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PREFACE

  1. It is not sin that us most, but grace.
  2. Humility is something infinitely deeper than .
  3. Humility is seldom sought after as the distinguishing feature of the of Jesus.

CHAPTER 1
HUMILITY: The Glory of the Creature

  1. God wished to Himself in and through created beings by to them as much of His own goodness and glory as they were capable of receiving.
  2. Humility, the place of entire on God is the first duty and the highest of man. It is the root of every .
  3. , or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
  4. Jesus Christ took the place and fulfilled the destiny of man by His life of perfect humility. His is our salvation. His salvation is our .
  5. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue with others; it is the root of all, because it assumes the right attitude before God and allows Him as God to do all.
  6. Humility is simply the sense of entire , which comes when we see how truly God is , and in which we make way for God to be .
  7. The first and chief mark of the relationship of with God, the secret of his blessedness, is the humility and nothingness that leaves God to be all.
  8. Humility must be made the object of special , and practice.
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CHAPTER 2
HUMILITY: The Secret of Redemption

  1. Eve’s life and the life of the human race that sprang from her, became corrupted to its very root with that most terrible of all sins and all curses—the of Satan’s own .
  2. Pride has its root and strength in a terrible power, outside of us as well as within us. We must it, it, and be of its satanic origin.
  3. Our one need is to and know and the life that has been revealed in Christ as the life that is now ours. It waits for our to gain possession and mastery of our entire beings.
  4. What may be counted as His chief characteristic—the root and essence of all His character as our Redeemer?
  5. We must make humility the chief thing we in Him, the chief thing we of Him, the one thing for which we all else.
  6. Until we humility in Christ as our chief joy and welcome it at any price, there is very little of a religion that will conquer the world.
  7. Believe with your whole heart that , whom God has given us, will work in us, us what the Father wants us to be.
  8. Answer the following either T (True) or F (False)
    No tree can grow except on the root from which it sprang.
    It was not pride that made redemption necessary.
    Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature.
    Pride seeks itself and others.
    Devilish pride creeps in almost everywhere.

“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up”(James 4:10).
“He shall lift you up.” This is our problem today: We think we are smart. We think we are strong. We think we have ability. We think we are good. God says that there is no good within us. There is nothing in us that attracts Him, that is, in the way of goodness; it is just our great need that draws Him to us. If we are willing to humble ourselves and get down where He can lift us up, He will lift us up.

I once saw a lifeguard hit a drowning fellow with his fist. He knocked him out. The lifeguard explained that the drowning man was struggling and that he could not help him until he gave up. I think sometimes God gives us the fist so that we just give up and let Him take over.—J. Vernon McGee

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CHAPTER 3
Humility in the Life of Jesus

  1. Jesus gave God the and the that are due to Him.
  2. Match the following:
    The Son can do nothing of himself. A. John 8:28
    I can of mine own self do nothing… B. John 8:50
    I receive not honour from men C. John 5:19
    …not to do mine own will D. John 8:42
    My doctrine is not mine E. John 6:38
    I am not come of myself F. John 14:24
    I do nothing of myself G. John 5:41
    Neither cam I of myself, but he sent me H. John 5:30
    I speak not of myself I. John 14:10
    I speak not of myself J. John 7:16
    The word which ye hear is not mine K. John 7:28
  3. Christ found this life of entire self-renunciation, of absolute and dependence upon the Father’s will, to be one of peace and joy. He lost by giving everything to God.
  4. Christ’s humility was simply the of Himself to God, to the Father to do in Him what He pleased, matter what men around might say of Him or do to Him.
  5. The life Christ came to reveal and to impart is a life in God that comes through to sin and self.
  6. The secret—of which all nature and every person and, above all, every child of God, is to be the witness—is that he is nothing but a , a channel, through which the living God can manifest the riches of His , power, and .
  7. Jesus never for a moment thought of seeking His honor or asserting His to vindicate Himself. His whole spirit was that of a life to God so that God might work in it.
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CHAPTER 4
Humility in the Teaching of Jesus

  1. The of heaven and earth are for the lowly. For the heavenly and the earthly life, humility is the secret of .
  2. Meekness and are the things He offers us; in these we will find perfect rest of soul. Humility is to be our .
  3. Humility will be the one standard of in heaven. The lowliest is the to God. The prime position in the church is promised to the .
  4. Humiliation is the only ladder to in God’s kingdom.
  5. In the temple and presence and worship of God, everything is that is not pervaded by deep, true humility toward God and men.
  6. The character of a faithful servant or slave implies:
    A. to the master’s interests
    B. thoughtful study and care to him
    C. delight in prosperity & honor & happiness
  7. Jesus calls us to be of one another, and as we accept it heartily, this service will also be a most one. It will be a new and fuller from sin and self.
  8. Do seek or ask for exaltation; that is God’s work. See to it that you abase and yourselves, and take no place before God or man but that of servant. That is your work. Let that also be your one and prayer.
  9. Jesus, the meek and lowly One, calls us to from Him the path to God. And let us believe that what He shows, He ; what He is, He . As the meek and lowly One, He will come in and dwell in the heart.
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Chapter 5
Humility in the Disciples of Jesus

  1. The dark power of had to be and cast out before the disciples could be the witnesses of the power of Jesus to save.
  2. Humility is one of the chief and highest . It is one of the most to attain, and one to which our first and greatest efforts ought to be directed.
  3. All external and all effort is weak in the conquering of pride or in the obtaining of a meek and lowly heart.
  4. No outward , not even of Christ Himself—no , however convincing; no sense of the beauty of humility, however deep; no personal resolve or , however sincere and earnest—can cast out the devil of pride.
  5. Only by the of Christ in His divine humility do we become truly humble.
  6. In His , Christ destroyed the power of the Devil.
  7. In His , Christ received from the Father an entirely new life.
  8. In His , Christ received the Spirit of the Father, through whom He might do what He could not do while on earth.
  9. On the Day of Pentecost Christ came and took .
  10. We must understand the utter of the church or the believer in being what Christ would have them be, as long as His humility is not as His chief glory, His first command, and our highest blessedness.
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Chapter 6
Humility in Daily Life

  1. Humility toward men will be the only sufficient that our humility before God is real. It will be the only that humility has taken up its abode in us and become our very nature.
  2. The only humility that is really ours is that which we carry with us in our conduct. The insignificances of daily life are the of eternity because they prove what spirit really possesses us.
  3. Humility before God is nothing if not in humility before men.
  4. It is in our to one another, in our of one another, that the true lowliness of mind and the humility of heart are to be seen. Our humility before God has no unless it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellowmen.
  5. The humble man feels no or envy. He can God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God’s presence he has learned to say with Paul, “I be .”
  6. The humble man’s humility does not consist merely in or words of self-depreciation, but in a heart of humility. It is a heart encompassed by and kindness, meekness and long-suffering—the sweet and lowly gentleness recognized as the mark of the of God.
  7. Let us prove our Christlikeness, not only in our zeal for saving the lost, but in our with all our fellowmen, bearing with and one another, even as the Lord forgave us.
  8. Have full that where He is enthroned in the heart, His humility and gentleness will be one of the streams of water that flow from within us.
  9. Let us look on every brother or sister who irritates or us as God’s means of grace. Let us look on him or her as God’s for our purification, for our exercise of the humility that Jesus, our Life, breathes within us.
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Chapter 7
Humility and Holiness

  1. In man, humility is the one thing needed to allow God’s to dwell in him and shine through him. Humility is the bloom and the beauty of .
  2. The chief mark of holiness is its lack of humility.
  3. can lift its head in the very temple of God and make His worship the scene of its self-exaltation.
  4. Even in the temple, when the language of and trust in God’s mercy alone is heard, the Pharisee may take up the note of , and in thanking God be congratulating himself. can clothe itself in the garments of praise or of penitence.
  5. Most of the quarrels among Christian workers arise from the clamoring of this gigantic .
  6. In their spiritual history, people may have had times of great humbling and , but what a different thing this is from being with humility, and from having a humble spirit.
  7. The power of a perfect forgets itself and finds its blessedness in others.
  8. May God teach us that our humility before Him is the only that can enable us to be always humble with our fellowmen. Our must be the life of Christ, the Lamb of God, within us.
  9. There is no pride so , none so subtle and insidious, as the pride of holiness.
  10. The pride of holiness reveals itself, not only in words or thoughts, but in a in which those who have the gift of spiritual cannot help but recognize the power of self. Even the with its keen eyes notices it.
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CHAPTER 8
Humility and Sin

  1. Humility is the very of holiness and of blessedness. It is the of self by the enthronement of God. Where God is all, is nothing.
  2. The more Paul rejoiced in God’s , and the more his experience of God’s grace filled him with unspeakable joy, the clearer was his consciousness that he was a saved .
  3. Never for a moment in this life can God’s child live in the full light of His love without understanding that the out of which he has been saved is his one only right and title to all that has promised to do.
  4. Our true place—the only place of , our one abiding position before God—must be that of those whose highest joy is to that they are sinners saved by grace.
  5. As expels disease, swallows up darkness, and as conquers death, so the indwelling of Christ through the Spirit is the health and light and life of the .
  6. The more abundant the experience of , the more intense the consciousness of being a . It is not sin, but God’s constantly reminding a man what a sinner he was, that will keep him truly .
  7. It is the of God, not only by the law condemning sin, but by His delivering us from it, that will make us humble.
  8. The law may break the heart with . But it is only grace that works the sweet that becomes a joy to the soul as its second nature.
  9. Not to be occupied with your , but to be occupied with, brings deliverance from self.
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CHAPTER 9
Humility and Faith

  1. Humility is simply the disposition that prepares the soul for living on .
  2. is the sense organ by which we perceive and understand the heavenly world and its blessings. seeks the glory that comes from God—that only comes where God is all.
  3. It is the that brings a soul to be nothing before God that also every hindrance to faith. Humility makes the soul that it would dishonor Him by not trusting Him wholly.
  4. Absolute, unceasing, universal humility must be the root disposition of every and every to God, as well as of every with our fellowman.
  5. Let our one desire and our fervent prayer be to be with Him and like Him. Let us gladly accept whatever can us before God or men—this alone is the path to the glory of God.
  6. Nothing can you of the desire to receive honor from men, or of the sensitivity and pain and anger that come when it is not given, except giving yourself to seek only the that comes from God. Let the glory of the all-glorious God be to you.
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CHAPTER 10
Humility and Death to Self

  1. Humility is the of which death to self is the perfect fruit. Humility must lead us to to self.
  2. Only humility leads to perfect . Only death perfects . Humility and death are in their very nature . Humility is the bud; in death the is ripened to perfection.
  3. Humility means the giving up of nothingness before God. In death Jesus gave the highest, the perfect of having given up His will to the will of God.
  4. The death to self is not work; it is work. In Christ you are dead to .
  5. If you want to enter into full fellowship with Christ in His death, and know the full deliverance from self, yourself. This is your one .
  6. every humiliation, look upon every person who tries your patience or irritates you as a means of to humble you. Use every opportunity of yourself before your fellowmen as a help to remain before God.
  7. Humble yourself to the point of . It is in the of self that humility is perfected. There must be a to self that proves itself to God and men in our dispositions and habits.
  8. Nature can never nature, not even with the help of grace. Self can never out self, even in the regenerate man.
  9. The death of Jesus, and , is our death to self. And the of Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit to communicate to us in power, and makes the power of the death-life our very own.
  10. Let a , loving, restful, humility be the sign that you have indeed your birthright— the baptism into the death of Christ.
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CHAPTER 11
Humility and Happiness

  1. The answer came that the thorn in Paul’s flesh was a ; that, in the weakness and humiliation it brought, the grace and of the Lord could be better manifested.
  2. Virtually every Christian passes through two stages in his of humility:
    A. He and and deliverance from all that can humble him.
    B. Humbling himself becomes the expression of a life and a nature that are essentially humble. It becomes his and only pleasure.
  3. The highest is the deepest humility. It does not come by itself, but only as it is made a matter of special on the part of our faithful Lord and His faithful servant.
  4. His made perfect in our weakness, His filling and satisfying our emptiness, becomes the secret of a humility that need never fail.
  5. The humble man has learned the secret of abiding . The weaker he feels, the lower he sinks, and the greater his humiliations appear, the more the and the presence of Christ are his portion.
  6. The of pride is greater and nearer than we think, especially at the time of our richest experiences.
  7. Christ will us and keep us humble. Let us heartily ; let us trustfully and accept all that humbles.
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CHAPTER 12
Humility and Exaltation

  1. Match the following:
    He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. A. James 4:10
    Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord B. 1 Peter 5:6
    Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God C. Luke 14:11
  2. Accept with gratitude everything that God allows from or without, from friend or , in nature or in , to remind you of your need of humbling, and to help you to it.
  3. All God’s dealings with man are characterized by two stages:
    A. There is the time of , when command and promise train and discipline men for a higher stage.
    B. Then comes the time of , when faith inherits the promise and enjoys what it had so often struggled for in vain.
  4. In all that concerns our redemption, must take the initiative.
  5. To every Christian the command comes from the throne of God Himself: .
  6. The law of human nature: acts produce , habits breed , dispositions form the , and the rightly-formed will is .
  7. The exaltation God promises is not, cannot be, any thing apart from Himself. All that He has to give or can give is only of Himself, to take more complete possession.
  8. If we are willing to to Him, as He has to us, He will yet to each one of us again, and we will find ourselves equally yoked with Him.
  9. As the all-pervading life of God possesses you, there will be nothing so and nothing so as to be nothing, with not a thought or wish for self, because all is occupied with Him who fills all.
  10. May God us to believe that to be humble, to be nothing in His presence, is the highest and the fullest blessing of the Christian life.
  11. Go to the church as the collector went to the temple. Stand inwardly in the of your mind in the form that he outwardly expressed when he cast down his eyes and could only say, “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Stand , at least in your desire, in this form or state of heart.
  12. For nothing is in , or without profit, to the soul. It stands always in a state of divine growth; everything that falls upon it is like a of heaven to it.
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NOTES

  1. N.1 The truth is this: pride must in you, or nothing of heaven can in you.
  2. N.2 Pride and humility are the two powers—the two kingdoms at for the eternal possession of man.
  3. N.3 The one true way of dying to self is the way of , meekness, humility, and to God.
  4. N.4 When the Lamb of God has brought forth a real birth of His own meekness, humility, and full resignation to God in our souls, then it is the of the Spirit of in our souls.

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Quotation Quiz

Answer the following as you review all the quotes given in this workbook’s sidebars:

  1. “Be humble or you’ll .”
  2. “It was that changed angels into devils; …makes men as angels.”
  3. “There is no room for God in him who is of .”
  4. “Being humble involves the willingness to be reckoned a in everyone’s sight but .”
  5. “He who knows himself esteems himself .”
  6. “After and , men grow humbler and wiser.”
  7. “The true way to be humble is…to at your real height against some nature that will show you what the real of your greatness is.”
  8. “A proud man is seldom a man, for he never thinks he as much as he .”
  9. “They that know will be humble: they that know themselves be proud.”
  10. “Humility is not thinking of yourself but thinking of yourself .”

WHO SAID IT? (The Scripture references in the green box below can help you).

1. “What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?” A. David
2. “I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed…” B. Isaiah
3. “Woe is me, for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips…” C. Mephibosheth
4. One mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose.” D. Joseph
5. “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” E. Peter
6. “It is not in me: God shall give…an answer of peace.” F. John the Baptist

Match the following statement with the Scripture (KJV) that most precisely teaches the truth:

1. The Lord respects the lowly, but knows the proud afar off A. Philippians 2:8-9
2. Shame comes with pride; wisdom with the lowly B. Proverbs 16:18
3. Humility comes before honor. C. James 4:10
4. Pride goes before destruction; a haughty spirit before a fall. D. Proverbs 27:2
5. An humble spirit with the lowly is better than dividing spoil with the proud. E. Proverbs 16:19
6. High looks and proud hearts = sin. F. Philippians 2:3
7. Don’t praise yourself; let someone else, even a stranger, do that. G. Proverbs 15:33, 18:12
8. Pride brings you down; honor holds up the humble in spirit. H. Psalm 138:6
9. God revives the spirit of the humble and the heart of the contrite. I. Isaiah 57:15
10. Jesus: He that humbles himself shall be exalted. J. Proverbs 29:23
11. Christians should esteem others better than themselves. K. 1 Peter 5:5
12. God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. L. James 4:6
13. Jesus humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death. M. Matthew 23:12
14. Humble yourselves in the Lord’s sight, and He shall lift you up. N. Proverbs 21:4
15. Be clothed with humility. O. Proverbs 11:2

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