Humility: God’s Path To More Grace - Week 4, Day 5 - 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. 00:35 Pride, arrogance, and self-dependence is running rampant, even in the church. We need this teaching. 01:39 If you do everything your own way and only turn to God when you’ve messed it up, you’re a proud person. 02:24 If you are an angry person, you are a very proud person. 02:51 Proverbs 13.10 “Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.” 03:38 It’s only through pride that strife starts. Strife is caused by pride. Pride is the root of all of this. Proverbs 17.14; Proverbs 13.10 06:08 Some people think that humility is just thinking bad of yourself, having a low self-esteem, being timid and shy. But I believe that pride, at it’s simplest terms, is just self-centeredness. And, it doesn’t matter if ‘self’ thinks you’re better than everybody else, what we call pride and arrogance, or if ’self’ thinks you’re worse than everybody else. You’re still focused on self. 08:07 Many people wouldn’t think of timidness and shyness as operating in pride, but it is. It’s an extreme form of pride. If you’re the type of person who can’t communicate. You’re so shy and timid that you can’t talk to other people. It’s really because you’re just so focused on your self. 09:10 Some people just nearly use pride and arrogance interchangeably. All arrogance is pride, but not all pride is arrogance. Low self-esteem, insecurity, thinking badly about yourself is pride. It’s selfish. You are focused on yourself. 10:02 You can’t deny that self exists, but you can deny it the preeminent place. As it says in Scripture, you’re supposed to esteem others better than yourself. (Philippines 2.3) You’re supposed to love God more than yourself. You’re supposed to be more concerned about God’s kingdom than your kingdom. 13:16 It’s only when you are focused on yourself and totally selfish that pride dominates you. (Proverbs 13.10) 14:39 Jesus’ actions show that it’s not just physical, or chemical, that if a person does this to you, then you have to respond in anger. No, it’s a choice. If you are focused on self, if you are proud and only thinking about your perspective of things, then anger is the immediate byproduct of that. 15.29 I think that if you’re just operating from only your standpoint on things, and thinking only of yourself, then you are not operating in the way that the word of God instructs us. That is not the way that God created us to be. It’s going to guarantee that you will operate in anger. 19:33 The Lord spoke to me and told me that it was totally dependent on which perspective you approach things with as to how you respond emotionally. 20:05 The only thing that causes anger, contention, and strife is selfishness, pride and looking at things only from your standpoint. That is what it’s saying in Proverbs 13.10. 22:27 Luke 23.24 “…Father, forgive them” ============================================ 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