HUMBLE YOURSELVES

                                                            Luke 14:7-11 (766)

  Introduction

       A.  Seating arrangement at a feast in Palestine:          3 1  host  2  4

                                                                                             _________

                                                                             

                                                                                                   table                   

       B.  Usually the starting time wasn’t specified.  If one of the early comers were to take

             one of the most honored places, chances were that he would be asked to move.

       C.  Jesus’ advice was for a person to take the lowest place, and chances were that he

             would be invited to move to a higher place of honor “saving face” and maybe being

             honored.

       D.  The person who exalts himself will be humbled, and the person who humbles himself

             will be exalted (v11).  Four conditions that should keep us humble:

  I.  The smallness of our ______________ should keep us humble.  Eccle. 4:4,8 (507); 5:10-12;

       6:7

       A.  Thoughts about achievements:

       B.   If we were to be removed tomorrow, what difference would our achievements make

              to the world?  When we think about the insignificance of our achievements, shouldn’t

              we be ___________ ?

II.  The smallness of our ______________ should keep us humble.  Job 38:1-13 (426), 19-21,

      25, 31, 33

       A.  The more knowledge we gain, the more we realize what we don’t know.  Illustration:

       B.  We should be led to humility because of so much we don’t know.

III.  Our _____________ constitution should keep us humble.  Job 30:1 (422)

       A.  If you’re older, have you looked in your yearbook lately?  What did you see?  What

             did you see at your last reunion?

       B.  As we grow older, our physical constitution breaks down.  Examples:

             Then six or eight __________ will carry us to our grave.

       C.  Where are the reasons for pride?

IV.  The fact that we have so little ___________ should keep us humble.  Romans 3:9-18,23

       A.  A person thinks:______________________________________.  But how good are

             we when compared to Jesus?

Conclusion:  We need to understand the principle given by Jesus in Luke 14:11.  James 46,10