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#688: Meekness and Humility · Zion Word Ministries International Podcast

• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, verse 5 today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Likewise, the elders submit yourselves to the elder.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yea, all of you submit.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: Be subject one to another.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: Be clothed in humility, and God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that good news?
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's good news if you're humble, but bad news if you're proud.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: So humble yourself, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's not enough to say a sinner's prayer and just get up and go your own way again.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: If there was no change, you didn't get it.
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  SPEAKER_01: The only way a person can be right with God is to submit himself or herself to the Lordship of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is no other way to be saved.
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  SPEAKER_01: That requires some humility.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, we're so proud of our humility.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: Aren't we?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: I need to say that again.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's been on me all week.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: You got it the first time, didn't you?
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: These guys walking around all puffed up.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: They're getting ready to have their bloom popped by the Holy Spirit and go all the way down to nothing.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Matthew 5, 5 then.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: So the challenge today is to not act humble, but be humble.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: And you can you can when a preacher walks to the pulpit to preach, you can tell if he's humble or arrogant and proud.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just by body language.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't take much discernment to figure that out, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: I pick up on all these things with people.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've learned.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in Matthew 5, 5, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now that will totally take place in the future.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right now, we're heading that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one day we're going to completely take over and inherit the entire earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right now we don't have it yet.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: Satan's still got his ugly paws in here, and he's the one causing all this trouble in this earth that we live on.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the word meek and humble are somewhat the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: The word meek means to be, everybody's saying meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, we want to be meek, don't we?
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're going to inherit the earth if we're meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: Have a mild disposition.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know a lot of hellcats.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know very many people that's got a mild disposition.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Monty's pretty mild, his disposition.
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  SPEAKER_01: It takes a lot to upset him, doesn't it, Joanne?
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: A lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you do have your breaking point, don't you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like all we humans do.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we need to be meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: It means to be humble, gentle in spirit, and I put in the Davis theology word tamed.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: If you ever break a horse or shoe a horse, that horse needs to be tamed before you try to nail the shoes on the bottom of the hoofs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you gonna have a problem?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we need to be broke before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: We need to be meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: Moses, Numbers uh 12 and verse 3.
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  SPEAKER_01: See, we think that being meek means to be timid or push over.
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numbers 12, 3.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now the man Moses was very meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: Above all the men were upon the face of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sound like to me that was a quality that God approved of.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because Moses was a warrior, but yet he was meek above all the men on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's saying something.
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  SPEAKER_01: No pushover.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then in Psalms 76, 9, when God arose to judgment to save all the meek of the earth, Shila.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: So it would behoove us today to make sure we were we remain in a meek disposition.
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  SPEAKER_01: Slow to speak.
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  SPEAKER_01: Slow to speak.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then of course we get the word humble.
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  SPEAKER_01: The word humble means of a low degree.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, we are to prefer our others above ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: The pastors were not on top, he's on the bottom.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is no top in the ministry.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're down at the foundation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all the weight's on you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just the opposite of religion.
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  SPEAKER_01: It means to be of low degree, not a haughty person.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you know anybody is haughty?
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  SPEAKER_01: We're probably thinking of somebody right about now, but that means not to show oneself above others.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: Philippians 2, 3.
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  SPEAKER_01: We need to be careful about how we conduct ourselves on life's journey.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because God is watching.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we want to be promoted in the kingdom of God, we need to develop these qualities that come to us only by the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because man does not have these characteristics within himself, it comes from the man, Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's the one that gives us these qualities.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, the fruit of the Spirit is much involved in these characteristics of a godly person.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, he's still working on us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Philippians 2, 3 then.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in loneliness and of mind, let each other esteem others better than themselves.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: If I can read this morning, and so you're better than me.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: You're better than me.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're not better than you.
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  SPEAKER_01: We might be better than you, but we don't want to come over that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: We might know the scripture more than you, but we don't want to come over that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to pick you up and help you understand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just the opposite of the way most Christians conduct their life.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_01: These guys in Africa, I tell you, they're sitting there taking notes, this and that, and they're just eating everything up, and we're just giving simple stuff to them, but uh, they're hungry.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's part of my assignment and the vision that we have for this ministry.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now in 3 John chapter 1 and verse 9, yes, Brother Randy, what you said is for Sister Sal back there.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't apply to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wrote to the church, but Demetrius, who loved to have the preeminence among them, received us not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you know anybody that's just arrogant and just love to have the final word?
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  SPEAKER_01: Just love to be a knot above everybody else.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like they're starting to call me the most major general apostle.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, you know, they've got to take on this stuff that that I don't get flattered by words.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't mean much.
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  SPEAKER_01: The proof's in the pudding.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this this major prophet and this and that, and one thing and another, and they take on these words.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got them in America too.
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  SPEAKER_01: But first off, we're believers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number one.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm not too impressed with titles and labels.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm sure not impressed by doctoral degrees that's conveyed and haven't studied.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't mean nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I want to be nice today.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you haven't studied six or eight years, to obtain a doctorate, it's worthless to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it shows up in the way that you conduct yourself and the way that you speak, whether you have intelligence or stupidity.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: Now, can I go on, please?
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: So I've been known to tell it like it is, that's just the way it is with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I don't like it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, maybe you're arrogant.
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  SPEAKER_01: I get labeled as a smart elic.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: Well, go look in the mirror.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you have got an issue to deal with.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: Was it the community that God killed?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: God rest him.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: I hope it's still rest.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be right back to today's message.
• 9:50
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• 9:57
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• 10:21
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  SPEAKER_00: Way.
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  SPEAKER_01: So back to the subject now.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: I just proddered you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you get that?
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  SPEAKER_01: I come and I will remember his deeds which he does, priding against us.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's nothing worse than a preter.
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  SPEAKER_01: With malicious words and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbid them that would, and cast them out of the church.
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  SPEAKER_01: What kind of dude is this on the church board, huh?
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  SPEAKER_01: Man.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: So Paul had to deal with these things.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have the same demons to deal with in this country too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now in Galatians chapter 6 and verse 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alrighty then.
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  SPEAKER_01: You like that alrighty then?
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  SPEAKER_01: I got that off of uh Dumb and Dumber, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Brethren, if if a man be overtaken by in a fault, you which are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness.
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  SPEAKER_01: See, I'm talking about meekness and humility.
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  SPEAKER_01: That lets us know who has the goods and who just wants to kill off the wounded.
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  SPEAKER_01: Consider yourself lest you be tempted.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we all are human beings and we have a tendency to do something wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't we?
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  SPEAKER_01: Not me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh just thinking that's wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Luke chapter 18 and verse 10.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's see if we know anybody like this.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of our principles are found in the scripture, as you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a Republican.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Pharisee stood and prayed thus in himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: God, I thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Years ago, I was uh ministering in the Kenya, and I was just making it funny.
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  SPEAKER_01: I thought it was funny.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I said, What do you want us?
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  SPEAKER_01: Somebody that's that speaks like this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our great God die.
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  SPEAKER_01: And these women started laughing.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: They go, You make me laugh.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: I accomplished that, didn't I?
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  SPEAKER_01: There's so much arrogance in the pulpit, it's just sickening.
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  SPEAKER_01: It isn't real.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what a hypocrite is?
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  SPEAKER_01: An actor.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go down to Branson, you can see the actors there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's what they do.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're acting.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they take on their characteristics and they they act that way all the time, 24-7.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like those guys imitated the Beatles.
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  SPEAKER_01: They talk like them, act like them, look like them 24-7.
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  SPEAKER_01: They took on another demeanor.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we're going to take on any demeanor, let's take on the demeanor of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can I have an amen?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what we need.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the goal.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's working on us.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: But these two dudes went up to pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this Pharisee stood and he prayed thus with himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Self-righteousness, uh-uh.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's pride.
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  SPEAKER_01: God, I thank you that I'm not like the other men are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Republican.
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  SPEAKER_01: I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all I possess.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: He was a spiritual dude, wasn't he?
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't mean a thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I didn't mention Democrats.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm nice today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, another church renamed the Democrats.
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  SPEAKER_01: Should I tell you what it is?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I can't do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can ask me after church if you want to really know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the the Republican standing afar off would not lift his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me, a sinner.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now he wasn't arrogant and proud, was he?
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  SPEAKER_01: I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other.
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  SPEAKER_01: For everyone that exalts himself shall be abased.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: He that humbles himself shall be exalted.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's still in effect today.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's too much self-exaltation, self-righteousness in the church.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the church us.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the ministries.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if they don't humble themselves on the hand of God, God's going to humble them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And everything caves in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because the Lord will not tolerate that very long.
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  SPEAKER_01: He gives people space to repent.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then if they refuse, then it's downhill from there.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Well, drop down to verse 13, then.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the publican standing afar off would not lift up his eyes into heaven.
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  SPEAKER_01: Smote upon his breast, said, God be mercy for me a sinner.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, I read that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he uh went to his house justified, did he not?
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  SPEAKER_01: And the other one, well, it was crispy critter time.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: Then in Matthew chapter 11 and verse 29, um, I'm I'm hurrying today because we lost an hour.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or did we gain an hour?
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: I forgot.
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  SPEAKER_01: We lost one.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Matthew 11, 29.
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  SPEAKER_01: Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I'm meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everybody saying meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: Meek and lowly in heart, you'll find rest for your souls.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Christ was meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: Never.
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  SPEAKER_01: He committed all things to the faithful creator, and he won the victory all the way through.
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  SPEAKER_01: It didn't look like he was winning, but he was because he was meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then in Zechariah 9:9, the Old Testament there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, thy king comes unto thee.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding upon an ass, and upon the colt the foal of an ass.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he was lowly.
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  SPEAKER_01: He came in to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, meek and lowly, not riding his uh white charger.
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  SPEAKER_01: That'll come later.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the reason the Father God supported him so much was because he was meek and lowly, humble.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then we had the fulfillment of that prophecy.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was a prophecy there about the Savior.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then in Matthew 21, verse 5.
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  SPEAKER_01: See, the Bible actually interprets itself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell you the daughter of Zion, behold, thy king comes into thee meek, and sinned upon the ass that told the fall of an ass.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he came into Jerusalem as a servant.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's why he's king today, because he fulfilled the will of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Meek and humble.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: You want to be anointed?
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: We've got to be meek and humble.
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  SPEAKER_01: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: I need grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we've got to make sure we stay humble.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then in Matthew 23 and verse 12, we're doing good today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be a base.
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  SPEAKER_01: He that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's up to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's up to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: To make sure we develop these traits.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a choice, but then there's action to the choices.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: And we need to make sure we're following through on our choices.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: Are we self-exalted or are we meet?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: A self-exalted person really is one that puffs himself up.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: But God resists that person.
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  SPEAKER_01: Humble person, so God will uh God will make you the head and not the tail.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're humble and meek.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the only way really to be right with God is to humble ourselves.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: We have to bow the knee to God and make Christ the Lord of our life.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: Let's stand up this morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: Short sermon today.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I hope all of us today really we've bowed the knee.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not to Baal, but to Christ.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: That means spirit, soul, and body.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: We've given all to His Lordship.
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  SPEAKER_01: Have you done that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Then remain that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And God will be sure He'll help us to be meek and humble and pleasing in His sight.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: Father, we deliver this message today the best we could today.
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  SPEAKER_01: May you take it to the hearts of the saints today.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I know you will help us to stay meek and humble in Jesus' name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen, everybody.
• 20:18
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