Humility Brings Ultimate Peace | 1 Peter 5:6-7 | Pastor Andrew Coleman | 05/03/26

We've been studying this little letter

of first Peter and um a few weeks ago um

I preached on this very passage and um

this morning we're going to circle back

on that passage in light of the Lord's

table and in light of um uh a few things

that are very pertinent to us. You know,

it was interesting a few weeks ago when

I did preach on this um the Gulf was

starting to explode literally and there

was a lot of uncertainty and it was

really as we would watch the news and as

we would see this whole war issue

ramping up, there's a side of us that

feels some anxiety with that.

But you know, for many people in this

room, the Middle East is the least of

their problems.

For many in this room, it has to do with

something far closer to home.

And for some, it's something that's very

physical.

And for others, it's not physical at

all, but it's really emotional,

maybe spiritual.

We live in a day and time. A few weeks

ago when I preached on these these

texts, we looked at a bunch of graphs.

Do you remember those graphs that talked

about the fact that the anxiety level

that people are experiencing in their

lives is rising at absolutely

um unprecedented

rates.

We live in a world that is increasingly

anxious.

We live in a world where there's less

and less peace.

Peace in the heart and in the mind of

people. And what's interesting though is

that while we feel the increase of that

in recent years, this has been a problem

from the beginning.

Can you imagine how

Adam and Eve felt

when they realized that one of their

sons

killed their other son.

I would think

that the vast majority of you have never

thought about that before.

I would imagine that most of us have not

really considered

how did they feel as they learned this,

as they figured it out.

Can you imagine?

You see

sin,

loss,

pain,

anxiety, those things have been from the

beginning,

near about the beginning.

There was a moment, there was a moment

when God's echoing words, and it was

good, were all that could be here being

reverberated in the universe. and and we

we see that in his goodness and in his

design

there is beauty and peace.

But as soon as we

turn away from God and as soon as we

start to go our own path, as soon as we

rebel in sin apart from his great

goodness, we start to experience the

result of that and the vortex

of sin and death. Well, this morning I

want us to look and see

the humility that brings ultimate peace.

There is a humility that brings ultimate

peace. And um I pray that all of this

helps us as we look at this white linen

table that's in front of us

with the elements of the bread and the

cup and what it's called us to remember.

And so humility that brings ultimate

peace this morning from 1 Peter chapter

5:es 6-7. Notice here with me review and

context for those of you uh as I've

mentioned on Sunday March 15th we heard

we heard we studied this text in a clear

expository format. So as we typically do

we work through passages in an

expository way seeking to explain them.

And uh that's exactly what we did. I

want to encourage you to go back and

listen to that message if you missed it.

Number two, we recognize as well that

this is part of Peter's conclusion. So,

we're at the end of Peter's letter and

here it is that he gives some extremely

important fill it in instructions

as part of his ending and he gives some

very great promises. So there's both

instruction and promise at the end of

this letter and that's where we find

ourselves. We're very close to the end

within the first I mean within the last

10 verses of this. Notice this number

three. This passage can help us greatly

in coming to the Lord's table. Fill it

in with the right attitude

of both heart and mind.

Because God has made us to be thinking,

but he's also made us to be feeling. And

he's made us to have a valition, a will.

And so this morning as we come, we want

to come with the right attitude in all

of this. So there's four spiritual

realities this morning that I want us to

look at from 1 Peter chapter 5 verse 6

1 Peter 5:6

and 7. Four spiritual realities. Um so

um first of all let's look and let's

read this simple little passage at the

top of the page there in verse 6 it says

humble yourselves therefore under the

mighty hand of God so that at the proper

time he may exalt you casting all of

your anxieties

upon him. Why? because he cares for you.

Now, what's kind of interesting, just

kind of look at verse 6 and 7 there, you

could say, "Humble yourselves." And then

you could that that that

statement that is there in the middle

after therefore, we could put that on

pause. Just look at this with me. Verse

six, humble yourselves. Skip to verse

seven. How? Casting all your anxieties

on him because he cares for you. So

there's a parenthetical statement that's

there in the middle that's very very

important. But I want us to see this

command. He's commanding as part of this

end of his letter. He's saying humble

yourself. And how do you humble

yourself? Verse 7, casting all of your

anxieties upon him because he cares for

you.

And so what we start to see is is that

there's some real indicators that when

we're not humble, we are not trusting in

him. And I want us to see that this

morning. First of all, reality number

one, humility is the doorway to God.

This is the doorway to God.

I mean Jesus came and his first message,

his first words of preaching were

repent and believe the gospel. Now, you

know, we've just been through about a 30

or 40-year period where the church has

tried to dumb down the gospel message so

people in the world will like it. We've

just been through a period of time

called the uh the seeker sensitive

movement um where back in the 80s um it

became very popular to dumb down worship

services to um speed up worship services

to ramp everything up and to make it

more like the world so the world would

like it. And you you don't want to say

things that are very inflammatory. You

don't want to say things that are very

offensive. My friends, what we see in

Jesus's first words of preaching are

repent and believe the gospel.

He's calling us to repent of our sin and

turn to God. The sin is the problem and

the solution is God. So, he's saying

repent and believe in what God has

called us to do. And so, some of you

have been new to Sheridan Hill. Some of

you are coming maybe um like the the

testimonies we heard this morning, maybe

you've even grown up in church all your

life, but you hadn't clearly heard the

gospel. And what we would say to you is

that this is a wonderful message that

you wouldn't need to shut down or run

away from. This is a message that will

bring you peace.

But it begins

with something that very much goes

against all of our nature. And our

nature is a fallen nature that is

prideful. And humility is the way that

we come to God. Look what it says there.

Humble yourselves therefore under the

what does it say there? The mighty hand

of God. But the command is humble

yourself.

You see, humility is not optional. It is

the entry posture

into the Christian life.

This is the way you come to God. Not in

pride, but in humility. And you know

what? You can grow up in a church. You

can grow up and be whatever whoever's

kid or whatever it may be. I grew up as

a pastor's kid. And I can tell you this

that there is no way around

humility.

God says that if you're going to come to

me, you come in humility. You come in

recognizing

who you are not and what you are not and

who he is. So notice this. Before God,

what does humility look like? Before

God, it is surrender to him as Lord.

So it yes, the word surrender when you

think of all of the wars of all human

history and you see that there's someone

who wins and someone who loses very

often and very often when you look at

the Roman Empire, when you look at the

Greek Empire, when you look at the

Ottoman Empire, you look at all of these

different wars, the wars of Europe, the

wars of world wars, we see that there's

a humiliation that comes to a place of

surrender.

And we call that a humiliation that

leads to surrender.

Um friends, the war over your heart,

it's it's never going to be right with

God until you come to the place of a

humiliation and recognizing that he is

the victor. And he is not just the

victor, but listen to this, he is the

look

loving victor.

He wins the war over you in your heart

and your life

through love.

And that's why he willingly died on the

cross.

For God so loved

>> Put in your name.

For God so loved the world that he gave

his only son that whoever would believe

in him would not perish but have

everlasting life. You you see, he had

all of the might in the universe to

bring to bear against you. But what he

did was he brought all of his wrath

against his own son so that you could go

free.

So the humiliation that God calls us to

is not a bad humiliation.

It is a glorious humiliation.

But so long as you think you're it, and

so long as you think that the things

that you want are it, so long as you

say, "I'm going to do it my way." So

long as your little world kind of

revolves around you,

you do not have the humility that God is

calling you to to trust in him. So it

has to do with surrender

as Lord and submission to him. Fill that

in. Submission to him as master.

You see, we don't want to submit.

We don't want to submit very often to

the things that are around us,

especially Americans. Americans tend to

be a pretty rebellious group. Now, in a

in a way, that's some great things. I

mean, it was the people who said, "I

don't like the way it's going in Europe,

or I don't like the way it's going in in

uh Asia. I'm I'm leaving here and I'm

going to that land of the free and the

home of the brave where I can do

something." And so, we have this

independent pioneer spirit. And there's

some great things about that.

But that American mindset of independent

pioneer spirit, go against the flow

can also lead us to hell.

because we think I'll do it as Frank

Sinatra says what

>> my way.

You see, and it's not only

this humility before God that we've been

speaking of that's so important, but

this other one is really important. And

I mentioned it at the beginning of the

service.

This is a humility before others.

And this is this is where we kind of see

a lot of people are very deceived about

this because they think, "Oh yeah, I'm

humble before God. I come before God. I

came down the aisle. I filled out a

card. I was baptized. Somebody dumped

me." And D. And you know, they kind of

think, "I got it all together and me and

God are okay." And we run with utter

pride toward others.

We're really not living our life

considering others as God

not only told us to do but shows us with

his own life. Notice this. God calls us

to live in humility toward other people.

It is in esteeming others as more

important than yourself, which is

exactly what Colossians says. Esteem one

another as more important than yourself.

that goes against our flesh.

We if not consciously very often

subconsciously simply believe that we

are the most important one.

What I want is what's need what my

family needs comes first.

You see, what Jesus calls us to do is

it's not about thinking less of yourself

when it comes to others in comparison

and all of that. But think about this.

It's about thinking

of yourself less.

So often we have a hard time thinking

about oursel less

when Jesus calls us to live in a

selfless way.

Jesus says it. Fill that in. Jesus says

it. Matthew 11:29. Look what he says

Matthew 11:29

here. Take my yoke upon you and learn

from me. And look what it says here. For

I am gentle and lon lowly. Doesn't say

lonely. Lowly in heart. He has a He has

a heart that's not prideful.

[clears throat]

And then look what it says. Read it out

loud. That last phrase that's in verse

29. And

>> okay, so look at the whole verse again.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me.

You see, he did it. This is who he was.

And learn from me for I am gentle and

lowly in heart. Read it again. And you

will find rest for your souls. Well,

even right here, fill this in. We need

to notice the association of loneliness

and rest.

You see, when we are prideful,

we don't have rest and peace.

The world has anxiety problems because

the world is not humble.

Our

pride as a human race, our pride

[snorts]

as being in humanity,

whether on the individual level or the

corporate level, our pride is what

brings anxiety and stress.

But when we look at the way of Christ,

when we look at the mindset of Jesus,

that when we look at what he calls us to

live in, that's where the peace is.

That's where

there is truly

the grace and the rest that our souls

need. Look at John chapter 13. Uh

John 13 · chapter mention

because we see that Jesus not only says

it, but on the night before he was

executed for us, look what it says here.

He shows it. He shows us what it looks

like. In John 13:3, Jesus knowing that

John 13:3

the father had given all things into his

hand and that he had come from God and

was going back to God. So there's this

beautiful summary statement here in

verse three that John gives us. And John

does this over and over again so you get

the big picture. That's one reason I

love the book of John. It makes these

simple, clear statements, but there it

kind of pulls it all together. And so

notice what's happening at that last

supper. At that last Passover supper

that Jesus is about to be the Passover

lamb that the Jews had been remembering

from Egypt. And that was all about the

picture of the Messiah that would come.

Here we see that

Jesus is about to be that very

sacrifice. Jesus knowing that the father

had given all things into his hands and

that he had come from God and was going

back to God rose from the supper. And

here it goes. He laid aside his outer

garment. So he takes off his cloak so

he's not encumbered by that because he's

about to be doing some physical

activity. He

look what it says here.

He tied it around his waist. taking a

towel, he tied it around his waist. Then

he poured water into a basin and began

to wash the disciples feet and to wipe

them with the towel that was wrapped

around him.

What an amazing thing. Jesus takes up a

basin and a towel and he goes and he

shows the disciples what servantthood

looks like. He washes

their feet. Now I want you to notice

this

up there underneath reality number one.

What does it say there? Humble

yourselves therefore under what?

>> The mighty hand of God.

You see this mighty hand of God, it

would do two things. It would wash dirty

feet. The mighty hand of God, the hand

that created the universe, would wash

dirty feet like a servant

and it would be pierced by nails

in the ultimate act of service

as in a perfect sacrifice

laying down his life for us. That's what

we see at the end of first Peter. Humble

yourselves under the mighty hand of God.

Ro reality number two.

We see this also in verse six. Humble

your yourselves therefore under the

mighty hand of God so that the proper

time he may exalt you.

You see humility also trusts God's

timing. That's what it does. It trusts

God's timing

so that at the proper time he may exalt

you. Now, we've just sung at the

beginning of this service.

I'm waiting for that day. I'm waiting

until I see you face to face. Remember

that beginning of the service, we sang I

I'm I'm waiting. I'm I'm going to run

this race. I'm going to I'm going to run

the race. Running doesn't sound like

it's waiting. But in my running the race

of being faithful, I know that

everything he's promised hasn't come

yet. And I know I haven't seen him yet

face to face, but I'm waiting because I

know that he's going to deliver.

There's there's a tremendous amount in

the Christian life that we have to wait

for. And we wait for it in faith and

obedience. But notice this, it's

trusting

God's timing. [clears throat] It's

trusting in his timing so at the proper

time he may exalt you. See, humility

releases the need to exalt yourself.

Um, humility is in a hurry for the

glory. Excuse me. Pride is in a hurry

for the glory. That's what it is. Pride

wants the glory now.

Pride wants all of the esteem now. Pride

wants all of the fun now. But it's just

amazing to me that we see in Isaiah 53

and:e 6, he was oppressed and he was

afflicted. He opened not his mouth. And

look at this. Like a lamb that is led to

slaughter and like a sheep that before

its sheerers is silent. Look what it

says. So he opened not his mouth.

You see, Jesus knew it was not yet for

the time for the exalted glory

of recognizing who he truly was.

He waited.

In Luke 23 and verse 46, then Jesus

calling out with a loud voice said,

"Father, into your hands I what?

>> Commit my spirit.

>> I commit my spirit." And having said

this,

he breathed his last. You see, Jesus on

the cross is trusting the father's plan.

Jesus on the cross is trusting what he's

going to do. He commits to him his life

all the way unto death.

And you say, "Well, was Jesus trusting

when he said,"My God, my God, why have

you forsaken me?

I think Jesus said, "My God, my God, why

have you forsaken me?" In part for

Andrew Coleman

because, you know, there's many, many

times that when I'm supposed to be

trusting in the Lord, I'm crying out to

the Lord, Lord, where are you? What has

happened? What is going on?

This morning, I want you to recognize

that even our Lord Jesus Christ dealt

with the intensity,

the intensity

of his struggle and his torture.

And yet when he came to the end, he

said, "Father, I entrust to you

my spirit."

There's key words there. Notice this.

Jesus entrusted his life to the father

even when obedience led him to the

cross.

[snorts] And and you know we need to

remember put out there to the side. We

need to remember 1 Peter 2:23 because a

1 Peter 2:23

few months ago we studied 1 Peter 23

where he says he kept entrusting himself

to the father to the one who judges

rightly.

And so you're called to do the same

thing. You trust God's timing.

You trust his goodness. Reality number

three, we see it as we come to the

Lord's table.

Humility releases burdens. Humility

releases burdens. Look at verse seven.

Casting all of your anxieties on him.

Now, we're really good at having

anxieties and just holding on to them.

We're really good at that. And I want to

encourage you with the fact that God has

called us to not hang on to our

anxieties.

>> He has called us to release them to him.

He has called us to tr entrust them to

him. Notice this. Anxiety grows where

God's care is doubted. Whenever you

doubt God's care for you, you're going

to be anxious.

But notice this.

Um, I'm sorry, I got ahead of myself a

little bit here. Uh, pride carries

burdens. Pride carries burdens.

Humility

casts burdens. There's a great big

difference. Pride carries burdens.

Humility casts burdens. You know, pride

says, "I'll carry it."

Humility says,

"I need him.

I really need him. I cannot do this on

my own.

I need him."

Notice here with me Matthew 26:38.

Matthew 26:38

Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane says

this. Then he said to them, "My soul is

very sorrowful,

even to death." So, are you wondering if

Jesus was under pressure? He was under

pressure. He Have you ever said, "Good

night, it was so hard. I thought I was

going to die.

The exam was hard. I thought I was going

to die." Or, you know, that day of labor

was so hard. I thought I was going to

die. Or that sport event, I I was given

everything I had and I just thought I

was going to die. No, you know, we say

that all the time. This one really meant

it.

Notice this. He was so sorrowful

even unto death.

Remain here and watch with me.

And going a little farther, he fell on

his face and prayed, saying, My father,

if it is possible, let the c this cup

pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I

will, but as you will.

God calls us to do what he did in the

garden.

He calls us to give to the father the

burdens that we carry.

He calls us to entrust ourselves

to him and to release the burdens.

Finally, reality number four,

humility rests

ultimately in what? Christ's care.

Humility rests in Christ's care.

It says here, because why? Why? Why are

you called to entrust to him? Because he

cares for you.

So, as I was just saying just a moment

ago, anxiety grows where God's care is

doubted,

whereas peace grows where God's care,

fill it in, is trusted.

Hebrews chapter 4 and:1 15 says, "For we

Hebrews 4 · chapter mention

do not have a high priest who is unable

to sympathize with our weaknesses, but

one who in every respect has been

tempted as we are, yet without

sin.

H

we have a savior who went to the cross

who knows all about our struggle not

just because of the cross but because of

his grand omniscience in all things. And

he knows well he knows better your

struggles. He know you do. He knows

better your hardships than you do.

And look what he does. John 10:11 says,

John 10:11

"The good shepherd lays down his life

for his sheep."

That's what the good shepherd does.

We've looked at that over the last three

sermons because the question was, "Who

are the good shepherds? Who are the bad

shepherds?" Peter is warning us, "Watch

out for the bad shepherds." Peter is

warning the shepherds, don't be a bad

shepherd.

Be a true shepherd. Don't be a false

shepherd.

Be a true one.

Because the good shepherd

lays down his life

for his sheep.

Notice this. The one who calls you to

cast your burdens. And what are our

burdens? It's our sins first of all.

It's our troubles. It's our anxieties.

It's all of it. Cast your burdens upon

him. This is the one who carried your

sins

far [snorts] away from you.

He was what we call the scapegoat. The

scapegoat of the Old Testament

sacrificial system. Very, very

important. The scapegoat was one of the

goats. That was a live offering.

Don't Don't put everything away. Not

done. Please

listen carefully.

The scapegoat.

The blood from the altar was poured and

anointed upon the goat.

And the goat was taken to the edge of

the wilderness and led far away. and it

wandered away into an unknown place

for that goat to die, to never be seen

again, and to carry the sin away. It was

the symbol of the fact that Jesus, the

Messiah, would carry away our sins

from us.

They're no longer on us.

They've been carried away.

And this is why Psalm 103:12 would say,

Psalms 103:12

"As far as the east is from the west, so

far has he removed our transgressions

from us."

You know, when you go north, you come to

a place if you keep going, you start

headed south again, right? So there's a

limit to north. If you go south, there's

a limit there because you go south

eventually if you keep going, you got to

head back north again. So there's a

limit to north and south. Interestingly

enough, there is no limit to east and

west.

If you're somewhere on the earth, you

can always go east.

If you're somewhere on earth, you can

always go west.

Notice what it says. As far as the east

is from the west, how far is that?

Infinity.

How far is that? They never meet.

They always go in opposite directions

forever. As far

beyond what you can imagine,

so far as he removed our transgressions

from us, this is a God who knows how to

perfectly restore.

And this is a God who knows how to

perfectly cleanse

so that he can perfectly, listen to

this, unite.

And that's what we need. And that's

exactly the reason Jesus died was so

that we could be united to the father.

He goes to the cross so that we could be

united

from a sinful state

to a holy state that's found only in

Christ. And so Peter is calling us to

come in humility

to God. And when we come in humility to

God, the peace of God is what comes to

our life.

He brings peace to our relationship with

God.

Listen to this. He can bring peace to

our relationship with others. He gives

you the ability to truly forgive, to

truly love, to truly serve.

But not only peace with God and peace

with others, but listen to this. This is

beautiful.

He gives the ability to have peace with

yourself.

If you don't have peace with yourself,

you haven't truly come to where God

wants you to be in trusting him.

When we come in humility to him and let

him do a new work in us, he can help you

to love even

your own self. Now, not in a selfish

way, but you can come to accept yourself

and to love Christ. Amen.

>> Let's stand together. In just a moment,

we're going to observe the Lord's

supper, but we're going to sing first.

and we're going to sing a hymn that I

have requested

Pastor William to include this morning.

Um the words that we sing are very very

important. I'm going to ask if the um

guys who are coming to serve if they

would go ahead and come now um come

forward and um I want to ask you to be

in your own heart prayerfully preparing

your heart. Let me remind you that this

observance of this table is only for

Christians

>> who are trusting in Jesus Christ as

their Lord and Savior who know him and

listen to this and who have been

baptized in obedience to him because

what comes first is coming to Christ.

That's that's the picture of baptism

to be to be um put in the place of death

and brought to a new life. That's the

beginning. But this table is what

reminds us of what has happened for us.

So this table is for believers who have

surrendered to Christ, who have have not

only surrendered to Christ, but who have

made him and submitted to him as Lord.

If you've not done that, don't observe

this table. It brings judgment upon you.

But if you have done that, this is for

you. If you're if you're wondering,

"Wow, why would I not do that?" Some of

these folks over here on this side,

Chuck and Kathleen can explain that to

you. And some of the folks over here on

this side, Pastor Pastor um uh Jason and

Kelly can explain that to you.

I want to encourage you this morning to

come to the table um with a ready heart.

Let's pray. Father, we thank you for

your goodness to us. We thank you for

the true gospel of Jesus

that reminds us and shows us what

humility really is all about. And so

Lord, I thank you this morning that we

can come trusting in you and laying our

burdens down upon you. I pray that you

would help us to repent of our sins,

repent of selfishness, repent of the

foolishness of thinking we're the center

of everything.

Lord, our anger, angry ways in which

we've treated others,

Lord, our untruthfulness,

our hiding in sin,

Lord, anything and everything that is

not

honoring to you. Father, I pray that

this morning that we would come

laying down our sin, laying down our

anxieties,

and trusting in you. I pray that as we

sing that you would help us to

recognize what you have done in Jesus

name. Amen.