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The Antidote to Pride: How True Humility Brings God’s Favor | Bible, Bros & Brew
Over the past few weeks, we've been covering the subject of pride from several different angles, mainly focusing on the various features and characteristics of pride. In this episode, David, Phil & Ryan take a slightly different approach by exploring what is commonly regarded as the antidote to pride, which is humility. The scriptures teach us that humility should not only be one of the defining character traits of a new testament believer, it's also the means by which God can exalt us and bring us to new levels in our walk of faith. So grab your coffee or tea, have your Bible and note-taking device ready, and join us as we unpack this fascinating subject!
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For the past few weeks, we've been talking on the subject. Not talking on, I don't want to say it that way. Okay. For the past few weeks, we've been talking about the subject of pride, uh, what it is, how the Bible defines it, and also the danger that it poses to every believer. And this time around, we're going to come at it from a little bit of a different angle by talking about the antithesis or the antidote to pride, which is humility. So stay tuned, get your coffee ready for the next episode of Bible Bros and Brew. This is Philip Rich. I'm here today representing Bible Bros and Brew. I've got my crew with me, of course. Um, David over here to my left, your right. Got John down here on the wheels of steel and also the other wheels of steel. Ryan, off to the corner there. Um, we have been talking about the subject of pride. We've been on it for probably, I think maybe four or five weeks now. And we're talking about pride in terms of what the Bible names is one of the things that God is not a fan of whatsoever. He even lists it in what is traditionally known as the seven deadly sins. I think it's maybe one of the first ones it's listed. It's it says a haughty look uh or a proud heart or something to that effect. But pride, uh, as we all you know understand it biblically, is that whole idea or that whole concept of thinking more highly of yourself than you ought to, thinking that you're the center of the universe, thinking that you know more than God, uh, thinking that also that others are somehow beneath you, those different things can all be kind of ingredients or elements of pride. And so we've covered a lot of that. If you uh check out some of the past episodes, you'll see we've talked about the parable of the Pharisee and the publican, and how that's a great example of uh pride by way of comparison. And then we talked about in a previous episode before that, the parable of the prodigal son, and also about Nebuchadnezzar and how he went through his whole bout with pride and got humbled, uh shown up, as we would say. So there's been sorry, there's been several, several uh angles we've come at this subject with, but now tonight or today, we are going to be coming at it from the angle of the opposite of pride, or what is the cure for or antidote to pride, and that would be humility, another subject which is uh covered in at length in the Bible. So um, before we get too deep into the woods, though, we always have to start off by the famous question here on Bible Bros and Brew, which is what is in the cup? So let's see. Let me start with John. How about you, sir? What do you have in your cup tonight?
Jon Dzyuba:Man, I'm feeling pretty cozy today. If you don't know, this week got a little got a little chillier. Um, so tonight, let me pull up the bag. I actually got the bag this time. I'm drinking what's called a mocha marshmallow campfire coffee. This is actually from Aldi. Really nice stuff. This is a part one to a two-part coffee. Uh I guess we'll have to find out next week what the heck that even means. It's delicious. I put a little uh cinnamon in there. Nice kiss, dude. It's got some nice little fall coffee this evening.
Phillip Rich:That's good stuff.
Jon Dzyuba:I'm not like super jittery, I'm just like I'm not I'm not sleepy, I'm awake. Yeah, and I'm not like I'm about to have a nervous breakdown when I know what you drink about.
Phillip Rich:You're in kind of a lo-fi state, if you will. Exactly. Okay, exactly.
David McIntyre:Dude, if we could bounce some lo-fi while we talk tonight, that would be the bomb.
Phillip Rich:Yes, we could do that, man. Just a nice little lo-fi beat.
David McIntyre:Yeah, something just bouncing right under our conversation.
Phillip Rich:Hey, dude, wait, is that DJ Ryan on the wheels of steel? That's right. That's right.
Jon Dzyuba:Ooh, ooh. I got you. That's all we need to do, man.
Phillip Rich:Okay. See, you just make them want to freestyle instead of talking about coffee. Oh my goodness. I'm gonna leave it alone tonight, dude. But I do want to ask Ryan, what is in your cups or about the beat as well?
Ryan Holdeman:I'm bringing back the Bear Roots from uh Bear Roots Coffee Roasting Company and Tahoe at sunrise. It is really delicious. Fantastic.
Phillip Rich:I saw a little bit of Trump coming up. A little too excited there. Yeah. All right, David, how about you, sir?
David McIntyre:Tonight I'm bringing back uh a last fall favorite uh that I couldn't wait to get my hands on and get back into this. This is Paramount Coffee's pumpkin pie.
Jon Dzyuba:Nice, man.
David McIntyre:This coffee is so good. It tastes like Thanksgiving, it feels like fall. Um it's making me very, very conversational.
Phillip Rich:Yes, sir.
David McIntyre:Conversational uh quotient is a four out of five, four and a half out of five. I feel real talkative because I'm drinking this cup of coffee today.
Phillip Rich:Nice, dude. Very interesting. I want to see what you got going on there.
David McIntyre:Today I got the whoa, oh nothing on that side. It says so very blessed. So I got the cup, I got the cappuccino cup today. I you're not supposed to drink coffee out of a cappuccino cup, but I'm a grooming and I can do whatever I want to.
Phillip Rich:There you go. I mean, hey, it could be from a uh Tupperware tumbler for all we care. Praise the Lord.
Jon Dzyuba:Somebody drink a little coffee that they made out of a flower vase. That is massive. That's a bit much.
David McIntyre:Man, I've got across the line now.
Jon Dzyuba:They got a little straw, but it lasted all day. I believe that. Good lord.
Phillip Rich:Oh lord. What about you, Uncle Phil? I am going with some decaf tonight because um I just probably needed to do that. But this is the Peregrine Columbia Decaf, uh, the Atunka Decaf. It's the my favorite that they've ever done. Um throw some heavy whipping cream in there, and you've got yourself an awesome cup of coffee that will not leave you bouncing off the walls, but will leave you in a mode of chill. So um just uh once again, shout out to Peregrine as always, and shout out to the other coffee uh manufacturers or roasters that we have we mentioned uh in this segment here. So maybe we can put some links down in the description for some of these coffees. So yeah, including all these coffee if you want to do that. That's right. Yes, yes, praise God.
David McIntyre:All right, but we have I think we need to continue to do that segment with just a little bit of a bounce under it.
Jon Dzyuba:I mean, why not, dude? There's something about the coffee, the conversation, the low-part.
David McIntyre:It had my spirit, it had my spirits lifted, right?
Phillip Rich:That's awesome, man. All right. Well, we have discussed the what's in our cups. Now let's talk about what is in the word. And this time around, we're gonna, of course, um, like we said, focus on the subject of humility. And I it's probably a good idea to start off with a definition of humility. Um, so let's check take a look, and I think it was that scripture right in Proverbs. Uh oh, well, that's our that's our core scripture here. Good, it's good to mention that one first. Um, what chapter is that in Proverbs? I've I'm drawing a blank on that. 1618. 16. There we go. Proverbs 16, 18. It says, pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. So um it's interesting.Anywhere that pride starts off, the end result ends up being destruction, haughty spirit before a fall. Uh, same thing. It's like when you have uh come in, like if you've come into a place where you have overestimated your own importance, or where you somehow have uh deluded yourself into thinking you're the center of the universe, or whatever the case might be, uh, or where you just think that I don't have to do things God's way because, you know, hey, just like Satan told Eve, God doesn't want you to know this. You know, he don't want you to to uh to think for yourself and that type of thing. That that didn't turn out to end well either. Well, um, that's basically what the the core kind of ingredient of pride really boils down to is this idea that what God has said, what God has prescribed for man, the way man's supposed to live, somehow that doesn't weigh as much as our own thoughts, our own opinions, our own selfish desires, our own selfish uh mindset and perspective. And anytime you get off into that type of thing, pride, uh, it ends up, it's inevitable that there will be some level of a correction that has to happen. Sometimes it can be uh something that that comes kind of a little bit more subtly. Other times it can be something drastic. Uh, and we talked about that in the parable of the prodigal son, how he basically hit rock bottom uh as part of his journey out of pride. Same thing with Nebuchadnezzar. He, you know, sat there, he looked around Babylon, uh, this amazing kingdom, and he's looking at the hanging gardens and all the cool stuff that they had built. And all of a sudden, he just got a wild hair and said, You know what, this is all of this is what I've done. You know, look at what I have built. And it was all centered around I, I, I. And that is kind of the the the core of the spirit of pride there. Um, there is an eye in pride, as a matter of fact. Anyway, um, but that's but you know, of course, with with that type of attitude, it's gonna end up catching up with you in one way or the other, because what's happening is you're getting a distorted view of reality. And so something will eventually take place, or whatever the case may be, that uh circumstances will work a certain way to where uh an adjustment or a correction is needed, and sure enough, a lot of people hit that wall or head to destruction, or whatever the case is, uh, as a result of pride. And so I think that's a good place to start that Proverbs 16. But um, I wanted to go to the other one. Um, yeah, there it is in Proverbs 22, verse 4. Now, this is something that we talked about um uh briefly, I think last time actually, we talked about humility kind of being the antidote to pride. And in this scripture in Proverbs 22, 4, it says, by humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life. Now, all that sounds good to me. You know, look at that scripture. I'm I'm I'm like, that's what I want to end up having, and what I want to end up experiencing. Rich is honor, and life sounds good to me. And God tells us, well, here's the pathway to get there: humility and the fear of the Lord. Um, but humility in and of itself, if we could pull up like the word stuff, the helps word study, however that works for this, I want us to kind of get a good feel for what that word means.
David McIntyre:And if you want to, I don't know if you take care of Philip, but to put it in its New Testament form, Brian, you may want to pull that up from Luke 18.
Phillip Rich:Ah, good, good, good. Yeah.
David McIntyre:Technical difficulties, folks. It'll be right black with you.
Phillip Rich:No problem is Luke eighteen. I think it's near the bottom when it says he the hole.
David McIntyre:Yeah, the bottom eight. Eighteen oh fourteen. When you get into this, um Philip, I just wanted to add something to what you're just saying. You know, you talked about how pride is that spirit of I, and you know, the other one that we talked about last week, we didn't really dive into it, was um Satan himself, Lucifer. You know, how he he said in Isaiah 14, uh chapter 13, um, he said, I will ascend into heaven, I'll exalt my throne above the stars of God, I'll sit upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. And you know, he went on, I'll ascend above the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the most high God. Right, and it was it was just like I statement after I statement. That's like, you know, you begin to realize very quickly he had nothing but himself, yeah, yeah, on his mind.
Phillip Rich:That's right, man. Good stuff, man. Yeah, okay. Well, this is in uh what's the Greek definition or the Greek translation of that word humility, uh, and it means to humble or to bring low or to abase, and I think it's pronounced tape nao. Um and underneath the I guess that first section there, right above where it says strong exhaustive concordance, it says to depress or figure figuratively to humiliate in condition or heart. Now it's interesting the contrast that we get from the Bible because every everywhere that the word pride is used, there's this idea of high or being lifted up or being puffed up. And then everywhere where humility is mentioned is this idea of low, depressed, not like depression. Uh, I want to make sure we don't confuse those two, um, but meaning to be kind of put down, uh, and then like humiliation in condition or heart. Um, we're we're not talking about humiliation or in terms of embarrassment. Uh that's that's a little bit of a different story there. We're talking about humiliation in terms of you're you're you're bringing yourself low. You're you're approaching it in a very unassuming kind of a way.
David McIntyre:It's kind of like the lowest of lows.
Phillip Rich:Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Um, this the idea of humility is that idea of I'm not gonna go into it thinking that I'm all that in a bag of Doritos. You know, I'm gonna go into it knowing that I don't know everything, knowing that I'm not smarter than God, knowing that I could very well be wrong, knowing that I'm a fallible human being that can make mistakes and often does. Uh all those things are ingredients of humility in terms of, and and in addition to that, also in terms of I don't view others in a way that makes me feel like I'm better than them. You know, I don't view them as lesser than me, anyone, um, because that's not humility. Humility doesn't come into the room, and and this is a good way to maybe to describe it. Um a prideful person comes into a room and says, Here I am. A humble person comes into a room and says, There you are. You know, big difference there. Big difference.
David McIntyre:And even oh, I'm sorry, Phil. No, go ahead, go ahead.
Phillip Rich:It's it's good.
David McIntyre:I was gonna say, even for contrast, you can think about this. This is why the stories we've been sharing over the last couple of weeks are important. When you think about the pride, just think about where Nebuchadnezzar was walking around green gardens in the top of uh the castles, if you will, and talking about how he had done it. And look how high he was then, but then you begin to look at when God bought him low, oh my goodness. Yeah, there was what could you think of that would be lower than you are at the point where you're literally sprouting fur and feathers, and you're so low that you don't even speak in you're not speaking the language anymore. You're eating the grass, you are like an animal. You're something that you were never intended to be. Yeah, that that's to go from the high that he was at to go that low, yeah. It's a wow, and the prodigal son wasn't wasn't much better either. You went from the high of being the son of the king, the son of the father of the house, and then the next thing you know, you're in the mud with the pigs. That's wild. Yeah, that's wild.
Phillip Rich:Yeah, and I thought about something too, man. Um, oh, go ahead, Ron.
Ryan Holdeman:Go ahead. No, no, you're good. Um, no, I was just gonna point out that um that you know, if we take a look at this, um back to the strong's topical lexicon, I like this portion where it gives a conceptual focus of this word because you know, a lot of times in our culture, when you're thinking of abasing yourself or you're thinking depressed yourself or lowering yourself, our culture has gives us very negative connotations, but in the kingdom of God, there's this dichotomy between we, you know, we in our culture we very much promote pride. Probably is not really necessarily said that way, but you know, if you're full of yourself, if you're um even charismatic or haughty or whatever, and you're trying to get for yourself, it's a very promoted thing, yeah. Um, and there's this, and it's promoted, and you're and you're exalted, and you get to move forward and you get to move up the corporate ladder and you get to make more money that way. And so when you're talking about these things that are talking about lowering yourself, depressing yourself, thinking of others better than yourself, it it feels like there's no benefit to that. What is the benefit? But if we go and we put this into concept of how the Bible explains it, you we're gonna find out that there's actually a lot of promises that come with it, yeah, that maybe don't seem natural. So I like this where the conceptual focus where it says uh that this word depicts the deliberate lowering of oneself, so deliberately doing it. You have to be conscious to be um, in other words, uh uh disciplined to lower yourself. That's good, right? Um, of one status or the or the uh decisive experiences of being made low. Scripture presents the action in two directions God or circumstances may humble a person, and believers repeatedly command to humble themselves. In both cases, the purpose is redemptive positioning, the lowly to receive grace, and in due course, divine exaltation. That's good. Um so and then we, you know, if we go through these, you know, we'll just start on. I mean, we won't go through all these, but just this first one, you know, this principle shows that the the positioning or lowering of yourself naturally doesn't feel right, but when you go to the scripture, you can find the promises, and the only in my experience, the only way to know that these promises don't feel natural, but to experience the truth of them is to do this, is to put it to it to a test, you know. You know, when Jesus says in Matthew 18, 4, whoever humbles himself like these little children is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. So the promise is that, and we'll see this throughout the New Testament, is that if you lower yourself, God will exalt you. Um, and we can go through all that, but sorry, Phil, I know you had a point that you wanted to share.
Phillip Rich:No, that was good, Ron. That was good, man. I I think that this is really this helps us to kind of set the set the table for the definition of humility and understanding like what we're referring to when we talk about humbling yourself. Um, and and like you said, Ron, I think you've said a key word there, man. It takes discipline. That is a that's a that's such a heavy thing because uh if you think about it, why would the Bible, why would the the apostles, the men who wrote these these epistles for the New Testament believer, why would they have to keep saying this stuff over and over again? It's because they understood, and the Holy Spirit really understands the natural tendencies of human beings. He knows that it's so easy for us to get right back into pride that we have to have discipline to humble ourselves uh on a consistent basis. And it made me think of like um I had this car one time, like it needed a front end alignment like very badly. So like you feel like you're always wrestling with the steering wheel, just driving down the road, and then if you ever let go of the wheel, it would just you know veer to the right like pretty sharp. Yeah, it's like that was the natural tendency of the car. If I didn't actively steer that thing, it was gonna head off to the road to the to the right in a very dramatic fashion. So, like, that's the same kind of thing I think about when talking about humbling ourselves. It's like that tendency towards pride can sometimes be like that. We're we're just naturally bent that way if we don't discipline ourselves to humble ourselves, and that's why the Bible gives us those reminders over and over again to do just that.
David McIntyre:Sorry about that. Um I was looking I was looking something up real quickly, but um I wanna I want to add just one more level to this understanding of what humility is. Ryan, if you'll go back up in that that uh study there to the word study, because the two the two definitions there bring something to light that when um well that's a little different. No, it's the um maybe I got just a little bit of a different tapping out. Um I may have, but I'll just share what it what it talks about. It it it it talks about first of all, you see there, it says to make or to become humble or low. And um in fact, I think I had Kapanos instead. Um, but anyway, that that might be it. Yep, if you'll scroll down just a little bit more to the helps word studies, you notice that first one it says properly low, figuratively, inner lowliness describing the person who depends on the Lord rather than self. One of the ways that I was taught, I used to teach a I used to teach a leadership class in church called the five pillars. And one of the pillars of church leadership was and is humility, and one of the things that I taught that I pulled from some study is this reality that um, as it says, it's in it's actually 5013, Ryan. Uh tapping no double O. Um, it says that it happens that it shows humility, true lowliness, and it happens by being fully dependent on the Lord, dismissing reliance upon self, self-government, and emptying carnal ego. This exalts the Lord as our all-in-all and prompts the gift of his fullness in us. So, the way that I always understood one of the ways that I've always understood humility is to be fully leaned in and dependent upon God.
Phillip Rich:Wow, that's good, David.
David McIntyre:And so it literally, if you could figuratively have a mental picture, it is to see your body completely leaned over on God without even dependence on your own feet to keep you up because you're expecting God to hold you up. Yeah, what becomes so unique about it that uh the commentary that I was working through at that time opens the door up to is that when we are fully leaned in and dependent upon God, he leans back into us with his provision. And so you can begin to see why to abase yourself to humble yourself, that God will exalt you. In other words, you lean in wholly dependent upon God, and he leans back into you with his provision, abasement exaltation. And so we uh I really want to help you get that mental picture that I am completely leaning all of myself and all that I have on God, and I trust that he leans back into me with provision and exaltation. The second part of that one talks about it depicts the deliberate lowering of one's status or the decisive experience of being made low. Scripture presents the action in two directions: God or circumstances may humble a person, and believers are repeatedly commanded to humble themselves. In both cases, the purpose is redemptive positioning, the lowly to receive grace, and in due course, divine exaltation. So even when we're completely leaning into God, we may actually need to be leaning into God because it's in our leaning in time that he's speaking to us, that he's healing us, that he's guiding us, that he's teaching us, that he's nourishing us, and when he leans back into us, he's leaning back in with all that he's equipped us and given us so that we can do the things that we need to do. And so there's there's no shame in leaning the entirety of yourself on God and trusting him to be your provision for everything that you need. And the thing that I think that is so interesting for us Christians is God is waiting for us to do that, yeah, yeah. He's literally, he's literally waiting for us to do that and to demonstrate our faith in him so he can say, Well, let me show out in your life, let me do this, yeah.
Phillip Rich:You know, that's um that's something, David. You made me think about this. Um, because when we talk about leaning into him and depending on his word, that's another element of humility that I think can be missed by a lot of Christians because it doesn't at first sound humble, if that makes sense. But that is the element of agreeing with what God says as being right, even over what you believe or what you think. Um, and what I mean by that is if God has called you more than a conqueror, that's what you are. You know, now you may not. Feel like you are. You know, circumstances may not appear like you are, but God has already declared that over us in Romans 8:37. He said, In all these things, we are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us. Um, and he gives us so many other scriptures all through the New Testament, especially when we're talking about the identity of a new covenant believer. There are tons of scriptures that talk about who we are in Christ and because of Christ. And when you start understanding that this is how God views us now, because he's not viewing us based on individual merit, that's old covenant, that's law-based, that's legalism. He's viewing us based on our status in Christ.
David McIntyre:In him, yes.
Phillip Rich:And I'll never forget this thing I read. Uh it was a book by Watchman Me. I like Watchman Knee. That's a that's that dude was on another level. But um, he had a book where he talked about, I mean, I forgot the name of the book, but anyway, in the book, he talked about an analogy where he said, if I put a dollar bill inside of a book and then I burn that book, what happens to the dollar bill? You know, it gets burned too. So whatever, you know, because the dollar is inside the book, whatever the experience of the book is, that's what the dollar is going to get to. And he said, That's that's the same thing with how we are in Christ. That's our experience in Christ. The fact that because, you know, in Romans 6, it says we were crucified with him, we were buried with him, we were raised with him, all those things, because we're in him, it's as if it happened to us as well. Um, and that that's a whole other you know conversation we can probably need to explore later. But uh, point being, all these things that God tells us all through the New Testament about who we are in him, humility, true Bible humility is saying, I agree with you, Father. I agree with what you said about me. I agree that I'm more than a conqueror. I agree that I'm your workmanship created in Christ. I agree that you always cause me to triumph. I agree that greater is he who's in me than he who's in the world. You know, all those awesome scriptures that we, you know, that that are in the New Testament, um, those things apply to us not because we're some great sheikhs, but because we're in Christ. And and that alone is all the right and all the uh uh whatever we need to for us to claim it over our own lives as well. So another element there, agreeing with with what God said about us.
David McIntyre:And here's what's wild if we look at Philippians and my Ryan, if you don't mind bringing it up, we look at Philippians chapter two, here's the wildest thing about all this, and you're gonna think that we're we're kind of out of our minds, but we're not when you're when you're doing what Philip was just talking about, you would think that it would equal pride, right? Right, but it's it's almost to say that I'm more than a conqueror, and you can walk off on that and be like, oh, I'm a conqueror, and you can go start swinging your knife at stuff, and if you forget through Christ, there you go, that's you're not you're nothing, that's right, you know, and it's to just recognize that all of these things you are that Christ calls you, that the caveat to it all is Christ, and it's not by any work of your own, it's not your doing that got you there, it is because you accepted him as Lord and Savior, you become those things, yeah. And if you look at Philippians 2, um chapter five, verse five. Um, and I think Ryan mentioned this the other day, but you know, he says, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. Ding ding ding. Have the mind of Christ.
Phillip Rich:There you go.
David McIntyre:Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Now that's not pride. No, not not at all, not not from the father's perspective, but rather than he made himself of no reputation and took upon himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men, and being found in a fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. So, despite the fact that he was equal with God, despite all of this stuff, he humbled himself, he got low. Yeah, and not only here's the second part about ob humility that I think we miss, and that is humility requires obedience. Yes, yes, and so it says he becomes obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, wherefore God also has highly exalted him. You see it every time there's humility, genuine humility, at some point God exalts, and not only does he exalt, but just like we saw with Nebuchadnezzar, just like we saw with the prodigal son, he doesn't just bring you back to where you were, but he exalts you high above that. In this case, it says that he hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. That's good, that's good. That's the Father's exaltation that did that. But Jesus, seeing himself as more than a conqueror, just like we're allowed to see ourselves, also recognize that it is better for me to humble myself, yeah, and to obey God, even to the point where he asked me to lie my lay my life down that I might be pleasing to him. And that humility gave birth to an exaltation that set him on high and set his name above every name. That's right. So we have to realize that. Um, in one sense, God is not asking us to lay our life down on the cross anymore. That's been done, that is a resolved issue. But he is asking us to lay our lives down for him every day. Remember, Paul said, I die daily. Yeah, yeah, and and he's asking that of us, and through it, part of the exaltation is that we have life in him, yeah, and life in him is a good life, it's a very good life.
Phillip Rich:Amen. Good stuff. I well, David, I think it might be good for us to put a our bookmark here and call it an episode, man. Um, before we do that, I wanted to ask if there's any any final thoughts. Uh Ryan, how about you, sir?
Ryan Holdeman:No, I mean, um just I would just encourage you to study the promises of God, you know. Yeah, when when you lower yourself and you submit yourself, and you know, like what you know, one of my favorite verses is um uh Philippians, uh or it's one of my favorite verses. I can't remember it. Well, don't think of yourself more highly than you ought to, but consider everyone else better than yourself. You know, when you do that, you know, not only are you living like Christ, but you're helping other people come to the gospel that way. Yeah, and um, it's been rewarding in my life, and um, God has really blessed me um by doing that. Um it would take me a while to explain, but um, I would just encourage you to to try it for yourself. Amen.
Phillip Rich:Good stuff, right? Absolutely, and it is a thing that has to be practiced, like you're saying, it has to be put into practice every day, and um it's a conscious decision, too. It's something where we have to, you know, say, okay, I'm I I'm purposing to live this way, and then expect the help of the Holy Spirit to to help you carry it out. So definitely good stuff, man. Uh David, how about you? Any final thoughts?
David McIntyre:If I had one, I think it'd probably be this is a good week to begin to practice leaning into the Father, yeah, leaning into Jesus and trusting him with your life. Um that's so hard to do because we want control. Yeah, above all, I think man wants control, yeah, just the sense of control, or yeah, or at least the sense of control, even though we know that so much of our life is out of our control, we like having the sense that we direct. Yeah, and the father says, Give it all to me. Come on, and so I would invite you to practice laying your control, laying it all down at his feet and leaning into him, and let him lean back into you with everything you need.
Ryan Holdeman:Yeah, just I just want to take a second and just point out that what David's saying isn't just what he's saying is scriptural. You can see it in James 4, you know, yeah, just really quickly says God opposes the pride but gives grace of the humble, submit, anyways. Lean in other words, lean in yourself, therefore, to God, resist the devil, and he'll flee from you. Then again, draw. In other words, I I see that of leaning into God, draw near to God, and then he will draw near to you. Yeah, and so then the promises in verse 10 humble yourself before the Lord and He will exalt you. So um, just just to reiterate what David's saying.
David McIntyre:It's not and just I I I could can I make one more link, you know, looking at the Matthew 23, the Luke 18, Philippians, what you just showed in um was it James?
Ryan Holdeman:James 4.
David McIntyre:James 4, and you see that there is a there is a consistent communication about God's feeling about pride, humility, what he wants you to do, and what will come of it. You really have the formula there. And when we get a formula, when we get a pattern, we should pay attention to that pattern and that formula, and we should deploy it in our lives because to see it happen that many times, to see Jesus say it, to see two disciples recognize that it's been said, to see Paul say it, to see James say it, and then to know that before they said it, um Solomon said it in the old testament, that we have examples and stories stories of it. There's a pattern there. There's a pattern there, there's a life cycle there that we should employ for our own benefits.
Phillip Rich:That's good, David. That's good. I mean, and that's that's you know, in 1 Corinthians 10, it says, Whatever things were written beforehand were written for our learning, right? So that we might have hope and through patience and through the scriptures, you know. Um, that's that's part of why God gave us these uh, you know, truly priceless letters and and things that He's put in the Bible is to help us to know the patterns and the things that we should model ourselves after where this is concerned and where everything's concerned. But um, but yeah, I mean, uh, like Ryan said, you know, uh get your concordance out, look up the word humility, look up the word humble, you know, start digging into those definitions that are found in Old and New Testament, uh, the scriptures that are, you know, some of the more famous ones, along with maybe some of the stories about people who either humbled themselves and got a great result or stayed prideful and got a bad result. Both things will teach you something, right? So um, but yeah, we just want to encourage you guys not only to dig into what the word says, but also, hey, come go back and check some of our old uh episodes we've done on pride here in the past you know five weeks or four or five weeks, something like that. Uh check out those episodes. Um, you know, look at the scriptures that we mention and really just kind of dig into this because and and and as always, ask God, you know, show me the areas where I can improve, show me the areas, please show me the areas where I can uh either purge something away that doesn't need to be there or add something that does need to be there, whatever the case is, or just simply operate in what you've already given me, you know. Um the it's it's all there for us to to to dig further into. But we're definitely you know, Philip.
David McIntyre:If you just look around our world today, pride is everywhere. Oh my gosh, it is rearing its stinking head like no, like no time I've seen, but you know, I've not like I've been on the earth forever, right? So I'm sure there was some other time. But the reality is is when you look at what's happening on the streets in our country right now, what's happening on the streets of the world, people becoming so hard-hearted and refuse to give up their positions, not because of they've learned something new, they don't they don't care if new information comes to them and proves that what they believed was wrong. They're just standing in pride, yeah, in their position, in their place, in their belief, and they don't want anything to wreck that, they don't want any, they won't allow anything in to mess with it. And those are the things, those are the things that bring destruction and the fall into their lives. But what I'm also seeing is I'm seeing some people humble themselves and say things like, I had it wrong, I need to reapproach this, I need to change the way I'm thinking. I repent for that evil way of thinking, that evil approach. Yeah, and they're seeing life change for the positive. We're seeing both happen at the same time. Don't ignore what you see happening around you because it's designed to help you to first of all keep yourself where you need to be, but also to be very aware so you can help others to get to where they're supposed to be. But remember, you're not the one that's supposed to make people change. God is the changer of hearts. Your job is to provide the information that will help them to make the change.
Phillip Rich:That's good, that's good, David. I'll just say one last thing, yes, sir.
Ryan Holdeman:Um, you know, just to wrap up, um, we're the most humble podcast um on the internet. So you should. Yes, yes, it's joking.
Phillip Rich:But seriously that's uh we we we specialize in humility here at Bible Bros and Brew. So uh no, but but we do appreciate everyone out there for joining us, um, all our live stream people on Rumble, YouTube, TikTok, Tok Tik, all the other ones that are out there. Um, thank you for joining us. And of course, as always, if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, uh, ideas for subjects that you would like us to cover, send us an email. We have one called gotbrew at BibleBros.net. Once again, gotbrew at BibleBros.net. Feel free to drop us a line. And of course, if there's any kind of uh commenting function in whatever uh app you're watching us on, drop us a comment, man. You know, as long as it's not uh negative. I'm just kidding. But uh bring it on, we'll take all of them. Good, bad.
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Phillip Rich:Absolutely, absolutely. So until next time, let's keep the brew percolating, keep the Bibles uh page.
David McIntyre:Keep it percolating.
Phillip Rich:And we'll see you next time, guys. Have a good one.
