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ACT 1: Follow The Leader (Humility) - Ebenezer Quaye (Wednesday Bible Study)
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Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from One in la. If you haven't been to one, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to one, the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.
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First thing I'm gonna ask, as I like to do at the beginning of each of these, is if you are, if you can, please make sure that you are near somebody. So if you're sitting and it's like there's four or five seats. I know, listen, we all wanna make room for the Holy Ghost. However, for the purposes of how we are going to get down, I wanna make sure everybody is near so somebody, especially tonight. So the past few times we have been moving in groups of two. Tonight we will be moving in groups of three and four. So if you are not near at least three people, this is your time to get near somebody. And if you can, please make your way forward. If you're sitting close to the back, you're by yourself. Come on down. Join us. Come on through. Come. Come on down. Come on down. Come on. Come on down. The seats are softer up here. Some of them are heated. There's TVs in the back of select ones. Some of them got cable, you know, I mean, there's only one way to find out, which would be to come down and see for yourself. But I want to make sure everybody is near somebody. All right? I know. Look. They immediately bonded. It's okay. Oh, wow. Oh, well, praise the Lord. This is great. We got reunions happening up here. I didn't plan that, Lord, but thank you. So here's what I would like to do. While we are standing up, we're going to do this quick icebreaker of an exercise. Lola has already prayed us in. And as we are well aware, we are going to be speaking from the topic of humility. We are going to be adding this to the character that we have been building as Disciples. So if I could have everyone stand. Most of you are standing. Some of you aren't. If I could have everybody stand. And as we are going to do at the beginning of each one of these, I love our statement and our declaration. I want you to look to your left and you're going to repeat after me. To your left. Some people were confused. Your left, not mine. Your left. Everybody is confused if everybody looks to the left. Okay, look to the person that is next to you on your left. There we go. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. People are still confused. We're going to try this a different way, everybody. Okay, let's try it this way. Everybody should be able to see one person to their left and one person to their right. Correct. Nobody. Remember, I said don't sit by yourself. Okay, you are going to pick one person. Pick a side. Everybody should be looking at somebody right now. If you're not looking into someone's eyeballs, make sure you're looking right at them. Okay? Everybody's looking at somebody. There we go. So here's what we're gonna do. As we've done in the. As we did in the first two weeks, we are gonna repeat this mantra. We're gonna be speaking this over ourselves. What I want you to say is this. My name is. And you know what your name is. And you will say, my name is. You say your name, and I am a disciple. Okay, Go ahead, say that to the person who is next to you. My name is. Introduce yourself and declare you are a disciple. Okay? All right. Now, if you looked to your left, look to the other side, which means you will have done this twice and looked at two different people. You ain't looking at the same person twice. All right? Introduce yourself and say, my name is. And I am a disciple. Okay? All right. I kind of believe you. I think I kind of believe you. I maybe sort of believe you. But since we're all now going to face forward, I want you to say this aloud. Now, you don't have to look into somebody's eyes, get all nervous. I want you to say this aloud for yourself. So we're gonna do this on. We're gonna repeat after me. My name is. Say your name. And I am a disciple. Oh, we ready to roll? Let's go. Okay, here's what I would like for all of us to do. I told you. We're gonna be moving in groups of three and groups of four. Today we're gonna start off in a group of four. So four people find Everybody find. Put yourselves in groups of four. See now, now you gotta move. Y' all were solo dolo. Now you gotta move. Put yourselves in groups of four. Groups of four. When you have your group of four, raise your hand when you got a group of four. And if you're missing one, you need one. Who needs somebody? Needs one. We got one over here. We need one. You need one? Is there one? Who needs one? You, you got. You need one. Okay, I got three groups who need one. You're a group of three and you need one. I'm gonna have you break off, hang with that group right there. Yes, you right on over. You need one. Hang with them. There you. Okay. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Oh, they got a fourth. Okay, who still needs one? We got two groups of three that need one. We're gonna split y' all up just for this, just for this. Next, I'm gonna bring them back. Oh, you got four. You're four straight. Okay, who else? If you have your group of four, raise your hand. Your group of four, raise your hand. Okay, are there any groups that still need a person? Okay, we got three groups. We got three groups that need one extra person. Okay. Oops. Did you just draft somebody? Somebody just came in. She's like, what did I just walk into? So here's what we'll do. The groups who still need a person, raise your hand. Raise your hand. I see one group that needs one person. You need one. Oh, somebody's walking over. Oh, walk over here. Okay, come over here. There we go. We still got a group for you. It's okay. So you have four. Everybody has a group of four. Wait, I've got two hands up. Hold on. So we have a group of three and a group of three. Okay, for this exercise we're have the two groups. Wait, somebody just walked in. Who just walked in? Don't hide. Now we all see you. Come on in, the water's warm. Come on in. Come on in. Oh, someone else just walked in. Woo hoo. Hey, look at the Lord. Won't he provide? Won't he provide? Won't he do it? So everybody is in groups of four? Correct. Okay, here's what I want you to do. Oh, wait, we still. Did they make it? They didn't make it down yet, but you're good, you're covered. There we go. All right, so we're in groups of four. Here is your exercise. I'm gonna give you all 15 seconds. Okay? There is a picture that is going to pop up on the screen. There was a Picture that I sent earlier. So it's gonna pop up on the screen. When you see that picture, you are going to reenact. You have 15 seconds to reenact the pose that you see on this picture. Not the facial expressions. I'm not asking you to do all that. Just the pose. Now, here's the thing. There are three people who are posing. Three people are going to do the pose. The fourth person, you are the photographer. You get to set up and take the picture. Okay? So we got 15 seconds. Can we put up the picture that I emailed earlier? There it is. Can y' all see it? All right, we got 15 seconds. 15 seconds. Get it together. Where my photographer's at. Get it together. Who's the photographer? Boom. Who's the photographer? Do I gotta be the photographer for all of you? What's going on? What is this? Okay, I'm the photographer. Okay, hold that pose. Hold that, hold that. Hold that. Boom. Okay, that's okay. Freeze, freeze, freeze. Y' all in the pose. I should see a whole bunch of Charlie's Angels podcast fam. We have a whole room of people who are collaborating to recreate the iconic Charlie's Angels pose, complete with a photographer. Because it's 2025, we take pictures. Okay. All right. Figured it out. Everybody got it. We even got a selfie in there. I saw that. That was dope. All right, we're gonna switch it around. Same group, same thing. But everybody's gonna switch roles. All right? So everybody should get the chance to do at least one part of the pose. Switch it up. 15 seconds. Let's go. And when you figure it out, hold your pose. There you go. Okay, where my photogs? Who's the photographer? I see. Okay, yeah, yeah. Yep, yep, yep. I see it. I see it. I see two. I need a third angel. Any third angel. All right. Okay. And freeze. Y' all came out the pose. Some people relax. They sat down. Okay, now switch roles. Everybody should play a different role. Third time through. Let's see if we gonna get this. Come on. Y' all see the pose. You've played different parts. Okay? Okay. Six, five, four, three, two, one. Freeze. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Ah. Freeze. Okay. All right. This is the last time through. Switch roles. Let's go. Switch it up. Everybody should be in the. Everybody should be in a different position at least once. Switch it up. 15 seconds. Come on. Go, go, go, go. Okay. All right. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Done. A whole room. Everybody hit the pose. You're all Charlie's Angels. If you need to go back to your seats now, I'm going to ask a couple very quick questions so you can sit down. It's okay. You're good. Now, I'm going to ask this question, and I want you to file this answer away in your memory because I'm going to come back to it later. Okay? Does anybody remember what my instruction was? What was the objective of the assignment? What were you supposed to do? Yes. Pose a picture. So make sure you got the pose and someone took the picture. Okay. And what? Not worried about the facial expression. Thank you. No, no, you don't have to worry about all that. Just your face. Y' all do the pose. Okay. So everybody got the chance to be a different part of the picture. Correct. Okay, raise your hand. Let me see if I can ask this. Right? Yes. She's like, I'm just doing it anyway. Okay. Did anybody. Okay, let me ask this. How did you. How did you figure out who was going to play what role? Say that again. There we go. You volunto. She voluntold somebody to do it. We got volunteers and someone was voluntold. You said you had a great answer. Y' all were already in position, right? Okay, what else? How else did you decide how to get into the positions? Because I didn't tell anybody who was going to do what. But y' all decided amongst yourselves. How did you decide? Go ahead. Okay. I love that answer. Whatever was missing, she said, I just filled it in. Who else? Okay, y' all just follow clockwise direction. I like it. You had one guy. Oh, okay. I got so perfect. It just. He filled that role. It just lined up. Okay. Okay, go ahead. Okay. Someone said. He said, I took initiative. I like that. I like that. Go ahead. Just looked at the picture and people just figured it out. People just did what they needed to do. Okay, go ahead. Say that again. Oh, that's a word. She said there were three girls and the fourth person was a guy. He's actually a photographer. So the role was just there for him. He just stepped right on in. That's a whole word for somebody. But I love that everybody found their own different ways to get into the position they needed to get into to make the vision happen. I'm already teaching. I didn't have to tell anybody. Hey, you do this. You do this. I gave you the vision. I gave you a picture. And between everybody here, who, by the way, in our Acts 13 and 52 spirit, were completely enjoying yourselves while you did it, which I think has lends to. And I didn't have this in my notes. I believe it is the joy of collaboration that lends to humility. There's something about enjoying what it is you do and enjoying the people you are doing it with that lends and promotes humility. The ability to be humble. And not just for one of you, but for all of you. Because each one of you played whatever position you needed to so that you could make that picture happen. Did anyone have. What were your favorite positions? Did anyone have a favorite position? The one on the side. She pointed to the side. Okay, so we got a side one here. You like the one in the middle? Raise your hand if you like being in the middle. Y' all so shy. For the record, podcast family. That was like, less than a third of the group wanted to be in the middle. Everybody wanted to be on the side. Who liked being the photographer? Wow. I'm so fascinated. Why did you like. Why did you want to be the photographer? I didn't have to perform. Said I did not have to perform. I like that answer, and there are no wrong answers. I just love hearing what it is that motivates each of us to get into the positions we got into. So I saw. Wait, who. Don't. Don't run now. I saw all the hands for the photographers. Where all y' all at? Capturing the moment. You wanted to capture the moment just in case we had to, like, run.
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You like, I got it. I'm ready. Who else? Go ahead. Ah. I love that you wanted a different perspective. She said she wanted to see what everybody else saw. Oh, I love that. Go ahead. Ah, Okay. I like. For anybody who didn't hear, she said she did not want to be a part of the main stage. In other words, she didn't want all of that attention. She just wanted to be a part of it, but she didn't want the attention. Okay, noted, noted, noted, noted. He said he enjoyed showing people the picture afterward. That touched me. I'm. Because I'm that dude. I'm the one who has to remind himself to be in pictures. Because I'll take all the pictures, and they'd be like, oh, snap, wait, I was there. So I felt you on that. I do that. We got somebody over here. Go ahead. She said, I like being the support to make the vision happen. That's good. When I was a driver, I liked. I like that we made it happen. Like you said, do it in 15 seconds. We did it in 15 seconds. And I showed you. Yeah. So it got done. She said the. Get her done. Is it for her, she said, I like that we made it happen. We did what we needed to do. One more person, one more. It was fun being able to capture other people having fun. Ooh, Great answer. It was fun being able to capture other people that having fun. What I love about this exercise, other than the fact that I think we just set the Guinness World Book of Records for a number of Charlie's Angels poses in one setting, was watching each one of you collaborate without having to be prompted to collaborate. Everybody saw what needed to be done, and there wasn't a question of, oh, I want to. No. Everybody just folded right on in. Welcome to what the spirit of humility can do through you in any given situation if we allow it. All it took was a picture and a vision and a goal, and everyone dropped whatever needed to be dropped to make the vision happen. And the best part was, was the joy. That's why I had to take pictures. The joy of accomplishing the mission is what was consistent in every single group that I saw. Y' all were having fun figuring it out. Had even more fun when it was finished. And what I did not hear. Cause I'll be listening. I didn't hear anybody complaining about what role they played. There was no fussing. There was no, no, I want to be in the center. No, I want to be on the side. I want to take the picture. Everybody. Somebody said, we too grown. That's the best answer. We grown. Too grown to be fighting over stuff like that in the natural. And we are also too grown in the spirit to be fighting over things in that way, too. As disciples, as those who follow Jesus, as those who are living as Jesus lived, it is important, it is imperative that the goal is always bigger than the role. The goal will always be bigger than the role. And one of the things as believers that is a challenge for us is once we get just a little bit of knowledge about the gifts and talents that we have and the positioning that God gives us, we immediately become so focused on what it is that we do that we lose sight of. Of the goal. We become so focused on the role and being perfect in the role that we lose sight of the overall goal. And the overall goal is the unity in the Spirit that disciples foster when we all decide to be disciples. So as I was watching everybody figure out who's going to do what. And then the best part was, once everybody got a sense, you know, you know what? At some point, I'm gonna get an opportunity to play a different role anyway. And so everybody just let go of who wanted to it just. And the best part. And that's why I said 15 seconds. I probably should have given y' all 10. But in 15 seconds you don't have time to fight, you don't have time to fuss, you don't have time to. I want. The clock is ticking. We have four people. We are of one mind. We have one goal, we have one mission, one mind. Mind, one spirit, one body. So as disciples, I want us to keep what we just did in mind as a heart posture. Because God is going to put us in positions where we will have to work with people. There is no God given goal that can be accomplished without working with people. And as disciples, what will set us apart as leaders is not always being the person in the middle to do this. Sometimes the leader is the one who can just make the thing work. The person who is willing to do whatever it takes to get the vision to take place, that's the one who eventually emerges as a leader. Because the world starts to recognize. Every time I put this person in a group of people, they manage to get organized. Organized. There manages to be harmony. There is no discord. And oh, by the way, the job gets done. When I put people around a disciple, there's something on the inside of them that is awakened. When I put people around this disciple, the best version of who they are just seems to come out. The collaboration just seems to come out. The joy of collaboration just seems, seems to spring out. And oh, by the way, the vision is accomplished and it's accomplished timely. This is what the humility of a disciple can unlock in any situation. And all of us, each one of us has already displayed and shown that we are capable of doing that thing. And if we can do it for something as ridiculous as a pose for Charlie's Angels, imagine what happens when we set our minds for the bigger things that God has called for us to do in the world that he's given us. This is what humility gives us the ability to do. Humility is when the disciple always, always places the goal before the role. The goal continues to remain bigger than the role because the role can and will change. I don't know of a disciple who has had the same role the whole of their life. You may spend 40 years in one role and God has decided, I've given you 40 years, I've serv you in this environment, in this place, in this way for 40 years. And now I'm plucking you out of that role and putting you in a new one. And humility Says, I know I'm comfortable in this role. It's the role that I've had success in. It's the role that has developed me. It's the role that's gotten me a reputation. But now God is putting me in a different role. And now I have to realize my goal is my obedience to his call on my life whenever I get that call. Humility is where you can say, I have succeeded on the highest levels in this space, in this place. And now God is calling me, for lack of better words, to be a rookie all over again in a whole different, unfamiliar space, in a place I have never succeeded or even wanted to succeed in before. But his favor is there. Humility is where you say the goal is bigger than the role. And when you can say that consistently in all that you do, it allows your posture to be one that is humble in every situation. As people are exalting themselves, you are exalting the Lord. As people are angling and jockeying for position in the world, you are settled in your position in the spirit. You're a disciple. This is what allows you to really be humble. Humble isn't playing small. Gotta, gotta get this out. Humility is not about playing small. Humility is about keeping the goal in sight at all times. That is what allows you to play whatever role God calls for us to play. It isn't about diminishing myself or shrinking myself or cowering or kowtowing. No, no, no, no. It's not about who I'm serving, lowercase w. It's about who I'm serving, uppercase W. I got a big boss. I got an eternal boss. I have a supernatural employer, and my goal is to make sure that he continues to be happy with me. So I have to go where he tells me to go. I have to do what he tells me to do, and I have to do it in the spirit that looks like him. Humility is not only am I going to do it, but I'm going to do it in a manner and a spirit where people look upon how I am acting, how I conduct myself, how I speak, and how I. I treat each of the people around me. Come on, disciples. You will know that they will know that you are disciples by how we love one another. So humility says, I'm in a tough spot. I'm in an unfamiliar place with some people who perhaps do not know God as well as I do. But that doesn't give me the excuse to act like them. I stay humble and I say, lord, I'm going To continue to act in your image and wherever that has me, whatever role I wind up in, whether I am to the side, to the other side point straight up, or the photographer, the point is the vision being made manifest. Now I'm gonna sit down. See, y' all got me rowdy. I really wasn't trying to stand for that long. Y' all got me out here. Where are we gonna go? Where are we gonna go from here? Ooh. Go ahead. Yes. Oh. That's the word right there. I think I have the answer to your question. Holy Ghost, help me. So basically, her question is, how do you remain humble when you are disgruntled, I think was the word that you used. How do you remain humble when you are disgruntled so that you don't show up in a way that is, for lack of better words. And if I'm filling in this, please tell me unattractive. So what I am not saying is plaster a smile on your face that is not really there. What I am saying is have the time with God to work out the root issue in your heart that is causing you not to have the contentment that you're speaking of, and you can still be around others as this is happening. The beautiful part about an environment, what God places you in, is God is not going to place you in an environment where there are not advocates there as well. That's what we call community. That's what allows any number of people who serve here in this house to continue to serve on a regular basis. And none of us have it all figured out. We're not always in the best mood. We're not always in the perfect mood. We have the joy of the Lord. That is our strength. And. And we still have people in the space who can say, hey, man, I'm having a hard day. Pray for me. And it is the encouraging word from one in the community that can give you enough to just be present enough to be an accurate reflection, even if it's for 10 seconds. If you can get that for 10 seconds and then move along and say, lord, this is what's happening in my heart. Congratulations. You've done what needed to be done. So that's not about being perfect. Humility is not about being perfect. In fact, humility is acknowledging your imperfection and still presenting yourself to be used by God anyway, because God will fill in the gap. And then you need to take that time after the interaction, say, all right, Lord, I'm grumpy. I ain't feeling this right now. This is not it. For me. Me and you need to have a conversation about what's really going on in here. But that's a fantastic question. I'm so glad you brought that up, because I don't want anybody to think humility is you just putting on a clown happy face and walking through the space. That's not it at all. Humility is. Man, it's rough. I don't feel perfect in this. I don't feel perfect in how I'm doing this. I don't feel perfect. I don't even know that I should be here. But it's the obedience when the Lord says, go. I know you're not perfect, but go anyway. What you have is. Ooh, there it is. What you have is enough. I'll work with what you have. Just show up. And that obedience. Part of what Pastor Terra masterfully taught on last week is hearing from when you are to go and quite honestly, when you're not to. Sometimes you have to be humble enough to be like, no, you want to go. You want to keep up the appearance of going, like, everything is great and wonderful. And then you do the thing where it's like, man, people are counting on me, so I have to go. Which is great until God shows up in your dream or in your prayer time and he says, no. Are you willing to be humble enough to play a different role in that position? Sometimes the role you need to play is your absence from a thing and not your presence in a thing. As a disciple, we have to be humble enough to play that role too. Woo. Y' all don't want to go home tonight. Y' all playing out here. Good Lord, but that was a fantastic question. I'm so glad you brought that up. I want to fold that into this. We're going to go to. We're going to go there. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna go there. I want to go to Philippians 2. I'm gonna read through verses 3 through 11, and by that I mean read. I'm not gonna jump into every single word. Y' all know how I do. Okay, let me not make that promise. I might pick a couple apart, but we'll see. I'm reading from the cjb. This is the complete Jewish Bible version, by the way. For those of you who are studying along with me, you'll notice there are times where me or you'll see PDA or other people who are teaching. We'll use different translations because there are times where there are certain translations that really drive home a point in a way where you can't miss it. And so depending on what passage you're reading for you read multiple translations because some will speak to you in a way that others just don't. So for this passage, Philippians 2, 3, 11, it's the CJB. It's a complete Jewish Bible. This is Paul speaking. He says, do nothing out of rivalry or vanity. And this is a passage, if you see it in the new King James, you'll definitely recognize it says, do nothing out of rivalry or vanity, but in humility, regard each other as better than yourselves. Let me pause and be very careful with this one, because this is not an opportunity for you to lower your own esteem of yourself. This is not a self esteem lowering. This is a posturing in a position of service. Saying, I'm here to serve in this manner says, but in humility, regard each other as better than yourselves. Look out for each other's interests and not just for your own. LA is a tough city, global family. Someone just acknowledged that. This particular passage speaks to this place. Says, let your attitude toward one another be governed by your being in union with the Messiah. Yeshua, let me translate that. Some of you know this as let this mind of Christ be in you. But it says, let your attitude toward one another be governed. Watch this by your union with the Messiah. Yeshua, that is Jesus in Hebrew. So what he's speaking of is how you are towards each other should be a reflection of how close you are with Jesus. Your union with your Savior, your relationship with Jesus should be a reflection of how your attitude is. Your mind is towards others moving. Though he was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God. I love this part so much. Something to be possessed by force. So what he's saying is, is that me? I hope it's not me. I don't think it was me. All right, it's all good. As long as it wasn't me, it'd be y'. All. It just can't be me. Though he was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God. Something to be possessed by force. So Jesus, we are establishing who he is. His positioning in the form of God. He did not regard equality being equal to God as something that he had to keep by force. He did not have to go out and saber rattle and say, hey, look at who I am. Jesus is so established in his identity that he does not have to guard it by force. As a disciple, as one who follows Christ, our job, if we are walking and following Jesus and walking as he walked we have to take on this attitude as well. I am a Christian. I don't have to bang my fists. I don't have to kick things. And should I just have to be. On the contrary. Now watch this. This is the Humility channel. Like it's never been clarified before. On the contrary, he emptied himself in that he took the form of a slave by becoming like human beings are. So he is in the form of God. He is equal to God. We're talking Father, Son, Holy Spirit. He is among that Trinity, that holy powerful Trinity. And it says not only did he not regard that as something he had to keep by force to the other side of it, he emptied himself of it and takes on the form of a slave in becoming humans like us. Humility is when you understand, remember, the goal is bigger than the role. The goal of Jesus coming to this earth was not to flex. The goal of Jesus coming to earth was not to remind every single person of who he was. You know I'm the Son of God, right? You know what I could do, right? You know who I got for me, right? You know who my Father is, right? None of this says he empties himself, takes on the form of a human being, and when he appeared as a human being, he humbled himself still more. Personally, I'm like, I think step one was a lot. He humbles himself still more by becoming our Word from last week. Obedient, even to death. I love this translation. Death on a stake as a criminal. Be very clear. He was convicted of a trumped up charge and Jesus was treated as a criminal. He is the King of Kings, he is the Lord of Lords, he is equal to the Holy Spirit and the Father. And then not only does he come to earth, he doesn't come to earth as an earthly king and die a heroic earthly king where he's in a battle and. And he said, no, no, no. He dies as a criminal next to two criminals who really were criminals. Therefore God, watch this. He starts knowing that in his identity he is equal to the Father. Then he takes a step down to become a human being. And then among the stratosphere of human beings, he takes a step down even further. The fact that he even laid his life down knowing the power he was walking with baffles me every time I read about it. Because I would love to believe I would just submit like he did. But every once in a while I'm like, man, he could have just plucked himself. He could have allowed himself not to even be on the cross. But it's but it says he humbled himself still more, becoming obedient, even to death. When you look up this word obedient, it speaks of listening attentively listening. So that means as he was making his way down, as he was humbling himself, and humbling himself, he was listening to the voice of the Father who was giving him instruction on how to proceed to the goal. And the goal was him to go to the cross, take on all of our sin, nail it to the cross, die on the cross, then be resurrected, defeating death and all sin, and then make his way back to the Father, having done all of this and restored us as children to our Father. That was the goal. The goal was not for Jesus to come and let everybody know how hardcore he was and who he rolled with. He continued to humble and humble. And because he humbled himself, therefore God raised him to the highest place and gave him the name above every name, that in honor of the name given Yeshua, that in honor in the name of Jesus, every knee will bow in heaven, on earth and under the earth. And every tongue will acknowledge that Yeshua the Messiah is Adonai, that Jesus the Messiah is Lord to the glory of God the Father. That verse preached its whole self. Humility is when you are so comfortable with your identity in God as Jesus was comfortable in his identity in God, that he then takes his positioning, which is higher than any other position we could possibly imagine, and allows himself to be lowered so that he's on up level with us. Not only does he come here on a level with us, he is among the lowest of us. When he is put on the cross as a criminal. Humility is I know who I am, I understand my goal. And my goal continues to be bigger than my role. Jesus came to die on the cross. That was the point of him coming. And those who were here misjudged Jesus and didn't understand why he's here. Some thought he was coming for a political coup. They thought he was going to show up and overthrow the Roman government and he was going to establish his government as the as the Jewish would take over the territories. Again, they had completely missed the point of Jesus. That was listen and this is a great humility lesson. That was the role they wanted for him. Humility is when you continue to understand the goal being bigger than the role. Because if you focus on the role, you don't know if it's the role you've given you, the role society has given you, the role you want versus the role you're supposed to be in. But when it comes to the goal, if the goal is for me to continue to walk as an accurate representation, reflection of my Father, if the goal is for me to continue to walk as a disciple, when people encounter me and have conversations with me, even if they just brush past me, they know they've had an encounter with the Holy Spirit, then the role no longer matters. That's why Jesus can go from one who did not think it was, as another translation famously puts it, did not think it was robbery to be equal with God, to go from there to being human, from being human to being whipped and beaten to a pulp, tried and executed as a criminal, all for them to have. For him to have the ultimate victory, which was him defeating sin for everybody, those who afflicted him and. And those who didn't, his victory, the goal was so great, it was beyond those who were witnessing what was taking place. They couldn't even comprehend it. As a disciple, walking in humility means I continue even if other people do not understand God's goal for me, even if they don't understand the goal is not for me to win the argument. The goal is for me to win the soul. This is what allows us to play whatever role God needs us to play. In any given season, in any given place, and in any given space, this is what it is to be humble. Oh, we got another question. I'd like to think of it this way. And I think what she's saying is she's acknowledging that the call to step into discipleship is a leap. I think the way you put it was stepping into a greater version of yourself. I think what may be a clearer definition is you stepping into your original self. Because we were supposed to be this way, but when we came into this world, there were issues and things that corrupted us and led us in a different direction. So now we are mixed in a sense. And so really being, becoming, answering the call of a disciple is a homecoming. I'm just coming back home to my dad. And what you're speaking of in terms of the call is. What she's acknowledging is it is a stretch for us to be able to acknowledge because we have been so influenced by the ways of this world and we are so attuned to our carnal nature. The challenge of now having to be retuned to our spirit nature is what you're speaking of in terms of, wow, that's a leap. But I don't want anybody to think that this is. You are now becoming a completely different person. This discipleship, being a son taking Your sonship in the kingdom was the original identity God gave us. So we're just taking back what was supposed to be. It's a restoration to the original intent in order for God's children. I see a hand. Go ahead. Okay, I believe you. Okay. Pod family. I'm going to try to condense because you said a lot. So what was being spoken to, spoken of is the difficulty as you are continuing to learn more and more about who, about the goal. We have to then unlearn what we have learned, which is putting all of our self worth and importance in the role. Now we have to take the self worth and importance of out of the role and now focus it more on who we need to be to accomplish his goal. And when you are pulling out your self worth and you're pulling out your identity from where it once resided, where our pride allowed us to keep it, and now placing it somewhere that we're not used to keeping it, which is in an understanding of why God called for us to be here. There is a tugging. There is a. There's a friction. Full on fisticuffs. And so I love that you put it the way that you did. There is a struggle. Raise your hand if humility is a challenge for you. Good. Got something? Half a hand. I didn't know you could have just. It's just elbow. I was like, okay, that's a different one. I guess the elbow means yes no. It's a yes no, a yes no. That's a new word. I'm learning. I'm learning new things. Pod. For those who are listening, most of the room raised their hand when I asked if humility was a challenge. Humility should be a challenge because we are always gaining a new understanding of what the goal is. The more you learn about how good God is, the more you learn about how Jesus walked, the more you learn about being made in his image. The clearer you see what it is that's not and the clearer we see what is not made in his image. That's the challenge for us is because now the mirror showed us some work. And I'm going to go back to our word for tonight. Humility says the goal is worth the work. It's worth the work. I'm willing to sound different. I'm willing to look different. I'm willing to be uncomfortable. I'm willing to willing to shed what has been comfortable. I'm willing to step into a level of comfort with an identity I've never had before. I am willing to take back what the enemy Took from me. Humility is being willing to enter into that fight. I'm glad we're in this zone because I also want us to understand that humility is not laying down and not fighting. Humility is always understanding what it is you're fighting for and when. You always keep in mind what it is you are fighting for. And let me say who it is you are fighting for. That is what allows me to be able to submit and say, I am comfortable in this role and comfortable with who I've been and comfortable with how I've dressed, and comfortable with the music I've listened to, and comfortable with the movies I used to watch, and comfortable with TV shows I used to watch, comfortable in the settings I used to be in. And then I get a revelation not only of who God is, but then I understand that once I see him, that mirror is a reflection of who I'm supposed to be representing, reflected as. And I say, I accept the mission. I accept the assignment. Now I have to make the changes. I have to be humble enough to not think so high of this present version of me that I am unwilling to step back into the original version of me, me, which is in front of me. So this is where humility marks the disciple, where the average bear will change once. And once there is success in that one change, even if it's short term success, they will never let go of the feeling and the comfort that came with the short term success success of making one slight adjustment. The disciple remains so humble that we're willing to continue to make adjustment after adjustment after adjustment after adjustment after adjustment because we continue to keep our eye forward towards the goal. Nothing is worth my adjustment process. There should be no role that is worth your adjustment process because we will spend the rest of our breathing days continuing to adjust and adjust and listen. And I love that. That word obedience speaks of listening intently. We will listen and listen and listen and change and change and change. We will continue to not just be hearers, but to be doers of the word. This is what that means. I'll take one last question and then we're going to move forward. Go ahead. And he said something very powerful, which is everyone has their own cross to bear. Bringing back to humility is being able to say, not only do I have a cross to be bear, I don't have the power to do this by myself. I have to partner with the Holy Spirit because Jesus bore the cross because of the Holy Spirit in him. If Jesus needed the Holy Spirit to bear his cross and I'm supposed to do it the way he did it. That means I need the Holy Spirit to bear mine. And so now being able to continue to move forward, is. Is the Holy Spirit leading me or is something else leading me? Am I humble enough to even have the real conversation as to whether the Holy Spirit is leading me or not? That is humility. That's where you just have to be 100% real with yourself. Because there's a possibility that you will not like the answer. And then once you figure out you don't like the answer, there is an exceptional amount of very uncomfortable work that needs to be done to. To now align with what the truth is in your situation. And humility says, okay, I'm willing to look like I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, Bless you. Bless you. I'm glad that that word blessed you. It means I am willing at any given point in time to stop mid action. Mid thought. Mid thought. Holy Spirit, did you bring me here? Holy Spirit, did you tell me to say this? Holy Spirit, is this conversation happening because you. You ordained for this to happen, or is this my will and humility is when you have that? Because we'll have the conversation when we know we're in the right. We can't wait for the Holy Ghost to confirm it. When we know in our bones, we right, then we run to him. I know I'm doing right. Give me the confirmation. Holy Spirit, I would say those are the best times to get confirmation. Because sometimes we become so comfortable in thinking we know better. The best time, not only when you know for a fact you're wrong. The other end of the spectrum, when you just know, can't nobody tell you you wrong. Definitely a time to ask the Holy Spirit and be humble enough to have that conversation. Then I want to move forward with this. I'm going to have us all stand up. We back to work. Get on up. Come on. I'll get up with you. All right, we have our groups. I want us to get back in groups of four. Go ahead, stretch. Y' all sat. There we go. We're up. Get the blood flowing again. Oh, I saw a couple arms go in the air. There you go. The cjb. Complete Jewish Bible. All right, are we in groups of four? Groups of four. Groups of four. Groups of four. Everybody got a group? Okay, this is what I would like for you all to do. Oh, you need one. We gotta need one. You need one. Raise your hand if you are in a group that needs one. Okay, so we're gonna have to take a couple of groups and split them and move from there. Okay, this group that is in front, you guys need one. All right, where are the other groups that need one? Hold your hands up. Okay, one, two, three groups. You can join. All right, we got one joint. I'm going to split this group of three. Y' all are going to go towards these groups. Align yourself with one while they are aligning so that we all have groups of four. Here's what I would like for us to do. We're going to do this as quickly as possible. This is going to take a little bit longer. It's a little more detail. So this exercise is simple. Between the four of you, you are going to. And I'm gonna give you. I think I might give you a whole minute. A whole minute. All 60 seconds. Here's what we're gonna do. In your group of four, here are your roles. You have one person that needs help. Listen, one person needs help. One person is the hero. The other two people are the ones who are helping the hero. You have a hero. You have the two hero helpers. And the one person that needs help. You have one minute. And just like we did the pose with Charlie's Angels, I gave you. I gave you one that time. This time you're gonna come up with one on your own. You're going to put together a pose that shows one person who needs help, one person who is the hero, and the two people who are helping the hero save that person. You got 60 seconds. Figure it out. Oh, boy. People are jumping over chairs. Oh, buddy. Oh. So, okay, I got one person. They're already on the floor. I know. Got somebody laying down. Hold their head. I got another one. All right. Oh, Laid out, laid out in the spirit. Laid out, laid out by the Holy ghost. I see. I see you. All right, you got 20 seconds. 20 seconds. Oh, I don't know. So I'm seeing people lift it up. Lift it up high. That's right. Okay. All right. We got a lean back situation. Okay. All right. All right. Hands in the air. Seems to be the universal. Help me. I'm seeing this. Okay. All right. Five, four, three, two, one. Freeze. What's your pose? What's your pose? What's your pose? What is your pose? Let me see this. What are we doing here? What's going on? What is this? Oh, this is great. Okay. Oh, this is great. Oh, man. Podcast fam. I can't wait to show y' all these. This is great. This is awesome. Y' all better give yourselves a Hand. Oh, my goodness. Okay, I'm going to ask very quickly. All right, I see hands. Okay, yours is ready. Yours is ready. Okay. What was the biggest challenge in putting together your picture? Understanding the concept and the vision. Okay. Okay. Ah. So how do you replicate it? Okay. Figuring out the need. See, somebody was in a script. Come on, come on. Figuring out the need. Go ahead. Being labeled as Jesus Christ. Being labeled as Jesus. Interesting. So in your. In your picture, Jesus was there. Oh. So in your. In your. So in your group. Where's your group? Okay, so he was Jesus. Okay. And y' all knew that. Okay. That's all that was needed as long as we know the vision. I love that. Hey, listen, the hero is specific. There's only one hero. Name is Jesus. Come on. Go ahead. How do we know the difference between a hero and a helper when everybody is contributing? Oh, let me say that one loud. They were having trouble figuring out the difference between the hero. Here we go. See, here we go. So they were. They were. They were trying to distinguish between the hero and the helper because everyone was a collaborator. Everybody was working together. Okay, what was your challenge? So we had to wait on the person who needed help to say what they needed help with. They said, hold on. I'm going to say this loud. They had figured out who was going to do what, but they needed to figure out the helper needed to communicate what it is they needed help with so that they knew how to help. Fair enough. Go ahead. I'm gonna catch you in the back. I see you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Figuring out. And the helpers to. Okay, so the helper needed to be vulnerable enough. The. The one who needed the help needed to be vulnerable enough. The two heroes, helpers needed to be humble enough to assist the hero, and the hero had the strength. Had to have the strength to do what the hero needed to do. Okay. Okay, okay. So you were making sure that the role conveyed the message. Okay, last one. Now here's the best part. I saw some of y' all taking pictures. I didn't even tell y' all to take pictures this time, but y' all just added the instruction from the first thing into the second thing. And I wasn't mad, but somebody said, we need to remember this moment. I was like, wait, I didn't say there was a photographer in this one who. Who introduced the new. So here's the one thing. Did anybody feel a difference in this assignment versus the previous one? Okay. Everybody felt the difference. What was the difference for you? The last one Had a vision. We had to come up with our own vision and communicating that came with a challenge or. Okay, so the first one, the vision was presented. The second in this time, the challenge was coming together and collaborating on a vision that you had to come up with. Go ahead. Okay. Vulnerability. Like we more vulnerable in this one. Go ahead. I feel like with this one, with the first one, it was easy to fall in line with just doing whatever road we needed for this one. Me and Doc, we both want to be the helper. Then Asha just took the initiative and just was the helper was on the floor. So we just, like, following through after that. And so it was like a battle of the roads, if that makes sense. And then until somebody took initiative, and then we fell in line. Okay, I'm going to ask this one real, real quick for the. Were there any heroes who volunteered themselves to be heroes? Okay. All right, let me ask this. Raise your hand. This is good. Raise your hand. If you volunteered yourself to be a helper. Remember, there was a healing. There were two helpers. Okay. The majority of you wanted to be helpers. Raise your hand if you volunteered to be the one to be saved. Okay. So everybody either wanted to help or be saved. I'm just. No, no, no. I'm just taking a pulse of what's happening in a room right now. This is good. So here's the thing. The reason I asked those questions, and I'm so glad this group here. I think it was this group that brought up the challenge of having to. It was you. I think it was you put together the vision and then figure out whose role was in it. The beautiful part about humility is that humility is what will allow everyone to. To figure it out together. So what I. Then I looked to be clear. I was kind of studying everybody. I heard a lot of chatter, good chatter, because it was. There were people who took initiative, and in every group of people, there are going to be people who take initiative. So you have to be flexible enough. When God puts you in a group and says, y' all need to work together, if you find yourself in a group with someone, someone who takes initiative, and this initiative is something that is in alignment with the vision and the goal, you have to then allow yourself to be flexible enough to say, okay, what other role needs to be played? And so some of you may have wanted to be the hero in the beginning, but instead of being the hero, you wound up being the one who needed to be saved. He's like, I wanted to be the hero, but the Beautiful part about this. And I want to get to the both of you because your hands been up, up, like, oh, you have a question, go ahead. And then we're gonna move. You did. That's so great. So she said. She said, listen, I wanted to be a hero, but she said that did not feel humble of me. You got a word for her? Okay, Service support team said they got a word for you. Go ahead. You were the one being helped. Yes, but every time I see him in church, he's always standing up and, like, sharing and whatever, and I cannot even say something like, I'm a little child, so, like, I need to be helped. Last comment. And then we're gonna move. Go ahead. So she wanted to be a helper and then was assigned the one to be helped. And her exact words were, oh, that's humbling. Which is a real response. Listen. And I love that. Thank you. Because you will find that there are times where you walk into a situation and you just know you're the hero. You know you're the one. You know you have the answer. You know you feel like God hit you specifically with the answer. Not an answer, the answer. And you will find that you will have to humble yourself. Because although you may feel you have a solution, the space that God has put you in is. Is not one for you to be the hero, but one for you to actually be helped. As disciples, especially once we get a hold of what it is to walk as Jesus did, there are times where we become so ready to be the quote unquote he that we don't have the someone felt that we're so accustomed. And there are situations and scenarios where you are the one called to be the one to be the quote unquote hero, or you are the one that is called to be the one who is the helper. But we as disciples have to also be ready to receive help. You're not the hero in everyone. You're not the helper in every situation, especially as those who are called to lead. One of the crippling things of leadership is not being humble enough to know when you need help. Every scene that you're in, you're the helper. Every scene you're in, you're the hero. And watch this. It's because you take the initiative to be the hero every time there's a scene. So you were cast in the hero in one scene, and now you're in a second scene. I was cast as a hero in this scene. I might as well be the hero in this one. And then you're the hero in this one. And you keep putting yourself in the hero position. And what we have to be humble enough to do is say, okay, I'm here, Lord, what is my role? I'm glad you said it. Jesus is the one hero in every story, period. The end. So it becomes now that I'm in this situation, I need to be humble enough to accept whatever role God gives me in it. And I may be the helper, and I may be the hero, but I may be the one on the floor. And I think there's someone in here who mentioned it was such a great, great point. If I'm the one who needs to be helped, I need to be able to identify my need. So part of being humble, part of walking in humility, is not only saying, I need help, but doing enough work and spending enough time with God to be honest and say I need help in this. And knowing that it does not make you any less a leader, any less a disciple, any less a child of God. You are not reflecting Jesus any less. In fact, you're reflecting Jesus as authentically as possible. Because one of my moments where I saw Jesus and said, this is who I can follow, is in the garden of Gethsemane. That was the one. For those of you who need to study it, the garden in Gethsemane, find it in your Bibles. Jesus goes into a garden. Y' all can sit down. Jesus goes. He's on his way to the cross. This is right before he is to be betrayed. And he goes to pray. And he prays. And I'm paraphrasing, but he says, father, if this. This cup could pass. He's basically saying, I am in such distress that I don't want this. I don't want to do this. And earlier I mentioned of how Jesus, who thought it not robbery to be considered equal with God, made his way down and became a human. This was the most human moment for me because I don't know anybody who has done this thing called walking out. Life as a Christian who hasn't gotten to a point where God has asked you to do something, told you to be somewhere, hadn't told you to have a conversation. You say, lord, I don't want to do this. Humility is when given a scenario and a situation, you can assume whatever role God gives you in it and not have your pride rise up and take you out of a situation that God put you in for a reason and not have your pride, have you out of position, right place, wrong role. I'm going to leave you with this passage and then we're going to go home. I promised y' all would let y' all go home. It's not going to be a shut in service. Not today. Mark, chapter 10, verses 42 through 45. And a very brief setup. James and John, two of the more colorful disciples who followed Jesus came to him earlier. And there's a translation that says he, they came to Jesus and they say, you know, they ask Jesus basically to for a favor. And what they ask is that when they die, that they be at the right and left of Jesus. They ask to be positioned next to Jesus. And Jesus looks at them and says, can't do it. Sorry. Because even he acknowledges the positioning in heaven is not up to him, that's up to the Father. And then we go forward and what happens is the disciples get wind of the other disciples get wind of what James and John ask Jesus and they get a little upset. Wait a minute. Why are you asking Jesus for that position? Jesus understands their heart. I love this. One of my favorite passages is how it explains how Jesus is the discerner of hearts. And I think I've said this before, but I'll say it again. Anytime Jesus is speaking to anyone, anything, any conversation with Jesus, know that Jesus is speaking to the heart of that individual or group. Jesus never just stopped here. Everything Jesus said was to the heart of the person in front of him. Mark 10, 42, 45. But Jesus called them to himself, and this is in the new King James, and said to them, you know, that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles, over the non believers, Lord it over them. And their great ones exercised authority over them. Let me pause. So he's speaking of those who do not follow him, who are not believers. And he's pointing out a very important point. So those who don't follow me, those who don't believe in me, who are considered rulers in their, whatever sphere they're in, they lord it over themselves. In other words, all they do is live to exercise authority. This is if you, if you don't follow me, you live to exercise authority. And he says, this is so great, I'll read it again. But Jesus called them to himself and said to them, you know, that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles, lord it over them and their great ones, and exercise authority over them. Here's the turning point. Yet it shall not be so among you. Now he's speaking to his disciples. But whoever desires to become great among you shall be your Servant and whoever you, whoever of you desires to be first, shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve. Even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve. This ought to be on somebody's wall. Don't come to be served but to serve. The greatest leaders, you know, I'm not talking about the richest leaders. I said the greatest leaders. Those are two different things. The greatest leaders, you know, are those who understand that what undergirds their leadership is the desire to serve those who they have been put over. It's a very interesting, almost paradoxical way of looking at it. But they understand that leadership is not about lording over. It's about strong serving. It's about identifying the need and their role in how to address the need. It's about the problem. You know, everybody says this now, if you want to start a business, solve a problem. Leaders identify the problem and their role in addressing and solving that problem. And addressing and solving that problem involves knowing the needs of those who the problem problem is affecting. I need to say that better. If you are going to call yourself a follower of Christ, a disciple, and move in humility, the only way we can do that effectively is to serve. And when you continue to serve as Jesus came to serve, you will find that you will be in positions to lead because you have the heart of those you serve, says the Gentiles. They look to establish authority. They find a group, they want to be the hero in everything and exercise their heroism everywhere they go. Says, this shall not be so among you, moving down. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. And this word, ransom, if you understand it, he basically used his life to pay a debt. He understood that his life, his mission was to cover the biggest debt debt creation has ever seen. And the way to cover that debt was by going to the cross. He was serving. We all follow Jesus. Jesus was there to serve. Humility is when you look about and around you and you see those who are only looking to Lord themselves over others. And we look for the opportunity to serve. It's what makes us different. We built different leadership that leads like Jesus is different. You can smell it, you can encounter it, you can't miss it. Because when you're in the space of those and you see how people lead and when they lead with a heart like Jesus, you can always see what it is they serve. They're always looking at the goal and that goal involves answering a problem that is affecting people. This is when you know someone is leading with a heart like Jesus. This is when you know a leader is following Jesus. And this is what allows us to be able to follow. Because it means I don't have to be the hero. Jesus is already a hero. Jesus already done this part. I just have to follow in how it was he enacted and interacted with this world according to the principles he laid, according to the teaching that's right there in his word. Humility means I know I don't know better than Jesus. So now I gotta study how Jesus did it. And what I continue to see is someone who never allowed a title to govern his purpose. I have this in this passage, non believers, not all, but be mindful. Non believers revere ranking. Believers revere service. If you're going to to embody the humility that is necessary to be a disciple, it comes down to, am I willing to serve whatever role I'm given, whether it's this or this or this or this. And note, of all the roles I gave you tonight in two different scenes, I didn't rank any of them in importance because they're all important. Every single one of them is necessary in order for the vision to be moved forward. See the believer, the one who follows Jesus, the disciple looks at the whole picture and sees every piece as necessary and treats every piece as such. Because if you've got a four person scene and the fourth person doesn't know how to take a picture, we got a problem. If you've got a hero, two helpers, and someone who's supposed to be helped, and you don't have someone to help, we got a problem. Or there's no hero, or there's no. Every person was necessary in the role that they had in in order for the picture, for the vision to be complete. And humility is where you say, God, this is your picture, this is your church. What is my role? What is my position in this moment, in this time, in this vision? Knowing that your role might change. I know earlier I spoke about how a lot of us want to be, you know, the hero. But then you find that you need to be helped. For some of us, we have been in the position of needing to be helped for so long, we cannot even envision ourselves in another role helping someone else. Meanwhile, the capability, the ability is in you to fill any one of the positions. How do you know? Because you're there in that picture. And just as I had you all switch roles. God is capable of doing that exact same thing where you are. But will we, as disciples, be humble enough to be moved? All right. I love how you laid down here, but now I need you to go here. In acting circles, this is what separates those who are professionals who are going to work versus those who work sometimes or some who just don't work at all. It's the person who comes into an audition, and this is my God. I don't know how I got here, but here we go. There are times where they will have you, as an actor, audition for a role, and that role is already cast. Someone's already filled that role. They just want to see if you're willing to do something different. How flexible is this person in front of me? How vulnerable is this vessel? How moldable is this vessel? I know I had you audition for the cowboy, but I don't want you to be the cowboy. I want you to be the milkmaid. So come in and audition for the milkmaid. You come in, you got your little milkmaid outfit on. And I don't care how ridiculous you think it looks in your mind, you show up and you do the milkmaid thing, and what happens two weeks later? You know what? We saw your milkmaid audition. The fact that you were even willing to be a milkmaid, even though you're a guy, you showed up in your milkmaid outfit anyway. You know what? Because you were willing to play a different role, we're gonna cast you as the cowboy because you were willing to be in a different position. Watch this. When there's another scene, when there's another work, when there's another vision, they remember the one who was willing to be humble enough to play whatever role was necessary to execute the vision. And they will pull. Pull you from this role in this vision and put you in a different role in the different vision. And as you continue to matriculate role from role, vision from vision. Because ultimately, what we as disciples need to remember, while we are getting a hold of what God has put us on this earth to do, while we are getting an understanding of our vision, the best thing to do is to serve in someone else's vision. And as you matriculate from vision to vision to vision to vision, position to position to position to position, you are accumulating equity along the way. You are forming relationships along the way. And so in the one scene where you were the helper, where you were the one being helped five, ten years later, now you're in the position as the hero. And the people remember you as the one who was willing to just be the one who needed help. And they'll come on board and play whatever role in your vision you need them to. Humility is what allows disciples to effectively move from role to role, understanding that every role is smaller than the goal itself. No role is ever bigger than the goal. Amen. Okay, I've had y' all long enough. I'm gonna be humble enough to stop. I will give you this verse. I was gonna cover it, but you're gonna study this on your own. Luke 2, 46, 52. It's a very interesting passage. It's the early years of Jesus, and he's 12 years old. And it speaks of how during the Passover festival, his parents basically lost track of him. It's kind of like a home alone situation. His parents lose track of him, they come find him, he's in a temple. And if you study those verses, you see Jesus in all of these different roles as a child. Now, understand the verses we read earlier, it speaks of Jesus, who, I will continue to reiterate, thought it not robbery that he was equal to God. So he is the living word of God. The living word is in a temple with teachers teaching about the Word. And he sits among these teachers. And if you study that passage, it speaks of how he. He asked them questions, and they asked him questions. The fact that he was willing as one of that stature, to take on the posture of a student. And then afterward, his parents find him, and they're like, wow, I can't believe you're here. You had us so worried. I'm paraphrasing. And he tells them, listen, I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. I'm handling my father's business. The passage after that, it says he left with them and. And he was obedient to them. So we see Jesus willing to be a student, when later he will be known as rabbi, as the ultimate teacher, still taking the posture of a student. And then we see the one who is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, still willing to take on the posture of a son. You see the different postures that Jesus is willing to assume all to accomplish what was necessary to not only get him to and through the cross, but so that we would see and take note of it. So study that. 2, 46, 52. Is that all of them? I think that is Luke chapter two. Hold on, let me make sure I got it right. Yeah. Luke 2, 46, 52. And note the different roles that Jesus plays. And then challenge yourself to be able to do the same.
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