.98\00:26:08.20
when they get new
toys? What's a typical corner
00:26:08.23\00:26:11.86
reaction to that?
You don't love them more,
00:26:11.89\00:26:14.44
you want their
toys. And I, you know,
00:26:14.47\00:26:19.19
I probably done it, I
don't know why we do it,
00:26:19.22\00:26:20.76
but when people
brag about I got this
00:26:20.79\00:26:22.27
and I got that. Very few people
00:26:22.30\00:26:25.77
are so sanctify
this, I'm just really happy
00:26:25.80\00:26:27.64
for you brother. They
were thinking, I guess,
00:26:27.67\00:26:29.64
I got to get a new
one, he has got a 2008 mines
00:26:29.67\00:26:31.80
is 2002. I have
got the ladies model.
00:26:31.83\00:26:36.03
Friends flip out
there ladies PDA or gadget
00:26:36.06\00:26:38.21
or phone or something like that.
00:26:38.24\00:26:39.62
And everyone at the
office is giving me a hard time
00:26:39.65\00:26:41.29
because I don't
have an iPhone yet.
00:26:41.32\00:26:42.97
We are all want that
upgrade. People are gonna
00:26:44.89\00:26:50.04
want you treasure.
And Hezekiah showed them
00:26:50.07\00:26:53.77
his treasure, if his
treasure was the Lord,
00:26:53.80\00:26:55.40
they want that.
Where your treasure is
00:26:55.43\00:26:59.49
that's where your
heart is gonna be.
00:26:59.52\00:27:00.63
So, he brags about his stuff.
00:27:01.94\00:27:04.21
Isaiah the
prophet comes to him later
00:27:04.24\00:27:06.39
and he asks this
question. What have
00:27:06.42\00:27:08.31
they seen in your
house? Now, as men
00:27:08.34\00:27:12.91
whether you are
single or you are married
00:27:12.94\00:27:15.12
or you have
children. When people come
00:27:15.15\00:27:19.51
to your home, if
you are the husband,
00:27:19.54\00:27:21.88
you are the houseman,
you ought to be priest
00:27:21.91\00:27:23.79
servant leaders
in your families,
00:27:23.82\00:27:25.42
what are they
seeing in your house.
00:27:26.11\00:27:28.08
When they come into
your house, first of all,
00:27:29.43\00:27:31.09
do they sense the
spirit of God there?
00:27:31.12\00:27:32.59
Is your burden to
show anybody that comes
00:27:34.13\00:27:36.22
within your
gates, your treasure?
00:27:36.25\00:27:38.31
Is your treasure
Jesus? Now, I was really
00:27:39.97\00:27:44.83
convicted on
this a few years ago.
00:27:44.86\00:27:46.34
How do I say this,
but that sounds like
00:27:50.30\00:27:51.71
a bragging, but we have
property up in the hills
00:27:51.74\00:27:54.29
and had it for 30
years, about a years ago,
00:27:55.49\00:27:58.56
designed and
build a cabin up there.
00:27:58.59\00:28:00.81
It's solar electric, I
was up there last week,
00:28:02.08\00:28:03.94
added two more
solar panels and I put
00:28:03.97\00:28:06.21
in a pelton wheel and got
a lot of work in 30 years,
00:28:06.24\00:28:08.48
it's pretty neat,
it's kind off the grid,
00:28:08.51\00:28:10.61
but we got all the
modern conveniences and,
00:28:10.64\00:28:12.78
and one day, we had
ordered some propane
00:28:13.31\00:28:16.03
because we do have
a propane refrigerator
00:28:16.06\00:28:17.79
and a gas stove.
Propane truck comes;
00:28:17.82\00:28:21.13
I mean we are way
off, dirt roads way up
00:28:21.16\00:28:24.37
in the hills near
some neighbors a mile away.
00:28:24.40\00:28:27.18
And propane truck
comes this healthy young man
00:28:28.45\00:28:32.52
jumps out of the propane truck
00:28:32.55\00:28:33.76
and he looks
around, he looks at me.
00:28:33.79\00:28:35.06
And he look familiar,
but I didn't recognize him
00:28:36.06\00:28:39.18
right way. He said, Brother Doug
00:28:39.21\00:28:41.06
I have been out
here in a long time.
00:28:41.09\00:28:42.39
Oh! He called
Pastor Doug, and I said
00:28:42.42\00:28:45.54
are you so and so
and I said his name,
00:28:45.57\00:28:48.24
he said, yeah. I
taught him when he was a kid
00:28:48.27\00:28:51.48
in juniors, doing
well. I also knew that
00:28:51.51\00:28:55.78
he wasn't going to
church anymore and I thought,
00:28:55.81\00:28:59.01
well praise the
Lord, God send him up here.
00:28:59.04\00:29:00.78
And he looked around
and he said, you know,
00:29:02.84\00:29:04.50
I have been here what is
this, a really nice place.
00:29:04.53\00:29:06.49
Well, that's all I needed,
00:29:07.21\00:29:08.23
just open the door
and ask me about my place.
00:29:08.26\00:29:10.15
That little
window that he gave me.
00:29:11.34\00:29:14.67
I said, yeah, well
you know, the whole things
00:29:15.70\00:29:17.25
runs on the sun.
You see panels up there,
00:29:17.28\00:29:20.35
and so we got to runs
into the inverter here
00:29:20.38\00:29:22.00
and then I have
got the generator,
00:29:22.03\00:29:23.20
when the generator
runs, it converts inverter
00:29:23.23\00:29:24.78
into a charger and
it charges a battery,
00:29:24.81\00:29:26.51
we got the meter here and said,
00:29:26.54\00:29:28.01
it's all gravity
flow water and it runs on
00:29:28.04\00:29:29.65
the plug wheel, we
dug the lake over here.
00:29:29.68\00:29:31.25
And I'm going on and on and on,
00:29:31.28\00:29:32.55
it must have been
really boring actually,
00:29:32.58\00:29:33.77
but you know, we
all become armored
00:29:34.43\00:29:36.20
with our own voice,
when we are talking about
00:29:36.23\00:29:37.56
ourselves and our achievements,
00:29:37.59\00:29:38.86
we think everyone
else is just as interested
00:29:38.89\00:29:40.42
as we are. I frequently
lose the sense of time,
00:29:40.45\00:29:47.29
when I'm preaching
because I'm enchanted
00:29:47.32\00:29:49.34
by my own voice. And
so on, telling him about
00:29:49.37\00:29:53.73
all the stuff in the house and,
00:29:53.76\00:29:56.04
and the next thing I knew,
00:29:56.07\00:29:57.68
he looked at his
watch, he said, you know,
00:29:59.18\00:30:00.60
it's really good
to see you. He says,
00:30:00.63\00:30:02.37
I got to make another delivery.
00:30:02.40\00:30:03.37
And I slapped him on
the back and he hopped
00:30:04.40\00:30:06.10
in the truck, I
didn't have a prayer with him
00:30:06.13\00:30:07.83
because I was so into
talking about the place
00:30:07.86\00:30:13.48
and the stuff, the
equipment that my mind
00:30:13.51\00:30:17.60
just was not in the
soul winning state of mind.
00:30:17.63\00:30:19.95
I was showing my
treasure and just
00:30:20.64\00:30:24.78
as he was driven
away in that big old
00:30:24.81\00:30:26.77
lumbering truck and all the dust
00:30:26.80\00:30:28.01
was building up behind.
I heard a little voice say,
00:30:28.04\00:30:31.31
what do we see in
your house? And I never,
00:30:31.34\00:30:35.82
I never have seen
him since. I didn't say
00:30:35.85\00:30:39.94
can I get your
number? Can I call you?
00:30:39.97\00:30:41.78
And you know, I have
just been so convicted
00:30:43.23\00:30:46.73
that my heart was so
selfish. What do you care
00:30:46.76\00:30:50.55
more about a lost soul
or scratch in your car?
00:30:50.58\00:30:53.09
What bothers you more? You know,
00:30:54.17\00:30:57.52
we are pre-occupied
sometimes like Hezekiah
00:30:57.55\00:30:59.47
with our treasure.
Our earth fully stuff
00:30:59.50\00:31:02.90
or maybe it's, maybe
it's not the house we live in,
00:31:05.73\00:31:08.70
maybe it's the clothes we wear.
00:31:08.73\00:31:10.15
No, I'm not a clothes worth,
00:31:10.96\00:31:12.32
if it wasn't for my
wife and my mother-in-law.
00:31:13.45\00:31:15.85
I don't know what I
would be wearing right now,
00:31:15.88\00:31:17.47
but they kind of
tell me what to wear,
00:31:18.17\00:31:20.13
I mean you know got
to nice living in a cave.
00:31:20.16\00:31:22.07
I didn't wear
anything back then.
00:31:22.10\00:31:24.59
So, this is an
upgrade no matter what I wear,
00:31:24.62\00:31:26.49
but you know, some
people in the spirit
00:31:27.59\00:31:29.48
of prophecy has lot
to say with those who are
00:31:29.51\00:31:31.39
pre-occupied with
fashion. And you know,
00:31:31.42\00:31:35.71
you and I know
people that every time
00:31:35.74\00:31:37.05
they got to tell me,
they got to get a new suit,
00:31:37.08\00:31:38.88
new tie and
hundred dollars suits
00:31:38.91\00:31:40.11
and the Gucci
loafers and all that stuff,
00:31:40.14\00:31:44.41
Rolex watch, Casio,
G shock, but you know
00:31:45.45\00:31:54.30
there are even
those who are so concerned
00:31:54.33\00:31:56.47
with the external appearance.
00:31:56.50\00:31:57.85
Jesus talked about
the priest that would wear
00:31:57.88\00:32:01.34
their robes in such a
waste to impress people
00:32:01.37\00:32:03.94
with the phylacteries
and, and their parents
00:32:03.97\00:32:07.03
like a colonel with
all of his, his ribbons
00:32:07.06\00:32:11.17
and his stripes,
try to impress a person
00:32:11.20\00:32:15.35
with their uniform.
There is another king
00:32:15.38\00:32:17.67
in the Bible. Put
on his royal apparel,
00:32:17.70\00:32:20.19
King Herald Acts
chapter 12 made a speech,
00:32:20.22\00:32:24.05
golden sequence
glistening in the sun
00:32:24.08\00:32:27.46
and the people
who were actual little
00:32:27.49\00:32:30.26
inebriated listening
to him, very impressed by
00:32:30.29\00:32:33.57
what they saw on this earth,
00:32:33.60\00:32:34.86
it's a voice of
a God and not a man
00:32:34.89\00:32:37.15
and he should have
said, no, no don't say that,
00:32:37.18\00:32:39.17
that's not right,
I'm just a man, now you,
00:32:39.20\00:32:43.10
who was that
said the Solomon said,
00:32:43.13\00:32:45.60
"A jewel of gold in
a pig's nose is like
00:32:46.96\00:32:49.84
a beautiful woman
without discretion."
00:32:49.87\00:32:51.56
And you know,
sometimes you can put all kinds
00:32:54.02\00:32:56.59
of fancy jewels and
gold and clothes on a person
00:32:56.62\00:32:59.73
and we are all
bodies or all mortal
00:33:00.82\00:33:05.92
these are corruptible bodies
00:33:05.95\00:33:08.61
just like Adam and Eve you know,
00:33:10.04\00:33:11.48
we are trying
covered up with fig leaves.
00:33:11.51\00:33:12.96
So, he is making the speech,
00:33:14.89\00:33:16.05
but he would not
humble himself and give God
00:33:16.08\00:33:18.66
the glory for
anything intelligent
00:33:18.69\00:33:20.65
he might have said, for
even the clothes he wore.
00:33:20.68\00:33:23.64
And because he took
that credit upon himself,
00:33:24.84\00:33:27.85
the angel of the
Lord touched him.
00:33:27.88\00:33:30.08
So, he was smoked by
the angel of the Lord
00:33:30.94\00:33:33.09
and he was consumed
by warms. And you know,
00:33:33.12\00:33:35.64
that's actually born
out by gel sea fish it says,
00:33:35.67\00:33:37.50
he was eaten and
died and sort diseases
00:33:37.53\00:33:39.54
from maggots.
Overtaken humbled you might say
00:33:39.57\00:33:47.92
because they took the credit
00:33:47.95\00:33:49.66
proud of his attire.
And we got to be careful
00:33:49.69\00:33:54.40
also about flattering peoples,
00:33:54.43\00:33:56.59
like when they flattered hared.
00:33:56.62\00:33:57.65
And so it's a voice of a God.
00:33:57.68\00:33:59.26
Now, it's nice
to complement people
00:33:59.29\00:34:02.09
and you know, we
all appreciate that
00:34:02.12\00:34:03.93
when someone seems to appreciate
00:34:03.96\00:34:05.30
what we have done
and what we have said,
00:34:05.33\00:34:06.78
and I think that you
ought to show appreciation,
00:34:06.81\00:34:08.61
if you are married you
need to learn to express
00:34:08.64\00:34:12.16
don't take your
spouses for granted express
00:34:12.19\00:34:14.90
appreciation on
an ongoing basis,
00:34:14.93\00:34:17.02
one of the common
appropriate complaints
00:34:17.05\00:34:20.59
that wives have
is that you know,
00:34:20.62\00:34:23.47
we are very appreciative
when we were dating them,
00:34:23.50\00:34:26.54
but then after we
marry them we just start
00:34:27.53\00:34:29.60
taking it for granted
that they are suppose to,
00:34:29.63\00:34:31.32
you know, wash the
clothes and, and wash
00:34:31.35\00:34:33.31
throughout the day
because I help with dishes
00:34:33.34\00:34:34.47
and house cleaning
and stuff we should,
00:34:34.50\00:34:36.21
but you show appreciation,
00:34:36.24\00:34:39.12
say thank you. Amen.
And it goes a long way,
00:34:39.15\00:34:43.44
and it's often
reciprocal and you find that
00:34:44.09\00:34:46.09
you get more, if you give it,
00:34:46.12\00:34:47.09
but flatter is
different, flatter is like
00:34:47.10\00:34:49.76
an artificial
sweetener, it's like your same
00:34:49.79\00:34:52.83
nice things to
person, you may not even
00:34:52.86\00:34:54.39
believe yourself
because you want something
00:34:54.42\00:34:56.30
from men. And if people
make a complement to you,
00:34:56.33\00:35:00.07
you got to be
careful to sniff it,
00:35:00.10\00:35:02.22
but don't swallow,
it's like perfume is meant
00:35:02.25\00:35:04.26
to be sniff, but don't drink it.
00:35:04.29\00:35:05.62
It will make you
sick. Who is that who said
00:35:05.65\00:35:09.06
that lot of bees have drowned
00:35:09.09\00:35:10.89
in their own
honey? And so, you know,
00:35:10.92\00:35:14.61
and I do that. If
you folks are so nice
00:35:14.64\00:35:17.71
and even hear I
meet him between meetings
00:35:17.74\00:35:20.07
you say some very nice
things and I'll tell you,
00:35:20.10\00:35:23.65
I have learned to take
it all with grain of salt;
00:35:23.68\00:35:26.70
I was telling the
pastor just earlier,
00:35:26.73\00:35:28.85
television creates an illusion.
00:35:28.88\00:35:31.78
And I know that, I
preached the whole sermon
00:35:32.46\00:35:35.57
one time and I
thought I had the audience
00:35:35.60\00:35:37.19
spell bounce.
Someone came up to me
00:35:37.22\00:35:38.78
as soon as I was
done and said Pastor
00:35:38.81\00:35:40.33
we don't have to tell
you flies men down all night.
00:35:40.36\00:35:42.45
Well, if you don't
think that will humble you.
00:35:45.41\00:35:47.09
Everybody got to go through that
00:35:51.62\00:35:52.74
at least once. And so you know,
00:35:52.77\00:35:56.37
whenever I hear
people looking like
00:35:56.40\00:35:57.95
they are really
interested, I'm not sure
00:35:57.98\00:35:59.15
if it's me or if
it's something about me.
00:35:59.18\00:36:01.07
No, no, no as
got their attention.
00:36:01.10\00:36:04.52
So, I got to be
careful not to flatter.
00:36:05.94\00:36:08.01
Proverbs 29 verse
5, "A man who flatters
00:36:08.04\00:36:11.19
his neighbor
spreads a net for his feet."
00:36:11.22\00:36:13.34
Proverbs 27:6,
"Faithful are the wounds
00:36:14.55\00:36:18.05
of a friend; but
the kisses of an enemy
00:36:18.08\00:36:21.81
are deceitful."
Sometimes it's the construct
00:36:21.84\00:36:25.88
a criticism that I
have receive from my friends
00:36:25.91\00:36:28.22
and often my spouse. You know,
00:36:28.25\00:36:30.02
I think I have
done a really great job
00:36:30.05\00:36:31.19
and then
afterward my wife will say
00:36:31.22\00:36:33.05
will you realize that
you mixed up the words
00:36:33.08\00:36:35.50
Peter and Paul
during that whole sermon,
00:36:35.53\00:36:37.63
where you gave
and you just got them
00:36:37.66\00:36:39.25
backwards every time you said up
00:36:39.28\00:36:40.33
and no one want
to interrupt you.
00:36:40.36\00:36:41.99
Karen is usually nice
enough be interrupt me
00:36:42.02\00:36:44.00
right during the
sermon said, don't you mean.
00:36:44.03\00:36:45.67
And, I praise God
for a wife like that,
00:36:46.80\00:36:48.67
but you want people who
will be honest with you.
00:36:49.92\00:36:53.23
You need to invite
that instead of becoming
00:36:55.56\00:36:57.98
scornful, if someone
criticizes you thank them.
00:36:59.98\00:37:02.35
So, you know, I appreciate that.
00:37:02.38\00:37:04.34
I need to think about that.
00:37:04.37\00:37:05.92
And it even
happens to good kings,
00:37:07.93\00:37:09.52
sometimes there
is religious pride.
00:37:09.55\00:37:10.88
Second Chronicles
26:16, when is say King Uzziah,
00:37:12.23\00:37:15.86
do you think that was
a good king or bad king?
00:37:15.89\00:37:17.51
We often
remember their mistakes,
00:37:19.16\00:37:21.28
but King Uzziah was a good king.
00:37:21.31\00:37:22.63
So, he walked in the
commandments of the Lord
00:37:22.66\00:37:24.83
according to David his father,
00:37:24.86\00:37:27.53
but when he was at
the zenith of his success,
00:37:28.47\00:37:31.55
that's how it often happens.
00:37:31.58\00:37:32.84
Enemies are defeated,
kingdoms being build up,
00:37:32.87\00:37:35.75
great success he said you know,
00:37:35.78\00:37:38.31
I don't know if I like the idea
00:37:38.34\00:37:40.62
that I'm not allowed
to going in the sanctuary
00:37:40.65\00:37:42.37
like the priest, I'm
king, God was with me, right.
00:37:42.40\00:37:45.08
I had to be able to
do what a king does,
00:37:45.11\00:37:46.74
the other pagan
kings they offer sacrifice,
00:37:46.77\00:37:48.95
why can't I do it?
Because the word of God said,
00:37:48.98\00:37:51.46
only the Levites. And
he began to rationalize
00:37:51.49\00:37:55.27
themselves and pretty soon,
00:37:55.30\00:37:56.37
he grab hold of
the sensory one day
00:37:56.40\00:37:58.61
and he walked
into the temple of Lord
00:37:58.64\00:38:00.32
with the sensor and
only priests were supposed
00:38:00.35\00:38:02.18
to do that. And the priests
00:38:02.21\00:38:05.49
are confronted him
and said, King Uzziah
00:38:05.52\00:38:07.75
this will not be to your glory,
00:38:07.78\00:38:08.88
you are not supposed to do this.
00:38:08.91\00:38:10.07
This is
appointed for the Levites
00:38:10.10\00:38:11.36
and the children
of Aaron to do this.
00:38:11.39\00:38:13.39
And he got angry
instead of humbling himself
00:38:14.95\00:38:17.28
and say, you
know, you are right.
00:38:17.31\00:38:18.31
He got angry and
as a result of that
00:38:18.34\00:38:22.12
while he was having his
tirade, lost his temper.
00:38:22.15\00:38:26.83
You know, why we
often lose our temper?
00:38:28.11\00:38:30.33
Pride, someone
defended our pride,
00:38:31.07\00:38:33.76
don't you love it
when someone tells you,
00:38:34.87\00:38:36.35
you are wrong. Anyone
here like to be wrong?
00:38:36.38\00:38:38.80
When someone confronts you?
00:38:41.17\00:38:42.57
And he was having
tirade, he lost his temper
00:38:44.69\00:38:48.87
and he ranted and rave
and while he was doing it,
00:38:48.90\00:38:50.74
the priest looked at
him. And leprosy popped out.
00:38:50.77\00:38:53.96
They could see on his forehead.
00:38:54.86\00:38:56.13
And they took him and thrown him
00:38:57.31\00:38:58.44
out of the temple
and he was leprosied
00:38:58.47\00:39:00.32
till the day of
his death. By the way,
00:39:00.35\00:39:04.08
when you lose your
temper, why do they say that,
00:39:04.11\00:39:08.84
because the devil finds
it? And usually at least
00:39:08.87\00:39:13.00
temporarily demon
possessed when we lose
00:39:13.03\00:39:15.77
our tempers?
Haymen, he was pre-occupied
00:39:15.80\00:39:21.83
by with his position,
hey I have been exalted,
00:39:21.86\00:39:24.29
I'm the right
hand man of the king,
00:39:24.32\00:39:25.61
I'm his friend and
advisor and he love telling
00:39:25.64\00:39:27.38
everyone that went
back home to his wife
00:39:27.41\00:39:29.15
and his friends,
call them all together
00:39:29.18\00:39:30.59
and began to brag
about his success.
00:39:30.62\00:39:33.01
So, look I have got
this incredible pay increase,
00:39:33.04\00:39:36.11
I'm invited into the
palace, I come and go,
00:39:36.14\00:39:38.45
I'm the king's
friend, I'm his advisor,
00:39:38.48\00:39:40.67
he has promoted me,
but it doesn't do me
00:39:40.70\00:39:44.14
any good because
Mordecai I won't bow down to me.
00:39:44.17\00:39:46.92
I want everyone to
recognize my authority.
00:39:46.95\00:39:50.08
Well, I know what I'm gonna do,
00:39:50.11\00:39:51.08
I hang him from the
gallows 50 feet high.
00:39:51.09\00:39:52.74
What ended up
happening? That's quite a story
00:39:54.18\00:39:57.76
about pride there
in the Book of Esther.
00:39:57.79\00:39:59.22
He goes to the
king to try and get the
00:39:59.25\00:40:00.40
death warrant of Mordecai.
00:40:00.43\00:40:02.66
And while he is in
there trying to secure
00:40:02.69\00:40:04.44
the king is having as
a dream or he can't sleep
00:40:04.47\00:40:07.48
and he is having a
crown that read the Hayman
00:40:07.51\00:40:10.21
suddenly he
remembers I never rewarded
00:40:10.24\00:40:12.80
this guy
Mordecai. So Hayman comes in
00:40:12.83\00:40:16.10
to ask for the
death warrant and before
00:40:16.13\00:40:19.60
he gets to say anything,
the King says hey Hayman
00:40:19.63\00:40:22.91
I got to ask you a question.
00:40:22.94\00:40:24.16
What should I do for the man who
00:40:24.74\00:40:26.84
I had like to honor? And
Hayman thinks to himself.
00:40:26.87\00:40:30.42
Who would the king
want to honor more than me.
00:40:31.12\00:40:33.90
And he says well let
me tell you what I think
00:40:36.62\00:40:38.20
you have to do your highness.
00:40:38.23\00:40:39.36
You have to put him
on the King's verse.
00:40:39.39\00:40:41.18
Put the king's robe
on, put the king's crown
00:40:41.90\00:40:44.42
on him, it sounds like
he wants to be the king,
00:40:44.45\00:40:46.63
doesn't it? It's like
the devil want to be God.
00:40:46.66\00:40:49.36
He said can you pray
him up and down the street
00:40:50.27\00:40:52.39
for everyone to see.
That shall it be done
00:40:52.42\00:40:54.95
to the man whom the
king delights to honor.
00:40:54.98\00:40:56.71
He says, that
sounds good and he said
00:40:57.89\00:41:00.14
tell you what
since it's your idea,
00:41:00.17\00:41:02.07
you are the man, told
lead him through the streets.
00:41:02.10\00:41:05.13
I want you to go find Mordecai.
00:41:05.16\00:41:07.85
Do everything you said
right down to the detail,
00:41:07.88\00:41:09.75
good idea. I want you
to pray him up and down
00:41:09.78\00:41:12.22
the streets in my robe
with my crown on my horse.
00:41:12.25\00:41:15.62
He who exalts
himself will be humble.
00:41:17.02\00:41:19.99
If that's not exhibited what is?
00:41:20.02\00:41:22.25
Just like the devil talk
about a reversal of rules.
00:41:22.28\00:41:27.55
The devil, who
wanted to destroy Christ.
00:41:27.58\00:41:30.27
Christ who humbled themselves
00:41:32.63\00:41:33.71
will be exalted. The
devil who exalted himself
00:41:33.74\00:41:35.49
will be humbled. It's
going to be the ultimate
00:41:35.52\00:41:38.54
reversal of rules.
Let another man praise you
00:41:38.57\00:41:42.60
and not your own
mouth. A stranger
00:41:42.63\00:41:44.77
and not your own
lips. Before greatness
00:41:44.80\00:41:49.34
must come humility.
1st Corinthians 4 verse 7
00:41:49.37\00:41:54.36
that none of you
be puffed up on behalf
00:41:54.39\00:41:57.68
of one against the
other. For who makes you differ
00:41:57.71\00:42:00.80
from another? And
what do you have that
00:42:00.83\00:42:02.81
you did not receive? Now
if you indeed receive it,
00:42:02.84\00:42:05.57
why do you boast
as though you had
00:42:05.60\00:42:06.86
not received it? Martin Luther
00:42:06.89\00:42:09.52
used to love to tell
the story about a woodpecker
00:42:09.55\00:42:11.26
that was picking away
at the big tree in the bold
00:42:11.29\00:42:14.19
of lightening struck the tree
00:42:14.22\00:42:15.47
and it fell over and
the little woodpecker flew
00:42:15.50\00:42:17.17
away and said look
what I did, look what I did.
00:42:17.20\00:42:19.04
We are all little bit like that.
00:42:21.37\00:42:23.29
Second Chronicle
7:14 if my people,
00:42:26.61\00:42:29.79
who are called by my
name, will humble themselves
00:42:29.82\00:42:32.88
and pray and
seek my face and turn
00:42:32.91\00:42:35.66
from their wicked
ways, then I will hear
00:42:35.69\00:42:38.81
from heaven and
forgive their sin
00:42:38.84\00:42:40.15
and heal their land. Job 22:29.
00:42:40.18\00:42:43.57
He will save the humble person.
00:42:43.60\00:42:45.94
I don't know about your friends,
00:42:45.97\00:42:47.46
but I wanna be
saved. And if I led pride
00:42:47.49\00:42:53.47
possess my mind and my thinking.
00:42:55.51\00:42:57.63
Guide my life. If
the devil was cast out
00:42:57.66\00:43:01.97
because of pride or
we going in that way
00:43:02.00\00:43:03.86
that pride and
selfishness. Micah 6:8,
00:43:03.89\00:43:08.12
what are the
priorities with the Lord.
00:43:08.15\00:43:09.87
What's really important to God?
00:43:09.90\00:43:11.27
What does the Lord
require of us the Prophet asks.
00:43:11.30\00:43:14.48
He has shown you,
O man, what is good;
00:43:15.25\00:43:17.16
And what does the
Lord require of you
00:43:17.19\00:43:20.04
But to do justly, to love mercy,
00:43:20.07\00:43:24.17
And to walk how, walk humbly.
00:43:24.20\00:43:27.04
You know walk is not something
00:43:27.07\00:43:28.25
where you
stationary making a decision
00:43:28.28\00:43:29.66
for a moment.
It's a way of life.
00:43:29.69\00:43:31.24
God wants his men of
faith to walk humbly.
00:43:32.39\00:43:35.78
Humble does not mean
weak. Was Jesus weak?
00:43:37.46\00:43:41.68
Jesus was a man's
man. Matter of faith
00:43:43.04\00:43:45.64
I take issue with
these medieval paintings
00:43:45.67\00:43:48.41
they have got of
Jesus, where he always looks
00:43:48.44\00:43:49.93
a little bit
anorexic up there on the cross
00:43:49.96\00:43:52.18
and the kind of
blue and spindly.
00:43:52.21\00:43:54.87
I think that
carpenters back then didn't have
00:43:56.35\00:43:58.45
power tools.
And Jesus was a man.
00:43:58.48\00:44:02.76
Nobody could have gone through
00:44:02.79\00:44:04.48
what he went through the
last 24 hours of his life
00:44:04.51\00:44:06.79
and even survived to
get to the cross unless
00:44:06.82\00:44:10.02
he was in good
shape. Christ was a man,
00:44:10.05\00:44:13.89
but he was a humble
man. He was meek man,
00:44:13.92\00:44:16.80
he was a brave man,
he was a strong man,
00:44:17.45\00:44:20.23
he was a mighty man.
See sometimes we think
00:44:20.26\00:44:22.43
it's incongruous. How
can you have a meek man
00:44:22.46\00:44:24.82
and a humble man be
a mighty strong man.
00:44:24.85\00:44:27.07
You ever read
anywhere in the Bible
00:44:30.47\00:44:31.78
where it says
Samson had been muscles.
00:44:31.81\00:44:33.19
Show me that chapter and verse.
00:44:35.22\00:44:36.54
It's not in
there. Matter of fact,
00:44:37.54\00:44:40.17
when the spirit of God
was withdrawn from Samson,
00:44:40.20\00:44:42.62
says he was like other man.
00:44:42.65\00:44:44.02
I bet you have
never pictured Samson
00:44:44.05\00:44:46.31
before splendidly
guy looks like, you know,
00:44:46.34\00:44:48.92
he has got the big horn
rim just like a computer
00:44:48.95\00:44:50.81
and geek. Hi
Samson, I kill lions,
00:44:50.84\00:44:54.52
thousand Philistines.
All of you picture him
00:44:54.55\00:44:58.25
with biceps like that alright.
00:44:58.28\00:44:59.57
But he says that
when the spirit of God
00:45:01.26\00:45:03.04
was withdrawn from him
and he didn't even know it
00:45:03.07\00:45:05.04
that he went on to shake himself
00:45:06.11\00:45:07.78
and he was just as vulnerable
00:45:07.81\00:45:09.47
and weak as any other man.
00:45:09.50\00:45:10.58
It was the spirit of
God that came on David
00:45:10.61\00:45:13.49
that helped him kill a lion.
00:45:13.52\00:45:14.87
What makes us strong?
What makes us mighty man?
00:45:15.91\00:45:19.04
Being spirit
filled, how do we get that?
00:45:19.07\00:45:22.03
If we would humble
ourselves before the Lord.
00:45:22.87\00:45:25.05
If we would humble
ourselves before the Lord.
00:45:25.08\00:45:27.53
That's what makes you strong.
00:45:28.23\00:45:29.51
There is no limit to
what God can do through
00:45:29.54\00:45:33.05
our lives if we
would present ourselves
00:45:33.08\00:45:34.67
as a living
sacrifice and humble ourselves
00:45:34.70\00:45:37.30
before God. James
4:6 He gives more grace
00:45:37.33\00:45:40.80
therefore he says
God resist the proud
00:45:40.83\00:45:43.55
but he gives grace
to who? The humble.
00:45:43.58\00:45:47.04
Psalm 25:9. The
humble he guides and justice.
00:45:47.69\00:45:51.11
You want God's
guidance. He guides the humble.
00:45:51.14\00:45:54.36
Even the butterfly
starts out as a worm.
00:45:54.39\00:45:57.28
The meek will
inherit the earth up
00:45:57.31\00:46:01.25
wanna be one of those. Right.
00:46:01.28\00:46:03.23
Christ said he that
would be greatest among you,
00:46:03.26\00:46:06.42
let him be as
certain. Those are the ones you
00:46:06.45\00:46:10.06
have grade in
the eyes of the Lord.
00:46:10.09\00:46:11.60
Now you can see in
the Bible of Pattern.
00:46:12.33\00:46:16.40
If Nebakanezer was
cast out of men society
00:46:18.79\00:46:22.36
because of
pride. Adam was evicted
00:46:22.39\00:46:25.10
from the garden.
You can see in the Bible
00:46:25.13\00:46:30.21
these examples of
people who lost everything
00:46:30.24\00:46:32.22
because of pride.
It's all lost the kingdom.
00:46:32.25\00:46:35.52
We are not going
into heaven that way.
00:46:36.33\00:46:38.28
But Jesus he gave up everything
00:46:39.05\00:46:43.23
and humbled
himself. Notice this verse.
00:46:43.26\00:46:46.35
Bible says he who
exalts himself will be humbled
00:46:46.38\00:46:49.89
and he who humbles
himself will be exalted.
00:46:49.92\00:46:52.26
Philippians 2
verse 5, Philippians 2:5.
00:46:52.29\00:46:55.89
Let this mind be in
you. God wants to give you
00:46:55.92\00:47:00.33
this mind, but he
won't force it on you.
00:47:00.36\00:47:01.92
You must choose
to humble yourself.
00:47:01.95\00:47:03.63
Let this mind be
in you. What mind?
00:47:03.66\00:47:05.68
The mind that was in Christ.
00:47:05.71\00:47:07.03
Ask God to give
you the mind of Christ,
00:47:07.06\00:47:09.08
the attitude of
Christ, the humility of Christ.
00:47:09.11\00:47:11.26
The Christ Jesus
who being informed
00:47:12.30\00:47:15.01
in the form of God did
not consider it robbery
00:47:15.04\00:47:17.70
to be equal with God.
It would not have been
00:47:17.73\00:47:20.53
inappropriate for
him to consider himself
00:47:20.56\00:47:22.47
equal with God,
but he made himself
00:47:22.50\00:47:25.73
of no reputation, taking
the form of a bondservant,
00:47:25.76\00:47:30.23
coming in the
likeness of men being
00:47:30.26\00:47:32.47
found in appearance as a man,
00:47:32.50\00:47:34.19
He humbled himself
and became obedient
00:47:34.22\00:47:37.24
to the point of
death, even the death
00:47:37.27\00:47:38.70
of the cross. Therefore
God is highly exalted him
00:47:38.73\00:47:42.42
and given him a name
that is above every name
00:47:42.45\00:47:44.57
that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow
00:47:44.60\00:47:47.54
of those in heaven,
and of those on earth,
00:47:47.57\00:47:49.39
and of those
under the earth everyone
00:47:49.42\00:47:51.12
is gonna bow to
Christ. That every tongue
00:47:51.15\00:47:53.18
should confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord
00:47:53.21\00:47:56.63
to the glory of God the Father.
00:47:56.66\00:47:57.87
He who humbled
himself the most is going
00:48:01.82\00:48:04.12
to be exalted the
highest. He who exalted himself
00:48:04.15\00:48:08.91
the most that's
the devil. God says
00:48:08.94\00:48:11.89
I'll bring forth the
fire from the midst of thee,
00:48:11.92\00:48:13.87
and that will devour
thee, and I will bring
00:48:13.90\00:48:15.11
thee to ashes upon the
earth in the sight of them
00:48:15.14\00:48:17.28
to be behold thee.
And even the devil himself
00:48:17.31\00:48:20.41
is gonna bow down and
say Jesus Christ is Lord.
00:48:20.44\00:48:22.71
There is gonna be the
great reversal of roles.
00:48:23.48\00:48:25.82
You will get to
share in one of those
00:48:27.09\00:48:29.06
two destinies. Now I
don't know what things
00:48:29.09\00:48:32.37
are like with you, in
your family, at your job,
00:48:32.40\00:48:35.67
in your life, in
your church maybe there
00:48:35.70\00:48:38.58
are chances are
that there is conflict
00:48:38.61\00:48:41.96
somewhere and you
might find that lot of it
00:48:41.99\00:48:46.23
could be resolved, if
you will humble yourself.
00:48:46.26\00:48:49.29
I have got a tip for
you guys that are married.
00:48:49.32\00:48:51.84
You got to
apologize sometimes whether
00:48:53.11\00:48:54.67
you think you
are right or wrong.
00:48:54.70\00:48:55.69
There is no moral dilemma there.
00:48:55.72\00:48:58.34
You need to learn
how to say, I'm sorry
00:48:58.37\00:49:01.86
we quarreled, I'm sorry dear.
00:49:01.89\00:49:03.65
Even if you may have
been right on a point,
00:49:05.45\00:49:06.99
humble yourself.
Be a lot more harmony
00:49:07.02\00:49:11.16
in our relationships
with sometimes is tension
00:49:11.85\00:49:14.33
that just goes on and
on because we can't say
00:49:14.36\00:49:17.01
we are wrong,
sometimes in relationships
00:49:17.04\00:49:19.11
in the church.
Someone just has to get
00:49:19.14\00:49:22.27
to the place you can
heal a lot of schisms
00:49:22.30\00:49:24.94
and division
someone would say. You know,
00:49:24.97\00:49:28.29
I don't wanna be
like this anymore.
00:49:28.32\00:49:30.29
I like to humble him
so. I have seen church
00:49:30.32\00:49:32.12
members sue each
other; I have seen families
00:49:32.15\00:49:34.19
break apart because of pride,
00:49:34.22\00:49:37.34
divorces because of
pride. That's what really
00:49:37.37\00:49:43.22
makes us strong, that's
what makes us mighty men
00:49:43.25\00:49:46.24
and men of faith is
when we can say you know,
00:49:46.27\00:49:49.63
I'm willing to humble myself.
00:49:49.66\00:49:50.95
You do and God says
he will lift you up.
00:49:50.98\00:49:55.17
And he will keep
lifting you up until
00:49:56.54\00:49:58.85
you are lifted up with
Christ in heavenly places.
00:49:58.88\00:50:01.29
You know it's
about time to close here.
00:50:02.85\00:50:05.41
Before we do I
think it's important that
00:50:06.17\00:50:08.52
we give everybody an opportunity
00:50:08.55\00:50:10.48
to make a decision.
You know at the cross
00:50:10.51\00:50:16.10
is where you see
the ultimate display
00:50:16.13\00:50:19.89
of Christ humbling
himself. At the cross
00:50:19.92\00:50:24.66
you see the devil love for power
00:50:24.69\00:50:26.69
and you see
Christ power of love.
00:50:26.72\00:50:29.88
And that's where all
of us gain the strength
00:50:31.76\00:50:34.13
to humble
ourselves. How can we be proud
00:50:34.16\00:50:37.04
when you sit there
at the foot of the cross
00:50:37.07\00:50:39.28
and you see that he is
going through everything
00:50:39.31\00:50:41.97
that he went through
because of you are sins.
00:50:42.00\00:50:44.05
What do we have to be proud of?
00:50:44.08\00:50:45.46
Where are the ones
who really are responsible
00:50:46.57\00:50:48.50
for his death
and his sufferings,
00:50:48.53\00:50:50.31
so what do we
gonna be brag about.
00:50:50.34\00:50:51.75
Everything you
have comes from God.
00:50:52.42\00:50:54.08
Naked, you came into the world,
00:50:54.77\00:50:56.49
naked you are
going out. The only thing
00:50:56.52\00:50:58.25
you can take with you is
that robe of righteousness
00:50:58.28\00:51:00.94
that Jesus gave up at the cross.
00:51:00.97\00:51:02.93
I believe the Lord
brought you here today
00:51:06.15\00:51:07.84
and he has great plans for you,
00:51:08.83\00:51:10.61
he wants you to be
a mighty man of faith,
00:51:10.64\00:51:12.24
but you got to come and
choose to humble yourself
00:51:12.85\00:51:15.06
and say Lord I wanna
come to you just as I'm.
00:51:15.09\00:51:17.94
I like to invite
Jeremy to come up.
00:51:17.97\00:51:19.97
He is gonna sing the 1st
verse from a familiar song
00:51:20.00\00:51:22.47
and I would like you
to just bow your heads
00:51:22.50\00:51:24.02
as he is singing and
be praying in your life.
00:51:24.05\00:51:26.20
If there is
something in your life,
00:51:26.23\00:51:28.28
you need to
surrender to the Lord.
00:51:28.31\00:51:29.53
I would like you to
take this opportunity to do
00:51:29.56\00:51:31.88
that and we
will be having prayer
00:51:31.91\00:51:33.45
together before we close.
00:51:33.48\00:51:34.69
Jesus, keep me near the cross;
00:51:51.63\00:52:01.09
There's a precious
fountain, Free to all,
00:52:01.12\00:52:15.28
a healing stream, Flows
from Calvary's mountain.
00:52:15.31\00:52:29.99
In the cross, in the
cross, Be my glory ever,
00:52:30.02\00:52:50.60
Till my raptured soul shall
00:52:50.63\00:52:58.35
find Rest beyond the river.
00:52:58.38\00:53:11.39
Before we have one
more verse of this song.
00:53:12.36\00:53:14.90
I would like to
just extend an invitation
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to each of you in
order to be successful
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mighty men of faith it
begins with a surrender.
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We come to Jesus
just like we are.
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We cast our sins
upon him, all of our cares
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upon him and he
promises that he has the power
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to release in our
lives that you and Jesus
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cannot be
overcome by any adversary.
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He can give you
victory over the temptation
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in your life over the
problems in your life.
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Our God is a God of power. Amen.
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But you cannot unite
yourself with that power
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until you empty
yourself. He wants to fill you
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with his spirit,
but so often our hearts
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and minds are so full,
the things of this world,
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materialism, selfishness sin.
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Today, I like to just
ask if the Holy Spirit
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when speaking to your
heart can you realize.
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I wanna go all the way with God.
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I want to accept
all of God's forgiveness
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and I want all of his
power to live a new life
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to represent him to have
the mind of Christ in me.
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If that's your
prayer then why don't you
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stand together, we are gonna
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listen to one more verse.
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Near the cross
I'll watch and wait,
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Hoping, trusting
ever, Till I reach the
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golden strand
Just beyond the river.
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In the cross, in the
cross, Be my glory ever,
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Till my raptured soul shall find
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Rest beyond the river.
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It would be a good idea
for us to sing that chorus
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together, but
before we do. There maybe
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some of you here
today that have some special
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need in your life and
you really wanna take this
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opportunity to say
Lord in your presence
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and even in the
presence of others,
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in the presence of your angels.
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I would like to
say by your grace today
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is gonna be a new day
as I go from this place.
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I want to be new creature
and you like come forward
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and request special
prayer. As we are singing
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the chorus
together, I want you to come
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to the front, we will
have special prayer for you
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and ask the God to just activate
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his power in your
life. I think everybody knows
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the chorus to this
song and I just see
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all these men together,
well it would be beautiful
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to have all of us sing
that together in the cross
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that's where the
power, that's where
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we want our new lives.
If you like to come now
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as we sing that
together and you have some need
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for prayer come in
the cross, in the cross.
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In the cross, in the
cross, Be my glory ever,
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Till my raptured soul shall find
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Rest beyond the river. Amen.
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