Battleground Part 2: The Power And Protection Of Humility | Pr Gloria Paul

You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

And so today we're going to go into another part

of you know, the mind itself, which is the power

and the protection of humility, yeah, or humbleness.

Yeah.

Why is this so important in our Christian faith? Especially

when we grow deeper longer in the faith. Humility is

very important, right, And if you go back to some

of the stories that we read in the Bible, some

of our disciples or even people who have been serving

the lot can fall so easily when we don't have humility, right,

or when we think that we know everything and we

forget that we need to submit and call upon God's name. Yeah,

you know, humility is a spiritual stronghold that protects believers,

disarms the enemy, and positions us to receive God's grace.

Right.

And sometimes if we don't realize certain things about our

our character or the way we respond to things in

our lives, to be actually trying to make room for

the enemy to use that for example, anger, right, sometimes

we were so upset and angry. Well, sometimes anger itself

could be used, you know, and the enemy tries to

you know, you know, try, it makes you feel even.

Bad like you are.

You know, you can't get better, you know, And that's

how we use us to actually influence us even more. Yeah,

So that's why humility is very important. Just look at

a couple of scriptures, right, and then we'll bring you

through some pointers to help us understand what is humility

in this context. Right. In James chapter four, verses six

to seven, it says, God receies the proud, but gives

grace to the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God receies

the devil, and he will flee from you. So James

here reminds us very clearly that God receives the proud, right,

but he gives grace to the humble, And we are

called to submit to God. And then we have in

Hebrews chapter four versus sixteen, Okay, let us come, that is, therefore,

come boldly unto the throne of grace again the heart

of submission, the poulture that we have to come before

the Lord.

Right.

And then we have in the Book of Isaiah right

Isaiah sixty four versus six it says, all our righteousness

are as filthy recks, not a very nice thing to

hear filthy res But that is how it is. No

matter how much we do, we cannot be as equal

with God, right, I mean, because we are sinners. We

are created in such a way believe in a fallen world.

So until and unless we come to a place of humbleness,

right and to know and realize that it is only

true God, we are not going to go anywhere, all right,

or we're just gonna get stuck in our own bubble.

Yeah. So the world sees humility as weakness.

If you think about the world out there, right, you've

got to be loud and well, nothing wrong with that,

being confident and all. Yeah, But what Heaven sees is

humility as strength. If you see a true leader, it's

a person who can actually do great things, lead a team,

but at the same time humble enough to admit the mistakes, right,

humble enough to say, oh, there are things that I

actually don't know that I need to entrust and work

with others. That's a true leader, right. If you think

about the people in your life, beat in the marketplace,

be in the church, anywhere, a leader is someone who

can be humble enough to say, wow, there's a lot

more I don't know right, And in the context of

our faith, it is saying God.

I cannot do this with you.

You may have given me so many talents, You've given

me so many abilities, Thank you for that, but I

still cannot do all of this if it's without your grace.

Right.

And if God wants to put a stop on some things,

he can, right, but he still allows us to do

it because.

Of His anointing in our lives.

And the thing that we need to understand is that,

you know, the Satan fears humility. Why because when we

are humble, we are living a life.

Of surrender to God.

Right, Because you are down on your knees, you're poistures

saying God, I just need you.

Right.

But the moment we do the other, the opposite of it.

It's as though we are better, right. And that is

when the enemy can make room to kind of make

us think that, Okay, I got this person. I can

you know because they hear or she thinks bigger of them.

Right.

And so that's why humility is so powerful in our

Christian walk. Let's look at first Peter chapter five versus

six says here in fact, this whole chapter First Peter

chapter five talks about the shepherd and the flock.

Yeah. And then if you look at.

Versus six versus six, right, he says, therefore, humble yourselves

under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt

you in due time, casting all your care upon him,

for he cares for you. Be sober, be vigilant, because

your adversary, the devil, walks about like a roaring lion,

seeking who he may DeVore Versus nine. Resist him steadfast

in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced

by your brotherhood in the world.

Yeah.

So the good God reminds us here to be sober,

to resist, you know, to be you know, like what

Jesus reminds us to be, you know, to be cunning

like a serpent. Right, but at the same time gentle

as a deaf.

Right.

So we've got to be very watchful. Then we look

at James chapter four, right, James chapter four Versus seven.

It says, Yeah, therefore, submit to God, resies the devil,

and he will flee from you. Draw near to God,

and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands,

you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded lemon

and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned to

mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the

side of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

So again the scripture reminds us about submission, humbleness, right,

to come before the Lord and say, God, let your

will alone to be done in our lives.

Yeah.

So from this we can see that the enemy doesn't

like humbleness, right.

It doesn't like you being.

You know, be bobbing down on your knees and saying God,

I need you.

Right, He's terrified in it.

And we need to understand that humility is not about

having low self esteem, right, It's not about that, but

it is about being honest. It's living a surrendered life

before God.

Right.

Until and unless we catch that, it's going to be

hard for us is to go deeper. Yeah, so humility,

So let's try to just go through a couple of

pointers here. And as we go through this, I just

want to encourage you to think about your own lives

as well. Right, which part of your lives that you

may feel okay, yes, good, I need you to help

me in this area, right, and a good reflection for us.

So the first thing is that many battles.

Are more flesh than the devil.

Yeah.

Sometimes as Christians with everything, they'll say, oh, is the

enemy's work? Is the enemy's work?

Right?

Yes, sometimes it does put things, you know, where we

go through temptation. But sometimes it's just us as humans

where we just need to learn how to say no right,

or choose to be disciplined right, or choose to you know,

become a better person right, because it's the flesh. Yeah,

not every struggle is directly demonic. Many problems come from

our flesh nature. Yeah. And sometimes pride blinds us from

seeing our own weakness. Self righteousness prevents honest repentance because

I'm too good, right, and so I don't want to

I don't need to repent.

Yeah, I hope you don't fall into that.

And the enemy often gains access through unsubmitted areas of

our lives. Yeah, unsubmitted areas other parts in our lives

where you're not submitting to the Lord. Yet we're saying God, yes,

I have everything else submitted to you, but there's some

parts in my life I still want to have my

say it should be my way.

Well, God is not going to force you. He gives

us a free will to leave the way.

You know, we want to, but at a certain point

of time, I mean, how much can we do it

in our own flesh?

Right?

Many of our battles are merely the consequences of our

own actions, right, our own actions. And we may think

that we are fighting with something, but hey, but usually

think about it. Actually, I'm fighting with myself, my anger issues,

my frustration, my unforgiveness. And then I wonder why am

I still not happy? Well, because I have not surrendered

it yet. Yeah, let's just watch this video here. Okay,

it's about this bird, the cardinal bird, right, And it

was interesting that I learned during during the summer season,

especially when they are trying to actually take care of

their territory. They're afraid of the other male birds who

will come and you know, take over their their girlfriends

or their wives. Right. So interesting enough that there's always

a place that I was reading in a document I

was watching in a documentary where they realized a lot

of their cars had scratches in their sight real mirrors.

Right then they realized it's actually the working of these birds. Okay,

let's just watch this video. So that is what these

birds do, right, They go around to cars because they're

flying around and when they see their reflection in the mirror,

they think that there's another bird in front, and they're

trying to fight, not realizing that they're actually fighting with

their own Yeah, and interesting can't I can't help. But

the thing about sometimes it's just how we respond to

things as well.

Right.

We tend to look at a certain situation our life

and we wonder, hey, why is it like this? And

we keep fighting, We keep you know, hitting the walls, right,

thinking why where is this breakthrough going to happen? But

sometimes it's just maybe us not being able to submit yet, right,

there's something within us that needs to work. We need

that humility poisture once again to be able to realize,

oh I think I've not let go enough. Yeah, or

maybe I'm not surrendered enough to welcome God into this

picture and say God, you work your way. Yeah, so

we can be like those birds. Sometimes we may think

that you are fighting another enemy, but maybe the enemy

is just us, right, Like what they say, sometimes sometimes

you are your biggest enemy to why you don't pursue

certain things or why don't you why you don't go

hit and do a chief certain things? Because you know,

you tend to feel like, oh, I can't, but everyone

else around you may say no, you can do it, right,

but we just keep saying no because we're just not

you know, we're not brave enough. Yeah. It could be

our anger, it could be our impatience or even sometimes insecurity, right,

or defensiveness we just don't want to admit and we

just get so defensive or even being stubborn. Yeah, that

becomes the real battle ground.

Right.

So a question for me all of us today to

ask is are the things that are oppressing us today?

Is the ours of what we planted yesterday? Yeah?

Are the things that are oppressing us today?

When I say oppressed, meaning things that are just not

allowing us to be set free right to enjoy the

abundance of what God has given us, the blessings his promises.

You know, he's always said, right, He's given us life

to an abundance.

Jesus has overcame the world for us. Right, That's what

we know and we learn. Or is it that.

Sometimes you know, you may feel still stuck in chains

because a believer is not called to live that way, right,

But could it be it's because of some pasts that

we are planted in our lives, they are not uprooted yet.

That is causing us to feel that way today. Yeah,

think about it. You know your own lives and the

seasons that you're in. Right, you can plant beautiful flowers

on the ground, but if you don't take out the

roots right of what's choking those flowers to grow, nothing

is going to grow.

Yeah.

So what is it that we need to uproot in

order for newness to grow? New blooming flowers to grow, right,

so that others can see the fruits that you're bearing? Yeah,

what is it? Just think about it? Yeah, our own

reflection now.

Number two. Humility begins with an honest agreement before God.

That's how it works. Yeah, an honest agreement before God.

Humility refuses to defend self. There's no need for us

to defend We must stop rationalizing sin. Yeah. What the

world of God tells us is that, right? We can't

just try to say, oh, maybe it's something else. The

moment we start doing things like that, then we are

trying to take charge of what God is telling us. Right,

We're trying to take charge or what you know God is?

What is God teaching us to leave the way we should, right,

So stop rationalizing sin. God is not shocked by our weakness,

So there's no need for us to be afraid to

come to him just as we are. Yeah, come to him,

just as you don't have to filter your words. You

don't have to be afraid of what you need to

tell him because he knew it before. Oh you even

exist in this world, right, God knows you inside out,

so he's not shocked. In fact, Jesus already provided grace

through the cross.

Right. So every time you go through a roadblock and

you feel.

Like I just can't you know, I can't forgive, if

I can't seem to move on, I can't enjoy the

abundance of God that he has given me. Think about

the gray of the cross, right, think about what he

did for us on the calvalry, because his love can

never be measured or be equal to anything else. Yeah,

that one thing alone. I mean some of you where

your cross is your necklace or you have it on

your homes, right, I hope it's not just a decoration there,

but it's a powerful reminder that it's only Jesus who

did that for us. Yeah, And if at.

All you choose to even walk away from the faith.

If you look at that, I hope you always come

back and say, no, you know what, I need Jesus

in my life. Yeah, I need Jesus because the Cross

is so important. In fact, that's the the only thing

or the main thing that makes us so different from

any other religion in which God actually went on the cross, right,

brute was beaten or shed for our sins and then

resurrected again. Such a beautiful hope that we all have

to hold on to. Yeah, that is our Jesus.

Yeah, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is a perfect shelter

of grace.

Remember, think of it as a shelter. He gives us

that shelter, enabling us to look honestly at our needs. Yeah.

So maybe it's a good time for us to check

in and ask ourselves, you know what are those areas

God that you want to work in me? That I

need to submit, that I need to surrender. That can

come in a full place of humbleness, a full place

of surrender, right, because it's only an open door that

God can work if your doors are closed. Not wanting

to admit that you need God, but nothing can happen, right,

And of course, this does not mean that we are

agreeing agreeing with Satan's condemnation, but it just means we

are honestly acknowledging that.

We are wrong.

Yeah.

Yeah, we're all work in progress, right, And when you

are in work or progress and you admit that and

you're working on it at the same time, don't fall

for the enemy's condemnation because that is when he tries

to also condemn you and say, hey, I don't think

you can do this right, And but you know that

our God doesn't condemn us. He's there to lift us up.

He's there to teach us, right even to trials. It's

there to grow us, but not to condemn. Yeah, so

you've got to be very discerning, and that is why

discernment is such an important you know, I would say

maybe a gifting or you know, a skill even right

to know when you move with the spirit that Okay,

what I'm feeling is it's not from God, it's from

the enemy. Right, I'm call to leave well freely. God

loves me. I'm created in his image, So don't go

through that self condemnation that the enemy tries to bring

to us.

Yeah. So, if you're accused of impatience.

Don't try to defend yourself, admit the weakness right, run

towards christ righteousness. And sometimes these are things that our

close people, friends, family might tell you, Hey, I think

you're too impatient. Well, maybe take a step back and say, okay,

I don't want to fight about this, but am I

do I make people feel that way? Because sometimes we

don't realize how we make others feel. Right. We think

we are doing it right, but maybe others don't feel

that way. You know, someone says, hey, you're getting angry

so fast. Well, instead of saying no, I don't take

a step back and think, right, actually, am I? Maybe

I'm going through a certain season that I'm just getting

all upset all the time. So let's admit that and

get better. Yeah, because the moment we don't admit it

becomes a weakness and then we drown on it. Yeah,

and that's when the enemy uses it to condemn us.

But we must just choose to say, okay, you know

what is the betterment for myself, for my growth and

for others around me. So it's a win win thing, right.

Why do I want to hold on and be defensive

about it? You're not getting anywhere. Yeah, So take time

to reflect on that, because humility sounds like law. You

are right, Lord, I need your grace God. I cannot

change myself without you.

That is humility.

See, if you can come into that posture of surrender

and tell all of this, then you see a change

happening within you. He may open your eyes to things

that you may have missed out. You know, maybe past

experiences that you've told something to someone, God reveals it

to you and say, hey, can you go and say

sorry to that brother or that sister? Right, and you'll

never know what changes, you know. I've known of people

that sometimes holds on to unforgiveness for years, right, for years,

and and when they talk about it, it's like it

happened just yesterday. And that's because it's just rooted in them.

It's not just any longer a story that you're telling,

but it's deep within them. It's a herd, right. It

it turns up being bitter, because something that's within you

for such a long time can just grow even bitter. Yeah,

and then you get so frustrated and sometimes you don't

even want to trust anyone around you because of what

you have experience. So it's very dangerous if we allow

that to take root in our lives. Yeah, take time

to think about what are those roots that are in

your life right now? I mean, we're all, if it

can measure, we're all trees planted, right, and if you're

bearing fruits our roots strong enough the foundation on the

word of God, on his promises, on his truth about us, right,

not your truth, but God's truth?

Right?

Are we planted in those deep roots because that is

the kind of fruits that's going to bear. Yeah, think

about it. What kind of poisture are we coming before

the Lord? Even when you come into church, right, what

kind of spirit are we bringing in? What kind of

poisture are we worshiping God? Sometimes we can get so

distracted with so many things in our lives, but the

very reason why we come in is just to say God,

feel me, our hearts surrendered, and have your way a lot. Yeah,

So think about that. Yeah, humility starts with an honest

agreement before God.

Amen. Right now.

The next thing is that in the context of humility,

is that Jesus is our righteousness. Yeah, Jesus is a

righteous victory. Is not based on our perfection, yeah, but

on Christ the moment we think that, yes, I think

I got it all, myselved enough, I know the Bible enough.

Then there's something wrong, I think because we are all

in this journey of learning and discovering a.

Lot of faith.

You could be a twenty year old Christian, you could

be a five year old Christian. There's just so much

to learn about the lot. And that's just how interesting

it is to be a Christian, right, Because you come

to a point you realize that, hey, I've known God

for so many years and I still read and I

read this scripture. It still speaks to me in a

whole different way. It takes me into a deeper level. Yeah.

But if at this point in your faith you are thinking, actually,

I feel very dry. My faith feels dry. I feel

like it's the same old, same old I When I

open the Bible, nothing is exciting, then maybe it's time

to talk to someone about it. Off us, talk to

God about it, right, because our faith is meant to

be exciting. When I say exciting, not always hahaha laughing. Right,

but it's also when you are able to be real

with your faith, right, you can ask honest questions, you

can talk about it, right, You can just go deeper.

That is what our Christian faith is supposed to be.

It's not just a religion right where you just do

it on a Sunday Monday, Okay, back to my own life.

That is not what Christian fate is meant to be.

It's a continuous thing. In fact, what you do on

a Monday, it's a Saturday, is even more important when

you don't have fellow Christians who are looking at you,

and yet you're still shining bright for Jesus. Yeah, that

is the true testing of our faith. Yep, you know,

Satan accuses, where whereas Jesus justifies, and our confidence is

not in our goodness but in Christ finished to work.

I think that's the reminder that we need to keep

reminding ourselves that Christ has done it all, is a

finished work, though the world that we're living in seems

to be like, oh, there's still so much more to achieve.

You know, people are talking so much right about sustainability,

about environment, but you know what, all these things, how

much can we do as a human right, We've got

to come back to the realization that God is actually

done in it all for us, and as believers, we

are called to do what we need to do to

reach out to many more, to bring more to Christ,

and at the same time to prepare ourselves for the

coming of Christ. Yeah, we've got to remember that truth.

This is the difference. Yeah, when we talk about pride

and humility, Pride depends ourself, whereas humility is about depending

on Christ.

Pride hides weaknesses.

We don't want to talk about it, we don't want

to bring it to God, whereas humility confesses the weakness.

We're not afraid to say, God, I this is what

I am. You know, and I just need you. Pride

it relies on self righteousness, whereas humility relies on grace.

Pride produces condemnation, whereas humility produces freedom.

Right. Freedom.

So if you ever feel in your life that you're

not feeling free, then I think it's time to pray

about it. Maybe if you don't know how to pray

about it, then speak to one of us. That's why

we are here as a church.

Right.

The moment you accept Jesus as your personal lot and savior,

the moment you say yes, God, I want you, is

giving us a life of freedom.

Yeah. Would that mean there's no problems? Of course?

There are problems and trials that we go through, but

we still know that there's a hope that we can

hold on to by our Lord Jesus. Yeah, when the

enemy accuses you agree where conviction is true, repent quickly

and stand in the grace of God. Yeah, it's very

important that we stand in the grace of God. Christ

himself is our righteousness. Never forget that we are not

meant to leave this life by ourselves, but we are

meant to call upon the name of God every other day. Yeah,

every other day. Now, the next thing, what does humility

do to us? Humility protects relationships. Yeah, humility protects relationships.

And why do I say relationships are important? Because we

live our lives revolving around relationships. Right, be parent and

child beat, you know, a husband and wife beat friends,

be in the church, community, siblings. Relationship plays a very

big part. So relationships can either bring us closer to

the lot or the enemy can also use relationships to

bring us far away if you think about it. Yeah,

if there's a disagreement between husband and wife, it disrupts

the entire institution of a family, right, Or if there's

a disagreement within a church, then there's no unity within

the church, right, and that is one humility plays a

very big part. If you know a husband accused, it's

been accused of being insensitive, then you know what happens

from that, Right. So instead of saying, yeah, no I

am in I am sensitive, why don't sometimes it doesn't?

You know, it doesn't.

I mean, how difficult would be to just say, well, okay,

let me think about it. It was there a time

that I made someone feel insensitive, Right, So sometimes we

made instead of fighting about it, taking the pinch of

salt and they say, okay, let's talk about it.

How can we better improve this? Right?

Because you know, marriage, family, relationships, all this are in

the plan of God. But the enemy sometimes can interfere

because of emotions, because of lacking of humility, and disrupt

these kind of institutions as well. Yeah, that's why we

just shouldn't give too much room for being defensive. Yeah,

sometimes it's just being humble and saying, okay, you know what,

let's talk about it. And that's why we have leaders

in the church who can journey with you as well. Yeah,

So humbling ourselves listening. I think there's the art that

some of us might need to learn even more to

pray together.

Yeah.

The strength of humility is that it builds a spiritual

defense around your soul, around your soul, so it's like

a defense. So if you have humbleness, if you have

humility around you, you're not giving room to the enemy

to attack you because you're humble enough to say I

need God. I'm not doing this by my old strength. Yeah.

You know, that is why we encourage families to have

your prayer time, to get that at home, you know,

with your kids, parents, because that's such a very powerful

thing because it keeps us back to what's important. You know,

we come from busy schedules and all, but again, let's

come together, just say a prayer. Yeah, pray and the

families are very important. So humility relationship means listening before reacting. Yeah,

listen first before no, No, I'm the right one. It

doesn't get anywhere. People get upset and then that nothing

is resolved. Yeah, admitting fall quickly. It's okay to say sorry.

Sometimes it's okay to apologize. Refusing pride driven arguments. Right,

pride driven arguments meaning I am better.

You're not choosing peace over being right.

Yeah, choosing peace or being right you think about it

isn't worth it to have certain you know, never ending

arguments or being defensive about certain things. I mean, I'm

grateful that I grew up in a family where my

parents so very quick to say sorry. I mean I've

seen parents having quarrels, you know, arguments and all, but

before the night ends, I always see my father say oh,

I'm sorry, or my mom you know.

So it's something that me and sister picked up.

So even till today, if we have a quarrel among

sisters before the night ends, you'll knock each other's door

and say, okay, I'm.

Sorry, or we're like still so upset.

One of us will buy something and then put on

the table and just say I'm sorry.

You have a good day.

Yeah, even though it sounds like a very small action,

you know how powerful it is because it's either you

do that or you do and it ruins or builds

a relationship. Yeah, same thing in marriage, I'm sure.

Yeah, you can.

Either draw closer or grow further. So it takes the

humility and when you do that, you will feel like, hey,

actually it's not too bad just being saying sorry, because

it takes you to be humble, right, remove your ego,

remove your pride, and say, okay, you know what, I'll

just be the bigger person to do this. And when

you do it, the next person softens down and say, okay,

I will do it also. So it's a win win thing.

You can leave on your life peacefully. You don't think

about it, your mind is not disrupted. You can think

about other better things. Right, and that is when you

are putting a defense around you, because I'm not giving

room for the enemy to break us apart even more,

or to allow my anger to bring us further away

from each other. Yeah, so be quick to say sorry

sometimes I think sometimes that that the main the simplest

thing that works. Yeah, instead of just harboring hatred into

our hearts, we good church. Yeah, so let's let's just

catch that heart of Okay, I'm sorry, I apologize, I forgive.

That is what God wants us to do. Be the

bigger person. Yeah, bigger, bigger person.

Now. The next thing is that humility terrifies the enemy.

Yeah, you terrifies the enemy the devil fears of surrendered

people surrendered, meaning you go down on your knees, you

raise your hands, you say God, I need you, meaning

there's no room for the enemy to actually try to

enter in and cause trouble. Yeah, that's why he doesn't

like it, because humility removes Satan's excess points to pride,

self righteousness, defensiveness, rebellion. Yeah, because humility is the surrender

of the soul to the Lord. And the devil is

terrified of Jesus Christ. I mean, the enemy himself knows

that his time is coming. Yeah, the scripture talks about it,

and that is why he tries all that he can

to mess up with the minds of believers. And that's

why you and I have to be watchful. We have

to take care save God of our faith, save God

of our church. Right, the unity of the church is

so important. We have to do our part to take

care of it. So the enemy trembles when believers kneel, repent, surrender, forgive,

and depend fully on rice.

Yeah.

So if we can do all of this, he is terrified, right,

he is terrified. We just got to do it, because

that's how God, Jesus himself has thought.

Us to leave. He lived a life like that.

You know, if you wanted to, you can go all out,

you know, correcting everyone that when he was walking here

on earth. But no, he chose humbleness. He chose to

submit to God. You know, he chose to walk on

the word of God and not just his own knowledge, right,

And I believe we can all learn from him as well.

Amen.

So it's just a couple of questions to just think

about and ask yourself, you know what area of my

life that I'm still defending and thinking that, no, this

is what I am and God can enter in.

Yeah, what is it?

Am I fighting with the devil while ignoring my flesh?

Sometimes you can put the blame so much on the

enemy and not working on ourselves, working on our anger issueses,

not working on our unforgiveness right, not working on the

way we treat others, but to be kind.

Right.

So maybe we've got to work on all of this.

And if I fully surrendered to God, Yeah, f I

fully surrendered to God, because if we can bald it

all down, it all goes back to humbleness means a

life of surrender, right. And in church we have been

talking about revival over the weeks, and we cannot truly

fully experience revival, be in our personal lives or in

church if we have not lived a life of surrender, right,

because the church in the Book of Acts experience the

church being added on and all that God worked on

because it's surrendered and say, God, come have your way.

Right, And so the things that we sometimes just.

Need to sacrifice, let go off for God to come

and feel us afresh. So I hope it's been a

time of reflection for all of us church, right, because

if we cannot catch something as simple as humbleness, well

it does sound like simple, but being humble can not

sometimes may not be the easiest if we don't learn

how to, or we don't realize how important it is.

Right.

And that's why I just felt that as a church,

you know, as individuals, as believers, it's important that we

take charge of this because it all goes back to

our minds, the battleground of our minds, and how we

poisure ourselves, how we surrender, determines what's going to happen next, right,

determines how God is going to work in us as well.

Right.

And as I mentioned, you know, we live in a

time and age where you've got to be watchful as

ever before. Right, take God of your faith, don't just

rely on a Sunday sermon to build your faith.

Sunday sermons are important. It grows you. Right.

God uses people to speak to us. But what's important

is your quiet time with the Lord, your reading of

the Word, your effort in knowing the Bible. It all

goes back to that, right, because at the end of

the day, you and I are answerable to God.

Right.

The past is not going to answer for you. You

are going to answer for yourself. So you've got to

know your faith. You've got to know the kind of

life that you're living because in closed doors only God

sees your heart. Right, nothing else matters but your heart.

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