Do you notice how in Bible teaching God deals with us as wise parents treat little children? Whatever measures of holiness the Christian attains to, he must always remember that by the grace of God he is what he is. Illustration: On a visit to a museum in Bonn, a young American student became fascinated by the piano on which Beethoven had composed some of his greatest works. You have almost obtained mercy when you have fully submitted to justice. Instead of sulkiness, there should be cheerful compliance; instead of envy, generousness; instead of paltry pride, the dignity of humility; instead of fitfulness, patience; instead of insubordination, Christian submission. Do not think that you understand all divinity. (2) A proper estimate of our moral condition will express itself appropriately towards our fellow men. Therefore the first thing is to rectify this. We must go at once to the First Cause; or else we dishonour God under every trial.2. Jesus shows us the Father Himself taking care of the fowls of the air, of sheep and oxen, and of the little fibres of our bodily frames. Oh, what a change in men's notions and feelings would be effected if the poverty of Joseph the carpenter's son were more before them, and if they lived more as in His presence and under His eye. III. Now there is a due time for both these. What it is, in humbling circumstances, to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God. And then let the thought of His special love to you be the very essence of your comfort. Will such greatness stoop to such littleness? Our riches? 1. And this David limits in a more particular manner to good men: "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee; He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.". Their evidences are clouded. Anxiety, according to its derivation, is that which distracts and racks the mind, and answers better to the original word, Which signifies a dividing thing, something which distracts the heart and separates it from God. And how sweet is this! Nothing can affect them which does not affect Himself. In social life, the husband is the head of the wife; parents have authority over children; masters over servants. What infant feels alarmed when its mother's hand is upon it?II. The “flesh” may be defined as that strong and rebellious disposition in people to operate out of their own resources to meet their needs and wants, the things they perceive they must have for security and significance. 6. You trust the matter entirely to me. 1. But how easily he may pass across the line which leads to over-solicitude I Look, again, to the mother of a family. And then there is exaltation to the throne of glory. He is a better man, a more efficient man, by humbling himself under God's hand and letting God take care of him. I beseech thee, cast this care upon God for He careth for you. Huntington.The first difficulty in ridding ourselves of irreligious care is in distinguishing it from that better kind of care which is a duty. "Yes." Attention is an advantage; anxiety is an evil. In the pride of leaning on our own strategies, we too often run ahead. It could not have come to me without a "mighty hand." [13] But rejoice insofar as you are sharing Christ's sufferings, so that you may also be glad and shout for joy when his glory is revealed. The Jewish Church on many a dark and cloudy day entered into the spirit of our text. For holiness, or, in other words, conformity to the image of the Saviour, is alone true greatness. (3) Cast all your burdens on the Lord, and both hope and quietly wait for His time and manner of deliverance.(A. It could not have come to me without a "mighty hand." Secondly, I proceed to a more particular view of the point. The text prescribes our BEHAVIOUR IN SUFFERING, AND SUGGESTS THE STRONGEST MOTIVES FOR THE ADOPTION AND PURSUIT OF SUCH CONDUCT. The general rule is (1 Peter 5:5). Unbelief is, in a sense, an exalting of self against God in that one is depending upon self and failing to trust God. It contributes to one's ease under the cross (Matthew 11:30; Lamentations 3:27-29). The Search OF the Savior: Why Jesus Came, Part 1 (Luke 19:1-10), Bible Storying Series - Teaching The Story Of God Chronologically. Birrell. Do not be so vain as to dictate to God how you ought to be saved. My Father who is in heaven stands waiting to be my burden bearer.1. But no one who has accurately watched the working of any affliction upon his own or another's heart will say this. We think, if I just had this or that, I would be secure, or significant, or satisfied. THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF PRIDE. So far as even many professing Christians are concerned, the text might have run thus: "Casting your great cares upon God, and so far as daily cares are concerned, do the best you can to bear them." Into that trial and battle and storm all the brotherhood, even the great elder Brother, have gone. "the hand of God." 1. It is a burden, and it has also a sting. 1. Then sink lower down. Let the young labour for this. (3) Never humbled in humbling circumstances, never lifted up in the way of this promise. ", I. Check out these helpful resources Biblical Commentary Sermons Children's Sermons Hymn Lists 1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11 Why Does God Allow Suffering? That God taketh care of us, implies in general that the providence of God governs the world and concerns itself in the affairs of men and disposeth of all events that happen to us.2. Come before God a criminal, in the prison dress, with the rope about your neck. What they will get, getting this lifting up promised to the humbled. What is humility? A divided trust between God and the creature is as foolish and unsafe as to set one foot upon a rock and the other upon a quicksand. H. Spurgeon.I. In all things He consults the spiritual good of His children. Ah! 2. Weak must be that faith, and little must that mind have learned of the nature of its Creator, which can observe that He dispenses His bounty in such abundance through all the works of His hands, and still entertain the secret thought that His love is exhausted on the minutest objects, and that there is nothing in reserve for the sons of men.2. Whatever nominal distinctions are recognised in the world, humility will feel that God has made of one blood all nations that dwell upon the earth. "Perfect;" no deficiency or defect. What if you be undeserving! But with this inevitable submission there may be great pride of heart, expressing itself in murmuring and unholy rebellion; expressing itself in sinful efforts to get away from the suffering and in a determination not to realise it, and not to be thoroughly loyal in our thoughts and feelings as to our circumstances. And it carries a line of wisdom through one's whole conduct (Proverbs 11:2), "With the lowly is wisdom." That after all prudent care and diligence have been used by us, we should not be farther solicitous about the event of things which, when we have done all we can, will be out of our power.2. Learn how foolish and arrogant those persons are who trust for safety and success in themselves, independently of God; who rely on their own wisdom, talents, or exertions.2. The first was only a difference in respect to essence, but the last is a difference in respect to character. (3) Of contradiction. H. Spurgeon.I. Summerfield, M. To this grace we may apply these words of the prophet, "It taketh root downward and beareth fruit upward" (Isaiah 37:31), and the deeper the root is laid, the larger and fairer will the fruit be. How Aliens Keep the Identity of Their Homeland. 1. Now, here in this text we have God's own remedy, for, observe, it is not "some of your cares," or "your great cares," but "all your care. )The mighty hand of GodJ. (b) Observing what these circumstances do require of you as suitable to them. 1. Pride is the position of a swollen estimate of one’s own powers, resources, and abilities which causes us in turn to ignore God in one way or another. Peter exulted that God reigned, and yearned for him to have empire that was universal and perpetual, and acknowledged by all with the "Amen," not only of all men, but of all the powers in every man. And yet not a few men have had the sense or the grace to see the true state of the case in time, and to swallow pride, and frankly to confess weakness by retiring from a place for which they were unfit. "Well," said the king, "you take care of my business, and I will take care of yours. Suppose you were to weep all night, will that keep your ship from going on the Goodwin sands? Just imagine that when you and I were going on learning our lessons, doing our work, exercising our skill here on the earth, and proud of our knowledge, our strength, and our skill — just suppose that suddenly Omniscience towered up above our knowledge, and Omnipotence above our strength, and the Infinite Wisdom stood piercing out of the sight of our ignorant and baffled skill. This is what Pharaoh did and Ahaz. THERE IS A DUE TIME WHEREIN THOSE THAT NOW HUMBLE THEMSELVES UNDER THE MIGHTY HAND OF GOD WILL CERTAINLY BE LIFTED UP. He maybe prostrated by heavy grief for a little time, but he soon springs up when the sun shines again. 3. Come before God a criminal, in the prison dress, with the rope about your neck. But the girdle or overall of the slave to which St. Peter alludes was his natural dress. Whereupon the proud frog opened his mouth to say, “It was I.” Needless to say, that was not only the end of the journey for the frog, but also the end of the frog. It is to trust our heavenly Father with ourselves and all our concerns. It stands for human resources rather than God’s resources. Indeed, what fellow creatures can we find who have not enough of their own to bear? It is, after all, a suffering together. III. Motive1. And, just to the degree in which that feeling has mastered him, his thought and faith have become divided from God. Serve Me, and I will serve you."5. to what Peter writes in 1 Peter 4: 12-14, 5: 6-11 (NRSV) [12] Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time." If you want to find the highest ecstasy that man's spirit ever reached, it is the Christian saint exulting in his God. He is not a rigid exacter of the things to which he has an undoubted right; he can overlook many faults; he is not greatly provoked at those slights which put vain persons out of all patience. 5. You will have to lift with all your soul before the burden can be shifted; that effort, however, will not be half so exhausting as the effort of carrying your load yourself. That is very much like being ashamed of Christ. Consider —(a) The doctrines of the Word which teach faith and hope for the time, and the happy issue the exercise of these graces will have. The whole country is transformed into fairyland, and Aladdin's cave is outdone by each patch of scrubby oak trees. That applies not only to how people respond to the likes of a Beethoven, but also to how all of us should respond to God. A proud man will neither learn anything from his neighbour nor receive anything from his God. It may also be remarked that the temptation to pride, and consequently the exercise of humility, has very much to do with a comparative view of ourselves and others. The course of God's Providence, as a general rule, does (as a matter of fact) keep back the proud from positions of eminence. (5) There is an appointed time for the lifting up of those that humble themselves in their humbling circumstances (Habakkuk 2:3). (4) Of affliction (Proverbs 16:19). Now, God having placed us in these circumstances of inferiority, all refractoriness is a rising up against His mighty hand (Romans 13:2). (3) Of contradiction. God gives His people some notable liftings up, even in time raising them out of remarkable humbling circumstances. Pride begets anxiety. (1) Assure yourselves that there are no circumstances so humbling that you are in, but you may get your heart acceptably brought down to them (1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9). THE ARGUMENT WHICH THE APOSTLE HERE USETH TO PERSUADE US TO THIS DUTY of casting all our care upon God, because it is He that eateth for us. We are to submit to the Divine dispensations which operate in the way of moral discipline. Pray God to break you down with deep penitence. Somebody must carry these cares. (4) Observe the providence of God in the dispensations of His grace towards His children. This is the way in which we are to be lights to it add salt in it. The Jewish Church on many a dark and cloudy day entered into the spirit of our text. (1) The nature of God, duly considered, insures it (Psalm 103:8, 9). You ought to do it not only for this reason, but because it is such a great privilege to be able to cast your care upon God. In the Church, emphatically, we are to "humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God."4. Religion is the only source from which true comfort can be drawn, and we see her triumphs manifested in the most remarkable manner when the faithful servant of God is overwhelmed with trouble. Raise the proud man to the throne itself; and he holds his peace of mind at the mercy of any crowd that may raise the shout, "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.". I am reminded of the picture of the arm and hammer on a baking soda box with the implicit promise that this product will do the job, but the arm of the flesh will not (Jer. A removal of their humbling circumstances. So he asserted the true condition of a society while he took down the conceit of its separate members; so he exalted each of these members in the very act of depressing him. Oar people learn much from our conduct, and if they see us fretting they will be certain to do the same. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. God will not only raise the humble ones, but He will lift them up on high; for so the word signifies.I. Yet the temptation frequently comes to lay it aside, or to give way to a temper which makes it impossible to wear it. The pride tended to the failure, no doubt: but where other disqualifications rendered success impossible, the self-conceit alleviated the mortification of failure. “Humble and Vigilant” from 1 Peter 5:6-11. Upon some His hand is lifted up in a way which is only known to themselves and to their God. We must first examine the object of our desire, whether it be good in itself and fit for us; whether it be subservient to our spiritual interest; and if not, we must neither cast the care of it upon God nor keep it to ourselves, but throw it away altogether.1. Spurgeon. 3. Humble yourselves in respect of your spirits, and God will raise you up in respect of your lot; and they that have God engaged for raising them, have no reason to say they have none to do it for them.Obj. 1. Sometimes that lifting up may occur in this life as we experience God’s encouragement, deliverance, or success in our work or ministry—but sometimes not until in the life to come. Therefore it is all-important, in every trial that comes upon you, nationally or individually, that you should at once see — not natural causes, not even the scourge itself — but only "the hand of God" is upon you. The chief reward will be bestowed in the world to come.(S. The Revised Version has brought out a very important distinction by the substitution of "anxiety" for "care." Is it not renouncing the vesture of humility, and finding plausible excuses for the pride that is so ready to assert itself? And it is the death of Christ for us, the preciousness that He saw in our souls making them worthy of that awful sacrifice, it is that which lets us see our own soul as He sees it in its possibility, and so lets us see it in its reality as He sees it too, and put our pride away and be humble. (1) Assure yourselves that there are no circumstances so humbling that you are in, but you may get your heart acceptably brought down to them (1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9). 2:19-25). He addresseth believers in Christ Jesus, "who loved Him though unseen," whom he distinguished as "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people." Some things supposed in this. For this exaltation there is a season of which God can only judge. All things are not good, but because God’s hand is mighty and because He is faithful and full of wisdom, He is able to work things together for good, the good of conforming us into the character of Christ. But God by affliction calls men down from their heights to sit in the dust, plucks away their jay feathers wherein they prided themselves, rubs the paint and varnish from off the creature, whereby it appears more in its native deformity. Sermon Bible Commentary. Martin. God compels rivers, oceans, in their courses, etc., but calls souls to their high destiny. A decision given against him meant ruin. He can take the burden, however heavy. And there are the religious claims that press upon us. Motive1. 3. (1) Patience in respect to God consisteth in a quiet submission to His afflictive providences without murmuring. Already, so far as character is concerned, God has lifted you up. What are these humbling circumstances the mighty hand brings them into? The worldly spirit either repines under misfortune, or is disconsolate; or, at the best, bears up with a mere animal fortitude; it finds no comfort but such as is afforded by the vain world. Nay, with reference to the whole subject of self-respect this seems to be true, that the only salvation from an admiration of our own present condition, which is pride, is to be found in a profound respect for the best possibility and plan of our being, which involves humility. Weak must be that faith, and little must that mind have learned of the nature of its Creator, which can observe that He dispenses His bounty in such abundance through all the works of His hands, and still entertain the secret thought that His love is exhausted on the minutest objects, and that there is nothing in reserve for the sons of men. Our encouragement, even as intimated in this one verse, is great. If you would live without anxious care, and would maintain habitual trust in God amidst the dangers and trials of life, look on this life as your pilgrimage, and long for heaven as your home. If ye do not, ye resist the mighty hand of God (Acts 7:51). Note the next words: "Upon Him." Some things supposed in this. But it is easier to speak in general terms about our "casting care on God" than it is to explain precisely what it involves. The tradesman who is not able to leave his business with God, may be tempted to indulge in the tricks of trade; nay, he may be prevailed upon to put out an unholy hand with which to help himself. He is humbling us. To east all your care upon God implies a full and unsuspecting dependence upon His wisdom and goodness; such a dependence as quiets the mind, disposing it to wait patiently upon God, and to accept with thankfulness whatsoever He is pleased to appoint.(R. Many motives might be suggested. A person conducting his own business must give it attention, or it will cover him with dishonour. In the discharge of duty, in prosperity and adversity, in circumstances of perplexity, or in all our plans for the future, we shall not lean to our own understanding, nor rely upon our own strength, but rather trust in the Lord with our whole hearts, we shall acknowledge Him in all our ways, and look up to Him for the direction of our steps. His care cannot be quite like ours. 1 Peter 4:1-6 Living Like Christ in an Unbelieving World. (NASB). Humility is a fitting response to greatness. "If Shimei curse, let him curse, for God hath sent him." Tomorrow is in God’s hands. Cyrus played only with those more skilful than himself, lest he should shame them by his victory, that he might learn something of them, and do them civilities.(J. He is intent upon exalting you. (4) Of affliction (Proverbs 16:19). Lastly, make use of Christ in all His offices for your humiliation, under your humbling circumstances. If we let our spirit fall, we will lie always among folks' feet, and they will trample on us. Nehemiah and Ezra repeatedly acknowledge the Divine aid which was vouchsafed in these words, "according to the good hand of God upon us." Let us put these first — the kingdom of God and His righteousness. When St. Austin was asked what was the first grace of a Christian, he answered, humility: what the second, humility: what the third, humility. What are the characteristic feelings and what the corresponding acts which a profound humility produces in our intercourse with God? And what is pride? Grace is free. They get the lifting up together with the interest for the time they lay out of it. (b) The promises of the Word whereby Heaven is expressly engaged for a lifting up to those that humble themselves in humbling circumstances (James 4:10; Matthew 23:12). The guard agreed and the girl went to the piano and played a short portion of Moonlight Sonata. )Cast care on GodR. There is need of a digging deep for a thorough humiliation in the work of conversion (Luke 6:48). There are our business and family claims.3. The birches bowed their backs, but sprang up again when the burden was removed. HUMILITY. Try to think of that man as having a whole world within him, unknown to you, unknown to him, which is yet a more wonderful world than this which his eyes and yours look upon; nearer to the centre from which this external one receives its light and heat. "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God." Transformational Worship: 2 Corinthians 3:18. As yet he has been victorious, but he trembles lest he should one day fall by the hand of the enemy. Pray God to break you down with deep penitence. A heart-satisfying answer of these prayers, so as they shall not only get the thing, but see they have it as an answer of prayer; and they will put a double value on the mercy (1 Samuel 2:1).4. Sermon A Survival Kit for Tough Times. A young lady had consecrated herself to the work of missions, and was about to go to India. Care to us is sinful, but God's care of us is holy. It is the most productive of all sins (Hebrews 2:5; Psalm 10:2; Proverbs 13:10). THE DISEASE OF CARE.1. These are the reckless. Learn that equally foolish and arrogant is confidence in the arm of flesh, or placing your trust in fellow mortals.3. Use your most earnest endeavours, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God; if you cannot do one thing do another; if you cannot earn your bread as a gentleman earn it as a poor man; if you cannot earn it by the sweat of your brains do it by the sweat of your brow; sweep a crossing if you cannot do anything else, for if a man will not work neither let him eat; but having brought yourself to that, if still every door is shut, "Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.". In John 10:29 it denotes His mighty power to preserve and defend. Open with me this morning to the book of 1 Peter 5:6-11. 2. I have realised that my blessed Saviour 'bore the huge burden away'; but it is the little cares of every day life." She went, intending to sail for India immediately on her return; but she found the sister dying with consumption, and without proper attendance; and once more she waited until the end came. If we are humble, it will be a pleasing thought to us, that God has unlimited control over us, that we owe everything to Him, and that He has an indisputable right to order our affairs according to the good pleasure of His will. 5. This humility will show itself next in this — that we shall be willing to be ignored of men.4. (6) A holy and silent admiration of the ways and counsels of God, as to us unsearchable (Romans 11:33). There He reminds us that if God so looks after the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, how much more will He not care for us as our heavenly Father. Another consideration here suggested is that all resistance is vain: "the mighty hand of God" is uncontrollable. There is the care to love and serve Him better; the care to understand His Word; the care to preach it to His people; the care to experience His fellowship; the care so to walk that you shall not vex the Holy Spirit. (1 Peter … His love for you involves this. 2. But His aim is to exalt your entire humanity, to lift it up in all its states, and in all conditions. It was an everlasting one. It goes on to tell that we can be saved only by entire dependence on another. Such humbling, if Scripture is to be believed, is the way to exaltation: "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Now the merchant before he went away said to the king, "My own business requires all my care, and though I am always willing to be your majesty's servant, yet if I attend to your business as I ought, I am sure my own will be ruined." But there is a class of cases where anxiety is clearly prompted by self-interest, vanity, and worldly ambition. Now there is a due time for both these.3. "Yes." The Apostle Paul, for instance, spok… 1. See what He is preparing for you in heaven, will He not enable you to bear the burdens of this present life? This is the philosophy of reverence and humility as enrichers of life and mainsprings of activity. Why should we not be as calm as the sailor boy in the wild storm who knew that "his father held the helm"? We can only magnify Him by a calm faith which leans upon His Word.(C. 1. Use your best endeavours, and I will answer for it that you shall be nothing the loser for the zeal which you take from yourself to give to me." TO ENFORCE the text. Therefore it is all-important, in every trial that comes upon you, nationally or individually, that you should at once see — not natural causes, not even the scourge itself — but only "the hand of God" is upon you. Davis. And consider —1. The humiliation of our spirits will not take effect without our own agency therein; for He works on us as rational agents, who being moved, move themselves (Philippians 2:12, 13).3. But sure we will never rise high if we let our spirits fall. High is the roof there, but the gate is low. 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