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

Jesus set a powerful example by humbling himself as he served.

Following his lead, we too should serve with gratitude.

Let's continue the series explaining how to develop humility in the life of the believer.

To accomplish anything in life, you must set a goal to accomplish it, or more than likely,

it won't ever become a reality.

It has to be more than just a wish.

It has to be something that you're willing to devote your energy and your time and the

knowledge and experience that God's given you. Now, I know that there are many, many

people who believe, well, somehow God just doesn't have any goals from my life, and therefore,

they just sort of float through life. God does have individual personal goals for each one of us.

And then he has those goals that apply to every single one of us. Those goals that he has in mind for each one of us, what we're to become as his children. It's one of those goals that I'm going to talk about in this message. And the title of this message is humility, the pursuit. That is, humility is not just an idea.

It's not just an attitude. It's just not one of the many Christian graces, but it is a very

significant one. Now, there are lots of scriptures about humility, but I want to take you through

some very significant ones.

And in the beginning of the series, we talked about Jesus as the pattern for our humility,

and then the problem being pride, and now the pursuit of this.

I want to take you through some significant verses because he gives us some very definite reasons why it's so very important.

I want you to begin in this fourth chapter now now Ephesians chapter four in this first verse.

Notice what he says.

Therefore, I the prisoner of the Lord implore you.

I beseech you.

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