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Pride Power Pre-eminence        How To Be Humble

Humility is difficult to describe and almost impossible to define. Even the dictionary definitions seem inadequate to me. Our English word "humble" is related to the word "humus", which is the word for dirt. The idea is that to be humble is to have a low perspective that looks up at other people. Actually, humility is better demonstrated than talked about. Humility is being underimpressed with ourselves and over-impressed with others. It is building up other people rather than building up ourselves. In truth, humility is not thinking less of ourselves; it is hardly thinking of ourselves at all.

Phil 2:3-5 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.  Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus

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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan

Thus I went on for the space of two years, crying out against men's sins, and their fearful state because of them. After which, the Lord came in upon my own soul, with some staid peace and comfort through Christ; for He did give me many sweet discoveries of His blessed grace through Him; wherefore now I altered in my preaching (for still I preached what I saw and felt); now therefore I did much labour to hold forth Jesus Christ in all His offices, relations, and benefits unto the world. For I have been in my preaching, especially when I have been engaged in the doctrine of life by Christ, without works, as if an angel of God had stood by at my back to encourage me: Oh! it hath been with such power and heavenly evidence upon my own soul, while I have been labouring to unfold it, to demonstrate it, and to fasten it upon the conscience of others;

He that is down need fear no fall, he that is low no pride, he that is humble ever shall have God to be his guide.

The Person of Humility

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

How To Be Humble

Philippians 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

14 Do all things without complaining and disputing,15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,16 holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

If you Keep the Main Thing the Main thing:

Hold Thou Thy cross Before my closing eyes Shine through the gloom and Point me to the skies Heaven's morning breaks And earth's vain shadows flee In life in death O Lord Abide with me

Work it in, then work it out, and only God can change your heart to make that happen.

You Will Be Harmless
You Will Be Faultless
You Will Be Evangelistic

Bunyan  I never cared to meddle with things that were controverted, and in dispute among the saints, especially things of the lowest nature; yet it pleased me much to contend with great earnestness for the word of faith, and the remission of sins by the death and sufferings of Jesus: but I say, as to other things, I should let them alone, because I saw they engendered strife; and because that they neither in doing, nor in leaving undone, did commend us to God to be His: