Dr. David Gibbs Jr.: Pride vs Humility

turn in your Bibles to the book of Matthew the book of Matthew chapter 6 the book of Matthew chapter 6 there's a fella on TV about once a year who really captures my attention his name is Joey Chestnut how many of you know who Joey Chestnut is Joey Chestnut holds the record for eating the most hot dogs in ten minutes of anybody on planet earth and people come from around the world to compete this last year he ate 70 hot dogs in ten minutes now that is twenty thousand and ten calories that's one hot dog every eight and a half seconds you've got to admire that Wow by the way how many of you like hot dogs hold your hand up will you if you don't like hot dogs I do not know what you're gonna do at the marriage supper of the Lamb because they'll be they'll be serving Randy's donuts and hot dogs all right that'll be at the marriage supper after he did the 70 hot dogs he ate a hundred and seventy nine chicken wings in ten minutes and he's not a big guy now the reason that it catches me is a I like hot dogs but B when they question him after he's done all of these eating feats they say why do you do it why do you do it and he always says two things he says this is my mission in life to eat hot dogs and chicken wings faster than anybody else can gulp them down this is my mission and then he says number two this is what gives me significance can I ask you this question tonight what is it that your mission what is it that gives you significance what is it that gives you that this is why I'm here now in the passage we're about to read in the book of Matthew chapter 6 I want you to start with me at verse 9 and I want you to notice very carefully what the Lord says here sometimes we refer to this as the Lord's Prayer and he didn't say recite this prayer although I think memorizing it is a great idea but he doesn't say use these words he said after this manner therefore pray our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation but would you underscore these next words but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever amen deliver us from evil what this prayer said is father it's all about you your name your kingdom your power and deliver us from evil because all of a sudden for significance in our lives we start thinking that for me life is about me for you life is about you and suddenly significance becomes whatever cleansers into your mind and God says I want to deliver you from that evil the Bible says that there is a sin that started war in heaven it's the sin of pride when the devil decided and lifted up himself and five times said I will I will I will and that pride now has come down to earth and this pride which every one of us has to battle is what gives most people significance well if I do say so I'm proud of my career I'm proud of how I look I'm proud of what I accomplished I'm proud of what I own I'm proud of my toys I'm proud of and suddenly the very sin that started war in heaven has grafted its way in now when Jesus enumerated the sins the seven sins that he particularly despised pride made the list and when pride is in our life oh it gives us a significance and that's why God says deliver us from evil it's not about my power it's about your power it's not about my kingdom whatever that may be it's about Viking them and God says I don't want you to get your significance with the pride the sin in your life I want you to get your significance delivered from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever can I remind you that when David sinned with Bathsheba the Bible records that four people died but went through pride when David sinned and numbered the people seventy thousand people died if you wonder whether God takes pride seriously he does and if you're only gonna hear one thing tonight we're about to read in the scriptures God says I will resist the crowd do you understand if you have pride in your life tonight you have God against you now no one in their right mind wants to leave here with God against them but if you have pride you've got God against you people call our ministry all the time and there's catastrophic things going on just catastrophic things and they say brother Gibbs we don't know how to explain what all is happening and I always tell them well let me ask you this question have you got any pride in your life what's that got to do with all this well the Bible says that God will resist you the all-powerful God the God with whom nothing is impossible said if you have pride I'm against you and that is said to the Christian oh brother Gibbs I don't think God means that oh I promise you he doesn't mean it and that's why this is such an incredible thing that's why it says and deliver us from this evil of thinking it's about us and not about him turn to the book of James if you would please James chapter 4 if I'm gonna resist pride and and please listen to me if you don't fear pride you're seriously in trouble well brother Gibbs I don't think I'm proud that's a proud statement every one of us has to battle pride of somehow this life is about me and it's about my goals and my dreams and the things I want and how I think it should go and God says deliver us for thine is the kingdom and the power one of the things that I love about this ministry so much this pastor chapel has focused so keenly and laser-like on the fact that it isn't man that's done this is God's that's done this and these buildings in this ministry exists for the glory of God but I want you to look at what it says starting at verse 4 in chapter 4 the book of James and whenever you read the book of James remember this was written by the half brother to the Savior Jesus Christ this man would have grown up in the home with Jesus as a child I just can't imagine what it would be like to grow up with a perfect brother can't you hear the mom saying why can't you be like your brother Wow verse 4 chapter 4 ye adulterers and adulteresses what a statement now this is addressed to Christians know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend in the world as the enemy of God do you think that the scripture saith in vain the spirit that dwelleth in US and that's the Holy Spirit that is in you the day you get saved lust at the Envy but he giveth more grace wherefore he saith God resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble the only way to defeat pride is through humility if you can't exalt humility in your life then pride will come in and take that vacuum and we'll handle it if you're gonna do it please write these 4 things down number 1 the scripture is clear from this passage it cannot be done in our strength note what it says God resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble it's God who does it you're sitting here right now saying how do I get rid of the pride in my life it's humanly impossible Paul said without him you can do nothing but God says I want to help you but it starts with grace and if you're gonna do it then you got to do the second thing and that is resist the devil look at verse 7 submit yourselves therefore to God resist the devil and he will flee from you now the way I get rid of pride dr. Aris by humility but if I don't humble myself prides unstoppable but I've got to resist the devil my wife and I bought a home in the country and we really enjoyed it it was a small farm but we ran into a problem and one day we're in our home and my wife said something is running around in the Attic and I said well that's a problem because we don't have an attic and you could sit there at night and whatever it was that was running around up there you could hear it taking steps it was big enough that you could hear its footprints and my wife said what do you think that is I said I don't know but I think it's a rat now I grew up on farms and we saw a lot of rats but I never saw one where you could hear its footprints while it was walking along my wife said let's get an exterminator out here well this guy came out really an unusual man he said my specialty is getting rats and then I cook him and eat him and I said I don't care what you do with him just get up well we're describing everything to him and he said let me show you something he said this is a big rat we had new cupboards that were solid wood solid cherry and the rat was eating holes so it could go from cupboard to cupboard and normally a rat hole is like that will be this rat was eating holes like this you could stick your arm through he said this rat has got serious teeth and this rat is big he said I'm gonna put traps out well he put him out everywhere and boy they were huge he baited him all up came back in two days and I said man I'll bet you got him because I hear those traps going off he brought them all back down and he said I don't know how to tell you this but the rat ate the traps here's all the little metal pieces but where there was food and it got on the wood and I mean some of those traps were like then the rat ate it he said this is a first for me I said well it's a first for us to what do we do now he said well next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna poison him so he said no whatever you do don't let your dogs get at this stuff or any other animal it'll kill him bed but he put these little poison wafers everywhere a couple hundred of them came back in two days I say I tell you this we still hear him walking around he went up there and he said he has eaten all of the wafers it appears he likes some I said let me get this right he hate the traps and now he ate the poison wafers right I said what do you do now they said well this is my last resort he said I have a cat that is the meanest cat on planet Earth and he said I only bring the cat in as a last resort and he brought this can't have never seen a more ugly cat than this this cat has scars on it one ear is missing I mean this can't looked at me anyone I said we're gonna do it that cat he said I'm a tournament there and let the cat get the rat no my wife said well why that sounds cruel the guy said well would you like to live with the rat she said no let the cat do it came back two days the rat killed the cat the guy comes down holding the cat this cats like this he said I can't believe this what I said what do you do now you said the only thing I know to do is go up there and shoot it but he said it'll do damage we'll hit pipes and wires and but we got a nail it the guy climbs up in the attic and he comes back down and he said the rat is challenging me man we're going Wow he comes back down he says you got any water I said yeah did you get him he said no not yet it took him half a day to kill that rat when he brought the rat down that rat not its tail the body was easily that length its teeth were like that I said you're gonna eat him he said you want me to invite you I said no he said I've never had such a difficult rat but he said the choice was simple you have to get used to living with it or you got to take drastic steps you know what the problem with pride is it's so difficult to get rid of that we get comfortable with it I know I shouldn't feel like this but I don't think I'm as proud as most and God says what I want you to do is humble yourself and resist the devil you get rid of it whoa look at what he says to do next draw nigh to God submit yourselves therefore to God resist the devil and he'll draught not he'll breathe and he will flee from you draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you all of this for pride you gotta understand this is an egregious sin this sin sets God against you I mean it's here in the book of James it's in the book of Peter God says I will resist the proud but God says I want you through humility to vanquish this but you got to resist the devil and you got to draw nigh to God the first law firm that I worked for the man that was my boss was an incredible lawyer a wonderful fella a great trial lawyer his name was Tom and Tom taught me how to try lawsuits he was brilliant Tom wasn't saved and glory and my wife and I witnessed to woman gave him all kinds of materials and things and I said Tom I just want to see you get saved and Tom was polite in the beginning but after a while he got a little testy and finally Tom said David look enough Sanath he said I got a whole bookshelf full of the books you've given me I got two drawers full of the tracks you've given me you and your wife have invited me out to eat now six times and it wasn't to get a meal it was to talk to me about getting saved and he said I've had enough and these were his words I want you to button it up stop it I've had enough I said hot Tom come on please I want to see you go to heaven he said David you hear me you bring it up one more time I'll fire you I said Tom I don't want you to do that but boy I don't want you to miss heaven I went home at Tok Laurie Ann and she said well how about if we invite them to this special businessmen's banquet and we have Tom go as a last resort I said that's a great idea I went and saw Tom the next day and I said Tom I know you said not one more time but would you give me one more thing would you go to this banquet there's gonna be a bunch of Christian businessmen there there'll be a great speaker it'll be a great night and just listen to what they have to say he said okay I'll do it but only on this condition this is it I'm done if I go with you to this no more I said well let's go to it and then we'll talk I picked Tom up we went to the banquet pasture it was a great night oh it was beautiful great food wonderful fellowship there was about 800 Christians there unsafe people and it got time for the speaker to stand up and I will never if I live to be a hundred forget this speaker I have never heard anybody so confused and disorganized and a complete lack of eloquence as this speaker he got up in front of all these men and he started by saying I've never done this before and I don't think they should have asked me to do this and I told them I'm the wrong guy for this and he repeated that three times then he got into his notes and he kept getting confused and when he was going through his notes a little bit of wind came across and they flew off on the floor and he said oh no I'll never get him organized again so I'll just have to read them in the order that I pick him up but early so he picks this page up and it says 0.7 now we haven't heard point one yet it was horrible and he kept losing his place he's sweating I mean he it's coming off his forehead it's getting all over his Bible all over his papers and I'm watching this and I thought I have never never seen anything this bad and then I got ticked off I said Lord I did my point I got Tom here look at what you brought I said do you understand what a mess this is and I'm sitting there with a little pad of paper a little notepad and I'm writing notes how am I gonna recover what am I gonna do what am I gonna say to Tom on the way home how am I gonna explain this goofin what am I gonna handle this well finally it says in the thing he's supposed to speak for 22 minutes he spoke for an hour plus and the people were wanting him to wrap it up finally the host says let's conclude it now and when he said that 200 men said amen amen let's conclude it he said okay bow your heads and he said here's what I want to ask you if you don't want to go to hell and you know God ought to put you in hell but you don't want to go and he keeps raising his voice but you don't want to go to hell and you don't want God to put you in hell and you want God to save you and boy now he's really pitched hold your hand up and I thought as he never heard how to do it when he said hold your hand up 400 men held their hands up including Tom I'm looking at him and I'm thinking you don't understand you probably think we're voting to get out of here or something you don't have it right the hands scared him he said it's obvious you don't understand what I was saying take your hands down and I thought don't say that takes forever to get him up and he did the whole thing again only louder and he said you don't want to go to hell and you know God oughta put you in hell cuz you're a sinner but you want Jesus to save you tonight hold your hand up that's what I meant and all the hands went up again and I'm looking at my friend Tom and Tom's crying tears are coming down and he looked at me and he said David is this what you've been trying to tell me and I said well kinda maybe not exactly but kind of that night just under five hundred men came to the altar and got saved when it was all done this young man the speaker came up to me and he said brother Gibbs I'm no good at this and I said well what luck though he said yeah but I told God if I don't have your power I got nothing and he said brother Gibbs I was terrified tonight but God took over he said they should have had somebody else do it I said no sir son God had the right man tunt because I'm telling you you resisted the devil and you drew nigh to God oh he said I did that I told God I gotta have you because I got nothing pride makes us think we can do it pride makes us think we have the ability and if I just had your help a little bit Lord we could do a lot and god says stop draw nigh to God and he'll draw an idea read verse 10 and we're done humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and here's the promise he shall lift you up not maybe God says you humble yourself I promise you I'll lift you up you want to see what you can do or do you want to see what God condemned it now notice it says humble yourself in the sight of the Lord if we're not careful we play this little game of humbling ourselves in each other's sight and the problem with that is we can fool each other nobody fools God deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever draw nigh to God and he shall lift you up I'm afraid there's been a whole bunch of things pastor chapel in my life that I gave it my best shot I worked hard I was diligent but it was just me and that's all pride what would it take for you to say I don't want to see what I can do I want to see what God can do I'm gonna resist the devil I'm not gonna live with rats in my house I'm gonna draw nigh to God he's promised if I do that he'll draw nigh to me and by the grace of God I'm gonna humble myself in God's sight and the god I serve without exception says I'll lift you up the choice tonight is yours Joey Chestnut that's quite a feat but spiritually that's nothing what would you like to see God through you resist the devil draw nigh to God humble yourself and get the pride of God that verse that says humble yourself is written in the continuum that means it isn't something we do once it's something we do and we keep doing it humble humble humble be careful with compliments people to be kind say gracious things and then we start thinking or something no without him we can do nothing but tonight I invite you I don't know what you're facing but humble yourself and my God has promised he'll lift you up

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Length: 35min 31sec (2131 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 31 2017