Embracing Humility and Childlike Faith in Christ

1. "In prayer this morning, what I saw is this church is going to soar. If we stick to the Word of God, God's going to bring people in. This church is going to get better and better, especially the school. The school, and it will be in the message this morning, is a very important part of what we're doing, training up children to know Jesus." [41:45] (19 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "The greatest disciple is still second to Jesus. See, it doesn't matter how great you are here on earth. You're taking second place to Jesus. This is something every pastor has to know. Every senior pastor. Every lead pastor has to know. He's an under shepherd. That Jesus is the shepherd and we're supposed to do what Jesus says. It's very important, church. And it's just, it's so sad to me when I read this, but I also see it in the world today. You see this in the world that people are trying to, you know, we all want to be loved and we all want to ascend, you know, to certain heights. But it's an upside down kingdom. That's not how God looks at it. And no matter how great you are or what you do and the great feats you do, you're still second to Jesus. Jesus is still the head of the church. And it's a humbling thing, but it's very important." [45:51] (65 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "The key to success is to be humble. But it's such a difficult thing and it's so hard to teach. We all want to go faster than the next guy. We all want to jump higher. See, I want to score more points. You know, things like that. And we live in this kind of a system here in our nation and we have to learn that humility is so important. So your next point, here's what Jesus does. Jesus disciplines his disciples by promoting a child to the greatest in his kingdom." [46:45] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Unless you change and become like a child. Do we have any independent people in here? Right? You know, I'm going to tell you some of the dumbest things I thought when I was a kid. I could not wait until I got big enough to throw bales of hay with my dad and with the people baling hay. Do you know how stupid that was? After I baled hay for the first two or three times, I wanted to be a little kid again. Think of a little child. We bring them home. What do they have to do? They eat. They drink. They mess diapers. Right? And what do we do? We take care of them. And Jesus is saying, you've got to be like them. You have to let me take care of you. You are helpless. I mean, man, my kids would stand up on a pickup truck. I'd say, jump. And they'd just dive off there and I would catch them. They would squash me now like a bug. But they just depend. They believe everything. And Jesus says you have to be like that. Children are gullible." [50:02] (88 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "We need to protect our children. And we need to tell our children that God made them the way they are and they are precious in his sight. And that his thoughts towards them are more than the sand that are in the desert. And we need to tell them that they are fearfully and they are wonderfully made. And that they are created by a God. They just didn't happen. Fearfully and wonderfully made. The gender that they were made is the gender they are. As I was reading through this and then this morning in prayer it was confirmed to me that we have to protect our children. And we have to train them up in the way that they should go. And they have to know the word of God and they have to understand that they are loved." [53:10] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "Fire-wielding faith without compassion comes from the wrong spirit. Jesus died from people. It's very possible to have a ministry do ministry for the ministry. And the ministry can forget that Jesus died for people. And the ministry wants to exist. And get bigger and better and richer. And they forget that it's all about the people. I can tell you this about the leadership. Bo, Riley, Stacy, Ashley Burrow. We got two Ashleys, don't we? Ashley Burrow, Ashley Lynch in ministry. In our meetings, our meetings are about people. They're striving to make authentic Christians. What can we do so that people really know Jesus and really love Jesus? I leave more meetings and I say, we're after the same thing again today. We're trying to make authentic Christians. We're trying to do what God wants us to do. So the people in our congregation fall in love with Jesus. And they have a real relationship with him." [01:01:09] (79 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "Every good deed done by a disciple is from God. I'll always remember this lesson I learned from one of my mentors. This is going to mess with you a little bit. But you just pray about it and you'll get it. And he said to me, Dave, can an unsaved person, do a good deed? And I was like, well, of course they can. You know what he said to me? He said, uh-uh. He said, they can do all kinds of good things. But if they don't know Jesus and they don't do it because they love him, what's going on? Right? And it just, boy, I can see your faces. It's messing with you the same way it messed with me. There's none righteous. Not one. Not until you open your heart to Jesus, church." [01:09:10] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "Superior human beings are the ones who die to themselves, who are dead to this world and dead to themselves. And that live for Christ. That's what he's trying to teach the children. And what do children want to do? They want to spend time with mom and dad. Man, I remember the days when my kids, when they wouldn't let go of you. Anybody remember that? When your children were little. And man, they would cling to you. This is a true story. We thought we were such great parents, we took our kids to Disneyland. And it scared the bejeebers out of my son. You know, because we didn't realize, you go in that dark rooms and stuff, and it just scared him. And for three or four weeks after we went to Disney, he would not let go of me. He would just cling to me. And you know what? Those were the best days of my life. You know what Jesus wants? You know what the Father wants? He wants us to cling to him like a little child." [01:10:44] (75 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "We need to be praying. I love this new area we're going to have for children. Because those children are going to go in there. And they're going to have their own bathrooms. And they're going to be there. And if you're a parent, you've got to go there to spring them. They're not going to get loose. But you've got to keep the sheep, the little ones, in the pen. Right? You've got to do it. Barnyard theology. But the point is, we can train them up and teach them about Jesus. And the children in the school have a great place to be down there. And we can teach them about Jesus five days a week. And when they're old, they won't depart from it. They're going to know him. And they're going to know about him." [01:08:30] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "The key to success is to be humble. But it's such a difficult thing and it's so hard to teach. We all want to go faster than the next guy. We all want to jump higher. See, I want to score more points. You know, things like that. And we live in this kind of a system here in our nation and we have to learn that humility is so important. So your next point, here's what Jesus does. Jesus disciplines his disciples by promoting a child to the greatest in his kingdom." [46:45] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)