Embracing Humility: The Power of Submission and Service

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1) "True freedom is found not in doing whatever we want, but rather in discovering power over our passions, over our desires, over our need to be right, over our need to control." [01:10:06] (Download | )

2) "The biblical teaching of submission focuses not on establishing a proper social order, but instead on the spirit with which we view other people, the spirit in which we treat other people." [01:10:06] (Download | )

3) "Our obsession to demand that things go our way, the way we want them to go is one of the greatest bondages in human society today." [01:04:19] (Download | )

4) "If submission is forced on you, that's abuse. That is not biblical submission. That is not what Paul is saying." [01:06:00] (Download | )

5) "There's this true freedom from the bondage of having to be right all the time and having things having to things to go our way." [01:07:46] (Download | )

6) "The greatest fulfillment in life is not seeking our own desires. It's not climbing this ladder of success. But it's found in the lowly. It's found in this humility. It's found in a service to others." [54:29] (Download | )

7) "Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped. He laid it all down." [57:31] (Download | )

8) "Each person of the Trinity submits to the rest of the Trinity. God is not this authoritarian dominant God. Instead, God the Father submits to the Spirit, who submits to the Son." [01:01:34] (Download | )

9) "Jesus was highly exalted not because he wanted to be exalted, but because he humbled himself and he took on the form of a servant." [01:02:37] (Download | )
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