THE VALUE OF HUMILITY (3 OF 3)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: John 21:15-25
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The Value of Humility (3 of 3)
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Craig Smith
John 21:15-25
I. Introduction
I want to talk to you today about the value of humility.
Humility is kind of a slippery thing. The moment you start to think you’re making progress in becoming more humble...the moment you think to yourself ‘‘I’m getting pretty good at this humility thing’’...you just took a big step back, right?
It happened to me just last week. [illustration]
Humility is a slippery thing. But it’s also incredibly valuable. Because humility is the key to all the more we’re looking for.
To show you why I say that, I want to take you to a story today about a guy had to be taught a hard lesson about humility by Jesus. But Jesus wasn’t taking him down a notch...he actually wanted to do more in his life but before he could do more, he had to make sure this guy had the humility to handle it. If you want to follow along, we’re going to be in John 21:15. You can use your own bible or you can use the Mission Hills app and go to message notes where you can follow along with the passage and there’s some room there to take notes, too. By the way, I should probably define humility just so we’re all on the same page: humility isn’t thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. It’s the freedom to get our eyes off of ourselves and onto God and others. That’s what we’re talking about today.
This is a story about a follower of Jesus named Peter. If you’re not familiar with Peter, Peter was one of Jesus’ first followers and he had a lot of great qualities, but he had a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease. And probably the worst example of that happened the night before Jesus was arrested and crucified. Jesus told them it was about to happen, and he also said to all of his followers, ‘‘you will all fall away,’’ meaning, they were all going to run away. And Peter declared, ‘‘Even if all fall away, I will not.’’ And then his boldest declaration became his biggest humiliatio ...
Series: More
Craig Smith
John 21:15-25
I. Introduction
I want to talk to you today about the value of humility.
Humility is kind of a slippery thing. The moment you start to think you’re making progress in becoming more humble...the moment you think to yourself ‘‘I’m getting pretty good at this humility thing’’...you just took a big step back, right?
It happened to me just last week. [illustration]
Humility is a slippery thing. But it’s also incredibly valuable. Because humility is the key to all the more we’re looking for.
To show you why I say that, I want to take you to a story today about a guy had to be taught a hard lesson about humility by Jesus. But Jesus wasn’t taking him down a notch...he actually wanted to do more in his life but before he could do more, he had to make sure this guy had the humility to handle it. If you want to follow along, we’re going to be in John 21:15. You can use your own bible or you can use the Mission Hills app and go to message notes where you can follow along with the passage and there’s some room there to take notes, too. By the way, I should probably define humility just so we’re all on the same page: humility isn’t thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. It’s the freedom to get our eyes off of ourselves and onto God and others. That’s what we’re talking about today.
This is a story about a follower of Jesus named Peter. If you’re not familiar with Peter, Peter was one of Jesus’ first followers and he had a lot of great qualities, but he had a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease. And probably the worst example of that happened the night before Jesus was arrested and crucified. Jesus told them it was about to happen, and he also said to all of his followers, ‘‘you will all fall away,’’ meaning, they were all going to run away. And Peter declared, ‘‘Even if all fall away, I will not.’’ And then his boldest declaration became his biggest humiliatio ...
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