McCracken Sermon, 1961-01-29, Self-Deprecation: Its Cause And Cure

critics just taken from the balkans all the prophet is a hero the second chapter in the first birds and he said to me son of man stand upon your seat and i will speak with you when those words when addressed to use a cue he was prostrate on his face a vision all the holiness and majesty you will have overwhelmed he felt that only in an attitude all profound humiliation and a basement at listen to what brought you had to say there are numerous

passages in the bible which describes the servants of god as they're called came to them following in consternation to the ground affirming agri business and incompetence moses and joshua i sat and jeremiah and in the new testament song on their own to damascus and the ceo of petraeus whom when oh that glorify christ cash on him was so overcome with a spine that while there isn't long but he failed at his feet as

though big to become a way out all the divine presence to listen to the solemn imperatives of the almighty used to be the depot is reverence and with penitential all instinctively we bow our hands and bend our knees charles lamb in a gate fence say with some friends as the role he and they should feel if the greatest of the day and where to appear suddenly in flesh and blood once more on the final suggestion and if christ into

this romo changed his manner that one sense pam and as his custom was when moved you see if shakespeare and third we should all rise if he appeared we must kneel with that i take it everybody agrees old man when he appealed with the king of kings watch over oil every in the most bio and yet it was when his each he'll lay prostrate before the morning but he had a look on mine son of man stand up on your feet and i will speak with you i

was there was his appeasement to finalize and was he taking to abject of view of himself apparently so how otherwise are we to interpret the injunction that he should stand erect before the war to not only his base but on his feet not in a crash ranging attitude bike upright cutting his head high not lying as though did by standing up to it conscious all vocation and mission already and eighty two to be a servant of the most high it is the man you were hit

men in full possession of these faculty and and problems with whom god will have fellowship and tune he will speak god wants to employee is the keel not as a tool but as an agent not as an echo but as a voice not as a fun hearing but as a free and she no what are you and me sheriff respect is necessary all right for christian character and for christian service popular in an area day was a game with the lines or to be nothing nothing simply don't lie at his feet a broken and kong upright vessel on the masters

us made meat no doubt that this new that was ceo and grains that must say oma so we're within the prison's walls blow for all that most of us i imagined react to let him as grandson of labrador reacted he said he could never bring himself to sing or to be nothing nothing that instead what he wanted to sing was or to be something something amanda wants to be something is as self respecting person he believes that he has lead to meet with an incapacity for service and andy makes an offering to barbara of what he has he believes that it is his

duty to make the most of himself in auto further his own nest of love than his own interests but for the sake of others the community the city in the nation and for the glory of god an old scottish weaver was accustomed every morning to pray lauren to teach me to respect myself for a staunch presbyterian mentioned and a creed does either inbound us calvinism up leading lane tremendous emphasis on the sinfulness of man and the sovereignty of god it was a singular petition to address to the almighty nevertheless it was a soundman

and christian the question arises know what is the proper degree of self respect every election has its kindred grace gentleness weakness dignity and sort of thrift and miserly nurse writes a slice and self righteousness self respect is at a disadvantage because persistently it is confused with conceit but conceded person is a poor strains patients to the breaking point is vanity is all sense of self respecting person is knocked her out because he knew him humility goes

hand in hand with self reverence trouble is that the nature of humility is orlando monday and miss can see there's no self depreciation in any humility bernstein of the thriller monica would be posing if he pretended that he knew only a little about music such a genius must must know all his mosque thirty of his subject he must know more than that he must know that probably not many people in the way that as musically gifted as he has a wind up those being the facts of the case to be humble you do not have to be an object do you ever feel when you hear

someone despite seeing himself that it is alarming very good for most for it but much of what is called much of what is miss called humility especially the sale of decrying tendency is the result of self obsession the mind terry in on its sales morbidly chronic depression and despondency our claim and again look on sitcoms also alas every kid trying to people disappointed in themselves are frequently people wounded in that vanity and enter it parade is know who most surely not by its swagger but by its height

times since its edited by its own readiness to tickle famous phrase i came across years ago an aerodrome comes to mind cotton seek without pay act human i think this is the thing to keep in mind humility stems from self forgetful mess and what i think cause for emphasis is that i genuinely humble person can take the measure of his own gifts as objectively as he takes the measure of these neighborhood his gifts but he doesn't watch all premium so far treat super seriously those who seemed to him to be less gifted he is free from any bias in his own favor i emphasize the

word bias because when all is said and done what his humility but a sense of proportion a sense of reality well the medieval it's because they're going in on a twenty year old reason why claudia so great a love of humanity is because he is the great lover of troops humility is nothing but while breyer is nothing but lie and our famous passage john roskam maintain that the fast paced all the great man is is human rights and he doesn't doubt his own power you know education and speaking his own mind you not only knows it's a business he knows that you know so

he's not only a right in his meal the news but usually it's confident but is write in name only only he does not think much of themselves on that account rustin's illustrations as i call them may suggest others from your own fields of interest and the clintons are no no it's it can build in florence you're going to be on leigh grand tour of europe this summer and director for arms are more clothes ballooned and ceo of it was about your series family to what was found fault with his work it cannot be done better

said isaac newton knows that he has worked out the problem are two that would have puzzled a house only they do not expect their fellow man that far to fall down and worship them they have a curious sense of powerlessness feeling that the pilot is not living but some rule them but they could not do or be anything else the lawmaking and they see something designed and brought me in every other man they meet and that endlessly foolishly encourage italy most of them don't you agree with me that such self respect is an attractive plot to the person who has it is freed from any semblance of

civility he feels no need north towards all of trying to ingratiate himself is never enough latimer i tell you seven what the bible calls a man please he doesn't operate himself neither does he under eight himself the us did as measure is against his capacity has tattoos on his own three events tomorrow for his individuality and broad makes a man he breaks them all a self respecting person believes that that he has his own niche tissue is oren particular task to perform and that brought them

make more use of the money is we run on his face or something yet particularly for young who are crying expedience and conviction and a lot to be on the way to mental and more independence that comes alive in the time of that comes a time and they like solve every young person when it isn't that it that he should work out his own principles apply in his own preferences following his own judgments very needy the tiny himself in the face of opposition to discover its native talents and having to say the good god for them to cede i'm selfishly to make the fullest use

awful teenagers it tightens give the impression of being drenched <unk> sure of themselves mostly as saladin does moving novel catcher in the rye brings out mostly liza sufis quality is underneath underneath that is fiat's misgiving insecurity self despite not that correctly sense of deficiency soul that every teen ager should really march inwardly digest emerson's essay on self reliance russo will be a man must be a nonconformist and then know all his own work and keep things under his

feet and as a time in every man's education i can testify what this meant to me as i read when in my first church and under the spell of dr glover and w i mean and some foster there is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that enemy is evidence that imitation is suicide that he must dig himself fall back on or was as his porsche and a little bit white universes fleeing nor colonel of nourishing corn and come to him but through his toy to be stored on that plot of ground which is given

in to tune now water has this commentary on the word a lot of that team too easy to sign of man stand up on your feet and i will speak with you however this is very important and should perhaps have been said i'm not commanding an unqualified absolute self reliance was nothing to suggest anything of the sort in the bible and what i am commanding self respect as a christian virtue i have not said so far does the bible is concerned the most significant thing about it until i have emphasized its origins and its justification there is in this connection a profile in contrast

between bleep thought and biblical for you listening to a sophocles city and to give a number less of the world's wonders but none more wonderful than men the start and gray sea yields do is brown's their huge breasts be an mri as poorly and inexhaustible is graven with shining fire owes where his clothes of bond yield after year warsaw and forties he fashions to his good use statecraft is his and his skill that deflects the arrows of snow

the city is over winter rain from every year when he has made him so sick you up from all but one in the late leader of dates but he cannot stand man sophocles is saying man can respect and so don't carry his head i can be self reliant because of these achievements is pothole the nature his gifts of mind and will is political community organizing skills to you know approach was so very different same stress on human snack shack and dignity but they're not regarded as originated in man

as being so we'll resume making and therefore of course for brian listen to the sounds when i look at that i have is the work of five fingers the moon and stars which though has to establish what is man but not mindful of hints and the son of man but the last check for him yet though has made him a little less going to go up and dust thrown in with glory and honor though has given in to menuhin although the work of iowans all things under his feet surely not what economists want the sadness to see it is from god that man derives his unique status that baucus is a baseball smarter his own

making it is the fact that he is a child of god and though only a spirit that spirit of cargo that gives him standing preeminence unique worse and value it should ponder and the contrast between greek salt and biblical soul and you should ask yourself which of the two ways principle it with you and when we crossed from the old testament to the new it is to find another emphasis mansion won't himself and respect and reverence because he's not do so new he was bought with a price all through the new testament you hear a reaffirmation of

jesus christ died for a man one of the church fathers memorably phrase did nothing over is a man since for him rice did not visibly to die a man respective of the color of his skin his economic creating the quality of his character with a good bad or indifferent if price thought we were worth dying for we dare not return ourselves cheap in his lab for us is the measure of our incalculable worth to go and what i have been stressing walk through this sermon with its old testament text was stressed repeatedly by our lord was an integral element in his teaching john the evangelist records

that he knew what was in man was not blind to its smallness is selfishness is simple message yet all an irreverent man and says insisted that other strains and bruises she insisted that he should reverence himself though show like a neighbor and so was one of his foundation principles it was not our original with any got from his bible but he lifted it up and he gave it up to a little place there is the proper love of self do you appreciate that a prop a love of self perhaps the best way to describe it is the word i've been using so often self respect i

titled lady used to say to her son's remember who you are price guides us remember julio that we came from we are the children of god and we can hear a boat with us is a major and likeness the image may be damned if these by the likenesses never altogether wolves we emails and thought oh but we have children of god we maybe will ensure that we can never be anything else then children of god this is why we should be so forever and sing god a needless and north we owe ourselves god made

us and when he made us broke a moment in all the white woman no two faces note to press is identical and the like we owe the broad own individuality distinctive qualities characteristics talents there is a police force ousted through which no albany yes and so in that sense we are indispensable that is a work for us to do which will go on unless we address ourselves to a son of man stand on your feet and i will speak with you why should we not say every one of us what charles hamilton's sorely student boyd cured in

battle when he was only twenty said with apocalypse and outstretched hands and listening use live seven stands call our area called locally eight maybe you're in your sixties or seventies but i'd make the service did at home and lettuce pray or garden court seeking in every age for oil spill it's already told me the heavenly vision

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