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The Greatness of Humility.
TEMC.
Jan 21,07
Jesus says he who humbles himself will be exalted.
But he who exalts himself will be humbled.
There were in Jesus day no shortage of people who wanted to be at the top, who wanted to be looked at, admired, praised and given honor.
The same is true today.
But it didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now.
Jesus was a humble man when he walked this earth.
The character of God is one of deep humility.
There is no humility deeper than the humility of God.
And God demonstrated that humility to us when Jesus Christ came as a baby, grew up as a man, taught and walked among us and then chose to allow himself to be crucified for our sins.
Jesus calls us to follow that.
Of all the dreams, ambitions and goals we have in life, humility is a part of God that must be a part of us for our life to have any meaning at all.
If we want a relationship, a connection with God, there is only ONE way to have it, and that is through humility.
TRUTH: There is no other way to live in humility, than through self denial.
No one who enters the gates of heaven, will enter proudly.
We all come humbly.
We can never come proudly.
Christ demonstrated for us the importance of humility.
Jesus lived in perfect humility.I think we might be surprised to see what that looks like.
By the time we end this message this morning, it is my desire that we will have come to a clearer understanding what true humility looks like.
Humility is one ingredient which we can’t afford to live without.
If we try to live our Christian life with pride, we soon fail.
Living in pride is possible here and now, and many do, but it is not possible to live in pride and be pleasing to God at the same time.
All of us fail at times because sometimes we lack humility.
We can repent and go back to God when we do fail, but we must never lose sight of our need for a humble spirit.
In this life we do well to look at Jesus and learn from him the humility he live out.
Humility is a decision we can all make and must make for ourselves.
Humility is one of the areas where the devil will repeatedly trip us up and make us think we have it, just after we have lost it.
Lets look at Jesus and see how he practiced his life of humility while he was on earth.
Read with me Hebrews 2:5-18
*1 **Christ’s destiny*.
Here the scriptures tell us that Christ will be the final ruler, the king of kings and Lord of Lords.
It won’t be angels ruling the world to come.
And, in case anyone is wondering, it won’t be a world where people will be in charge either.
In the world to come, of which the bible speaks, Jesus Christ himself will rule as Lord.
That is a truth we must recon with.
a) At this point in the history of the world, things are not yet as they should be.
And things are not yet as they will be either.
The world the way it is now will be destroyed by fire.
The bible tells us that.
But the world to come will be a world of peace and justice.
b) Presently there is much that is not right and that needs changing.
But in the end, God will be the sole ruler of everything.
c) Christ’s destiny is ownership.
It is not to angels that he will subject the worlds to come.
Ownership of the universe, ownership of life, ownership of you and me.
d) When Jesus walked this earth, he didn’t come as an owner.
He came as a servant.
That is a sign of deep humility.
But we know where he is now.
*2 **Christ’s road to Glory.* ( How he got there and how we will go there.)
a) The world and God have a different view on how to go to greatness.
When the world offers us greatness, it does so with various views in mind.
i) “Become great at the expense of others”.
“ Use others to your advantage.”
“Don’t ask what you can do for others, have others do for you what you want.”
It is about control, power and self preservation.
ii) The teachings of Jesus to turn the other cheek are not part of their life.
I am not saying that you have to cave in to evil, or allow evil to take control of your life.
I worked for a company where things were extremely busy, so once where every so many days we got one work day off.
Once when it was my day off, I was looking forward to spending it with my family, and there was this guy and he asked me: “ Do you need your day off?” he was a very selfish guy who only thought of himself.
He would never have considered giving up his time off, but he had the audacity to ask me to give him my day off.
I simply said, ‘no.’
I was not rude, or mean.
I just told him I was going to take my day off.
I just stuck to the rules the boss had laid out.
iii) Another view is to look out for number one – save up, store up, hoard if you have to, but look out for number one – me, you.
b) God’s view of greatness is the opposite.
With God greatness is what happens when
i) I put your needs before my own.
NOT YOUR WANTS.
You have a need that I am blessed to meet and consider it a privilege to do so and not an obligation.
ii) Meeting others needs doesn’t mean gratifying a selfish lifestyle of another person.
I have in the past had people come to me who wanted to borrow money to do things my wife and I could not afford.
I have a policy that I don’t borrow money for things that are not needs.
If it is a need, then I give the money if I can.
iii) With God we are on the road to greatness When our burdens become each others burdens.
What gives you pain causes me pain.
We share our burdens.
There is community, fellowship.
iv) With God greatness is in how much I can give.
Give where it is needed.
God demonstrated that very clearly in Jesus Christ.
c) Jesus came to earth to bring us back to glory at HIS expense.
We were created to bring God glory.
God made us good, holy and perfect but due to sin we lost that.
Jesus came to restore that – at his expense.
d) The road to restoration is in the opposite direction it took us to get where we are now.
We came here via the wide road of destruction.
We can only go back on the narrow road of suffering.
e) V 10.
Christ took the road of suffering for us already.
He not only opened the road back, he also walked it for us.
It cost him every thing.
*3 **Christ’s price for glory*.
It was a life of suffering on earth.
a) He laid aside the glories of heaven, his power and majesty, and became a suffering servant.
I found an outline of the humility of Christ, I want to share it here:
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