Failure. Before He can lift you up you must be broken down.

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Uchee Pines Institute

Lew Keith

Icebreakers

Our Father in heaven, a little promise, John 6, 63, my words are spirit, my words are life.

Without you there's no life in anything we're going to share.

So I'd invite your presence in our hearts as we try to share a few things that would bring encouragement and hope to your people.

When I came here last year, my first trip to Uchee Pines, my, like a son, not my son, but like my son Ashwin, some of you know Ashwin, I was telling him how quiet the place was.

And he told me, you know, it's quiet until the machine guns go off because Fort Benning just happens to be not too far away and so 1 day I was out walking on the trail I heard the machine guns.

I was in the military 75, 76, 77 and 78 And a time or 2 I was at Fort Benning.

And so I was on the other side back then.

My kingdom is not in Fort Benning, right?

If my kingdom were in Fort Benning, my servants would fight with machine guns.

And so when I got called from that kingdom into this kingdom, what a change.

Is it a night and day change to leave that kingdom and come into the Uchi Piner kingdom.

And then so when I got here, not just here, I mean into the Seventh-day Adventist Church, it was a great change for me.

Remember John 18 verse 11, he told Peter to do what?

Matthew 26, 52 of Matthew, if you live by the sword you perish.

It says, King James, you perish by the sword.

Now if you asked me back then in 78 who the enemy is, we'd have said the North Vietnamese or the Russians or the...

Now come over to Uchi Pines, it's a different kingdom.

The warfare against blank is the greatest battle you'll ever fight.

And the problem over there, you kill somebody dead and they're dead.

But the problem over here, 1st Corinthians 15 31, I die daily.

And now, you help me as we go along, because I don't have long.

The problem with dying to self, self dies hard.

So I was reading in James chapter 4, the subject is humbling yourself.

So James 4, Matthew 18, if you got a Bible 1 finger in James 4, 1 finger in Matthew 18.

In James chapter 4 verse 10, humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord.

John 15 verse 5, without me ye can do nothing.

I said Lord I can't humble myself without you.

Because without him you can't do anything.

Now, James 4 verse 10, humble thyself in the sight of the Lord, comma, and he shall lift you up.

Acts 3 verse 6, Silver and gold have I none, but what I have I give unto you, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Now, Acts 3 verse 7, and Peter, say it louder, and, say it, and lifted him up.

Now, John 12 32, if I be lifted up I'll draw men unto you.

We lifted him up on the cross, he lifts us up puts us back on our feet.

I came out of that army where you push people down to this army where we what?

That's the subject this morning, failure.

Now Matthew 18 verse 2, Jesus took a child and set it in the midst of the people, the disciples.

You got to be converted and become as a little child or what?

Now you tell me in verse 4, what was the quality that child had that Jesus desired them to have?

Sure, trust, yes, but the word that's used in verse 4 is humble.

James 4 verse 10, humble thyself in the sight of the Lord and he will lift you up.

Does the Lord answer prayer when it comes from your heart?

I said, Lord, I'm the opposite of humble.

Have mercy, 1813 Luke, God be merciful to me, I said, help me.

So there's a just 1 little statement this morning I want to study.

There is with many an icy chilliness, a reserve like that of the Pharisees, which must be broken down.

Before he can lift you up, sometimes he has to break you down.

Was Peter broken down before Christ lifted him up?

Was Paul broken down before Christ lifted him up?

Now the Lord to break down the barriers, that was a master at that.

A master at breaking down the wall of prejudice.

He looked at that Samaritan woman, sent his disciples away, lunchtime, right?

He cleared the playing field so he could reach a soul.

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