Embracing God's Love: The Journey of the Elder Brother

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I want to be with you and to me this was the miracle of the older brother I'd like to hope that this boy probably was too big to be held by that mother eight nine ten years old but this was what he needed there's the hug that the younger brother needed but the elder brother also needed to Res resect. [00:18:12]

And dear brothers and sisters when you are being broken and when God is breaking you, you don't have to do some big Act, no words, even if there are no tears, we have to come back to drawing on the love of God and saying God, I'm opening up my arms to receive your embrace. [00:18:57]

I want to show you another couple of thoughts, a lot of us we read a lot of commands in scripture about humility, God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, is that what you have to do how do you humble yourself does anybody have some tips and tricks how do we humble ourselves. [00:20:18]

Humility is a reaction, we used to think we can often read the verses in the commands and saying that humility is an action humility is a reaction Hebrews chapter three sorry not Hebrews Romans chapter three this is the very introduction to the gospel we'll we'll see here that humility is a reaction. [00:21:14]

We know Romans chapter 3 which is the conclusion of Paul's introduction which is all have sinned verse 23. all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God being justified as a gift by his grace being counted as totally righteous being given 100 on the quiz even though my track record and the way it looks at is saying I got point two percent. [00:21:38]

All have sinned but we are Justified and considered totally righteous as a gift by his grace through the Redemption which is in Christ Jesus and we can read that passage but verse 27 is where I build this truth that humility is a reaction not an action because then he says where then is boasting where then is pride. [00:22:03]

It is excluded by the law of faith, it is the reaction to the faith that gives us justification, so when God tells me I need to humble myself when I hear a command in scripture when I read the command in scripture when I know that I need to humble myself and these breakings are a way for me to humble myself. [00:22:29]

My humility is a reaction, it's a response to me embracing the law of Faith the law of Faith who says that God calls you totally righteous because of Jesus and what he did, yes you're a sinner but humility is kicked out it's excluded humility sorry pride pride is excluded pride is kicked out at the very outset of our Christian faith. [00:22:56]

The way to get rid of pride is to embrace the law of Faith which is to say God you accept me because of Jesus no matter how horrible I am, the only entrance into God's presence is by the law of faith that is what kicks Pride out, that is the master secret to all humility. [00:23:27]

So yes we are commands that go humble yourself but how do I humble myself Embrace justification by faith Embrace what Jesus did for me on the cross that is always my secret and God's gonna show me how much he loved me by increasing how big that sacrifice was, how much it took for him to come down to the search. [00:23:51]

How much it took for him to remain faithful on this Earth how much it took for him to be separated from the father and on and on these are the things that God will expand our heart for and as we see the greater sacrifice of Jesus will grow in a confidence in the law of faith and as a result of that Pride we get kicked out or excluded. [00:24:20]

I'm absolutely convinced of Matthew 11 28 come to me you who are weary and heavy labeled with all these rules of religion and I will give you rest, take my yoke upon me because my yoke is easy and my burden is light dear brothers and sisters that verse spoke hit me like a thunderbolt over a decade ago. [00:24:43]

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