Blueprint for Building Strong Faith by Kenneth Hagin Jr

Author:Kenneth Hagin Jr.
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-03T16:45:48+00:00

Chapter 5

IF YOU’RE PROUD; YOU’RE PROUD

Fifth: You must have humility.

A lot of people are proud of their humility!

I've met a lot of people across the country who are bragging that they are "faith people." Their attitude is, "If you're not where we're at, you haven't got it, brother."

As far as I'm concerned, this is a sectarian point of view. It is not biblical.

The disciples got into this same attitude in Luke 9. They got prideful and puffed up. When a child was brought to them they couldn't cast the tough, stubborn, unclean spirit out of him (v. 40).

Jesus explained to the disciples that this kind comes out only by prayer and fasting.

They lacked humility and discipline. This hindered their faith.

The disciples had not been able to understand Christ's conversation regarding His imminent death on the Cross. They were looking for the Kingdom of God to be set up on earth then and there. And as we read further in Luke, we see other reasons why the disciples could not perform this great miracle.

They began to discuss their own importance (v. 46). They began to argue over who was going to sit where in the coming kingdom! They even asked the

Lord about it: "Can I sit here, Lord?" They were building themselves up. "Look who we are! We’re somebody!"

They even began to talk about who was greatest in the kingdom! Notice their spiritual poverty in the following verses:

LUKE 9:49,50

49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.

50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

So we see a sectarian spirit rising among the disciples. "Hey—you’re not with us!" they said. "You quit that! You’re not part of our little group." But Jesus said, "... Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us" (Luke 9:50).

Notice something else. Immediately after this, we find the disciples accompanying Jesus into a town that would receive neither Him nor His message.

When James and John saw this, they were furious. They asked hopefully, "... Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?" (Luke 9:54).

Jesus immediately rebuked this kind of spirit. He told the disciples, "... the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them" (Luke 9:56).

Some people have thought they have a monopoly on the gifts of God. The devil has used this kind of thinking to destroy, divide, and split apart the real move of the power of God.

We need to be humble before God—but I'm not talking about being a doormat. I'm talking about realizing that we would not be where we are today without the grace and love of God.

Sometimes we preachers get the idea that if people aren't ministered to under our ministry, they aren't going to get helped. But sometimes it's laypeople, not ministers, who promote this idea.

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