Forge Ministries is pleased to welcome Scott Brown with a message entitled, How Pride Works in Marriage. It really is a joy to be here, you know, year over year at this conference. Some of the sweetest, most helpful, beneficial subjects have been chosen, you know. Remember the conference that you did on love nobody ever did a conference on love before And it was such a blessing to come. And then last year, thankfulness, and now humility.
So, would you pray with me before we begin? Lord, we are so grateful that it's You that is ruling all things now, and we pray that You would You would use the moments that we have now together, and You would bring bring us further in our walk with You. That you would be bringing many sons to glory as you work your humility and then we pray that you would come and help us to understand your goodness in Jesus name Amen Well I would like for you to open up your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5 and I'd like you to find verse 3 which really is the basis of everything that I want to try to say this evening. This passage is the most famous sermon in the Bible it's the Sermon on the Mount and the words of the Lord Jesus Christ blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. And this verse capsuleizes God's passion for His people, that He would work humility in them.
God has desire to grow the beauty of holiness and his children through humility and the kindness of God for us is seen in so many different ways but one of those ways is that he cares for our deepest need he He heals us of the thing that's hurting us the most. And he does this by putting his finger in the wound. And He uses many means to deal with us, to really bring us to happiness, to bring us to this blessedness, blessed are the poor in spirit. It's God's great passion to work his happiness in his people. And one of the most powerful ways that he does that is by bringing us to humility.
How he grows humility in us. And tonight I'd like us to see the beauty of his work in our lives to lead us to be thankful especially for the different ways that God is dealing with us to grow Humility in us because here's what I know about you, and here's what I know about me. God God is using many means To bring us to humility to grow humility in our hearts rooting rooting out pride and like Jeff Pollard just said in the previous message you know he's making us like himself and he's doing it now he's doing it through many means that he is using he's moving on our pride and one of the greatest proofs for God's zeal for our humility is the Sermon on the Mount where the Lord Jesus Christ says happy are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven and as God is pushing hard on our souls to to bring us to humility it's really a it's a push for our happiness and the Lord Jesus makes this very clear. And in Matthew chapter 5 in this section on the the Beatitudes we learn that the the the humble person is poor in spirit the humble person mourns over his sin the humble person is me toward God and meet toward other people and the humble person hungers and thirsts for righteousness and is merciful and is pure in heart and is a peacemaker and the humble person even considers himself to be blessed when he's slandered and persecuted and wronged by other people in this world.
This is that kind of personality that God is desiring to grow in us. It's a personality of humility and he brings many means to bear to grow our humility and and I want to speak about those means this morning this evening I want to give you eight means that God uses to grow our humility by rooting out our pride. Now before I walk through these various means, which I hope are helpful to us in discerning what God is doing with us now in rooting out pride and dealing with humility to grow humility to grow the happinesses of humility Before we do that I want to lay some foundational thoughts here before us. I want to give three facts about pride. The first fact about pride is that pride is it's the essence and the Foundation and it's the it's the epitome and it's the summit.
It's the summation of all sin and Pride is the root of all other sins our our root problem is not that we're lustful or covetous or greedy. It's rather pride. That is at the bottom of all of our sin. Pride was the reason for Satan's fall. He wanted to be preeminent.
He wanted his own glory. He wanted his own way. You know, further historically down the line, pride was the reason for the fall of Adam and Eve. Eve did not want the limitations that God had placed upon her. And she was saying, why should I be kept down?
Why do I need to listen to God alone for the things of my life I have desires too and I want to pursue them this was the sin of the fall of Adam and Eve. And the bottom of it was pride. Because pride is the backdrop to all sin. Pride is the reason we do anything that's contrary to the law of God. Every time a man or woman looks at pornography, it's because of his pride.
He wants something that God hasn't given him. The reason for living for immediate gratification, the reason that children don't listen to their parents, the reason that church people don't listen to their pastors is pride. And it's the fundamental essence of sin it's the backdrop of of every sin I mean we're seeing the raging of this sin in ways that we never dreamed we would ever see them. When people would look at themselves and say, I think this morning I want to be a man even though I was born a woman. This is pride.
This is making your own way in this world because you do not want the authority of God. So pride, pride is the fundamental essence of all sin. If you want to look at the reason for your sin, you might say it would be legitimate at least for a moment to forget the sin look at the bottom of it look at what created it. You know the reason the reason we sin is because we think that we're wiser than God that we'll be happier without him and that's the great deception and the second foundational principle that I want to lay down is that pride is a blinding sin Jonathan Edwards makes this point very eloquently and he makes the point that pride in man is so great that we can't even know our own pride because the pride blinds us to the pride so that we can't see what's actually going on within us. So pride is a blinding Sin.
Somebody said that pride is like a viper that swims through the bloodstream and the lymph system of your character and it swims through every fiber of your being and it's hidden from sight but it affects absolutely everything else in your life and it's blinding on the one hand but it's pervasive in every single thought everything we say every everything we want to do there's nothing that isn't tainted by our pride nothing you know somebody once said that if sin were blue all your words would have the tint of blue to them and that's because of this fundamental problem that we have of being blinded by our pride and the third foundational principle that I want to lay is that God resists the proud but he favors the humble and this really brings us into the secret of God's God's fervor to build humility in our lives and Why He brings so many means upon us in order to grow our humility. Because God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble. Well, we already read Matthew 5-3, happy are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven James 4 6 says that God is opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble Psalm 147 verse 6 says the Lord lifts up the humble and he cast down the wicked to the ground.
So it's critical that we understand that in God's zeal to grow our pride, he has a zeal for our blessing and our happiness. So those three foundational things I think are critical to understand various elements of the doctrine of pride. Now, pride is dealt with in many ways in our lives and God uses many means and He's using many means upon us right now probably several means simultaneously in order to neutralize that viper that swims within our system and to humble us so that He might make us happy. So I'm going to give you eight of the means that God has given to grow humility. And the first means is the means of salvation, of repentance and faith.
The most powerful and effective and most foundational way towards humility is when a person recognizes that they have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and they say all Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner where where they realize that that they want his ways and not their own ways. And they desire his ways. And God converts their hearts, and they are born again, and their desires change. And they want him. They don't want their own ways.
They don't want their own words. They don't want their own track through this life, they want God. And this is the most fundamental principle of salvation is humility. And this is the miracle of the new birth where God changes a person's heart. The most fundamental characteristic of Christianity is humility before God.
Where a person finally says, Lord, I don't want to do it my way anymore. I've seen what my way does and I don't want it anymore. I want you. I want your authority. I want your word.
I want your ways and I'm abandoning my own ways. And so the most fundamental means that God uses to destroy our pride and to build humility is when we're born again. The Lord Jesus Christ said you must be born again and this is the beginning of the breaking of the power of pride in our lives. There's no hope for us to become truly humble unless the beauty of salvation comes upon us. So the very first means of the breaking of our pride is repentance and faith because really the whole of Christianity is founded in humility.
All of Christianity is summed up really in a call to humble yourself before God and to take his yoke upon you and to learn from him. Jesus said, take my yoke upon you because I'm I'm gentle and humble and hard and you'll find rest for your souls. So the beginning of humility is being born again. The second means that God uses is the word of God. And the corrections of the word of God under the power of the Holy Spirit is one of God's primary means of sanctification.
You know the Bible says that the Word of God is perfect. It converts the soul. It makes wise the simple. It rejoices the heart. That the Word of God as it's spoken of in Hebrews 4 is like a sword it's the sword of the Spirit and it divides between the joints and the marrow the Word of God cuts deep inside it wounds on the way in as it cuts and it heals on the way out this is the Word of God it's the God uses his word as a primary means of this progressive humiliation that he's working in our lives and you know this really is the underlying assumption of the entire book of Proverbs you know what's the message of Proverbs well here it is my son listen to my words It's the words of God that we need more than anything else.
It's why Solomon said, do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and shun evil. It'll be health to your body and nourishment to your bones. That's why he said, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight.
This is the blessing of the Word of God. If anyone wants to grow their humility, it must be grown by the Word of God so that our thoughts are replaced by his thoughts our feelings are replaced by the meditations on things that are really true the way that our feelings and our thoughts and our trajectories through law through our lives are changed is through the Word of God And so the Word of God is the central means that God has given us among these many means. The third means, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. You know we could talk about how God uses his church to humble his children. There are many ways that God uses local churches to humble the people of God and if you're not if you're not ardently involved in a local church let me just take this opportunity to urge you to do such a thing you will remain in such pride if you neglect the local church.
Because the life in a local church is a humbling life on many levels. When you're brought into a local church, you're brought into close relationship with imperfect people sinful people and those people have been designed to be used by God to humble you to grow your humility Now what happens is that we become proud in the face of one another and we can't tolerate them anymore so we go find another church. But God actually has designed his church as a means of humiliation so that we might be happier. And there are various kinds of people in the church. There are wise people.
There are unwise. There's the rich. There's the poor. But all the people are unsanctified. And one of the biggest problems that people have in the church is that they use their tongues.
You know, one of the English Puritans said that your tongue is an unsanctified philistine. And so we often say things that we shouldn't say. We don't say them the way that we should say them, and we offend one another in the church. And so the church becomes another one of those great means to humble us, to deal with our pride. And then if that wasn't bad enough, if the people weren't bad enough, it's worse than that.
You know, somebody once said, you know, the church would be a wonderful place if it weren't for all the people. Well, it would be even more wonderful if it weren't for all the leaders who were so short-sighted, you know, so myopic, so unsanctified, you know, so ungifted. And God appoints authorities in the church and they are in fact imperfect. You know, their preaching is imperfect, their counsel is imperfect, Their lives are imperfect, their families are imperfect, everything is imperfect in the church. And so if you're going to come and obey the commands of God to submit to your elders, you're going to have to humble yourself Because you're actually going to humble yourself before people, maybe they're not even as humble as you are.
So you might think. And so being a part of a local church is a humiliating thing, but it is a thing that grows humility and destroys pride and you know anybody who's part of a local church has to face Hebrews chapter 13 verse 17 obey those who rule over you and be submissive for they watch over your souls as those who must give account let them do so with joy and not with grief for that would be unprofitable to you you know many of you are part of local churches right now and maybe you'd like to get out of them but actually God is trying to get something into you and it's called humility not to think so highly of yourself, but to care for the weak around you, to bless those who curse you, to pray for those who persecute you and spitefully abuse you. The Lord Jesus Christ has established his church for many purposes. One of those purposes is to grow humility in his people. Now, maybe you're kicking against that now, and I just pray that you'll stop kicking and let the humility grow.
The next means, work. How about work? Another means that God uses to to grow humility in our lives, Ephesians chapter 5, I'm sorry, chapter 6 verses 5 through 7 speaks of this necessity for bond servants which I believe can be applied to modern workers. Bond servants be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling in all sincerity of heart as to Christ not with I service as men pleasers but as bond servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart, with good will, doing service as to the Lord, and not to men. Now if the church, if it wasn't so bad in the church, then you have to go get, find yourself a job.
And you have to work for some imperfect boss or bosses and you have to follow an agenda, not your own. It's the agenda that your boss or bosses have ordained for that company and you just can't do whatever you want to do any way you want to do it. There are procedures, there are ways of doing things, there is authority and somebody in the room is going to have to say, we're going to do that, not that, and unfortunately that often goes right against what we want to do. And so we have to humble ourselves and recognize that God has not placed us in that authority but he's placed someone else in that authority and you can't get along in this working world without submitting to authority but God has given work and the working environment in order to grow our humility You know often it's not humility that's grown its pride, anger, hatred, slander, And even Christians participate in these sinful behaviors in their work, and they speak evil of their bosses, and they they resist the authority that God has put in their lives. And as a result, it's not humility that grows as they spend years in the working world but it's pride and many many of these people they just go from one job to the next and one bad boss after another You know when somebody comes to me and they've had two or three bad bosses I'm pretty pretty sure it's not the boss's problem.
And if they want to come to work for me and they had their previous boss was a bad boss, here's what I immediately conclude. I'm the next bad boss. So I don't hire them. If somebody comes in complaining about their boss, I will not hire them. Because I know I'm next.
Because I'm not that hot of a boss either. Well if that wasn't bad enough, then we have this this massive civil government. And you know, God has established all of these authorities. He's established all authority, including civil government authority, which seems to me to be the worst of them all you know look across the world look back in history look at the civil leaders that God put in place it was God who did that he appointed Nero He appointed every president of the United States, good or bad. And yet God has called us to have a particular way in our hearts and in our behaviors toward those governments and Romans 13 speaks of it let every soul be subject to the governing authorities for there is no authority except from God and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. Many things we could say about that but I think one of the things that we can say about that is that God has given us civil government that we might acknowledge God and His authority and that is something that humbles us. We grow in humility when we submit to the civil authorities and the Apostle Paul makes that very clear and then if that weren't enough that weren't hard enough then there are hundreds of things that happens in our happen in our lives And there's another means of growing humility in our lives. And I could give various titles to this, but I've given it hardship and heartbreak. This is another way, maybe one of the most profound ways, that God works humility in our lives.
He desires our happiness and so he breaks our hearts. He desires to grow humility so he brings hardship to us. The Bible makes this very clear that he does do this intentionally, and he does it for particular reasons. But what happens to all of us is that we from time to time we find ourselves at these crossroads in our lives where there's a where there's a great and heartbreaking thing that has happened and the heart either goes in one direction or another it is either softened toward God and man or it's hardened toward God and man And heartbreak and hardship is one of the most profound and helpful ways that God uses to grow humility, because he has a passion for our humility, because he has a desire for our happiness. You remember the thorn in the flesh that the Apostle Paul experienced?
You can read all about it in 2 Corinthians chapter 12. But the Apostle Paul had some affliction. We don't know what it was. It's not revealed to us what it was but what is revealed is why it was and the Apostle Paul says that it was given to him so that he wouldn't exalt himself it was a it was a restraining constraining affliction in his life now my I believe that we're not told what the affliction was so that we would apply it broadly to various kinds of afflictions we wouldn't say oh no it's we should just respond in this one specific kind of affliction so he doesn't mention it and I think it's so that we'll apply it properly and it was a messenger of Satan that's a whole another subject but it was given lest he would be exalted and he was any pled with the Lord three times that it would be removed from him and it wouldn't it wouldn't be removed God did not grant his request and there there are times in your life where you realize that you have an affliction. It's a thorn.
Maybe it's as a result of something you did in the past or something that someone else did to you in the past or something that is happening that's not going to stop happening and you realize you've been trying to pull out this thorn and as hard as you pull you finally come to the place where you realize it's never coming out it's never coming out and that affliction is going to walk with you your whole lifelong That's what Paul experienced. And God gave that to Paul, a thorn that was never going to come out, to keep him from exalting himself. And the question for us is, what might that be for you right now? What thorn is not coming out? Maybe you're angry about it, maybe you're despondent about it, but not maybe, absolutely.
God is desiring to work humility and the happiness that comes from humility as a result of that thorn and it's not coming out and there was there was a point where it was very clear the Lord said my grace is sufficient for you all you need is my grace you don't need the thorn coming out You need my grace because it's sufficient. It's all you need for my strength is made perfect in Weakness and then Paul said therefore I will gladly boast in my infirmities he said therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake. For when I am weak then I am strong. So there are these thorns that never come out but what is that thorn doing? Is it working hardness and despondency or is it driving you to grace and to recognize that you don't need the thorn to come out you need the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Humility is most Humility is most powerfully and tested and grown in that kind of situation. You know often when things are going well we don't listen that's why in Jeremiah 22 verse 21 the Prophet says to Israel he says the Lord speaks to Israel he says I spoke to you in your prosperity and you would not listen and so I brought calamity God brings calamity out of his loving kindness and I don't know what kind of calamity anybody's experiencing but I know everybody in this room is experiencing some kind of difficulty because that's the way that God has ordained the world I think it was CS Lewis who said that God whispers in our pleasure but he shouts in our pain and that like pain is like God's megaphone to rouse you out of your sleep and that's why that's why David said in Psalm 119 verse 67 before I was afflicted I went astray but now I keep your word it was God who did that it was It was God who brought about the affliction. You remember when the children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness and they ran out? They ran out of provisions and they were there for 40 years.
And in Deuteronomy chapter 8, there's this remarkable testimony Of why this happened why did God? Cause his children to wander in the wilderness for 40 years that thorn wasn't coming out for 40 years and in Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 2 there's the explanation for why. He says very specifically and I quote, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. So I humbled you, allowed you to hunger and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know why that you might know that man shall not live by bread alone but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. God caused deprivation in the wilderness so that they would know something in their heart.
In their heart, by the way, in that passage, you should know in your heart is repeated. Like for example in verse 5, that you should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. It's the love of God that brings the chastening rod of God. The writer of Hebrews makes this very clear that your son, you know your son because of your afflictions. No afflictions, no sonship.
No affliction, no love from heaven. Affliction, love. Chasing the love of God. That's why David said, in faithfulness you have afflicted me. It was good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn your statutes in Psalm 119 verse 71.
So one of the most profound means that God uses is affliction. Everybody's suffering some kind of affliction here. Why? Why? Because God desires to sweeten your heart with humility.
What are your afflictions causing in you? What are they making you do, making you feel, making you say? What are they doing to you? Because they're designed by God to sweeten you, not to harden you and make you more bitter. The seventh means, oh, you knew this was coming?
Parents. Parents. Another means of humbling children. Children need to be humbled. The Bible says that foolishness is in the heart of a child and it needs to be dealt with, but God gives parents to reveal and constrain and root out pride.
I hope you are children listening to me. This is something that God did, by the way, God wants to destroy your pride and grow your humility and make you happy and he gave you parents who are sometimes maybe you think are mean, but they're not being mean. They are tools from heaven to constrain your pride and to grow your joy from humility. And that's why Ephesians 6 verses 1 through 3 says, Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with the promise that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth so God gives parents to children to root out their pride now children here's the question what pride is God trying to root out of your life right now like your dad is telling you things you don't want to do.
Guess what? Here's the big news flash. God's using your father to root out your pride so that you'll be happy. Pride equals unhappiness, absolutely. And God is using the authority of your parents to root out pride.
God loves you and He wants you to be the happiest. He wants you to be like His Son Jesus. Hebrews chapter 1 verse 9 says, Jesus was the happiest of all the disciples. It says, you've been anointed with the oil of gladness above all your companions. That was Jesus.
Becoming like Jesus is becoming the happiest person in the crowd. The eighth way, the final way. God desires to grow humility through marriage. Please open your Bibles to 1 Peter chapter 3. I'm going to give you an illustration of how God grows humility through marriage.
And, you know, it's interesting, you know, I've done, you know, quite a number of weddings, you know, in my lifetime as a pastor. And here's something that almost always happens. It's like clockwork. The wedding ceremony is so beautiful. They go off to the honeymoon.
They come back. And two or three weeks later, I bump into the couple. And here's what I'm always gonna hear, always, almost always. Well, how's it going? I didn't realize how proud I was.
I didn't realize how selfish I was. Marriage is showing me how what a selfish pig I am. I always hear that, you know, because marriage is a humility producing institution. Just like the family, just like the church, just like this whole world. Even the weather is designed to humble you.
That you're not in control of everything. You have to pray. For rain, maybe. Like everybody has been around here. Now, you know, God preserves and grows humility through marriages.
Now, interesting, most people don't get married to become humble, they don't. They get married because they're selfish. That's why most people get married. Most people in this room got married out of selfishness. You wanted something for yourself.
And then you figured out that marriage wasn't designed for you, it was designed for the glory of God. And whatever happens in your marriage, God's called you to glorify Him in every disappointment and every whatever. That this isn't about you, it's about glorifying God. So marriage is designed for that. Somebody once said that marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egoism are extracted without anesthetic.
So 1 Peter 3 speaks about this. First of all, three elements of the wife's part, three ways that God builds humility in a wife. Number one, verses one and two in 1 Peter 3, God calls wives to order themselves under the authority of their husbands. Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some of them do not obey the word they without a word might be won by the conduct of their wives when they observe your chaste and chaste conduct accompanied by fear. So God brings humility to the surface in a wife by commanding her to submit to her husband even when he's disobedient and to finally at some point shut her mouth and quit nagging him and trust God.
Secondly, God calls wives to refrain from manipulation. That's verse 3. Do not let your adornment be merely outward, arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel." I think this is quite likely an admonition to women not to try to manipulate your husbands through outward appearances. And then thirdly, he calls wives to be filled with the Spirit. This is verses 4 through 6.
Rather, let it be the hidden person of the heart with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. This is very precious in the sight of God a gentle and quiet spirit is a spirit filled with the love of God she's not filled with herself she's filled with something better than herself the Holy Spirit And God grows humility in wives by calling them to be filled with the Holy Spirit. What about husbands? Well here are four ways God builds humility in husbands. First of all, he calls husbands to be regulated by their wives.
That's verse 7. Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding. In other words, You're just not the only person in the room. There's someone to understand and it's not you. It's her.
In other words, regulate your life to her. Care for her. Dwell with her. You know, he's speaking of various categories of differences, you know, dwell with her with understanding. Here's the problem with women.
They're females, That's one problem. Secondly, they're sinners. Thirdly, they came out of somebody's house, you know, and they come with baggage, you know, and they have whatever. And they come with a personality and everything. And so God calls husbands to humility by commanding them to dwell with them with understanding like you know understand a kindly understanding and enter it to recognize who they are you know God says that he knows our frame, right?
Those are words of love. It's the same thing with the husband. Know her frame. Know her weaknesses. You know, she has all these characteristics.
Well, by the way, so do you as a husband. Number two, he calls husbands to put their wives above them. How about that? Giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel. Giving honor.
Did you know that actually while God has said the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, he also told husbands to honor their wives. You know what that means? You know what you do when you honor someone? You put them ahead of you, okay? That's what you do.
Well, you're the head, but they're ahead in some ways It doesn't destroy headship It just magnifies love it It's like what the Apostle Paul said, you know, prefer one another in honor. So God calls husbands to humility by putting their wives above them. And then number three, God calls husbands to refuse independence from their wives. This is verse 7. And as being heirs together of the grace of life.
It's a life together, not independent, not separate lives. This is the principle of oneness. One of the most fundamental biblical principles of marriage that begins in the first chapters of Genesis is oneness. The two shall become one flesh. So a tragedy in a marriage is when marriage partners are living two different lives.
Well, a husband should make it so that they're not living two different lives, But they are heirs together of the grace of life. All of the grace of life is to be shared together. God humbles husbands by that calling. And then number four, God actually threatens husbands with hindrances if they don't honor their wives. That's at the end of verse 7.
That your prayers may not be hindered. So God uses marriage to grow humility. God uses many means of growing humility. God has a passion to grow humility in his children he's doing it right now are you kicking against it have you embraced it are you learning from it you know Jesus said learn from me for I am gentle and humble and hard and you know all of our afflictions all of the various means that God is using in our lives are really designed to draw us into this sweetness that we read about at the very beginning blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Now, I want to conclude our time tonight by singing a song.
I think there's a song that encapsulates what I've been trying to communicate and I pray that you can embrace it. It's a song of a familiar tune and Dwayne Krauss, we go to church together and He's gonna play this song and we're gonna sing it together John Newton wrote this song and It's titled I asked the Lord that I might grow. Now, I don't know if it's like this in your church, but in our church, there are songs that carry us through. I mean, I can go back years, and there's a song that carried us through this season in our church life and then there are other songs that carried us through other seasons well this is a song that's carried our church in some recent you know heartbreaks of death and things like that that have come upon us as a little church there and so I'd like for us to sing this song I asked the Lord that I might grow it really does if you forgot everything that I said about the various means that God uses to grow humility and to destroy your pride, I think this song might help wrap it all up.
So let's stand and let's sing this song. If you would like to learn more about Forge Ministries, Or if You