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INTRODUCTION:
Families often have inside stories that are just hilarious.
ILLUSTRATION:
One story in my family would be,
The first time I took my wife out on a date,
it was in many ways a wonderful disaster.
Wonderful because we laugh about it now.
A disaster because anything that could go wrong did go wrong.
On our first date, we went kayaking with some friends out on the N. Shore of Oahu.
Now if you knew me before I meet my wife,
Hiking, Kayaking was a mainstay of what I did on Saturdays.
And so just one example of how our date was a disaster was in trying to launch the kayak.
You see, I go to launch our two-person kayak and I can’t get us out.
I have done this hundreds of time by myself, but the way the current was breaking that day I couldn’t get us off the beach.
So I push the kayak a little bit father, and try again, only to dump my date out of it and into the water.
So she gets up with great patience and we try again.
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I time the wave, jump into the kayak, and dump her again.
She gave me 3 tries before she took over.
And says, I am doing it this time.
She times the wave, jumps into the kayak, and dumps me out.
As we laugh at our inability to get off this beach.
I told her; Pride goes before the fall, a quote from .
On one hand, that is a funny story.
Yet on the other hand it is an example of much pride embeds our everyday lives and thinking.
In this case, our pride was harmless.
In fact laughable now.
Yet, as life continues;
Is this not an example of how pride disrupts our marriages, families, and friendships?
Our Pride makes us think we are better equipped than others or to superior to dirty our hands and be humble servants of one another.
- And so pride becomes the sin issue that leads to bitterness, anger, and confrontation.
- The sin issue that prevents us from truly being a people who love and sacrifice in mercy and grace; like our example - Jesus Christ.
As we consider, the book of Proverbs - How much does it have to say about the foolishness and sinfulness of Pride.
Just to name a handful, Proverbs tells us God hates pride.
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In fact, It is pride that makes unbelievers Scoff at God according to .
We ought to be very mindful of the sin of pride, As we consider that judgement fell upon King Nebuchadnezzar when he displayed the pride of his heart.
Daniel 5:
In fact, Pride is such an important issue
Just one example,
Jerry Bridges
In other words, they are the sins we neglect because in our pride we think we are righteous before God.
Thus, our pride blinds us from allowing the Gospel to fully change our lives.
Bridges, Jerry.
Sins We Accept (Kindle Locations 105-108).
NavPress.
Kindle Edition.
“Take a few moments to ponder those words so as to get the full impact of them.
Those words describe not just the scandalous sins of society but also the respectable sins we tolerate in our own lives.
Think of such tolerated sins as impatience, pride, resentment, frustration, and self-pity.
Do they seem odious and pernicious to you?
They really are.
To tolerate those sins in our spiritual lives is as dangerous as to tolerate cancer in our bodies.”
Bridges, Jerry.
Sins We Accept (Kindle Locations 105-108).
NavPress.
Kindle Edition.
May I say this
To ignore the sin of pride is to blind our hearts from God’s transformative power.
Pride is not a sin to ignore
To ignore the sin of pride is to allow ourselves to slowly
Peter challenges us to be humble, and not proud.
Notice our text.
According to Peter,
Proposition: We ought to practice humility
TRANSITIONAL STATEMENT: and this text gives us 3 ways we ought to practice humility.
The first way, we ought to be
1.
Humble Towards Pastors.
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We must remember
When we consider this paragraph as a whole, v. 5 is a dividing line.
challenges Pastor’s to live faithfully.
And in fact, in terms of pride they are cautioned against the natural temptation to be domineering;
but instead Shepherd as examples to the flock.
specifically challenges every believer to live faithfully.
And part of that faithful living is subjecting ourselves to Pastor’s.
I recognize this says younger, but that term is being used simply to communicate that elders are normally to be the mature believers of the congregation.
The word “subjecting” is not a new term to us in this epistle.
Same word used in: Government-1 Peter 2:13; Salves-1 Peter 2:18; Wives-1 Peter 3:1
In the same way citizens, slaves, and wives are to subject themselves; likewise we are told to subject ourselves to the elders or Pastors God has placed over us.
In the same way citizens, slaves, and wives are to subject themselves; likewise we are told to subject ourselves to the elders or Pastors God has placed over us.
Notice the balancing parallel of this passage.
The major sin that Elders are tempted with is to abuse their authority as Church Dictators.
May us Pastor’s Shepherd people; not Lord over people.
But what is the major temptation of believers who are under the authority of the Pastor.
To rebel and disregard their council.
To finds way to undermine the authority of the Elder.
May I suggest,
this text teaches us that it is equally wrong to reject authority as it is to abuse authority.
And if we are as a congregation going to serve in a God pleasing way;
then I will be careful not to be domineering and you will be careful to avoid resisting Pastoral authority.
I will purpose to shepherd the flock under the great shepherd and you will purpose to place your self under the care of the shepherd.
When we looked at we focused on what it means for the Pastor to shepherd the Flock.
May we consider today, what it means for a church to subject themselves to Elders.
Subjecting means in humility you place yourself under the watch-care of the Pastor.
Just like citizens are to place themselves under the authority and care of the government.
Slaves are to place themselves under the authority and care of theirs Masters.
and Wives are to place themselves under the authority and care of the husbands.
Which implies that :
a. Pastor’s Have the Authority to Speak to your lives.
CAVEAT: Now I recognize there is a way to do this that is shepherding and there is way that is prideful dictatorship.
But just because a Pastor can be sinful; does negate that God commands believers to subject themselves to a Pastor.
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