Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
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… God crushes pride. James 4.10, God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. God is opposed to pride and proud people. And James goes on, Humble yourselves therefore before the Lord and he will exalt you. God cannot stand pride in us, in others, in nations. God is jealous for his own majesty. God will not share it with another. And when people or nations or kings or whomever becomes proud, God opposes them and God says, I will bring you down. And you see, as a result of that, His sovereignty begs for humble dependence on God. This is what we say all the time when we make our confession from our shorter catechism, what is the chief end of man? It is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, right? Not glorify ourselves. It is to glorify God. We are in a position of being beneath God and honoring him and exalting him and humbling ourselves. That is how we are supposed to live. Well, the same is true for us as a nation. …
… I'd rather let God exalt me than me exalt me. watch what he says here james 4 10 put on the screen i love this one humble yourself before the lord and he will exalt you proverbs 16 18 pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall so before you you ever mess up your life and you fall and you fail miserably you can always trace it back to I got self-dependent and self-reliant and I stopped praying and I stopped reading and I stopped tithing and I stopped worshiping and I stopped being planted and I messed up my life. But the more I get humble and the more I go low and the more I worship and the more I see God, come on, everybody clap out. You understand God deals with my pride. I want to tell you the best version of you is the humble version of you. The best version of you is the Jesus version of you. You didn't come to be served. You came to serve. You didn't come to make much of your name. You came to make much of his name. And so if you ever get cocky and you ever get arrogant and you ever get entitled, don't you worry. God loves you enough to deal with it. …
… Be clothed with humility. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, and He will exalt you, James 4.10. Humble yourself the way Christ did, and the Father exalted Him to His right hand. This is what Paul says is the foundation of living a life as a true servant of Christ, true steward of the mysteries of God. Faithfulness to Christ and Scripture looks like this. And though it may be painful at times, for most of the time it is glorious, I can tell you that. Let's bow together in prayer. Father, it's so refreshing always to drink at the fountain of divine revelation. It's the water of life to us. It's refreshing truth from heaven that quenches our spiritual thirst. It's food that satisfies our spiritual hunger. We love You, and the only way we really know You is because You have revealed Yourself to us in Your Word. The whole of the Bible is You revealing Yourself so that we could know You and know Your mind. …