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Humility in a Cave 1 Samuel 24
HUMILITY IN A CAVE • Obstacles to Avoid • Community Gossip “For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.” - Proverbs 26:20
HUMILITY IN A CAVE • Obstacles to Avoid • Community Gossip • Direct Attack
HUMILITY IN A CAVE “Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine.’” - Romans 12:17-19
HUMILITY IN A CAVE • Obstacles to Avoid • Community Gossip • Direct Attack • Indirect Attack
HUMILITY IN A CAVE “Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, ‘Was I not joking?’” - Proverbs 26:18-19
HUMILITY IN A CAVE • Obstacles to Avoid • Behaviors to Embrace • Initiate Reconciliation
HUMILITY IN A CAVE • Obstacles to Avoid • Behaviors to Embrace • Initiate Reconciliation • Release Judgment
HUMILITY IN A CAVE “Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the …
HUMILITY IN A CAVE “… pain you are giving back – in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton in the feast is you.” - Frederick Buechner
HUMILITY IN A CAVE • Obstacles to Avoid • Behaviors to Embrace • Picture of Reconciliation