Humility Exalts Luke 14:11 Matthew 23:11-12 1 Samuel 2:7 Proverbs 3:34 Psalms 149:4-5 James 4:6 Psalms 18:27 Philippians 2:5-11 Colossians 3:12 1 Peter 5:6-7 03.07.18

HUMILITY EXALTS

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¹¹ “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”  Luke 14:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “The greatest among you will be your servant. ¹² For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”  Matthew 23:11-12 (NIV)

⁷ The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.  1 Samuel 2:7 (NIV)

³⁴ He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble.  Proverbs 3:34 (NIV)

⁴ For the LORD takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation. ⁵ Let the saints rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds.  Psalm 149:4-5 (NIV)

⁶ But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6 (NIV)

²⁷ You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty.  Psalm 18:27 (NIV)

⁵ Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: ⁶ Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, ⁷ but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross! ⁹ Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.  Philippians 2:5-11 (NIV)

¹² Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.  Colossians 3:12 (NIV)

⁶ Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. ⁷ Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.   1 Peter 5:6-7 (NIV)

BUTTER

“And if you don’t lie prostrate on the ground before that cross, you have never seen it:  if you are not humbled in the presence of Jesus, you don’t know Him.  You were so lost that nothing could save you but the sacrifice of God’s only begotten.  Think of that, and as Jesus lowered Himself for you, bow yourself in lowliness at His feet.  A sense of Christ’s amazing love to us has a greater tendency to humble us than even the conscious awareness of our own guilt……Pride cannot live beneath the cross.”   Charles H. Spurgeon

“In the Kingdom, there are no great men of God, just humble men whom God has chosen to use greatly.  How do we know when we are humble?  When God speaks, we tremble.  God is looking for a man who trembles at His word.  Such a man will find the Spirit of God resting upon him; he will become a dwelling place for the Almighty.  God asks for nothing but ourselves.”   Francis Frangipane  

“Here is the divine antidote against the pride and restless ambition of the men of this world.  Nothing is more sad than to witness a pushing, bustling, forward, self-confident spirit and style in those who profess to be followers of Him who was meek and lowly in heart.  It is such a flagrant contradiction of the spirit and precepts of Christianity, and is a sure accompaniment of an unbroken condition of the soul.  It is utterly impossible for anyone to indulge in a boastful, pretentious, self-confident spirit, if ever he has really measured himself in the presence of God.  To be much alone with God is the sovereign remedy for pride and self-complacency.  May we know the reality of this in the secret of our own souls.  May the good Lord keep us truly humble, in all our ways, simply leaning on Himself and his grace…”  C H Macintosh, Notes on Deuteronomy, 1869

“Christians who are real saints and the greatest in the Kingdom…humble themselves as a little child…They look upon themselves as children in grace...”   Jonathan Edwards

“Such as are haughty and self-conceited, rush against the mighty hand of God, and destroy themselves; but those that are humbled under it, will be protected by the same.  Whatever knowledge or skill we may obtain in the schools of human learning, the Scripture does not yet allow us to be truly wise, but calls us blind and mere worldly students, till we learn to be poor in spirit, lowly in heart, and dead to the world.  Therefore, the more a man dies to this world, the more is he enlightened.”    K. H. Von Bogatzky

“Those who know God will be humble.  Those who know themselves cannot be proud.”   John Trapp

“The truly meek man is humble, gentle, patient, forgiving, and contented; the very opposite of the man who is proud, harsh, angry, revengeful, and ambitious. It is only the grace of God, as it works in us by the Holy Spirit, that can make us thus meek.”   Charles H. Spurgeon

“Humble yourself, and cease to care what men think.”   A. W. Tozer

“What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us, it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.”   Monica Baldwin 

“It’s really your ugly pride that makes you afraid.   Just bow in humility — and you’ll rise up in courage.  It’s only pride’s hunger for perfection that paralyzes a heart.  It’s being enslaved to perfectionism that keeps us enslaved to fear.  Pride is fear’s father — and pride is the kin to all cowards.  Courage for the impossible can only be found in the possibility of humility. Because ‘This is the one God esteems:  he who is humble…’ (Isaiah 66:2).   Courage lives in the heart of the lowly… those who can embrace humility and the possibility of imperfection … because that needy place is the place we meet God.  Humility births courage and is brother to the brave.”   Ann Voskamp

HEART SAVOR

·         God crowns the humble with salvation.

·         As Jesus humbled Himself for me, I am to humble myself for Him.

·         God opposes the proud but gives grace giving way to grace to the humble at heart.