All right, let's grab our Bibles tonight. We're going to start off in Matthew chapter number 11. We're going to be doing a lot of turning tonight, but it's primarily just going to be in the Gospels. And so that'll kind of help us out. Matthew chapter number 11. We started something this morning. I don't usually transfer different studies from morning to evening services and things like that. But we started something this morning going over humility because it's so important. I want everybody that comes to any one of the services that they're able to go to to be able to get part of this. So folks this morning got some stuff on humility. We looked at this morning on the origins of humility. Humility comes from heaven, and pride comes from Satan. We looked at that this morning, and I also encourage you, we are on that sermon audio deal. If you miss a service or a message and you want to hear it and catch up on that, I can help you download the app on your phone or give you the website or whatever, and you can look that up and get that, and I would encourage you to do so. Because we mentioned a little bit how important humility is. It's the way to see the power of God in your Christian life. You have to be empty of self and for God to be able to fill up and do something through you. Tonight, we're gonna be looking specifically at the humility of Jesus and seeing his life of humility. We mentioned just a little bit about it this morning, but I wanna really look at it and see the different aspects of humility in the life of Jesus Christ, because you can't look and study the life of Jesus without seeing his humility there, because it's all throughout his ministry. Matthew chapter 11, let's start in verse number 28. Matthew 11, 28, the Bible says, Jesus speaking here says, come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. For I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Let's pray. Amen. All right, so Jesus says this, verse 28. Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. To learn humility is to learn Jesus. Okay, this evening, what we're gonna be doing, we're gonna examine three key elements to humility as expressed by Jesus Christ himself. There's three areas, there's three different things that we can see in the life of Christ, and it just shouts humility, okay? Before we get into those three areas, though, I would like to point out one great benefit of having Christ-like humility. It's mentioned in verse 28. Jesus says, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Verse 29, take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. You know why we should crave and desire humility? It gives us rest. When you are full of self and you're trying to do everything in your own power, you will become exhausted by all the effort that you've put forth. And it's not until we can empty out our self of self that we can allow God to fill us with his power and do everything through his ability instead of ours. Whenever you become empty of self, you run on God's power and ability and have more personal energy to function properly. Okay, it's like why would you run on your own tank of gas whenever you can just have the Lord fill it up and it never runs dry? Okay, what happens is we just say, well, if I can just make it a little further, if I can just go a little more, if I can just do a little more, if I can handle just a little bit more, if I, if I, if I, then I is going to be exhausted. Okay, what we need to do is say, God, I can't, God, I'm unable, God, could you, and we should just start relying on him and let him fill us up so it doesn't run out. The Bible says this in Psalms 37 verse 7. We won't have to turn there, but in Psalms 37 7 the Bible says rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him fret not thyself because of him who Prosperous that in his prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass so we're to rest in the Lord and All right, but we can't rest in the Lord while working ourself up in a big tizzy, okay? If you find yourself exhausted from personal effort, you need to pay attention, you need some humility. All right, that's what we're getting at tonight, but that's just a little side benefit that we see right there. Let's turn, if you would, to John chapter number five. We'll be back in Matthew, I'm sure, but it'll be at a different place. But turn to John chapter number five. John chapter number five. The first one of these three areas that I wanna look at is humility is identified as personal inability to do something. So you want to be humble, you have to recognize and admit your inability to accomplish something. You say, well, I'm pretty able. Yes, so is Jesus, but he mentioned a lot about his inability. Watch this. This is a person's recognition and acceptance that they cannot do something. This is really difficult for self-reliant people. Okay, if you're strong, or you're able, or you're strong-willed, or you think a lot about your own capabilities, it's really hard for you to admit your inability to do something. This might indicate or present itself in the fact that you might have very hard trouble asking for help. Why? I'm able. Oh, I can do it. We got a phone call this week. Oh, boy, that was fun. I got a call from somebody, some guy that was wanting to be able to work and do a little bit of a, well, he wanted money before payday. He called me up on Wednesday, asked if, you know, can we give him some money, buy some brake shoes for his car, whatever. He gets paid on Friday, but he wants the car to be able to stop before then. And I said, well, why don't you come over to the church? There's some things I can have you do around here. And I said, it'd be just fine, and I'll pay you for it. He said, oh, man, thank you. That's wonderful. That'd be great and stuff. OK, show up this time on Thursday or Wednesday or whatever it was. OK, I'll be there then. Great. Hang up the phone. But two minutes later, I get a call from the same number. At least I thought it was the same number I picked up. And it was some lady on the phone now. And she goes, can I come by and do something? Can I do it instead of my husband? Because I don't get out of the house very much. And I can do anything he can do. And whatever you can do, whatever he can do, I can do better, and this, that, and the other, and stuff. And I said, ma'am, it's not good for you to come over here. If I'm here by myself, it's not good for some other man's wife to come over here. Because I'm a married man. I was like, I don't want you over here alone with me. And she said, well, I'll have you know that a woman can do anything that a man can do, right? You know, oh, well, you know, a woman, they're just as capable as men are, wouldn't you agree? I said, I hear you. You know, and, well, you know, because they can go out in an old rig and they can do this, and, you know, I said, I hear you. You know, she wanted me to say, oh, yes, women can do everything that a man can do. And I was like, hmm. You know, can you lift up a hundred-pound weight over here? Well, you know, some women, well, yeah, don't give me all that. You say, what was that? She wanted me to admit her ability, you know, and everything. People like to brag about their ability. Look what I can do. Look what I'm able to do. And I'm just as capable and just as able. That's a lot of pride speaking. If you want to have some humility, you've got to be able to admit when you can't do something. I need help. I need assistance here. John chapter 5, look at verse 19. John 5, 19. Jesus says this, Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son, that's Jesus, correct? The Son can do nothing of himself. But what he seeth the Father do, for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. Jesus just said that God the Son, he himself, just said that he could do nothing of himself. Look at same chapter, John chapter five, look at verse number 30. Jesus still speaking, he says this. I can of mine own self do nothing. What do you mean? Jesus can do nothing? Well, I thought he can do anything. Jesus says, I can of mine own self do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and of my judgments is just, because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. Turn to John chapter number eight, in case you think it's a typo or I'm taking it out of context or something. John chapter number eight, look at verse 28. John chapter eight, verse number 28, Jesus speaking again. John 8, 28. Then said Jesus unto them, when ye have lifted up the Son of Man, then shall ye know that I am He, and that I do nothing of myself. But as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. This is Jesus, the creator of all things, saying, I can of myself do nothing. I can do nothing of myself. I only do the things which the Father has given me to do. This is Jesus the Creator. The one that the Bible says all things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. Jesus made everything and He says without God I can do nothing. Jesus, this is Jesus the Savior. Jesus the Savior that the Bible says in Hebrews 1 3 who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and Upholding all things by the word of his power when he hath he when he had by himself purged our sins Sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high So Jesus, who paid for your sin, who redeemed you by his blood, by himself, the Bible says, this Jesus says, I can do nothing of myself. This is Jesus the resurrection. Jesus raised himself from the grave by his own power, but he says he has no personal ability. Look at John chapter 10. Because we find in here the declaration that Jesus raised himself from the grave, but it also gives us a clue as to how he did this even though he was of himself unable to do anything. Because how can he have it both ways? How can he say, I can do nothing but by the Father, and yet it's Jesus who is God that can do anything? John chapter 10, look at verse 17. Jesus speaking, John 10, 17. Therefore doth my father love me because I lay down my life that I might take it again. Jesus gave up his life so that he himself can raise it up again. Verse 18. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. He died willingly. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. Okay? Jesus says, I have power to lay my life down for everybody, and I have power, he has the power to take it up again. How did he get that power? This commandment have I received of my Father. Jesus had the power to raise himself from the tomb, but he got that ability, the Bible says, from the Father. We're talking about humility. Jesus is expressing his humility by stating his inability to do things. He is showing himself to be capable of nothing so that the power of God might work through him. Jesus, who is God, who has every ability, set aside that ability so that he might be filled up with God the Father's power in order to do things through God's power and so God the Father will get the glory. Jesus, as the perfect example of humility, emptied himself of his own self-reliance and instead was filled with God's ability. Jesus was all God and all man, yet he checked his deity at the door, his own personal strength and his ability, so that God the Father might be the power behind him and God the Father would get all the glory. You see that? He did that as an example for us. Because what kind of example would Jesus Christ be if he came down, kept all of his deity power in himself, and could sit there and do whatever he want? How would he know what it's like to be man if he had not the weakness of man? He was tempted as we are in all points yet without sin. Okay, I want you to understand this, your ability should not play a factor in your humility. Your ability should not play a factor in your humility. Jesus was all able, yet he set aside all of his ability so that God could be the power and get the glory. If we want to see God's power in our lives, which I believe you do and I know I do, if we want to see God's power in our lives, we need to empty ourselves of our own ability, whether we have it or not, so that we can be filled with God's ability. God's not going to work in a crowded room. God's not going to work in a crowded person. if you're so full of your ability and your reliance on it, because, see, what we do is what I do. I'm not gonna throw you under the bus, I'll throw me under the bus. What I do is I start off in my own ability. and I say, I can handle this. I am capable of this, and so I start off in my own strength and my own ability. What happens is my ability wanes, I get weak, or I find out in the process I can't do this. That's whenever I turn to the Lord, and too often at times I say, Lord, can you help me to do this? See, I tried my ability and I found it insufficient. Lord, can you give me more ability to help me to be able to do this? That is the absolute wrong approach because I'm still reliant on me plus a little help from God. what we should do, what we need to do in order to be able to experience the power of God whenever we are confronted with a problem or an obstacle or a goal or whatever we try to do, what we need to do first and foremost is come to God and say, God, I am not able. I know the end of this road and I know that I have insufficient strength, whatever my strength is. I might have done this before. I might have had victory in this area before. I might have done it a hundred times before. But in order to see the power of God, I need to empty myself and say, God, I am unable in this area. I'm not even going to attempt it, Lord, without your power and your ability. So I want to admit from the get-go, I can't. God, I cannot, but you can. So Lord, what I'm asking you is I want you to not only do it for me because I need your power, not mine. I want your help for me to be able to empty myself so that you can come in and be the power and get the job done. That's what we have to do, and that's why Christianity as a whole is struggling today, and that's why our lives, my life, is lacking the power of God, because we still want to be part of the equation. Whenever Jesus himself says, I can do nothing but by God. You know what Jesus says about us? We can do nothing without him. Without him, we can do nothing. So if you want to see the power of God in your life, you've got to take on this aspect of Jesus's humility and admit with Jesus, though he was quite capable, God, without you, I'm unable to do this. I cannot of myself do this. We need humility for this. So the first aspect we're looking at, number one, is admitting your own inability. You wanna have humility, you want God's power in your life, you're gonna have to have humility. One aspect of that is admitting your own inability. Number two, humility is identified by whose will is being obeyed. Humility is identifying whose will is being obeyed and it's not yours. That is submitting to someone else's will who is over you. We have people over us in the Bible, okay, Jesus Christ being one of those. But we all have people over us. This aspect of Christ, Christ-like humility comes from the mentality of my opinion does not matter when it comes to anything. even the things pertaining to my life. I like what one preacher said, what God does in my life is none of my business. That's the mindset we need to have is, God, my life is yours. I was bought with the price, I'm hidden in Christ. Lord, whatever you do with me, it's really none of my business. I don't have a say in it. Why? Because I don't matter and I want him to be everything. He can't be everything if I'm in there. If I'm 10%, he's not everything. I have to be 0% so he can be everything. Look at John chapter number six. John chapter number six. Verse number 38. John chapter six, verse number 38. John six, 38. Jesus says this. For I come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. Okay, Jesus did not come down to earth to live his life his way. He came to do anything and everything that was God's will for his life and his time here on earth. Jesus' humility is seen and identified by His willingness to submit to the will of the authority over Him. Which comes with submission, but obedience to that will. Look at John chapter 7, verse number 28. John 7, 28. Then cried Jesus in the temple as He taught, saying, Ye both know Me, and ye know whence I am, and I am not come of Myself, but He that sent Me is true, whom ye know not. I didn't come for my own self. I come not of myself. I came not for my own purposes. I didn't come because I thought it'd be a pleasure trip down here. Jesus's entire mission was to do the things that pleased the one who sent him, and that's God the Father. He didn't come down for any other reason than that God the Father wanted me to go, so I went. I came not of myself. It was planned. God sent his son. John 8, 24. I'm sorry, John 8, 42. John 8, 42. John 8, 42. Jesus said unto them, if God were your father, you would love me. For I proceeded forth and came from God. Neither came I of myself, but he sent me. God the Father did not force Jesus Christ to come to the earth. That's not what I'm saying. God did not force Jesus to come. But it was God's will and it was obedience to God's will is why Jesus Christ came to the earth. That's what Jesus said. Jesus did not show up on earth and start saying, you guys better listen to me. Here's my will. Here's what I want. Here's what I'm going to do. He showed up saying, the Father sent me, and here's what the Father says. Why? Because he was there to do the will of God. John 14, look at verse 24. John 14, verse 24. I know it's a lot of scripture, but at least it's close together. John 14, 24. I make it a point to hit so many of them to show you how much of a theme this is through the Gospels. I don't know how in the world we can miss so much of this, myself included, miss how big this topic and area of humility is in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It's all throughout the Gospels. It's there, and we miss it, and I don't know why. John 14, verse 24. Jesus said this, he that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings, and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the father's which sent me. Jesus did not even take personal credit for the things that he said. God got the credit for what he said. He said, oh, you know, all these people are saying, wow, who taught him? How did he know, having never earned letters and things like this? Who taught him this doctrine and everything? He said, it's the fathers. God gave me this. God's the one that did this for me. Don't think it's me. It's God that did this. So Jesus left his throne in heaven above to obey the father's will. He took on a robe of flesh, he was born into poverty, and would die a torturous death for other people, all because this was God the Father's will. The Bible says in Isaiah 53.10, Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. This is the level of obedience and submission that Jesus Christ shown through his life of humility by obeying the will of the authority that's over him. And so Jesus went through all this, he suffered and died knowing it was God's will for his life and you can't obey God's will for your life, why? You can't submit to that Bible verse that goes against your sin, why? If Jesus was able to go through everything he went through, knowing it was God the Father's will, why can't you give that up? Why can't you stop doing that? You know why you can't? A lack of humility. You keep finding reasons and excuses to justify what you're doing, and relying on self and your own interpretation instead of what God plainly says in the Bible. It's lack of submission to God. It's lack of letting Him have His will and still exercising your own will. Nothing should be too great for God to ask us to do. Yet when we reject and ignore God's will for our life, every time it's because of pride and a lack of humility. Every time we read a Bible verse that we know that we are disobedient to, it's another example of our lack of humility and proof of our hindrance to God's power in our life. You say, why don't I see more results in my soul winning? Why don't I have the faith that I think I should have? Why am I not getting a lot from my Bible reading? Why is it that I find it so difficult to pray? Well, if we're so full of self and we won't let God have his proper place, it's no wonder why we're lacking in the spiritual areas in which we lack. It's no wonder why God has very little, if any, power in our lives, because we're still so self-reliant, we won't submit to his will. To help us achieve victory in this area of humility, we need to memorize Jesus's prayer in Gethsemane, just the last little bit. You know what he said? Not my will, but thine be done. That's Luke 22, 42, if you want to look that up and write that down. But we need to get that mindset of Jesus Christ right before going to the cross. He knew what was coming. He knew the heartache, the pain, and the suffering, but he knew it was God's will. He knew that pain was God's will. He knew his death was God's will. He knew that from the time he left heaven. He knew that was part of the plan. And yet he said this, not my will, but thine being done. You know what we need to say whenever we know we're facing a hard time, when we know something's coming up, and we pray God did not take it away? We know it's happening, and we know, okay, Lord, You're allowing this to happen. You either brought it on me or you're not stopping it. Tells me it's your will. Lord, not my will, but thine be done. Can you help me with this hurdle in front of me? Can you help me empty myself so that I might see your power through that obstacle? God, I want to see your power to get me to the other side because I can't make it through that. God, I already know, I am insufficient to be able to make it through that. Can you just help me submit to your will? You're allowing it to happen? Okay, Lord, not my will, but thine be done. My will's to go around. My will's to avoid the obstacle. God, you put it in the path, it's there. God, empty me so I can see your power. Get me through it. So number one, we got personal inability. Number two, we got submission to the will of the authority over us. And number three, the third aspect that we see of humility in the life of Jesus Christ is service. Service. Look at Matthew chapter 20. Matthew chapter 20. We're gonna start in verse 25. Matthew chapter 20, verse number 25. These are just personal examples of the humility in the life of Jesus Christ. Jesus actually goes on to teach a lot about humility, and we'll get into that probably Wednesday night, Lord willing. But we're, because humility's everywhere, and it's so important, and we're just missing out on so much, so we're really going to go through it. Matthew chapter 20, verse number 25. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them. And they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you. But whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister. And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant. Verse 28. Even as the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many. See, it's natural to want to be waited on, and to be served, and to be pampered, and to have other people do your bidding, and to be given things, and to receive instead of give, and that's natural, that's fleshly. And the Bible says here Gentiles do this. Okay, you know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them and that they are of great, they that are great exercise authority upon them, verse 25. It's pleasing to the flesh. It makes you feel valuable. You know, I mean, you'll go and pay big money to go and get pampered at a spa or be waited on in a fancy restaurant. Why? It makes you feel important. You say, whoa, look at what these people are doing for me. I must be something. Look at that. I've got two or three people waiting on me. Oh, boy. Look how much better I must be than them. And a lot of times, you know, you ever get your shoes shined or anything like that, they set you up so you can feel more important. Go and get your mani-pedi, right? Ladies, you go and sit up in the massage chair, and they're down there low, working on your feet, and you go, huh. This is nice. I kind of like it up here. That's natural. But it's fleshly. That's pride. It has its root in pride. Jesus, on the other hand, your creator, your master, did not come to be praised and served on this earth at this time. But he came to serve and to minister to others. That's what he said. Verse 28, even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. So he came not only to minister, but to die for us. Jesus' life is one of service. You wanna live humbly, you want to have humility in your life, you wanna see the power of God in your life because of humility, you better be serving somebody. Somebody that's not you. Jesus's life is one of service. Think about it. He fed multitudes several times. Sometimes he fed individuals, sometimes he fed 5,000 or 4,000. He fed a lot of people. What's he doing? Serving them. He healed other people. He raised them from the dead. He washed feet. He died in the place of those deserving of death. He died on the cross for you and me. What's that? That is a life of service. Not a life of service to those who are worthy, but a life of service to those who are unworthy. You wanna have humility in your life and you wanna see the power of God in your life, don't go out and serve those that you deem worthy of your service. Go out and serve anybody. Go out and serve anybody. Jesus's humility was evident by his life of service to others. We were there this morning. We can turn over there again. Turn to Philippians chapter two, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians. Chapter number two, it talks again about Jesus' life of service, how He was a servant. He didn't come to rule and reign the first time. He'll come and do that the second time. Don't you worry about that. He's already been exalted to a throne of glory right now, and that throne's gonna come down, and He's gonna set it up here on earth. But He came the first time as our example of what we should be. Philippians 2, verse number three, Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things. Well, this feels good to me, or I sure want, I'd like to have, boy, I like the place of preeminence. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, he was God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, he's God, but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. Jesus was a servant. The greatest doing something for the least, the better serving the worse. Service to others, I believe service to others might not be the best way for us to obtain humility, but it's an awfully good way to maintain humility. Service to others is one of the best ways to maintain your humility. Why? It keeps the focus off of self. This is why we're told so many times in the Bible to love and serve one another. Places like Galatians 5.13, you could write it down, we won't turn there. Galatians 5.13 says, for brethren, you've been called unto liberty, only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. We're told to serve one another. He says, you've been given liberty. Great! That means I can go out and sin all I want. No, no, no. You use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh. Instead, use that liberty, that willingness that you've been granted. God's not going to force you to do it. Use that liberty to serve one another. Jesus' humility was evident because of his declaration of his own inability, his obedience to God's will and not to his own, and number three, his service to those who are actually quite beneath him. Those are great evidences and signs just in the life of Jesus Christ of his humility. You know, one of the other benefits of living a life with that kind of humility in it, turn to John chapter 14. I'll show you this and we'll be done for the night. John chapter 14. Jesus says something interesting here, and I'm hoping, Lord willing, God help me, to be able to get this pointless idea across to you. Because I think it's something really neat here that the Lord shows and another great benefit for living a life of humility. John chapter 14, let's start in verse number seven. John 14, well, let's do six. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. Verse seven, if ye had known me, You should have known my father also. And from henceforth ye know him and have seen him. So Jesus says, if you know me, you should know the father also, right? And from henceforth you know him and have seen him. Why? Because they know Jesus. So Jesus says, if you've seen me, you've seen the father. If you know me, you know the father, okay? Verse eight, Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the father. And it sufficeth us. Okay, Philip's like, I don't get it. Lord, could you just, you show us the Father and that'll be good. Just let us peek into heaven, we'll see God, this'll be great, okay? Verse nine, Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father. And how sayest thou then, show us the Father? Verse 10. Believe thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself. But the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Okay? Here's what I want you to understand, and I'll try to explain it. Lord, help us. I want you to understand, the master is known by the submission and obedience of the humble servant. How do people that don't know the master know of him and know how great he is? Well, because he's got a faithful, humble servant that relays all the credit and all the glory back to the master. Philip was wanting to see God the Father. Verse number eight. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus says that if you have seen and spent time with the Son, then you have seen the Father. Verse nine. Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father, and how sayest thou then, show us the Father?" Jesus said, I've been with you for three and a half years, you've seen the miracles I've done, you've heard me say it's not in my power, it's in the Father's power, you've heard me say I can do nothing of myself, it's only God that does these things. Year after year, instance after instance, Jesus has been saying these things, and now Philip says, let us see the Father. Jesus says, where you been? Everything I've been doing, you've been seeing the Father. You've been seeing the Father through the Son. Jesus humbled himself to the Father's ability. He submitted himself to the Father's will, and he was doing the service of God the Father. In exchange for Jesus' humility, God's power was shown in Jesus' God-given ability. Okay, since Jesus humbled himself in the three areas that we talked about, God put the power in the life of Jesus Christ, and that power was so evident that Jesus says, See? It was Him. It wasn't my ability. It wasn't even my words. It was all God the Father. He did everything to point everything to God. Jesus told Philip that you can tell that the Father is in Jesus because of the works that the Father did through Jesus. Look at verse 10. Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Okay? I've been trying to tell you, God's the power behind what I'm doing. God the Father's the one that did all these works. Believe me, verse 11, believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very works sake. God got all the credit and glory for what Jesus did. Jesus submitted himself to the Father while here on Earth to be an example for us. Our role is to submit ourselves to Jesus's authority, right? We are followers of Jesus Christ, we're disciples of Christ, we are Christians. That means we should humble ourselves to Jesus's ability, Jesus's will, and Jesus's service. When did Jesus, I don't even know if I should put it this way, when did Jesus kind of get all of that power back, if you will? Well, whenever he rose, he ascended, he lifted up. God placed him back up on that throne right next to him, okay? Until we get raised up, until we get lifted up, until we get... up there in heaven in whatever position the Lord finds worthy to put us in. Until then, our job and our role is to point everybody to Jesus Christ. Everything that anybody can glory us for, give us glory for, oh wow, you sure did this well, or oh wow, I can't believe you witnessed so well, or you sing beautifully, or you do this, God did that. God gets all the glory for that, and they will see through you pointing them to Jesus Christ. Jesus gave that to me. Jesus did that for me. It's only through Jesus Christ that I am able, that His ability is shining through me. You see what I'm saying? Other people will see Jesus Christ in you. Just like other people were seeing God the Father through Jesus Christ. Right now, Without humility, we do things in our own power and it often fails. And since we claim to be Christians, while failing in our own power, we drag Jesus' name through the mud, through our own inefficiency, through our lack of success and the lack of power in our life. So what happens? We're so reliant on self, that we're not able to do anything for the Lord because we don't have His power behind us. And since people know that we go to church and we've witnessed to them before, we gave them gospel tracts before, we've talked Christian-ese to them and everything, and they see the lack of power in our life and they say, so what? Jesus didn't do much for them. Say, why is that? Because we're relying on ourself, and so we're dragging Jesus' name through the mud. If we, through humility, void ourselves of self-reliance and instead let Jesus be the power behind our works, we succeed and Jesus gets the credit and the glory. That's why it's so important to give Him all the praise and all the glory. Anything that anybody sees as a victory, anything that might be perceived by you as a pat on the back, make sure you give Jesus Christ the glory for that. And the more we can empty ourself of self, the more we'll see Jesus getting glory in there. So we're trying to tap into his power, and this humility is the way to do it. We've got to get out of his way. That's what we're needing. That's why we're studying this, and I praise God we've got such a great example of it. What a wonderful Savior we've got. Let's stop there here tonight.