Are you ready to go into the battle today?  It’s the last days.  It’s the last hours.  There’s a war that is taking place.  Principalities and powers in the heavenlies are trying to steal your soul this very evening, are trying to bring to us the thoughts of the world’s system.  The apostate religious system, the pseudo-christ, the other gospel that Paul says is not another gospel.  It’s a lie from hell; amen?  “And anybody that would preach anything other than what I have said to you, let him be damned to hell.”  Those are powerful words.  That word “anathema” when you speak anathema upon somebody; and Paul clearly says, “Let them be damned to hell if they bring to you anything but the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.”  So, we’re not looking to fellowship with other organizations and appease other religious peoples’ opinions and to serve their little “jesus” that they’ve created in their own image.  We’re here to preach Christ and Him crucified; amen?  Our boast is in the Lord, hallelujah.  Our humility causes us to boast in Jesus.  That is what true humility does, it goes around boasting on God. 

True humility doesn’t become mealy-mouthed and quiet and try to hide out.  True humility is bold and shouts from the housetops the things we have heard in secret, praise God.  Humility, very much like meekness to where we are not argumentative.  We’re not involved with conflict with men.  We try to dwell peacefully with all men.  A meek spirit is also a spirit of boldness.  A meek spirit is one that will humble itself to the place to where it doesn’t care what men think or say about it.  I’m going to represent the Word of God, the authority of God, the lordship of Jesus Christ.  It takes a meek, humble man to be willing to be criticized and lied about and hated of the masses.  We would think by doing so that, somehow, it would cause us to be elevated or the potential, if we’re not careful, of thinking that, somehow, we’re unique, or special.  “Look how you have held up under all of these adversities.  How you have held up under families being split, how you held up under people lying against you and saying all manner of evil against you.”  We’ve not done anything.  He said, “Count it all joy,” when men do these things.”  Rejoice in it, praise God.  How do we respond to them? 

Let me tell you, if you’re living in humility there is never the thought of revenge or wishing harm upon any of your enemies.  We want, more than ever, for them to be reconciled back to God.  They’re the wounded in the same conflict you and I are continuing in right now.  They started out well; they had a heart for God.  It’s not for us to judge their character or their strength.  “Look how strong we are.  We’ve stood.”  We stood by the grace of God; amen?  We’re no better than those who have fallen.  We’re not better, but we’ve been obedient and that is the difference between the fallen and those of us that still stand.  We’ve made that choice to deny the self and say, “I don’t want to do it.  I hate this.  I hate the pain.  I hate the separation and all of the strife and everything that goes along with it, but it is Your Word.  ‘And for me to live is Christ.’”  This life is not my own, I’ve been bought with a price, the precious blood of Jesus Christ.  “It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in, this daily life, the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me,” hallelujah.