Humility: God’s Path To More Grace - Week 2, Day 4 - The Gospel Truth

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Andrew Wommack’s daily TV program: Gospel Truth To subscribe to Andrew’s email newsletter: http://www.awmi.net/youtube-subscribe/ This series is called Humility: God’s Path To More Grace. Unfortunately humility is not most people's goal. Andrew is teaching on humility against pride. Jesus said he was meek and lowly in heart and yet he ran out the money changers for defiling the temple. Humility needs to be redefined in our understanding today. We need to recognize that God’s kingdom operates on a different system than what this world's system operates on. 00:08 Andrew continues his series on Humility: God’s Path To More Grace. 01:15 The world’s system is all about self. It’s all about promoting yourself, and taking care of yourself, even at the expense of others. That is an ungodly attitude. 02:15 You could lay your life down and sacrifice yourself for another person, but if you do it outside of love, it profits you nothing (1 Corinthians 13.3). 04:09 Love that does not conform to the traits in 1 Corinthians 13 is not God’s kind of love. You’re not submitting yourself, humbling yourself, and receiving God’s love. 05:23 “…charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up…” (1 Corinthians 13.4) It’s saying that love is not self-centered. Part of a God kind of love is humility. A love that is all about you getting what you want is not true love. This is the reason so many marriages fail. They say that they love each other, but really what you love is that you see that person as a way to get everything you ever wanted. 07:21 (Proverbs 13.10) “Only by pride comes contention..” The only reason you get angry is because of pride and because of self-centeredness. It’s saying that if you operate in God’s kind of love, which is not selfish, you’ll be putting other people ahead of yourself. It is not easily provoked. If you’ve got a short fuse, if it seems like you could just fly off the handle, you’re a proud person. 08:34 You can’t pray and use your faith to get rid of every person who might push your hot buttons and do something wrong in your life. That’s not realistic, and God doesn’t want you to live that way. We’re the salt of the earth (Matthew 5.13). We’ve got to get out of the salt shaker. We need to be out there interacting and contacting people who have all of these problems so that we can make a difference their life. 09:26 ‘God’s kind of love thinks no evil’ (1 Corinthians 13.5). You can say that pride is always going to think evil. It’s always going to be looking for what can be wrong. You’re going to be thinking the worst about people. Whereas love will cause you to humble yourself. 12:19 If God tells you to do something, a humble person will say, “yes sir,” and just do it. If God tells you do to something, and you have to debate, and it takes you a week, a month, a year to submit to what God is telling you, then you’re being proud. 13:07 A humble person just does what God wants them to. 14:44 God told me to quit school. I did it, even though it looked like I could die. I got drafted to Vietnam. I almost died a number of times, but it didn’t matter to me, because that’s what God told me to do. In hindsight, there were so many good things that happened through that. I got separated from the Baptist environment that I was raised in. I have nothing against Baptists, but there were things in the Baptist church that do not conform with the Word of God, such as the baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, miracles, gifts of the Holy Spirit, faith, etc. If I had stayed in that environment, it would’ve hindered me from receiving from God. 18:12 (Isaiah 55.9) “…so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” We can’t always see things the way God sees them. If you would just humble yourself, and do what God tells you to do, I guarantee you that God’s plans for you are better than your plans for yourself. 19:48 After I got back from Vietnam, I got offered a good job, with guaranteed pay, and retirement. This looked awesome for a college drop-out, with no future, but God called me into the ministry. This guy needed me give him a five year commitment minimum. I told him that I couldn’t do that, because I had made a commitment to God, and if He told me to leave tomorrow, then I’m gone. To the natural mind, that decision looked wrong, but that took humility. I submitted myself to God. 22:19 Humility is you turning your life over to God and saying “God you’re the source” (Jeremiah 10.23) ============================================ Andrew Wommack Ministries http://www.awmi.net/ https://www.facebook.com/AWMinistries https://twitter.com/andrewwommack https://instagram.com/andrewwommack/ https://www.pinterest.com/andrewwommack/ ======================================================

Topics

• Grace
• Humility
• Bible Study