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Session 4

• Getting in Your Place

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Knowledge Objectives

• Explain why a continual sense of dependence
  characterizes the Christlike believer.
• Explain why humility is the hallmark of the
  believers sense of dependence upon God.
• Identify several ways God humbles His children.

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Application Objectives

• Respond by being able to define biblical
  humility.
• Respond by committing yourself to letting God
  teach you the dependency of your
  creatureliness.
• Respond by more quickly recognizing when God is
  trying to teach you Christlike dependence and
  humility through the circumstances of life.

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Session 4

• Getting in Your Place

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Dependent by Design

• God made man dependent.
• Any attempt to live independently from God is
  doomed to failure.
• Change must move man away from autonomy and
  toward dependence.
• Creation demands dependency.
• Nebuchadnezzar illustrates the destructive nature
  of self-sufficiency.

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Humilitythe Hallmark of Dependency

• Humility is simply mans. . . yielding to God
  His place.
• No man who has been humbled before God is
  self-justifying, self-protective, or
  self-confident.

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Live the Christian Life the Same Way You Got It

• Humility is not only the start of the Christian
  life it is the start of everything godly in the
  Christian life.
• Be clothed with humility.
• Our aversion to humility is testimony of the
  poverty of our understanding of Gods ways.

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How Does God Humble Us?

• He can send us a problem we cant handle to
  expose our helplessness.
• He can give us a command we wont obey to expose
  our self-centeredness.
• He can arrange an outcome we cant control to
  expose our sinfulness.
• He can show us a God we cant comprehend to
  expose our finiteness.

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Potential
A mans potential for God lies not in his
ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his
humility.