Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

No one likes to feel weak and in need, but those moments can be our greatest catalysts of spiritual strength.

Today's podcast helps us explore the obstacle to humility in the life of the believer.

As a believer, which sin do you believe would be the most difficult to detect?

Which one would be the hardest to confess?

Which one does God hate the most?

And which one is the very opposite of humility? Now, I want you to turn,

if you will, to the book of First Peter. First Peter chapter 5, and I want us to read a few

verses here. The title of this message is humility, the obstacle. The obstacle to our humility is certainly pride.

And Peter is writing to those who have been scattered abroad, and he is warning them against

dangers that are coming. He realizes that it is coming, and he's trying to prepare them for

that oncoming danger. And so he's warning them and encouraging them and

admonishing them to be humble, to be watchful, and to be hopeful. And it's that first one

that I want us to note is beginning in verse one of chapter five. His first part is to the

pastors. And he says, therefore, I exhort the elders among you as your fellow elder and witness

of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also the glory that is to be revealed, shepherd the

flock of God among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the

will of God, and not for sordid gain, but with

eagerness, nor yet is lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proven to be examples

to the flock. And when the chief shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

Then he says in verse five, you younger men likewise be subject to your

elders, and what he's referring to there primarily is to those more mature saints, and all of you

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