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  (SERMON CLIP) HAVING TRUE HUMILITY THAT PLEASES GOD
  by Zac Poonen
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Summary: True humility is the key to pleasing God and increasing our
fellowship with Jesus.

Duration: 2:14 Topics: "True Humility", "Christian Pride"
Scripture References: Proverbs 22:4, Matthew 23:12, Philippians 2:3-4, James 4:10

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of humility before God,
highlighting that true humility is recognizing God's greatness and our
own insignificance. It discusses the process of decreasing oneself to
zero in God's eyes, akin to John the Baptist's statement of 'He must
increase, but I must decrease.' The goal is to walk a path of
righteousness that becomes brighter as our pride diminishes, allowing
for a closer fellowship with Jesus at the zero level of humility.

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CONTENT
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Just like everybody else. This is the secret, my brothers and sisters.
This is why Jesus pleased the Father.

He took his position before the Father. Humility is not saying I'm
nothing, or hanging your head down, or wearing torn clothes, or none of
all that. Humility is the recognition.

God is everything. You and I may have different qualities, but we are
zero in his eyes. So God is in the business of bringing us down from 100
to 0. I don't know where you've got so far, but I hope the path of the
righteous, it's like the shining light that shines brighter and brighter
and brighter, which means the darkness goes away.

What does it mean, the darkness going away? The darkness is our pride,
our exaltation. It goes away and the path of the righteous becomes
brighter and brighter and brighter, means we become 0 and 0 and 0, like
John the Baptist said, he will increase when I decrease. So I pray that
all of you will have a blessed year in 2015 where you decrease and come
down to 0 quickly.

Let's bow before God in prayer. Please think about what you heard and
say, Lord, that's the way I want to go in this new year. Now I want to
get to that 0 place where Jesus was.

Your fellowship with Jesus will be better and brighter and more glorious
because he's down there at that 0 level. Many of us are far away from
him because we have high thoughts. You want to get close to him? Get
down to 0. Heavenly Father, help us to be gripped by the truth of God's
word, to live according to it.

We humbly ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/LS8khG9wpbI.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/zac-poonen/sermon-clip-having-true-humility-that-pleases-god/
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