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2. The Peace Chronicles Part III: The X-Factors For Personal Peace Pastor Joe Pursch Chinese Grace Bible Church Sunday, June 24, 2012

3. The Peace Chronicles Part III: The X-Factors For Personal Peace Pastor Joe Pursch Chinese Grace Bible Church Sunday, June 24, 2012

4. 06.24.2012 4 I Peter 5:5-7 (ESV) 5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

5. 06.24.2012 5 I Peter 5:5-7 (ESV) 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

6. 06.24.2012 6 I.The First X-Factor: Humility With ________ Others

7. 06.24.2012 7 I Peter 5:5 (ESV) 5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

8. 06.24.2012 8 John 13:3-5 (ESV) 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

9. 06.24.2012 9 John 13:3-5 (ESV) 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.

10. 06.24.2012 10 John 13:3-5 (ESV) 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

11. 06.24.2012 11 James 4:6 (ESV) 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

12. 06.24.2012 12 1 Samuel 15:14-16 (ESV) 14 And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?”

13. 06.24.2012 13 1 Samuel 15:14-16 (ESV) 15 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”

14. 06.24.2012 14 1 Samuel 15:14-16 (ESV) 16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

15. 06.24.2012 15 II.The Second X-Factor: Humility Before ______ God

16. 06.24.2012 16 I Peter 5:6 (ESV) 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

17. 06.24.2012 17 Isaiah 57:15 (ESV) 15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a

18. 06.24.2012 18 Isaiah 57:15 (ESV) contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

19. 06.24.2012 19 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (ESV) 7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

20. 06.24.2012 20 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (ESV) 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.

21. 06.24.2012 21 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (ESV) 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

22. 06.24.2012 22 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (ESV) 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

23. 06.24.2012 23 Matthew 16:21-23 (ESV) 21 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

24. 06.24.2012 24 Matthew 16:21-23 (ESV) 22 And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.”

25. 06.24.2012 25 Matthew 16:21-23 (ESV) 23 But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”

26. 06.24.2012 26 III.The Third X-Factor: Humility Under ___________ Pressures

27. 06.24.2012 27 I Peter 5:5 (ESV) 5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

28. 06.24.2012 28 Psalm 55:22 (ESV) 22 Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

29. 06.24.2012 29 Matthew 6:33 (ESV) 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

30. 06.24.2012 30 Philippians 4:5-7 (ESV) 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

31. 06.24.2012 31 Philippians 4:5-7 (ESV) 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

32. 06.24.2012 32 Hebrews 5:7 (ESV) 7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

33. 06.24.2012 33 Psalm 51:17 (ESV) 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.