Luke 14:11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

1. Our world values ____________ ____________.

2. The kingdom of God values ____________ ____________.

3. Our Lord ____________ and ____________ himself on a ____________.

Scripture Readings
Proverbs 25:2-10
Hebrews 13:1-17
Luke 14:1-14

Take It With You!

As we learn how to live as disciples of Jesus Christ, here helpful tools will be offered to aid in your study.

Here... we are told that death and loss rather than life and success are the instruments of our salvation. For if we hope to be saved by our talent for lifting ourselves into first place by our own bootstraps, then we will, by the very same impossibility of the enterprise, "begin with shame" to take the lowest place -- that is, to have pastness, lostness, and death thrust upon us without our acceptance. But if we are shameless enough to accept death as the instrument of our salvation -- if, with shamelessness like that of the friend who came as a beggar at midnight (Luke 11:5-10), we will drop our pretenses of success and come to Jesus in our failure -- then Jesus our Friend will rise, and Jesus our Host will come, and he will raise us up at the last day and bid the endless party to begin.

Robert Farrer Capon, Kingdom, Grace, and Judgment