The Dichotomy of Boldness & Humility

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   it is warm all right you guys i do have a word for you just some things i want to share i may not get too radical we'll see because you know what i'm going to say this we have we we have kind of a dichotomy in being a christian and what a dichotomy is for those of you maybe may not know what that means it means two things that seem like they're opposite yet they they work together and what i want to talk about is both boldness and humility now sometimes i think pride and arrogance gets mistaken for boldness but sometimes boldness is called pride and arrogance right but i was just reading some stuff last night just reading some things in the gospels and i was just thinking about you know what god is looking for more than anything else with especially with his people i mean he knows that the world's gonna be the world you know you can't get you know jesus said that we were fishers of men so he looked at the lost as fish as some you know fish is a symbol a fish is going to be a fish right and a fisherman's a fisherman they're two different entities you can't expect a fish to act like a fisherman right he's got to be born again he's got to become a new creature he's got to be completely transformed into something else that's what you know you can't expect a goat to be a sheep right goats can't be sheep until they've been had a supernatural experience and they've been changed into a new creature that's what being born again is about right so we can't expect that but god does expect from his people two things he expects us to be bold in sharing the gospel and sharing the truth of the word of god and sharing what jesus has said and what the apostles have said and what all the prophets have said he wants us to be bold and confident in our faith and not afraid of people and not afraid of what people will think and not afraid of you know what people will say or even what people might do in persecution god doesn't want us to be afraid he wants us to be bold and outspoken but also with a heart of humility now humility doesn't always come out of your mouth it doesn't always sound like humility when you say certain things you have to say but humility and we're going to look at some of the things because here's what the bible says everybody knows this scripture right in the book of james right in the book of james says this well no first peter i think well it says in first peter five and it says it in james two but first peter five god makes it very clear god gives what grace to the humble but he resists the proud now let me give you a definition of pride you want a definition of pride a simple definition pride is thinking more highly of yourself than you ought to think

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   christians get into pride more than anything else between them and god by thinking that because god has said certain things in his word that he owes us forgiveness or he owes us blessing or he owes us and we start getting in the attitude well god you owe us so i don't have to keep a humble broken contrite heart that trembles and has the fear of god in it and that's where we get we get our most problems when we get pride now let me say this too the world out there they might the bible might call them fish and they might call them goats and they might call them heathen and might even call them wicked and they might even call them evil that's what the bible calls but i'll tell you this much god loves them and wants them to be saved and he's given them an ability to sniff out pride in a believer boy they smell it quick and they don't like it i'm telling you they'll recognize arrogance and pride in a believer quicker than other believers will recognize [Music] and let me tell you here's the thing the pride that the christians have to be careful of and this one thing and it's subtle it gets in our hearts it gets in our minds but that because we're saved and washed in the blood of the lamb that somehow we're better than somebody out here that that's not and if that attitude it gets in there well i'm saved i'm not like them instead of having the attitude of you know what i'm privileged and blessed the only thing that makes me different is the mercy of god that opened my eyes because i was just like them and even now i struggle with the same things that they struggle with out there so i'm no better i just have jesus and i want them to have jesus and i don't want to come across as arrogant that i think i'm better amen see here's a good thing for christians if we get this down in us we're just beggars who found some bread they hadn't found the bread yet we're just trying to show them where the bread is but we're all beggars because we all have sinned we've all broken god's law and we all deserve judgment and damnation in hell forever that's what we deserve everybody we've all uh blasphemed god we've broken listen i can prove to you just about everybody's broken all the ten commandments almost you've either done it outwardly or you've done it in your heart right we could go down the list thou shalt have no other gods before me oh boy has there been times we put other things in front of god that's idolatry you don't just have to bow down to a statue of mary to commit our dollars right

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   graven images boy we've all had things in our house but it shouldn't be in our houses right no graven images right we could go down the list murder well you know what we may not have killed somebody may not have had an abortion but guess what have you hated your brother in your heart your murder right adultery well maybe we hadn't cheated on a spouse before but guess what if we looked and continued looking and continued looking and continued looking at the opposite sex and lusting after them then the bible says jesus said we've committed adultery in our heart right thou shalt not covet one of them that what is coveting desiring what somebody else has and feeling upset that you don't have it oh boy a lot of people miss that one don't they but that's in the ten commandments right now shall never bear false witness anybody ever told a lie on somebody else right which one am i missing here for some reason i feel like i'm missing one oh remember the sabbath and keep it holy now granted we don't have to keep saturday as a sabbath anymore because paul said in colossians that we're not held to any particular day but there should be a day that you set aside to worship god you should go to church you should worship god together with people how many people don't care seem to care about that anymore you know what i mean church even for christians it's amazing me i see it on facebook and i hear people his church is optional it seems well i don't have to go to church to be saved really true you might can make it to heaven i hate to see what god's going to say i ask you why you hated his bride why you didn't want to hang out with with the bride of christ you know i'm saying i know there's some bad churches but you know what no excuse find some believers and hang out with them right so we've all broken the ten commandments and the bible says if we break god's law then what what do we deserve condemnation death punishment judgment hell forever so everybody look at me just say this out loud i deserve i deserve eternal damnation eternal damnation the only reason i'm not going to get that the only reason i'm not going to get that because of what jesus did jesus god use me i'm just a beggar that found bread trying to convince these other beggars that they need that bread of life and if you keep that attitude that you deserve it that you deserve what they're going to get if they don't turn to jesus i mean that is the fact jesus is the only salvation the blood of jesus is the only way to be forgiven of sin you have to have faith in the blood

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   of jesus you have to be willing to repent and turn from your sins and walk with god to the best of your ability to be saved it's not automatic it's not universalism it's not universal salvation it's not everybody's going to make it there is a heaven there is a hell some people are going to hell and some people are going to heaven and jesus said narrow is the way and few there be that go into life into heaven and he said but many there be that's going to go through the wide gate of destruction but that is not the desire of god's heart god said he's not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance so god's heart even though he's going to judge the wicked and he's going to judge those who never turn to jesus and he's going to judge them for their sins and according to the law that's not his desire and so even within god even though god is both bold and strong and perfect in judgment and pure perfect injustice his desire in his heart there's humility in his heart because even the most vile sinner out there that's cursing his name that hates his guts that that defies god mocks god i'm having people mock god on my facebook pages now more than ever just moth god right and you know what god looks at them and there's a side of him that's angry and says you know what boy you don't know who you're dealing with here but then there's this other side of him as the father's heart that says you know what though i want him i want him to be saved i want him to know my son jesus christ i want his sins to be washed away i want him to know the joy of salvation you know i want him to know what i know and i remember when i came to jesus in 1987 when i really came back to the lord wholeheartedly what motivated me to share the gospel with people and to tell people about jesus and to tell people what jesus done in my life and and even to go to to israel and go to mauritius and go to africa and stand out in monkey park and preach and and you know pastor churches and start churches and all these things it didn't have anything to do with wanting to be somebody if i wanted to be somebody i would have went to southwestern theological seminary in fort worth texas and got a doctorate degree and be pastoring a mega church somewhere you can play your cards right in the religious world and have a cushy job okay but what motivated me was i knew that people needed to know what i knew people needed to find what i found that i found true forgiveness true repentance a true relationship with jesus a true that i didn't i was overwhelmed when i realized when god opened my eyes i was overwhelmed at how blind i was i mean totally blind deceived by the devil living in all kinds of sin and thinking i was god was okay with me deceived completely deceived and then the light came on jesus turned the light on he used my boss that i worked with to do it and the light came on and i saw my sin i saw see you have a

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