“There are two great moments in a person’s life: the moment you were

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and the moment you realize

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you were born.”

• Do you remember the moment you found your “why”?
• Christians do not find life in

self-exaltation, but in community as a vessel of God’s grace.

Romans 12:3-8

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
• Last week we meditated on what we called the abiding or

grace of God that He gives as we go forward in His will. As we follow His lead and step out in faith to move with Him, we are undergirded with His strength to accomplish all that He desires.
• The Gospel is the power of God to bring us from death to life and from simply existing to making an

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for the glory of God.
• The starting point of finding your place in the kingdom and family of God begins with humility over pride.
• This lifestyle of humility is the right response to being a recipient of God’s

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. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but it does include thinking of yourself less.
• Matthew Henry >> We must not say, I am nothing, therefore I will sit still, and do nothing; but, I am nothing in myself, and therefore I will lay out myself to the utmost, in the strength of the grace of Christ.
• Pride

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the body of Christ. When a church is filled with prideful members, service is not an option because movement is impossible.
• Paul’s remedy is for us to have self-

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, thinking about ourselves with “sober judgment” >> not super-think of yourself, but soundly think of yourself; how has God created me; what are my passions and redeemed desires; look realistically at your life, your past, and your present.