Old Jerry

Jesus’ refusal to seek man’s praise will make him humble because he is doing things that he should be doing. This frees him to do God’s will because he isn’t trying to please man but only God. If we are seeking approval from others, it will cripple our discipleship because we will be trying to please man and not God. It is impossible to please man and God.

Jesus is powerless on His own because He is looking to the Father for advice. The key to Jesus’ power and effectiveness is consulting the Father in all that He does. This demonstrate his basic humility be giving the Father all the glory. We emulate Jesus in this by always going to God and giving him the credit for what we accomplish. This demonstrates our humility by not taking the credit.

Jesus is “gentle and lowly in heart” all the time because he has taken time to save us and to guide us. This tells us that He is always with us even to the end of the age. We know that we can take comfort in Him because He is with us. We can turn to Him when we have problems and He will give us comfort.

We can rationally consider others’ concerns more important than our own by listening to their concerns. We can try to help them resolve their concerns if they are reasonable. Yes, love for others makes good sense otherwise we would be able to help them. This viewpoint of humility in us will make easer to work with them. We should be willing to help other, if possible, before we help ourselves.

The reason that an accurate self-assessment of our spiritual state is so important because we live by our spiritual state. People can watch you and see what your spiritual state you are in by the way you act. Discovering our spiritual gifts is so important because we are the only on with those gifts and in order to be a part of a functioning body we need to use those gifts. If we try to fit in where God didn’t design for us, we will become frustrated and make everybody around us miserable and probably leave the church.

The things that happen in our hearts when we attribute success to our own strength and abilities is we become conceded and we are always wanting more. Knowing that anything that we have has been given to us by God does humble us and wants us to be a better steward of our God given abilities.

Virtues flow from humility because you are putting others before yourself where vices is always putting yourself before others. Your character comes from your humility and pride. People can see your actions and can tell if you are humble which is your character.

The two-part definition of humility corresponds to the two greatest commandments because if you love some one you have to be humble other wise you would be walking all over them. We should try to look after others as well as ourselves. That looks like love in a disciple.

Drifting away gradual makes it look like you are still following Jesus when you are not. It could also be a subconscious reaction to the situation you are in. When you suddenly give in to a temptation you are fully aware of what you are doing. You can protect yourself from drifting away from the Lord by studying the bible daily, making sure that your friends are Christians, and making sure you have a pastor that is preaching the bible.

I think that the worst sin is that of idolatry. This is a sin against God. The other sins were against man. We can do all the good works and have a lot of accomplishments in the world, but when are flaw shows up, we will always be remembered for that flaw.

To me this is Solomon’s greatest strengths and accomplishments. Numbers 3, 4, 5, 7, 11. These traits are looking outward and not inward. Solomon was so gifted because God gave him that gift.

Yes, it is fair to conclude that Solomon was a womanizer because of all the women he had in his lifetime. A womanizer uses the woman and then throws her back to where he got her. The children probably didn’t even see their fathers. Sexual excess is not compatible with Christian discipleship.

The letter to Timothy was to be willing to share what you have. The wealthy should be willing to sacrifice what they have to help other. They are not to put there hope in earthly wealth but should be storing wealth in heaven. The connection between wealth and arrogance is that the rich like to flaunt their good fortune and wants everybody to know that they are rich in earthly goods.

I think that giving to help the poor is basic because we were brought that way. I know that the reason that I am hesitant to help the poor I see on the streets is because I don’t know if they are really poor and are just trying to get money. I will give them something to eat but I will almost never give them money. There are lot of the people on the streets are drunks.

Jesus’ wisdom will give us eternal life where the worldly wisdom will put us in hell. Jesus’ wisdom wants to help mankind where worldly wisdom wants to destroy mankind. The sense that “all the treasures and wisdom and knowledge” are hidden Him because of Jesus we will be able to give us eternal life. The way we go about becoming “wise” in Jesus is to study the Bible.