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4:05Mhm.
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18:04>> Good morning. Welcome. Welcome to
18:05Shoreline Church. So good to see you. So
18:08good to have you this morning in the
18:10house of the Lord.
18:11Just a verse to open up with. Psalm
18:1395:1-2 says, "Come, let us praise the
18:16Lord. Let us sing for joy to God who
18:19protects us. Let us come before him with
18:22Thanksgiving and sing joyful songs of
18:25praise.
18:26Let me pray. Father God, thanks for your
18:28many blessings. Thanks for a chance to
18:30be here this morning in your house. Help
18:33us just to put away any thoughts or
18:35distracting thoughts or feelings. Help
18:37us just to really be able to focus on
18:39you. Clear the space to be open to what
18:41you might have to say.
18:43Please use this service in a mighty way
18:45for your kingdom. Uh thanks for your
18:47many blessings. Most of all, Christ's
18:48death on the cross for our sins. In
18:50Jesus' name, amen.
18:52Let's stand worship together.
18:59>> [music]
19:03>> How faithful the Father above. [music]
19:08How wondrous the work of [singing] the
19:11Son.
19:13How sweet is the Spirit given to us.
19:18[singing and music] How great
19:19the greatness of God.
19:29>> [music]
19:31>> Morning by morning with every dawn,
19:35my soul
19:36with
19:37>> [music]
19:37>> a new song [singing] waits.
19:41Even and
19:42evening, my praise goes on.
19:45Forever, [music and singing]
19:46my God is
19:48the same.
19:50How faithful
19:52the Father above. [music and singing]
19:55How wondrous the work of the Son.
19:59>> [music]
20:00>> How sweet is
20:02the Spirit
20:02>> [singing]
20:03>> given to us. How
20:05>> [music]
20:05>> great
20:07the greatness [singing] of God.
20:17My [music] heart [singing]
20:19gazes on Calvary. Calvary.
20:22>> [music]
20:22>> The
20:24love mercy's great.
20:27Oh, that my savior would die
20:30>> [music and singing]
20:31>> for me.
20:32I sing out
20:34with infinite thanks.
20:37How faithful
20:37>> [music]
20:38>> the Father [singing]
20:39above.
20:42How [music] wondrous
20:43the work
20:44of the Son.
20:47How sweet
20:48the Spirit
20:49>> [singing and music]
20:50>> given
20:51to
20:52us. How great
20:54is the greatness of [music] God.
21:02>> [music]
21:04>> Oh, what
21:05a comfort [singing and music] in every
21:08trial. His presence is all that I need.
21:14Power in the
21:16>> [music]
21:16>> resurrection [singing]
21:19life. That power
21:21is
21:21living
21:22>> [music]
21:22>> in me.
21:24Oh, that power [singing]
21:26is living
21:27in me.
21:29>> [music]
21:31>> How faithful
21:33the Father [singing and music] above.
21:36How wondrous the work of [singing] the
21:39Son.
21:41How sweet is the Spirit
21:44>> [music]
21:45>> given to us. How
21:46>> [singing]
21:47>> great is the greatness
21:49of God.
21:50>> Sing that again. [music]
21:51>> How faithful
21:53the Father [singing] above.
21:56How [music] wondrous
21:58the work
21:59of the Son.
21:59>> [singing]
22:01>> How [music] sweet
22:02is the Spirit
22:04given
22:05to us. How
22:06great [music and singing] is the
22:07greatness
22:09of God.
22:10>> Oh, [music] how great is
22:13>> the greatness
22:14of God.
22:16>> Oh, how great is
22:18>> the greatness [music and singing]
22:20of
22:20God.
22:48>> [music]
22:54[music]
22:54>> We say
22:56All creatures of
22:59>> [music and singing]
22:59>> our God and King
23:03Lift up
23:05your voice and with [music] us [singing]
23:06sing
23:09O praise Him
23:12>> [music]
23:12>> Hallelujah [singing]
23:16Thou burning sun with golden
23:19[music and singing] beam
23:23Thou silver moon with softer
23:25[music and singing]
23:26gleam
23:28O praise
23:30Him
23:32O praise [singing and music]
23:33Him
23:35Hallelujah
23:38Hallelujah
23:41Hallelujah [music and singing]
23:46>> [music]
23:54[music]
23:56>> Let
23:58all things [singing] their Creator bless
24:03And worship [music] Him
24:05>> [singing]
24:05>> in humbleness
24:08O [music] praise
24:10Him
24:12Hallelujah
24:14>> [music and singing]
24:16>> Praise, praise the Father, praise the
24:19Son [music and singing]
24:22And praise the Spirit
24:25three in one
24:27>> [music]
24:28>> O [singing] praise
24:29Him
24:34>> [music]
24:34>> Hallelujah.
24:35>> [singing]
24:37>> Hallelujah.
24:39>> [singing]
24:40>> Hallelujah. [music]
24:49>> [music]
24:49>> All [singing] the
24:50redeemed washed by his blood.
24:55Come
24:57and rejoice in his great love.
24:59>> [singing]
25:00[music]
25:01>> All praise him.
25:04Hallelujah. [singing]
25:08Christ [music] has defeated every sin.
25:11[singing]
25:14Cast all your [music] burdens [singing]
25:17now on him.
25:20All praise him.
25:22>> [music]
25:23>> All praise him.
25:26Hallelujah.
25:27>> [singing and music]
25:27>> Hallelujah.
25:33Hallelujah.
25:34>> [singing]
25:34[music]
25:40[music]
25:41>> He shall return [singing]
25:43in power to reign.
25:47Heaven [singing] and earth will join to
25:51say,
25:53All praise him.
25:54>> [music and singing]
25:56>> Hallelujah.
26:00Head will bow and knees shall fall
26:02[music and singing] on them and me.
26:06All [music and singing] creatures of our
26:09God and King.
26:12All [singing] praise him.
26:15All praise him.
26:16>> [music]
26:18>> Hallelujah.
26:21Hallelujah.
26:22>> [singing]
26:24[music]
26:24>> All praise him.
26:28All [singing] praise him.
26:31>> [music]
26:31>> Hallelujah.
26:36>> [singing]
26:44>> Well, let's continue to worship by
26:46reading from the catechism together.
26:48What else does Christ death redeem?
26:52Christ death is the beginning of the
26:54redemption and renewal of every part of
26:58fallen creation.
27:00As he powerfully directs all things for
27:04his own glory and creations good.
27:08For in him all the fullness of God was
27:11pleased to dwell
27:13and through him to reconcile to himself
27:17all things whether on earth or in heaven
27:21making peace by the blood of his cross.
27:25Amen, you may be seated.
27:32Well, welcome again. My name is Brian
27:34Walls. Blessed to serve as one of the
27:36elders here at Shoreline.
27:38Um
27:40Yeah, no big announcements this morning
27:42in terms of the life of the church. We
27:43would just commend you the Friday
27:45e-letter or the website are great
27:47sources of information of all that's
27:49going on at the church.
27:50>> [snorts]
27:51>> Um
27:52With that, I'd like to move to corporate
27:54prayer if that's okay and uh if you'd be
27:57so kind as to join me.
27:59Father God, thanks that 1 Thessalonians
28:015 talks about rejoice always, pray
28:04continually, give thanks in all
28:06circumstances for this is God's will for
28:09you in Christ Jesus. Lord, we do that
28:11now. We lift up all matters to you.
28:14Thanks Lord that you created this um
28:17incredible place called earth, a place
28:19that is way too incredible to say that
28:22it's randomly thrown together. Thanks
28:24that you are our loving creator. Help us
28:26to have a relationship with you. Thanks
28:28that you didn't just give up on humanity
28:30and it's perpetual sin but made a path
28:33back to you through the atoning death of
28:35our son Jesus Christ, your son Jesus
28:37Christ. Thanks that we don't have to
28:39rely on our good works and thoughts
28:41since even one bad thought or deed would
28:43keep us out of a perfect heaven.
28:45Thanks that you don't just provide
28:47salvation in the next lifetime through
28:49Christ, but peace, purpose, and meaning
28:51in this lifetime.
28:53Thanks that you provide your word,
28:55scripture as a guide book to get through
28:57this life and the ability to communicate
28:59to you at any time through prayer.
29:02Thanks that you provide the Holy Spirit
29:04as a guide and power source to get us to
29:07give us the strength to represent you
29:08well down here.
29:11We are sorry, Lord, at times we don't
29:13follow you well. We apologize for the
29:15times we commit sin by not only by our
29:18actions, not only by our actions, but
29:20our thoughts. We are also sorry for
29:22whatever sins we commit by omission or
29:25not doing what we should. Help us to
29:27have a short account and come to you
29:29daily for confession so that we can be
29:31better and better disciples for you each
29:33and every day.
29:35Thanks for the chance to assemble today
29:37and
29:38to worship in a country in which we're
29:40blessed
29:41with many freedoms. Thanks for those
29:43that sacrificed for those freedoms.
29:46Thanks for the good start of the school
29:47year with children's ministry, youth
29:49ministry, community groups, Bible
29:50studies, and other ministries. Please
29:52use them all to help people grow in
29:55their relationship with you and others.
29:57Thanks for when we've been able to love
29:59on others inside the four walls of this
30:01church or outside of it. Thanks for when
30:03we've been able to shine out the light
30:05of Christ well. Help us to do more of
30:07that.
30:09Father God, we lift up those that might
30:10have barely made it in today because of
30:12physical, mental, emotional, or
30:14spiritual challenges. May they receive
30:16healing words from you today and
30:18encouragement about how much you love
30:20them.
30:21We also lift up churches and ministries
30:23here in the states that proclaim your
30:25word and the message of Christ well. We
30:27also lift up missionaries and outreaches
30:29worldwide like in Serbia, India, and
30:31Bolivia. Bless them. Use them.
30:35Thanks again, Lord, for your many, many
30:37blessings. Thanks most of and the chance
30:39to be here this morning, but we thanks
30:41most of all for Christ's atoning death
30:43on the cross for our sins. In Jesus'
30:45name. Amen.
30:47>> Let's stand as we continue to worship.
31:05>> I love you, Lord.
31:09All your mercy [music] never fails me.
31:14And all my days,
31:17I've been held in your hands.
31:21From the moment that I wake up
31:25till I lay my head, [music and singing]
31:29I will sing
31:31of the goodness of God.
31:35>> Sing that again.
31:36>> I love you, Lord.
31:41All your
31:42mercy never [singing and music] fails
31:44me.
31:46And all my days,
31:48I've been held in [singing and music]
31:50your hands.
31:53From the moment that I wake up
31:57till I lay [music and singing]
31:58my head,
32:00I will sing
32:02of the goodness of God.
32:03>> [music]
32:09>> All my
32:11life, you have [singing] been faithful.
32:12[music]
32:16And all my life, you have
32:18[music and singing] been so,
32:20so good.
32:24>> [music]
32:24>> With every breath that I am
32:27able,
32:29I will sing
32:31of the goodness
32:33>> [music]
32:34>> of God.
32:34>> [singing]
32:36>> I love your [music] voice.
32:41You have led me through the fire
32:45and darkest night. [music]
32:48You are close [singing] like no other.
32:51>> [music]
32:53>> I've known you as [singing] a father.
32:56I've [music] known you as a friend.
32:58>> [singing]
33:00>> And I have lived
33:02in the goodness
33:03>> [music and singing]
33:04>> of God.
33:06Oh.
33:09All my [music and singing] life, you
33:11have been faithful.
33:15>> [music]
33:16>> And all my life, [singing]
33:18you have been so
33:20so good.
33:23With every breath that [singing] I am
33:26[music] able,
33:29I will sing
33:31of the goodness
33:32>> [music and singing]
33:33>> of God.
33:34>> All my life.
33:38>> All my life, [singing and music]
33:39you have been faithful.
33:45All my life, you [singing and music]
33:47have been so
33:49so good.
33:52With every [music] breath [singing]
33:54that I am
33:57Oh, I [singing] will sing
34:00of the goodness
34:01>> [music]
34:02>> of God.
34:06>> Great
34:07>> [music and singing]
34:08>> is thy
34:09faithfulness.
34:11Great
34:15is thy faithfulness.
34:17>> [music]
34:17>> Morning [singing]
34:20by morning,
34:22new
34:22>> [music]
34:23[singing]
34:24>> mercies
34:26I see.
34:28All
34:29>> [music and singing]
34:30>> I have
34:33needed
34:36thy hand
34:36has provided.
34:39Great
34:41>> [singing and music]
34:41>> is thy faithfulness,
34:47>> [singing]
34:47>> Lord, unto
35:09>> My soul [music] finds rest in God alone,
35:14my rock, [singing]
35:15my salvation,
35:19a fortress [music]
35:20strong [singing] against my foes,
35:23and I will
35:25not be shaken.
35:28Though lips may [music] bless and
35:30[singing] hearts may curse,
35:32and lies like arrows pierce me,
35:35>> [music]
35:37>> I'll fix my
35:39on righteousness.
35:41I'll look
35:42>> [music]
35:43>> to Him who
35:43heals me.
35:47Oh, praise Him,
35:48>> [singing]
35:49>> hallelujah.
35:51>> [music]
35:52>> My delight
35:53>> [singing]
35:53>> and my
35:54freedom,
35:57everlasting,
35:58>> [singing and music]
36:00>> never failing,
36:03I
36:03>> [singing]
36:03>> redeem
36:06my God.
36:16Find [music] rest, my
36:17>> [singing]
36:17>> soul, in God alone
36:20amid
36:21>> [music]
36:22>> the world's temptations.
36:25When evil seeks to take a
36:28>> [singing and music]
36:28>> hold,
36:29I'll cling to my salvation.
36:34>> [music]
36:34>> Though
36:34>> [singing]
36:34>> riches come and riches go,
36:38don't set your
36:40>> [singing and music]
36:40>> heart upon them. on them.
36:43The fields
36:45hope in which
36:46I [music and singing] sow
36:48are harvested
36:50in them.
36:53Oh,
36:54praise him. Hallelujah.
36:55>> [singing]
36:56[music]
36:58>> My delight and [singing] my
37:02reward.
37:04Everlasting,
37:06never failing,
37:08>> [singing and music]
37:09>> my redeemer, my God.
37:22I'll set [singing] my [music] gaze on
37:25God alone
37:27and trust [singing]
37:28in him completely.
37:30>> [music]
37:32>> With every take of
37:34my soul, [singing and music]
37:36that he
37:37will prove his
37:38mercy.
37:41For
37:42life is but
37:43a fleeting [singing]
37:44breath,
37:45a sight to [music] greet to measure.
37:50My king [singing] has crushed the curse
37:53of [music] death,
37:54and I
37:56am his forever.
37:58>> [music]
37:59>> Oh,
38:00praise [singing] him.
38:02Hallelujah.
38:04>> [music]
38:05>> My delight and my
38:07>> [singing]
38:08>> reward.
38:10>> [music]
38:10>> Everlasting,
38:13[singing] never failing,
38:16my redeemer,
38:18>> [singing and music]
38:19>> my God.
38:24Oh, praise [music]
38:25him.
38:26Oh, praise [singing]
38:28him.
38:29Hallelujah.
38:31Hallelujah.
38:34Oh, praise [singing and music] him.
38:37Oh, praise him.
38:39Hallelujah.
38:41>> [music]
38:42[singing]
38:42>> Hallelujah.
38:44Oh, praise him.
38:47>> [music and singing]
38:47>> Oh, praise him.
38:50Hallelujah.
38:55>> [music]
38:55>> Oh,
38:56praise him. [singing]
38:58Hallelujah.
39:00>> [music]
39:00>> My delight and my reward.
39:04>> [singing]
39:05>> Everlasting,
39:08never failing.
39:11My redeemer, [singing and music]
39:15my God.
39:29>> Scripture reading this morning is found
39:30in Romans chapter 12
39:33beginning at verse 3 through verse 8.
39:37Paul writes, "For by the grace given to
39:39me, I say to everyone among you
39:42not to think of himself more highly than
39:44he ought to think,
39:46but to think with sober judgment
39:47according to the measure of faith that
39:49God has assigned.
39:51For as in one body we have many members
39:53and the members do not all have the same
39:56function.
39:57So we, though many, are one body in
40:00Christ
40:01and individually members of one another
40:04having gifts that differ according to
40:06the grace given to us,
40:08let us use them.
40:09If prophecy, in proportion to our faith.
40:12If service, in our serving.
40:14The one who teaches, in his teaching.
40:17The one who exhorts, in his exhortation.
40:19The one who contributes, in generosity.
40:22The one who leads, with zeal.
40:25The one who does acts of mercy,
40:27with cheerfulness.
40:29Amen. You may be seated.
40:33Well, if you are following along, I
40:35think it's a great idea to
40:37pull up in your Bible, turn to
40:41Romans chapter 12 verses 3 through 8. If
40:45you are thinking
40:47or haven't necessarily been here through
40:50the series or I'll just zoom us out just
40:53for a bit
40:54in the sense that um
40:56we're dropping into this but not like a
40:58parachute but we're moving on through
41:00the next part of Romans here. If you
41:02think about
41:04Romans in the sense of where we've been
41:07really I I think
41:10really one through chapter one through
41:11eleven up to about verse thirty-two
41:14really is an explanation of salvation
41:16not only the way God accomplished it but
41:18then really the application of it in
41:21terms of people from a Jewish background
41:23and then a non-Jewish background. So if
41:25you if you think about this in terms of
41:27just looking at it like a map you know
41:29you start to zoom out to the whole
41:32and you know you think you're when
41:33you're looking at a map on your phone
41:34you
41:35pull it out you know that's really what
41:37we're doing here in in the sense of
41:39thinking about chapter one through
41:40eleven okay that's salvation. But then
41:43it really after that there's
41:45responsiveness to it. It's like okay if
41:48you've come to believe
41:50how does that marker change your life?
41:52And this is what Paul starts to get into
41:53with the Romans as they're trying to
41:55figure out how to get along together.
41:57There's going to be behavioral things
41:59characteristics that should mark the
42:00person who's a believer.
42:02And I think through the end of chapter
42:04eleven up through the entirety of
42:05chapter twelve there's really four
42:07marks.
42:08We looked at this a couple weeks ago and
42:11the first mark really being worship.
42:13If you think about what Paul talked
42:15about in in salvation and one of the
42:17things that he says is you know all the
42:19riches and the just the glory of God as
42:21he contemplated God's wisdom and how he
42:23accomplished salvation.
42:26Doxology and praise is is the the first
42:29and best response I think to
42:32theology and our reflection upon how God
42:35has saved us. And so he does that right
42:37at the end of the chapter he's just
42:38contemplating all of this in terms of
42:39God's wisdom and his his mind is blown
42:42but theology really really coming
42:45praise coming after theology I think
42:47makes the complete sense as he's
42:49unfolded it here. The second little mark
42:51then is I sacrifice, which we looked at
42:53last week. The sacrifice of ourselves in
42:55the sense of a being a living sacrifice,
42:58we basically say, "Okay, Lord, I've come
43:00to believe and now your my life belongs
43:03to you."
43:04And he starts to help us understand what
43:05that means. Don't be conformed to the
43:07pattern of this world,
43:09but be transformed by the renewing of
43:10your mind. And the idea of how our
43:12thought process is going to become part
43:16of that renewal, transformative thing
43:19that God is doing in our lives as we
43:21become Christians. So, the second piece
43:23then, if you think about sacrifice, the
43:24third piece then is is what's here this
43:27morning and humility. The way you think
43:29about yourself as you're getting along
43:31within a group of people. There was a
43:33problem happening in the church of Rome
43:35between these two
43:37rival groups, if I could put it that
43:39way, between
43:40non-Jewish people and Jewish people who
43:42had come together in a church and they
43:44were trying to figure out how to get
43:46along as a church being one in Christ
43:49yet having their differences.
43:51And there was a lot of tension that
43:52there that was born up in that. Paul's
43:55saying, "You are believers now.
43:57You are worshipers. You are giving your
43:59body as a living sacrifice. And now the
44:01way you think of yourself is going to
44:03have a a massive effect on how you get
44:06along." The last piece is love. We're
44:08going to look at that in a little bit a
44:09little bit later next couple weeks, but
44:11humility is where we're where we're
44:13going to start here and I think really
44:15the the passage explains his thought
44:18process
44:20power of the Holy Spirit of what
44:21humility means in both a negatively and
44:23a positive way. So, if you think about
44:25humility in the negative way, do not
44:26think more highly of yourself than you
44:28ought.
44:29Okay, so do not. Do not. Don't think of
44:31yourself this way. Don't think of
44:33yourself more highly. Okay, negative
44:35way.
44:36Positive way,
44:38exercise sober judgment as you think of
44:41yourself. Exercise sober judgment in the
44:43way you think of yourself.
44:45So, if you're thinking about, "Okay, how
44:47how is it that I am supposed to get
44:50along as a humble person inside of a
44:52church, inside of where I live, with the
44:53people that I move among.
44:56Well, thinking of yourself with sober
44:58judgment really accordingly in two ways.
45:01First of all, through through grace
45:04and secondly through your gifts.
45:06First through grace, then your gifts.
45:07And you see that in the passage. If you
45:09think soberly about yourself, think
45:11along the tracks of both grace and
45:13gifts.
45:14This is the way toward humility, a way
45:16toward the exercise of it within a group
45:19of people. And if a group of people
45:21coming together are humbled by what God
45:24has done in their lives,
45:26humbled around each other
45:28by the power of the Holy Spirit, they
45:29have a fighting chance of getting along.
45:32And we're all humans.
45:33And we all fight these temptations as it
45:35relates to pride.
45:37And I think Paul knows how pride can rip
45:39uh a fellowship apart. I think we all
45:41know it, frankly.
45:43If you've been around an organization
45:44long enough, a church in your life long
45:46enough,
45:48in a family,
45:49whatever it might be,
45:51you can see how uh pride can act like a
45:53spiritual cancer
45:54and can completely destroy things, just
45:56rip things apart.
45:58Same thing happens in a church.
46:00And so Paul's helping them to understand
46:02that humility is going to be one of the
46:04key marks
46:05as it relates to the way the people get
46:06along together, the way you think about
46:08yourself.
46:10Think is is mentioned four different
46:11times here in the span of one verse.
46:15So, if you think about if you think
46:16about think,
46:18if you think about thinking,
46:19the way you thinking about yourself has
46:21a lot to do with your humble approach.
46:23And so again, grace and and gifts are
46:26the tracks that he's going to move along
46:29today.
46:30The way you think about yourself in
46:31sober judgment. So, first of all,
46:32humility is really thinking about
46:33yourself
46:35as it relates to putting on
46:36grace-colored lenses. That's the way I'm
46:38thinking about it here. Grace-colored
46:40lenses.
46:42And so,
46:43the starting point of self-evaluation
46:45every day is God's grace.
46:48The humble people I have hung around,
46:50couple of them I think of specifically,
46:52as I was thinking about it this week,
46:54they have a way of peppering their
46:55speech with grace.
46:58They say they say things, "Well, by
46:59God's grace I was able to do that." And
47:02then and it's
47:03I could tell it's not put on. It's not
47:04preachy. You know, "Oh, by God's grace."
47:08No, it's not that.
47:10They just say, you know, "By God's grace
47:12I was able to do that."
47:14And it's it's like a normal part of
47:15their the way they evaluate themselves.
47:19That the the the favor they receive from
47:21God
47:23came through in a situation they knew
47:25they could have not ever orchestrated.
47:28Grace.
47:30Grace just it just it comes out of their
47:32mouth.
47:33And again, it doesn't feel put on. It It
47:35feels It feels very normal.
47:37Because there's been, I think, a
47:38rehearsal of grace in their private
47:41life.
47:43Because they realize that every every
47:44good and perfect gift has come from a
47:46gracious God.
47:48So, grace here is is the lens by which
47:51we start to work through our day.
47:54I I think of it like a
47:57I called it a grace complex.
47:59Not an inferiority complex.
48:02Some people might think, "Oh, here
48:03humility. That means you have to be down
48:06on yourself.
48:07You've got to think less of yourself.
48:09You know, you've got to tell people all
48:11your faults right away." No.
48:14He says, "Don't think more highly than
48:16you ought of yourself."
48:19But that that doesn't That doesn't mean
48:20you don't think of yourself ever.
48:23Of course you do.
48:25Look at how lovely you all look today,
48:27right?
48:28You got up. You put some nice clothes
48:31on, you know.
48:32Most people's hair is done right and
48:34well.
48:35You know, I'm looking out here. Say 90%
48:38No, I'm just kidding. Uh
48:40I don't you know, you think of yourself.
48:42Of course you do. We all do.
48:45You know, so
48:46humility isn't developing a kind of
48:48inferiority complex where you you just
48:50be down on yourself all the time.
48:52He says, "Think of yourself, just not
48:54too highly than you ought."
48:56The constant issue that we have
48:59is pride creeping in.
49:02Now, one writer put it this way,
49:03"Humility is not thinking less of
49:04yourself, but thinking of yourself
49:06less."
49:08Humility isn't thinking less of
49:09yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
49:12Now, that
49:14that starts to help me understand, you
49:15know, the thought process can be all
49:18about me.
49:20And that's where the problem comes.
49:23And so, in humility here, not thinking
49:25more highly than you ought,
49:28a more of an increase of him and a
49:30decrease of us,
49:32while standing in front of the mirror,
49:34of course.
49:36And I I've heard someone long time ago
49:39in a
49:41preaching seminar, but I think this is
49:43universal.
49:45But in this preaching seminar, there was
49:46advice that was given to young preachers
49:48to be yourself, but forget yourself.
49:52Be yourself, but forget yourself. I
49:53thought, "Well, that works beyond
49:54preaching."
49:56Be yourself, but forget yourself. It
49:58works in where you work. It works around
50:00your home.
50:02There's There's a sense in which you've
50:03been created in God's image with a
50:05personality, likes, dislikes,
50:08the way you operate.
50:11It's all perfectly legitimate.
50:13But it's not all of who you are.
50:16Even primarily who you are.
50:20Since you're one in Christ,
50:24he must increase, I must decrease.
50:27But I'm still standing in front of a
50:28mirror every day.
50:30Success, I don't think is the enemy of
50:32humility, and neither is hard work or
50:35even material blessings.
50:38I think the enemy of humility
50:40is that overriding sense sense of
50:42competition in everything that fuels
50:44pride. I
50:45like to think of it I I call it like
50:47pride is living in the ER,
50:49not in the sense of the hospital ER,
50:52but putting ER at the end of things.
50:55It's not about being smart, but being
50:57smarter.
50:59It's not about wealth, it's being
51:01wealthier.
51:04It's not about how you look, it's being
51:06better
51:08looking
51:09than the next person. It's this constant
51:11sense
51:12of competition
51:14that fuels pride
51:16and gets you looking side by side
51:19in comparison evaluating your life
51:23amongst everybody else.
51:25And the sense in which you think you're
51:27doing better really comes as a result
51:31of the way you're looking at other
51:32people and and and
51:35the the standard that you think exists
51:38that you must be superior to.
51:41It's a sense of competition
51:43in everything.
51:46And I think it invades all of us,
51:48infects all of us to a certain point. I
51:51think what Paul's helping us do here is
51:52to think it through and root it out. We
51:55all have different struggles in these
51:57areas. It's not that we don't.
52:00And he says faith is the standard. Faith
52:02is the standard in verse three here.
52:05He says
52:06um again toward the end, but to think
52:09with sober judgment each according to
52:11the measure of faith that God has
52:14assigned.
52:16So, faith is the measure.
52:18The standard by which I evaluate myself
52:22each day.
52:24And again, if you think about it even
52:25with the definite article in front of
52:26it, the faith. That is the body of
52:29received revelation God has given.
52:32As I understand I'm made in God's image,
52:34that Christ has rescued me.
52:36That I'm a product of grace.
52:39I can be a vessel of grace.
52:41And my faith responsiveness is something
52:43that um I am responsible for each day.
52:46My faith, that is the standard.
52:49Now, some people read, you know, a verse
52:50like this and they say, "Oh, according
52:52to the measure of faith apportioned."
52:55Well, I guess that must mean maybe cuz
52:57I'm struggling I I only got a little.
53:00And someone over there got a lot. And I
53:02started to think about this this week,
53:04you know, some people think about it
53:05like this.
53:07You know, poor me, I just got this
53:09little glass.
53:10I I I must not be doing very well in my
53:12faith, but I see the person over there
53:14and and they got a big gulp.
53:16And but that's the way God must be
53:18moving.
53:20You know,
53:21Darren got a big gulp.
53:23And poor me, I just
53:25I got a modified shot glass.
53:28And that that must be it for my life.
53:31I guess I'm not going anywhere.
53:33And I I don't read that verse that way
53:35at all.
53:36I think God has given us gifts in terms
53:38of grace. He's given us gifts that we're
53:40going to look at in just a minute in
53:41terms of our skill and talent.
53:43And he's also apportioned to us a a body
53:46of
53:47truth,
53:48a faith, the faith,
53:51as it relates to how we receive it,
53:54and then how we put it into action.
53:57And we all have these opportunities
53:58every day to exercise it, to get better
54:00at it, to grow in it.
54:02It's not going to be perfect.
54:05But there are these um moments that we
54:07have where we start to think of
54:08ourselves.
54:10And it's it's very tempting to use the
54:12world's standards as standard as the
54:14measurement of who we are in our
54:17identity.
54:19You know, he just said, "Don't be
54:20conformed to the pattern of this world."
54:22And it's very tempting to look at the
54:23world standard and evaluate ourselves.
54:27People do this all the time and it's
54:28it's it's tempting for all of us, you
54:30know.
54:31I consider myself a good person. Well,
54:34why do you consider yourself a good
54:35person? I didn't kill anybody, right?
54:38I avoided homicide today.
54:40I must be a good person.
54:43Well, Jesus has something to say about
54:45anger, doesn't he?
54:47If you really are evaluating yourself to
54:49the to the standard, if you think the
54:51measure of the faith,
54:53God's word revealed, received truth,
54:57Jesus speaks about what happens inside
54:59of our own heart as it relates to anger.
55:02I might not have picked up the knife or
55:04gun to murder somebody today,
55:07but I might have thought about it.
55:09And it is interesting, isn't it? Because
55:11that's really then the standard by which
55:13we recognize
55:15the the anger in my own heart has been
55:18taken to the cross and Christ died for
55:20it.
55:21And Christ now gives me the power to
55:23overcome it.
55:24Because when I look at his life,
55:27he took on that perfectly. But, now
55:30gives me the power to be able to take it
55:32on in my own life. The standard of the
55:34faith
55:35is how I'm evaluating myself.
55:38Other people say, you know, well, I
55:39consider myself a good person. I'm
55:40pretty patriotic.
55:42I'm going to go vote this week. Okay.
55:45Well, Jesus said, "Keep seek the kingdom
55:47first."
55:49Faith recognizes that we're members of
55:51two kingdoms,
55:53an earthly one and a heavenly one.
55:55He puts the priority on the heavenly
55:57kingdom.
55:58So, again, this the standard is
56:00different. As I'm renewing my mind and
56:03thinking about my humble approach, the
56:05grace that God has given, and the faith
56:07the the received
56:09truth and revelation now I'm I'm living
56:12according to.
56:14I was just laughing in my own mind
56:16yesterday doing my doing the leaves in
56:19my yard.
56:21You know, leaves come blowing over.
56:24And I think to myself, well, I guess
56:26I'll I guess I'll rake my neighbor's
56:28leaves.
56:30Okay.
56:31Well, I could start to feel pretty good
56:32about myself.
56:33I raked my neighbor's leaves today.
56:36Why did I do that? Well, because they
56:38were in my yard.
56:40And I don't want my yard to look like
56:41it's all leafy.
56:44Now, well, I did a good thing today. I
56:46raked my neighbor's leaves. Well,
56:47actually, you raked your own.
56:50And you did it for yourself.
56:53But, it's easy to claim a lot of credit
56:54when you do things like that.
56:57You know, the mind is a funny thing that
56:58way.
57:00But, the standard, if you think about
57:01it, is looking to Christ.
57:04Okay, he's coming, and he understands
57:06the deceitfulness inside of our own
57:08hearts.
57:09How much we decide to take credit for
57:11things that we frankly have no business
57:13taking credit in.
57:15Or that we want to look better in front
57:16of other people. And grace helps us
57:18understand
57:19that every day we are on the receiving
57:21end of this unbelievable
57:24um undeserved favor that comes from God.
57:28It's a thought process
57:29that should humble us.
57:31And this I think is what Paul is getting
57:33at. Now, I've been again really helped
57:35by Mere Christianity and and in the
57:37little section that C.S. Lewis has on
57:39the great sin uh called pride, he says
57:42uh this and this is where we'll just
57:43finish this little section, but he says,
57:45"Don't imagine that if you meet a really
57:47humble person
57:49that he will be what most people call
57:50humble nowadays.
57:52He will not be the smarmy man telling
57:54you he is a nobody.
57:57The humble person is that cheerful
57:58intelligent chap
58:00who took a real interest in what you
58:02said to him or her.
58:05He will not be thinking about humility.
58:08He will not be thinking of himself at
58:10all."
58:12Well, I really like that. I was really
58:13helped by that.
58:15Because if you think about it then you
58:16you you you ask yourself, you know, what
58:18really is humility as it relates to the
58:20way life works itself out?
58:23And it's not necessarily just about this
58:25humble approach as much it is as it is
58:29praying for the sincere desire that
58:32comes from Christ and his power
58:35to be about other people in the moment.
58:39The cheerful intelligent chap isn't
58:42thinking about humility.
58:44The cheerful intelligent chap
58:46isn't thinking of himself or herself at
58:49all.
58:51They're thinking about the other person.
58:54They're asking sincere questions about
58:56what's happening with the other person.
58:59They're listening.
59:01I've often said this, but and I and I I
59:03really believe it to be true and I'm
59:04trying to work it out although
59:06imperfectly in my own life, but I think
59:07the best evangelistic approach you could
59:10ever take
59:12is just having a sincere
59:15and curious approach
59:19to someone else's life.
59:22Just sincere ability to listen and be in
59:25the moment when someone else is
59:26speaking.
59:28For no other reason
59:30than you basically say
59:32you're increasing and I'm decreasing.
59:35And I want to hear what you have to say.
59:38Now, that could go in a lot of different
59:40directions.
59:41And certainly I'm not talking about it
59:43getting creepy.
59:45But simply to say
59:46there is something about the person who
59:49just stands in front of you and asks you
59:52sincere questions and cares about the
59:55answer.
59:56There's something very humble about
59:58that.
59:59And I think that's what C.S. Lewis is
1:00:00getting at here.
1:00:02But I also think it's something that
1:00:03Paul is getting at here in the book of
1:00:05Romans as it relates to humility.
1:00:08So, if humility is about thinking about
1:00:10Christ more and me less each day, his
1:00:12grace
1:00:13my reception
1:00:15a grace track on which I rehearse and
1:00:17think about my life
1:00:19a standard that's been given to me by
1:00:22his teaching and his word
1:00:24then yes, I think the more I'm thinking
1:00:27about him less and or him more and me
1:00:29less, I think I have a fighting chance
1:00:31toward this humility.
1:00:32Lewis talks about then these gifts, the
1:00:34other the other G here.
1:00:37So, you got G and G, the GGs.
1:00:40We had a We had a friend who used to
1:00:41call the
1:00:42uh
1:00:43the cool kids GGs.
1:00:45Called them the groovy girls.
1:00:47It was really funny, you know. And we
1:00:49used to we used to laugh. I said I I
1:00:50when I wrote GG, that's what I thought
1:00:51of.
1:00:52Groovy girls, groovy grooves.
1:00:54Well, if you think about humility here
1:00:57in the second G here, the the gifts.
1:00:59Humility is thinking soberly then, I
1:01:01think about how oneness flourishes among
1:01:04different gifts, different people.
1:01:07Humility flourishes oneness through the
1:01:10oneness
1:01:12of a group of different people coming
1:01:13together
1:01:15and exercising their gifts all
1:01:17differently but all toward uh the glory
1:01:19of Christ.
1:01:21I- If if I put it another way, you know,
1:01:23I I would say, you know, God's
1:01:25God's gift is more than you.
1:01:28God's gift is more than you.
1:01:31It's lots of people with lots of
1:01:33abilities.
1:01:34Everyone coming together to use them
1:01:38in such a way where God is glorified.
1:01:41So, oneness by all these different
1:01:44gifts. That's
1:01:45humility recognizes that that it's not
1:01:47just all about you.
1:01:49And the illustration that Paul uses here
1:01:51is of the human body. Okay, verses four
1:01:53and five, he starts to talk about this
1:01:55but he illustrates it.
1:01:57For as in one body we have many members
1:01:59and members do not have all the
1:02:01um
1:02:02Let me get there.
1:02:03And we have many members and and the
1:02:05members do not have all the same
1:02:06function. So, we though many are one
1:02:09body in Christ and individually members
1:02:12of one another.
1:02:13So, he makes this point that if you look
1:02:16at the human body, there's an
1:02:18interdependence about the human body.
1:02:20You can't separate one part out and say,
1:02:22"Okay, well, that now exists on its own.
1:02:25It's it's going to be fine." No, you
1:02:27have to have it all in order for it to
1:02:29function properly.
1:02:32And so, he's saying in the same way a
1:02:34local church, that's how it must get
1:02:36along.
1:02:37Humility is recognizes the diff-
1:02:40recognizing the differentiation
1:02:42that leads to the oneness, the unity,
1:02:46the proper flourishing, functioning of a
1:02:49church. You have to have people of all
1:02:51kinds doing different things in order
1:02:53for the thing to go the way it should be
1:02:55going.
1:02:57I think I recognized this when we
1:02:58started this church.
1:03:00I really started to think about all the
1:03:02things I realized
1:03:04I could never do.
1:03:06And how much I really needed
1:03:09other people in order for this thing to
1:03:10go.
1:03:12And I Yeah, there was a sense I think
1:03:14when I was on staff at Parkside at that
1:03:16made some sense to me.
1:03:18But once we got out and we had
1:03:22for lack of a better way of putting it,
1:03:23we had a pull off a church service
1:03:26and take care of kids.
1:03:29Take care of kids
1:03:31in this day and age?
1:03:34We need a lot of prayer for God's grace.
1:03:36But we needed people who were good at
1:03:38things
1:03:39to come together and make it happen.
1:03:42And I I've thought of this over the
1:03:43years and it's it's just brought me a
1:03:46tremendous amount of joy
1:03:48thinking about how people came together
1:03:51to do this and how in many ways how
1:03:54little I had to do with it.
1:03:56I I will still always remember
1:03:59when we went from people pushing carts
1:04:04like overloading these small carts that
1:04:06we got from Parkside
1:04:08to a group of guys that got together and
1:04:11built these giant blue boxes
1:04:13uh that rolled.
1:04:15And it was something, you know, all of a
1:04:18sudden it's a it's like the church took
1:04:20it was like another chapter in the
1:04:22history of Parkside Church Lake County.
1:04:24The blue box era.
1:04:27Where everything got into these boxes,
1:04:29you know, these
1:04:30you just come down the hall
1:04:31>> [groaning]
1:04:32>> here they [snorts] come.
1:04:33But it was like a group of people got
1:04:35together and decided, you know, like
1:04:37let's build a better system of
1:04:40organization
1:04:42and distribution.
1:04:44I could have never thought of that.
1:04:46I would still be pushing things around
1:04:48on that tiny little cart, you know.
1:04:50I Oh, I could get that in the back of my
1:04:52car.
1:04:53There's a better way to do this.
1:04:56There's a better way to do this.
1:04:58And it just takes people who are good at
1:04:59things to figure it out and they're
1:05:01unleashed and they're and they're going.
1:05:04And Paul's saying, you know, this is the
1:05:05way the body of Christ works. We're all
1:05:07one yet we're different.
1:05:10You know, that's the way salvation was
1:05:12worked out.
1:05:13The oneness in the plan of God but the
1:05:15differentiation of uh the persons of God
1:05:18Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to
1:05:20accomplish that. It's very Trinitarian,
1:05:22isn't it?
1:05:23Oneness and differentiation.
1:05:26The same thing is true with a with a
1:05:28local church body that functions as one,
1:05:31but is differentiated. It's a reflection
1:05:33of the Trinity.
1:05:34If you think about even that
1:05:36interdependence then in John 5:19, the
1:05:39son Jesus gets to this when he says,
1:05:41"The son can do nothing of himself, but
1:05:43uh only what he sees his father doing."
1:05:46There is differentiation, but there is a
1:05:48total dependence.
1:05:51There's an interdependence.
1:05:53And that's the way salvation was
1:05:55accomplished. It's the way things get
1:05:56accomplished in the church. When people
1:05:59realize, you know, I'm not good at that.
1:06:01Somebody else is. And I'm going to need
1:06:03their help if we're going to we're going
1:06:04to be able to pull this off.
1:06:07Salvation was accomplished this way
1:06:08through interdependent unity.
1:06:11Philippians 2, "But he made himself of
1:06:13no reputation and took upon the form of
1:06:15a servant and was made in the likeness
1:06:18of men."
1:06:19"And being found in the form of a man,
1:06:21humbled himself and became obedient to
1:06:23death, even death on a cross."
1:06:26Now, if you think about salvation being
1:06:27accomplished by interdependent unity,
1:06:30so true then is that our salvation as
1:06:33accomplished the one of the way it works
1:06:35itself out, it exercises itself, is in
1:06:39that interdependent unity that exists
1:06:41within this church.
1:06:43And so, there's different gifts,
1:06:44differentiation.
1:06:47They are all belonging to God and
1:06:49they're used for different purposes.
1:06:52Some are more public, some are more
1:06:53private. And you start to get into the
1:06:55list here, okay?
1:06:57"Having gifts that differ according to
1:06:59the grace given to us. They differ."
1:07:01"Let us use them."
1:07:04So, when you come to a church,
1:07:06you have skill or talent,
1:07:08there's a two-way street here in the
1:07:10church being able to figure out what
1:07:11that is and a person raising their hand
1:07:13saying, "I'm I think I'm a I think I'm
1:07:15good at this."
1:07:17Now, there's times where people say, "I
1:07:19think I'm good at this." And they might
1:07:20not be, okay?
1:07:23Well, especially when we started the
1:07:24church and people say, "I think I can
1:07:25sing."
1:07:27And then we listen to them sing.
1:07:30I don't know if that's a gift.
1:07:32That
1:07:33That's I'm trying to I'm trying to be
1:07:34mean.
1:07:36But it just that may not be it.
1:07:39But for another person, they can.
1:07:41Okay?
1:07:43And sometimes it was even like, well,
1:07:46could we could we go back and and help
1:07:48out in a place that really needs help?
1:07:51Oh, my I don't know if that's I don't
1:07:53know if that's really where I don't I
1:07:55don't think that's my children's not my
1:07:56gift. Well, that's actually not on the
1:07:58list here, children.
1:08:00But service is.
1:08:03Well, service isn't my gift. Well,
1:08:05we just need help.
1:08:07We're We're just We're not necessarily
1:08:08asking for your giftedness in this area.
1:08:12We need people.
1:08:13We We need just people trying to just do
1:08:16their best and be responsible, show up
1:08:17on time.
1:08:19And we've tried to keep the bar as low
1:08:21as possible as it relates to how we put
1:08:24people in those places. And but there's
1:08:25certainly there's people who have
1:08:26certain gifts.
1:08:28How they use them and how the church
1:08:30evaluates how a person evaluates
1:08:32themselves, how that comes together.
1:08:34But it's our hope that we keep helping
1:08:36people unleash their gifts.
1:08:39Some are more public, some are more
1:08:40private. Okay? So, the first one here in
1:08:44prophecy.
1:08:45I think that's that's interesting.
1:08:48People
1:08:49might get confused. Okay? Well,
1:08:51are you talking about there's modern day
1:08:53prophets now? I'm not saying that.
1:08:55Because there's a difference. There was
1:08:57foretelling prophecy.
1:08:59Really prophets in the Old Testament.
1:09:02You think about the
1:09:03the gifts that existed in the first
1:09:04century in the foundation of the church.
1:09:06It's a foretelling nature to that.
1:09:09And there's part of prophecy. I would
1:09:10call that capital P prophecy.
1:09:13I think what he's getting at here isn't
1:09:15necessarily that. I think he's talking
1:09:17about foretelling.
1:09:19There is a way to speak prophetically
1:09:23in front of people
1:09:25in proportion to analogous to the faith
1:09:28that's been given. In other words, there
1:09:30is a body of received truth.
1:09:33You got it. Some people have it and they
1:09:36are able to speak in a clarifying and
1:09:40passionate way about the truth received.
1:09:44They're good at that.
1:09:45They speak very smaller case P
1:09:48prophetically.
1:09:50And And yes, I think there's probably a
1:09:52more public aspect to that,
1:09:55but it need not only be public. There
1:09:58is, I think, a private sense in that,
1:10:00too, and that's mentioned later on in
1:10:02the list with exhortation.
1:10:05There is a way that people can speak in
1:10:07in an in an ex-
1:10:09ex- I don't even know what the word is.
1:10:11Just an exhortative way
1:10:14where they're able to clarify things.
1:10:16And I would say these are These are
1:10:18counselors.
1:10:20These are people able to dis- discern
1:10:22the human condition.
1:10:24They know God's word.
1:10:27They recognize what's available in
1:10:29society
1:10:31as it relates to regulating.
1:10:34And they're able to put those pieces
1:10:36together in a sensitive and yet
1:10:39clarifying way
1:10:41to where a person might walk out and
1:10:43say, "You know,
1:10:44I wasn't doing so well before this,
1:10:47but as a result of what I've been
1:10:49hearing, I'm doing much better."
1:10:52So, exhortation can be a public thing,
1:10:55but it also can be a private thing.
1:10:58And there are people who have gifts in
1:11:00that area.
1:11:01And you would hope that they are
1:11:03deployed within a local church that way.
1:11:06There's other gifts that I think are
1:11:08more public as it relates to teaching
1:11:10and and leading.
1:11:12Okay, yeah. People who might be
1:11:15teaching might be out in front, or they
1:11:18might be in private. They might be in a
1:11:20classroom right back here.
1:11:23People exercising a gift with children
1:11:25where they're able to take complex ideas
1:11:27and boil them down.
1:11:30I like that. I've I've been helped by
1:11:32that.
1:11:33I've been helped by people
1:11:35who taught who I sat
1:11:38under if I put it that way
1:11:40who were able to illustrate things
1:11:43really well.
1:11:45And
1:11:46that has always helped me the
1:11:47imagination.
1:11:50And there's there's something in the
1:11:51gifting of that when you do that with
1:11:53children or you volunteer during a week
1:11:55of the summer
1:11:57helping out with children or you figure
1:11:59out a better process and or just a a way
1:12:02to help them understand things. Leading
1:12:05is another
1:12:06is another gift here that I think is
1:12:08really interesting because
1:12:10the leading is a compound word here in
1:12:12the original.
1:12:14In front of and to stand. Okay, in front
1:12:17of and to stand.
1:12:19But if you think about it within the
1:12:20context of the first century a person
1:12:22leading within the church standing out
1:12:25in front was leading a church that was
1:12:27constantly under attack and being
1:12:29persecuted.
1:12:31So they were the ones in a sense taking
1:12:34the arrows
1:12:35in terms of protection.
1:12:38That's what leadership was.
1:12:40Leadership was saying, "I'll stand up in
1:12:43front and stand for Christ in a way
1:12:45where I will model
1:12:48to some degree
1:12:50what it means to stand for him knowing
1:12:52that the sacrifice of even my own
1:12:55physical body is a present reality."
1:12:59So leadership really was the
1:13:01responsibility to taking the arrows in
1:13:05protection.
1:13:07Now we've we've kind of made leadership
1:13:09more into stand out in front
1:13:12for its own sake.
1:13:15The leader is out front. The leader is
1:13:17charismatic. The leader is the leader.
1:13:20But in this sense here at least from the
1:13:22original language, the leader is the one
1:13:24who is pointing people to Christ and
1:13:26saying "I'm willing to lay down my life
1:13:29for Christ
1:13:30in the protecting sense.
1:13:32That's what it means to lead.
1:13:35And it's it's not about me, it's more
1:13:37about him.
1:13:39And leadership is uh
1:13:42you know
1:13:43it's born of that. It's born of that.
1:13:47But we've we've um
1:13:49we've kind of turned it around, we've
1:13:50turned it inside out.
1:13:52Made it more about the the leaders
1:13:54themselves.
1:13:56Some gifts I think are a little more
1:13:57private.
1:13:58As he gets into the list here, we talked
1:14:00about exhortation, that's one-on-one.
1:14:01There's also mercy.
1:14:04Mercy done with cheerfulness.
1:14:06Mercy wasn't meant to be done with um
1:14:09a public sort of sense of look what I
1:14:11just did.
1:14:13Let me let me announce my gift.
1:14:16But mercy was really meant to be
1:14:17extended to people in a side-by-side
1:14:20way.
1:14:21Where you recognize as you rehearse the
1:14:23grace of God, you say, you know, the the
1:14:25grace of God has been so evident in my
1:14:27life
1:14:29that I recognized I I was spiritually
1:14:31bankrupt when I came into this world. I
1:14:33lived spiritually bankrupt and frankly
1:14:34God protected me from making so many
1:14:36decisions that would have took my life
1:14:37right down the drain.
1:14:40He In so many ways he did that
1:14:43when I did not know him
1:14:45and created an opportunity for me to
1:14:46know him
1:14:48by mercy.
1:14:50And now I realize the people that I'm
1:14:52talking to in the difficult situation
1:14:54they be and I'm not looking down at
1:14:56them. In fact, I'm just looking
1:14:57side-by-side with them.
1:14:58Cuz I recognize in many ways physically
1:15:00is where I was spiritually.
1:15:02And I've been given everything in Jesus
1:15:04and and I can certainly sacrifice a
1:15:06portion of what I have cheerfully
1:15:08because I recognize what's been given to
1:15:10me. That's it.
1:15:12You do so cheerfully because you realize
1:15:13you're just doing it for an audience of
1:15:15one and nobody else.
1:15:17So it's not necessarily pity and
1:15:19certainly not something that you will
1:15:20wait for people to applaud you.
1:15:23You're just doing it because you
1:15:24recognize that you were on the receiving
1:15:25end of it.
1:15:26Cheerfully.
1:15:28And and and I think I'm going to finish
1:15:30here
1:15:31and use a personal illustration as it
1:15:32relates to generosity.
1:15:35Because I think generosity
1:15:37really when you think about generosity,
1:15:39it's it's just it I think it's a little
1:15:41more of a private thing than a public
1:15:42thing.
1:15:44Contribution, when you make your
1:15:46contribution, you can do so generously.
1:15:47There's
1:15:48plenty more gifts that are talked about
1:15:50in Corinthians and in Ephesians
1:15:52that we could get into, but I'm just
1:15:53looking at this list today.
1:15:56But I'll finish with generosity because
1:15:58we just had a funeral for Teresa
1:16:00Jacobson this past week.
1:16:03And
1:16:04I when Teresa Jacobson, when she was
1:16:07here inside our fellowship,
1:16:09I would have never
1:16:11known to go up to her and say, "I think
1:16:12you have
1:16:14the the gift of generosity."
1:16:16But the more I heard from people
1:16:19around the funeral, the more I realized
1:16:21she did.
1:16:22And now I can praise her cuz she's not
1:16:24here anymore. She's in glory.
1:16:27But I I learned that, you know, I
1:16:30I I had a sense of it
1:16:32when
1:16:33uh on one occasion, she she came to me
1:16:35and she handed me a roll of quarters.
1:16:38And she wanted me to give that to my
1:16:40son.
1:16:42A roll of quarters.
1:16:42[cough and clears throat]
1:16:44You know,
1:16:45the kids these days, what do you do with
1:16:47quarters? You know,
1:16:50put them in a video, you know, play
1:16:52video. What are you talking about?
1:16:54You know, okay, all right.
1:16:56But there was something sweet about
1:17:00just generously giving
1:17:02out of what you have.
1:17:04She did that.
1:17:05And there was something sweet about the
1:17:08stories that I heard that it wasn't just
1:17:10money that she was generous with, but it
1:17:12but it was words.
1:17:14She was a letter writer.
1:17:16She wrote people notes.
1:17:18She did it all the time.
1:17:20And people talked about that.
1:17:22How she was just very uh faithful in
1:17:24helping
1:17:26and encouraging people through through
1:17:28writing, through her words.
1:17:30And this goes back years.
1:17:33I I met a couple from
1:17:36Los Angeles that flew in for
1:17:39her funeral.
1:17:41Because
1:17:43when they interacted at Sunday evening
1:17:46service for a long time
1:17:48there was a generosity of spirit.
1:17:51Words and time.
1:17:54Presence.
1:17:56There was a self-giving that took place
1:18:00that had a tremendous impact and
1:18:03um
1:18:04the woman who was telling me the story
1:18:06about her interaction with Teresa
1:18:09said, you know, that's what she's trying
1:18:11now to model and do with other people.
1:18:14So, there's very much a discipleship
1:18:16element that happens
1:18:18that that that this these gifts
1:18:21there there there there's a multifaceted
1:18:23nature to them.
1:18:25And God has a way of using them in ways
1:18:27you could never you just it would me it
1:18:30would just blow your mind.
1:18:32And I think that's, you know, when you
1:18:33think about gifts in the church and the
1:18:36differentiation of them
1:18:39you don't have them all
1:18:40and you're not meant to.
1:18:43And but that's the beauty of it.
1:18:45There's different people doing different
1:18:46things to help this thing go.
1:18:49And when you realize that it all comes
1:18:50by God's grace then all the better.
1:18:53Because we're all on the receiving end
1:18:54of these kinds of talents and God's
1:18:56using them and I see it here.
1:18:58And I pray that as God brings people in
1:19:01they'll be more and more useful
1:19:03according to the way God's put them
1:19:05together.
1:19:06But I think that's what he's getting at
1:19:07here when he's talking about humility
1:19:09being this mark thinking soberly about
1:19:12yourself. There's other people with
1:19:13other gifts
1:19:15God's blessing the church with
1:19:17and there's a grace that's been given to
1:19:18me
1:19:19that I can rehearse each and every day
1:19:21that humbles me.
1:19:23And it helps me be present to live in
1:19:25the moment with other people who are
1:19:27talking that I can recognize
1:19:29that part of the graciousness that I can
1:19:31extend is just simply by listening
1:19:34and being with them.
1:19:36And no matter what your age is or your
1:19:38stage in life, you can still be that
1:19:39way.
1:19:41Teresa lived a pretty long time.
1:19:44And she was still trying to be that even
1:19:45up until the end, which I think is
1:19:46pretty cool.
1:19:48Let's pray. Father,
1:19:50we thank you as we think about
1:19:53the nature of
1:19:55a received body of truth that you've
1:19:57given to us here.
1:20:00And how some of the same challenges that
1:20:02exist in the first century exist today.
1:20:05Not only corporately inside of a local
1:20:07church, but also privately in our own
1:20:09hearts. And we pray today, Lord, that
1:20:10you will help us
1:20:12um root out uh
1:20:14the the the spiritual
1:20:16cancerous nature of pride.
1:20:18Lord, that you will help us again
1:20:20rehearse each and every day the the gift
1:20:22of grace that you've given to us in the
1:20:24person of Christ.
1:20:25Help us, Lord, as we do that in
1:20:27appreciating the differentiation that
1:20:28exists
1:20:30and the fact that some people are just
1:20:31good at things that we are not.
1:20:34And we thank you, Lord, as we think of
1:20:36these things in your grace and goodness
1:20:38that you're still at work inside of each
1:20:39of your our hearts. And we pray, Lord,
1:20:41you will increase our faith and our
1:20:43trust in you.
1:20:45Help us again today to transfer it away
1:20:47from ourselves little by little
1:20:50more and more to you. More of you, less
1:20:52of us.
1:20:53We pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen.
1:20:56Amen. We're going to stand and sing a
1:20:57final song together. Stand and sing with
1:20:59us.
1:21:15>> We sing.
1:21:16>> As I rise, [music]
1:21:19strength of God
1:21:22go before
1:21:25>> [music]
1:21:25>> me and
1:21:28as I wake,
1:21:29>> [music]
1:21:31>> eyes of God
1:21:35look upon [singing]
1:21:38me and [music] side,
1:21:41as I go.
1:21:44>> [music]
1:21:44>> Hand of God,
1:21:47my defense, [singing]
1:21:50by
1:21:50>> [music]
1:21:50>> my side,
1:21:53as I rest.
1:21:56Breath of [music] God,
1:21:59fall upon me,
1:22:02>> [music]
1:22:02>> bring
1:22:03me peace.
1:22:05Bring me peace.
1:22:09Above and below me,
1:22:12before
1:22:12>> [singing and music]
1:22:13>> and behind me,
1:22:15in
1:22:16every eye that sees me.
1:22:19Christ be
1:22:20all around
1:22:21>> [music and singing]
1:22:21>> me, above
1:22:23and below
1:22:24me,
1:22:24before
1:22:26and behind [singing]
1:22:27me,
1:22:28in every
1:22:29>> [music]
1:22:29>> eye that sees me.
1:22:31Christ be
1:22:32all around
1:22:33>> [singing]
1:22:34>> me, above
1:22:35and below
1:22:36me,
1:22:37before
1:22:37>> [music]
1:22:39>> and behind
1:22:39me,
1:22:40in every
1:22:41eye that sees me.
1:22:43Christ be [singing and music]
1:22:44all around
1:22:46me, above
1:22:47and below
1:22:48me,
1:22:49before
1:22:50and behind [singing and music] me,
1:22:52in
1:22:53every eye that sees me.
1:22:56Christ be
1:22:57all around
1:22:58>> [singing]
1:22:58>> me.
1:23:04>> Well,
1:23:05one of the families we often pray for
1:23:07are are Rally or the the Terzic's Rally
1:23:11and Dragana out in Serbia, and I'll be
1:23:13with them this week, Lord willing,
1:23:15to be able to see what God's doing in
1:23:17the ministry there in Serbia, and to
1:23:19worship with them. Next Sunday in the
1:23:22little villages that that
1:23:25Rally is a part of as it relates to
1:23:27leading and preaching God's word, and
1:23:29we're thankful for that. So,
1:23:31if you just pray for the Serbian church,
1:23:33pray for Rally, Dragana, pray for me,
1:23:35too.
1:23:36Just I'm thankful for the fact that God
1:23:39has continued a relationship with them
1:23:41through the years, starting back in 2018
1:23:44until now. And so, again, we're thankful
1:23:47for for that and we're thankful for
1:23:50God's doing here.
1:23:51Paul says at the end of Philippians,
1:23:53"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be
1:23:55with you all in your spirit." And
1:23:57together we say,
1:23:59"Amen." Amen. You're dismissed.
1:24:06>> [music]

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