Get your party clothes on - Part 2

Glad that almost 200 of you read Part 1.

Thanks for coming back. Here we go as we ponder three more biblical "Garments of the heart"


#3 The Garment of Humility

1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger,. Submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you can be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility

"True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments"

Six attributes of humility:

1) We acknowledge that we don't have it all together

2) We know the difference between self-confidence and pride

3)  We seek to add value to others

4) We take responsibility for our actions

5) We understand the shadow side of success

6) We are filled with gratitude for what we have

Humble means "modest; without an excess of pride

"Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will " (Zig Ziglar)

#5. The Garment of Love

Col 3:14 "Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony"

Love (agape) has been defined as 'selfless giving' John 10:7/ 1 Cor 13

- selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love, the highest of the four types of love in the bible

For God so loved the world that he gave Jn3:16

Just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her Eph 5:25

But the fruit of the Spirit is love Gal 5:22

This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you John 15:12

Greater love has no man than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends John 15:13

#6. The Garment of Praise

Isa 61:3.. and provide for those who grieve in Zion --to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead not a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his slendour.

God moves when we praise - 3 examples:

Jehoshaphat - "as they began to sing praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated" 2 Chron 20:22

Apostle Paul - But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God,and the prisoners were listened by to them; and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened" Acts 16:25,26

Jonah - "But I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is from the Lord". Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land. Jonah 2:9,10.

Recap:

We have our party clothes on when we clothe ourselves with:

#1 The Garment of Salvation
#2 The Garment of Righteousness
#3 The Garment of Humility
#4 The Garment of Love
#5 The Garment of Praise