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 I just did something that I was told not to do when I was just a boy.

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 And I was told not to do this by someone I greatly admired.

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 It was someone who was a few years older than me,

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 but someone who I knew really knew God.

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 And they said to me, Daniel, never ever pray for humility.

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 Because if you ask God for humility, he delights to answer that,

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 and you won't like his answer.

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 And they weren't joking either.

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 They were sincere.

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 Don't pray for that.

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 And I think a lot of us would not ever tell us,

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 or tell someone else not to pray for something,

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 but I think a lot of us actually walk around with that unspoken suspicion

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 that if we actually ask God for humility, we're not going to like the answer.

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 Because a lot of us are afraid of what that would actually look like

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 if we truly were to become a humble people.

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 We're spending the summer at Church of Messiah going through the book of Proverbs,

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 looking at the various themes that Proverbs speak to.

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 Proverbs, as you know, is a book that was written with all these incredible pearls of wisdom from God.

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 And so rather than what we normally do at Church of Messiah,

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 going through a passage of Scripture and unpacking it,

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 we're kind of putting a thread through these various pearls of wisdom from the book of Proverbs

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 around different themes.

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 And so this summer we've looked at the need to fear God

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 and what that really looks like from the book of Proverbs.

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 We've seen the harm sexual impurity causes and the healing found in the gospel.

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 We've seen the need to take good advice, to listen to people, to truly be listeners.

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 We've looked at these and other things,

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 the responsibility to care for the vulnerable and the marginalized.

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 Various ones of these themes, I'm guessing, have hit various ones in various ways.

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 Some of these things have probably gripped various ones of our hearts.

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 And there's certain weeks where it really hit home for us

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 and the person beside you just didn't really hit home for them.

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 And other ones, unlike the certain weeks that convict you a lot,

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 other weeks it's really your sweet spot.

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 There's some of us in the room and you heard about protection for the vulnerable.

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 That's your jam.

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 That's your thing.

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 And so you hear about that and you're really tracking with it.

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 Not so much from a conviction standpoint,

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 but just to be inspired to continue doing what you're doing.

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 But it is this week, specifically it is this week,

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 that I'm praying will hit home for every single one of us

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 because this is the week we're looking at pride and humility.

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 And while various ones of us have various strengths and weaknesses,

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 I do believe that the struggle with pride,

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 being a people with pride,

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 is something that every single human being struggles with.

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 C.S. Lewis in his famous chapter on Pride and Mere Christianity wrote,

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 It is pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation

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 and every family since the world began.

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 Other vices may sometimes bring people together.

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 You may find good fellowship and jokes and friendliness among drunken people

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 or even unchaste people,

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 but pride always means enmity.

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 It is enmity, and not only enmity between man and man,

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 but enmity to God.

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 By this he is saying that whereas other sins,

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 other things that are contrary to God's way,

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 there is the sense of fellowship in these wicked things,

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 pride is unique in the way that it always puts you in opposition to others,

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 in the way that it always makes you an enemy of those around you.

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 It's by nature competitive.

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 It is by nature opposed to those around you,

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 threatened by other success.

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 And in that respect, it brings disunity

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 and breaking of friendship between people

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 and breaking of friendship between people and God.

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 Now, I'm not here just to unpack C.S. Lewis' words,

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 but rather to unpack what the Bible says about this.

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 So, Proverbs 16, verse 5 says,

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 Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord.

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 Be assured he will not go unpunished.

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 I believe you have the words on the screen, I'm hoping,

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 but I'll read it again.

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 If they're not on the screen, I'll read it again for you slowly.

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 Everyone who is arrogant in heart

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 is an abomination to the Lord.

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 Be assured he will not go unpunished.

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 There we are.

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 The next verse we'll look at is Proverbs 6, 16-19.

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 There are six things that the Lord hates.

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 This is strong language.

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 There are six things that the Lord hates.

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 Seven that are an abomination to him.

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 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,

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 and hands that shed innocent blood.

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 A heart that devises wicked plans.

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 Feet that make haste to run to evil.

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 A false witness who breathes out lies.

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 A one who sows discord among brothers.

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 So in this list of six and seven things that God hates,

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 the very first is haughty eyes.

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 And it's not meaning like eyes that are hot.

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 It's not saying that like that.

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 You have very attractive eyes.

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 It's not saying that God hates that.

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 It's saying that God hates the eyes of those who are arrogant.

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 He hates arrogance.

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 This is strong language.

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 And I think sometimes we find ourselves,

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 sometimes we find ourselves reading the Bible

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 as if there's two different gods.

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 It's a God of the Old Testament who hates things

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 and pours out wrath on things.

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 And then a kind and loving, nice, tame God of the New Testament.

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 But just to burst that bubble,

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 in 1 Peter 5.5 and James 5.6,

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 so those are two different authors in the New Testament,

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 it says,

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 God opposes the proud,

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 but gives grace to the humble.

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 So whereas in Proverbs,

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 it speaks of God hating pride,

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 and we can think of it as

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 God is hating this pride element,

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 but liking all this other stuff about us.

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 In the New Testament,

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 it speaks of God opposing the proud.

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 So if we're a proud person,

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 it means that God is opposing us.

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 Now how can this be if we know that

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 for God so loved the world

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 that He gave His only Son?

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 How can it be that

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 that this God who we know is so loving,

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 that He created each person to know Him,

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 that He would actually oppose

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 the very people He created?

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 How can this be?

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 Well, this is because pride,

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 by its very nature,

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 as Jesus was spoken of,

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 pride by its very nature

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 is putting ourselves in enmity

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 with people and with God.

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 And that pride is, in essence,

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 a desire to kind of tower over people,

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 to be looking down on people,

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 to be looking down on all things.

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 And when you're looking down,

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 you cannot see what is above you.

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 And so the person that is proud

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 is, in a sense,

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 not going to see the beautiful sunset above

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 or anything above them,

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 including God Himself.

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 The person who is proud

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 is threatened by the success,

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 the well-being,

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 by the thriving of someone else.

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 And so God who is perfect,

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 God who is always going to be more powerful,

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 who is always going to be more,

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 more everything good than us,

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 is by very nature a threat to us.

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 And so it puts us in opposition to God.

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 And so God, in His love for us,

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 and His desire for us to be people

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 who are people who have more than money,

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 people who have more than friends,

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 people who have more than wealth,

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 people who have Him,

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 people who have come alive

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 and that they know the living God.

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 And God's desire for us

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 to truly come alive and to know Him,

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 to be people that aren't bent over like this,

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 but people who are fully,

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 who are upright and able to live

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 and to see the beauty that He made us for.

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 In God's desire for our good,

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 our thriving,

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 He must necessarily be opposed to our pride,

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 for our pride is truly a bending us out of shape.

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 In his book,

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 The Blessedness of Self-Forgetfulness,

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 Tim Keller talks about how

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 we only notice those parts of our body

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 that are hurting.

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 We don't often stop and think like,

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 oh, what a wonderful small toe I have.

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 But if you're like me

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 and you've ever stubbed your small toe,

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 all of a sudden you realize

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 that every step you take

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 and every moment you're awake

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 depends on that small baby toe of yours.

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 And the same can be true

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 if you pull a random muscle in your lower back.

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 You don't even realize that muscle existed,

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 but all of a sudden you know that muscle.

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 In fact, all you can think about is that muscle.

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 Some time ago,

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 after reading this,

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 maybe a year and a half ago,

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 one of my roommates and I

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 were walking home from the church office

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 and we were just discussing the reality of this.

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 So we thought,

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 you know what,

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 let's just stop as we walk home

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 and let's start thanking God

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 for all our healthy body parts

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 that you'd never think of.

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 We're just like,

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 God, thank you for my esophagus,

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 that it's swallowing food properly

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 and it's not hurting right now.

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 We just thought this would be

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 the one moment of our lives

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 where we actually are thinking

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 about the body parts that are healthy.

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 And you chuckle because it's funny.

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 We don't do that.

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 We don't think about our body parts

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 that are healthy.

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 We think about the body parts

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 that are broken.

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 And so for all the various body parts

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 with its various weaknesses that we have,

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 some of us have lower back issues

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 and other ones of us have really bad eyes

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 and whatever it is,

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 whatever is unhealthy in us,

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 the thing that is most unhealthy,

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 that is always drawing attention to itself,

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 is a part of us that isn't actually physical,

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 but is our ego,

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 our perception of ourselves.

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 We can define the ego as our self-perception,

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 our idea of our identity.

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 And that part of our being,

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 of who we are,

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 is always drawing attention to itself.

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 I might be much worse at this

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 than many of you,

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 but I believe all of you can relate to,

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 just this past Tuesday,

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 I was at a worship service.

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 And I'm not someone,

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 you'll notice I'm ever on the worship team,

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 I'm drumming,

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 I'm not singing,

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 because I don't have one of those voices

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 others want to listen to.

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 I don't,

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 my voice doesn't help people enter into

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 thinking of God's goodness.

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 It more speaks of the fallen nature of man.

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 And so I'm at this worship service,

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 and I'm singing,

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 and all of a sudden I hear that,

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 I'm hitting the notes.

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 And it was this beautiful worship time,

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 it was just such talented musicians,

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 and they were so God-centered,

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 and those songs we're singing

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 were all about the glory of God,

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 and I was in the zone,

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 and I'm worshiping God,

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 I felt so alive,

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 and then I hear my voice,

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 and I'm like,

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 oh, this is beautiful.

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 And all of a sudden,

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 instantly,

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 my attention goes from being about God

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 to, like,

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 my voice is awesome.

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 And I go from, like,

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 this puffed up thing

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 to all of a sudden this shame,

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 like, oh,

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 I'm such a proud person.

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 And then I'm like,

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 oh,

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 not only am I proud,

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 but like,

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 man,

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 I'm looking at myself again,

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 like,

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 how come I'm not,

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 and then I turn to worshiping God.

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 And then I'm just,

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 like,

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 just lost in the worship of God,

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 and all of a sudden,

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 like,

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 I started thinking about,

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 like,

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 how,

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 like,

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 I'm,

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 I just,

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 I kept going back and forth with this.

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 We find that our ego

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 is always drawing attention to itself,

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 always trying to find worth

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 and value in ourselves.

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 And,

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 and it's broken,

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 it's broken.

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 And you'll find,

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 like,

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 throughout the day,

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 like,

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 just pay attention,

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 just take a day,

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 pay attention

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 to how often you find yourself

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 kind of defending yourself.

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 I,

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 I,

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 a lot of people,

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 like,

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 I'm not someone that,

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 like,

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 looks for offending people.

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 Like,

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 I,

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 I like getting along with everyone.

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 And so I tend to be,

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 like,

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 a nice,

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 polite person.

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 If I'm at the dinner table

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 and a sibling will say something

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 about me that I just feel is not fair,

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 and,

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 like,

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 right away,

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 I'm just defending myself.

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 Like,

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 that's not true.

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 Like,

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 I just,

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 when it comes to,

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 when someone is threatening

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 our,

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 the way people see us

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 and our perception of ourselves,

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 I know that you and I,

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 I might be worse than you,

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 but that you and I both struggle

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 with always the need to defend ourselves

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 because we feel like our,

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 our perception of who we are

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 and our value is,

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 is under threat

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 over and over and over.

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 And so,

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 even as these words are heavy

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 before us today,

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 on Proverbs,

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 speaking of God's hatred

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 for pride,

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 we actually are going to find

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 as we go through

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 the book of Proverbs

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 on pride and humility

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 that these,

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 these words actually

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 speak to us

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 about how we find our healing

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 and our freedom

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 from our broken ego.

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 So,

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 so what we see,

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 the first point I want us

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 to just pause on today

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 is that pride positions us,

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 positions,

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 you need to learn

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 to speak English,

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 pride positions each one of us

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 as an enemy of God.

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 I'm strong with that,

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 but it's up on the screen.

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 You can see it.

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 Pride positions,

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 positions each one of us

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 as enemies of God

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 in that the way that it,

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 it bends us out of shape

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 as we seek to tower over people,

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 as we seek to,

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 to find this,

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 this,

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 our value

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 in,

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 in the,

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 in being in something awesome

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 is something in this way.

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 It,

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 it turns our attention away

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 from God

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 and in doing that

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 it puts us at opposition to God.

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 But not only that,

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 as several of the verses

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 Nora read,

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 I'll read again right now.

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 Proverbs 11 verse 2,

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 when pride comes,

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 then comes disgrace,

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 but with the humble

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 is wisdom.

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 Proverbs 16 verse 18 through 19,

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 pride goes before destruction

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 and a haughty spirit

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 before a fall.

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 Now this is one of those things

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 a lot of us have learned

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 when we're pretty young.

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 We're told pride goes before the fall.

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 And I think a lot of us

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 treat this truth

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 that Proverbs speaks of

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 as if it's karma.

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 Like,

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 oh,

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 I don't want to be proud

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 because then something bad

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 will happen.

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 You know,

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 if I'm a proud person,

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 then I'll get what I deserve.

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 And so we don't want to be proud

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 as if it's a formula.

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 But it's not a formula.

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 In fact,

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 if we stop and think about

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 the people we know

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 and the people who are most proud,

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 or if you look at the Bible

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 and look at who are proud,

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 the proudful people,

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 you'll see that very often

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 it seems like this truth

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 is not true at all.

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 That very often,

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 like for example,

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 not to name names,

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 but that you'll find someone

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 who is exceedingly,

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 exceedingly in love with themselves,

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 the most proud person

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 that is on the airwaves today,

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 and you find that

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 unlike what these words are saying,

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 that they'll have destruction,

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 instead they're a multi-billionaire,

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 one of the richest men in America,

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 and that when they throw their hat

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 into running for being

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 the Republican nominee,

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 they find themselves

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 pulling at the top.

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 You know what I'm saying?

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 It just doesn't seem fair.

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 You look at these words,

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 pride brings destruction,

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 and then you see a man

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 who is exceedingly arrogant,

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 and he seems,

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 not just,

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 he is so successful

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 financially,

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 politically,

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 business-wise,

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 in all these different ways.

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 It's phenomenal.

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 So what do we do

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 with this truth and that?

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 Well, there's actually,

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 these words, I think,

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 are telling us,

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 not simply that

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 the proud will one day

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 meet their judgment,

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 their maker,

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 one day.

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 We know that's true.

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 But that there's this misery

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 that is found in pride.

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 There's a misery,

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 not glory,

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 that's found in pride.

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 And that is something we saw

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 this past week

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 at Church on Wednesday.

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 We just happened

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 in a very different passage.

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 We're going through

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 different kings of the Bible.

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 But it just so happened

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 this week,

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 I was scheduled to speak

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 on pride and humility.

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 And at Church on Wednesday,

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 we were looking at Nebuchadnezzar,

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 and that happens to be

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 on pride and humility.

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 And we see that Nebuchadnezzar

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 was the richest of all kings

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 that had ever lived before him.

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 It was the richest

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 of any of his contemporaries.

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 Not only does the Bible

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 speak of his wealth,

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 but historians also know

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 that Nebuchadnezzar

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 was this ferocious,

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 wealthy,

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 luxurious,

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 just king of kings.

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 He was known

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 as the king of kings,

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 even though that's a title

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 that's supposed to apply

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 to God alone.

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 And Daniel chapter 4

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 opens with him,

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 on the one hand,

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 being so successful,

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 and on the other hand,

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 he's filled with anxiety.

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 He's having these scary dreams,

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 and he's so afraid.

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 And as you meet people,

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 and you actually get to know people

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 who have so much success,

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 you'll often find

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 that they're actually people

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 who don't have any enjoyment

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 in their success.

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 I don't often quote from her.

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 In fact,

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 I never before this week

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 quote from her,

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 but to illuminate the scriptures.

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 But as someone who actually

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 has a lot of insight

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 on this issue,

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 is a woman who's been

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 so successful as a musician,

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 as a pop star.

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 She has so much more money

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 than any of us in this room have.

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 Probably more money

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 than all of us combined.

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 She has a lot more friends

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 and popularity

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 and just all the various things

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 that you and I tend to find ourselves

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 pursuing to find happiness.

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 She's got them in spades.

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 And her name is Madonna,

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 and she wrote this

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 in Vogue magazine,

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 which I read quoted

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 by someone else.

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 I didn't actually read Vogue.

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 Just saying.

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 She says this,

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 My drive in life comes

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 from a fear of being mediocre.

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 That is always pushing me.

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 I push past one spell of it

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 and discover myself

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 as a special human being.

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 But then I feel

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 I am still mediocre

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 and uninteresting

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 unless I do something else.

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 Because even though

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 I have become somebody,

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 I still have to prove

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 that I am somebody.

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 My struggle has never ended.

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 And I guess it never will.

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 Madonna's words

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 should devastate our pursuit

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 of the American dream,

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 of pursuing whatever it is

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 that you and I pursue

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 to find a sense of value and worth.

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 Whether that's money,

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 or whether that's material stuff,

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 whether that's popularity

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 and friends,

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 or even some of us

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 have forsaken all of that

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 and instead we're pursuing

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 this seemingly humble life

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 of service.

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 We may even find ourselves

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 living among the poor

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 and maybe even being hippies

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 and fighting the system

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 and raging against the machine

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 and all that stuff.

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 We're not pursuing

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 the American dream.

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 But what instead we're pursuing

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 is a sense of worth found

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 in our doing,

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 wonderful Mother Teresa-like stuff.

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 And what Madonna is saying,

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 it doesn't matter

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 how much you pursue,

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 whatever you choose to pursue,

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 as you achieve that thing,

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 you find that this thing

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 you thought would give you

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 significance is failing that.

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 There's a poverty,

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 there's a destruction

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 that is greater

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 than not having any food.

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 And that is having a lot of food

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 and yet finding it

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 doesn't fill you.

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 There's an emptiness

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 that is greater

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 than having no friends

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 and that is being surrounded

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 by tons of friends

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 and feeling so very alone.

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 King Nebuchadnezzar found that,

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 the king of Babylon

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 in Daniel chapter 4,

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 that he has everything

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 a man or woman

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 could ever dream of

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 and so much more

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 than he can ever have.

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 And yet even in the midst of it,

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 he's so afraid

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 he's going to lose it.

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 There's no enjoyment in it.

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 C.S. Lewis speaks

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 how pride does this to us.

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 He writes,

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 pride gets no pleasure

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 out of having something,

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 only out of having more of it

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 than the next person.

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 We say that people

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 are proud of being rich

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 or clever or good looking,

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 but they are not.

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 They are proud of being richer

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 or cleverer

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 or better looking than others.

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 If everyone else

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 became equally rich

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 or clever or good looking,

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 there would be nothing

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 to be proud about.

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 He writes about how pride

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 is the most perverted

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 of all sins

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 and it robs us more

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 than anything else

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 in that we looked

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 a few weeks ago

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 about how sexual impurity,

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 how lust will lead us

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 to do things

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 that are harming ourselves

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 and others

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 in such horrific ways.

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 And yet C.S. Lewis talks

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 about how as perverted

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 as sexual impurity is,

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 that lust brings a man

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 to sleep with a woman

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 or a woman to sleep

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 with a man

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 because he desires her,

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 albeit in a selfish way.

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 But pride leads someone

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 to sleep with someone else

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 in an impure way,

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 something to prove

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 that they can.

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 That the proud person

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 is not actually desiring

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 the things they're pursuing,

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 they're desiring

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 a sense of significance

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 from it.

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 And so it actually robs them,

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 empties them.

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 It takes from them

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 the ability for them

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 to enjoy those very things,

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 even those sinful things.

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 In a sense,

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 pride robs people

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 of even being able

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 to enjoy sin.

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 It's a very,

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 very destructive thing.

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 And if it robs us

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 of the ability

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 to enjoy sin,

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 how much more

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 it robs us

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 of the ability

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 to enjoy

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 what we're really made for.

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 Pride is a horrible,

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 horrible thing.

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 And in that respect,

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 even though you may see

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 billionaires

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 who are very arrogant,

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 you'll find that

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 their destruction,

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 they're already living

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 in their destruction.

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 So often,

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 the proud are actually miserable.

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 And that not only applies

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 to the billionaires,

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 it also applies

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 to you and me

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 as we continue

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 to search for significance.

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 So we see that

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 not only does God,

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 not only does pride

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 put us in a position

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 of being an enemy of God,

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 we read it in that

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 about how God hates pride.

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 We see that pride

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 harms each one of us.

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 It causes destruction,

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 it causes misery

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 and disgrace.

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 That's the second point

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 if we can pull it up.

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 Pride harms each one of us.

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 We read about how pride

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 brings destruction.

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 It harms us.

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 It is the opposite

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 of what we're made for

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 and it robs us

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 of our ability

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 to enjoy life.

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 Now, the scriptures

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 illuminate part

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 of why this is.

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 It says in Proverbs 29,

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 verse 25,

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 if we can bring it up

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 on the screen,

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 Proverbs 29,

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 verse 25,

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 the fear of man

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 lays a snare,

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 but whoever trusts

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 in the Lord

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 is safe.

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 The fear of man

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 is a snare,

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 but whoever trusts

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 in the Lord

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 is safe.

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 The fear of man

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 is a snare,

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 is speaking

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 to the very nature

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 of what pride is.

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 See, pride

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 is this search

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 for a verdict

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 of who we are.

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 Every single one

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 of us is born

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 with this.

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 Again, we have this ego,

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 this perception

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 of self,

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 when we're looking

00:19:48.619 --> 00:19:49.079
 for a verdict,

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 who am I

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 and what is my value?

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 And the fear of man

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 is saying that.

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 It's not that simply

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 that we're afraid

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 that every man

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 is actually the boogeyman.

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 No, the fear of man

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 means that we're looking

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 for a verdict

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 of our value.

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 Our ego is calling

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 out to us

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 for its sense

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 of identity

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 from the value

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 that others give us,

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 from the verdict,

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 the judgment of others.

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 Now, today,

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 if you speak

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 with a lot of

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 popular counselors

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 and all that,

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 or even just

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 your average guy

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 on the street,

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 they'll tell you,

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 don't care what

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 others think of you.

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 All that matters

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 is what you think of you.

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 I was at camp

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 a few weeks ago

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 and I was about to,

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 I was going to be leading

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 for all the kids

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 a fitness exercise,

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 like dance class thing.

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 I'm not a dancer,

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 but I was going to lead it.

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 And so,

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 we were trying to figure out

00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:32.279
 whether or not

00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:33.480
 the clothes that they

00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:34.339
 were thinking of me

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 wearing for this

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 was clothes from

00:20:38.439 --> 00:20:39.159
 workout videos

00:20:39.159 --> 00:20:40.099
 of the 1980s

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 or girls' clothes.

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 I don't know

00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:42.639
 if you're familiar

00:20:42.639 --> 00:20:43.179
 with the 80s,

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 but there's some overlap

00:20:44.679 --> 00:20:45.059
 right there.

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 So,

00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:45.779
 we're trying to discern,

00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:47.019
 is this cross-dressing

00:20:47.019 --> 00:20:48.179
 or is this funny?

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 You know?

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 And I mean,

00:20:49.619 --> 00:20:49.720
 you can,

00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:51.240
 because cross-dressing

00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:51.579
 in the Bible

00:20:51.579 --> 00:20:52.399
 actually speaks against

00:20:52.399 --> 00:20:53.939
 the funny from the 80s

00:20:53.939 --> 00:20:54.339
 would be okay.

00:20:54.459 --> 00:20:54.559
 So,

00:20:54.579 --> 00:20:55.480
 we're trying to figure this out

00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:56.199
 and kind of looking

00:20:56.199 --> 00:20:56.599
 at the Bible,

00:20:56.759 --> 00:20:57.419
 trying to see what it says

00:20:57.419 --> 00:20:57.899
 about this.

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 And this guy,

00:20:59.019 --> 00:20:59.819
 this Christian,

00:20:59.899 --> 00:21:00.539
 he's one of the leaders

00:21:00.539 --> 00:21:01.019
 of this camp,

00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:03.039
 just blurs out to me,

00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:03.199
 like,

00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:04.240
 judge not lest you be judged.

00:21:04.619 --> 00:21:05.059
 He was saying,

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 like,

00:21:05.199 --> 00:21:06.819
 don't try to make

00:21:06.819 --> 00:21:07.439
 a judgment about this,

00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:08.279
 just do whatever

00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:09.439
 feels right to you,

00:21:09.539 --> 00:21:10.119
 go for it,

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 thinking that that's

00:21:10.899 --> 00:21:11.339
 what the Bible

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 calls us to.

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 In a sense,

00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:13.279
 he's doing what

00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:14.139
 a lot of people do today,

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 which is,

00:21:14.699 --> 00:21:14.819
 okay,

00:21:14.859 --> 00:21:15.679
 don't fear man,

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 just fear yourself.

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 Just find your verdict,

00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:19.720
 your value,

00:21:19.779 --> 00:21:20.539
 your sense of ego

00:21:20.539 --> 00:21:21.579
 from yourself.

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 That's what determines

00:21:22.859 --> 00:21:24.000
 your verdict

00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:24.699
 of who you are.

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 But,

00:21:26.539 --> 00:21:27.819
 these words about

00:21:27.819 --> 00:21:28.459
 fearing man,

00:21:28.679 --> 00:21:29.500
 them being a trap,

00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:30.679
 is a trap for us,

00:21:30.819 --> 00:21:31.599
 whether it's that

00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:32.379
 we're fearing the opinion

00:21:32.379 --> 00:21:32.799
 of others,

00:21:32.859 --> 00:21:33.599
 we're looking to others

00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:34.139
 for value,

00:21:34.339 --> 00:21:34.959
 or we're looking to

00:21:34.959 --> 00:21:35.799
 ourselves for value.

00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:36.519
 Either way,

00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:37.179
 it's a trap.

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 And it's a trap

00:21:38.099 --> 00:21:39.039
 because there's such

00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:40.019
 promise in that.

00:21:40.099 --> 00:21:41.159
 If you've ever tasted

00:21:41.159 --> 00:21:42.000
 praise from people,

00:21:42.059 --> 00:21:42.639
 if you've ever received

00:21:42.639 --> 00:21:43.419
 praise from someone,

00:21:43.699 --> 00:21:44.619
 others or from a sense

00:21:44.619 --> 00:21:45.240
 from yourself,

00:21:45.679 --> 00:21:47.359
 it feels so good

00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:47.959
 for a moment.

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 And so we continue to pursue

00:21:49.860 --> 00:21:50.100
 that,

00:21:50.100 --> 00:21:51.140
 pursue people thinking

00:21:51.140 --> 00:21:51.759
 highly of us,

00:21:51.860 --> 00:21:53.259
 or pursuing ourselves

00:21:53.259 --> 00:21:54.160
 thinking highly of us.

00:21:54.259 --> 00:21:55.100
 But what we find

00:21:55.100 --> 00:21:55.779
 and what Madonna

00:21:55.779 --> 00:21:56.720
 found to be true

00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:57.720
 is that it's a trap,

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 that it never satisfies,

00:21:59.660 --> 00:22:00.519
 that it's never enough.

00:22:00.600 --> 00:22:01.460
 And we have this

00:22:01.460 --> 00:22:02.299
 relentless,

00:22:02.840 --> 00:22:03.600
 never-ending

00:22:03.600 --> 00:22:04.960
 pursuit of significance,

00:22:05.380 --> 00:22:06.700
 pursuit of a verdict,

00:22:06.779 --> 00:22:07.360
 a good verdict,

00:22:07.579 --> 00:22:08.720
 that never lasts,

00:22:08.980 --> 00:22:10.180
 that never ever lasts.

00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:11.579
 So if pride

00:22:11.579 --> 00:22:12.640
 and looking to others

00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:13.240
 for the verdict

00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:13.840
 ever solves

00:22:13.840 --> 00:22:14.460
 is a trap,

00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:15.340
 how do we become

00:22:15.340 --> 00:22:15.920
 free of it?

00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.120
 Benjamin Franklin,

00:22:18.779 --> 00:22:19.900
 in his effort

00:22:19.900 --> 00:22:20.560
 to become humble,

00:22:20.700 --> 00:22:21.140
 found this.

00:22:21.259 --> 00:22:22.140
 These are his words.

00:22:22.740 --> 00:22:23.460
 There is perhaps

00:22:23.460 --> 00:22:25.380
 no one of our natural passions

00:22:25.380 --> 00:22:26.580
 so hard to subdue

00:22:26.580 --> 00:22:27.220
 as pride.

00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:28.259
 Beat it down,

00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:28.880
 stifle it,

00:22:28.980 --> 00:22:29.779
 mortify it as much

00:22:29.779 --> 00:22:30.420
 as one pleases,

00:22:30.860 --> 00:22:31.800
 it is still alive.

00:22:32.180 --> 00:22:33.200
 Even if I could conceive

00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:34.000
 that I had completely

00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:34.759
 overcome it,

00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:35.740
 I should probably

00:22:35.740 --> 00:22:36.480
 be proud

00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:37.500
 of my humility.

00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:39.200
 And I think that

00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:40.019
 you and I can relate

00:22:40.019 --> 00:22:40.380
 to that,

00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:41.160
 that we sometimes

00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:41.920
 find ourselves

00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:43.259
 living and thinking

00:22:43.259 --> 00:22:44.120
 in a humble way

00:22:44.120 --> 00:22:45.120
 and instantly we're like,

00:22:45.460 --> 00:22:45.880
 yes,

00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:46.840
 I am the humble man,

00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:47.300
 like I am,

00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:48.380
 this is awesome

00:22:48.380 --> 00:22:49.000
 and then you find

00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:49.759
 that you're proud again.

00:22:50.380 --> 00:22:50.840
 Another way

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 that we deal with it

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 is not simply

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 being proud of our humility

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 and that's perverted

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 but is that

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 we so often,

00:22:55.980 --> 00:22:56.820
 especially in the church,

00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:57.600
 we try to become

00:22:57.600 --> 00:22:58.320
 humble people

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 by thinking

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 really,

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 really bad stuff

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 about ourselves.

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 We often want to

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 just dwell

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 and think about

00:23:03.600 --> 00:23:04.440
 our wretchedness

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 thinking that this

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 will make

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 our humility possible.

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 But what we find

00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:09.660
 is that that ego

00:23:09.660 --> 00:23:10.039
 that is always

00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:10.580
 drawing attention

00:23:10.580 --> 00:23:11.160
 to itself

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 and in a sense

00:23:12.120 --> 00:23:13.360
 longs to be puffed up

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 that the reverse of that

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 that a very much

00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:16.379
 deflated ego,

00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:17.720
 a very low view

00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:18.240
 of yourself

00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:19.559
 is actually still

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 this self-obsession.

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 And so we find

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 that whether we are

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 those who think

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 that we're awesome,

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 super, super awesome,

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 or we're those who think

00:23:28.059 --> 00:23:28.679
 that we're super,

00:23:28.819 --> 00:23:30.480
 super trash,

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 that either way

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 it's this broken ego

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 that's always drawing

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 attention to itself.

00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:38.419
 in a pursuit

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 of trying to become

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 a humble person

00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:40.399
 as a teenager,

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 I used to always be

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 saying under my breath

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 about myself

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 and I thought

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 this was good spirituality.

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 I thought this was

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 walking with God.

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 I'm a wretch.

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 I'm a wretch.

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 I used to always be saying

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 that something would happen.

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 I'm like,

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 I'm a wretch.

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 I'm broke.

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 I'm a wretch.

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 I'd always be saying

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 these things

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 and some of the things

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 I was saying

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 some of it is bordering

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 on biblical

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 but it was always

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 about me.

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 I was not someone

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 who was a worshiper of God.

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 I was someone

00:24:00.639 --> 00:24:01.819
 who was self-obsessed

00:24:01.819 --> 00:24:02.819
 of my wretchedness.

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 It was still my ego

00:24:04.919 --> 00:24:06.079
 calling attention to itself.

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 So how do we become

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 free of this?

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 Well, Proverbs 11.2 says

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 what we already read,

00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:12.019
 when pride comes

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 then comes disgrace

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 but with the humble

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 is wisdom.

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 Proverbs 22.4 says

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 the reward for humility

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 and the fear of the Lord

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 is riches and honor of life.

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 We see that humility

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 is in a sense

00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:26.539
 synonymous with wisdom.

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 We see that humility

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 is synonymous

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 with the fear of the Lord.

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 Why is that?

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 Because each of us

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 is searching for this verdict

00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:35.279
 and so many of us

00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:36.360
 our ego is broken

00:24:36.360 --> 00:24:37.640
 and it's always relentlessly

00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:38.840
 trying to find that verdict

00:24:38.840 --> 00:24:39.500
 for ourselves

00:24:39.500 --> 00:24:40.680
 to illustrate

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 what it means

00:24:41.180 --> 00:24:42.220
 to be fearing God.

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 And Paul,

00:24:44.080 --> 00:24:44.800
 the Apostle Paul

00:24:44.800 --> 00:24:46.060
 is an amazing example

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 of someone

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 who is truly

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 a humble person.

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 In 1 Corinthians 4.3

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 he says

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 he's rebuking

00:24:52.460 --> 00:24:52.920
 the Corinthians

00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:54.460
 for competing

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 with each other

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 for their verdict

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 of their significance.

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 And he says

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 but with me

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 it is a very small thing

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 that I should be judged

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 by you

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 or by any human court.

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 In fact,

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 I do not even judge myself.

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 So he's saying

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 I don't actually look

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 for my verdict and value

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 from any one of you

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 from any one of you

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 nor am I trying to

00:25:12.579 --> 00:25:13.900
 find the verdict

00:25:13.900 --> 00:25:15.319
 from what I think of myself.

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 No,

00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:16.339
 it doesn't matter.

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 Instead he says

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 but I'm not thereby acquitted

00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:21.539
 by the fact

00:25:21.539 --> 00:25:22.339
 that he doesn't judge himself.

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 He says no,

00:25:22.859 --> 00:25:23.519
 it is the Lord

00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:24.339
 who judges me.

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 He's saying

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 I'm looking for my verdict

00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:27.059
 of who I am

00:25:27.059 --> 00:25:27.919
 from God.

00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:29.559
 Now,

00:25:29.719 --> 00:25:30.379
 that might sound

00:25:30.379 --> 00:25:31.319
 really freeing at first

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 but if you think about it

00:25:32.379 --> 00:25:34.519
 God knows each one of us

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 and the depravity of ourselves

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 so much more

00:25:36.579 --> 00:25:37.500
 than any one of us.

00:25:39.719 --> 00:25:40.399
 God knows

00:25:40.399 --> 00:25:41.379
 the wickedness of our hearts

00:25:41.379 --> 00:25:42.199
 even more than you and I

00:25:42.199 --> 00:25:42.959
 can ever imagine.

00:25:43.419 --> 00:25:44.479
 And so when he turns his attention

00:25:44.479 --> 00:25:45.459
 to a verdict from God

00:25:45.459 --> 00:25:46.759
 that might sound good at first

00:25:46.759 --> 00:25:47.319
 but then you think

00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:47.639
 oh no,

00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:48.539
 God actually knows.

00:25:49.379 --> 00:25:50.459
 When everyone else

00:25:50.459 --> 00:25:51.359
 is fooled by my politeness

00:25:51.919 --> 00:25:53.079
 and when I seem like

00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:53.799
 I'm caring for people

00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:54.559
 but I'm actually doing it

00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:56.159
 for the desire of praise

00:25:56.159 --> 00:25:57.379
 God sees that.

00:25:57.700 --> 00:25:58.099
 So in a sense

00:25:58.099 --> 00:25:59.000
 God being our judge

00:25:59.000 --> 00:25:59.779
 should actually fill us

00:25:59.779 --> 00:26:00.579
 with more fear

00:26:00.579 --> 00:26:01.960
 and more insecurity

00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:02.440
 in a sense

00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:03.619
 than if it was

00:26:03.619 --> 00:26:04.919
 us fearing man.

00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:06.440
 Except that Paul

00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:08.460
 knows reality

00:26:08.460 --> 00:26:09.419
 and he knows

00:26:09.419 --> 00:26:10.720
 that the good news

00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:11.759
 isn't just an idea

00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:12.559
 it's the reality

00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:14.200
 that Jesus has actually

00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:17.000
 achieved the perfect verdict

00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:17.899
 that he lived

00:26:17.899 --> 00:26:18.819
 the perfect life

00:26:18.819 --> 00:26:19.940
 and that Jesus

00:26:19.940 --> 00:26:20.819
 made the verdict

00:26:20.819 --> 00:26:21.519
 that he received

00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:22.559
 God said over Jesus

00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:23.779
 this is my son

00:26:23.779 --> 00:26:24.480
 whom I love

00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:25.960
 and whom I am well pleased.

00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:27.359
 And by Jesus dying

00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:27.920
 on the cross

00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:28.819
 we all know the story

00:26:28.819 --> 00:26:30.259
 we celebrate every Easter

00:26:30.259 --> 00:26:31.339
 and every communion service

00:26:31.339 --> 00:26:32.759
 that Jesus died on the cross

00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:34.160
 Jesus did that

00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:35.319
 in order that we might

00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:36.420
 receive that verdict

00:26:36.420 --> 00:26:38.339
 from that Jesus deserves.

00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:39.539
 That the verdict

00:26:39.539 --> 00:26:40.099
 over Jesus

00:26:40.099 --> 00:26:40.680
 that God says

00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:41.920
 this is my son

00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:43.500
 with who I am well pleased

00:26:43.500 --> 00:26:44.200
 that you and I

00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:45.019
 can actually receive

00:26:45.019 --> 00:26:45.940
 that verdict

00:26:45.940 --> 00:26:47.500
 that value

00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:48.359
 of who we are

00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:49.399
 is the value

00:26:49.399 --> 00:26:50.379
 that Jesus has

00:26:50.379 --> 00:26:51.899
 that we receive that

00:26:51.900 --> 00:26:53.980
 as we turn from

00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:55.280
 our own self-obsession

00:26:55.280 --> 00:26:55.800
 and turn from

00:26:55.800 --> 00:26:56.740
 our own sin way

00:26:56.740 --> 00:26:58.420
 and we look to God

00:26:58.420 --> 00:26:59.940
 as we pray to him

00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:00.580
 for forgiveness

00:27:00.580 --> 00:27:01.680
 and look to him

00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:02.259
 for life

00:27:02.259 --> 00:27:03.420
 and trust in him

00:27:03.420 --> 00:27:04.700
 we receive what Jesus

00:27:04.700 --> 00:27:05.940
 has made possible.

00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:07.280
 And as Paul

00:27:07.280 --> 00:27:08.420
 does that

00:27:08.420 --> 00:27:09.420
 that's becoming a Christian

00:27:09.420 --> 00:27:10.400
 Paul has become

00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:11.480
 a follower of Jesus

00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:13.019
 and receives Jesus' verdict

00:27:13.019 --> 00:27:14.259
 he no longer

00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:15.160
 has this broken ego

00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:15.920
 that's always calling

00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:16.820
 attention to itself.

00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:18.480
 2 Timothy

00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:19.700
 is Paul's final letter

00:27:19.700 --> 00:27:20.420
 before he dies

00:27:20.420 --> 00:27:21.200
 and I know that

00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:21.920
 when he's chained

00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:22.700
 to a wall in that letter

00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:23.960
 and it's incredible

00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:24.759
 how that letter

00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:26.079
 which is where Paul

00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:27.240
 has so much to be

00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:27.680
 in a sense

00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:28.539
 unthankful for

00:27:28.539 --> 00:27:29.400
 he's going through

00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:30.180
 such hard times

00:27:30.180 --> 00:27:31.140
 instead the letter

00:27:31.140 --> 00:27:32.599
 bursts with Paul's

00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:33.480
 love for the Lord

00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:34.779
 and his concern

00:27:34.779 --> 00:27:35.839
 for Timothy's well-being.

00:27:36.339 --> 00:27:37.160
 How do you be someone

00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:37.559
 that when you're going

00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:38.720
 through your worst day ever

00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:39.759
 you're actually concerned

00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:40.599
 about someone else

00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:41.220
 you're not just there

00:27:41.220 --> 00:27:41.839
 to just pour out

00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:42.400
 all your lament?

00:27:42.940 --> 00:27:44.180
 It's because Paul's ego

00:27:44.180 --> 00:27:44.940
 was healed.

00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:47.240
 Paul had a healed self

00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:48.759
 a healed understanding

00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:49.380
 of who he was

00:27:49.380 --> 00:27:50.059
 that it wasn't

00:27:50.059 --> 00:27:50.859
 bent out of shape

00:27:50.859 --> 00:27:51.460
 always trying to

00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:52.200
 call attention to itself

00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:53.539
 instead because he had

00:27:53.539 --> 00:27:54.700
 become someone

00:27:54.700 --> 00:27:55.559
 who was actually humble

00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:57.460
 whose view was on God

00:27:57.460 --> 00:27:58.519
 his life was on God

00:27:58.519 --> 00:27:59.640
 whose attention was on him

00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:00.539
 his fear was of him

00:28:00.539 --> 00:28:01.859
 he was able to therefore

00:28:01.859 --> 00:28:02.880
 be someone genuinely

00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:04.640
 interested in other people.

00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:08.779
 C.S. Lewis writes

00:28:08.779 --> 00:28:10.039
 in that famous chapter

00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:11.480
 on pride and humility

00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:12.740
 how if you ever meet

00:28:12.740 --> 00:28:13.660
 a truly humble person

00:28:13.660 --> 00:28:14.859
 you probably didn't realize

00:28:14.859 --> 00:28:15.720
 you're a humble person.

00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:16.660
 He writes how

00:28:16.660 --> 00:28:17.920
 it's not the person

00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:19.320
 who is always speaking

00:28:19.320 --> 00:28:20.259
 of their wretchedness

00:28:20.259 --> 00:28:21.240
 that is a humble person

00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:22.320
 but that person again

00:28:22.320 --> 00:28:23.320
 is actually quite self

00:28:23.320 --> 00:28:24.779
 obsessed with their wretchedness.

00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:26.720
 Rather you wouldn't notice it

00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:27.700
 because the humble person

00:28:27.700 --> 00:28:28.160
 would be someone

00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:29.279
 who's actually genuinely

00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:30.279
 interested in you.

00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:31.200
 He's genuinely interested

00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:31.860
 in other people.

00:28:32.540 --> 00:28:33.220
 Lewis writes that

00:28:33.220 --> 00:28:33.980
 a humble person

00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:34.500
 is not someone

00:28:34.500 --> 00:28:35.960
 who thinks less of themselves

00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:36.980
 it's someone

00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:38.680
 who thinks of themselves less.

00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:40.340
 That a humble person

00:28:40.340 --> 00:28:40.720
 isn't someone

00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:42.040
 who thinks less of themselves

00:28:42.040 --> 00:28:43.240
 it's someone

00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:44.900
 who thinks of themselves less.

00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:46.360
 that as our ego

00:28:46.360 --> 00:28:47.140
 becomes healed

00:28:47.140 --> 00:28:48.320
 as we receive

00:28:48.320 --> 00:28:49.080
 a verdict

00:28:49.080 --> 00:28:49.640
 from what God

00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:50.360
 thinks of us

00:28:50.360 --> 00:28:51.640
 we become people

00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:52.560
 who are actually able

00:28:52.560 --> 00:28:53.600
 to turn our attention

00:28:53.600 --> 00:28:54.620
 away from ourselves.

00:28:55.420 --> 00:28:56.220
 We're actually able

00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:57.120
 to find freedom.

00:28:58.200 --> 00:28:59.140
 And as our attention

00:28:59.140 --> 00:28:59.620
 turns away

00:28:59.620 --> 00:29:00.280
 from always trying

00:29:00.280 --> 00:29:00.900
 to get that verdict

00:29:00.900 --> 00:29:01.680
 from other people

00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:02.840
 we're actually

00:29:02.840 --> 00:29:04.100
 you're able to

00:29:04.100 --> 00:29:05.500
 when we thank God

00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:06.000
 for a meal

00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:07.060
 we're actually there

00:29:07.060 --> 00:29:07.400
 saying

00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:08.259
 I'm not trying to

00:29:08.259 --> 00:29:09.160
 have this meal

00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:09.660
 so to have

00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:11.140
 more of a meal

00:29:11.140 --> 00:29:11.820
 than someone else.

00:29:11.940 --> 00:29:12.420
 I'm actually able

00:29:12.420 --> 00:29:13.280
 to enjoy my meal.

00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:14.740
 that you have friends

00:29:14.740 --> 00:29:15.319
 not for the sake

00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:16.139
 of having more friends

00:29:16.139 --> 00:29:16.639
 than others

00:29:16.639 --> 00:29:17.899
 but you're having friends

00:29:17.899 --> 00:29:19.339
 not to find value

00:29:19.339 --> 00:29:19.839
 in your friends

00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:21.039
 but you found your value

00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:21.460
 in God

00:29:21.460 --> 00:29:21.839
 and therefore

00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.220
 you're free

00:29:22.220 --> 00:29:23.099
 to actually enjoy

00:29:23.099 --> 00:29:24.119
 the friendships you have.

00:29:24.700 --> 00:29:25.299
 And in that respect

00:29:25.299 --> 00:29:26.180
 the person who might have

00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:27.460
 much less than the rich

00:29:27.460 --> 00:29:29.119
 is living a life

00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:30.440
 of so much more joy

00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:31.000
 and meaning

00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:32.180
 and even enjoyment

00:29:32.180 --> 00:29:33.099
 and pleasure

00:29:33.099 --> 00:29:34.000
 than the person

00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:35.619
 who is so very proudful.

00:29:36.379 --> 00:29:37.319
 And so just finally

00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:38.200
 a few takeaways

00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:39.480
 of how we can become

00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:40.039
 these people

00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:41.379
 who instead of

00:29:41.379 --> 00:29:42.639
 fearing what others think

00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:43.440
 or fearing what we think

00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:43.880
 of ourselves

00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:44.720
 or living a life

00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:45.500
 that is thinking

00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:46.280
 of ourselves less.

00:29:46.380 --> 00:29:46.940
 How do we become

00:29:46.940 --> 00:29:47.700
 free of that cycle

00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:48.700
 that Benjamin Franklin

00:29:48.700 --> 00:29:49.300
 spoke of

00:29:49.300 --> 00:29:50.360
 as we try to become

00:29:50.360 --> 00:29:50.740
 more humble

00:29:50.740 --> 00:29:51.600
 we just get more pride

00:29:51.600 --> 00:29:52.240
 about our humility

00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:53.240
 or be free

00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:53.620
 of just trying

00:29:53.620 --> 00:29:54.259
 to be obsessed

00:29:54.259 --> 00:29:54.840
 with our wretchedness.

00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:55.259
 How do we become

00:29:55.259 --> 00:29:56.120
 truly humble people?

00:29:57.220 --> 00:29:57.480
 Well,

00:29:58.140 --> 00:29:59.200
 as so many other issues

00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:00.540
 we need God's help.

00:30:01.040 --> 00:30:02.080
 And so this is a prayer

00:30:02.080 --> 00:30:02.920
 I want to invite you

00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:03.740
 to pray

00:30:03.740 --> 00:30:05.580
 even if you use other words

00:30:05.580 --> 00:30:06.460
 to consistently pray

00:30:06.460 --> 00:30:07.180
 this in your life.

00:30:08.020 --> 00:30:08.640
 Dear God,

00:30:09.420 --> 00:30:09.820
 grow in me

00:30:09.820 --> 00:30:10.340
 a humble

00:30:10.340 --> 00:30:11.520
 trust and confidence

00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:13.079
 in your saving work

00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:13.879
 in my life

00:30:13.879 --> 00:30:15.339
 through the gospel.

00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:16.720
 That we'd be

00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:18.000
 people who consistently pray

00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:18.400
 Dear God,

00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:18.740
 grow in me

00:30:18.740 --> 00:30:19.220
 a humble

00:30:19.220 --> 00:30:20.420
 trust and confidence

00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:21.480
 in your saving work

00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:22.000
 in my life

00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:22.579
 through the gospel.

00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:26.259
 The next thing

00:30:26.259 --> 00:30:26.980
 to pray

00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:28.000
 another way

00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:29.059
 to pray this

00:30:29.059 --> 00:30:29.500
 would be to pray

00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:30.220
 a prayer like this.

00:30:30.579 --> 00:30:31.200
 Dear God,

00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:31.940
 grow in me

00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:32.819
 a fear of you

00:30:32.819 --> 00:30:34.299
 an awe of you

00:30:34.299 --> 00:30:35.579
 and a love for you

00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:37.279
 that captivates my heart

00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:38.819
 holds my attention

00:30:38.819 --> 00:30:39.960
 and transforms

00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:41.099
 the way I see

00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:41.899
 everything.

00:30:42.619 --> 00:30:43.159
 In preparation

00:30:43.159 --> 00:30:43.960
 for the sermons

00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:44.359
 this week

00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:45.519
 I went onto Twitter

00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:46.240
 and I just typed

00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:47.099
 in the hashtag

00:30:47.099 --> 00:30:47.859
 Grand Canyon.

00:30:47.980 --> 00:30:48.480
 I wanted to see

00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:49.319
 what do people tweet

00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:49.839
 when they go

00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:50.599
 to the Grand Canyon.

00:30:51.179 --> 00:30:52.099
 And I saw that

00:30:52.099 --> 00:30:53.700
 although if you look up

00:30:53.700 --> 00:30:54.480
 almost anything else

00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:55.240
 you'll see selfies

00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:56.399
 of someone in front

00:30:56.399 --> 00:30:57.200
 of whatever monument

00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:58.539
 a famous monument

00:30:58.539 --> 00:30:59.159
 or place

00:30:59.159 --> 00:31:00.259
 when you look at

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:02.240
 tweets of the Grand Canyon

00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.059
 what you see

00:31:03.059 --> 00:31:03.819
 is the Grand Canyon

00:31:03.819 --> 00:31:04.779
 and you end up

00:31:04.779 --> 00:31:05.419
 reading these tweets

00:31:05.419 --> 00:31:06.379
 about I never felt

00:31:06.380 --> 00:31:07.100
 so alive

00:31:07.100 --> 00:31:08.560
 freedom

00:31:08.560 --> 00:31:10.620
 all this kind of stuff

00:31:10.620 --> 00:31:11.120
 about freedom

00:31:11.120 --> 00:31:12.060
 and being alive

00:31:12.060 --> 00:31:12.840
 and being awake

00:31:12.840 --> 00:31:14.080
 and about the beauty

00:31:14.080 --> 00:31:14.920
 of the Grand Canyon.

00:31:15.140 --> 00:31:16.200
 You don't see much selfies

00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:16.820
 almost none.

00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:17.740
 Why is that?

00:31:18.080 --> 00:31:18.680
 It's because no one

00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:19.600
 goes to the Grand Canyon

00:31:19.600 --> 00:31:20.860
 this majestic thing

00:31:20.860 --> 00:31:21.300
 in nature

00:31:21.300 --> 00:31:22.780
 to glory themselves.

00:31:23.300 --> 00:31:24.480
 They go to feel

00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:25.240
 so small

00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:26.360
 and so alive

00:31:26.360 --> 00:31:27.460
 as they turn

00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:27.880
 their attention

00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:28.840
 finally from themselves

00:31:28.840 --> 00:31:29.480
 for a moment

00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:30.280
 to the majesty

00:31:30.280 --> 00:31:31.060
 of the Grand Canyon.

00:31:32.460 --> 00:31:33.780
 I'm trying to become healthy

00:31:33.780 --> 00:31:35.000
 so I've been trying

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:35.560
 to go to the gym

00:31:35.559 --> 00:31:36.119
 and I was at the gym

00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:36.619
 the other day

00:31:36.619 --> 00:31:37.299
 there was a guy

00:31:37.299 --> 00:31:38.179
 whose muscles were

00:31:38.179 --> 00:31:40.279
 I think 18.6 times

00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:40.940
 bigger than mine

00:31:40.940 --> 00:31:41.740
 like he was huge

00:31:41.740 --> 00:31:43.159
 and I noticed that

00:31:43.159 --> 00:31:44.240
 like every time

00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:45.200
 he passed any mirror

00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:45.619
 in the gym

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:46.679
 like he just kind of stopped

00:31:46.679 --> 00:31:47.279
 he just like

00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:48.039
 he caught his own eye

00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:48.759
 and he just looked

00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:49.619
 and he just like

00:31:49.619 --> 00:31:50.799
 looked so lovingly

00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:51.339
 at himself

00:31:51.339 --> 00:31:52.279
 and I just picture

00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:52.980
 like what would this guy

00:31:52.980 --> 00:31:53.659
 look like if he went

00:31:53.659 --> 00:31:54.279
 to the Grand Canyon

00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:55.359
 like would he actually

00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:56.319
 be standing at the Grand Canyon

00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:56.940
 just like looking

00:31:56.940 --> 00:31:57.639
 at his biceps

00:31:57.639 --> 00:31:58.639
 like his biceps

00:31:58.639 --> 00:31:59.619
 might be big

00:31:59.619 --> 00:32:01.159
 but compared to the Grand Canyon

00:32:01.159 --> 00:32:02.179
 they're very small

00:32:02.179 --> 00:32:03.179
 and it's something

00:32:03.179 --> 00:32:04.139
 so freeing

00:32:04.140 --> 00:32:05.840
 people chop the Grand Canyon

00:32:05.840 --> 00:32:06.580
 as if it's like

00:32:06.580 --> 00:32:09.200
 quite often

00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:09.820
 because

00:32:09.820 --> 00:32:11.020
 it's something

00:32:11.020 --> 00:32:11.580
 where they finally

00:32:11.580 --> 00:32:12.240
 get a piece

00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:12.759
 a moment

00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:13.620
 of what it feels like

00:32:13.620 --> 00:32:14.380
 to turn your attention

00:32:14.380 --> 00:32:15.020
 from yourself

00:32:15.020 --> 00:32:16.259
 the Grand Canyon

00:32:16.259 --> 00:32:17.380
 as awesome as it is

00:32:17.380 --> 00:32:18.200
 can hold your attention

00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:19.280
 perhaps for an afternoon

00:32:19.280 --> 00:32:20.680
 or maybe if you camp there

00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:21.200
 for a week

00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:22.720
 but there's only one thing

00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:23.780
 in all of the universe

00:32:23.780 --> 00:32:24.920
 that can hold our attention

00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:25.920
 for all of eternity

00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:27.400
 and for all of our lives

00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:28.600
 and that is God

00:32:28.600 --> 00:32:29.700
 the one who breathed

00:32:29.700 --> 00:32:30.120
 the universe

00:32:30.120 --> 00:32:30.880
 into existence

00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:33.140
 this freedom we find

00:32:33.140 --> 00:32:34.080
 as we look to God

00:32:34.080 --> 00:32:34.799
 and so that's why we pray

00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:35.220
 dear God

00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:36.140
 grow in me a fear of you

00:32:36.140 --> 00:32:36.960
 and an awe of you

00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:38.279
 and a love for you

00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:39.720
 that captivates my heart

00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:40.900
 that helps you

00:32:40.900 --> 00:32:41.840
 turn my heart

00:32:41.840 --> 00:32:42.400
 and my attention

00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:43.400
 away from my muscles

00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:44.120
 or my voice

00:32:44.120 --> 00:32:44.799
 or my

00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:45.840
 how caring I am

00:32:45.840 --> 00:32:46.840
 all those kind of things

00:32:46.840 --> 00:32:48.400
 Lord turn my attention

00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:48.980
 from that

00:32:48.980 --> 00:32:50.580
 would you hold my attention

00:32:50.580 --> 00:32:52.019
 and transform the way

00:32:52.019 --> 00:32:52.779
 I see everything

00:32:52.779 --> 00:32:54.360
 so those are

00:32:54.360 --> 00:32:55.340
 two different prayers

00:32:55.340 --> 00:32:55.640
 to pray

00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:56.240
 just that God

00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:57.059
 will grow in us humility

00:32:57.059 --> 00:32:58.559
 and the third thing

00:32:58.559 --> 00:32:59.740
 is that we'd be

00:32:59.740 --> 00:33:00.839
 worshippers of God

00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:02.659
 one of the best ways

00:33:02.659 --> 00:33:03.519
 to combat pride

00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:03.940
 in our lives

00:33:03.940 --> 00:33:05.059
 is just as we worship God

00:33:05.059 --> 00:33:06.139
 that's the final point

00:33:06.139 --> 00:33:07.179
 just worship God

00:33:07.179 --> 00:33:07.940
 that's why

00:33:07.940 --> 00:33:09.519
 some of why we sing songs

00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:10.159
 is that it's turning

00:33:10.159 --> 00:33:11.179
 our attention from ourselves

00:33:11.179 --> 00:33:12.299
 and turning our attention

00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:13.539
 to the bigness of God

00:33:13.539 --> 00:33:15.079
 I mentioned King Nebuchadnezzar

00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:15.419
 before

00:33:15.419 --> 00:33:16.779
 and how he was the richest

00:33:16.779 --> 00:33:18.119
 of kings living in such fear

00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:19.299
 eventually

00:33:19.299 --> 00:33:20.480
 in God's mercy

00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:21.179
 God drives him

00:33:21.179 --> 00:33:21.700
 into the wilderness

00:33:21.700 --> 00:33:22.720
 and makes him like an animal

00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:24.220
 for seven long years

00:33:24.220 --> 00:33:26.440
 and Nebuchadnezzar's healing

00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:27.600
 and restoration of sanity

00:33:27.600 --> 00:33:28.180
 is found

00:33:28.180 --> 00:33:30.160
 as he turns

00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:31.200
 after seven years

00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:32.400
 turns his eyes toward heaven

00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:33.740
 and worships God

00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:35.420
 and as he worships God

00:33:35.420 --> 00:33:36.840
 his self-obsession

00:33:36.840 --> 00:33:37.519
 his arrogance

00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:39.080
 is taken away

00:33:39.080 --> 00:33:40.259
 and he becomes someone

00:33:40.259 --> 00:33:41.180
 who's fully alive

00:33:41.180 --> 00:33:41.820
 and the joy

00:33:41.820 --> 00:33:42.600
 that jumps out

00:33:42.600 --> 00:33:43.340
 of the page

00:33:43.340 --> 00:33:45.400
 of Nebuchadnezzar's prayers

00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:46.200
 and worship

00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:47.220
 is a beautiful thing

00:33:47.220 --> 00:33:48.259
 we become alive

00:33:48.259 --> 00:33:49.039
 as we turn our attention

00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:50.220
 away from ourselves

00:33:50.220 --> 00:33:51.080
 and turn our attention

00:33:51.080 --> 00:33:51.640
 to God

00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:54.100
 so the final point

00:33:54.100 --> 00:33:55.140
 that we have

00:33:55.140 --> 00:33:56.880
 is that humility

00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:58.240
 restores our sanity

00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:59.320
 our friendships

00:33:59.320 --> 00:34:00.040
 our joy

00:34:00.040 --> 00:34:00.700
 and our life

00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:01.720
 that humility

00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:02.860
 restores our sanity

00:34:02.860 --> 00:34:03.820
 our friendships

00:34:03.820 --> 00:34:04.400
 our joy

00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:04.860
 and our life

00:34:04.860 --> 00:34:06.320
 this is contrary

00:34:06.320 --> 00:34:07.400
 to the input

00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:07.940
 I received

00:34:07.940 --> 00:34:09.220
 as a young boy

00:34:09.220 --> 00:34:10.059
 this is something

00:34:10.059 --> 00:34:10.760
 to pray for

00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:11.920
 this is something

00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:12.820
 to ask God for

00:34:12.820 --> 00:34:14.180
 and to look to God for

00:34:14.180 --> 00:34:14.900
 that he would make us

00:34:14.900 --> 00:34:15.780
 a humble people

00:34:15.780 --> 00:34:16.720
 so let us

00:34:16.720 --> 00:34:17.760
 look to him right now

00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:18.119
 in prayer

00:34:18.119 --> 00:34:20.219
 Heavenly Father

00:34:20.219 --> 00:34:22.619
 I would venture a guess

00:34:22.619 --> 00:34:23.420
 that every single one

00:34:23.420 --> 00:34:24.359
 of us in this room

00:34:24.359 --> 00:34:25.380
 knows what it's like

00:34:25.380 --> 00:34:26.639
 to try to be humble

00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:27.839
 and to find that

00:34:27.839 --> 00:34:28.559
 even in our pursuit

00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:29.119
 of humility

00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:30.599
 we're so proud

00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:32.440
 God it seems that

00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:33.440
 we lack the ability

00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:34.239
 as human beings

00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:35.699
 to be really

00:34:35.699 --> 00:34:36.619
 truly humble

00:34:36.619 --> 00:34:39.039
 apart from you

00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:40.339
 and God we don't want

00:34:40.339 --> 00:34:41.139
 to be apart from you

00:34:41.139 --> 00:34:41.839
 Lord we want to be

00:34:41.839 --> 00:34:42.699
 so close to you

00:34:42.699 --> 00:34:44.000
 and so Father I ask

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:44.519
 that you would help

00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:45.139
 each one of us

00:34:45.139 --> 00:34:45.679
 in this room

00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:46.940
 to overcome

00:34:46.940 --> 00:34:48.260
 this sin

00:34:48.260 --> 00:34:49.280
 that every man

00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:50.119
 and woman knows

00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:51.139
 the sin of pride

00:34:51.139 --> 00:34:52.119
 that you would bring

00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:52.760
 us freedom

00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:53.700
 from trying to find

00:34:53.700 --> 00:34:54.079
 a verdict

00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:55.240
 in the value

00:34:55.240 --> 00:34:55.679
 and opinion

00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:56.400
 others give us

00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:57.000
 or that ourselves

00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:57.480
 give us

00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:58.099
 that instead

00:34:58.099 --> 00:34:59.079
 we would look

00:34:59.079 --> 00:34:59.559
 to you

00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:01.119
 that like Nebuchadnezzar

00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:02.099
 you would heal us

00:35:02.099 --> 00:35:02.420
 God

00:35:02.420 --> 00:35:03.380
 from our

00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:04.780
 self-obsession

00:35:04.780 --> 00:35:06.000
 that you would

00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:06.920
 restore to us

00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:08.200
 the joy

00:35:08.200 --> 00:35:08.980
 and the meaning

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 and the purpose

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 and the lives

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 that we were made for

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 that each one of us

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 would truly be lovers

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 and worshippers

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 of you

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 God that you would

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 grow in us

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 a humble

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 trust and confidence

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 in the finished work

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 of Jesus

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 and the verdict

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 we receive

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 from you

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 through him

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 and that you would

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 captivate our hearts

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 that you would

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 hold our attention

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 and you would

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 transform the way

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 we see everything

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 that we might be people

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 fully alive in you

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 for your glory

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 and for the good

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 of this world

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 in Jesus name

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 Amen