Tag: Humility
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Are you content with your life?
Are you content with your life? The world is always striving for bigger and better, sowing seeds of discontent. But in Christ you will find contentment with godliness.
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Humility of Christ
In these verses today we see just how humble Jesus was when He first came to the earth. It was in His humility that we received the opportunity to be reconciled to God and to be able to stand in His presence. There is also an interesting insight into the concept of the trinity found…
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Humility
There is a principle that is spread throughout the Bible, both in the New Testament and the Old Testament. It is the principle of humility. This scripture explains some of the ways we can show humility and what the attitudes and behaviour of humility look like.
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Episode 35 – Learning Humility
The scripture tells us that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. It is only the humble who will enter the kingdom of God. This episode looks at the need for learning humility and how it contrasts with pride, and there is much to learn.
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Boasting
(2 Corinthians 10:13-18) One of the things I heard years ago when I was in business, was that if you want to get ahead you had to be prepared to “blow your own horn.” To blow your own horn basically means to be prepared to put yourself up on a pedestal and to tell people…
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Proclaim Christ First
(2 Corinthians 4:5) This scripture is a great lesson and reminder for those of us who teach and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. It needs to be remembered, especially as there are many today who do not follow the teaching Paul is giving us here, which is to proclaim Christ first. There are ministries…
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Beware Of Arrogance
(1 Corinthians 10:6-12) This section of scripture exhorts us to learn the lessons of the past. Too often in this world we find that people do not learn from the mistakes of others, let alone their own mistakes, and so they repeat the same bad decisions and wrong behaviour over and over again. The old…
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Being Humble
(1 Corinthians 4:6-7) In this short section of scripture Paul is trying to give the Corinthian church some perspective regarding their call and conversion in Jesus Christ. Note his words, 6 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond…
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Live In Harmony
Romans 12:16 In this world there is terrible conflict. It is the way of the world that one person or one group stands opposed to others. The nature of this world is competition to compete for what is best for the individual. In this day and age in particular the fundamental philosophy of the world…
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It Isn’t A Competition
(Romans 12:10) It is interesting that some of the terminology used by writers in the bible would lead us to think that Christianity is a competition. It sounds in some places as if we are all competing in some way. This is especially true when Paul says in places about “running the race set before…
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Humility
(Romans 12:3) If there is one attribute of Jesus Christ that He epitomized and which we are to aspire to it is humility. There is no way that any person can or will be able to enter the kingdom of God unless they are humble. Not a presence of humility, but humble through and through…
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The Spirit of Truth
(John 16:12-15) Jesus speaks in this section about the Spirit of truth who He sends and who will come to the disciples. The Spirit of truth is the same Counselor Jesus speaks of in earlier sections of this chapter and it is the Holy Spirit that He will send as a gift to man after…
