He Must Increase I Must Decrease
Lessons in Humility from Jesus & John The Baptist
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good morning and welcome if you're new here Among Us my name is Gene I serve here at C3 Church as your pastor and if you have sensitive ears in the room a little one uh it's probably a good idea to bring them in the kids area if you haven't done that already I don't see any but just in case because we're going to go from like kindergarten lessons straight to full-on AAA that's what we're so some some sensitive topics here so here's the thing I heard a story about a rabbit see it starts off like real innocent and so it doesn't stay that way about a rabbit the rabbit liked to run around the forest or jungle I think is better for this story we're gonna use jungle so don't get all technical on me it's just a story remain calm so the Robert rabbit he runs around in the morning every morning runs around the jungle runs around the jungle well one day he starts thinking I know everything I know everything what I'm doing is right for everybody so he decides that everybody needs to be like him so early in the morning the rabbit gets up he's running running goes to Monkey's house monkey get up come run with me if you want to be healthy like me you've got to go running in the morning the monkey's like 5am rabbit go away Ah that's too bad monkey you'll never be healthy like me so you run run run goes to Wolf's House 5 A.M what's going on come on Wolf Run with me if you're going to be healthy like me you have to run go away rabbit you're crazy right run run run run run gets to parrot's house wake up you got to come run with me parrots like no because parents don't run so anyway moving on we're gonna go all right so run run run run run Fox's house Fox get up if you want to be healthy like me you have to run with me fox is like no it's 5 a.m you'll never be like me Fox too bad Lion's house lion gets up okay so you got to be healthy like me lion come on be like me Line opens up the door and swipe some of this giant pot killing the rabbit the other animals see it what did you do he just wanted us all to be healthy like him healthy says the lion healthy that crazy rabbit stays up all night partying and doing drugs and when they wear off he gets up he's up in the morning and he does more gets all hopped up and runs around in the jungle trying to tell us to be healthy told you yup so indeed Proverbs 27 14. a loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse there's a lesson for you rabbit could get you killed too so I told you it would go from kindergarten to straight A.A this morning welcome to real church for real people and indeed we're going to talk about humility today we could say that's a rabbit elect humility maybe a little bit of hypocrisy it's going to be fun we're going to have a good time yeah all right so I've told you the Bible is not in chronological order we've talked about that in the past you can always go back and watch previous messages so I make these charts for you guys some people say they're helpful so today it's actually a little bit easier but I'm just going to stay in keeping with the charts so you can see how we're going along sometimes you kind of gotta mix and match you got to put Matthew over here it's all over the place today it's a straight line these are all things that are pretty much not in the other gospel accounts so we're just gonna go straight through today that's rare right so a few chapters we're going to continue in John 1. we're going to see Jesus's first disciples we're going to get what I call like the handoff there it's kind of important to our theme it's going to end cap the wedding at Cana some of you are familiar with this and no no it's not okay to get drunk on the wine that's not the point because I hear that all the time in church right so someone will come in all like you know Jesus's miracle was turning water into wine I'm like right but not getting drunk so don't have that takeaway Jesus clears the temple we're going to talk about that too we get some bad teachings that come out of that one Jesus and Nicodemus the born-again conversation we've talked about that so we're going to go through that real quick and then John exalts Jesus we're going to see an end cap of humility here in John the Baptist so let's hop right in John 135 the following day John was again standing with two of his disciples as Jesus walked by John looked at him and declared look there is the Lamb of God now he's doing it again so it starts off following day so remember last week he was doing the same type of thing look there's the Lamb of God so it's pointing to Jesus when John's two disciples heard this they followed Jesus Jesus looked around and saw them following what do you want he asked them they replied Rabbi which means teacher where are you staying come and see he said it was about four o'clock in the afternoon when they went with him to the place where he was staying and they remained with him the rest of the day Andrew Simon Peter's brother was one of these men who heard what John said and then followed Jesus Andrew went to find his brother Simon and told him we have found the Messiah which means Christ then Andrew brought Simon to meet Jesus looking intently at Simon Jesus said your name is Simon son of John but you will be called Caiaphas or cephas which means Peter so there is that handoff that we talked about last week so what was the point right John's job The messiah's Herald my job point to Jesus get out of the way that's the point right so you do not want to follow me you need to follow Jesus right so I'm just that just the herald pointing the way it's not about me get out of the way John 1 43 the next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee he found Philip and said to him come follow me Philip was from bethsaida Andrew and Peter's Hometown Philip went to look for Nathanael and told him we found the very person Moses and the prophets wrote about his name is Jesus Son of Joseph from Nazareth Nazareth exclaimed Nathanael can anything good come from Nazareth come see for yourself Philip replied as the approach Jesus said now here is a genuine son of Israel a man of complete Integrity Amen in whom there is no deceit it kind of says literally how do you know about me Nathaniel asked Jesus replied I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found you then Nathaniel exclaimed Rabbi you are the Son of God the king of Israel Jesus asked him do you believe this just because I told you I'd seen you under the Fig Tree you will see greater things than this then he said I tell you the truth you will see all Heaven open and angels of God going up and down on the son of man the one who is the stairway Between Heaven and Earth so if you know the word really well he's drawing from Jacob there but here in this account you're seeing it kind of plays with Nathanael a little bit here it's kind of funny right and so you know he blows his mind a little bit really ah there's a man of complete integrity and so what you have going on here is probably a couple things do you remember Micah 5 2 we talked about that the Messiah where he's supposed to be born Bethlehem but everyone's saying he's from Nazareth not where he's born she's where he grew up he's like can anything good come from Nazareth oh also rival towns probably right so Jesus zings them he's like ah there's a man with complete Integrity he doesn't lie huh he kind of blows his mind but you also if you catch it there you'll also see that Daniel's not so humble there's a man of complete integrity how'd you know about me right you know so when you look about it that way it's funny we see that God has a sense of humor so humility now the wedding at Cano we're just I'm going to read it right to you John two one we turn the page the next day it keeps moving along here there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana in Galilee Jesus's mother was there and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the Celebration the wine supply ran out during the festivities so Jesus mother told him they have no more wine so this is an emergency right so if we have a wine emergency Jesus says Dear woman or woman that's not our problem he's not being rude there that's probably why they put deer there Jesus replied my time has not yet come but his mother told the servants do whatever he tells you standing nearby were six Stone water jars used for Jewish ceremonial washing each could hold 20 to 30 gallons that's a lot of wine right so Jesus told the servants fill the jars with water when the jars had been filled he said now dip some out and take it to the Master of Ceremonies so the servants followed his instructions when the Master of Ceremonies tasted the water that was not wine not knowing where it had come from though of course the servants knew he called the bridegroom over I always always serves the best wine first he said then when everyone has had a lot to drink he brings out the less expensive wine but you have kept the best until now this miraculous sign of Canaan Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory and his disciples believed in him after the wedding he went to Capernaum for a few days with his mother his brothers and his disciples so there are a few things going on here you see the humility of Jesus he could do whatever he wants right so he could have been going off and just making Miracles all like crazy but no he needs to do it according to the father's plan so this is the initial hesitation when he sets certain things in motion we're gonna go he has to fill this fulfill the scriptures but this isn't going to mess things up too much according to the father's plan so okay I'll do it so here you see the obedience to his mother you see the humility of Jesus all in one thing right here not to miss that Jesus clears the temple put the chart back up this is where this is uh this gets kind of confusing because it happens twice it happens in the beginning of John and then in the end of the synoptic gospels Matthew Mark Luke most Scholars say that it happens twice so he does it two times he does at the beginning of his ministry and then he does it toward the end right initiates that that passion week so that's probably what's going on here so we're going to do this later and I'm going to group those two together there's a little bit of a difference here where he makes a whip and he chases everybody out of the temple so here's the thing I have to say this unfortunately please do not use this account as an excuse to be all angry and violent I've addressed that in the series already when someone does that I'm like like you do not know the word at all if you're going to use this account right you are not Jesus that's the first problem and someone using it uh it probably thinks they're God that's why they're using it right you're not you're not God you're not fulfilling scripture and no you need to keep reading right so Paul Ephesians 4 26 right so yeah be angry but do not sin don't let the sun go down on your anger right so we don't want to give a place it says in Greek for the devil verse 27 don't give a place for the devil sounds like he's quoting Psalm 4 4. it says that too ah don't sin and be angry what we looked at the the fleshly sins and the fruit of the spirit what was in that bad sinful category outbursts of anger bad Paul is clarifying for you James 120 right the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God no okay so yes it's the sin just as a note there we're continuing Jesus and Nicodemus when we did that we talked about the born-again conversation he's this religious leader there teacher you should know the concept of being born again Jesus explains it to him we're going to go over that because we did it already and then we continue in John 3 22 then Jesus and his disciples left Jerusalem and went to the Gian Countryside he spent some time with him there baptizing people at this time John the Baptist was baptizing Enon near Salem because there was plenty of water there and people kept coming to him for baptism this was before John who was thrown into prison a debate broke out between John's disciples and a certain Jew over ceremonial cleansing so John's disciples came to him and said Rabbi the man you met on the other side of the Jordan River the one you identified as the Messiah is also baptizing people and everybody's going to him instead of coming to us John replied no one can receive anything unless God gives it from Heaven you yourselves know how plainly I told you I am not the Messiah I am only here to prepare the way for him it is the bridegroom who marries the bride and the bridegroom's friend is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows therefore I'm filled with joy at his success he must become greater and greater and I must become less and less less he has come from above and is greater than anyone else we are of the earth and we speak of Earthly things but he has come from heaven and is greater than anyone else he testifies about what he has seen and heard but how few believe what he tells them anyone who accepts this testimony can affirm that God is true for he is sent by God he speaks God's word for God gives him the spirit without limit The Father loves his son and has put everything into his hands and everyone who believes in God's son has eternal life anyone who doesn't obey the son will never experience eternal life but remains under God's angry judgment so wrap your minds around this John's got a real big Ministry so we know like historians talk about it real big this ministry is huge and his disciples are like yo everyone's going to him instead of us this is a problem for them right I'm just here prayer way for him good is the response good he must become greater and greater he must increase and I must decrease again we see here that John exalts Jesus he's just there to prepare the way for him and here's the thing we saw that John was also warning people to prepare their hearts for Jesus that was a big thing we looked at and we're going to see that a prepared heart is a humble heart very important we must follow John's example here you see he knows he's not the savior last week we talked about some people having a savior complex big problem we have in that country right the army of one like that's what all the movies are about everything right so you know against these insurmountable odds like you know it's just gonna be me right I'm gonna take out like a whole country's Army a Rambo syndrome but that's people we get this in our head our country our culture tells us to believe that tells us to be like that so we get a savior complex and we're always inserting ourselves in the story like that right we're going to solve the problem but what do the scriptures tell us get out of the way point the way and Let Jesus do his thing right he's the solution he's the Savior that's what a good Herald for Jesus does and sometimes we talked about this so I'll mention it briefly we become the go-to we become the go-to right it's Pride people are going to him instead what are we going to do good good that's our job we see here that a humble servant is always just preparing the way we see how John dressed right we have he looks like Elijah right but you know he's eating wild locust and honey while he's living in the wilderness he's of humble means also what does he say to Jesus remember last week I need to be baptized by you he tells everybody I'm not even worthy to untie the strap of his sandal I'm not even going to start get to washing his feet right take sandal off we're not we haven't gotten to washing the feet yet not even worthy it's on top of the strap of his sandal we see this theme of humility woven throughout this section of scripture whether it be Nathaniel's lack thereof Jesus is humility and obedience or of course John here we get a picture of a humble Herald in John humility let's look at what humility means ready the dictionary says humility and this is just one of them a modest or low view of One's Own importance freedom from Pride or arrogance huh biblical example Galatians 6 2 Share each other's burdens and in this way obey the law of Christ if you think you are too important to help someone you're only fooling yourself you're not that important what did he say so this is mulling this over I was like wow this is like just just think about this this is the opposite of what we're told in our culture right think about it like this is crazy town right here this is like what are you saying like you know what wait I'm modest so you we don't hear that do we you're supposed to have a modest or low view of yourself okay really okay freedom from Pride or area so I can see that's kind of a bad word but Pride on both sides of the political aisle toughed up with pride they say it's a good thing but that's not what the Bible says the Bible says pride is a sin oh that's another word we're not allowed to use anymore are we um Pride's not a good thing you're not that important what I am Rambo what do you mean I'm not that important I'm going to talk about humility today humility is also about considering your own faults and extending that Grace to others Ephesians 4 2 always be humble and gentle when always always be humble and gentle be patient with each other making allowance for each other's faults because of your love they're patient make allowance for each other's faults because of your love humility is also about yielding to others have you ever been everybody's done it I've done it have you ever like tried to be first in line like without making it obvious that you're trying to be first in line right or have you just not cared I see that a lot like we go to Disney World a lot and that's crazy like people just I've just now like started Jesus has said calm down right so because people will just blatantly cut in line they're like there are people here I can see you right and they ignore you they're just like I could see you and they got the kids trained they all do the same thing like but we can see you you just kind of head in line right you know so now I'm just like whatever just read my Bible read my Bible right so anyway have you ever tried to like cut someone off in traffic had to be first all right cut them off in traffic and again we can see you but you know the windows rolled up the music you got the window tint anyway so if we go to Luke Jesus talks about this not literally at Disney or in a car but it's similar Luke 14 7. when Jesus noticed that all who would come to the dinner were trying to sit in the seats of Honor near the head of the table he gave them this advice Jesus is like the guest you don't want there right so you're doing something wrong when you are invited to a wedding Feast don't sit in the seat of Honor what if someone who is more distinguished than you has also been invited imagine saying that someone sits in your seat and this is what comes out of your mouth crazy the host will come and say give this person your seat then you'll be embarrassed and you'll have to take whatever seat is left at the foot of the table instead take the lowest place at the foot of the table then when your host sees you he will come and say friend we have a better place for you then you will be honored in front of all the other guests for those who exalt themselves will be humbled and those who humble themselves will be exalted those who push for position will be humbled those who humble themselves will be exalted Jesus may have this in mind Proverbs 25 6 don't demand an audience with the king or push for a place among the great it's better to wait for an invitation to the head of the table than to be sent away in Public Disgrace so if you're new like Jesus is New Testament this is Old Testament kind of probably has that in mind he wrote it right so yeah this is going to be good so get a lot of emails this afternoon here we go ready humility is also about not thinking you know everything I know everything Romans 12 3 Paul's writing here because of the privilege and Authority God has given me I give each of you this warning don't think you are better than you really are be honest in your evaluation of yourselves measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us if we jump ahead Romans 12 16 live in harmony with each other don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people and don't think you know it all what version is that Pastor Gene that's what it says right so that's what it means don't think you know it all and here's another one along those lines we'll go back to the proverbs if not for others then maybe for yourself some practical advice here Proverbs 25 8. no actually it's 7B just because you've seen something don't be in a hurry to go to court for what will you do in the end if your neighbor deals you a shameful defeat all right here look we'll pair this with this so you understand it Proverbs 18 17. the first to speak in court sounds right until the cross-examination begins however have that happen to you run right into a brick wall doesn't feel good especially like after like depositions and things like that so not highly recommended all right so what we're going to do you guys are quiet it's making me a little nervous but I'll be all right so so what I'm going to give you guys we're gonna have some fun with some of them and then some of them are going to be like I hate you so we're going to do some humility exercises these are some things that we can do in our everyday lives I've tried all them out so they're safe it's not going to get you killed so you can try them all out on your own ready so we're going to start and you guys aren't gonna like something so here's the thing deliberately here's what I want you to try deliberately get behind someone going too slow and stay there yeah right like so think about that for a second just say like some prayers wherever I'm going is not really important enough right to be completely rude right and especially if you have the Jesus fish on the back of your car the answer is not taking it off just be a better person right so anyway so try that just stay right there and we talked about the Savior complex right and so look look if it's an emergency it it's never an emergency but if it's an emergency that's what the left lane is for we talked about Lane usage right so left lane don't police that but you can pass in that one the middle ones for traveling and the slow ones over here so if you're going to be a Slowpoke get over there but anyway stay in that one and do that and yes I've been told you can't get a ticket for being in the Fast Lane too long it's a thing so anyway ask Deputy Johnson after the service he'll verify that piece of information but he doesn't want to go there too much because he knows that my wife and you'll see she can get angry and you know she does that and then Tony's doesn't want to get choked out so anyway you'll see so you know that's the thing you I don't know maybe you're late for work but that's your fault right so spend some time in that lane and think about it think about what you did right so yeah and don't do your makeup and all the other stuff because that's really obnoxious along the same line of thinking let someone ahead of you in line try that out right your lane barrier right so you're in the grocery store or something like that I'm not allowed there that's a whole other story so even though you get the lane this is my space do not cross right so you put that there you know someone comes along maybe if they have a lot of things even maybe they have somewhere to go the kids crying it's all crazy so just you know remove your barrier you know be like come on and I'll pay for your groceries oh God tells what Jesus said to do not literally but kind of so anyway try that let someone ahead of you yield to someone be nice okay here's a good one this is kind of funny so I'd like throw a funny one in so that you guys would remain calm so here's this is really good parents will get this be solely responsible for a two-year-old for 24 hours give that one a try I said that can be a really humiliating experience now I can't say that I've done this for uh 24 hours because we co-parented but there was a time and this will come up again like I was kind of working for myself so I ran the online business during the day and night I would teach people Jiu Jitsu that's what I did so I could watch the baby during the day and yes so it was really humiliating like for example I've told you this before so I'll make it really quick uh you know my wife would come home and here's the thing it's only been like eight hours my shift was about eight hours and I'd be like it's yours I'm done my shift is over right so she still has her bags and everything on her she's like wait I'm like I'm out so one day the delivery guy he looked at me really weird I wonder why he did that she said well were you wearing that pink headband when you answered the door yes so watch a two-year-old now here's the thing to those of you who are not parents like it's worse than that that's like the easy stuff right so we're not parents you're going to be like oh I've done that I want you to meditate on something you had the option of giving it back that's the thing yeah you could give it back there was like a light at the end of your Tunnel right so the darkness anyway here's one this is really funny and now all you guys are gonna get mad so all right here's what I want you to do if you think you're good at a sport or anything do that sport or anything with a real professional try it with a real professional right so we got a lot of big fish small pond guys right so the I like to golf with my buddies you know because it makes you feel good so that's what happens with me right you want to feel awesome about yourself invite me to play golf with you it doesn't matter even if you never played before you will be better than me like a five-year-old who's good at t-ball will beat me like that's just the thing I'm terrible so anyway though I kind of laugh I see a lot of guys like they think they're great and they tout their golf skill I'm just using golf because I'm hedging my bets there's like 90 000 golf courses so I figure more people probably done that here anyway it can be anything you do right and they feel awesome so but then uh you know you play with the golf instructor and he like totally destroys you right it's like that in anything they'll just totally destroy you now there's two levels of humility here we're going to get to a different place so you know I'm not bragging we used to see this in martial arts all the time and so I'm going to relate it to that so you get to a point it took me 10 years to get my black belt it's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu mixed martial arts kind of thing they invented it so it's very humiliating because you're always tapping out you do that a lot more often than you tap anybody else out in the beginning so it takes a very long time because you have to be able to tap out the black belts in order to get the black belts not hit the board stuff no it's real and so it's very very difficult and you get to a point once you get up to like black belt where you line up your class and you just have some fun you just tap them all out and that's great so that's why I had to quit Pride right so I can't do that anymore so but it feels great so anyway tap out the whole room the whole classroom everybody's tapping out and that's kind of cool right so that's what it's like so if you're a tough guy the gym that I started here when we moved down here those guys are still running it it's a different gym but they're really good and so if you think you can fight I'll send you there it'll be funny uh please tape it so we'll show it on Sunday so you know let the professionals do it but here's the other tier if your golf instructor is being honest with you he will tell you that he's good until Tiger Woods shows up then there is a Chasm between him and Tiger Woods right so the same difference between my students wouldn't believe me until I saw it I'd be like look the difference between you white belt and me there's that same distance between me and my teacher the world champion I'm teaching because I have to that's the thing right so that's what would happen every few months my teacher would come in and make me look like a white belt double level of humility right so now the white belt's going what yes you have that long to go so humbling experience do a sport with a real professional try that out all right here's another one clean up somebody else's mess that's why I think it is you do that a lot anyway clean up somebody else's mess have a Christian attitude ah turn somebody else's responsibility into your opportunity ah that Galatians thing there right next time someone annoys you don't tell anybody else so if you're in the cafe right and someone gets up from the table and they're like we're out and then they leave their mess just clean it up we're going to tie two together clean it up and then don't say anything don't be like did you see that so-and-so left the message I clean the table Jesus says you just crossed it out you negated it right so it's a waste your time so clean it and shut up like that's it just do that humility the other thing too when you go talking about other people it's called gossip that's what that's called that's a sin too so here we go I told you it's going to be fun today all right so here's a good one this is this is really good the next time something isn't done your way leave it next time something isn't on your way just like understand that there may be a reason it's that way it's kind of funny when you go to Pastor School you learn something it's pretty interesting when you enter a new church like if you took a job a job at a new church you are not and this is true you're not supposed to change anything for six months to a year you're supposed to leave it alone why well maybe the pastor before you knew that church a little bit better than you did on day one right so you you change the culture slowly if you want to but but do a lot of listening and watching and there might be a way it's like that I don't know but try that out here's a good one spend a whole day not correcting anyone not gonna look at anybody no spend a whole day not correcting anyone can you do it especially if it's none of your business especially if it's none of your business see humility is not giving an answer where there was no question the only thing you should assume is there is something you might not know the only thing you're using there is something you might not know and here's the thing if you were asked a question only answer the question you were asked just answer the question you were asked we need to stop trying to let everyone know we know everything well you think you know all right here's another one don't qualify yourself don't qualify so if you're young or whatever you might like don't try to tell everybody how good you are at certain things just do it just do it don't qualify yourself it seems that like everybody's running around handing out a resume that nobody asked for right I'm not hiring you know why are you telling me that right so tell me how good I am at everything just do it just do it let your work show your Worth right not your words and no theology stop we're saved by grace not by works don't go there try saying we're going to do this one together I could be wrong let's try it right you can do it come on out right come out of the boat Peter you can do it ready I could be wrong so true right so remain teachable this is huge remain teachable remain to so many people are not teachable I am to the point I've hired all different kinds of people so I worked in retail for a long time I was a like an operations manager a district manager I was in charge of a lot of different people martial arts schools lots of different instructors that was easier though because you just tapped them out I told you about that so you can't do that anywhere else really but in church can't do that here kind of difficult right but so anyway here's the thing I am to the point where I would rather hire someone or take someone with absolutely no experience in this job who just has a good attitude someone teachable that's it I am and this is not an exaggeration or a joke I was actually talking to one of the leaders here one of the board members about that I'm just praying Lord send me my Timothy right and he it's better if he never worked in a church before because then he's got no bad habits I saw this on a sitcom it was really funny my character and if you know I'm not gonna say the name of the show but he obviously hired this girl because she was good looking right and they're like she's not qualified she's not qualified but his reason is she's got no bad habits yeah no bad habits that's what I'm praying for like doesn't even need to just read your Bible follow me around you'll get it like we'll do like three to five years and you'll get it that's all you need to do remain teachable I don't need the yeah but I beg to differ just please go do that all right yeah but shouldn't we no teachable we talked about relationships last week right so there are a couple of keys here in this whole thing right spending time together was one of them that's what we went over and listening another one and it's a component in humility is Trust trust is another one right trust if you don't trust your employer get another job just get another job but don't tell him what to do or how you're going to change everything they don't want to hear that people go for interviews and be like you know I'm going to make your company better they're not listening to anything else you say after that they're just waiting until the interview is over we'll call you that's a lesson if you haven't learned it yet do not if you don't trust your employer find another one if you don't trust your pastor find another church just enough trust so here's the thing relationship this is funny you ever do the exercise where like one person's behind the other one the other one's just kind of like fall and trust that you're caught you probably did that right so I had a better version of that if my wife was behind me her arms were around my neck and she was choking me that's right that's it right there that's what it looks like right so when you're on like a a photo set and your wife decided what were you my wife no wow that's over 20 years old that picture 20 years ago yeah over 20 years ago so that's the thing so you got to have trust right in a relationship here's a funny thing if you know anything about Jiu Jitsu it's kind of funny Trust leads to surrender you have to surrender some of yourself to trust somebody don't you trust and surrender that the components of humanity and it's interesting in Jiu Jitsu it's a really interesting thing it's something I probably Overlook right because it begins there you're gonna work out with somebody well you're going to trust that your partner is going to stop when you tap right thank you no so Hollywood's totally wrong because you don't die if someone holds it and then you like fall asleep it's actually really funny and entertaining it's great so we did it all the time like sometimes I'd be like oh I didn't feel you tap and you let them go what they do is they fall asleep they're like and then you gotta roll them on their side so they don't throw up in their mouth so just a disgusting thing but you know they kind of do that you're all on the side and it's like you know you know 10 to 30 seconds later they don't know where they are or they're still fighting you got put to sleep bye girl and so it's just a fun thing again that's why I don't do Jujitsu anymore so anyway yeah we loved doing that so yeah you just put people so you gotta trust a person is not gonna put you to sleep or you know break your arm right they got you in an arm bar you know so you have to trust and you have to surrender I give up that's difficult still less in humility so it was like worse than church if 10 people tried class like a half a person came back you had to get like two weeks in to get one person to join right so it's tough but it requires humility you learn it quick in that because otherwise you get hurt maybe we'll start a jiu jitsu class that would be kind of fun it'd be nice for me but this type of humility in a relationship leads to a good one so whether it be your training partner right you need to trust one another requires surrendering to one another requires humility but here's the thing real quick you might think like oh yeah so the black belts are humbled no as soon as you get to the point where you can tap everybody out you run with it you just tap everybody out no humility goes right out the window so it didn't work in that industry that's why we're not going to try it here so anyway surrender it's hard it's hard because as I said earlier it is contrary to what the world teaches us we're taught to win you ever hear the phrase get ahead I'm just trying to get ahead get out of what who trying to get ahead of who of what pray tell you're supposed to win so someone has to lose the Bible sounds crazy we're told to win whether it be literal fights or arguments you got to win that argument let me tell you something I've said it before I have never won an argument because I'm not a lawyer but you get my point I've never won an argument the person came into the argument with their own set of ideas that were not going to change that only the Holy Spirit was going to change but I played God and made an enemy that's it the only thing I accomplished it made it worse not better I've never won an argument but this is all foolish to the world which is why Paul says the cross is foolish First Corinthians 1. it's foolish to the world this idea and we have early graffiti it's interesting some of the earliest like graffiti we have Christian graffiti Roman soldier must have converted because his friends are making fun of him and the name is really hard to say so I'll say Alexander's God is what the graffiti says on the graffiti and it's Jesus human body with a donkey head what kind of God is that he's a donkey he's crazy well God dies that's stupid it's always been contrary to the world nothing new but here's the thing the gospel hasn't changed I'm getting that the gospel has not changed it's the same the story is still the same so people will still make fun of you if you really preach the gospel that sounds stupid and even some Christians don't get this it drives me nuts I see this t-shirt sometimes I'm like just don't say anything Jesus didn't tap you see that Jesus didn't Tap maybe it's just me I saw it right on my eye for these things wrong that's wrong they've got the whole story wrong you don't know anything Christian where is that you know nothing about the gospel that's wrong Jesus surrendered he surrounded not my will but yours father right what does Peter do to malcus do you know that was him cuts his ear off no stop puts the air back on perfect timing can you do that every time I make a hand gesture and a big statement that'd be awesome so maybe we can arrange that laughs we must surrender that was the key like Jesus did in Scripture say this all over the place not the only one he says in fact it's what you have to do to be a follower of him did you know that in order to follow Jesus he has two prerequisites the first one is deny yourself deny yourself second pick up your cross This is Gonna Hurt this is not normal it's not the way the world thinks and you may just get killed for it it's all over the place read your Bible then you can be a true follower when you accept that so the Bible tells us to think like Jesus and I'm going to do a little something and I'm going to close on this so sometimes people will make the mistake because they haven't been here for a while and they'll ask me like what's your favorite verse of scripture now those of you have been here for a while like don't don't ask that question because I'll show you the verse of the day problem right you know the way we read a book would you pick up a book I give this illustration all the time trying to change it would you pick up a book and then randomly read one sentence at a time over the course of five years do you think you know that story well not at all that's exactly how Christians read the Bible randomly picking one sentence yeah I know the word well no you don't you can't get the context like that so I favorite books of the Bible I sit down I just read the whole thing and it's worth like 20 minutes of my life imagine that right so Philippians one of my favorites especially in one section here Scholars will call it the Carmen Christie because it's probably an early hymn or poem about Jesus and it tells us about who he is and what he did so I want to kind of go over that and I want you to look for the words that we talked about today and realize that they're being applied to Jesus foreign Philippians 2 3. don't be selfish don't try to impress others be humble thinking of others as better than yourselves don't look out only for your own interests but take an interest in others too you must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had Greek Think Like Jesus make your thinking like his attitude is good though he was God he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to so here this is just you got to go deep to get it your version might say robbed grasped it's not grasped like think of he's reversing the sin of Adam it's beautiful if you read this in the Greek because you'll get it our pogman snatched what did Adam do fruit tree stole it right he's trying to steal that was the the basis of it steal equality with God robbed it Jesus reverses it amazing instead he gave up his Divine Privileges and took the humble position of a Slave and was born as a human being when he appeared in human form he humbled himself in obedience to God and died of criminal's death on a cross literally hubbled himself in obedience to death even to death on a cross therefore God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all of their names so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow those who are in heaven and on Earth and below the Earth and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father amen those who exalt themselves will be humbled but those who humble themselves will be exalted Jesus gives us the ultimate example and humility and we are to follow we're not God but Jesus is Jesus obeyed his parents Jesus was humble Jesus washed feet Jesus died a humiliating death on a cross so how much more should we be doing in the shadow of that cross let me pray for you Lord I Thank you for everyone who came today let them be encouraged by Your Word by your scriptures the truth in them let them penetrate not just the minds but the hearts ultimately bringing people into your kingdom ultimately making us reflect causing us to think that we should be like Jesus just vessels of Your Love Your Grace your mercy your peace your kindness your gentleness to the world around us I ask these things in Jesus name amen