Love Is Not Proud Series

BUT LISTEN – here is a statement that is always true.

God helps those who humble themselves

UNDESTAND – as much as God’s opposes and is against the proud…

HE – is for and lifts up the humble. I MEAN – check out the following Scriptures.

You SAVE the humble… - Ps 18:27

The Lord GUIDES the humble in what is right… - Ps 25:9

The Lord SUPPORTS the humble… - Ps 147:6

With humility comes WISDOM… - Pr 11:2

Whoever humbles himself will be EXHALTED… - Mt 23:12

God…gives GRACE to the humble… - James 4:6

This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. – Isaiah 66:2

Nothing escapes His notice. He’s aware of all things. But though He’s aware of everything, He’s also searching for something in particular, something that acts like a magnet to capture His attention and invite His active involvement.

God is decisively drawn to humility.

The person who is humble is the one who draws God’s attention and is the one that God (according to the passages we just read)…

Saves, supports, guides, exalts, AND gives wisdom and grace to….

(not too shabby of list is it?)

QUESTION - if God has promised all of this to those who are humble – where does it come from, how do we get it?

FIRST OF ALL – we need to understand that humility it’s not something that’s done to us…

INSTEAD - humility is something that we must chose to do ourselves. ALL THROUGH - scripture the Bible tells us, ”Humble yourself before God.”

AND SINCE – humility is a choice, humility is something that we can work on. It’s something we can learn to do. YOU SEE - we need to practice humility just like we practice riding a bike, driving a car, swinging a golf club or playing an instrument… BECAUSE – when we do something over and over and over, we start getting good at it.

AT FIRST - it doesn’t seem natural. It’s usually pretty difficult. But the more you do it, the better you get.

SO – let’s talk about a few practical ways that we can ‘humilify’ and pursue humility.

AND LISTEN – we should really make a decision to pursue humility #1 - because God – (saves, supports, guides, exalts, looks to, and gives grace to the humble)…

BUT – (hates, detests, tears down, humbles and opposes the proud).

AND # 2- because love is not proud…

NOW – I have some really good news MGCC about pursuing humility… I mean, I have discovered something very exciting…

(Video – ‘Humilify’ sermon spice)

OKAY – in case you didn’t figure it out, unfortunately there really isn’t a Humilify pill….

HOWEVER – there are some practices that you can adopt, that will help you make friends with humility and over pride your greatest enemy.

A) Practice Giving Up Your Rights To Others

Your attitude should be the kind that was shown by Jesus Christ, who, though He was God, did not demand and cling to His rights as God – Philippians 2:5,6

QUESTION – is that an easy thing for you to do?

Is it easy for you to give up your rights, to give preference to another person? To let someone else go first?

IMAGINE - you are standing in the checkout line at Kroger. It’s the longest, slowest line. DO you have the picture?