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  • Isaiah 66
  • Let creation humble you
    • Isaiah 66:1-2
    • Job 38:1-5
    • Psalms 19:1
    • No matter where you look, God’s fingerprint is there!
  • Let life humble you
    • Daniel 4:28-37 - King Nebuchadnezzar is humbled
    • Matthew 5:36 - We have very little control over our lives.
  • Let sin humble you
    • Jeremiah 2:7-9 - The people had no shame in their sin.
    • We must remember how to blush and have the appropriate shame when we sin.

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  • Luke 18:1-8
    • Luke 18:7 - God wants us to keep praying.
  • Luke 18:9-17 - Don’t be lifted up with pride. Be humble.
    • Luke 18:14 - Whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled.
    • Luke 18:17 - We must receive the kingdom of God like a child.
  • Luke 18:18-30 - We must trust in God - not in our own riches.
    • It is not enough to just do the right things. It takes the right information and the right disposition to serve God correctly.
  • Luke 18:31-34 - Jesus was telling the apostles that he had a purpose - to die for our sins.
  • Luke 18:35-43 - We need to follow Jesus’ example of compassion and help those we can.

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  • Introduction
    • Commitment: the act of pledging yourself; to give over to another implying that the thing given over passes entirely into another’s charge
    • II Corinthians 8:1ff
    • II Timothy 2:19
  • True commitment to God involves commitment:
    • Of heart - Proverbs 23:7
    • Of emotion - Hebrewx 13:1; Proverbs 23:23
    • Of voice - Ephesians 4:29
    • Of body - I Corinthians 6:19-20
    • Of time - Hebrews 5:12
    • Of service - Romans 6:4
    • Of pocket book
  • Am I truly committed to the Lord?

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  • Matthew 23
  • Woe 1: You shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
    • Matthew 23:13 - The Pharisees discouraged those who challenged their thinking.
    • John 7:45-53 - The Pharisees try to discourage Nicodemus from following Jesus.
  • Woe 2: You devour widows’ houses.
    • Matthew 23:14 - The Pharisees were acting selfishly in defrauding the widows.
  • Woe 3: You make them twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
    • Matthew 23:15 - The Pharisees were teaching their own traditions.
    • Matthew 15:9
    • Acts 8:35 - New Testament preachers taught directly from the scriptures.
  • Woes 4-5: You neglect the weightier matters.
    • Matthew 23:16-24
    • Matthew 5:33-37
  • Woes 6-7: You outwardly appear righteous to men.
    • Matthew 23:25-28
    • Titus 1:15-16
  • Woe 8: You say, “If it had been me …”
    • Matthew 23:29-36
    • Amos 7:14-15
    • We can’t imagine that there is some ideal time to serve God. We have to serve God in the time and state we are in.

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