Welcome to the GTP show.
I'm your host Jason.
I'm here with my co-host.
That's me, Dylan.
Look, it's catching on that GTP thing.
I'm just saying it.
I know I, I literally on the way home today was just saying it to myself like GTP show.
I'm like, yeah.
But then again, like shows are usually, yeah, it is, but it's like shows are usually like
a show, like you're showing something.
But I was like, GTP podcast sounds good too.
But GTP show, like we do have videos on YouTube.
We do have like interactive things on our websites.
I sure let's keep it for show.
Why not?
And I mean, we're showing people the way the truth, you know?
Okay.
So I mean, that works, right?
Yeah, I can take it.
I'll take that.
Yeah.
It's one of my good ideas and I think it needs to happen.
So, so as you can tell, this is season two, episode one.
Yeah.
Season two intro.
Welcome.
Season.
Exciting.
It is exciting.
Especially since you sound like you're not on a phone call.
Yeah.
That's because I thought season two, we got to upgrade the microphone situation.
That is the first step.
I was listening to season one.
I was going like, oh dear Lord, it needs to change.
And then as you listeners have listened to the beginning intro song, it's like the same
song, but it's not the same spot of the song, the same part of the song.
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Yeah.
Let, let, let us, let the Bible change your mind.
Let's do that.
Not the Bible.
It's not my ideology.
God do it.
Yeah.
It's not my ideology.
It's the Bible and the Bible like let the conviction of the Holy Spirit guide you the
right way.
Study it yourself too.
So how are you doing?
You know, this is technically going to be released.
What is it?
We're Apple this Sunday.
This Sunday.
So last week of July.
For those listening, regular people who don't get to get this exclusive stuff.
I have just been married and I will insert that it is amazing.
Preemptively.
I don't know yet because like I said, this is previously recorded, but I'm going to assume
the marriage has been amazing and I'm loving it.
Awesome.
I preemptively say that that's most more than accurate.
So we'll go with that.
We'll say that it's been great.
The wedding was amazing.
There was no problems, no hiccups or anything.
Awesome.
Peace Lord.
Yeah.
Love it.
But yeah, besides that, I mean, yeah, everything's good.
How about yourself?
Pretty good.
I've actually been like kind of reorganizing my life in the sense because I've been working.
I don't like for people who don't know I'm running a trading card program, a trading
card game system that I'm creating from scratch.
I have a crypto project I'm working on.
I had this, I have my J's on it, my music stuff, which you hear my music at the beginning
of this podcast.
And then on top of that, I work normal full time as well.
And then I have a wife so I can't neglect her.
So I have all these different things.
Very busy.
That makes me really busy.
And yeah, the other day I was just kind of driving and worshiping and trying to talk
with God and like I need and I just started to like restructure and I was like some things
I need to start delegating and really start pushing off and giving it to other people
to do and start working on because it's it.
I like to think I can do everything, but there's a point to where I need to be able to say
like I need to focus and that's what I'm doing.
So it's like a really good sense of humility right there to in humbling yourself.
Now, you have to check yourself and read kind of structure.
Good, good, good point because our topic today is actually humility, which obviously you
knew that.
So that was a good transition.
Talk about a segue.
So like, yeah, this is going to be good.
I'm really excited because this is something that I've actually had on the sideline ready
to go for our podcast.
Like humility is one of the topics I had since before we started recording.
Yeah.
So I think two years ago.
Yeah.
So I think it's going to be good.
And yeah, we're going to talk about humility today in the sense that how the Bible refers
to humility, which humility is the state of being humble in the sense of that.
And I think it's going to help kind of bring people to an understanding that we shouldn't
be prideful or holding ourselves above others or trying to really, we're not above others
just because there's righteousness within our lives already because we've accepted Christ.
There's a lot of stuff we're going to go into and I got versus Dylan's got versus it's going
to be good.
Oh yeah.
When is it not going to come on now?
Yeah.
So you, you know, go ahead, take it off.
What do you want to do?
What verse you want to bring up first?
What topic of it?
You know, maybe let's describe what is humility first.
Yeah.
Do you were saying that you had something that kind of just said, what is humility as
like a straight, simple question?
Yeah.
In a sense.
Okay.
I'll go ahead and read that.
Yeah.
That's a humility is the honest organization of your own worth or worth as God sees us
is a delicate balance between humbly recognizing our sin, yet knowing how much God loves us
and values us.
So I think that's, that's just a little bit of it is a whole like four sentence, like
five, six sentences on it.
So no, it's good because the Bible tends to define humility as the fear of the Lord, which
you can see in Proverbs 22, four, but it's, it's what's the, the root of the word is a
Latin word, which comes from the word humus, which means of the earth and to be humble
as humility is like the sense of humble being humble is to be faced down in the dirt, submitting
to the authority of another without personal pride.
And in this sense is before God to God and his word and what he wants of us.
So so there's some really good verses obviously on this subject.
Like one, I want to pull right off the bat.
I'm going to actually pull James.
I'm starting right off the bat with James.
I'm so shocked and odd by this.
Never thought that he'd pull from James guys.
This is a rarity for those who are new to our podcast and season two, his favorite book
is James.
If he gets a chance, he will pull from it every chance he gets.
Very true.
So yeah, what's a better book though?
I think Romans is a pretty good book.
Romans is great.
Oh, that thing's good.
I'll go on to continue with you, James.
James for the context one through 12.
Now, the cool thing here is that builds on the end of chapter three describing how living
according to the words of the world's wisdom.
Sorry, the world's wisdom has led to great conflict among like James Christian readers.
They were actually fighting with each other because they couldn't get what they wanted.
James said that living that way is adultery.
It's cheating on God.
And he calls them to quit their friendship with the world, humble themselves, repent
from their sin and receive God's grace because God is the lawgiver and judge, not man.
And so in James for six, like I said, the context is one through 12 James for six, it
says, but he gives more grace.
Therefore it says God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Right?
So here you can see he's calling us to be humble ourselves and receive more grace from
him.
He's calling us to repent of the sin of self-reliance, demanding that we want and yield to him receiving
with gratitude all the good he chooses to give us and all the seeming good he chooses
to withhold because we're always in servitude in the sense to God and his word and who he
is.
It leads to also again, it says in the same context, James for 10, it says, humble yourselves
before the Lord and he will exalt you.
Everybody wants to be exalted.
We all want to be glorified.
Maybe we wouldn't say so, but maybe we don't feel it all the time.
But we just don't have the humility to admit it.
Right.
But part of the motivation for living according to the world system is to get exaltation for
ourselves.
Is that's like what we want to do.
Just come in having the things we want, getting the respect we feel we deserve or living in
the comfort and pleasure we crave.
But God asks us to quit the world's way of pursuing those things.
And instead he calls us to trust him to exalt us when the time is right without trying to
get the glory for ourselves.
Yeah.
It's kind of like, Oh, I think about like my son and how constantly like he's always,
I feel like he's fighting for attention always.
I mean, he's six.
Once you know, I look at me, look at me.
And that's, you know, I'm very similar in that sense.
I know that, but it takes humility to, I think, to notice that because in like Mark 10, 25
says it's a way to, you know, it's humility is like a pathway to serving God and others.
That's huge.
Yeah.
If you humiliate yourself, you humble yourself, you can serve others.
It's a big thing.
No following God for, for even the son of man cannot, right.
For even the son of man came not to be served, but to serve others and to give his life as
a ransom for many.
So like he humbled himself in a way that we all receive eternal life and forgiveness for
our shortcomings.
As I saw that one, I was just, I don't know, I was thinking about it.
So I think I was supposed to say it.
Well, it's like real humility requires that we agree not to make our daily lives about
ourselves and our God, like God himself promises to make it about us when he sees fit because
that's also kind of referring to like the sample prayers where it says like you pray
that his will be done, not ours.
Same concept here in the sense that that's how humility works.
It's like, that's how Jesus lived.
Anything that God, the father told him to do, he would do it that way per the father's
instruction, right?
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
So it's important to start to see, you can see just in two verses already in the verses
you shared is just already it's starting to say that kind of mentality.
It's like you're not in control.
It's not your goals, your wants, your desires, your craving, your understanding of what is
like the American dream or whatever.
What is it that you need to do is serve God on a daily and see, and he will make it right
within the timeframe that he sees fit.
Yeah.
It's like Philippians two, three, don't be selfish.
Do not try to impress others.
Be humble thinking of others as better than yourself.
Yeah.
The context to Philippians two, three is actually verse one through five.
Because it connects the blessings of Christianity with corresponding results in a Christian's
life.
So definitely recommend reading the whole section there, but it's really cool because
Paul commands his readers to avoid acting in greediness or dishonesty.
His goal was to remove focus from self to others.
And in this that you just read, you can see Paul takes a slightly different approach than
Christ's statement to love your neighbor as yourself, which is Matthew 22, 36 to 40.
But instead he first addresses the motives of wrongful ambition and pride.
When these drive our decisions, love and unity are not our true goals.
So instead, Paul teaching and taught that Christians ought to treat the need of others
as more important than our own and other people as greater than us.
By putting the needs of others first, believers pursue the kind of humility that leads to
mutual love and unity.
The emphasis was not on the self, but on others.
Right?
Exactly.
Otherwise it's like Matthew seven, three.
I worry about speaking in your friend's eye.
I'm sorry.
I worry about the spec in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own loving humility
overlooks the faults of others because we see our own so vividly, you know, we know
we if you were just saying, you know, had the serve and if we're too busy comparing
ourselves or trying to be better than one another, you know, we're looking at their
faults instead of we ignore our own as well.
Yeah, that I like that verse actually, Matthew seven, three.
It's kind of, it's kind of a side topic because I really do like that verse that if you don't
know it's the context is verse one through six.
But in this Jesus is showing in this verse that where we are often blind to our own sins
and it makes a shadow like he makes a shallow condemnation towards like, well, this makes
like that idea that we're blind to our own sense, make shallow condemnation towards others
even more foolish.
And this is a technique of exaggeration for effect known as like a hyper bowl.
What's it called?
Hyperbole.
Thank you.
Hyperbole.
I'm the one that had the speech impediment growing up.
No, it's like, yeah.
So it's like Jesus asked why we are so skillful to seek out a speck in a brother's eye and
so enabled to notice the log in our own eye.
It seems like human beings can like recognize the smallest of simple infractions in the
lives of others while walking around with an obviously an ugly sin of their own.
And he was like, this is human nature.
And this is why God forbids his people to assume his role as judge over their brothers
and sisters.
So that's an important, I like that verse because that whole chapter, that whole second
section, that context there is like.
Yeah.
I remember hearing that, you know, as a kid in Sunday school and it's like, don't be
so quick to judge one, you know, somebody because you have to log in your own.
You know, every time like my brother, me would be like, but this is about you.
It's like, you should really remove the log before you move the speck, you know, my eye.
Right.
No, that's true.
I don't know.
No, like there's so many things on humbling yourselves and you know, Jesus was humble
and that's, you know, you look at Jesus in himself, how humble he was and how we're called
to be Christ like as Christians.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, you, you, if you look at the Bible, there's a hundred plus scriptures that
talk about humility in general and eighty one plus of those are talking about being humble
or humbleness in some sort of context.
So it's that common and that's not just New Testament.
That's all Testament and the Torah and like the laws of Moses, et cetera, all the way
up to Jesus saying stuff.
And so it's important.
So why is this being said so many times?
Because it's important and it's against our human nature because human nature, like we
said before in the previous verses is to look at others, to look for what success is amongst
the culture at the time to stand out, to be, to look better, be competitive in that sense.
Yeah, no, it's true.
Cause we're always told, you know, uh, you know, being every, you know, we'll be the
number one, be the best, um, stuff like that.
That's uh, I mean, there's no wrong with being competitive and wanting to be the best.
Like I think you're all supposed to give a hundred percent for the Lord.
Um, do you think all things is you do it for him.
As somebody, you know, I like to think he would take, because myself as a competitor
is someone who likes to win.
Um, you know, that's just my family too, we're competitive.
Um, there's also a line of can things go too far?
As I sit here, I think about that.
We're playing cards.
My mom, I was calling her a dirty cheat and I was kind of mean to her, you know, but there's
times where, you know, you need to humble yourself, even if it's in competition, because
you're still supposed to exude and represent Christ through all the things that you do.
Um, everything you do is to serve God.
Yeah.
Whether it's, um, you know, playing a card game, uh, whether it's going to work, you
know, you can dinner, you should do all of those, you know, your best.
Yeah.
Um, uh, this thing you can, I have a, I get a big head when I know I'm like, oh yeah.
Like, man, I, I'm so good at this and that's normally, that's why I have friends that
you'd be like, you sure about that?
Do it.
I'm like, what?
I mean, you, you know, you sure about that?
You read off of a verse from James or something.
And I'm like, dang it.
You know, it's human nature.
Yeah.
I feel like, you know, uh, Jesus, you know, he was humble.
God wants us, you know, I wanted Jesus to be humble.
I'll have a humble birth and offer salvation for everyone.
And regardless of anybody who you are, you know, he says in Luke, uh, two verse six through
seven, while they were there, time came for a baby to be born.
She gave birth to the, for her firstborn son, got him snuggling in striped clothes and laid
him in a manger.
Cause that was the only thing available.
Like that's the thing, like even the whole beginning, see, like I was so humble, like
his being born was humble.
Like, you know, there's things you just, you have to humble yourself.
Gosh.
This is him.
Look at Mary.
Yeah.
Gosh.
Mary was the bottom of the lineage of her, her tribe, so to speak.
And she was like the nobody, like the never going to amount to anything.
And that's why
can those days, if you're a woman, you're only good for bearing children.
Well, maybe not the best example, considering that she was picked to bear.
But I mean, come on, if you get, if you get chosen to bear that one child, you know, or
more than, more than one child, but you know, she bore that, you know, Jesus, he was chosen.
I mean, yeah.
The women have the only ones that can have kids.
So this instance and the cool thing is that as, as a, like someone that's been created
by God, just like all of us, we've created by him.
He designed us to be, yeah.
And we're designed to do certain roles and do certain things.
That doesn't mean you're only good for those things.
That just means that there's a implicative design to how we function.
But getting back on track, you're right.
There's a lot of being humble and humility behind even Jesus coming into this world and
being born and who gave birth to him, where he was born in.
And yeah, it's crazy.
It's cool to see like, there's a reason when people are like, Oh no, like if I was Jesus,
if I was God and want to come on earth, I'd be like through a King where I had a good
and life was fantastic.
Nope.
Not for him, but you know, for me, if he wants to do that, I'm not going to say no.
Yeah.
But can you be humble through it?
I want to say yes.
I want to say yes, because I like to receive that.
But that's, that's the thing.
It's like, yeah, it's hard because that's something that a lot of people don't think
about is that if let's say you were given everything you ever wanted, you have money,
you have a home, you have cars, you have everything you ever want in this world.
I got my Honda Accord, my Civic.
I'm very happy with them.
Awesome.
All I need of this episode, but if they like to be out to me.
But if you get everything you need completely and everything you human nature is not to
rely on anything at that point, except for themselves.
Human nature is to say, I'm good.
I don't need anybody.
I don't need anything else.
I am good.
I am taking care of.
So God's not going to just give you that stuff or throw that stuff at you.
If you're going to walk away from him or stop being close to him, God's a jealous God and
he wants your attention, wants your wants your praise and everything like that, wants
that relationship.
But people tend to think that that doesn't mean you're going to be poor forever.
That doesn't mean you're going to be on the street homeless because all you could do is
just rely on him.
But this is this is just an idea to say that I'm humble no matter what I get.
And like I said in that previous first words, like whether I have good or good is being
kept from me.
I thank God and I serve God and he will give it to me at the time that he sees fit to not
alter my walk with him.
And that that's it.
And I've had times where I've gotten finances come in.
I'm like, awesome.
This is cool.
But then every day I'm still thinking, thank you, God, for this blessing.
Show me how to use it.
And I've used it to help us others.
I'm not going to get into details because I don't because I'm not here to try to gloat
or brag or anything like that.
But that's that's that's how life should be when it comes to being humble before the Lord
and living in humility.
Like Romans 12 16.
Because you mentioned Romans earlier as being good to the best books.
And the New Testament.
I'm going to use Romans because I know it is good.
It's great.
I love Romans.
Romans is great, too.
I promise I say I love everything.
Yeah, it's a good book.
Romans 12 16.
It says be of the same mind toward one another.
Do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly.
Do not be wise in your own estimation or do not be conceited.
Be wise either or or be wise in your own sight to help make sense of that.
Can you describe the word haughty to our audience, please?
Haughty like the funny word.
Haughty is like arrogantly superior, disdainful, like like someone that's like turned the thing
like turned up like their nose is turned up like.
Is like that haughty.
Like the who's from Whoville?
Yeah, that's what I think.
Yeah, the nose turned up like if you watch Horton, Here's a Who, you see that one Rue
or the Kanga.
I think her name is.
Yeah, she's like, hang it.
That's the thing.
I that is I want those are the characters that we all want to punch and the movies are
in the books.
This person like this person.
Really this person.
They're very hot.
That's very haughty.
This is this is interesting because here like Paul, this is Paul's writing, right?
And he's previously commanded Christians to love and honor each other.
That's common.
And that's a command in this verse carries a slightly different idea, which is harmonizing
with other like musically requires each one to adjust to his or her own pitches is why
it's worded this way, not to perfectly match each other, but to be compatible and pleasant
with when put together.
So Paul's not instructing Christians to be all exactly like in every behavior and opinion
in Chapter 14, he discusses the fact that Christians will inevitably have matter of
different opinions, which we see that nowadays.
But you're talking about I've never seen that in the church before.
Oh, yeah, no, not at all.
There's only one that sarcasm.
I know the Bible says sarcasm, but it's fun.
We're giving facts about the Bible.
So it doesn't mean we're perfect about following it, but we can definitely read and put two
and two together here has ever made a sarcastic comment.
You know, remove that law.
I got a girl.
I first.
Okay, no.
I'm going to continue, Jason.
Yeah.
So he's commanding believers to adjust to each other in a way that produces pleasantness
and order.
And it requires a level of like mutual submission, a willingness to make different choices that
will allow us all to get along together.
And it requires humility from everyone involved.
It's not surprising.
And when I'm saying this stuff, I don't want to get the wrong idea when I'm when it's talking
about lining up and stuff like that.
It's not talking about the lineup of people of the world or a sinful life or a worldly
life is this instance when it's talking about it is talking about Christian to Christian.
We're able to line up with each other like like I'm sure if you've been in churches and
stuff like that, you understand the idea where it's like is your theology about Jesus who
died and rose again and he is the son of God and the true God in human form.
And people say yes.
And it's like, okay, great.
Then the ideology that you have is what I have.
And we both believe the gospel, which is the truth, which is what we just shared.
So we line that up.
And you know, we might make different decisions along the way about different verses.
Like some might think, oh, yeah, tribulation happens halfway through or it happens before
the like the we're taken up before the tribulation happens or we're taken up halfway or, you
know, the little things like that, which are not part of your salvation.
It's not salvation level like ideology.
We can still get together and be in harmony with each other, saying that we both serve
Christ and we both serve God.
We're learning and reading and we work together.
So true, because, you know, I've seen people have like full out arguments about post trip,
pre trip, you know, just the little things of like, well, now when Jesus did this, you
know, he meant this.
And it's like, you know, all the if you can get anything out of the Bible, any one thing
that makes sense, it is that he came and died for our sins.
Like in season one, we talked about what is salvation.
See ABC's, I believe confess.
You don't know.
Have questions about that.
Go by season one.
Watch that video.
As we are here, go over there.
Listen to that one.
Come back.
Perfect.
So, yeah, welcome back.
Welcome back.
But in this verse, like even this specific person's final command in this verse is that
Christians must never be wise in our own sight.
Right.
And this is not.
Yeah, this is not like same as saying that we're never wise.
The idea is that we should like not accept our own opinion is the final word we submit
to the word of God, because that's the word of God, as well as to input.
And I like as well as to the input and ideas of others, we submit to the world of God.
So your opinion is that final word.
And I we've we've talked about the idea of deconstruction.
And I like to mention this a lot, because especially with this, people say, see, you
read the word, that's your opinion.
So if someone else reads the word, they have a different opinion.
It means don't take it.
Don't say that they're wrong.
I'm like me personally, I'm not bringing an opinion.
This is what the Bible says.
I change my opinions and my beliefs and my understanding to what the Bible says.
And that's the whole point of study.
Right.
That is exactly it.
There is an absolute.
With Christ and not only that, the Bible is very discriminatory, very much so.
And God is discriminatory, not based on your skin color, because there's no there's one
race and that's God's race that he created, the human race.
Right.
He created us as one race, one race of people that all came from one man and one woman.
And we expanded throughout the earth, etc, etc.
But not in that sense of discriminatory, discriminatory, because it's like, oh, you don't live a life
of Christ.
You live a life of sin.
You rather do your thing and not God's thing.
These are little things that he looks at and he will be the judge of on the final day when
you meet him, when you confront him.
And that's it.
And that's what people don't understand.
It's like it's not there is an absoluteness because God doesn't change.
At all.
People change, culture changes, you know, how we perceive words changes.
But we can go back all the way to Hebrew, to Greek and understand what these words mean
and a broader context and a broader way, which is why we study.
Exactly.
I think that's one of the biggest things that was studied, the words and to know what they
actually mean.
No, because Greek and Latin, you look into that and I think it's important to I just
was thinking about that.
You mentioned it a couple of times, you know, you look at the root of the word in Hebrew,
Greek, more meaning behind some of the words.
So yeah.
Yeah.
We'll have to do a whole episode talking about like the Bible's authenticity.
We'll have to do a whole episode.
Season two is going to have so much stuff.
It's like a Bible authenticity.
There's going to be another episode talking about judging others.
There's going to be another episode called Dylan's sarcasm.
I'm ready for that.
When I host it, it'll be perfect.
It's good stuff.
Yeah, honestly.
I mean, that could see a couple of those could be part, you know, Apple exclusives.
Oh yeah, it'll be fun.
That's why you also subscribe.
Yeah.
And we said it before, subscriptions are they're just there.
So if people want to help us and grow the podcast and we donate 75% of everything that
comes in.
Yeah, that's that's that's definitely a good point.
I have another verse I want you to I have this.
I want you to see what you think about it and kind of have some more input on you because
I do have a pulpit about it.
Pop it.
Yeah.
The PK.
Here's my pulpit.
My gosh.
OK, read away.
PK.
Colossians 312.
So are those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion,
kindness, humility, gentleness and patience?
You want me to read it again?
Yeah, that's yeah.
Let's break this down.
Let's break it down.
Let's do it.
Break it down.
What first part here that's important to know, therefore, as God's chosen people.
So we're chosen, holy, almost set apart or different.
Correct.
Which I want to touch upon that real quick to center.
If you haven't go to our blog, read shows.
Chosen because people tend to take this verse out of context, like our last episode and
take it out of context to say only certain people are chosen.
Per the resurrection and death of Christ, death and resurrection of Christ.
He is called all people to follow him, which if you go read the blog, you'll see.
OK, next part of this verse.
Holy and dearly loved or holy and beloved.
Obviously, you know, he's called us.
Not everybody answers.
We we answer the call.
We believe him, accept him.
He loves us.
And he makes us pure because he gives us new spirit.
Right?
Clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
What are your inputs on on this?
I think that last sentence is really important.
The club yourself.
The club.
Well, yes, clothing yourself is very important, but do it with patience and.
Humbling yourself think is huge because if you don't, you come off, you come off in some
way that's not pleasing.
You're no longer representing God the correct way.
And in fact, those are the people that, you know, working and talking with people like,
oh, I know some people that go to church, you know, oh, yeah, she's like this.
She's like that, you know.
And, you know, it gives.
Bad.
The bad vibe, that's where to put it.
Like it just isn't it doesn't help.
Yeah.
The way that we're always first of all, it's not how we're supposed to act.
It also then gives us gives God a bad look, a bad taste in your people's mouth.
That's not what we want to do.
We want to be kind and loving and we want to have that humbleness and patience of people
because you know what?
They might just be asking questions because they need, they don't know and they want to
understand more.
You know, it's just one of those things like, you know, dealing with the child, you, you
have to have the patience to teach and let them learn it too.
You can't just be upset right off the bat.
I'm saying that because that's something that I've also been working on.
Yeah, because six year olds can be difficult.
So with my boy, you know, six and a half and no, it is the kids, you know, is the best
example I think to, you know, can really experience the father's love and just knowing that like
dang, like my wife, I love her so much, but it's like God loves her so much more.
Like my son and it's, it's a humiliating thing in a sense because like you realize how much
like I love is outshined by his love.
It's yeah, it's crazy to think like that.
I just, yeah.
Yeah.
No, that's, that's true.
I'm on a tangent a little bit, but not too bad because it comes back around considering,
you know, how, how pastors will be like to, you know, go off on bunny rabbit trails all
the time.
Well, because we have a place to wear, like, because this touches up on this is what you
were saying when there's people who are not Christian or not following God or didn't accept
Christ and they have questions and stuff like that.
There is there like Hebrews 1026 talks about that kind of thing.
Like sending deliberately after receiving the knowledge of truth because once we accept
Christ, we're given the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit helps guide us and not doing sin.
And we understand that scripture is the word of God.
So we take that and apply it to our lives to be more like him, to live a life that he
wants and serve him and live in humility to his word and his law and his place and what
he wants us to be in his kingdom, right?
To glorify him.
And so in this sense, that doesn't happen.
Like you don't understand that until you are following Christ and you're gifted the Holy
Spirit.
So it's that's why we live in humility and serve others and are compassionate to others
and have patience and meekness because we are called to to serve others and show the
love of God that he shows us.
But in this sense, we understand that they don't know it's wrong because they don't have
the Holy Spirit.
People who live in sin, go on sinning or who do sin constantly, they don't know better
because they don't understand why and they don't have the Holy Spirit there showing them
why.
And that's really important.
And in this verse when it talks about humility, like it's a trait valued by God throughout
scripture as we're showing.
And the gospel requires people to admit they're sinners in the first place and that we are
needed of a savior.
So if we can't even be humble or live in that humility, we can't even admit that we're sinners
that we need a savior, we need Christ.
We can't even do that part.
So as believers, we should recognize God's supremacy in our lives and how limited we
are in comparison because humility is also important so that we don't act arrogantly
or unfairly towards other people.
That was the pulpit I talked about earlier.
Oh my gosh.
Well, that's a good one though.
That's a real good one.
Yeah, I did out to what you said, you know, because it's true.
It's like we, you know, we don't, we don't know honestly, everybody's walk, Christ and
where they're at, their understanding.
We don't like your walk is completely different than my walk.
No, it's like, you know, our wives are completely different in their walks than, you know, than
us too.
Yeah, we're, you know, at the same time, we're even the, you know, your goat.
Oh, it's, you know what I mean?
You know, everybody's walks the same, like my, you know, like our siblings don't have
the same walk that we have.
Everybody has different things happen to them in life.
The one consistent thing is, is Jesus Christ and forgiveness.
And I think that's where you get caught up with so much things of this world.
Yeah.
You were saying how many things that you, we just get caught up with and we forget about,
you know, this is the basics of what it really comes down to.
What really matters.
True.
And you said it yourself is that Jesus was born in a, I'm bringing this up because fusion
four to I'll get to it in a second, but you said it yourself.
Jesus was born in a humble manger.
He grew up in a humble surrounding, living a humble life, but he had this impact because
he was God, you know, God in, in the flesh and his followers, because we're supposed
to live like him and follow him are supposed to operate the same kind of way in humility.
Right?
I mean, shoot.
It's a, it's Matthew 18 four that says he calls us to live with the humility of a child
in Matthew 18 four and, and Jesus taught, whoever exalts himself will be humbled and
whoever humbles himself will be exalted because God exalts people at the time that he sees
fit.
So yeah, one of the visions.
Oh yeah, sorry.
Visions four to also says with all humility, gentleness, with patience, bearing with one
another and love that it mentions the same thing that was mentioned in the previous verse
we talked about.
I just wanted to bring it in.
It says it twice.
So twice.
Yeah.
So, you know, it's important then, right?
And not only does it say it twice, it was two different, two different authors in.
Two different centuries written in like 18, 18 different languages, but it all said the
same thing.
Oh my gosh.
So this is like one of the most important things in the whole Bible.
It's just, it's just one of those things where it's like a lot of the Bible's like that,
where it's not a game of telephone.
It's literally like here's scripture and it was translated in all these different languages
and we'll, we'll get to authenticity of the Bible and then another one.
It's really cool.
I have, we, we have tons of stuff on that one.
We have tons of stuff on a lot of stuff.
They have a whole Bible full of stuff.
The best thing is every time you talk about something, it changes and you can get a whole
new meeting.
Well, I mean, even then like verses are pretty solidified.
It's just like, you'll see a different portion of the verse point of view point of view and
also different portion of the verse that might stick out than the other time.
Like the previous verse that said that those who are chosen by God, that might stick out
to some.
And then when it says, clothe yourself, then righteous, like the humility and love and
stuff like that generosity, you can see that that is something that will stick out to other
people.
So you can read the same verse and different things will stick out to you, but it's all
the same.
It doesn't change.
It's just, you see different things based upon what you're dealing with.
Just research, research, research.
Honestly, it's always just always equipping, equipping yourself and being in the word.
The biggest thing you can do for your walk.
Any of those who are new with their walk with God or excuse me.
Anybody?
Yeah.
We'll just cut that out.
Anyways, but you know, anybody who is a new to their walk or as you know, newer or they've
got stagnant, I think that's huge.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
So first, let's first Peter five, six, if I remember correctly, that first Peter five,
six.
Yeah, five, six says humbly.
Sorry, humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God so that the proper time
he may exalt you again is talking about in his time he will exalt you.
So you know, all of us long to be glorified.
It's just we want to be lifted up.
We want to be praised.
We want to be glorified in general.
Like we long to know that we are significant to have others know as well.
That's just human desire.
That desire is not necessarily wrong, but all human nature desires have some legitimate
God honoring purpose and means to express it properly.
In this case, we are made in God's image and he has built us into the desire to be exalted.
The key to a biblical Christian view of glory is paying close attention to what God says
about seeking it because the Bible teaches us to quit struggling so hard to make it happen
and trust to trust God to exalt us at the right time and place as he sees fit because
he's a good father who loves us and let him be in charge of bringing us glory.
Right.
Yeah, 100 percent.
I agree with that.
Right.
Yeah.
Keep going.
I'm just sorry.
Yeah.
Right.
If you don't know the word exalt because it took I didn't know it at first when I first
was reading this back and some salt exalt some salt where the salt of the earth.
Thank you for bringing that up.
Now, the perfect exalt is to hold something or someone in very high regards or think that
very highly of or have a position of greater power in that sense, more noble, dignified.
That's kind of what exalt is, but in this instance, it's more talking about being held
in high regard.
Like your value is there.
Like you have a lot of value in what you do and you're significant because of it.
That's what that is.
Thank you, Jason, for explaining exalted.
We probably should have talked about.
Yeah.
And Hottie.
Yeah, we probably should have talked about what exalted means before, because I think
that can get lost in translation pretty quick.
It sometimes.
Yeah.
People think exalted you're on a pedestal being worshipped by people.
It's true.
Hallelujah.
I think it's important to that we do go over some of the words to that are just common
because some of our listeners might be some of my youth kids who are junior high schoolers
who are learning their biblical vocabulary.
Yeah, and that's good.
There's the what do they call it?
These Christianese language, you know, if you feel led by the spirit, things that don't
make any sense to anybody else, you know, led by the spirit.
What the heck are you talking about?
Yeah.
No, you got a point, because especially with Christian is I try to not use Christianese
terms like like.
I remember one pastor, there was a lot of people there that weren't were actually new
to the church, and he was saying that were bathed in the blood and people like, what
are you talking about?
Babes and what blood blood?
What is this a cult that I walk into the wrong building?
Yeah.
Yeah, that that can be a whole like little like you call it a little short episode going
over the Christianese words and phrases.
And we I feel like one of the episodes we did, we talked a little bit about Christian.
He is because a little bit, but we could do a whole short.
We even put on YouTube.
It was yeah, it was episode eight where we talked about theories, ideas and Christianese.
Oh, my.
That's exactly what it is.
Yeah, I remember that.
Yeah, that was that was that episode.
We just kind of like got on there and just started talking and kind of rambling a little
bit.
But like, I don't think we had an idea of what we were going to talk on or like kind
of.
We'll just tell us what to do.
Yeah, we talked about some weird stuff, but it was just mostly like like we said, the
disclaimer, don't take any of this as like your foundation.
This is stuff that we've heard ideas, thoughts, Christianese like that.
We just talked about stuff and it was good because we got the you and me got the equally
go back and forth about stuff.
That was that part was fun.
Yeah, I mean, it always is.
Yeah, obviously.
Today's episode, though, obviously, I don't want to go, you know, freaking what's it called?
I don't want to go through all 100 plus verses that talk about humility.
It's so many verses.
And it's so easy to make that last like five hours.
It really is, though.
Oh, yeah.
This is one of those topics that you can just talk and talk on.
Yeah, it's true.
Thankfully, we're not today.
This episode, we're only doing the this is going to be an early release episode.
We'll start adding bonus content to these episodes later on this in this month, August,
I should say.
Oh, we expect now if you subscribe.
But I think I'll only say one more verse.
Yeah.
OK, sounds good to me.
One more verse, Micah six, eight.
Mankind, he has told each of you what is good and what is the Lord requires of you, what
it what it is the Lord requires you to do what is right.
To love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Which is cool.
Now, if you don't know, a lot of translations have a question mark in this verse, whether
it's before the and what does the Lord require of you?
And then saying to act justly or it will have the question mark at the very end of the verse
where it says and to walk humbly with your God.
Like doesn't isn't this?
What the Lord requires you, though it is being put forward to the people as like, is this
not what you're being told to do by the Lord to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly?
Which those three things are interesting combination.
They are.
They truly are.
It's.
To.
Yeah.
It's interesting combination.
But it's really cool to see that worse.
It's even this is before Jesus and is talking about, you know, do justice or act justly
to love kindness or to love mercy and to walk humbly.
It's it's so cool to see that's consistent because it's like humbly with your God, because
it's not about what you think humbly is or what you think how to be humble is.
It's or what you think is humbly.
Or what you think living in humility is.
What does the Bible say?
And like I said, there's a lot of verses on it.
It's touched many times in the Bible.
It's talked about many times.
And I want to challenge not just myself, but you, Dylan, as well as everybody who listens
to the podcast.
To to actually do someone else's or put someone else above you and in your pedestal life,
like as their stuff is more important and actually the pastor to my church, he talked
about humility a couple like I think a month or two ago.
And what he said is take the L. He's like, take the L. Do something that puts someone
above your needs and your wants and do something for them, not out of like I have to, but out
of I want to show that I am listening to God and doing what he asked.
He's like, when you're on the freeway and someone's trying to get into your lane, back
up, let them in.
He's like, do those things that nobody else will do.
Those things that everybody doesn't want to do is like take the L, back it up, let that
person in.
You know, you're going to the gas pump because you know, it's really easy because you know,
my Honda Civic is a sportsman.
It's got that turbo.
It's really easy.
Just, you know, room room and be humble Dylan.
Live that humility like turbo Jason.
Yeah.
That means once they get in front of you, you can go around and pass them.
We'll make it more fun and it would be helping them out.
So it's like that he, this is what my pastor said and it's true.
And it's like we need to live in humility.
This means thinking differently than what we do.
Stop thinking of us and my wants, my needs, what I want to do more important.
People are trying to come into your lane.
Let them, if you're going to the gas pumps and someone else is pulling up the same time,
let them take it.
Cause if I'm at the gas station, I'm probably on like fumes.
My car will, will at the roll.
And if it rolls, people will, God will help you and give you people to help you at that
instance because you did the right thing.
See this guys, every time I try to make a comment, a counter argument for this, like
what the dude is, what do you think is going to happen?
Like I'm going to say, well, there's a whole life with this guy right here.
You think the Bible's like be humble unless it inconvenience you doesn't say that.
Ooh, I need to go talk to the kids.
I am so sorry.
I'm just joking.
There's no, there's no exception.
You live a humble life.
If you really follow Christ, you really love God and you listen to God, then you live in
humility.
You don't live in humility.
Do you really want to follow God?
Yeah.
I also want to make sure that my gas isn't no, I'm just joking.
I'm joking.
As I say that, my chair just broke.
Oh my God.
Okay.
I get it.
I would have laughed so hard if you were, you were saying that your chair broke and
you fell out of the chair and all we hear is you going, ah, I do that, but I dropped
my phone as well.
Okay.
I get it.
It was just a joke, but I do apologize.
I like to retract my statement.
My statements retract, retract it, live in humility, love the Lord your God, follow what
he says and understand that you live in a life that other people are more important
than your own and he will exalt you when the time comes according to his well.
Amen.
That is the overall, yeah, that's the overall message to this episode today.
That's right.
That's good.
So yeah, I'm going to end it here.
Unless you have any other comments.
Not really know.
Like I'm saying, this isn't what you said.
It just, it sounds good.
Yeah.
I, I get pulpits a lot when I'm in charge of the episode.
So I just do that on the regular.
So I don't get to, I know that's why we do this.
Right?
We do this.
Have the want.
I have a want to, I want, I have a want to study.
The Bible and talk about the Bible every day.
Reels though.
All right.
So much fun.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, let's end this episode.
Yeah.
That way we can, we can, uh, episode one, season two.
Oh, um, for everyone listening, just let you know we're ending this episode today.
Yes.
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I am upgrading the website.
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The theme is expensive.
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So I appreciate what they do for us.
So anyways, yeah.
Just, you mean, cause before this is this been Jason doing all that stuff and uh, he
is amazing.
And once again, and the thing of humbling himself, no, like, Hey, no God is giving you
somebody who can do it a little bit better than we can police me.
And uh, I mean, I wish I could be more help, but like I said, I just, I've been trying
to get married, which I don't know if anybody's done that before, but it was quite, um, yeah.
Yeah.
It's a lot.
Yeah.
I'll tell you, we recommend it's amazing.
It's fun.
Yep.
And uh, yeah.
Uh, okay, well I'll press out and then we'll end this episode and see you on the next.
So sounds good.
Lord, thank you that we actually had this opportunity to just sit down, read your word,
um, and just, uh, commune with each other and the Bible and you, um, I thank you for
your Holy spirit that you've gifted us, um, just by accepting you and believing you and
trusting in you.
I pray for not just me and myself, Dylan and anybody listening, but I do pray that we're
able to walk in that humility to walk that lifestyle, to truly understand what it is,
to be humble before you and follow the, the just what you're calling us to do.
And I thank you for the opportunity to be able to read your Bible freely, speak about
your word freely and just be able to enjoy who you are and experience your presence and
your peace on a daily basis.
And I thank you for that.
Jesus name.
Amen.
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