January 10, 2021                                                                      Rev. Thomas M. Cox

                                                                                                  LIVING HOPE #26:

                                                                                                       Humility

                                                                                                       1 Peter 5:5-7

A) Younger Christians are to be S_________ to the E_______. (vss. 17b-18)

B) “H_________ thyself in the sight of the Lord.” (vss. 17a,19)

• C________ yourselves:

• God gives G______.

• God will E______ us.

C) Cast your A____________ upon Him.

• ex: B_______, Needs, the F_______, so M____ things, what to S___…

• He C______ for you.

• God S_________, P_________, knows your Needs, A________prayer,

G______ you words

1 Peter 5:5-7 (ESV) 

5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 

6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, 7casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.

Matthew 6:25-34 ”Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.