Mike Bickle emphasizes the beauty of meekness as a reflection of God's character, illustrating that true meekness is not merely a command but an invitation to experience God's heart. He explains that meekness is intertwined with holiness and love, and it is through understanding God's humility that we can embody this trait ourselves. Bickle highlights that our destiny is to be like God, and that meekness attracts God's favor, ultimately leading to our greatest freedom and pleasure. He encourages believers to imitate God's meekness, as it is essential for our transformation and future roles in God's kingdom.

Father, we come before you and we ask you in the name of Jesus for the release of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the speaking and the hearing of your Word even now and we thank you in Jesus' name, Amen. Tonight I want to talk about the subject of meekness and the idea that it's the pinnacle of God's beauty and I'm gonna relate the subject of meekness to us and our lives being meek but that's really a secondary point. I'll mention that just here and there but the real subject on my heart is just the beauty of the humility that's in the heart of God Himself. I'm just really awestruck by the fact of the humble God, the God of the universe who dwells in humility and of course the scriptural principle is that when we understand God's humility, when whatever we understand about God's heart is imparted into our own heart. We'll look at that point in just a few moments. It is our destiny to be like God. It's part of our inheritance. On Ephesians chapter 1, I mean chapter 5 verse 1, the Lord tells us to imitate God. That's not just a just a hard cold command. You better imitate God or else. That's not really what the Lord's saying in this passage. It's an invitation. The Lord's saying I'm inviting you to experience my heart and to reflect my heart. And at the very pinnacle, at the very height of the beauty of God is the fact that God dwells in perfect and infinite meekness. Now the subject of meekness is the same the same word as humility or lowliness of heart. It's one thing for God to ask us to have holiness of heart so that we would relate in humility before him. But it's another thing entirely when he declares that he's the God that is filled with lowliness of heart. He has all power. He has all wisdom. But in addition to his power and his wisdom is infinite meekness in context to this. Now the subject of holiness is the subject of meekness. The subject of love is the subject of meekness. When we talk about the love of God, God's love for his people, God's holiness or God's meekness, those are really different facets of the one diamond of God's heart. I mean they're in essence the same reality. They're just different things are highlighted in the heart of God. But God's love is his meekness. In the element of love is the burning desire. But the fact that God would desire us is because he's so meek. I mean why would God ever desire us? He would have to have infinite meekness to even have the capacity to desire us. And the same as holiness. Holiness and meekness are really really the same reality. They're different words. We could come up with slightly different definitions. But really it's just a different facet of the diamond of the one reality of who God is. Now when God created us, he determined that in the pleasure that he has about himself. Did you know that God has pleasure in being God? God delights in being God. God loves his perfect enjoyment of the fellowship within the Trinity. God the Father loves fellowshipping with God the Son. His heart is exhilarated when he fellowships with Jesus in the same way. And the Holy Spirit. The Father loves the fellowship with the Spirit. The Spirit loves to fellowship with the Father. And there's such sublime pleasure. And it's the fullness. It's the fountain of pleasure that God has in the fellowship within the Godhead. And the reason God has so much pleasure in this is because of the meekness that God dwells in. The meekness he possesses is one of the reasons God likes God so much. Strange sentence to say it just that way. Our greatest glory. Our greatest freedom. Our greatest pleasure is to enter into that reality. Because as God has pleasure in it, he knows we will have pleasure. The very reality of meekness supernaturally dwelling in our heart is our greatest fountain of pleasure and fountain of liberty. Meekness isn't something we kind of we have to do because things will be better if we all hang in there and count the cost and bite the bullet and we're meek. No, meekness is the place of the fountain of life. And that's what God knows. So he invites us to be imitators of his heart to experience this in our own personal experience. Now in Romans chapter 8 verse 29 we are predestined to be like Christ. That means before we were ever created, before the worlds were ever made, God determined that when he created humans those that respond to him would end up in the exhilaration of meekness and love and holiness. He determined, he has several different significant stages in his eternal plan, I mean some real significant stages, but he knew that before he was finished we would feel like he feels. This is a glorious thought to think about our future filled with the joy of love and meekness and holiness like God has. He predestined before he ever created Adam and Eve that these human beings that respond to him would in fact have this kind of experience and they would have it forever and they would have it at a infinite amount. God would impart it in the unfolding of the ages. Ephesians 1, God chose us before the foundation of the world and the thing that he chose was that the people that responded to him would dwell in holiness forever. Again before the world was ever made he determined, he chose it, he set it into motion that when human beings are created and when they respond to God they will dwell in the pleasure of holiness and the pleasure of meekness. Paragraph C, I had a prophetic dream a couple years ago and in this dream I heard the voice of the Lord and he said meekness is the magnet that attracts God's favor. Meekness in our spirit is a magnet that attracts the activity of God. It attracts the the hand of God in our lives in a greater way. Now the reason meekness attracts God because it's so it's such a core reality as to who God is. James chapter 4 verse 6, the Holy Spirit gives more grace. In just the verse before I don't have it on the PowerPoint on James 4 verse 5 it says that the Holy Spirit jealously yearns within us and what he's yearning for is that we would walk in meekness before God. He yearns for us because the Holy Spirit possesses this infinite measure of meekness in his own personality and he knows what meekness is and he knows what it feels like. He knows how glorious it is and he's constantly yearning jealously to beckon us into meekness. And as much as that he gives he's so committed to this that he gives us grace and he gives it more grace as we respond to meekness as we come into greater unity with his heart. Matthew chapter 5 verse 5 it says Jesus said blessed are the meek they'll inherit the earth. Now this passage is about the age to come. Now it's true we inherit the earth a little bit in this age which means we have authority we have spheres of authority where we can bring righteousness and we can bring the truth of God and apply it in this life. Most of the earth I'm talking about the people and all the infrastructures and institutions of the earth are not walking in godliness. So the meek we've inherited some I mean they are there are a growing number of people and the impact of the gospel has gone forth and it's significant but it's by no means comprehensive. I mean the earth is still in terms of the way it's administered is under the hands of those that aren't meek. The vast majority of the earth is ran and influenced by people who are arrogant and against God. My point is when Jesus said Matthew 5 5 he understood that in the age to come literally the meek would rule every facet of the earth and so though we appreciate this this beatitude and we believe it for this age we know that it only has a partial fulfillment in this age but beloved this point is a very important point about the heart of God because when Jesus rules the earth he is selecting a leadership team from throughout all of human history that is good that will partner with him but he will only select the ones that dwelt in meekness when they were on during their life in this age. The leadership team that Jesus is selecting from history are those who valued meekness in this age. And it's those that he is choosing as his governmental leadership in the age to come. All of those around God's throne, the four living creatures, the 24 elders they dwell in meekness. Those that are nearest to the throne of God have the greatest measure of meekness in their heart and in their character. So Jesus insists on meekness but he exalts meekness by making it the core issue by which he determines who's going to rule the age of the earth in the age to come. Paragraph D, the passage 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 verse 18 it says that behold no it says but we all beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord were being transformed into the same image from glory to glory now the principle is this and I've said this many times to those that have been around we behold the glory of the Lord we behold the character of God the glory of the Lord is the character of God and whatever we behold and you might put the word whatever we meditate on whatever we we gain insight into facets of God that we have revelation of that's what the scripture means by beholding the Lord whatever we behold about God and about God's heart is what we become in our own heart so when we meditate on the love of God what happens is love is awakened in us we behold it in him and it becomes reality in us the way that the Lord imparts love into our heart is by causing us to behold it in his heart now you've heard that over and over it's not just a cool little principle it is the way of transformation and when we want to understand when we want to walk in meekness because it's so it's such a core reality for our life for freedom and to live with a spirit of joy in this life and it's so important for our assignment in the age to come so we want to grow in meekness but the way we grow in meekness is not only by deciding to be meek that's important we grow in meekness by beholding the meekness of God and as I've understood the Lord's humility which I only understand just a fraction of it it's a vast mysterious glorious subject the humility of God when I gaze into this vast mystery of the humility and the meekness of God it inspires me to want to walk in meekness I mean that the God of all power and wisdom dwells with this kind of tenderness in his heart I mean how could one so powerful stoop so low as Jesus did and and and then treat us so tenderly and the more that I understand about the meekness of God the more that it inspires me to want to walk in meekness and so when people are you know saying you know challenge them to go to live a life of meekness we don't only exhort them to do it because if there's a reward or because it makes our inner man or the way we carry our life will be our heart will be very different we'll feel much different about life as we grow meekness so there is a present blessing and there's a future reward those are good and in some ways that's worthy I mean that's reason enough to embrace weakness but beloved I don't think anything moves us to meekness more than beholding the meekness of God's heart it's a vast and wonderful subject and I want to point you to that now the father was well pleased when he looked over the balcony of heaven at Jesus's baptism and he said in Matthew 317 he said about his son I am well pleased he says as he looked at his beloved son he called him beloved this is my beloved son he said and I am well pleased and what he was beholding in Jesus was this glorious meekness that Jesus had in his heart and we could call it love we could call it obedience but meekness is such an important facet of Jesus's character now the father as he contemplated his own meekness reflected in Jesus he was well pleased but the father also contemplates and understands the meekness that dwells in the Holy Spirit it's not just that Jesus dwells in meekness but so does the person of the Holy Spirit Jesus's life as well as the ministry of the Holy Spirit have been ordered around ordered around the subject the reality of meekness Jesus's life in the work of the Holy Spirit the ministry of the Holy Spirit they display the father's meekness in a super in the most superb and glorious way now Jesus said in Matthew 11 29 he said learn from me because I'm gentle and I'm lowly in heart another translation says I'm meek or I'm humble lowly in heart meek and humble is the same the same concept did you know this is the only character trait that Jesus ever declared by his own lips in the Bible about himself Jesus never said I am love well we know that he is love God is love and he's God Jesus never said I am kind Jesus never said I am holy now others said it about him and the Bible testifies those are true but the only character trait he ever described himself with in the from his own lips is the subject of meekness this is so it was so important it was so paramount to his thinking he says I am meek I'm gentle and lowly in heart and gentle and lowly in heart is is the same basic reality and then he tells the people to learn from me and what he means by that is learn meekness me learn it from me understand that I possess it and from your understanding of what I possess learn from me to walk in it by observing the reality of it in my life and so we will walk in meekness we will learn the way of meekness far more by studying and understanding the meekness that Jesus possesses in his heart now of course this is the same principle this is the same principle of Jesus using the meek in the age to come because in the age to come you will say to those that you're giving leadership to learn from me and learn about the meekness that I've walked in and how I walked in it because even as we rule in the age to come on the earth we will rule by teaching others how we struggled and walked in these these aspects of the gospel we won't just pull out you know the new syllabus from heaven about how to walk in meekness and then we just simply teach people we will teach people about meekness by telling our own story and how we valued it and press through to actually enter into it it's the same way Jesus is teaching meekness here he teaches it out of the overflow of his experience with it and that's how that's why the meek will rule the earth their own meekness of course it's imparted from the Lord their own story will be used in their governing and then their ruling it'll be more than their own story but their own story will be critical it says in Mark 10 verse 45 this is such a glorious statement it's bigger than it appears this statement I mean it's it's a mountain of truth the Son of Man he's speaking about himself did not come to serve did not come to be served but to serve what he's saying is is that he became a human why did you become human and then come to the earth it wasn't just that he came to the earth I mean it's critical but it's the fact he became human and came to the earth because when Jesus accepted this reality of becoming human we know that he would didn't be human forever and forever and forever what could motivate you to do this well we know it's the love of God it's his love for us but the the same the same idea is his meekness he said I embraced humanity and came to the earth because I am a servant I did it to serve you now Jesus isn't doesn't it's not only that Jesus does acts of service service being a servant is not just what he does it's more it's much more than that it is true he does display acts with the servant spirit but but it's more than what he does it's the essence of who he is at the very core of his personality he is a servant like the Father and like the Holy Spirit I mean can we imagine the glorious implications that the God of power and wisdom is a servant he doesn't grit his teeth to serve it's the overflow of his heart it's the it's the most it's the I was gonna say natural of course it's supernatural not sure how do you say natural about God but I'll just say it without having a better word it's the most natural outflow of his heart it flows effortlessly out of his being meekness and servitude paragraph F the Holy Spirit now this is I have this terminology it like like usually when you're talking about the Godhead our words come up short when we're talking about some of the specific dimensions of how God thinks and feels but I think of the Holy Spirit as he functions as the support ministry within context of the Trinity or the Godhead which is the same thing the Father Son and Holy Spirit that the father is the great leader the son he is the Redeemer but the Holy Spirit and there's other terms we could put on that that's not my point right now the point is the Holy Spirit has he's fully God he's as much God as the Father in the Son the Holy Spirit is as much God as the Father is the Father has no more deity than the Holy Spirit but in terms of the function within their relationship he has accepted the role as the support ministry in terms of the body of Christ he would be the deacon and the Godhead because the deacons are the support roles he is fully God and fully content to work behind the scenes now beloved this isn't something he does for you know for a you know for a period of time so okay for the six thousand years from Adam to the second coming six thousand plus reminders a few okay I will I will take this role of I'll take a step back and I won't be recognized and I'll do it for this limited time frame no beloved this is the role the Holy Spirit delights in forever and ever and ever and ever he will function in this role of the support ministry the deacon the one step behind serving the agenda of the Father in the Son but he's fully God but he's happy in his humility he delights in his meekness this is not a struggle for him it's not like well you know the way it just landed he got the bad job no it's not like it it's not that way at all because from his point of view this role is as dynamic as the father's role in the function as the supreme leader or the sons role as the Redeemer it's a different role but he's fully God and the father in the son so value the Holy Spirit because they have the same heart that the Holy Spirit has like Jesus doesn't like relate to the father with excitement and then when he relates to the Holy Spirit it's like well you know I am higher than you in the hierarchy of our function there's none of that it's this full understanding of the value of meekness because Jesus has it that's why he values it the Holy Spirit and the father has it that's why he values it in the Holy Spirit beloved we we should never ever despise the support role you may have one of the greatest apostolic ministries one day but I assure you this if you are a chief apostle in the nation's you will never graduate from having a support role in much of what you do because it's like God to be like this we should never despise the fact that we do the work in another gets the credit the Holy Spirit does work through the earth and yet we're honoring the father and the son and the Holy Spirit delights in this arrangement that's the nature of the support ministry we will have this the spirit of the support ministry forever and ever and ever it's not just something we kind of hang in there and endure it for a few years and then finally in the resurrection we get the credit that is due us the Holy Spirit says I don't ever want the credit that's due me I don't ever want it I find supreme delight dwelling in meekness in my heart because there's pleasure it's right it's good it's liberating there's dignity in this John chapter 16 the Jesus speaks some of the most unusual no not unusual but really strong statements about the Holy Spirit and he says this in John 16 verse 13 and 14 he says the Holy Spirit he will not speak on his own authority but what he hears he will speak he will glorify me he will take what is mine and declare to you now these are these are huge statements now it would be one thing for a senior executive to say about the new member of his team that he's mentoring the new apprentice okay young apprentice here I'm the leader of this vast economic empire you're just a young apprentice here's here's what I want you to do I don't I want you to check with me and don't speak on your own I only want you to represent me after you talk to me that would be a very normal thing to do but beloved the Holy Spirit is God the Holy Spirit's not a young apprentice and Jesus talking out of his relationship with the Holy Spirit for eternity past because let me tell you about the Holy Spirit I know him really well he doesn't ever speak out of his own authority out of his own authority he will not speak on his own authority he possesses authority he just doesn't use it when he speaks he speaks only from the Father and the Son and it's like is he a junior apprentice no well who is he talking about he's talking about the third person person the Trinity God how could God live with that kind of limitation because he delights in meekness and the reality of it I find that to be a stunning statement that the Holy Spirit has authority but he doesn't speak out of it but only from the Father and the Son whatever he hears he will speak he will glorify me he will give me all of the credit for what he does that really bothers us when we work and somebody else gets the credit it doesn't bother the Holy Spirit because of meekness he will take the things that are uniquely mine he will take the things that pertain to me and my mission and he will make that the focus of his mission well Holy Spirit you were as much God as Jesus is why don't you take the things that are uniquely related to your mission and just tell Jesus you work there and we'll work I'll work over here we'll just be best friends and we won't run into any trouble and Jesus says no the Holy Spirit doesn't do it that way he takes the things that are uniquely related to my mission and my function and those are the things that he magnifies this is a this is a remarkable statement because Jesus wasn't telling us what the Holy Spirit ought to do he was giving us insight into the the quality of heart that the Holy Spirit has first Timothy chapter 3 I'm sure the Holy Spirit had great delight when Paul wrote this under the Holy Spirit's inspiration he said for those that have served well as deacons they obtained for themselves a good standing none they're not talking about that they're saved by faith the good standing is at the standing we all receive as a gift called born again the gift of righteousness that's true deacons do have that but that's not what Paul's talking about he says the support ministries if they've served well they will have a good standing which means an eternal reward because the Holy Spirit and the Father and the Son are watching their lives and this is what they are all about is meekness the one that evaluates them is God Father Son Holy Spirit they are of course they're evaluated by Jesus specifically the scripture said all judgment and all evaluation is put into the hands of Jesus but Jesus is meek like the Holy Spirit and the support ministries through history and we all have support ministries doesn't matter what role you have in another way we're all supporting other people or it's not the character of God we're all taking the things that we want to do we're putting them aside and other people will do it differently than we will and our way is better but we're doing it for others that's a support ministry I mean these deacons all have better ideas than the people they're serving on lots of things but they serve now deacons it's not just that they serve they serve well and serve well does it I mean it just doesn't talk about the quality of work they do with their hands they serve well it talks about the character of their heart now there's plenty that serve but they don't serve well they serve and they're and they have a constant IOU meter that's working all the time they're serving but they're always keeping account of what is due them in the relationship because of their servants because of their service I worked in this role that one year five years ten years whatever the meter is always running they're serving but they're not serving well because serving well as we serve and the fact that we've served God and help people that is the reward that's all that we want out of it that's all that we demand is that God was honored in people were helped now the Lord will reward us for sure and the people might recognize and recognize your labors and bless you and they might not but to serve well means that our reward is the fact we've glorified God by living in meekness and we've done our best to bless people it has no regard for the running meter that requires the response and the reward from the people we've served that's serving but that's not serving well that's serving the way the world serves it's not really serving what it is it's enduring a work contract I will do my part but I better get my payment from you it's just a contract it's not really it's not called serving if it's a contract it's called working for a wage is maybe it's not money but it's the wages his honor and the wages is affirmation but I tell you God is looking for people that will serve well and you know why because Jesus served well Jesus is the lives in this deacon lifestyle but the Holy Spirit his entire existence is this in this one step back role of supporting all that's going on in the kingdom I am just overwhelmed at the person of the Holy Spirit let's look at let's go to paragraph I Jesus came to die so that he might purchase men for God revelation 5 9 that's the new American standard I love that phrase worthy art thou for thou was slain and you did purchase for God with your blood men it's the idea that he purchased men for God now Jesus died for the lost for the good of the lost that's a truth it's biblical that he died to save us for our own good it's also true that he died and he the reward he receives from his death is the fact that his eternal companion his bride will be at his side that he washed with his own blood and he washed her by the water of his word he prepared her but this is a different a different facet of that glorious diamond again of God's heart this translation and I love this that Jesus purchased people for God the father he was specifically coming to die to buy us to make a way where we would be his gift back to the father that he would present us on the last day to the father father this is my gift to you and I shouldn't say on the last day that's that's I'll say it slightly different at the end of the of the millennial kingdom Jesus is going to take his labors from all of history and he's going to present us to the father as his gift to the father now some chapter 2 verse 8 Jesus the father said I'm going to give you the nation's is your own inheritance it's your inheritance they are rightfully yours they belong to you and it doesn't mean it doesn't just mean that he'll be honored in the nations we've gone over this Jesus will rule every facet of every nation by the end of the millennial kingdom every human being and every facet of every nation will have been touched in a dynamic way by Jesus now we know there will be those in the final hour they will they will rebel doesn't say the majority will but there will be an element that that rebel and you know a portion from nations all across the earth but the vast majority of his work it will stay steady to the end of those that rebelled it will be dealt with and they'll be removed out of the mix and then Jesus will have possessed the nations entirely and Psalm 2 8 I only have that the nations are your inheritance and it goes on to say you will possess them you will utterly control them in the in the right sense of that you will inspire them and you will bring them into your values and they will express your will in every facet of the nations and because of that Philippians 2 8 or it's the same thing as the inheritance the same language for goods to aid says this that because he humbled himself and he died therefore God highly exalted him God highly exalted the man Jesus and this happens in an open public way in the millennial kingdom it is true now that he is highly exalted but it's it's manifest in the natural before every nation and every institution and every human being they will bow their knee to him which means they will serve his agenda in a dynamic way not not in a casual or superficial way Colossians 1 18 he will have the preeminence in everything Jesus will be the first thought he will be the primary theme of conversations and the dream of the heart of his people he won't be the only thing we talk about and he won't be the only thing we dream about but he will have the chief place and the plans and the dreams and in the conversation and in the relationship of his people he will be preeminent this is an amazing thing because it's not that God is preeminent we're talking about Jesus obviously is fully God always has been always will be but as a man as a he will be preeminence before other humans there's no other man that could bear there's no other man that could bear this kind of adulation I mean the human being having this kind of response from every human being on the earth what an intense reality for that human being because he will have preeminence in his humanity he will have preeminence before all the humans whether in heaven or hell he will be the chief among them all and all the angelic host as well and all the demons will bow their knee he will be preeminent as a man this is this is stunning you know the passage in Revelation chapter 5 verse 12 I don't have it on the notes but we know well it says relation 512 worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power riches wisdom strength honor glory and blessing seven things this is worthy as a lamb now what's important about this statement revelation 512 worthy is the man who was slain to receive all the power and riches what does that mean that means there's one man in his humanity that all of the wealth of all of the nations in the Millennial Kingdom all of the wealth will be owned by him beloved what if a man raised up in the earth who owned all personally personally owned all the wealth of his nation I mean we would be scandalized what if he owned all the wealth of ten nations that's what the Antichrist is is gonna all but do but there's a one man in his humanity will own all the wealth of every single nation and individual it will be personally it will be his it will be under his authority and all the angels and are crying out you are worth it you deserve it you won't drop the ball you won't mess it up all of the riches belong to you in here in your in your humanity this is a staggering statement we're not talking about God getting the riches we're talking about a man getting the riches of the entire earth all of the power all of the wisdom he will have he will be the fountain of wisdom in his humanity by the Holy Spirit's anointing he will have there will be no one in the earth who knows more than him about any subject all of the wisdom will be given to him now somebody might object and say father this is intense father I mean don't you remember when Lucifer and Ezekiel 28 stood before you and all of his glory Lucifer was the covering cherub nearest the throne of God and he was exalted because of his great beauty there was none like him in beauty and pride entered his heart and great trouble entered into the super into the spirit realm then there was another one the same sort of thing his name was Adam he was on the earth he was the chief leader of the earth was congregation was really small only two of them but he was the chief leader of the earth but he was in the position of of significant position of favor before God and the implications were vast and he said so so far the preeminent one in heaven and the preeminent one on the earth Adam when they had so much they messed it up but the father says I have a plan there is a man I'm gonna give it all to and somebody might object and say wait wait wait let's let's what about you know I don't know you know competing authority structures to keep balance and safety in the mix no all of heaven is there together we're saying he's worthy he's worth it he deserves it there will be no disagreement all of the honor of all the nations all of the blessings they will all be traced back to him beloved this is a significant amount this is a significant amount of clout for one human being to have with a physical material body before human beings who could bear up under this and all the angels all the saints the father's nodding with full approval the meek one the worthy one he is worthy he won't move from meekness whatsoever he will never move even one one smallest fraction of 1% he is worth it this is a right choice I mean this is a stunning statement that all of heaven agrees that one man would have all of this power it's remarkable it's not remarkable that God would have power it's remarkable that a human would have power before humans this level well he's gonna bring all the nations under his authority it's gonna work all the wealth the power the wisdom the blessing the honor everything will come his way he is it's an indescribably high position for a man 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verse 24 to 28 and then comes the end in verse 24 this is the end of the Millennial Kingdom then comes the end Jesus has spent 1000 years defeating every enemy every dark power I mean that's a wrong way to say this dark power but every way that was even in the heart of man has been utterly defeated every demon is in has been in prison and then they're going to the lake of fire the the devil's gonna be thrown in the lake of fire is utterly defeated I mean not just spiritually defeated I mean he's in prison and he's on his way to the lake of fire the Antichrist and the false prophet have already been thrown in the lake of fire the end is come the end of the Millennium Jesus you know what he does with this massive victory and all he was worthy it all came to him he took all this position of power and he delivered it to the father he said father it's all mine I'm not like the beautiful one in Ezekiel 28 who fell because of his beauty Lucifer I'm not like the first Adam that had the place of power it I have far more than they ever had father it's all in my head it's rightfully mine and he delivers it to the father and that's the confidence that the father has about the son even before this plan unfolds Jesus will put to an end all rule and all authority which means he will defeat it not just defeated on the cross he already did that in Colossians 2 15 he defeated it on the cross but it means in real time and space in real historical events they are shown before all as defeated verse 28 and when all things are made subject to Jesus everything there is none like him ever in history there's never been a man that's had a fraction not even a portion of 1% of this kind of clout I mean the greatest man in history never even had a portion of 1% hardly a portion of 1% of this then the son at the end before all the audience of heaven and earth will go to the father and the son will subject himself to the father in the way the Holy Spirit always does and why does the son do this so that God would be all in all Jesus you work so long you paid the price you've a thousand years you got your whole leadership team all of the wealth and the glory the honor the allegiance of all human beings are yours why do you want it he says so I can give it to my father that my father would be all in all in their thinking I only did it for him I came to serve I became a human to serve the people that I redeemed and to serve my father Proverbs chapter 10 verse 1 it says a wise son makes his father's heart glad Jesus is the ultimate wise son who came not just to serve people he came to serve his father the whole glory of it was so that he could offer it as his gift to the father at the very end at the end the millennium paragraph in meekness is attractive the 24 elders which are humans they take their crowns and they cast them before the father to Revelation chapter 4 verse 10 there before the father beloved the crowns this is not the gift of righteousness the crowns the crowns this is the reward that they rightfully earned from their persevering obedience through difficulty and growing in meekness through their life on the earth they have the highest honor among the saints they're one of the 24 elders and they take this crown which is signify is their position it's a stable position and in the same spirit that Jesus lays the entire kingdom down they take their spirit they cast it down before the father and they said it's only about you and they're filled with meekness like the Son and the Spirit beloved this is what we're involved in the humble God with the humble court with the humble family humility is exalted and our magnified and this is what God beckons his church to buy into even now it is our glory it is our freedom it is our Liberty amen and amen let's stop with that let's stand