"Humility" by Pastor Stefan Ras, Grace Baptist Church, Kabega Park, Port Elizabeth

Описание: Pastor Stefan Ras will be preaching from the book of Philippians, Chapter 2, Verses 5 to 11.

The title of the sermon is “Humility“.

Our ultimate example of humility is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me and to feel nothing that is done against me. It is to be at rest when no-one praises me or when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord where I can go and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and am at peace in a deep sea of calmness when all around me is in trouble (Andrew Murray).

Our natural desire is to grab and hold on to any opportunity that we may have to be in a better position than we were before, in whatever aspect of life that opportunity for improvement may be.

Jesus, on the other hand, already had everything, being equal with God, but He chose not to grab and hold onto it. Instead, He humbled Himself and came down to His creation, in human form, leaving everything behind.

Christ gave up His glory, He gave up His independence, He learnt obedience through suffering, He gave up His riches, He gave up His relationship with His Father and He gave up His life. He healed one of those who arrested Him, He served the one who would betray Him and He loved the world that crucified Him.

Because of His willingness to humble Himself, His name is now exalted above every other name and every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that He is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father.

We are called to confirm to the image of Christ, but we can only do this if we give ourselves wholly to Him so that He can do the work of humbling us to the extent that Christ humbled Himself, because only then will we have the ability to do that.