A Humble Heart — Keith Malcomson

A Humble Heart Before God

I want you to turn in your Bible to 1 Peter chapter 5. 1 Peter chapter 5. We started a couple of Sundays ago on dealing with a heart for God or a heart after God. Or what does a heart look like that is set towards God?

Or what does a man or woman look like who has the heart of God? I mean the heart that is in God or the heart that God is looking for. Take whatever way of explaining that you want to this morning. But we started in part one, we're on part three here.

In part one, we started looking at the danger of a hard heart. You cannot, and I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous a hard heart is. Then secondly, last time, we looked at a broken and a contrite heart.

To this man will God look. Him that is of a broken, remember what that was? Shattered into separate pieces. To be contrite means to be crushed beyond repair. I assure you, there is a crushing beyond repair that you want because God looks to that man and stays very close to that man.

But here this morning in part three, I want to deal with a humble heart. Reading from 1 Peter chapter five and verse five. Likewise ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Ye, all of you, be subject one to another and be clothed with humility.

For, or for this reason, God resisteth the proud and he giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, or because of this, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Cast on all your care upon him, for he careth for you.

Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring land, walketh about seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same affliction are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Will you pray with me this morning as we seek to have the heart of God, as we seek to understand the heart that God is searching for and looking for. I believe in these messages, we are building a picture of what that heart looks like.

Father, we do want to humble ourself as we come to this message under the mighty hand of God. We wanna take heed to the word of God that says that you resist the proud, that you go to war against a proud man or a proud woman.

You set enforcements and besiegements against a proud person, but you gladly give grace, your ability, your strength, your influence, the very fragrance of heaven. You give all of that to the humble, to those that are broken, that are contrite, that tremble at your word.

To this man will you look. And oh God, we're desperate that you look to us. We're desperate, oh God, that you'd look at this church. We're desperate to draw your presence, the manifestation of your person, of your character, of your nature, that your heart would abide here, that your eyes would be in this church.

Lord God, we desire for a manifestation of the most high God. Lord God, we have read in history what happened to nations and cities when you rent the heavens and came down in the midst of a small gathering of believers.

Lord God, nations were changed, mountains melted at your presence. The enemy was vanquished for an hour and a time. Lord God, we're asking again that you do find a contrite people, a broken people, a trembling people, and a humble people.

Saul’s Rejected Heart and David’s Heart After God

Soften our hearts this morning by your grace and your mercy. In Jesus' mighty name, amen. In these messages, we're seeking to reveal a certain kind of heart. It says in the Old Testament in 1 Samuel 13 and 14 about the older King Saul and the young David who's being anointed of God for the task to replace him.

Listen to what it says. But now thy kingdom, Samuel speaking to Saul, now thy kingdom shall not continue. Do you know why God spoke it to a man that was king, the anointed of Israel, who had delivered the entire nation from her enemies?

Do you know why God says your kingdom will not continue? Because of a certain kind of heart. Two years before this, he had another heart, a humble heart, a broken heart. He was small in his own eyes. Remember on the Wednesday night when we preached on that, being small in your own eyes.

Saul had a certain kind of heart. So God anointed him and raised him up and used him and gifted him. But here he is saying, your kingdom's not gonna continue. Elsewhere he says, I reject you, I refuse you, I remove you, I'm cutting you off.

In fact, the prophet of God said, I'll never come and see you again. I'll never speak to you again. God, for the next 38 years, never once spoke to him. He sat in meetings, he sat under preaching, but God never spoke to him.

He had to go to a witch to try and get God to speak to him, to hear anything supernatural. God had cut him off. You know why? Because of a certain kind of heart. But listen to the rest of the verse. The Lord has sought him, a man after his own heart.

Imagine being told by God himself, you are not such a man. I am rejecting you and I am actually in search, seeking after a man who has my heart, who is after my heart, who is actually longing for my heart.

You see, I am setting you aside. I'm not interested in you. I don't care about your gifting and your ministry and your position and your height and your looks and your words. I don't care about it. I don't care about your past testimony.

I don't care about your great fighting against the enemies of God. I don't care about any of that. Do you know what I am seeking after? Do you know what I am searching after? Is a man after my own heart.

That's what I'm looking for. If you understand this this morning and what we're saying in these messages, you will understand God, the pursuit of God in this generation. Do you know God is looking for a man, looking for a woman, looking for a church, looking for a people who are after his own heart?

Can I ask you, are you a people after God's own heart? Are you a man or a woman who has a heart, a condition of heart that is after God's own heart? Are you such a man or woman? Because if you are, God is seeking for you.

God is actually looking, searching the nation, the city, this entire generation, saying, I want such a man. I want such a woman. I want such a church. He'll bypass kings and kingdoms, the anointing, the gifting, the numbers.

He'll bypass it all to find one such man, a little shepherd boy on a hillside who's forgotten about by his own father, who's disregarded by his own brothers, and he's left out there looking after a handful of sheep that don't even really belong to him.

That's my man. That's who I'm seeking for. I'm not in the palace. I'm not even in Jerusalem. I'm going out to little Bethlehem, and I find a little 17-year-old boy on the hillside. Do you see the heart of God?

Do you see the plan of God? God's like this this morning, you know. And it goes on, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people because thou has not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.

Saul, do you know why I've rejected you? You've got no interest in keeping the word of God. I know your heart. I know your attitude. I know your thoughts. You are not interested in keeping my commands.

You disregard it. Therefore, I disregard you. Can I tell you, your attitude to God's word is God's attitude towards you. Do you realize that? How you treat the commands of Scripture is how God will treat you.

That's either gonna scare you this morning and make you a Saul, or else you're gonna be very glad this morning and say, I wanna be a David this morning. When you come over to the New Testament in Acts 13 .22, again, it says this, and when he had removed him, that is Saul, he raised up unto them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony.

And he said, I have found David, the son of Jesse. Do you see that God had sought for a man and he found a man. He laid his hand on young David. He said, I found him, a man after my own heart. I have been searching.

I have been seeking. I have been desiring this. I reject those in the church that don't have a heart after me, but I'm seeking for someone. He said, he found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, which shall fulfill all of my will.

What is a heart after God? Someone who will fulfill all of his will. You can either fulfill your will, your plans, your desires, or you have a heart to say, God, not my will, your will. That is a heart after God.

Is your heart after God? You say, oh, I want him to save me. I want him to bless me. I want him to answer my prayers. That isn't necessarily a heart after God. Do you know what a heart after God is? God, I wanna do your will.

God, what do you want me to do? God, I'm gonna keep your commandments. Lord, I wanna know your heart. I'm here for you. And so we see someone who thinks the church revolves around them. They go church shopping.

They go looking and going, what can this church offer me? They're gonna be in trouble. Whereas if we come to God saying, God, what do you want me to do for you? What is your will for me? That is a whole different thing.

Humility Joined to Brokenness and Contrition

You remember last time we dealt with Isaiah 57, and it says there, for thus saith the high and the lofty one that inhabits eternity, whose name is holy. I will dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite.

And listen to this, humble spirit. That's our message this morning. Do you see what I'm doing is building a picture of the heart that God is after, or a heart after God. What does it mean to have a heart for God?

What does that mean? What does it look like? We've already began to look, it's gonna be a soft heart. It's gonna be a broken heart. It's gonna be a contrite heart. Now it's gonna be a humble heart. And so in Isaiah 57, it puts humility beside contriteness.

Don't think these are all different separate hearts. What I'm showing you in these messages is marks of that heart that's after God. What is a heart after God? It's broken. You can't have a heart after God and not be broken.

If you've got it all put together and all of your plans and you're not broken to his feet, you do not have a heart after God. But connected to a broken heart is a humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

And so we see humility goes with brokenness and contrition. But here this morning, let me deal with a humble heart. What does it mean? What does it look like to have this humble heart? As we just read, 1 Peter 5 and 5, likewise ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder.

Peter here is just about to talk about humility. And before the lead in to talk about humility, he talks about submission. Do you realize that submission, a heart that says I will submit to my brother and sister is the essential element of humility.

If you think you're humble, but you are not easily submissive to those around you, you're not humble. Because submission is central to being a humble person. If you don't easily submit and yield and come under and find your place, you're not humble.

You're actually not humble. Look what it says in verse five. Likewise ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Then he goes further. Ye, all of you be subject one to another and clothed with humility.

So we see in here that you've gotta be submitted one to the other. Submission is absolutely essential. You'll remember in Ephesians chapter five, verse 21, we read, submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And then he goes on all the way through to chapter six, verse nine, all the way through Ephesians, he deals with husbands and wives and children and servants in the workplace. And he deals with submission and authority and coming under.

All of these areas of submission. But do you know what he says? We all submit to one another. In the church, we all submit. I am submitted to you. Do you realize that? Do you realize my entire life is submitted to you in this church?

And all of you ought to be submitted to me and all of you ought to be submitted to one another. Do you realize that is the mark of humility? And without this mutual submission, we do not have humility.

It is the mark. It is the very basis of true, genuine humility. And you cannot be clothed with humility as an individual, unless you have this, unless you have this attitude. The word submitting here, hupotasso in the Greek, it means to be arranged in right order under somebody else or to stand in right relationship to others that are around you.

It means to find your right place in the church and to stay there. You know, if you're given a God-given place in the church or calling or task, and you're always trying to move into someone else's task, do you realize you're not in submission?

Do you realize if you're covenant, I could do that, I should do that, I should be recognized, do you realize you're not a submitted person? To be a submitted person is you find your place and say, all hell will not move me from this.

I find my place. I know the will of God. I know how to function towards others. This is submission. It is to arrange the entire church, to assign everyone to their right place, for everyone to fit a certain task and to stand there unmovable.

This is mutual submission in the body of Christ. But notice what Peter says here. Having talked about submission, yes, you younger ones better submit to the older. Are you gonna say amen, brother Jer?

I'm sure that those younger ones, you are commanded to submit to the older. If you're younger, it's a basic attitude of heart that you submit, you show respect. Hasn't it been destroyed in this generation?

You can't tell me what to do. I don't need to listen to you. It used to be when I was young and that's not that long ago. If a lady come in, you'd open the door for her. If an older person come in, you stood up and gave them your seat.

This was basic things in society. We have destroyed it. There is a new attitude come in and it has destroyed all of these things. Peter says here for you Christians who are submitting to one another in the church, what does he go on to say?

Clothed With Humility as Servants

Be clothed with humility. And I want you to underline this and understand this term, it's so important. If you're to have the heart of God in the church or a heart for God or the heart of God, you're gonna have to clothe yourself with humility.

Be clothed with humility. That's not an option, that's a command. That's not for certain people in the church, that's for every Christian is commanded to be clothed with humility. It's a command. It's a actual must.

It means that in the church, if you're not clothed with humility, do you know what you are? If you're proud and arrogant and selfish and independent, do you know what you are? You're naked this morning.

You are a shameful thing here this morning. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You see, to be clothed with humility is the actual proper clothing of a Christian. Let me go a little bit deeper because it's so important.

The word to be clothed here means to be girded round about you. Listen, the actual Greek word means you've got tethers. There's a garment that you're wearing, a garment you're putting on over your body, over your clothes.

And that garment has tethers or ties and you have to tie yourself with knots. That's what the Greek means. And when you tie and knot it, do you know what it is? It's like an apron you've just put on. Follow me with this, it's very important.

And so Peter is saying that everyone in the church, you are to clothe yourself, put on this garment of humility. It's an apron that you put on. Not everyone wears an apron. I rarely wear an apron in our house.

I wanna tell you someone else wears the apron in our house. And if you ever have a meal at our house, you'll be very glad I don't wear the apron, I want to assure you. But hear this word for being clothed round about.

This garment, this apron is the mark of a servant. And when you had a great feast and all the people gathered together, the servants at the meal were marked by this garment. They wore a white garment.

It was the mark of a servant. You're there with a task at that meal. You're not sitting down, you're not eating, you're not feeding yourself, you're not satisfying yourself. The servant is actually clothed.

It was the emblem of a servant. It was the mark of a servant to have this garment upon him. He was recognized by it. The Greek word here is a unique word used only here in the New Testament. And it is for this very unusual, unique garment.

An old Bible teacher called Moffat from Scotland, listen to how he translated this. He says, put on the apron of humility. Another Bible teacher said this, Ellicott. He said, tie yourself up in humility.

So there's no room for pride. You're all tied up, knotted up in humility. I've got this humility tied on, it's not getting off. Some people tie to themselves pride and destroy themselves. Lightfoot, the great Greek Hebrew scholar of England, listen to what he said.

This word is not found in classical Greek at all. Sorry, let me just move to the word humility. The word humility, clothed in humility is not found in classical Greek. You can search all the writers. They never use this word for humility.

So you're to be clothed with humility. And you know all the culture in and around the early church, all the Roman culture, all the Greek culture, they didn't use this word humility. They actually, it wasn't in their tongue, they didn't use it.

They didn't talk about being humble. It was utterly ignored. But when the Greeks did start to use it, it was a very negative thing. You didn't wanna be this. To be humble meant you're very low caste. You are at the bottom of the barrel.

You are nothing. You're not to be recognized. You're a non-entity. That's what the word meant. And so the Greeks and the Romans, they said, we don't wanna be humble. We are not desiring to be humble.

And you know what? The Christian church was to be marked with humility. The Roman empire and soldiers in the Roman empire, do you know what they desired? It was ambition. It was the highest rung, to push your way to the front or to push your way up the ladder.

That was the mark of Roman Greek culture, but not humility. Notice in these verses, Peter goes further. You're to clothe yourself. You're to put on this garment of being a servant or submitting to one another.

You're to tie it around your body. In fact, in the church, you're to be recognized by this garment. You put on humility, and I should recognize the humility that you're clothed in it, that you've tied it to your body and that you're a servant to the body of Christ.

I ought to see that, not by your words, but by your action, by an attitude of heart. I am clothed with this mark of humility. It goes further, and it says here in Peter, that God resisteth the proud. You're to be clothed with humility.

Why? You better this morning be clothed with humility. You don't want the other. You don't want to disobey this. I promise you, you don't want to forget this. You don't want to miss this, because if you do not have a heart after God, you really have a serious problem.

God Resists the Proud and Gives Grace to the Humble

In fact, I believe many in the church have serious problems because they're proud in heart, and they think it's the devil. Devil, I bind you. Devil, get behind me. The devil's giving me a hard time. No, he isn't.

You're not doing anything for God. You think the devil's caught up with you and saying, oh, she's so dangerous. She's so righteous and holy that I have to pursue after. The devil's not a bit interested in you.

Do you know what your problem is? You're proud and arrogant in heart. Peter actually gives a very clear warning in this scripture. You better be clothed in humility, for God resisteth the proud. The word resisteth there is the Greek word for organizing an entire army, marching to war.

Not one soldier, not one general. It's the general putting an entire army, organizing it, and say, we marched out to war. Against who? A proud person. Do you know God goes to war with proud people, sinners in the world, as well as Christians in the church.

It is the attitude of heart. Don't think it's only sinners that God is against. Oh no, if you get someone in the church who is proud, God marches or goes to war. He resists you, he stops you. You're not getting past, you're not gonna do your will.

You're not gonna go forward. You're not gonna accomplish your own little life. You see, God goes to war. And this pride, God resisteth the proud. Who are the proud? The word means to appear above all others.

You wanna be seen as being above certain others around you. You look down upon others. You want it to be manifest and seen that you are better than others, that there is something good in you. That is pride.

And wherever God finds that in a heart, he resists it, he goes to war. Do you know it's so dangerous in your heart, even as a Christian, pride is so dangerous. God doesn't go to war with you, it's with that pride.

That pride will destroy you. That pride will undermine you. That pride will destroy everything that is precious. And so he says, he resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. Pride and humility.

Resisting and giving grace. Who does God give grace to? The humble. He acts, do you need God's grace? What is God's grace? It is his ability, his influence, his strength. It's the actual influence of heaven.

Who does God give grace to? To the humble. If you humble yourself, God gives you grace. If you become proud, God resists you. And so we're to be clothed and marked by humility or we're gonna find we're at war with God.

There's attitudes in our heart that God says, that isn't okay. I'm against it, I fight against it. People can think it's the devil when it's actually the character of God. What you need to discern is, is there pride in my heart?

I'll never forget the day in a breaking of bread service. And I've told you about this before. And it wasn't this church, it was another church. And as I sat there, almost unexpectedly, proud thoughts, simple thoughts rose up in that mind against the guy that was breaking bread, sharing in that service.

I mean, little, tiny, unexpected thoughts that I never thought were there. They rose up against that man, thinking there's no ability to do what he's meant to be doing. Do you know, I went through the most terrible time.

God smoked my heart. I was broken. I said, God, I do not wanna take the Lord's table this morning while this is in my heart. Oh God, I began to repent. You'll say, that's nothing. I know, I know. But if you ever have an experience of God dealing with something small in your heart, it feels like an unforgivable sin.

It feels like leprosy has attached itself. You say, oh God, get this off me. God, I don't want this in my heart. You will cry out to God for deliverance. And so he says, humble yourself, clothe yourself with humility.

God gives grace to the humble. I wanna have a humble heart. You know why? God looks at that heart. God is drawn towards that heart. God gives bountifully towards that heart. The word humility in the Old Testament and the New Testament means to be low, to lie very low, or to be very close to the ground.

That's true humility. You're not exalted. You try to get as low as you possibly can. It means to afflict yourself in heart, in attitude. It means to rend your heart before God. It's a violent thing. Humility is a violent thing against anything that contradicts humility.

It is a true deep sense of your own littleness. When you look at yourself and you feel your littleness before God, that is humility. Don't define it any other way. It is a mind that thinks little of itself in relation to other people.

It is a true perspective of yourself before God. And listen, it is produced. How do you produce this? It's produced by comparing yourself to the Lord. Do you know what pride is? Comparing yourself with others.

Pride is always marked. You look at others and compare yourself with Jimmy or Sally, huh, huh. And you're marked by pride. You're comparing yourself. But if you wanna produce humility, you know what I'd suggest you do?

Compare yourself to God. Compare yourself to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now you see yourself as you truly are. Are you a servant? Christ was. Are you humble? Christ was. Are you taking the low place? Christ did.

Are you going the way of the cross to say, let me die for the sake of others? Christ did. You see the mark of humility there, what it is? It's produced by comparing yourself to God, not others. It is modesty of heart.

Meekness of attitude. Poverty of spirit. Loneliness of character. It is to have a low status. And that's what it was in the Roman culture and Greek culture. It was to have a low status. To be undistinguished.

To go unnoticed. Could you imagine at one of these big feasts when you've got all these important dignitaries sitting around the table. And you're the servant that night, one of 10 servants. And you've got your apron on.

And you've pulled it tight and you've got your knots at the back. And you're carrying the plates out. And there you are looking for attention. Can you imagine that? And you're there saying, do you know, have you noticed what I'm doing?

Are you gonna thank me? Are you gonna acknowledge it? Are you gonna do a toast to me tonight at the end of this beautiful meal? Should I not be the center of this? And yet that's the attitude of many.

I haven't been recognized. Why didn't they mention my name? What about me? I should be more noticed. I should be center stage. What they don't realize is that's the embodiment of pride. Pride actually marks them.

A servant ought to be unnoticed. Ought to be undistinguished from the crowd. It is a position of low status. Jesus says in Matthew 11, 29, take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart.

Can I ask you, are you yoked to Christ? Do you wanna learn humility? Do you want to have a heart after God that is a humble heart? You need to be yoked with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is lowly. Remember how he rode into Jerusalem?

Lowly, humble, a lowly position on the back of an ass coming in and they sang Hosanna. What a position. Do you know there's a day Christ is gonna come riding on a white horse with a sword in his mouth to wreak judgment on the nations, but not that day, not today, not in the church of this hour.

I wanna show you, we need to be yoked to the Lord Jesus Christ. If you're not joined him, you're not humble. If you're not fellowshiping with him, if you don't spend time with him, if you're not learning from him, you will not be meek and lowly.

He is the embodiment of this. In Matthew 20, he said, whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant. It's the same word. Or in Luke 18, every one of you that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

And so Peter writing here in chapter five, verse six, he says, humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time. You know the pathway to God exalting you, promoting you, using you, opening doors to you.

Do you know how you get there? Through humility of heart. God will shut doors in your face where humility is lacking. God will not exalt you. Men with pride are ambitious. See in the church, they are ambitious for ministry and their ambition is for position.

But God says, I don't exalt men like that. You've gotta be humble. You've gotta be lowly. You've gotta become insignificant. Then God works to exalt you. In Philippians chapter two, this is only my introduction, two, three hours here, okay?

Stand if you're tired. Philippians chapter two, verse five, let this mind be in you, which was also in Jesus Christ. And he goes on there to deal with the mind of Christ. What sort of mind was in the Lord Jesus Christ?

It says in verse seven, he made himself of no reputation. That is an act. To humble yourself is your action. Nobody's gonna do that for you. There's no point praying the prayer making, Lord, humble me.

You won't find a prayer in the Bible like that. God commands you, humble yourself before me. Humble yourself under my mighty hand. You know my hand has the power to hold you down and my hand has the power to lift you up.

You better humble yourself under my hand because I can do anything. I can take the last breath of a king, Putin, Biden. I can take their breath today. I have the power. I can dash them down or I can lift them up.

Nobody can oppose that. You realize humbling yourself under the hand of God is the greatest thing. Jesus said he made himself of no reputation. What do we do? We want a reputation. We build a reputation.

You know, online with churches and ministries, we are trying to build a reputation. All the time Christ said, I made myself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant. He chose to do that.

He says, I wanna be a servant. I wanna serve mankind. It goes further, I was in the fashion of a man. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Christ humbled himself.

You realize putting yourself in such a position, going the way of the cross, dying for others, walking the place of suffering for other men and women, that is humbling yourself. Let me give you three points here concerning a humble heart that I believe are very important.

Pride as the Greatest Enemy of Humility

Number one, the greatest enemy of humility is pride. Pride is the most destructive thing that you can ever imagine. The greatest enemy of humility is pride. Do you realize what the first sin was? It wasn't Adam and Eve in the garden.

That was not the first sin. It wasn't Eve disobeying God's command. Don't touch that tree. That was not the first sin. The first sin was Satan's rebellion against God. Pride found in his heart. Listen to what it says in the Bible, Isaiah chapter 14, verse 12.

Heard thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning. Heard thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations. For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars.

I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the most high. Yea, thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit.

And so we see that Lucifer was created as a musical instrument. Scholars believe he led the worship of heaven. And that's why he uses music in our world. He was a beautiful angel. In fact, he was a unique angel.

He was the covering cherub. He was given the job, the position, the anointing. He's the anointed one. So he's a music leader. He's got the anointing of the Holy Spirit. He has a position. He has a task.

And he covered the glory of God's throne. You can't get any closer to God. You know what people, when they get close to God, think they're like God and they act like God. And they try to take a position that is not theirs.

That's the danger of spiritual things. Oh, I walk with God. I know God. I know church. I know ministry. I know the Bible. If you're not very careful and keep humility, you could be in dangerous ground.

Here's Lucifer in the very presence of the Lord. He's called the carrier or bearer of light. He is an angelic being of extraordinary power. Do you know God endued him with great wisdom as few beings in all of creation?

God actually gave him wisdom and put him in that position. You know what happened? Pride was found in his heart. It says also in Ezekiel 28, son of man, take up a lamentation upon the King of Cyprus and say unto him, thus saith the Lord God, thou sealest up the sun full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Then verse 13, he moves to not a physical King, but the spiritual power behind him. The physical King was proud. I wonder why. Do you know why Eve began to say, I could be like God? Because someone was speaking to her who's very proud.

His words were proud. Did God say that's pride? Do you not know that God is keeping something back for you? You're in this legalistic Christianity with boundaries. You could be free. You could be under grace.

There's no law. Someone got onto me during the week saying, because I pointed out that wine wasn't just alcoholic. There were 13 different words in our English Bible, 13 different Hebrew and Greek words for our one word wine.