The Joys in Being Humble

Selfish ambition, selfishness it brings people down in order to build ourselves up. Humility on the other hand is lifting others up. Now let me make sure we understand. Humility is not trampling ourselves in the ground thinking that it it can be there's gotta be a balance there. We we need to think healthy of ourselves but not too high, but the idea is we're thinking we're lifting others up above ourselves, above ourselves. When we took when we look to the needs of our fellow believers in Christ rather than our own, we display biblical love, Christ like selfless love. There can be no unity without humility. There can be no unity without humility. [00:52:01] (41 seconds)  #HumilityBuildsUnity

Paul begins by making a case here by pointing our attention first to our relationship with God. Isn't that really what makes a big difference on all these things? It really starts right here in our relationship with the Lord. And and, you know, with Mosaic, our our our motto if you will is it's for the together for the glory of God. Together for the glory of God. And so it starts here. We've we first have to have an individual relationship with the Lord that we are pursuing Christ, but then we do that together. We're doing that together and as we're pursuing Christ together, then that's when God can bring that unity that's about that honestly, naturally, it wouldn't make sense. [00:37:09] (43 seconds)  #PursueChristTogether

So Paul says because of our relationship with Christ, that's the basis, because of that, number one is on the sheet, is up on the screen, we are devoted we we are to devote ourselves to one another. We're to be devoted to one another. Not that we're just in the same room, not that we just belong to the same group, but we're devoted. There's a difference, isn't there, between being a church attender and being a member of the faith family. Right? There's a big difference for that. There's a lot of people who who just wanna be church attenders, they wanna slide in and slide out, but guys, that's that's better than nothing, but you're missing out on so much. You're missing out so much. He wants us to be devoted to one another. [00:41:05] (40 seconds)  #DevotedFaithFamily

It's good to see everyone this morning. Come on. Let me make sure I got my batteries in. Well, I'm so glad to see you guys this morning. I I have to be honest with you. You know, I honestly look forward to this time with you guys every single week. It's just so wonderful to catch up with you, to see your smiling faces. And I know you're like me, and there's probably days that you you just didn't really feel like coming. You may have had a bad week. It had some things on your mind and things that just weren't going right, but, you know, we come anyway, and then we're like, man, I'm so glad I came. I'm so glad I'm here and this is the best place to be when we're down and out and just don't feel like it. Because when we come here, it's not about us. [00:13:24] (37 seconds)  #ShowUpForCommunity

and he he brought him a generous gift along with some encouraging words about how the church was praying for him and how they were thinking about him and were concerned for him, but he also brought some words of concern about how there was some division creeping up within the church. There there was all kinds of disagreements that we can read specifically about a disagreement in chapter four between these two ladies. Now it doesn't really say what they're arguing about. We don't know. We can only guess. Perhaps maybe one really wanted Starbucks coffee for bible study and the other one thought Dunkin Donuts is the best way to go. I don't know about you but Dunkin' Donuts is superior to Starbucks coffee and so I don't know what it was. It was probably something silly though, [00:32:37] (43 seconds)  #DontLetSmallThingsDivide

Lord, we know that if we get if we get so focused on what's wrong inside the church, Lord, it will keep us from being focused on the mission at hand. It'll keep us from being able to grow in our own walk and relationship with you. Lord, it will keep us from experiencing the joy that you have for us. So Lord, I wanna pray this morning that you'll help us just to hear from your spirit. Lord, as you speak to us, maybe you you're showing us areas in our life where we have allowed things to creep into our hearts, into our minds that's leading to the vision. Maybe we've been guilty of spreading gossip or speaking negatively about something or someone, or maybe we've been allowing our own preferences and desires and our own agenda to cause your work from being done as it should. [00:35:01] (53 seconds)  #SilenceGossipChooseMission

Now this is not natural as we've been talking about. None of this is natural. It's only enabled to the spirit. As individuals, we are we have our own ideas, own opinions, own agendas, our own preferences. You know, I know there's some here right now who are really hot like me, and there's some here that's cold. You know, maybe we need to have like a cold section and a warm section. I don't know. There's some people in here who who like contemporary music. There's some people who like the the hymns. We have our own interest. We have our own preferences and things like that. And then we can have our own agendas too. And I'm grateful for everyone who serves through our faith family and serves not only here, but also outside of these four walls because we know it's part of our vision that it can't just be here. Too often, too too too often, and it's a sad thing that most churches are bound by the four walls, and nothing really happens outside of those four walls. [00:41:57] (52 seconds)  #ServeBeyondFourWalls

Guys, god has purposes and plans. He has a mission for us, and and we have to come together in unity. But Satan knows if he can get us divided within, he can conquer us from within, and we're not gonna be any use on the mission field. We're not gonna be we're gonna be so focused on that instead of pursuing God in our own relationships. [00:47:34] (25 seconds)  #UnitedAgainstDivision