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- Humility Practice, Part 7Ask for advice and follow it
- Proverbs 1:7, 20-27; 15:5, 32
- “I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” – Winston Churchill
- We have to be willing to listen to others.
- “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – Harry Truman
- “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” – Robert Heinlein
- “A man who asks is a fool for 5 minutes. A man who never asks, is a fool for a lifetime.” – Chinese proverb
Serve someone- Mark 10:43-45 – Jesus came to serve!
- Philippians 2:3-4
- I Corinthians 9:19-22
- Philippians 2:5-8
- “Regard one another as more important than yourselves.”
Give a soft answer- Proverbs 15:1; 25:15
- Romans 12:17-18
- Romans 12:10
41 min - Let's Make a DealTwo deals
- $100,000 for your car right now.
- $1,000,000 for your car, but you don’t get the money until you return in seven days and you lose access to the car immediately.
Satan offers us a similar deal- Hebrews 11:25
- Satan requires no self-discipline
God offers an eternity of bliss, but requires sacrifice, faithful service, and enduring persecution- Romans 6:23
- I Timothy 4:8
- Mark 10:28-30
- Many people literally sell their souls.
- Hebrews 11:24-26
- Many are not willing to make the effort to serve God.
- Some fall short after deciding to service God.
- Ephesians 5:3-5
Have you accepted Satan’s offer in your life?- It’s not too late to change!
- John 14:6
26 min - Continuous Improvement, Specks and Logs, ConfessionContinuous improvement
- God’s salvation is such that being a Christian is not an exercise in being perfect; rather it is an exercise in continuous improvement.
- Saved by grace through faith
- Ephesians 1:3-7; 2:1-10
- What is faith?
- Hebrews 11; James 2
- Complete trust and reliance on God.
- Walking in the light
- I John 1:5-2:2
Specks and logs- Luke 6:41-42; Galatians 6:1-5
- Focus first and primarily on identifying and correcting my faults.
- Then help others overcome their faults.
- Identifying and correction certain faults in myself, makes me uniquely qualified to help others who have the same, or a similar fault.
Confession- James 5:13-16
- Confessing sins to other people brings powerful healing.
- Exposes the problem
- Allows others to help
24 min - 46 min
- Humility Practice, Part 6
Due to technical difficulties, the first six minutes of the recording were lost. My apologies. -MRW
Apply the Bible to your faults- Matthew 7:21-27
- James 1:21-25
- Why is it hard to apply the Bible to our faults? Selfishness.
- Sometimes change is challenging.
- Ezra 9:1-4 – The Jews had intermarried with the people around them, in violation of God’s commands.
- Ezra 10:1-4 – The people took responsibility for their own sin and corrected it. This was extremely difficult!
- Ezra 10:9-14 – The change would take time.
- John 3:16-21
Question your anger- Ephesians 4:26-27
- Genesis 4:5-8 – God tried to get Cain to question his anger, but Cain refused and sinned in murdering Abel.
- Jonah 3:10
- Anger gives us an opportunity to improve the situation.
- Mark 3:1-6 – Jesus was angry at their hardness of heart.
- What are justifiable reasons to be angry?
35 min - Improving My Life Like JosiahOvercoming your raising.
- II Kings 21:1-6, 9, 16 – The evil of Manasseh.
- Manasseh ➡ Amon ➡ Josiah
- II Kings 21:19-22 – The evil rule of Amon.
- Maybe you had a lot of bad examples growing up. Whatever your childhood was like, God calls you to holy living.
- Ephesians 3:16-19
- II Chronicles 28:3 – Hezekiah’s father Ahaz sacrificed some of Hezekiah’s brothers to idols!
- I can overcome and make the right choices today!
- II Kings 19:14; 20:2-3 – Hezekiah prayed when he was in distress. He had a Father in heaven who loved him!
You might as well start right now!- II Chronicles 34:1-4, 8
- John 12:42
- Acts 24:25
- If there’s something that needs improving in your life, what are you waiting for?
Dust off the book.- II Chronicles 34:8-11, 14-21, 29-31
- II Chronicles 34:27-28 – God showed mercy on Josiah because of his humble heart.
- Galatians 5:19
30 min - 45 min
- Humility Practice, Part 5Be nice to someone undeserving
- Why is this a challenge?
- We don’t want to be taken advantage of or hurt.
- Can’t get over past events
- Think about how we’ve been hurt before
- See them hurting someone else
- See someone we love being hurt by them
- Someone we love being used in a way to hurt us
- Rationalize that we can just be indifferent
- They may justify our kindness as approval for their actions
- How do we overcome this?
- Examples
- Saul appointed king (I Samuel 10:27), David overthrown by Absalom (II Samuel 19:22)
- Chosen leaders by God. Men stood against them.
- They were humble and didn’t strike them down.
- Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because he married a Cushite woman (Numbers 12)
- Numbers 12:3
- Romans 12:9-19
Let someone else decide- Submitting to someone, putting others first, being at peace with all men
- What are some other ways we can view this as being Christ like?
- What about when our decision is the best decision?
- Colossians 1:17
- Extremely challenging because it requires us to fully put our trust in others.
- Ephesians 5:21; I Corinthians 13:5; Romans 12:18
- What problems can result in the local church when we don’t humble ourselves in this?
- Outside of the church?
- Mark 10:42-45
Refuse to complain- Everyone has a voice. We have an American right to that voice. We can use that voice to complain.
- Put our complaints in perspective first.
- Complaint = offended
- James 1:2-3
39 min - Psalm 8Psalms 8:1
- “O LORD, our Lord” – The word LORD is used in place of God’s actual name, Yahweh (YHWH). Jews traditionally avoided saying the name YHWH, substituting the word “Adonai” (Lord) instead.
- Exodus 6:2-3
- Isaiah 42:5, 8
Psalms 8:2- Matthew 21:9, 14, 16 – Even the children could see that there was something special about Jesus!
Psalms 8:3- Psalm 19
- Just looking up at the stars shows the power of God!
Psalms 8:4- Isaiah 40:22-28 – God has absolute power!
Psalms 8:5-8- Genesis 1:26-27
- Hebrews 2:5-9 – This may be referring to Adam’s curse in Genesis 3. It is also referring to Jesus.
- I Corinthians 15:23
Psalms 8:9- The psalm ends in the same way it began.
27 min - Romans, Part 15
- Romans 12:11 – Serving God is an active lifestyle.
- Romans 12:13 – Hospitality in those days was more the idea of having someone in your home that needed a place to stay.
- Romans 12:14 – We should continue to speak well of people who are persecuting us and remember them in prayer to God. God requires us to love even our enemies.
- Romans 12:15 – We share in both rejoicing and weeping because we love each other. Jealousy could make it easier to weep when others suffer, so we must be careful.
- Romans 12:16 – We are all children of God. We should not see ourselves as being above others.
- Romans 12:17 – It can take a lot of control to not repay evil for evil. If you don’t stop the cycle, evil just continues.
- Romans 12:18 – Strife should not start with us.
- Romans 12:19 – We must leave it to God to punish in the perfect way.
- Romans 12:20 – See Proverbs 25:21. Treating your enemy well could be like throwing cold water in his face – an embarrassment and a wake-up call.
- Romans 12:21 – This is a good summary of the preceding verses.
- Romans 13:1 – In what sense does God establish governments? See John 19:10-11. God clearly doesn’t approve of every leader just because they hold a leadership position. God approves of governments existing in a general sense.
- Romans 13:2 – Resisting authority = resisting God. See Titus 3:1; I Peter 2:13-17. It is okay to resist government when it contradicts God. See Acts 4:18; 5:8, 42.
- Romans 13:3-4 – God authorizes capital punishment for governments – they “do not bear the sword in vain.” The New Covenant does not have the idea of the “avenger of blood.” Now the civil government has that role. See Genesis 9:6.
- Romans 13:5-7 – There are two reasons to be in subjection to the government – fear of punishment and our own conscience. We are commanded to pay taxes regardless of how the government is using them. The Roman government used tax money to persecute Christians, yet Christians were still instructed to pay the taxes.
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