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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 3: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 35 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 5: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 36 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 5: blessing and share it with a friend. 37 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 3: We appreciate you and pray put God's very best in 38 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 3: your life. Well, I'll bless you. It's a joy to 39 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 3: come into your homes, and if you're ever in our area, 40 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 3: please stop by and be a part of one of 41 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 3: our services. I'll promise you we'll make you feel right 42 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 3: at home. I like to start with something funny, and 43 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 3: I heard about these three men, a Baptist, a Catholic 44 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 3: and a Charismatic. They died on the same day and 45 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 3: went to heaven. Saint Peter met them at the pearly 46 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 3: gates and said, I'm sorry, men, your rooms are not available. 47 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 3: Yet didn't know what to do with them, he decided 48 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 3: to ask Satan if he would keep them for a 49 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 3: little while, and Satan reluctantly agreed. A few hours later, 50 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 3: Satan called back to Peter, You've got to come get 51 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,399 Speaker 3: these guys. The Baptist man is saving everyone, the Catholic 52 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 3: man is forgiving everyone, and the Charismatic has already raised 53 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 3: enough money for air conditioning. Say it like you mean it. 54 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 55 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 3: I have what it says I have. I can do 56 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 3: what it says I can do. Today I will be 57 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 3: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 58 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 3: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 59 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 3: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 60 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 3: to talk to you today about healed through humility. We 61 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 3: all have times where we know we're supposed to do something, 62 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 3: but it doesn't seem fair to forgive that person that 63 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 3: did you wrong. Be kind to a neighbor that's not 64 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 3: treating you right. Volunteer at the hospital. Even though nobody 65 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 3: is saying thank you, everything on the inside will say 66 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 3: I'm not forgiving them. It was their fault. They need 67 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 3: to ask me for forgiveness. I'm not working on that 68 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 3: small project serving in the nursery. I'm more qualified than that. 69 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 3: But if you're going to reach your highest potential, you 70 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 3: have to humble yourself and do things you may not understand. 71 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 3: We see this in the scripture with Peter. He'd been 72 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 3: out fishing all night and caught nothing. Early the next morning, 73 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 3: as he was coming in about to put his boat away, 74 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 3: Jesus said to him, launch out into the deep, and 75 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 3: you will catch a great haul of fish. Peter could 76 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 3: have said, Jesus, I love you, but you're a teacher. 77 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 3: You need to stick with your profession. I'm a fisherman, 78 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 3: I have years of training. He could have let pride 79 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 3: talk him out of it, thought I'm an expert. I 80 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 3: know what I'm doing. Instead, he humbled himself and said, Jesus, 81 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 3: if you say launch out, it doesn't make sense to me. 82 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 3: But I trust you. You know what's best, So I'm 83 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 3: going to take this step of faith. When he did, 84 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 3: he caught so many fish that his net began to break. 85 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 3: His promotion was in his humility. When you swallow your 86 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 3: pride and say, this may not make sense, but I'm 87 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 3: going to do what God's asking me to do. I'm 88 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 3: going to humble myself and be good to this person 89 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 3: that did me wrong. I'm going to be my best 90 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 3: at work, even though nobody's given me credit. When you 91 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 3: walk in humility, you will see the great hall of fish. 92 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 3: Like Peter. Your promotion, your healing, your breakthrough, it's in 93 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 3: your humility. The scripture says Jesus humbled himself and became obedient. 94 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 3: It doesn't say he was obedient because he was so 95 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 3: strong willed, so righteous that he always did the right thing. 96 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 3: Even Jesus had to humble himself. It takes humility to 97 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 3: walk in obedience. Without humility, Jesus could have thought, I'm 98 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 3: the son of God. I don't have to put up 99 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 3: with these insults. I'm not going to the cross. It 100 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 3: was his humility that kept him from retaliating from the 101 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 3: people that did him wrong. His humility is why he 102 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 3: could hang on a cross and say, Father, forgive them. 103 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 3: They don't know what they're doing, and there are times 104 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 3: God asked us to do things that seem hard. Your 105 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 3: flesh will rise up and tell you all the reasons 106 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 3: why you should put the boat away and not go 107 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 3: back out, while you should tell them off and not 108 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 3: bite your tongue. This is when you have to do 109 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 3: like Jesus, humble yourself so you can become obedient. You 110 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 3: have to put your pride down and say, no, I'm 111 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 3: not going to be offended because they left me out. 112 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 3: I'm not going to be too proud to ask for 113 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 3: forgiveness to say I'm sorry to admit that I was wrong. 114 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 3: When we don't have humility, we think we're always right, 115 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 3: we'll be stubborn, hard to get along with. Our relationships 116 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 3: will be much better if we'll humble ourselves and let 117 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 3: somebody else be right, honor them by letting them have 118 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 3: their way. When Victoria and I were first married, she 119 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 3: didn't like me to go into the kitchen while she 120 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 3: was cooking after I worked out and wash my hands. 121 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 3: She didn't want my sweat to be around the food. 122 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 3: The problem was when I came in from the outside. 123 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 3: The kitchen sink was the most convenient sink. It was 124 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 3: right there in my path. I didn't want to walk 125 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 3: to the back. This was too easy. And for a 126 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 3: long time I'd run in there and washed my hands 127 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 3: real quickly and hoped that she didn't see me, and 128 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 3: she never harped on me, but I knew she didn't 129 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 3: like it. I reasoned it out, thought, it's not hurting anything. 130 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 3: I'm careful not to drip anywhere. And besides, this is 131 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 3: my house too. I don't feel like walking to the 132 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:41,239 Speaker 3: back here. I just played ninety minutes of basketball, running 133 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 3: up and down the court, and I came home and 134 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 3: didn't want to walk thirty more feet to the back. 135 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 3: Pride causes us to make lame excuses, to be stubborn, 136 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 3: only see things our way. One day I went in 137 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 3: there to wash my hands, and I heard something down 138 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 3: in here say, Joel, when are you going to start 139 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 3: honoring your wife by doing what she's asking you to do? 140 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 3: I thought that couldn't be God. It's never God when 141 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 3: we don't like it. But there may be things that 142 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 3: you don't feel like are right. You don't think you 143 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 3: should have to do them. One way you can honor 144 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 3: God is by honoring the people in your life. Well, 145 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,239 Speaker 3: I shouldn't have to walk to the back. I shouldn't 146 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 3: have to clean up the mess they made. I shouldn't 147 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 3: have to sit in this section where the ushers asked 148 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 3: me to sit. God is saying, will you do it 149 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 3: for me? Will you walk to the back for me? 150 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 3: Will you clean the mess up for me? Will you'll 151 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 3: overlook the offense for me? Do it under God? When 152 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 3: you honor God, he will always honor you. A few 153 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 3: years later, we built a new house. I put a 154 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 3: sink right at my back door. The first time Victoria 155 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 3: went in there to wash your hands, I said, don't 156 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 3: even think about using my sink. But I wonder how 157 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 3: much much better our relationships would be if we'd start 158 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 3: walking in humility, honoring the other person, letting them have 159 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 3: their way, not always having to be right. I know 160 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 3: this couple. They argued for years over the best way 161 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 3: to get out of the neighborhood. There were two main routes. 162 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 3: The husband thought it was this way, the wife thought 163 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 3: it was the other. Practically every time they drove out 164 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 3: it was a point of contention in this couple. They 165 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 3: were great people, but the pride began to tear their 166 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 3: relationship apart. One day, they heard me speaking on this 167 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,719 Speaker 3: subject and they both made the decision to put their 168 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 3: pride away, to quit arguing over petty things, to start 169 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 3: treating each other with respect. They told me how that 170 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 3: message saved their marriage. I believe other relationships would be 171 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 3: saved if we would start walking in humility, honoring God 172 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 3: by honoring the other person. For your relationship is in 173 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 3: your humility. It's when you humble yourself and do your 174 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 3: part to get along well. Joel, when he starts treating 175 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 3: me better, then I'll treat him better. You have to 176 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 3: make the first move. Your humility can start the healing. 177 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 3: When they see you taking the high road, not being stubborn, 178 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 3: not being offended, not having to have your way, that's 179 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 3: when things will begin to change. The scripture says, it's 180 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 3: the little foxes that spoil the vines. If I would 181 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 3: have kept washing my hands in the kitchen sink year 182 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 3: after year, that disrespect would have grown. The dishonor would 183 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 3: have become bigger. Before long, these little things are tearing 184 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 3: families apart. I'm asking you to swallow your pride and 185 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 3: start walking in humility. What can you do to get 186 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 3: along better with people? What can you do to strengthen 187 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 3: your relationship? Not what can somebody else do. You can't 188 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 3: make them change, but if you'll change, if you'll start 189 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 3: treating them with respect, doing what you can to honor them, 190 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 3: being kind, serving them those seeds you're sewing, they'll come 191 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 3: back to you, just as little foxes can spoil the vine. 192 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 3: Little acts of kindness can make a big difference. When 193 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 3: Victoria saw me start going to the back to wash 194 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 3: my hands, she had to check the kitchen sink to 195 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 3: make sure something wasn't wrong. When she realized I was 196 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 3: doing it just to honor her, just because she asked, 197 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 3: our relationship went to a new level. She started cooking 198 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 3: me better TV dinners. Little things can make a big difference. 199 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 3: That didn't help my relationship at all, but the first 200 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 3: fifteen years or so of our marriage before we had help. 201 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 3: Victoria never her car up with gas. Anytime that I 202 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 3: saw it was low, I'd make sure to take it 203 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 3: up and fill it up for her. Little acts of 204 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 3: kindness help hold things together. How much better would our 205 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 3: relationships be if we'd put down our pride, not have 206 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 3: to be right all the time, not keeping score. If 207 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 3: you do this, I'm gonna do that. Trying to one 208 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 3: up each other instead, what if we spent that same 209 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 3: energy honoring each other, believing the best overlooking offenses. The 210 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 3: healing is in your humility, not in having your way, 211 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 3: not in getting even, not in holding a grudge. I 212 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 3: have a friend. When he was in his twenties, he 213 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 3: had a disagreement with his father turned into a big argument. 214 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 3: He left the house very angry and didn't speak to 215 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 3: his father for over thirty years. Wouldn't have anything to 216 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 3: do with him. This young man's life was a constant struggle. 217 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 3: He couldn't get ahead, never got any good breaks, lived 218 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 3: in a small apartment with his family. One day, he 219 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 3: learned through his sister that his father was in the hospital. 220 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 3: He knew he had to make things right. He put 221 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 3: his pride down and drove four hours to the hospital. 222 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 3: He went in to see his father for the first 223 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 3: time in years. They both wept and wept. He said, Dad, 224 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it was my fault. Please forgive me. He 225 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 3: started honoring his father. Wasn't long after that that this 226 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 3: young man received a promotion at work that he had 227 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 3: been trying to get for over ten years. He didn't 228 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 3: know how he could send his child to college. But 229 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 3: this child unexpectedly received a full scholarship. After years of 230 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 3: living in a small apartment, they were able to purchase 231 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 3: their first home. One thing after another began to fall 232 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 3: into place. What am I saying the promotion was in 233 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 3: his humility. When he made the decision to humble himself, 234 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 3: to forgive his father, to let go of the wrongs, 235 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 3: That's when the favor came on his life. Pride keeps 236 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 3: us from rising higher, even though his father was wrong. 237 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 3: When you walk in humility, you can be the bigger person. 238 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 3: You can forgive people, you can show them mercy. You 239 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 3: can start the healing when you humble yourself. That's what 240 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 3: gives you the power to become obedient. But as long 241 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 3: as we allow pride in, we make excuses. It's not right. 242 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 3: They hurt me. It was their fault. That all may 243 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 3: be true, but holding on to it is not going 244 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 3: to make it better. If you'll let it go and 245 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 3: move forward, God will make it up to you. You'll 246 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 3: see his favor in new ways. Second Kings, Chapter five. 247 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 3: There was a captain in the Syrian army named Naeman. 248 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 3: He was a very powerful man, influential, well respected. He 249 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 3: had just helped the Syrians defeat the Israelites. Everything was 250 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 3: going great, except he had leprosy. He had captured a 251 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 3: young lady from Israel and brought her back as his maid. 252 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 3: I can imagine everyone didn't know that he had leprosy. 253 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 3: He would keep his armor on try to hide it 254 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 3: from people. But this young maid lived in his house. 255 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 3: When she saw how devastating the leprosy was, she was 256 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 3: very concerned. She finally got her nerve up and said, Sir, 257 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 3: there's a prophet in Israel where I'm from, named Elisha. 258 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 3: If you'll go see him, he'll pray for you, and 259 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 3: I know our God will heal you. Naemam could have thought, 260 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 3: who are you to tell me what to do. I'm 261 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 3: a captain, I answered to the king in my country, 262 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 3: and now you a slave, a teenager, a woman. You're 263 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 3: telling me to go back to the nation. I just 264 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 3: defeated and asked them for help. I don't think so. 265 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 3: Naemon could have been offended. He could have dismissed it, 266 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 3: turned her away, But something down in here said she 267 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 3: knows what she's talking about. Naeman told the King of 268 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 3: Syria what the maid said. The king wrote a letter 269 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 3: to the King of Israel on Naeman's behalf. Naeman headed 270 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 3: out toward Israel, the land he had just conquered. Think 271 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 3: of the humility this took. He had to take the 272 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 3: advice from a maid and be willing to go to 273 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 3: another country and admit he needed help. If he'd have 274 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 3: been too proud, he would have stayed at home. And sometime, 275 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 3: your answer won't come from people that look like you, 276 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 3: people that come from your same culture, people that you're 277 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 3: used to. You're going to have to do like Naeman 278 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 3: and get out of your comfort zone and be willing 279 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 3: to listen to somebody, maybe like this maid, this under you, 280 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:11,439 Speaker 3: that doesn't have the training, the experience. The key is 281 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 3: to treat everyone with respect, value every person's opinion. If 282 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 3: Naemon would have dismissed his maid, he would have missed 283 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 3: his miracle. Don't judge the people God put in your 284 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 3: life by the outside, by titles, by position, by wealth, 285 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 3: deciding who's important, who you're going to listen to. God 286 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 3: uses everyone. Naemon arrived in Israel with his horses, his chariots, 287 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 3: was a huge entourage, a big deal. He handed the 288 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 3: letter to the King of Israel. The king was upset. 289 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 3: He said, am I God do you think I can 290 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,719 Speaker 3: heal you, Why are you asking me for help. The 291 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 3: prophet Elishah heard about it and said, send him to me. 292 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 3: Naemon traveled to Elishah's house a great distance, knocked on 293 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 3: the door and the assistant answered. He said, I'm Naeman. 294 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,919 Speaker 3: I'm here to see Elisha. The assistant said, yes, I know, 295 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 3: but he's busy, so he sent me. Naemon was used 296 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,479 Speaker 3: to dealing with heads of nations. He gave advice to 297 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 3: the King of Syria. I'm sure, he thought, does Elisha 298 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 3: know who I am? Does he realize how far I've traveled? 299 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 3: The assistant told him. Elisha said, if you'll go wash 300 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 3: in the Jordan river seven times, you'll be healed. Look 301 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 3: at all these times Naeman had to put down his pride. 302 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 3: A young maid told him what to do. The king 303 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 3: wouldn't see him. Elisha was too busy. Now he has 304 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 3: to wash in a dirty river. These were tests on 305 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 3: the way to your miracle. There will be plenty of 306 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 3: opportunities to let pride talk you out of it. It 307 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 3: may not happen the way you think through the people 308 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 3: you think. Stay open, don't put God in a box, 309 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 3: don't start writing people off because they don't look like you. 310 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 3: They don't live in your neighborhood. They don't attend your church. 311 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 3: God likes to do unusual things. Naeman almost talked himself 312 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 3: out of it. He had done well up to this point. 313 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 3: But when he was told go wash in the Jordan 314 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 3: river that was the straw that broke the camel's back, 315 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 3: he said, no way, that's a dirty river. There are 316 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 3: much better rivers over in Syria. Let's go back home. 317 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 3: He turned to leave when the scripture says his servant 318 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 3: spoke up. Notice again, not a peer, not the prophet, 319 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 3: not the king, another underling, somebody he normally wouldn't pay 320 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 3: attention to. The servant said Naeman. If he would have 321 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 3: asked you to do something hard, you would do it. 322 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 3: Why don't you do this easy thing. Naeman went to 323 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 3: the river washed one time, nothing happened, twice nothing, three 324 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 3: times nothing. He looked at his skin and thought, if 325 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 3: it was going to work, surely i'd be getting better 326 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 3: by now. He was tempted to get discouraged, but he 327 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 3: just kept washing. Five times nothing, six times nothing. Imagine 328 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 3: the humility washing in your enemy's dirty river. Again and again. 329 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 3: Every voice said naymen you look like a fool. You're 330 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 3: wasting your time. But on the seventh time, when he 331 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 3: came up out of that water, his skin was as 332 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,919 Speaker 3: clear as a baby. He was completely healed. God was 333 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:43,199 Speaker 3: showing us. The healing was in the humility, when you 334 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 3: humble yourself and do what God's asking you to do, 335 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 3: even when it doesn't make sense. Forgive the person that 336 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 3: did you wrong, be kind to the coworker that betrayed you. 337 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 3: Take it vice from someone that's not on your normal circles. 338 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 3: As you pass these test, things will begin to change. 339 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 3: The blessing is in the obedience. The way to be 340 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 3: obedient is to walk into humility, because without humility we'll 341 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 3: make excuses. I'm not going to listen to the maid, 342 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 3: what does she know. I'm not going to do this 343 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 3: simple thing washing a river, serving the children's ministry. I 344 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 3: want to be on the platform. No, do what God 345 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 3: is asking you to do. Don't overanalyze it, don't reason 346 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 3: it out. Just do it well. Joel, I've been doing 347 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 3: it for a long time, but nothing is changing. You're 348 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 3: right where Nihelman was. The first six times nothing happened, 349 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 3: but that didn't mean something was wrong. You're right on schedule. 350 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,880 Speaker 3: The good news is you're about to come up from 351 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 3: your seventh dip where suddenly healing comes, Suddenly you're promoting, 352 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 3: suddenly you see that breakthrough. Keep doing the right thing. 353 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,360 Speaker 3: You're close to you or seventh times. This is what 354 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 3: my father did. He'd been pastoring a denominational church for 355 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 3: many years. He was very successful. They had seen great 356 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 3: growth and just built a beautiful new auditorium. But in 357 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 3: nineteen fifty nine he felt something stirring on the inside. 358 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 3: He knew he was supposed to leave that church and 359 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 3: launch out on his own, but the only building he 360 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 3: could find was an abandoned feed store. He could have thought, God, 361 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 3: you had me leave my big, prestigious church to come 362 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 3: down to this old feed store. I had thousands of 363 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 3: members and now I have ninety members. That doesn't make sense, 364 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 3: but God's ways are not our ways. My father had 365 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 3: to put his pride down. For thirteen years, Lakewood hardly grew, 366 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 3: had less than two hundred members, a fraction of what 367 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,479 Speaker 3: my father had before. Friends would come by, John, what 368 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 3: do you do and still pastoring this small church. My 369 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 3: dad didn't get discouraged. He kept being his best, serving 370 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 3: those ninety people doing what he knew God put in 371 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 3: his heart. The scripture says, when you humble yourself under 372 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 3: the mighty hand of God, in due time, he will 373 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 3: exalt you. When you walk in humility. There is a 374 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:28,360 Speaker 3: due time God has already established where he will catapult 375 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 3: you ahead, a due time where He will thrust you 376 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 3: to the next level. When you come up out of 377 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 3: your seventh dip, when it's your due time, all the 378 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 3: forces of darkness cannot stop you. When God is ready 379 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 3: to exalt you, you'll be exalted. In nineteen seventy two, 380 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 3: thirteen years after my father started Lakewood, he came in 381 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 3: to his due time. It was like somebody opened a fawcet. 382 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 3: People started coming from all over the city. Lakewood grew 383 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 3: to a church of thousands. If my father was here, 384 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 3: he would tell you the promotion was in the humility. 385 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 3: He had to be willing to do things that didn't 386 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 3: make sense to pastor ninety people for years when he 387 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 3: had been pastoring thousands. God knows what he's doing. He 388 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 3: knows how to get you to the next level. Like Naeman. 389 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 3: He knows how to cure the leprosy. But it may 390 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 3: not be the way you thought with the people you 391 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 3: thought on the timetable, you thought, But if you'll keep 392 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 3: walking in humility, being obedient like my father, you will 393 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 3: come in to your due time, where God does more 394 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 3: than you can ask or think. In the story of 395 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 3: the Prodigal Son, the young man left home and wasted 396 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 3: his inheritance, living wild, partying, making poor choices. He finally 397 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 3: ran out of money ended up working in a hog 398 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 3: pen feeding hogs. As a famine in the land and 399 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 3: he had to eat the hog food to survive. He 400 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 3: was miserable, depressed, dirty, and it was nobody's fault except 401 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 3: his own. One day, sitting in the hog pen, he 402 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 3: thought to himself, the employees at my father's house, they 403 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 3: live better than I do. I should go back home. 404 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 3: Something came alive on the inside, a spark of hope. 405 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 3: He was excited. Then he thought, what am I talking about. 406 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 3: I can't go back and let people see me like this. 407 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 3: I'll look like a fool. I can't admit that I 408 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 3: made a mistake. Pride rose up and tried to keep 409 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 3: him from going back home. But the scripture says when 410 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 3: he came to himself, he said, I will arise and 411 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 3: go back to my father's house. He came to the 412 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,479 Speaker 3: point where he humbled himself. He was willing to admit 413 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 3: I've made a mistake, I've done wrong. He put his 414 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 3: pride down and headed toward his house. His father was 415 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 3: watching for him, came running out, gave him a hog 416 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 3: and said, kill the fatted calf. My son has come 417 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 3: back home. Are you letting pride keep you out of 418 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 3: the father's house? Worried about what people will think your image? 419 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 3: Can I tell you we've all blown it, We've all 420 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 3: made mistakes, gotten off course. Don't let pride hold you back. 421 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,439 Speaker 3: The new beginning is in your humility. When you do 422 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 3: like this young man and say God, I admit I've 423 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 3: done wrong. I'm not where I should be, but I'm 424 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 3: ready to come back home. God will receive you with 425 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 3: open arms. That is the first step to getting out 426 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 3: of the hog pen. You don't have to be perfect. 427 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 3: God is not looking at your performance. He's looking at 428 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 3: your heart. Well, Joel, I don't have it all together, 429 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 3: none of us do. It's in our weaknesses. God's power 430 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,679 Speaker 3: shows up the greatest. When you come to God with 431 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 3: humility and ask for help, He'll not only receive you, 432 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,120 Speaker 3: but like he did for the prodigal Sun. He'll put 433 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 3: a ring on your finger signifying your authority. He'll give 434 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 3: your royal robe signifying his favor, and he'll say, let's 435 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 3: have a party. He'll celebrate you and take you further 436 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 3: than you've ever imagined. Friends, the new beginning, the promotion, 437 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 3: the healing is in your humility. I'm asking us to 438 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,679 Speaker 3: put our pride down and start doing what God is 439 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,959 Speaker 3: asking you to do. Maybe he's asking you to forgive, 440 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 3: or to treat people better, or like my father, to 441 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 3: take a step of faith. Whatever it is, don't talk 442 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 3: yourself out of it. May not seem fair, you may 443 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 3: not understand it. But if you'll put your pride down 444 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,199 Speaker 3: and do it anyway, you are setting yourself up for 445 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,159 Speaker 3: a due time. And I believe and declare because you're 446 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 3: humbling yourself, God is about to exalt you like Naeman. 447 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 3: You're going to come up out of your seventh dip, 448 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:04,719 Speaker 3: where suddenly healing come, promotion, vindication, freedom, abundance, the fullness 449 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 3: of your destiny in Jesus's name. And if you receive it, 450 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 3: can you say men today, I'd like to give you 451 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 3: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 452 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll 453 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 3: repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I make 454 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 3: you my Lord and savior. 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