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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Power of Humility 0:00 Praise God. I'm so honored that I get to be entrusted by Pastor Adam to be a part of the Walk It Out series, so I wanna honor him. He said I was more physically fit, but I had to be humble enough to say,0:11 that's not my lane. So, so grateful for a team. Grateful for Pastor Nathan who stepped in for me. But hey, can you help me honor our founding pastor, Pastor0:23 Diego, who helped remind us that our hope and our faith, and our foundation is found in Jesus. And I kind of feel like we tag team preached this morning because he reminded us of 2 Chronicles 70:35 14, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves. So when you know that you've been called by the name of Jesus, God is calling us to0:46 humble ourselves. So what ends up happening is what I've learned in my faith journey is you will either have private humility or0:58 public humiliation. And a lot of public humiliation, we've seen a lot because people weren't humble in private, and the most practical way that you can express being humble is1:10 praying to the 1 that can help you. Amen? Let's all stand to our feet. We're gonna go to Psalm 1 16 verses 5 through 9. I'm going to read from the1:22 ESV. So you can look on the screens, or you can open up your Bibles. I love when we stand and we start hearing some pages turn. You hear that noise? It's a good noise.1:34 Psalm 1 sixteen:five-nine. Gracious is the Lord and righteous, our God is merciful. The Lord preserves the simple. When I was1:46 brought low, everybody say low. Low. He saved me. Return, oh my soul, to your rest. For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For you have delivered1:58 my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I will walk, everybody say walk. Walk. Before the Lord in the land of the living. Let's2:10 pray. God, I thank you that you will empower us to walk our salvation out with fear and trembling. Holy Spirit, I thank you that you're in this room.2:22 I pray that you eliminate distractions. And I thank you that you will use your word to comfort, to bring us hope, but also to bring us challenge and conviction and an empowerment2:35 to walk it out humbly for your glory. In Jesus' name we pray, amen, amen. You may be seated. And as you're getting settled, can you turn to your2:47 neighbor, and tell them the title of today's message? Lock in with your neighbor, and say, How low can you grow? Go go to your second2:58 neighbor, the 1 that you just ignored. You just ignored them. They looked to you, you was already looking somewhere else. Look to give go to the second option and say, how3:10 low can you grow? The more humble we are, the more Jesus can trust us to3:21 elevate. And our lack of humility sometimes becomes a cap on our leadership or becomes a cap on our growth. So I'm gonna give 3 keys on how we can walk it low.3:33 L o w. To walk it low, you need to listen, obey, and wait. Listen, obey, and wait. But before we do that, I wanted to3:45 go a little bit into Psalm 1 16 5 through 9, because I'm a visual learner, and this is the way that it was set up in my Bible. Because once you know that God has delivered you,3:58 then it's easier to walk humbly. And I saw how these words were lined up, that walk was the lowest, so it looks like our start point is right here, that this is the start of our faith journey,4:10 and then we start walking right here. So here's you right here. Okay, so that's you right there, and you're going to walk it out, But before that, we have to recognize that our faith4:22 journey started with death. If we go to Ephesians 2 1, it says that you were dead in the trans in the transgressions of the sin, walking towards the4:34 course of the world. So when we start our faith journey, the first thing we recognize is, no. I need to die to my flesh. I need to confess that I'm a sinner and Jesus is the hope of the world, and then I can4:46 start walking it out. But once you die to your flesh, what ends up happening, there may be a lot of tears that ends up happening, because the faith journey has to do a lot about unlearning. That's why king David4:57 would cry out to the Lord all the time, because once you start your faith journey, you start recognizing man. Feeling convicted on how I used to walk, how I used to treat people, how I used to treat my finances,5:09 things I've done and so forth. But I'm so grateful in Revelations 21 verse 4, it says, God will wipe away every tear. So no matter what you face today, you can give those tears5:21 to Jesus. He is your hope to help you walk it out. And once those tears are wiped, you have clear vision to start stumbling. So you don't start sprinting. You don't start walking. When you5:33 start the faith journey, it actually starts as a stumble. So I'm reminded of my daughter's faith in Trinity. When they first started walking and they would fall, I would be right there to pick them up. I5:45 wasn't there to criticize them. You should be running right now. No. Man, thank you for progressing. Proverbs chapter 24 verse 16 says, a righteous man falls 7 times, but gets5:57 back up. 7 means complete. You could be a complete failure, but by the grace of God, you can get back up and rise again. And when you rise again, you will walk it out before the Lord. You're6:09 walking with Jesus right next to you. Just like Psalm 23. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Say, walk6:21 it low. Walk it low. We're gonna walk it low today. You know what? Let's let's let's do a case study on Moses. I love the worship set. Calling on the God of6:32 Moses. That's what we're gonna do right now. We're gonna look at Moses and we're gonna go to Numbers chapter 12 verse 3. We're gonna talk about listen, but I want your opinion on6:44 what Moses says on Numbers chapter 12 verse 3. It says, now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face6:56 of the earth. He wrote that himself. He's kind of like a rapper talking in third person, flexing about who he7:08 is. Like, can you call yourself the most humble man possible? Like, if I were to try to write down my God, don't strike me down, I'm a jump and try it. But7:20 Moses is saying that he's the most humble, and I'm going to support that because he was a great listener. And let's talk about how he listened. But if you don't know who Moses7:32 is, in Exodus chapter 2 starts his story. He is a Hebrew, but his family is in slaves to the Egyptians. And what happened in Exodus chapter 2, his story And what happened in Exodus chapter7:43 2, his story starts with hiding and failure. His anger gets the best of him because he sees Egyptians beating his family members, and the Bible says he looks this way,7:55 he looks that way, and seeing no 1, he killed an Egyptian. So we didn't start humble because humble means when I get angry, I look up to God for help. He didn't8:07 look up, he just looked to the side. He killed someone and he tried to hide it, but he got caught. Now he's a convicted felon on the run. That's how his8:19 story starts. So Exodus chapter 3, he goes into hiding. He doesn't wanna go back to Egypt because they're gonna catch me. I'm a I'm a failure because of my past. But God, in8:31 his mercy and in his compassion, knows if Moses won't look up to me, I'll come down to him. Because what ends up happening in Exodus 3, Moses sees a burning bush. God will come to your8:43 level because of your of his compassion for you. And he speaks to Moses and he grabs his attention to forgive him, to affirm him, to give him purpose, to give him calling, and say, you are called to be a8:55 leader, but go back to Egypt and that's where I called you to lead. I can't go back to Egypt. They're gonna put me in9:07 jail. They're gonna kill me. So you gotta be humble to listen to the word of God even when it's hard. Right. But this is why I'm a say that Moses gets my vote for being most9:19 humble. Because listen to this. He hears from God in a burning bush. He of the Lord. And what you do next after you hear from God displays if you're9:31 humble or not. Right. Right. Here's what he didn't do. You know what? I'm writing a book. It's called here to How to hear from God. Hashtag burning bush. He didn't say, you know what?9:43 I'm doing a vision interest party right now. Who wants to join my team? We're going to that he didn't and there's nothing wrong with those things, but he's just getting started out. So let's go to Exodus 4 and see how9:55 he listened to display his humility. Exodus chapter 4, it'll be over here. Look what he says here. Moses went back to Jethro. Everybody say Jethro. His father-in-law and said to10:06 him, Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. And the Lord said to Moses and Midian, Go back to10:18 Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead. This is beautiful, because he hears from God about his future, but he vets it10:30 through his current leader. He transitions well. He's a humble leader. And everybody needs a Jethro in their life. You know what Jethro means in Hebrew? I'm glad10:42 you asked. Your silence meant you are curious. It means friend of God. And there's sometimes in my life, if I don't know if this is the voice of God or if this is my ambition,10:55 so I gotta vet it through leaders who have done this longer than me that can say, no, that's probably your ambition. Or somebody that can encourage me. That's the voice of God. You need to do that. And Jethro would11:04 encourage him and say, Go in peace. But it gets better than that. God was able to trust him with more revelation because he was humble. Remember what his fear was? I can't go11:16 back to Egypt because I'm a convicted felon. But when God sees that you're humble with your current leader, he knows that he can entrust you with additional revelation. So God will come to him and say,11:28 you know what? You can go and take care of your future because I've covered your past. Everybody that was in Egypt that was seeking your life are now dead. So now go in peace into the future because you're11:40 humble in your present. He's humble. When we hear from God, sometimes it's like, man, I've heard from God, and if anybody says anything different, you're a hater.11:55 But your leader knows how to hear from God too, and God knows how to help you transition well. So if you look at him transitioning well, here's the thing,12:07 it's easy to start humble. The challenge is can you stay humble? Alright. Because Moses started getting wins in his life. Reach it, pastor. Come on. He started he Exodus 14.12:19 Some of you guys seen the 10 commandments. Let my people go. Maybe he got the beard, and and then the rest he split, and he's the leader, and he's marching people. He's not as insecure anymore. People are calling him a12:30 prophet. People are calling him a leader. All these problems are coming to him, and he's solving these problems. And let's see if he ended up staying humble. We gotta go all the way to Exodus12:41 18 after he got his wins. Let's see what happens in Exodus chapter 18. He sees Jethro. Jethro comes back in town. Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed12:53 him. He kept the same posture of humility even though he got wins. So let's do something Pastor Kenny taught me how to do. Let's extract some principles out of13:05 Exodus chapter 18, so we could do some humility training ourselves as it relates to listening. Are you guys ready for that? It's gonna be hard. You might you might wanna stretch. Okay? Let's let's look at some principles13:17 and and and and see what happened here. Jethro sees him, and all the people are affirming Moses, and call him a great leader, and Moses, you're anointed by God. You know how to13:29 hear from God. But these are some questions that Jethro asked Moses, and the challenge is, who in your life can challenge you with these questions and comments? Look what it13:40 says right here. What are you doing? Why are you doing it? See some of y'all are already triggered. I mean, I'll be asking me why I'm doing it. I'm a grown man. Why you hear me13:52 asking me why? Keep, pastor. Keep. Good. What what you're doing is not good. Right. Wait. What? Did you not see what I could do with the14:04 rock? Did you not see the 10 plagues? Did you not see all these lines of people trying to get prayer from me? This is too heavy for you, Moses. Who in our life can look14:16 in our eyeballs and say, that ain't it. That ain't it for you. You are not able to do it alone Moses. Obey my voice and I14:28 will give you advice and God be with you. Bro, are you kidding me? What do you mean God be with oh, babe, I'm obeying God's voice. You you don't remember the burning bush? And14:39 sometimes when we're challenged about our future, we talk about revelation from the past. We're no longer in Exodus chapter 3 with burning bush. Now you're a leader and you don't have much leadership experience.14:51 It would be wise if you have a leader in your life that can help, but sometimes when we win, we don't wanna listen to other people. So the challenge in our humility training is15:04 who has permission to challenge you? If you're online, you may want to screenshot this. If you're here, you may want to take a picture of this, and as you spend time with the Lord, it's holy to ask God, will15:16 you help me to entrust safe leaders that can challenge me? Everybody say listen. Listen. Moses, he listened. You15:28 know, I wanna honor pastor Diego because he's been a Jethro in my life, and I'm I'm reminded of when we were, really preparing for the Pomona campus. We're in Simons Middle School, but we're15:39 believing for the campus that we're at today. And we would go running every Wednesday, and he would give me so much wisdom that, like, I would try to record it so I can listen to it15:51 later to apply it in my life. It may be on the screen right now. Oh, it's on this screen right here. Okay, cool. So this is me and Pastor Diego. You can't tell which 1 is taller, so we're just leaving a mystery.16:05 But, he would download to me, he would challenge me, and I'm a share 1 example of how he challenged me. It seemed, the more that we prayed for the Pomona campus, the worse it got. That it was just16:17 slipping out of our hands. It wasn't gonna happen. But he was inviting me to go to Arrowhead with 2 of his colleagues, and I was like, oh, this is it. We could do something spiritual. I'm gonna ask him for him and16:29 his friends to pray for Pomona and the campus, and I'm picturing how beautiful this prayer would be. I'm like, pastor, when we go to Arrowhead, would you pray? No, Aaron. I'm not gonna pray.16:42 Wait, what? Aren't you a pastor? Don't you get paid to pray? Don't you aren't you a leader? And see, that's what happens sometimes, because we can either get offended or we can grow.16:56 What he told me was, we've already prayed for it. So now our job is just to start thanking him for it. You thank him for it until it happens. You thank him for it until it happens.17:08 So what he exposed in me was a blind spot, but I can either get offended and say, you know what? I need to Matthew 18. Matthew 18 is like what the Christian17:19 community says when when somebody's offended, you go and share the truth. But before you Matthew 18, you may wanna check if you Exodus 18. Have you humbled yourself and have people in your life that17:31 can challenge you because you want to grow? Maybe the area of life that you're asking to grow in, God will send a leader that'll help break barriers for you. Humility training.17:43 Listen. The next key is obey. Obey. Sprite says, Obey your thirst. Don't be obeying your thirst out here. 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