It's Not About Me (3 of 12)
Series: Character: Mirror Image
James Merritt
Luke 1:26-38, 48
Introduction
1. A fifth-grade girl came home from school so excited. She told her mother she had been voted, ''Prettiest girl in the class.'' She came home the next day even more excited. The mother said, ''What happened today?'' She said, ''I was voted the most popular girl in the class!''
2. A week later she came dragging in the door with tears coming down her cheeks and she was just totally shattered. Her mother said, ''What happened?'' She said, ''Well, we had a third contest and I won.'' Her mother said, ''Why are you so sad?'' She said, ''Because I was voted most stuck-up.''
3. Humility is hard to come by sometimes. We are in a series we are calling ''Mirror Image.'' It is a series about the most important part of any human being and that is our character. At the end of the day, and at the end of your life, character will trump anything. Your character will trump how good looking you were, how rich you were, how famous you were and how popular you were. The mirror never lies. When you look at yourself in the mirror what do you see morally, ethically, and spiritually? If you see good character then you will be humble about it. Nothing will take you lower than pride and nothing will lift you higher than humility.
4. That is seen in the life of a woman who you all have heard of and know by her first name. Indeed, there are ninety-three women in the Bible who speak and forty-nine of them are named. Together, they say 14,056 words, eleven percent of all the words recorded in scripture. No one would dispute there is one woman that stands out above all the others, with her character and her communication, who she was and what she said. It is not a matter of personal opinion. Scripture itself says that she is the most blessed and the most highly favored by God of all the women in the Bible and really in history. Even today, she is the most universally admir ...
Series: Character: Mirror Image
James Merritt
Luke 1:26-38, 48
Introduction
1. A fifth-grade girl came home from school so excited. She told her mother she had been voted, ''Prettiest girl in the class.'' She came home the next day even more excited. The mother said, ''What happened today?'' She said, ''I was voted the most popular girl in the class!''
2. A week later she came dragging in the door with tears coming down her cheeks and she was just totally shattered. Her mother said, ''What happened?'' She said, ''Well, we had a third contest and I won.'' Her mother said, ''Why are you so sad?'' She said, ''Because I was voted most stuck-up.''
3. Humility is hard to come by sometimes. We are in a series we are calling ''Mirror Image.'' It is a series about the most important part of any human being and that is our character. At the end of the day, and at the end of your life, character will trump anything. Your character will trump how good looking you were, how rich you were, how famous you were and how popular you were. The mirror never lies. When you look at yourself in the mirror what do you see morally, ethically, and spiritually? If you see good character then you will be humble about it. Nothing will take you lower than pride and nothing will lift you higher than humility.
4. That is seen in the life of a woman who you all have heard of and know by her first name. Indeed, there are ninety-three women in the Bible who speak and forty-nine of them are named. Together, they say 14,056 words, eleven percent of all the words recorded in scripture. No one would dispute there is one woman that stands out above all the others, with her character and her communication, who she was and what she said. It is not a matter of personal opinion. Scripture itself says that she is the most blessed and the most highly favored by God of all the women in the Bible and really in history. Even today, she is the most universally admir ...
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