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

The Bible clearly reveals pride to be offensive to God.

This podcast series continues today highlighting the importance of humility in the life of the believer.

The title of this series is humility.

It's place in the life of the believer.

Now, what is humility?

Humility is a lowliness of mind that does not seek to exalt itself, parade itself,

assert itself, vaunt up itself, prideful, arrogance, all of this is absolutely totally

opposite from a lowliness of mind, which simply means this, that we have the right, balance,

proper, godly view of ourselves. You see, one of the reasons that people are not interested in humility is because they have a

wrong conception of it.

Their idea of humility is that if you have a humble spirit, you are what?

What are you if you have a humble spirit?

You're weak.

That's what people think.

Well, humility means weakness. Humility does not mean weakness

because Jesus was certainly a humble man. So it's not a matter of being weak at all. That is a

misconception of what humility is all about. Now, I want us to look at some passages of scripture.

What did Jesus teach about all this?

Well, let's begin in probably one of the most familiar passages. Let's look, if you will,

in Matthew chapter 11. Matthew chapter 11. This is his wonderful, beautiful invitation to all of us and to those who are lost, but more to others also. Look at this, if you will.

Matthew 11, chapter 11, verse 28, come to me, Jesus said, all of you who are weary,

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