Here's Nancy De Masuagamuth with an intriguing question.

Some of you are familiar with the writings of Andrew Murray, who was a South African pastor and

author, lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s,

and he said, if we were to ask what is Jesus' chief characteristic,

the root and essence of all his character as our Redeemer,

there can be only one answer. What would you say?

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMoss Wallgmouth, author of Inc comparable.

For March 8, 2024, I'm Danna Gresh. So what is the number one characteristic of Christ?

Nancy will answer that question as she continues to focus on Jesus

in a series called incomparable, the person of Christ.

Here's what Andrew Murray had to say. It is his humility, his humility. The call to humility is a recurring theme in Jesus

ministry here on earth. He said, Blessed are the meek, the humble ones. He who is least among you all is the one who is great.

Luke 14, he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Now this whole teaching on humility was revolutionary in Jesus Day.

In fact, the ancient world had no word in Greek or Latin

to communicate the Christian ideal of humility.

So for Jesus to portray meekness or humility as something positive and desirable was

radically different than the thinking of his day. And I might add it's radically different than

the thinking of our day. Ancient philosophers thought of the word lowly, for

example, as meaning cowardly or timid.

And many considered humility a vice, not a virtue.

So here comes Jesus to the earth,

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