The Sermon Humility by David McGee
Jul 13, 2014
Humility (31:09)
Referenced Scriptures: Philippians 2:1-6
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Philippians 2:1-6
1) If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
2) make my joy full, that you be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
3) doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
4) each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
5) Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
6) who, existing in the form of God, didn‘t consider it robbery to be equal with God,
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Well, is the ten o'clock working for you that working all right. I know that there's again, a lot of people in and out vacation in things, but it's difficult. The system is quite a rare and that it's really difficult not to have Sunday school before jerk to me just like I come here. It's like I can't be preaching just you have to suddenly slapped him, but will return to that was in the fall and that the that schedule, but you know it's a something to consider for the coming years will be more more prepared for it. If it's something that you like, but today we're looking at humility and the Scripture that we are reading is in Philippians, chapter two verses one through eleven. But instead of reading the entire text and then going back and reading it again obviously did as we go through it in the end, the message today, humility, but everything of being humble is a well crazy laying humility has fallen on hard times in all, it's if this idea that we have in our society. If you're not bragging you're not nobody's there know what you are and if you are not telling people how important you are, they're not going to and so we have this kind of a modern day/ on arrogance that is supposed to somehow promote self-promotion because if you don't promote yourself, who is an again. There's truth in a bald-faced delivery take anything and you take it to an extreme. It ends up being hurtful or not working, but humility isn't necessarily one of those things that can be taken to an extreme. While you know, whatever people taken humility for an extreme whatever they think I am humble and I want to be recognized for our humble and I'm proud of it. If it just like a hole you just lost it and so that's not at all what we think bird, whatever the Scripture Scriptural context of humility and the importance of understanding scriptural truths upon which were going to build our lives and build our character. This being in church and listening to God 's word or rating the Scriptures. It is important that we see and understand what God is trying to tell us because everything that God is trying to get to Austin by the spirit, and by the word everything he tries to do through this is all for the betterment of our character, and for the development of who we are where we were going because you have arrived yet. You have me have not arrived at the peak of who we are as a person. We have not develop our talents enough when not develop our abilities and we have not given ourselves permission to allow the spiritual influence enough in in the word of God, and what happens. I think it. We have these concepts. Basically we think in concepts and in terms of what we have experienced way thinking concepts of what we've experienced in somewhat of what we've read them. It's it's important that we understand that. I think he is limited that our understanding is limited, so how then do we move beyond who we are as an individual are they really will. Beyond that, to understand what God is wanting to do in our lives and in him and pointed a look at each one of us of how far we've come. How far we develop that our relationship with God humility K always liked definitions because I like to define things so that I understand we all are the same page at all will have the same starting point. If I say humility when you think of the any idea, any idea what you think. Get idea what you're thinking. Whatever I say humility are being humble. What do you think the any thoughts most sometimes we think of it as being some people think of as being lazy is the one to do anything. Some people think of humility as being a doormat. You have no spine is a Dave McKee is the backbone 's ability to be flexible in almost the time we think upbeat people a backbone strong welts tenacious their unyielding know people a backbone or have the ability to be flexible and you see we have the ability to high-strength my back doesn't bend the way Houston and if I bend backwards. It's all over. They just get out if it's done I'm I'm on. I can be on the ground so buyback isn't as flexible to use to be just what people in your spiritual lives are inflexible because they know certain things, and they refuse to see other things and God is not done with us. You know the song. We were saying, God knows the names of all the stars. You can call them by name. This is a song, but as a theology and that God knows, very hairs on ahead, the very number of the hairs on her head. God is not overloaded with information. He does not have an overload of then there what was the name of that star will only think now of what what God doesn't remember the path he doesn't see into the future. He has all knowledge. Everyone who's ever live everyone who ever will live every stars in the sky, every sparrow that flies every blade of grass, every leaf and it's all knowledge to him, and nothing is beyond his knowledge or his ability. So in that context God who is supreme above all things is humble. The word humble is not thinking you are better than other people. Humility is to not think you are better than other people, so humility is is is the opposite of pride also in humility is there got this on the dictionary of discipline, strength and other centered power discipline, strength, now whenever we think of humility. We don't think of strength. I don't know many people. I don't think think of that idea of being strong humility, his ability to be strong and centered on other people say a other center power. Now that I was interested in that word. Other center power. Power is the ability to act to produce an effect. So humility is the power to produce an effect and other people 's lives that doesn't fit with our concept of arrogance or let me tell you what you should be doing. Let me get me give you some facts here to put you in your place or move motivates you. Humility is thinking of other people do. I think of yourself as better than and that you are you are other centered other centered power that the humility that you him the ability to act to produce an effect. Jesus, the most humble of all will citizen, I text today Jesus in his humility had the disciplines train you to not take my life. I give it the discipline, strength and other centered power to do good into the lives of others to produce an effect that's limited, so whenever we are humbling ourselves before God we are not laying flat on the ground way for people walk all over us until we can't take it anymore than we rise up and punch of as every get upset for not being humble, safe and has nothing to do with humility. Humility is strength, and it has others to others centered power which has the ability to influence of it. We are doing good. We're doing good in a way that the strength and the resources that God is given to us are given to influence the lives of others, not because we are better than or less than young, I think of the sun. Some of the socialist socialist governments and social things like that anti- God go the communism they don't have God, but they made everybody equal your things. The whole concept is that of the all the quality and the government will take care of you so that you don't need God. Humility is that we know what is better than us, but no one is less than a that we are all equal and in any quality. God is pouring into your life to get to have good come into your life, your abilities, your talents, you are skills that produce things in order to produce an effect upon those around you produce an effect upon those around you. So those around you are not are not hand outing they are dependent and thus narrowing for handouts. You are then working in their life. So God can use them to do the very same thing to others, and it ends up having an extremely positive effect upon communities and families and individuals and nations because the effect is to do good in order to give and take what we got and to Canada to share and to help other people come on and get on with their life militant while Jesus. If the receptor to verse one eleven Paul is writing to the church of Philippi in this way, says if you got if you have gotten anything at all of following Christ. If Islam is made a difference in your life. The pulsating disappear. Okay, very interesting like it if you if you if you are okay. If Islam is made any difference in your life if being in a community of the spirit means anything to you. If you have a heart if you care than do me a favor agree with each other. Love each other be deep spirited friends now just how hard it is to get started with church in the day when the service deal starts at ten o'clock. Whilst then after one is still talking the spirit of friends. The third friends. I've got is a positive effectiveness. Why is she talking because she genuinely cares what's going life she genuinely cares was going on in your life, and she'll remember you can tell me and I'll forget I can write you. I don't know what's what it was. I want to think about thumbnails down, but shall come on and tell me all the things in our same at the relaying intimate with all the things that there is a genuine concern and care that is, therefore, all of these people as you can tell you the backgrounds of all the things wanted and all that makes up the history and of the person and knowing all that, and then what wanted to do good to produce an effect that produces an effect upon their life. And that's the goodness that goes into our life and beginning where we share things that is not about an accumulation. This is what I can accumulate this is what I can bank what Meebo repaired on my barns and build bigger barns as I can contain all that I got while it's about God can pour into our lives through what we are doing in a way that it hasn't popped positive power and effect upon others, as we pour into their lives and the very thing of lobbying is that other Christians. Other believers are bound to the same standard as I so as I am giving my life to see Jesus here in this interest in this, its situation is saying this about your relationship with God, and the like-minded, having the same love, being in one accord. Often we have look at Scripture being in one accord that everybody's not think the same thing. Everybody's got to do the same thing. Everybody's got to be in agreement now everybody has to be in agreement to love others above themselves, and if you love others above yourself, you will get along assuming you think the same thoughts doesn't mean it's always good to go your way or their way or whatever doesn't matter the matter. What matters is that you be in one accord in one accord is loving in the same pattern that Christ loves us. We are to love others and that we argued for one another above ourselves as the humility. Humility is that I don't have to win, but I don't have to lose. I have to be myself to share what is in my heart, mind, and then to be in one accord means we are all like-minded, the we have the same love where the same concept with the same understanding of sharing of strength she in our society. Strength means you win them the Bible says that the race is not always to the swift, the fastest runner doesn't win the race. But if you don't look at the timer but you know what fastest runner may have a bad day strongest man may have a weak moment, but with God. We are in a position always to be pleasing to him, which will bring about our blessing his blessing in our life as we share what we are with other people. If that's our sense of why we share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus is coming back by Bob Lewis in his own programs were talking about before church. Jesus is the return and infinity, said, and all those who are lost. I didn't make it, so we I can send no, we need to share what we are what God has given us, and how the God has changed our lives and how the God makes a difference for us in out sometimes in my jealous moments I think of all the people that never misses a bad thing that all the people that we've helped all the people that we done good for all the people that we shared and talk to and made impacts in their life, their change the direction of their life, and I think all those people and if they would just come to church. We have a really great church now where a lot of people in here now and then I could I get my ego could be good. Ya know what that was like freaking on it. Yeah, that humility is that it's not my responsibility. It's my responsibility to give my responsibility to get to share what God has blessed place in our lives and supported other people and then they are making a difference in God makes a difference in their life, wherever they are so in my jealous moments I have to, I have to come against those things to recognize it is in the files. This kingdom. It's about God 's kingdom and how the God is working in other people 's lives to prepare them, and the people they are surrounded with to get them ready for Jesus return humility is not the house me or you. It is not thinking that you are better than other people. It is a discipline, strength and other centered power, a discipline, strength, and others centered power. What does it mean to give other people the strength to go through there day by your presence, your words, your phone, you are touched upon their life. What does it mean how much every seat and it is that it is your is God 's word in here that give them the strength is in our ability to encourage it is God 's ability to strengthen through Las Vegas on an agreement intended down for a sure way to the front don't push your way to the front those sweet talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside and help others get ahead. This is Paul talking to the church of Philippi don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourself long enough to lend a helping hand. It's not about me. It's about God is not about my strength. It's about God 's strength is not about my talent is about God working through the talents that I have an easy while I don't have them. It doesn't matter how great you think your are talents are we over there break on the scale is small and the scale. The availability of us to God 's spirit makes all of the difference in the event makes all the difference in the world. All of the difference in the world is that God is working in our life, and that produces an outcome that produces a power it. It is other centered power edit in what happens is the attention goes to God and not to us. You see, this is where our argued I think my humility cries out for recognition and a note and I say that from that in the context that we recognize that God is doing the work day and on the one side, you know you have that the devil or evil is usually some of the thoughts you think about yours. Some thought the flooded your mind don't want you. Some of them going to evil. Some of them belong to good. You get to choose think so doing good in knowing to help all the people you health all either not in the church. The other side of uses, see David if you have been better than all be in church in our unit on a right. You went out of influence them for the kingdom of God may all be in church. In our view, you'd have this, you have that on the site and on the other side. It's for you. Now David, who gets the glory of this God who does the work in this God given or what used to be David. You know what I could shovel menorah with the best of them. Now I can clean out. I acted work harder than anyone I thought, you know, with cleaning out caftans and you know after I left the other bill thrower to throw the bells of the wagon. They got a front end loader to clean up the barn. He died when I was worth five years ago I was good at was that I used to be, but to see what happened in the process in our lives. What's going on in this whole process God is transitioning us transforming us from glory to glory. From what we were to where we are where you want to be. We are in this continual process of change. We are hearing from both sides. We are hearing from both sides about what we should do how we should do it and what is right and what is wrong and what is the human arm. Hello no exit and I am wanting this to bring honor and glory to God Mother Teresa did you write that they bring them by the Teresa for Europe, where Elian Mother Teresa as she is now we would think, you know, and whenever I think of all ones that say as long as we make the best effort we're capable of. We cannot feel discouraged by our failures mean we cannot claim any success. Either we should give God all the credit and the extremely sincere when we do here is a lady who was a schoolteacher in Calcutta and none and she saw the poor on the street. She left the security of the school to take on the streets, and many have considered her one of the most humble individuals in our time. Our timeframe, but she's probably the most recognized humble person. There doesn't seem to go on, but it does because what in her humility. Jacob walking the two presidents and governors and business owners and give them the direction of what she needed prior therefrom than to serve her people there on the street humility would tell us all you can go tell people what you need. You can't be that fourth rider that that courageous. Now that's what we got wrong, but the humility create strength to take us to see the value of what God has put in our hands to do and to do it with all of our might and so she had no going into no governments and in the president 's innate young leaders of nations and demanding that they do yell up commit themselves and they get not how she started a whole religious order, how she took care of thousands of people on the streets of Calcutta. We don't know we don't know poverty like this whenever you seen poverty like this, not even in the pictures so you, the Lilia Thrasher did you find her. Mrs. Lelia Thrasher 's assembly got missionary. Another one of the Mother Teresa 's set. She didn't get the recognition, but we support the Lillian Thrasher orphanage and she took upon herself to care for kids humbled not enough. Not enough ability to raise the money to fulfill her mission, but through congregations like us. She was able to reach thousands and thousands of kids that would've been lost pouring into people 's lives to make a difference humility is strength. Strength strength. They strengthen humility is strength and power to invest in other people 's lives and Paul whenever he's writing to the church at the Philippi is trying to get them to see it. If your relationship with Jesus Christ has meant anything to you. If it has led anything to you that have a deep spirit of love, which is for the people around you, but for all those who are not with you for all those who will never be able to repair you are darken the door of your church or give something if your life were to put anything of value back into you. It doesn't matter it is that we have a deep spirited love, a discipline, strength, other centered power of discipline, strength and love to other people think of yourself, the way Jesus taught himself to think of yourself, the way that Jesus thought of himself in at us with God, equal status with God, but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status. No matter what you see. Think of yourself, the way that God thinks of himself think of your self the way God thinks of himself, God has all power. He knows the name of every star. He knows the hair on your head. He knows every person who's ever lived. Every person who is living every person whoever shall live. He knows the end from the beginning he has the power to create with the spoken word to yourself. Think of themselves that he did not think it less of himself to calmly be exactly like you were not the was tempted and always as we are. He gave up everything that should have given him status of God speak and welcomed into existence. He gave all of that up so that he could become like us. Why so that we could become like him humble and full of wisdom, strength, power you can be like God, humble, easy way away. How are you are thinking if I say I will be like God, what you do, but then people where they belong. Else humility. I'm going to allow God to do work in my life that will make a difference in their life. Notice the power to influence them without any strings attached without any good, bad and ugly. It's just the ability to influence humility, not to think of yourself better than others, but less than others. Nobody is above me. Nobody is beneath me in the sight of God were all equal and he loves us all the same, and then, and I will close with this spot again somewhere who is wireless. This is James three thirteen to sixteen who is wise and understanding among you, let him show it by his good life by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. Wisdom is the application of truth when we apply the truth of God 's word to our life last to do so with the ability buttons shown by his good life. The DAs done in humility that comes from wisdom. Wisdom is the understanding of truth apply to my life and I have great strength and great power in the name of Jesus to make a difference in my life and the lives of others, and it doesn't wallow if you put invested other people. Lillian Thrasher, all those kids. Mother Teresa all those desolate deserted people. She was able to make a difference in our life. We are the Mother Teresa. We are the Lillian thrashers of our families of our neighborhoods our community and we have the power to do good, not because were better than not because were less than we have the power and the strength to do good in their lives to serve God humbly humbly chose to say wonderful and I I again have a set again. He said that you see a humble. I am in a minute here, but seeing wisdom application of truth. Be humble, be like God be like were not upset by the events of life. We are challenged by the events of life to apply truth to the events of life with love and care and say wonderful. AmenWell, is the ten o'clock working for you that working all right. I know that there's again, a lot of people in and out vacation in things, but it's difficult. The system is quite a rare and that it's really difficult not to have Sunday school before jerk to me just like I come here. It's like I can't be preaching just you have to suddenly slapped him, but will return to that was in the fall and that the that schedule, but you know it's a something to consider for the coming years will be more more prepared for it. If it's something that you like, but today we're looking at humility and the Scripture that we are reading is in Philippians, chapter two verses one through eleven. But instead of reading the entire text and then going back and reading it again obviously did as we go through it in the end, the message today, humility, but everything of being humble is a well crazy laying humility has fallen on hard times in all, it's if this idea that we have in our society. If you're not bragging you're not nobody's there know what you are and if you are not telling people how important you are, they're not going to and so we have this kind of a modern day/ on arrogance that is supposed to somehow promote self-promotion because if you don't promote yourself, who is an again. There's truth in a bald-faced delivery take anything and you take it to an extreme. It ends up being hurtful or not working, but humility isn't necessarily one of those things that can be taken to an extreme. While you know, whatever people taken humility for an extreme whatever they think I am humble and I want to be recognized for our humble and I'm proud of it. If it just like a hole you just lost it and so that's not at all what we think bird, whatever the Scripture Scriptural context of humility and the importance of understanding scriptural truths upon which were going to build our lives and build our character. This being in church and listening to God 's word or rating the Scriptures. It is important that we see and understand what God is trying to tell us because everything that God is trying to get to Austin by the spirit, and by the word everything he tries to do through this is all for the betterment of our character, and for the development of who we are where we were going because you have arrived yet. You have me have not arrived at the peak of who we are as a person. We have not develop our talents enough when not develop our abilities and we have not given ourselves permission to allow the spiritual influence enough in in the word of God, and what happens. I think it. We have these concepts. Basically we think in concepts and in terms of what we have experienced way thinking concepts of what we've experienced in somewhat of what we've read them. It's it's important that we understand that. I think he is limited that our understanding is limited, so how then do we move beyond who we are as an individual are they really will. Beyond that, to understand what God is wanting to do in our lives and in him and pointed a look at each one of us of how far we've come. How far we develop that our relationship with God humility K always liked definitions because I like to define things so that I understand we all are the same page at all will have the same starting point. If I say humility when you think of the any idea, any idea what you think. Get idea what you're thinking. Whatever I say humility are being humble. What do you think the any thoughts most sometimes we think of it as being some people think of as being lazy is the one to do anything. Some people think of humility as being a doormat. You have no spine is a Dave McKee is the backbone 's ability to be flexible in almost the time we think upbeat people a backbone strong welts tenacious their unyielding know people a backbone or have the ability to be flexible and you see we have the ability to high-strength my back doesn't bend the way Houston and if I bend backwards. It's all over. They just get out if it's done I'm I'm on. I can be on the ground so buyback isn't as flexible to use to be just what people in your spiritual lives are inflexible because they know certain things, and they refuse to see other things and God is not done with us. You know the song. We were saying, God knows the names of all the stars. You can call them by name. This is a song, but as a theology and that God knows, very hairs on ahead, the very number of the hairs on her head. God is not overloaded with information. He does not have an overload of then there what was the name of that star will only think now of what what God doesn't remember the path he doesn't see into the future. He has all knowledge. Everyone who's ever live everyone who ever will live every stars in the sky, every sparrow that flies every blade of grass, every leaf and it's all knowledge to him, and nothing is beyond his knowledge or his ability. So in that context God who is supreme above all things is humble. The word humble is not thinking you are better than other people. Humility is to not think you are better than other people, so humility is is is the opposite of pride also in humility is there got this on the dictionary of discipline, strength and other centered power discipline, strength, now whenever we think of humility. We don't think of strength. I don't know many people. I don't think think of that idea of being strong humility, his ability to be strong and centered on other people say a other center power. Now that I was interested in that word. Other center power. Power is the ability to act to produce an effect. So humility is the power to produce an effect and other people 's lives that doesn't fit with our concept of arrogance or let me tell you what you should be doing. Let me get me give you some facts here to put you in your place or move motivates you. Humility is thinking of other people do. I think of yourself as better than and that you are you are other centered other centered power that the humility that you him the ability to act to produce an effect. Jesus, the most humble of all will citizen, I text today Jesus in his humility had the disciplines train you to not take my life. I give it the discipline, strength and other centered power to do good into the lives of others to produce an effect that's limited, so whenever we are humbling ourselves before God we are not laying flat on the ground way for people walk all over us until we can't take it anymore than we rise up and punch of as every get upset for not being humble, safe and has nothing to do with humility. Humility is strength, and it has others to others centered power which has the ability to influence of it. We are doing good. We're doing good in a way that the strength and the resources that God is given to us are given to influence the lives of others, not because we are better than or less than young, I think of the sun. Some of the socialist socialist governments and social things like that anti- God go the communism they don't have God, but they made everybody equal your things. The whole concept is that of the all the quality and the government will take care of you so that you don't need God. Humility is that we know what is better than us, but no one is less than a that we are all equal and in any quality. God is pouring into your life to get to have good come into your life, your abilities, your talents, you are skills that produce things in order to produce an effect upon those around you produce an effect upon those around you. So those around you are not are not hand outing they are dependent and thus narrowing for handouts. You are then working in their life. So God can use them to do the very same thing to others, and it ends up having an extremely positive effect upon communities and families and individuals and nations because the effect is to do good in order to give and take what we got and to Canada to share and to help other people come on and get on with their life militant while Jesus. If the receptor to verse one eleven Paul is writing to the church of Philippi in this way, says if you got if you have gotten anything at all of following Christ. If Islam is made a difference in your life. The pulsating disappear. Okay, very interesting like it if you if you if you are okay. If Islam is made any difference in your life if being in a community of the spirit means anything to you. If you have a heart if you care than do me a favor agree with each other. Love each other be deep spirited friends now just how hard it is to get started with church in the day when the service deal starts at ten o'clock. Whilst then after one is still talking the spirit of friends. The third friends. I've got is a positive effectiveness. Why is she talking because she genuinely cares what's going life she genuinely cares was going on in your life, and she'll remember you can tell me and I'll forget I can write you. I don't know what's what it was. I want to think about thumbnails down, but shall come on and tell me all the things in our same at the relaying intimate with all the things that there is a genuine concern and care that is, therefore, all of these people as you can tell you the backgrounds of all the things wanted and all that makes up the history and of the person and knowing all that, and then what wanted to do good to produce an effect that produces an effect upon their life. And that's the goodness that goes into our life and beginning where we share things that is not about an accumulation. This is what I can accumulate this is what I can bank what Meebo repaired on my barns and build bigger barns as I can contain all that I got while it's about God can pour into our lives through what we are doing in a way that it hasn't popped positive power and effect upon others, as we pour into their lives and the very thing of lobbying is that other Christians. Other believers are bound to the same standard as I so as I am giving my life to see Jesus here in this interest in this, its situation is saying this about your relationship with God, and the like-minded, having the same love, being in one accord. Often we have look at Scripture being in one accord that everybody's not think the same thing. Everybody's got to do the same thing. Everybody's got to be in agreement now everybody has to be in agreement to love others above themselves, and if you love others above yourself, you will get along assuming you think the same thoughts doesn't mean it's always good to go your way or their way or whatever doesn't matter the matter. What matters is that you be in one accord in one accord is loving in the same pattern that Christ loves us. We are to love others and that we argued for one another above ourselves as the humility. Humility is that I don't have to win, but I don't have to lose. I have to be myself to share what is in my heart, mind, and then to be in one accord means we are all like-minded, the we have the same love where the same concept with the same understanding of sharing of strength she in our society. Strength means you win them the Bible says that the race is not always to the swift, the fastest runner doesn't win the race. But if you don't look at the timer but you know what fastest runner may have a bad day strongest man may have a weak moment, but with God. We are in a position always to be pleasing to him, which will bring about our blessing his blessing in our life as we share what we are with other people. If that's our sense of why we share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus is coming back by Bob Lewis in his own programs were talking about before church. Jesus is the return and infinity, said, and all those who are lost. I didn't make it, so we I can send no, we need to share what we are what God has given us, and how the God has changed our lives and how the God makes a difference for us in out sometimes in my jealous moments I think of all the people that never misses a bad thing that all the people that we've helped all the people that we done good for all the people that we shared and talk to and made impacts in their life, their change the direction of their life, and I think all those people and if they would just come to church. We have a really great church now where a lot of people in here now and then I could I get my ego could be good. Ya know what that was like freaking on it. Yeah, that humility is that it's not my responsibility. It's my responsibility to give my responsibility to get to share what God has blessed place in our lives and supported other people and then they are making a difference in God makes a difference in their life, wherever they are so in my jealous moments I have to, I have to come against those things to recognize it is in the files. This kingdom. It's about God 's kingdom and how the God is working in other people 's lives to prepare them, and the people they are surrounded with to get them ready for Jesus return humility is not the house me or you. It is not thinking that you are better than other people. It is a discipline, strength and other centered power, a discipline, strength, and others centered power. What does it mean to give other people the strength to go through there day by your presence, your words, your phone, you are touched upon their life. What does it mean how much every seat and it is that it is your is God 's word in here that give them the strength is in our ability to encourage it is God 's ability to strengthen through Las Vegas on an agreement intended down for a sure way to the front don't push your way to the front those sweet talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside and help others get ahead. This is Paul talking to the church of Philippi don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourself long enough to lend a helping hand. It's not about me. It's about God is not about my strength. It's about God 's strength is not about my talent is about God working through the talents that I have an easy while I don't have them. It doesn't matter how great you think your are talents are we over there break on the scale is small and the scale. The availability of us to God 's spirit makes all of the difference in the event makes all the difference in the world. All of the difference in the world is that God is working in our life, and that produces an outcome that produces a power it. It is other centered power edit in what happens is the attention goes to God and not to us. You see, this is where our argued I think my humility cries out for recognition and a note and I say that from that in the context that we recognize that God is doing the work day and on the one side, you know you have that the devil or evil is usually some of the thoughts you think about yours. Some thought the flooded your mind don't want you. Some of them going to evil. Some of them belong to good. You get to choose think so doing good in knowing to help all the people you health all either not in the church. The other side of uses, see David if you have been better than all be in church in our unit on a right. You went out of influence them for the kingdom of God may all be in church. In our view, you'd have this, you have that on the site and on the other side. It's for you. Now David, who gets the glory of this God who does the work in this God given or what used to be David. You know what I could shovel menorah with the best of them. Now I can clean out. I acted work harder than anyone I thought, you know, with cleaning out caftans and you know after I left the other bill thrower to throw the bells of the wagon. They got a front end loader to clean up the barn. He died when I was worth five years ago I was good at was that I used to be, but to see what happened in the process in our lives. What's going on in this whole process God is transitioning us transforming us from glory to glory. From what we were to where we are where you want to be. We are in this continual process of change. We are hearing from both sides. We are hearing from both sides about what we should do how we should do it and what is right and what is wrong and what is the human arm. Hello no exit and I am wanting this to bring honor and glory to God Mother Teresa did you write that they bring them by the Teresa for Europe, where Elian Mother Teresa as she is now we would think, you know, and whenever I think of all ones that say as long as we make the best effort we're capable of. We cannot feel discouraged by our failures mean we cannot claim any success. Either we should give God all the credit and the extremely sincere when we do here is a lady who was a schoolteacher in Calcutta and none and she saw the poor on the street. She left the security of the school to take on the streets, and many have considered her one of the most humble individuals in our time. Our timeframe, but she's probably the most recognized humble person. There doesn't seem to go on, but it does because what in her humility. Jacob walking the two presidents and governors and business owners and give them the direction of what she needed prior therefrom than to serve her people there on the street humility would tell us all you can go tell people what you need. You can't be that fourth rider that that courageous. Now that's what we got wrong, but the humility create strength to take us to see the value of what God has put in our hands to do and to do it with all of our might and so she had no going into no governments and in the president 's innate young leaders of nations and demanding that they do yell up commit themselves and they get not how she started a whole religious order, how she took care of thousands of people on the streets of Calcutta. We don't know we don't know poverty like this whenever you seen poverty like this, not even in the pictures so you, the Lilia Thrasher did you find her. Mrs. Lelia Thrasher 's assembly got missionary. Another one of the Mother Teresa 's set. She didn't get the recognition, but we support the Lillian Thrasher orphanage and she took upon herself to care for kids humbled not enough. Not enough ability to raise the money to fulfill her mission, but through congregations like us. She was able to reach thousands and thousands of kids that would've been lost pouring into people 's lives to make a difference humility is strength. Strength strength. They strengthen humility is strength and power to invest in other people 's lives and Paul whenever he's writing to the church at the Philippi is trying to get them to see it. If your relationship with Jesus Christ has meant anything to you. If it has led anything to you that have a deep spirit of love, which is for the people around you, but for all those who are not with you for all those who will never be able to repair you are darken the door of your church or give something if your life were to put anything of value back into you. It doesn't matter it is that we have a deep spirited love, a discipline, strength, other centered power of discipline, strength and love to other people think of yourself, the way Jesus taught himself to think of yourself, the way that Jesus thought of himself in at us with God, equal status with God, but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status. No matter what you see. Think of yourself, the way that God thinks of himself think of your self the way God thinks of himself, God has all power. He knows the name of every star. He knows the hair on your head. He knows every person who's ever lived. Every person who is living every person whoever shall live. He knows the end from the beginning he has the power to create with the spoken word to yourself. Think of themselves that he did not think it less of himself to calmly be exactly like you were not the was tempted and always as we are. He gave up everything that should have given him status of God speak and welcomed into existence. He gave all of that up so that he could become like us. Why so that we could become like him humble and full of wisdom, strength, power you can be like God, humble, easy way away. How are you are thinking if I say I will be like God, what you do, but then people where they belong. Else humility. I'm going to allow God to do work in my life that will make a difference in their life. Notice the power to influence them without any strings attached without any good, bad and ugly. It's just the ability to influence humility, not to think of yourself better than others, but less than others. Nobody is above me. Nobody is beneath me in the sight of God were all equal and he loves us all the same, and then, and I will close with this spot again somewhere who is wireless. This is James three thirteen to sixteen who is wise and understanding among you, let him show it by his good life by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. Wisdom is the application of truth when we apply the truth of God 's word to our life last to do so with the ability buttons shown by his good life. The DAs done in humility that comes from wisdom. Wisdom is the understanding of truth apply to my life and I have great strength and great power in the name of Jesus to make a difference in my life and the lives of others, and it doesn't wallow if you put invested other people. Lillian Thrasher, all those kids. Mother Teresa all those desolate deserted people. She was able to make a difference in our life. We are the Mother Teresa. We are the Lillian thrashers of our families of our neighborhoods our community and we have the power to do good, not because were better than not because were less than we have the power and the strength to do good in their lives to serve God humbly humbly chose to say wonderful and I I again have a set again. He said that you see a humble. I am in a minute here, but seeing wisdom application of truth. Be humble, be like God be like were not upset by the events of life. We are challenged by the events of life to apply truth to the events of life with love and care and say wonderful. Amen