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🗓️ 14 December 2024
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0:00.0 | Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley. It's natural to be lured by the admiration of others, but the world's applause fades quickly. Today's podcast concludes the promise that is ours when we yield to the Lord and humble submission. |
0:17.5 | All of us like to be lifted up, blessed, admired, loved, cared for. |
0:24.2 | We want to get ahead in life, whatever that may mean to you personally. |
0:27.8 | We want to do our best. |
0:29.0 | We want to achieve and to accomplish. |
0:31.2 | We want to get wherever God wants us to be in life. |
0:33.6 | And oftentimes people have the idea, well, you know, I can't and I want and this won't happen |
0:39.0 | and they this and they that and oftentimes miss God's very best in life when he makes the promise |
0:45.4 | he says if you and I willing to humble ourselves before him he will exalt us now you're saying |
0:51.8 | what does it mean to be exalted we We'll talk about that in a moment. |
0:55.3 | But I want you to think about something. |
0:57.5 | If God makes a promise, he's obligated to keep that promise. |
1:02.4 | If I wanted to keep the promise, I'm obligated to fulfill my responsibility. |
1:08.1 | And in this particular chapter in these verses, he tells us what that is. |
1:11.5 | Now, let's think for just a moment, if we can capsule in one simple phrase, what it means to |
1:18.6 | humble ourselves before God. We've talked about it in great detail, but simply this. |
1:23.7 | The humble ourselves means to submit ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ as the sovereign ruler of our |
1:30.5 | life and to walk in obedience to His will for our life. It means simply to submit ourselves |
1:36.5 | to the Lord Jesus Christ who is the sovereign ruler of our life and to walk in simple obedience to Him. |
1:43.8 | That light of that, let's look at this whole promise |
1:47.2 | and what he said here, he said, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God. What does he mean by that? |
1:55.3 | Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God. Now, I think there are three things in this passage that I want you to notice primarily. |
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