What does it mean to be humble? What is the definition of humbleness? When are you a humble person according to the Bible? The image that most Christians have about Biblical humility (humbleness) and what a humble Christian should look like is often not in agreement with the Bible; the Word of God and how God defines a humble person. As soon as a born again believer arises, who walks after the Spirit in the truth of God’s Word and walks after the volja Božja and doesn’t compromise with the world and doesn’t please people, but preaches the message of repentance and the remissions of sins (Luke 24:47) and isn’t afraid to stand up and speak the truth of God and confront believers with their evil works, so that they will pokajati se and turn to God, onda se često puta nanovo rođenog vjernika smatra nepoštivanjem, nepristojan, neljubeći, besmislen, nekršćanski, a ponekad čak i diskriminirajući. Ne, u očima većine kršćana nanovo rođeni vjernik uopće nije ponizan, ali je pun ponosa.
What does it mean to be humble?
Prema mišljenju mnogih ljudi, ponizni kršćanin je osoba, tko je sladak, skroman, usamljen, koristan, bavi se dobrotvornim radom, gradi mostove i pravi kompromise kako bi održao mir i jedinstvo, živi po volji ljudi, i podložiti im se. Osoba je japanka, koji koristi laskave riječi da bi udovoljio ljudima i da bi svi ostali prijatelji i ne sukobljava se s nikim, ali umjesto toga sve dopušta i tolerira (uključujući te stvari, koji se protive Božjoj riječi), jer svi jesu i ostaju grješnik i stoga ne smijete suditi niti osuđivati tuđa djela.
But is that true? Does humbleness mean, that you should allow, tolerirati, and accept everything, uključujući grijeh, and be a flip-flopper? Does humbleness mean, that you should compromise with the world, including strange religions and human philosophies, in order to keep the peace and create a (lažan) unity?
The false humility of carnal Christians
False humility occurs more among Christians than one thinks. Dali si znao, that the most humble persons are often the most prideful persons? Because every person, who speaks and lives after the will of the carnal mind, which is formed by the wisdom and knowledge of the world and doesn’t yield to the will of God, is according to the Word prideful. Because the person exalts himself/herself above God and His Word.
Zato, a person may look humble before the eyes of people, by doing charity works, yielding to people, pleasing people by saying what they want to hear, being a flip-flopper, approving and tolerating everything, but as long as a person doesn’t want to listen and submit to God, riječ, i Duh Sveti, then the person is full of pride and walks in false humility.
The humility of born again Christians
True humility means yielding to God, Isus (riječ), i Duh Sveti, and living after His will. Humbleness doesn’t have anything to do with a visible pious attitude and by keeping all kinds of religious rules in the presence of others, but it has everything to do withposlušnost Bogu i Njegova želja.
A humble believer loves God above all and yields to the Word, by doing what the Word says to do. A humble believer is not only someone, who listens to the Word but is by the renewing of the mind a doer of the Word and therefore walks as the novo stvaranje by faith.
The believer believes in the Word and is obedient to the Word and does what the Word says, and doesn’t deviate from the Word. Because the believer loves the Word and yields to God and His rulership instead of yielding to the world.
God resists the proud but gives grace unto the humble
Wherefore He saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:6-7)
God will give grace to those, who listen to Him and do what He tells to do and yield to Him and His Word. To znači, da su oni, who live according to the will of God are redeemed and saved and receive eternal life. They will not walk after the will of the devil and sin, but resist the temptations of the devil, by walking after God’s will. But you have to become Ponovno rođen prvi.
Because the character of the devil, including pride, is present in the flesh, and therefore the flesh must first die, before the spirit can be raised from the dead and a person can walk in humbleness after God’s will
The flesh is rebellious and resists everything, that is written in the Bible. The flesh doesn’t want to yield to God and His will and Word, and therefore it is impossible to stay carnal and live after the flesh, and doing God’s will and please Him (Rimljani 8:5-8).
Because a carnal believer, tko hodi za tijelom vođen je tijelom i hodi za voljom tijela i tjelesnim umom, i stoga hoda po čemu (s)on želi, percipira, osjeća i tijelo zapovijeda činiti.
Stoga, svatko, koji hoda za tijelom je ponosan. Jer one, koji su tjelesni i vođeni svojim tijelom vođeni su vlastitom voljom, osjećaji, emocije, percepcije, mišljenje, i nalaze i oslanjaju se na vlastite osjećaje, sposobnost, tjelesni um, mudrost, i znanje i ne pokoravajte se Riječi, budući da Riječ ide protiv njihove volje, osjećaji, emocije, mišljenja, tjelesni um, mudrost, i znanja.
Kršćanin, tko hodi za tijelom uzdiže se iznad Boga jer (s)on to misli (s)on sve to bolje zna i sve može bolje, i stoga odbija kroz svoje vlastite riječi i djela, Bog i Njegova Riječ.
Zato, toliko vjernika nastavlja živjeti u grijeh and stay rebellious and refuse to submit to God and put away the sins from their lives, because they love their flesh more than they love God. They don’t care about the Word and are not willing to yield to God’s will and therefore many are puffed up in their carnal minds and walk in pride and exalt themselves above God and His wisdom.
The pride of the devil led to his fall and therefore the pride, which is present in the lives of his sons; the grešnici, who belong to the fallen generation, will also lead to their fall, namely the second death. Because they have rejected God and His will and Word, and instead followed and honored their father the devil on this earth, by living after njegova volja in sins, stoga će i oni biti odbačeni od Boga i dobiti istu nagradu kao njihov otac.
‘Budi sol zemlje’
