Upon This Rock (Week 17) - The High Calling of Humility (1 Peter 5:5-7)
1 Peter 5:5-7
Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.” 6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
“If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.” —G.K. Chesterton
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” —Augustine of Hippo
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less” —C.S. Lewis
1. Humility enables
1 Peter 5:5
5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders.
Leviticus 19:32
‘You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 16:31
31 The silver-haired head is a crown of glory,
If it is found in the way of righteousness.
1 Timothy 5:1-2
1Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
“He that thinketh he leadeth, and hath no one following, is only taking a walk.” —John Maxwell
2. Humility enhances
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.”
The exhortation to be humble is not exclusively a call to feel humble, to wish for humility, to think of humility, but to act humble. —Alan Stubbs
3. Humility embraces
1 Peter 5:6
6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
a. Trust God to
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” —Saint Augustine
b. Trust God to