Aug. 9, 2024

Lowliness

Lowliness

We look at the word lowliness in the context of Ephesians 4:2

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We look at the word lowliness in the context of Ephesians 4:2

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central. Good morning everyone.

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It is Friday, August the ninth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently eleven oh one am Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, before we do

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anything else, I do want to just I was going

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to do like an entire podcast episode about this, but

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I'll just throw it out as a quick announcement. If

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you go to Beta dot Sermon Audio dot com Beta

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dot Sermon Audio dot com, look up Theology Central. I

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don't know exactly where it's located, but there's a section

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now for articles that I can publish that I can post.

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I could post a link, I could post, you know,

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a devotional whatever I want. I can do anything I

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want there. I don't think it shows up on the

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Church one app yet. I don't think it shows up

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on the Sermon's two point oh app yet. But go

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to Beta dot Sermonaudio dot com. You'll see a section

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for articles. I did a test one and so, and

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I can add artwork, and there's other things I can do.

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I don't know exactly how to utilize that yet I

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don't know how much I'm going to utilize it, but

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it's there. Sometimes that would be, you know, make it

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things very easy, like if I tell everyone, I mean,

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I can also send the link out through notices where

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it goes directly to the Church one app, and so

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I can send links that way. But I could also

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publish an article. Let's say I talk about a book,

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and I can be like, hey, the book, I just

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the book I just talked about in this episode. Put

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a link to the episode. Here is the book. Put

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a link to the book, or whatever the case may be.

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I think I could find some ways to utilize it.

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We will see. Look, the more tools they give you

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the better. How to utilize those tools in a way

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that actually is beneficial is always the challenge, but I'll

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for small Christian podcasters. All the things Sermonadio offers for

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the price they charge is really pretty remarkable. Because you

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have the Church one app that you can put everything

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into series. I mean, you can broadcast live everything you

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can do. It's really good. For sixty dollars a month,

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it's really I'm really happy with all the things they offer.

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But that's a new feature. I did one test on it,

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and so we'll see if I can come up with

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some other ways to utilize that. I don't know yet,

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but it's there. Go to Beta dot Sermi Beta dot,

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sermonadio dot com and then search for Theology Central and

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then you will find it. Yeah. See, I'm giving the

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announcement now just because I have to see if my

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brain is functioning properly after all the all the seizures.

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But I think I think I'm doing pretty good. I

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think I'm doing pretty good. So there we have it. Now,

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speaking of sermon audio, see anyone remember that we're in

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the middle of a sermon audio sermons two point oh

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sermon challenge, the Sermon's two point oh app, which is

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of course sermon audio app the Sermon's two point oh

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app sermon challenge. Yeah. See, this is going to be

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challenging this morning, but that's okay. I can stumble over

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all of this, but when we get to the teaching,

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I'm gonna be ready to go. What do you think

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you want to put money on it? We do? We

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do do we do some batting? Okay, no, we're not.

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I'm not promoting gambling. Okay, all right. But the point

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is we're in the middle of the Sermon's two point

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oh app sermon Challenge, and we have all realized, if

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you've been paying attention this year, that sometimes sometimes listening

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to sermons oh wow can be maddening, frustrating, discouraging, disappointing, depressing, maddening,

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possibly lead me to driving to the local liquor store.

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It can be. It can be, and I don't like

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to be so negative, but sometimes it's just like, what

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is happening? Right? You're listening to a series of sermons

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on Saw eighty three that goes like thirty one, thirty

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two to thirty three parts, and I don't know in

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those thirty three parts if they ever actually covered Saw

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eighty three. It was it was insanity, it was crazy,

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and sometimes it gets frustrating. Now, on the one hand,

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I'm still grateful we're doing the Sermon's two point zero

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apps challenge because it gives you the opportunity to hear

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what is happening in churches all across the United States

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of America and around the world. That's good. You get

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to hear different perspectives, you get to hear different hermeneutical

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approaches to the text that there's nothing but benefit that

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comes from that. And also one of the things I've

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tried to do, and sometimes the criticism I have received

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about this series, it does bother me because some of

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those people who offer the criticism obviously hasn't been listening.

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They just jumped in, offered criticism, and then ran off.

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They just did a drive by, right, But if they

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would have stuck around, I think I feel this is true.

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You can tell me if you don't think it's true.

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I feel that every single time we're listening to a

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sermon or to a series and I'm telling you to

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listen to it. If it goes really, really bad and

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my reviews become maybe more negative than I would like

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them to be, and I'm more critical, I almost inevitably

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try to then turn that around into something positive where

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I'm no longer reviewing. I'm now teaching. I moved from

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criticizing and reviewing to say, let's dig in. The most

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obvious example is how many hours have we worked on

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SSAW eighty three. Now, yes, was I critical of the

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original series? Absolutely? Was I frustrated in almost being driven

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to insanity but not understanding. Absolutely, But at some point

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I'm like, okay, enough of that. I told you to

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listen to all of them, right, I told you to

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listen to all of them. But after that, what did

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I do? Let's work on SAW eighty three. And we

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have dug in and we've looked at everything, right, and

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we still got a little ways to go. So I

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turned that negative into hopefully something positive. Well, this week

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has all been about Ephesians chapter four because of the

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twenty twenty four Salt and Light Conference, where the key,

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the key verse, the theme verse is Ephesians chapter four,

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verse five, where we read these words one Lord, one Faith,

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one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is

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above all and through all, and in you all. And

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I'm like, okay, they're going to work on Efesians four five.

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All right, I'm assuming they're going to work on Ephesians

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four five in the context of the Book of Ephesians.

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So hey, everyone go listen to all of those sermons

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and the conference, there's about thirteen that's the twenty twenty

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four Sultan Light Conference. Go go listen to all of them.

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I will review some of them, and hey, let's start

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reading Ephesians four over and over and over all week. Right,

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So I wanted to even from the outset, I tried

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to turn it into something positive. Right, That's what I

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always attempt to do. I gave some other assignments about

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salt and light, and there's a lot of things. I

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gave everyone a very important Greek word that you were

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supposed to be walking around your house and saying it

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to your husband and to your kids and to your dog. Right,

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hopefully people have been doing that. So I tried to

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find something positive in all of it. But as you

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are very aware, the sermon reviews have been absolutely frustrating,

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and you could times you've heard basically my because I'm

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sitting there going wait a minute, this is on Ephesians

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four or five. Why are we not dealing with Ephesians

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four or five? Why are we not actually dealing with

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the text? So what did I do in the midst

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of my frustration? I tried to turn it into something positive.

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I gave you the structure of Ephesians Ephesians one, two,

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and three. That's the philological exposition. Starting in chapter four,

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five and six, that's the practical exposition. The practical is

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connected to the philological. So I challenged everyone, as you

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read Ephesians four, connect it to the philological exposition in

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chapters one, two and three, again trying to do something

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positive with it right well, even and the sermons that

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we reviewed, even though they didn't really deal much with

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the text, they did keep saying over and over and

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over this section deals with unity. Unity. Are we are

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to be unified in Christ Jesus? Now? That unity to

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me comes from chapters one, two and three, because there

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is the positional unity. If you believe in Christ, and

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I believe in Christ, we are unified. We are one

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in our position. Now that positional unity, How is it

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to be seen? How is it to be made manifest

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in our practical lives? How do we maintain unity from

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that positional unity? And I talked about all the difficulties

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with unity and how we do that and what does

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that mean? And all those different things, and I raise

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lots of questions, but I was getting more and more

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frustrated by it. And in one message, if I remember correctly,

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they mentioned Ephesians chapter four, verse three, where it says

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endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the

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bond of peace, we have toavor. So this means positionally

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we don't have to do anything. I believe in Christ

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we are unified the end, but practically I have to

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endeavor to keep the unity. I have to endeavor. And

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remember that amazing Greek word. Does everyone remember that word?

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Look Ephesians four to three. Does everyone remember it?

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Oh?

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Come on, I need all of you yelling at and

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remember you're supposed to slap your hands. Remember it's this

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Greek word. Remember it's an awesome Greek word.

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Strongs g forty seven four. Spoo doodzo, spoo doodzo.

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Spoo dodzo, spoo dodso. Remember you're supposed to walk around

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spoot dodso, spoo dodjo. You're supposed to be saying it

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to your dog spoot dodzo, your kids spoo dodso, your

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husband's spood dodzo, your wife spoo dodso, your relatives spoot dodzo,

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strangers at the you know who's driving in front of you,

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spoo dodso. You're just supposed to be going around everywhere

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saying it because what is this word meaning? Well, spoo

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dodso carries the idea to use speed, to make effort,

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to be prompt, earnest, to give due diligence, to be diligent,

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to endeavor, to labor or to study, to haste, and

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to make haste, to exert oneself. Hey, spoo dodso, I

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need you to hurry up. I need you to study.

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I need you to give due diligence. I need you

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to put forth effort. I need you to make haste.

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I need you to exert oneself. Spoo dodso.

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So.

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I love this because the philological exposition says, Hey, we're

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one in Christ, and it is nothing that you do.

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In Christ. The wall that separates us is broken down.

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There's neither jewe, there's neither gentile, there's neither male, there's

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the female. Our race doesn't matter, where we're from, doesn't matter,

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nothing matters, because we are one in Christ. Because by

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putting our faith in Him his imputed righteousness to us,

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we are declared perfect righteous, holy, and we are perfectly unified.

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Now we have to endeavor, we have to spoo dodso

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to try to bring forth unity in a practical way.

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What does that look like? How does that work? Well, obviously,

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two thousand years of church history, we're yet to figure

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it out. Right, there's church splits, there's a division. Nobody

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can agree on everything there. We don't agree on baptism,

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we don't agree on the Lord's Supper, we don't agree

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on salvation. We don't agree literally on anything. So how

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can we endeavor to keep unity? Well, I made the argument. Well,

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wait a minute, let's go back to verse one. Paul says, I,

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therefore the prisoner of the Lord. Now, originally we worked

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on the word therefore. That led us to two and three.

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That's the philological exposition, therefore serves as a transition to

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the practical exposition. All right, I think we did pretty

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good covering that. I wanted to work on the word

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the prisoner or prisoner. I really wanted to work on that.

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But the prisoner of the Lord beseech you. Now we

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did talk about besiech plead beg. Come on, listen, I

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need you to do something that you walk work worthy

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of the calling with which you were called. All right,

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we were called with a sovereign call, an eternal call

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in a sense, an eternal call. We were called with

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a holy calling. However you would like to describe it.

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We could talk about that calling. But we are to

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walk worthy of it. Now this is the practical. See, Positionally,

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I'm already worthy. Positionally I'm made worthy in Christ. But

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now practically I'm to walk worthy. I'm to call to

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walk worthy. Well, how do we walk worthy? Well, he says,

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here are the attributes. Here are the things that we

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need to do if we want to walk worthy, look

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walk worthy of the calling with which you were called

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with all. Here's the elements, the attributes, the characteristics, loneliness, gentleness,

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long suffering, bearing with one another in love. Now, what

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I love about that is that typically when people say, hey,

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you are to walk worthy of the calling. Therefore you

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should not be watching right at R movies. You should

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not be listening to rap. You should not be doing this.

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You should not read Harry Potter, you should not do this.

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You should not go here, you should not do that,

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you should not wear that. You are to walk worthy. Well, none,

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the walking worthy here doesn't have anything to do with

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all these list of external rules. This talks about some

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characteristics and attributes lowliness, gentleness, with all, long suffering, bearing

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with one another in love. Now that those are the attributes,

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and then it immediately it flows in endeavoring to keep

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the unity. So my argument is, if you're in a

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conference and you're talking about unity, well then you don't

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need to go to all these other verses. We need

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to stay right here. How can I endeavor to keep

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the unity? What is the what are the Let me

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ask it this way. What are the fundamental and key

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at tributes that would be required to be in me?

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Forget anyone else to be inside of me that would

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allow me not only to walk worthy, but would lead

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to me being able to endeavor to keep the unity.

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Because I cannot endeavor to keep unity unless I work

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on these attributes. So remember I told everyone to write

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those attributes down, right, Remember do you have memorize yet? Lowliness, gentleness,

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long suffering, bearing with one another in love. I told

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you to write those down. Let me state them again. Lowliness, gentleness,

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long suffering, bearing with one another in love. Put those

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Write them on your refrigerator. Okay, put them on your refrigerator,

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hanging them up, put them all over the house. This

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if we want to walk worthy, this is the attributes

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we want to have if we want to endeavor to

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keep unity, these are the attributes we need to have.

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There cannot be any hope of unity, there can be

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no hope of walking worthy until we strive for these attributes. Loneliness, gentleness,

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long suffering, bearing with one another in love. So today,

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I know I've already spent sixteen minutes, but that's putting

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this all back together. What I want to demonstrate is

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even when I'm critical, and this is and I want

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you to learn whenever you hear a sermon and you

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can't you're frustrated, you're irritated by it, you can just

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be a critic, or you can take what was given

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to you, no matter how bad it was, and you

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can turn it into something positive. That's what I because

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people are you just criticize, No, I don't. I take

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whatever they offer. I may disagree, but then I immediately

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take it and try to turn it into something positive.

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And so that's what we're going to do. I don't

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know why they didn't cover it this way, but that's okay.

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Obviously that people can handle text anyway they want. I

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just think if you're if you're gonna deal with this section,

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and you're gonna talk about unity. Unity cannot be discussed

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without these attributes. Without these attributes, can there even be

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any hope of unity? So you're ready to look at

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the first one, Let's look at lowliness. All right, let's

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look at the only one we're going to look at

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in this this episode is lowliness. Are you ready? So

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here's what we're gonna do. First. Let's just go ahead

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and get the Greek word out of the way. Let's

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go ahead and get the Greek word out of the way.

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It's this Greek word. Oh, it's a doozy.

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Here we go, strong G fivey twelve tapai now fras

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sune tapai noa fra.

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Sune tapaienfrau rasune. Who's that's Listen to that one again?

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When that one's a big one? Okay?

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Strong G fivey twelve tapai now fras sune topaif rasune?

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Wow? What a what agreed? That's a Greek word. You

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may want to walk around the house today say top

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i enough rasune. Wow. That that one. That one is

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a mouthful.

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Right.

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It's used seven times. It's translated humility three times, humbleness

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of mine one time, humility of mine one time, lowliness

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and lowliness of mind. Now listen, here is basically it's

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a humiliation of mind, modesty, humbleness of mind, lowliness of mind. This,

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this is the outline of biblical usage to have a

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humble opinion of one's self, a deep sense of one's

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moral littleness, modesty, humility, lowliness of mind. I want you

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to hear that again. To the lowliness is where you

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and I have a humble apinion of our self and

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we have a deep sense of our own moral littleness.

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If we're going to walk worthy, if we are going

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to endeavor to keep unity, it begins by not looking

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to anyone else. It begins looking in the mirror. And

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what do you see when you see yourself? Do you

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have a humble opinion of what you see? And do

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you have a deep, deep, deep, deep sense of your

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own moral littleness? Do you understand how little you are

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in your morality, in your morals? Do you understand your

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own In other words, you see you're so deeply aware

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of your own sin, of your own failure, of your

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own shortcomings. Now, loneliness, we can obviously it's translated you

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mis at least three times. This Greek word is it's

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at least three times. So let me state it this way.

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I've stated this so many times. Humility. Being humble is

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the impossible task of being more aware of your own sin,

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of your own failure, of your own shortcomings, than you

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are of anyone else's. You. You constantly are aware of

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your failure, not everyone else's, And we live our life

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always aware. We look we this is so crazy. We

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typically only think about ourselves, right, We think about well,

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wait a minute, you you did this to me, I'm

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mad at you. You did were always it's always about us,

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us us us us us. We're selfish, self seeking, narcissistic.

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People only think about ourselves, and we never think about

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anybody else or how anything else may even hurt them.

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But when it comes to this attribute, we only think

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about everyone else. Isn't it amazing? We only think of

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ourselves when it comes to how other, how things impact me?

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How when we get mad, we're only worried about ourselves.

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When we get hurt, we only worry about We only

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worry about ourselves. We don't care about anybody else. We're selfish,

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we're self seeking. We're narcissistic. But when it comes to humility,

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see this is where we look we are. This is

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where we are focused on ourselves. But we're focused on ourselves.

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In this way, we are focused on ourself and being

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aware of our shortcomings. Our failure are our brokenness. We

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are more aware of our own moral littleness than anybody else.

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When we see someone else's failure, we are Our first

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thought is, I can't believe they did that. Our first

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thought as well, if people knew what I really felt,

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if people really knew what I really thought, if people

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really knew what I wanted to do. When it comes

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to humility, you do put the focus on yourself, but

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the focus is on your shortcomings and your failures. We

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love when when it comes to other people's failures, we

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love to point at them, condemn them, point them out,

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use them against someone, throw it in their face. We

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love to do that, but we we rarely want to

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look to ourselves and go, well, you know, instead of

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worrying about them, I probably should worry about my own actions.

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Don't worry about anybody else's actions, worry about your own.

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and you have a deep sense of your own moral littleness.

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It's it's just the way our pride works. Our pride,

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it's all. It's all about us us us us us

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us us and what. And we we get upset the

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second someone does something the way. We don't like it,

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and we want it to be done our way, and

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we want things to be our way, no matter, no

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matter what it means to anybody else. But then when

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it comes to this area, we're like, no, no, no, no,

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I'm not gonna look to my own I'm not going

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to look to my own weaknesses and my own failures

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and my own shortcomings. No, in this case, I'll look

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to everyone else. Humility is where you become more aware

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of your own shortcomings and your own failures, so that

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you have a humble opinion of yourself, that you have

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a deep, deep sense of your own moral littleness. This

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is what's required to walk worthy, and this is absolutely

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required to endeavor to maintain unity. Now, let's do a

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little bit more work on this phrase. Let's do a

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little bit more work on this So are you ready?

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All right, let's see what we can do here. All right,

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I've kind of given you the definition of the Greek word.

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I've given you the definition of the Greek word here, right, okay,

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which contains the idea of humility of mind. Let's do

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a little bit more work on this word, right, Let's

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kind of just go beyond just the Greek here the

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basic idea. Typically in the Bible, lowliness is often translated

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as humility, which we've already demonstrated. It refers to a

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modest view of one's own importance. It is an attitude

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of the heart that prioritizes others over one self and

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recognizes one's dependence upon God. So it's a humble opinion

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of one's self. It's a deep sense of one's own

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moral littleness. But here's the very thing. It prioritizes others

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over yourself. It puts others over you. You're not worried

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about what well, what about me? What about what about them?

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What about their life? Stop worrying about what you want?

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Stop worrying about what you dec do you not care

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about anybody else other than yourself? Well, our tendency is

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to only think about ourselves, because that's our name. And

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this lowliness you recognize your absolute dependence upon God. You

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understand you are dependent upon God. Look, you will never

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be good enough to please God. And of yourself. You

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realize your own failure, your inability to keep the law

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which will make you, will keep you becoming self righteous

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because you'll know that your self righteous is nothing but

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filthy rags. You won't promote your righteousness, you won't brag

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about it, you won't point to it. You're gonna when

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someone says, how do you know you're saved because of

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the righteousness of Christ imputed to me? You will not

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point to your own actions because lowliness will say, I'm

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not gonna point to my actions because I know the

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deep sense of my own moral littleness. I understand, I

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have a humble opinion of myself, and I understand my failure.

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That's that's what lowliness is. We must have that if

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we want to walk worthy, and if there's any hope.

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Can you imagine a family, a husband and wife that

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both have lowliness as an attribute. Can you prioritizing the

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other person over themselves, seeing their own failure, not getting

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not worried about someone else's failure, worried about their own.

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Can you imagine if those attributes was in a home.

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Can you imagine those attributes inside a church. Now, don't

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worry they see immediately when I say church, you're going

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to think of all the people in the church who

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needs this attribute. No, no, no, no, no, no, you don't see

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you're not worried about other people. You're worried about yourself.

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So I think I think we did a lot of

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work there in the definition of lowliness. Now, let's look

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at the biblical context. Ephesion's four to two reads and

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according to this translation, to have in front of me

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with all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, for bearing

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one another in love. In this context, lowliness in this

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context is Paul's encouraging believers to live in a manner

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worthy of their calling. Highlighting lowliness is as essential for

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maintaining unity and peace with the Body of Christ. See,

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just as I understood the text, here's a commentary that

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does the same thing. It's connected to two parts. Walk

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worthy lowliness is required, and if you're going to endeavor

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to keep unity, you need lowliness. So that biblical context

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there right, there's the Paul is encouraging hey, walk worthy

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and keep unity. What is required lowliness. Now, how do

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we obtain this lowliness? How do we obtain this lowliness? Well,

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we recognize God's sovereignty is a good place to start, right.

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We acknowledge that all that one has and is comes

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from God. This understanding leads to a humble posture before him.

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We understand God is sovereign. We are not God is

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all powerful. We are not God is holy, we are not. Oh.

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We just recognize the supremacy of God. And when we

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look to the supremacy of God, hopefully we then are

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overwhelmed with a deep sense of our own smallness, our

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own weakness, our own littleness. That's the whole concept. See

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when God says be holy as He is holy, Christians

460
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write books about how you can be holy as God

461
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is holy. No, the point is, I'm like, well, I

462
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will never be as holy as God is. I am

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broken and humbled. What can I do? I run to

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Christ and faith in His holiness is imputed in my account.

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I stand before Him holy. But practically I am reminded

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every day He is holy and I am a sinner.

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I'm a man of unclean lips, I'm a man of

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unclean hands, unclean thoughts, unclean desires, and I am broken

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and humbled by it. If I will maintain a proper

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understanding of God's sovereignty, I will then find myself in

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the right position of broken and humbled and lowly. So

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recognizing God's sovereignty being reminded of it is a step

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in the right direction. Self examination is also a good

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thing to do. If you regularly reflect on your own life,

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your own thoughts, your own actions, and light of God's holiness,

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it should lead you to recognize your own shortcomings and

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your need for God's grace. The more you examine yourself,

478
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the more you will be like, I'm a piece of trash. Okay,

479
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i am a mess. And Christians typically develop an attitude

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of self righteousness, of arrogance of it's always them, they

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They're ungodly. Look at them, look at them, them, them,

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them them them. It's never look at us. We're the problem.

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The Church always wants to blame the world for being

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so ungodly, but we somehow have it all together. We

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are just as ungodly, just maybe in a different sins,

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but we are still just as sinful. It just manifests

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itself differently because now we we cover up a lot

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of our sin with our own self righteousness. So if

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we recognize God's sovereignty, you know, then we look to ourselves.

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In fact, what should happen? The more we know I'm

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getting you know what I'm getting Ready to quote, I'm

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I'm gonna be paraphrasing Calvin's institutes. I've stated it so

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many times. It's when you truly see God as he is,

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that you will see yourself as you truly are. The

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more you look to God's perfection, the more You're perfection

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will become absolutely clear. Look, if I compare myself to you,

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I may think I'm pretty good. I may think I'm

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pretty good. I may think, you know what, well they

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do this? I didn't they I'm doing. I mean, at

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least I'm I'm at least equal, if not a little

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bit better, right, I mean, and I'm well, don't mean

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to offend you, but I'm saying I can look to

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other people and always kind of feel like I'm pretty good.

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But the minute I stop looking at people and I

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look to God, then I realize, WHOA, that's that's pretty bad. See,

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if I'm sitting in a classroom of students, if I

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look to the students who who have the worst grades.

508
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I'm a I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good, but I

509
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have a look to the people who have the perfect grades.

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Then I'm gonna feel inadequate. Look to God and then

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you'll see how inadequate you are, which will bring you

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to lowliness. So recognizing God, sovereignty and self examination will

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help you slowly begin to obtain some level of lowliness.

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It should. Now, how can we begin to grow in lowliness?

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How can we begin to grow in lowliness? Well, I

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think the way we begin to grow in lowliness is

517
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to be constantly that we constantly look to our own feelings,

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our own shortcomings, we are more aware of it, and

519
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then we endeavor every day to put others before ourselves.

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It's not easy to do, ladies and gentlemen, it's not

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easy to do. We have to just constantly look to

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God see and we just be constantly aware of our

523
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own feelings, and then we just seek to basically serve

524
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to put others before us, to put others before us,

525
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to think about others, think about their situation, think about

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their difficulty, think about their pain, think about their suffering.

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It's hard to do that because we are always preoccupied

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with self we live. Our lives are live not in

529
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a lowly way. Our lives are lived as we think. Look,

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no matter I know. As adults we should figure this out.

531
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Teenagers we don't figure this out, but as adults we should.

532
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The world doesn't revolve around us. We're not the center

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of the universe, but we live every day as we

534
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react to how things impact us. We respond to how

535
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I'm impacted. We respond to how I feel. I respond

536
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to how what I want, what I want, what I want,

537
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and then I get mad when I don't get what

538
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I want, and I get frustrated if things don't go

539
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my way. It's me, me, me, me, me, me me.

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There's nothing lowly about that. That is arrogance, that is narcissistic,

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that's prideful. Lowliness is aware of our own shortcomings. Think

542
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of it this way. Lowliness is aware of our own smallness,

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our own weakness, our own frailty, our own sinfulness. We

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have a humble opinion of ourselves. So lowliness is very

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aware of our own shortcomings. But it is very aware.

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It is more aware of the needs, pain, suffering, and

547
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hurt of others than it is of itself. On one hand, lowliness,

548
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you're more aware of your own shortcomings, your own failures.

549
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You're more aware that than you are of others. But

550
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then you are more worried. Then you're more aware of

551
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other people's paying need and suffering than you are of

552
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your own wants and your own needs. That's lowliness, that will,

553
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that's what it. See. See, isn't it easier to say

554
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walking worthy means don't read Harry Potter? Oh yeah, well, wow,

555
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look at me, I don't on you rad at our movies. Woo,

556
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I'm walking worthy. No, walking worthy is lowliness now that see,

557
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you can't you can just stop doing certain thing. Well,

558
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I don't listen to rock and roll. You didn't listen

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to it before you got saved. So don't act like

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you're doing anything great now, all right? That those are easy?

561
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Those are external things. That's what the Pharisees did. They

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love those external things. They look at us, I tithe,

563
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I do this, I do that. And they were not lowly.

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They were arrogant, self righteous, and conceited and prideful, and

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they only cared about themselves. Lowliness as mentioned in Ephesians

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four is a fundamental Christian virtue that involves a humble

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view of oneself in relation to God and others. It

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is characterized by a heart of humility that seeks to

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serve rather than be served. It reflects the attitude of Christ.

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To obtain and grow in loveliness, one must acknowledge God's

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sovereignty and engage in self examination. Cultivating loneliness is an

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ongoing process, requiring a conscious effort to live out this

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attribute daily, always looking to Jesus as the perfect model

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of humility lowliness. If you want to walk worthy, if

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you want unity, we need homes filled with individuals who

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are lowly. If we want unity in churches, we need

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individuals who are lowly. Now here's the question. There's the

578
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million dollar question. Remember there four and chapter four, verse one.

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That's the transitional word that takes us from the philological

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exposition to the practical exposition. The practical exposition is, hey, guys,

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I beseech you. I beseech you walk worthy. I look,

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I'm challenging you. Remember the English word here, endeavor to

583
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keep unity. Come on, walk worthy, endeavor to keep unity. Now,

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how is this going to be done, will you need lowliness? Now?

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Guess what this lowliness I believe should flow from. Should

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arise from a correct philological understanding. The theology of chapters one, two,

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and three are is the key knowledge that should help

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produce the lowliness. All right, if we were to look

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at chapters one, two, and three, remember here are some

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of the truths and the first three chapters that should

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lead and support the development of lowliness. For example, chapter

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one of Ephesians understanding of God's sovereign grace. Look at

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Ephesians Chapter one, Verse three. Blessed be the God and

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Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who has blessed us

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with every spiritual blessing and heavenly places in Christ. You

596
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have every spiritual blessing in Christ. But why do you

597
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have these? Why do you have all of these blessings?

598
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How did you obtain them? Verse four? Just as He

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chose us in him before the foundation of the world,

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that we should be holy and without blame before Him

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and love, having predestinated us to the adoption as sons

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by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure

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of His will, to the praise the glory of his

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grace by which he made us accepted and the beloved.

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Your salvation is because of God's sovereign will, and he

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chose you, And it says, where did he choose you

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before the foundation of the world. Look, your salvation has

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nothing to do with you. It's because of God's eternal

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choice before the foundation of the world. That should absolutely

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make you lowly. Now, for some weird reason, it is

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many of those who are reformed and are calvinistic, who

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hold to the sovereignty of God in salvation, who tend

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to become the most arrogant, condemning, self righteous jerks on

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the face of the planet. And the sovereignty of God

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should go should have an opposite effect, It should break

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you going. Whatever I am is not because of me,

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It's all because of God. You should be the most

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lowly of all because you realize your salvation is not

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because you chose, It is because God chose you. Not

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only that, listen, having predestined us to the adoption. Okay,

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look at verse seven and him we have redemption through

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his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches

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of his grace, which he made a bound towards us.

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In all wisdom. We have redemption through his blood. You

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should have lowliness because someone died to redeem you. You

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could not redeem yourself. Someone literally had to shed their blood,

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and that someone was the eternal Son of God, had

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to shed his blood for you. If that does not

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break you and humble you, I don't know what can now.

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You can go through here and find the rest. But

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then we could jump to this. We all know this verse.

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We quote it all the time, right. We quote it

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for by grace you have been saved through faith, and

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that is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God,

635
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not of works. Lest anyone should boast. Your salvation has

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zero to do with what you do. Your salvation is

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not proven by what you do. Your salvation is proven.

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Your salvation is obtained. Your salvation is preserved by the

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works of Christ, which is given is imputed to you

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by faith alone, not by works that should bring lowliness

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of mind. I want you to go through today Ephesians one,

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two and three and find everything that should bring lowliness

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of mind to pass. We want unity, we need lowliness.

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Do you want to walk worthy? We need lowliness. What

645
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is lowliness? Well, it's to see yourself. It's to have

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a humble opinion of one's self. It is to have

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a deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep deep sense

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of one your own moral littleness. It is to put

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others before you. You are more aware of others. Here's

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the thing, lowliness. You are painfully aware of your own

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shortcomings and failures, far more than you are of anyone

652
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else's shortcomings or failures. Do you see your husband's failures

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before you see your own? Do you see other people's

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failures before your own? Are you worried about their failures?

655
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Are you worried about your own? You shouldn't even worry

656
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about anybody else's failures. You should be so consumed by

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your own. And then are you more aware and consumed

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by other people's situations and their needs and their pain

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and their stuff? Are you just worried about what you

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want and you getting what you want? No loneliness, no

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walking worthy, no loneliness, There will be no unity. Now

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I can honestly say that I have grown. I do

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feel like I have grown in this area. I do

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feel like I have some I can honestly say that

665
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the majority of my Christian life I didn't have loneliness.

666
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I had self righteous arrogance. I think over time, becoming

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more aware of my own failures, my own shortcomings, my

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own depraved desires and wants, my own depraved needs, all

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the things inside of me, becoming more and more painfully

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aware of that. Slowly but surely, you begin to break,

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and you begin to realize I'm maintaining a facade. I

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think I was good at cleaning the tomb. I think

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I was good at washing the outside of the cup.

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I'm still selfish. I still think about myself more than others.

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I think I am. I do feel like I have

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a deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep sense of my

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own moral littleness. I don't think anyone needs to tell

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me that. I'm very aware of it. Pesians four is great,

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But if we want to walk worthy and we want

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the unity that's being spoken of, unity is not just hey, guys,

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there's one faith, there's one Lord, there's one baptism. Hey,

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let's just focus on no no no no no no

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no no that one all of that, one faith, one baptism,

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and none of that matters. If we don't have the

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right attributes going into it. There's too many people who

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walk around it and can say one faith, one Lord,

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one baptism and say it so, and then we fight

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for what that who, that one God is, that what

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that one faith is, what that one baptism is? Wait,

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but listen, we got to enter into that discussion from

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the position of first lowliness. Now, there's other attributes there.

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We just looked at lowliness. That's all. We've spent forty

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five minutes looking at lowliness. The next one is gentleness,

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but it starts with lowliness. No, here's what I want

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you to do. I want you to figure out all

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the things in chapters one, two, and three that should

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lead you to being lowly in mind, having lowliness. But

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here's what I want you to do. I want you

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to think of three things you can do between now

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and Monday where you can demonstrate you can put into

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practice the attribute of lowliness in a practical way. What

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can you do with your kids or your husband? What

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can you do with people you know? What can you

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do to show true lowliness? Now, some of the things

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you can do, like nobody else may be able to see, right,

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and maybe just like this for the next three days,

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I'm not going to worry about anybody else's failures, anybody

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else's shortcomings. I'm not going to criticize anyone else. I'm

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not going to complain about anyone else. I'm just going

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to simply remind myself of my own failure and my

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own moral littleness. I'm not going to gossip. I'm not

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going to slander. I'm not gonna talk about people. I'm

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not gonna condemn people. I'm gonna keep my self righteous,

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arrogant opinions to myself. That's a good place to start. Two,

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I'm gonna try to focus on other people's needs and

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not my own. Three. When things don't go my way,

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I'm not gonna immediately react and get upset and be

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petty and act like a kid. Now it's easy for

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me to tell you to do those things. I'm probably

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gonna walk away from this going, well, all right, who's

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going to serve me today? Who's going to take care

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of me today? That's what I'm gonna leave here, going,

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come on, now, come on, I've got wants and needs.

724
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Who's gonna care about me? All right? It's easy to

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feel that that's where you fall into some self pity

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now lowliness. Also, we do need to acknowledge lowliness being

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becoming aware of your own shortcomings and your own ken

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You've got to make sure we maintain a right balance there,

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because you can also become so discouraged and depressed and

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almost hate yourself. We do have to maintain a right

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perspective here. Remember, no matter how lowly I am, see

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this is the way it's work. The more aware I

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am of my shortcomings and my moral failures, the more

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I am broken over my lowliness. I don't make my identity. Listen,

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my identity does not come from my lowliness. My lowliness

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drives me to Christ, and my identity is found and

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what I am in Christ Jesus. But I am to

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be reminded that what I am in Christ Jesus is

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true positionally, It's not true practically. See when I tell

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people I'm a new creature in Christ, the oldest gone,

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and all is new, I know that has nothing to

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do with my practical life, because I know that's not true.

743
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I know that that's true positionally. So I am broken

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and almost depressed with lowliness of mind. But I run

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to Christ and find out what I am positionally, That's

746
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where I find my comfort. That's where I find hope,

747
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not in what I am, but what I am in

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my position, not what I am practically. Lowliness should drive

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you deeper to find that peace and comfort in Christ,

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not to try to pretend to be something that we're

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not practically, because that doesn't who are we. Foolly doesn't

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require more fig leaves, more robes of self righteousness, requires

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just being what I am practically is a mess. What

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I am positionally I find peace and comfort in. But

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your positional reality should not lead you to become arrogant.

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It should maintain your lowliness because you realize you only

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have that positional reality because of what Christ has done,

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not because of what you do or even what you are.

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All right, forty nine minutes. I hope that all made sense.

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I think the I think I could have outlined it

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a little better. Kind of I went straight to the

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Greek word. What I should have said is, hey, let's

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start with the definition, and now let's begin with the great.

764
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I kind of I said, let's go to the Greek word.

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Then I said, let's define it. I kind of already define,

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so I kind of messed up my outline a little bit.

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I do apologize. So if I if I out if

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I outlined it this way, if I outlined it a

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correct way, what I should have done is like, here's

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the definition of lowliness. Then we go to the Greek word.

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Then we look at the biblical context. I did that.

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Then we look at how to obtain it, which we did,

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how to grow in it, which we did, and then

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how does it relate to Ephesians Chapters one, two, and three.

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That was kind of the outline I was going with,

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but I jumped the gun and went directly to the

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Greek word instead of saying, okay, number one, let's define

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it first by going to the Greek word. I apologize

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there for messing that up. All right. I feel like

780
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I need to say something profound here, but I don't

781
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have anything profound to say. So I've given you a

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lot to think about. Convicting stuff is all I know. Man,

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Just I don't know. I can't imagine what life would

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be with a bunch of people who truly have this

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attribute of lowliness. What would a church look like, what

786
00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:30.519
would a family look like? What would it really look like?

787
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What would it sound like now. The reality is will

788
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never probably ever truly experience it. All we can do

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is pursue it. Thank goodness, we have everything is taken

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care of care, Everything is taken care for us by

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Christ because man. But we can still strive, all right.

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