SWYC 2014: What We Believe: Back to Basics

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GYC Southwest

Morning Devotional

Martin Kim

The Devotional Life of Jesus

A Deeper, More Intimate Experience with God

Humility 101

Before getting into the message, I just want to answer just a few questions that came in that were prayer related that were not covered.

Can you teach us a real simple prayer acceptable to God?

It's found in Psalm 67, verse 1 and 2, and I pray this almost every day.

If you have your Bibles, turn with me to Psalm 67, and it shows us what to pray and why God answers our prayers.

Psalm 67, verse 1, says, "'God, be merciful to us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us.

And the next verse tells us why God blesses us.

That your way may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.

If you want God to bless you, if you want to see many answers to prayers, understand that God will hear and answer your prayers, not just so He can bless you, but so that you can be a blessing to others.

Ellen White writes that the Holy Spirit will be given to all who come begging for the bread of life.

Ask God, God you got to bless me because if you don't bless me what can I give to others?

There's another question that came in, Is prayer the only medium to reach God?

But then I thought about the story about the widow, I mean the woman who bled for 12 years.

She just simply went and it was through the touch of faith that she reached out to God.

It is through prayer and faith that we reach out to God.

Alamite writes that our greatest, our need is our greatest argument.

So sometimes even if you don't know what to say, just just stay there in God's presence and just wait on Him and God understands what you need.

All right, I want to thank that brother who had prayer for us.

It was through his prayer that I just sensed that God was saying to me that the message I'm going to share this morning is the message that he wants presented.

The theme for this weekend has been getting back to the basics, And we've been talking a lot about what we believe.

And this morning, I want to talk about the basics of Christianity.

Ellen White in Desire of Ages tells us that the only greatness is the greatness of humility.

Andrew Murray in his book Humility says that the highest lesson a believer has to learn is the lesson of humility.

Dear God, thank you Lord for bringing us together for another opportunity where we can hear a word from you.

I just pray that you would send the Holy Spirit, the greatest of all teachers, to teach us.

But more importantly, Lord, please help us to know how to take the things we hear and apply them to our lives.

Please make your strength perfect in my weakness this morning.

Do you men ever get irritated or annoyed if your spouse or your girlfriend or someone of the opposite gender tells you how to drive?

Now is this just a guy thing or do the ladies also get irritated when there's a backseat driver?

Now how about you ladies, do you guys get irritated when you've worked hard all day long, you've worked very hard to prepare a nice meal, and your family members, they sit down, and they don't appreciate what you've cooked?

How many of you men get irritated if the food doesn't taste as good as it looks on the table.

How many of you get a little irritated when someone gives you advice or tells you that you are wrong?

Do you know why these things irritate us?

Yes, that is the correct answer I was looking for.

Pride is the root of every sin and every evil.

We get easily irritated because we lack humility, which is the root of every virtue.

Turn with me in your Bibles to Luke Chapter 17.

Luke Chapter 17, and we'll read this parable, which begins in verse 7.

In this parable, Jesus teaches us about servanthood.

What is expected of a servant, and what must be the proper attitude of a servant.

Verse 7, it says, and which of you having a servant, plowing or tending sheep, will say to him, when he has come in from the field, come and sit down to eat.

Either servants of Christ or servants of?

Now servants spend their day out in the field.

And at the end of the day, his servants come in.

But will he not rather say to him, prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself, and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink?

The servant always puts others first, himself second.

Verse 9, does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him?

So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are what?

So Jesus teaches us the necessity of 2 virtues.

These are the 2 true characteristics of true servanthood.

Do you see yourself as a servant of Christ?

In other words, are you an obedient and humble servant?

Would others see you as an obedient and humble servant?

What would your spouse or your children say?

How do we know if we have a servant's heart?

By how we act when we are treated like 1.

Let me share with you a definition of humility that has been very helpful to me.

Humility is acting like a servant when you are treated like a servant.

So if you men are driving and your spouse says, Honey, can you drive a little faster?

You can say, Honey, don't tell me how to drive.

I'm the man, I've been driving for 15 years, Don't tell me how to drive.

If you don't like the way I drive, you can get out and walk.

But if you are a servant, you could say, honey, anything you like.

And when you ladies cook food and you sense that your husband or your children aren't appreciating all your hard work, you can get bent out of shape and you can say, if you don't like my food, from now on, you can cook it yourself.

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