One of the important characteristics needed to belong to the kingdom of God is humility. Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3). The apostle Paul and the apostle Peter both taught that we are clothe ourselves with humility (Colossians 3:12; 1 Peter 5:5). Paul also said that in humility we would count others more significant than ourselves (Philippians 2:3). One of the goals of the gospel is to cause all people to be humble before the Lord and with each other. Please consider that as you study the scriptures you will see that an overriding problem for humanity is the problem of pride. God never proclaims that the problem people have is that they are too humble and they need to think more highly of themselves. Rather, God regularly teaches that the problem is pride and people need to stop thinking so highly about themselves and so much about themselves…

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