Parables Pursuing a Humble Heart

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LUKE 14: 7-14 (NIV)
The Parable of the Arrogant Guest

LUKE 14: 7-14 (NIV)
When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor
at the table, he told them this parable:
“When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’
Then, humiliated, you will have to take the
least important place.
But when you are invited, take the lowest place,
so that when your host comes, he will say to you,
‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored
in the presence of all the other guests.
For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled,
and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Matthew 22:37-39 (NIV)
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

PRIDE
The opposite of pride is humility

Joy= Jesus … Others… You

“I am a firm believer, as is John Dickson, that people with humility don’t think less of themselves;
they just think of themselves less.”
Humilitas – John Dickson

Self sacrifice, not self honor,
was the mark of humble greatness.

Philippians 2: 3-11 (NIV)
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
In your relationships with one another,
have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant,being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

“… at the center of everything is the cross, the ultimate in the self-giving of the Almighty.”
Humilitas – John Dickson

LUKE 14:11 (NIV)
For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled,
and those who humble themselves will be exalted.