September 13, 2025 • 26 mins
Today on Bold Steps Weekend, Mark Jobe explains that no matter what you are going through, you can walk worthy of your calling. From Ephesians chapter 4, Mark shares how the Apostle Paul gives you 2 tests and 4 attitudes of what it means to live worthy.
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S1 (00:00):
Today on Bold Steps Weekend, Mark Jobe explains how we
can walk worthy of our calling.
S2 (00:06):
Because we have a call. We need to live what
our calling is. You already have everything that you need
to live up to that call, so do it. You
already have everything that you need to be able to
raise to the level of expectation that God has upon
your life, so rise up.
S1 (00:38):
Welcome to Bold Steps Weekend with Mark Jobe. Mark is
senior pastor of New Life Community Church in Chicago and
president of Moody Bible Institute. I'm Wayne Shepherd. Let's talk
about living up to your God given calling and purpose. Mark. Today,
you're going to be showing us that no matter what
we're going through, we can all walk worthy of our calling.
S3 (00:57):
Wayne, some people believe that there are some believers that
are called and others that are the non called I guess.
But this is written to the Ephesian believers and he
says to all of them, all of them, including us,
walk worthy of your calling. And then he goes on
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to unpack what it means to walk worthy of our calling.
And so I just want you to know, if you're
listening today, you are called. Now listen to this message
so that you understand how to live out your calling.
S1 (01:30):
Well, let's jump in. This message comes from the book
of Ephesians, chapter four. Here's Mark's message on bold steps weekend.
S2 (01:37):
I don't know if you've ever walked out of your
house some morning, and your wife looks at what you're
wearing and she says, uh, doesn't match. There's something about
when you see someone wearing something that obviously doesn't match,
that draws your attention in a negative way because it
(01:57):
seems incongruent. He's like, whoa, Who put that together? It
just doesn't match. It doesn't go together. I grew up
in a many of you know, I grew up in
the country of Spain, and I came one year to
the US when I was in high school and I
was 15 to go to a school, and they happened
(02:20):
to have a special event, a prom or something of
that nature. And in order to go to this event,
you need a suit. And I didn't own a suit.
I didn't want to own a suit. I didn't like suits.
But my grandfather said, you need to wear a suit
to this event. So he dragged me out to the
store and I bought myself a suit for the event
(02:42):
that I was going to, but I just was kind
of dragging my feet on it, and, um, I decided
I wore a suit, but but I wore my, um,
my white gym socks. with, uh, you know, with red
(03:03):
stripes on the side there and that that's what I
wore with my suit. And I was sitting there at
this event and my friend looked over and said, hey, bro,
you can't wear those kind of socks with that suit, man.
It just doesn't match. It doesn't match. It brought his
attention right away. Like, no, you can't do that. Now.
If you're in a gym outfit, you can wear that.
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But if you're in a suit outfit, you have to
wear that which matches with it because it just doesn't
seem to go together. And what the Apostle Paul is
saying is that you have a calling upon your life
and that your walk, the way you live your life,
needs to match your calling. And if it doesn't match
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your calling, then people around you will notice you not
because they're attracted to the message that you're proclaiming, but
they'll notice you because they'll notice you in a negative way.
They'll notice you in a way that says, hey, they
claim to be this, but their lifestyle is that it
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just doesn't match. Do you realize that most people aren't
as impressed by what we say we are as by
how we live our life? Most people don't notice the
label that you wear. You can call yourself a Christian,
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and most people don't really care that much about what
you call yourself. But what impacts people is if your
life is different, if it's lived different, if your life
is different than the norm, then it makes sense to them.
And many non-believers tend to be turned off by people
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that claim to be Christians, but their lifestyle doesn't match
at all their claim of Christianity. Now when Paul says,
I urge you to live according to. To live worthy
of the calling that you have received. I want to
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clarify that, because many people seem to think that there
are people that are called and people that are not called.
Some people think that only those people that are going
to be missionaries in Africa are going to be pastors
or going to be evangelists, or have some sort of
ministry that those are the called ones and that everybody else, yeah,
(05:36):
they're believers, but they're not really called that. There's a
division between those that are called and those that are
not called. And I want you to understand that that
is a huge misrepresentation of the gospel, because what the
gospel teaches is that every one that names the name
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of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is called everyone
that we're all called. If you have proclaimed Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior, if you consider yourself a Christian,
call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ, that you have
a calling on your life and it's a high calling.
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So why don't you turn to the person beside you
and tell him I'm called? Go ahead. Turn to the
person on the other side and say I'm called. Alright,
I want you to know you're called. Now that you
know you're called. I want you to understand that you're
calling oftentimes determines the expectations. I have an 11 year
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old son. He's in sixth grade right now. His calling
is to be a sixth grader in my house. So
my expectations of him are a little bit lower than
they would be someone older, because that's his calling right now, right?
And so I don't expect that he gets a job
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and helps pay the light bill. I've been tempted to
move in that direction, but no, I don't expect that
of him. I don't expect that he drive a car
right now. I don't expect that he know how to
fill out his tax return forms. I don't expect that
he know how to do trigonometry. Why? Because he's 11
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years old and he's in sixth grade. So my expectation
go along with his calling. His calling right now is
at a sixth grade level. So I have expectations of
a sixth grade level upon his life. Now, when someone
is in office, for example, the president of the United
States and the highest political office that you can hold
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in this land, we have higher expectations of someone like that. Why?
Because the calling determines the expectations that we have on someone.
When someone is living out the calling of being a
married man and has kids and is raising them, then
I have a different set of expectations upon that man
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than I would upon a single man, a single young man. Why?
Because he's living out his calling. Part of his calling
is to be a husband and a father. And so
the expectations are different. Why? Because the calling determines the expectations.
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And in the same way, Paul is reminding the believers
that we have a calling on our life and it's
a high calling. And since our calling is high, then
our expectations need to be high. We don't have a
low calling. We have a high calling. Now, what he's
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not saying is that you have to try to be
worthy of the call, because you are already worthy of
the call. Because we have a call, we need to
live what our calling is. You already have everything that
you need to live up to that call, so do it.
You already have everything that you need to be able
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to raise to the level of expectation that God has
upon your life. So rise up. You have all that
it takes within you. He just told us in our
previous verses that we read last week in the previous chapters,
that you are indwelt with the Holy Spirit, that you
have everything that you need, all the power of God,
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that you need to be what God has called you
to be. So now be it. So live worthy of
the call that you have received. And then he goes
on to explain what it means to live worthy of
the call that we have received, and in essence, he
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tells us that there are two tests that make us
that help us understand whether or not we're living worthy
of the call that we have received. One has to
do with our character, uh, how we live, our attitude.
And the other has to do with whether we are
peacemakers or divisive people, whether we're bridge builders or whether
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we tear bridges down. So the first one, I'll categorize
it as this. It's the attitude towards leadership or what
I call servant leadership. He tells us in verse two
what it means to live worthy of our call. And
he says this. He says, verse two, be completely humble
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and gentle. Be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Aren't there certain verses you just wish you could kind
of scratch out of the Bible. This is one of them.
This is tough. A verse he gives us for attitudes
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that every person that's called by Jesus Christ should have.
And these are not easy attitudes. Believe me, these are
some hard attitudes he's calling us to live up to.
I'm going to give him to you. And again, these
are not optional. These are required of people that are
called by God to live up to your calling.
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Mark Jobe will be back to explain these attitudes in
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Now let's tune back into the message titled Walking Worthy
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with Mark Jobe on Bold Steps Weekend.
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Number one, he says, be humble. Be completely humble. Now,
when I say humble, most of you aren't really excited
to be humble. Most of us do not really value
the attitude of humility highly. It's not something that that
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fathers often tell their sons. They don't say, son, I
want you to be humble. It's not something that coaches
tell their athletes, hey, I want you to be humble.
It's not. In fact, in the Greek and Roman culture,
it was looked down upon to be humble. And I
think part of our reticence to accepting humility and celebrating
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humility is that we don't really understand what true humility is.
For example, some people think that being humble means that
you have an Then inferiority complex. That being humble means
that you're going to be like a mat that people
sort of dust their feet off of. Uh, some people
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think that humble means that you can't look someone in
the eye, that you kind of walk around hunched over,
looking at the ground all the time. And when someone
greets you, you kind of look up at them and
kind of shy away. Uh, some people think humility means
being shy or being timid or not being able to
voice your opinion or not being assertive or not being
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able to to speak. And some people think if I'm humble,
I'm going to be someone's doormat. If I'm humble, I'm
going to be stepped on. If I'm humble, I'm going
to be taken advantage of because we have not quite
understood what humility means. Jesus was humble. And yet, do
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you remember when Jesus entered into the temple, He threw up.
He turned over the tables of the money changers. He
got a whip and he drove everybody out of the temple.
And he said, my house. My house shall be called
a house of prayer. But was he humble? Yeah. He
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acted in humility. The Bible tells us that Moses was
one of the most humble people on the face of
this earth. Yet Moses challenged an entire nation, and he
brought the most powerful man in the world at the time,
whose name was who was a pharaoh. He brought him
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to his knees. He challenged the powers and authorities that
were there, and he led almost 2 million people out
of slavery into to look to a new Promised Land.
And yet he was a humble man. You see, humility
has to do with You understanding your proper worth before
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God and before men. Having a proper view of yourself,
before God and before men is the definition of humility.
You don't think more highly of yourself than you should,
and you don't think more lowly of yourself than you should.
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You understand who you are, and you're comfortable and confident
in who you are. You see what happens when. When
you do not understand who you are and you're not humble,
then you have to try to project an image, uh,
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when someone is proud, they're not humble. And oftentimes what
happens is, if you don't understand who you are and
are confident who you are, you have to try to
make sure that people know who you are. You walk
into a room and you think, oh, people don't really
know what I've done or who I am. So you're
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impulsively driven to hand out business cards with big titles
on them. And when you talk, you have to tell
people who you know and what you've done and what
you've accomplished. Why? Because, well, they don't really know. I
need to. And you want to sit at the best
place in the front place where everybody can acknowledge you,
that the seats of importance. Why? Because you have to
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make sure that everybody knows who you are and what
you've done and how you are. Why? Because you're you're
not confident already in who you are. You're not comfortable
with understanding who you are. You see, when you're humble,
you're not driven to try to show everybody that you
have value. When you're humble, you know you have value.
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When you're humble, you already know who you are. You
don't have to prove that you're somebody because you know
that you're somebody already in God. When you're humble, you
don't have to take credit for everything because you can
share the credit. Why? Because you're already you already know
that you're somebody in God. You're comfortable with who you are.
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You're not trying to secure a name. You already know
your value because you're humble. You understand that when Jesus
was arrested and he went before Pilate. Pilate asked him,
some say that you are the king of the Jews.
What do you say? And notice that Jesus said nothing.
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He didn't respond. He didn't say, oh, you better believe
I'm the king of the Jews. He didn't say, oh,
you want to hear what I've done? Let me tell you, man,
you should have seen when I rose Lazarus from the dead.
He was all dead for three days, And I said, Lazarus,
come forth. Man, that stone rolled away. Everybody was shocked
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and amazed at what I did. I mean, Lazarus came forth.
And you want to know power? Let me tell you,
there was a blind guy that came to me. I
spit on the ground, make it a little mud. I
put him on his eyes and whoa, he could see.
Now that's who I am. Jesus didn't say that. Jesus
didn't say, hey, one day I was out on the
sea and there was a storm and a tempest. Everybody
was afraid. I got up in the boat and I said, storm,
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be still, man. It went quiet and still. Why? Because
that's who I am. And Jesus didn't have to say that.
He didn't have to boast. He didn't have to brag.
He didn't have to tell everybody his story. Why? Because
Jesus walked in humility. He knew who he was. And
when you know who you are, you don't have to
go around trying to prove to people that you are
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somebody because you already know who you are. That's true humility.
S1 (19:59):
Learning what true humility looks like. That's the takeaway from
today's message with Mark Jobe. And you're listening to Bold
Steps Weekend. If you missed any of the messages from
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Tired of feeling like your Christian life doesn't measure up
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This bold step gift offers more than inspiration. It provides
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by Dan Spader, who's the author of our Bold Step Gift.
S2 (20:40):
Yes, and so excited to have Dan Spader. He's been
a friend of Moody, went to Moody, started his ministry
on Moody, was alumnus of the year.
S1 (20:50):
How about that? Right.
S2 (20:50):
And, uh, yeah. So we feel like Dan is a
part of this ministry. And so great to have him
in the studio. And, you know, it's one thing to
admire Jesus in his life, but it's another thing entirely
to actually walk the way he walked. And what I
love about Dan Spader, his emphasis has been largely on
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let's do things the way that Jesus did things. And
so we have a bold step gift called Walk Like Jesus.
And Dan, you wrote this book or study guide, would
we call it Walk Like Jesus? Seems like impossible to do.
Talk to me a little bit. Why you wrote this?
S4 (21:30):
Well, it's I love Moody, too. I'll go back to that.
And it was while I was a student at Moody,
a professor there, Stan Gundry, challenged me that some of
Christ's disciples could have been teenagers, and it was probably true, John.
And that set me changed the trajectory of my life, literally.
He just compiled a harmony of the Gospels, and he said,
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you need to just study. What did Jesus do the
first year? What did he do second year? What did
he do third year? What did you do fourth year. here.
And we called our youth group sunlight because we just
were trying to figure out the sun's life.
S2 (22:05):
Mhm.
S4 (22:05):
And uh, soon we began to really understand that when you,
when you do a deep dive into Jesus, which I
spent ten plus years my doctorate work trying to analyze
the life of Christ chronologically, begin to see that he
was all about making disciples and all about building movements
of multiplication. Yeah. And so I began to teach that.
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And as we taught that around the country, I had
person after person say, well, that's really great, Doctor Slater,
but I can't do what Jesus did. He was God,
and I'm not. And I would struggle with that statement.
I probably heard it hundreds of times. And so I said, I,
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I've got to look harder at this aspect of Jesus
because it was a different Jesus. I understood because Jesus,
I see over 40 times said, do what I've done,
walk as I walk, Walkers follow the pattern I gave you.
And he said, if you can even do greater things
than I did. Now I'm not talking miracles, signs and wonders.
I'm talking. He says he had four years to reproduce
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his life and others, and I think he was saying,
we have 40 years if we walk as he walked.
So that caused us in our training to begin to say,
what does it mean to walk as Jesus walked first?
John two six if any of us claim to be
in Christ, we must. It's a command walk as and
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I believe that's the key word as Jesus walked. So
that began us looking at not only what did Jesus do,
but how did Jesus do what he did in his humanity?
Because he was fully God. But even more critical, if
you understand Hebrews two and five, he was fully human,
and that's how he made atonement for our sins. So
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we really looked at in his humanity. How did Jesus walk?
Because he said walk as I walked.
S1 (24:01):
Well, Dan, it is fantastic that you've written this. And
now that we get to offer it to our listeners,
we'll talk more about this book, Walk Like Jesus. But
thanks for explaining how it all came about. Appreciate it. Dan. Thanks.
S4 (24:12):
My pleasure.
S1 (24:14):
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Today on Bold Steps Weekend, Mark Jobe explains how we
can walk worthy of our calling.
S2 (00:06):
Because we have a call. We need to live what
our calling is. You already have everything that you need
to live up to that call, so do it. You
already have everything that you need to be able to
raise to the level of expectation that God has upon
your life, so rise up.
S1 (00:38):
Welcome to Bold Steps Weekend with Mark Jobe. Mark is
senior pastor of New Life Community Church in Chicago and
president of Moody Bible Institute. I'm Wayne Shepherd. Let's talk
about living up to your God given calling and purpose. Mark. Today,
you're going to be showing us that no matter what
we're going through, we can all walk worthy of our calling.
S3 (00:57):
Wayne, some people believe that there are some believers that
are called and others that are the non called I guess.
But this is written to the Ephesian believers and he
says to all of them, all of them, including us,
walk worthy of your calling. And then he goes on
(01:17):
to unpack what it means to walk worthy of our calling.
And so I just want you to know, if you're
listening today, you are called. Now listen to this message
so that you understand how to live out your calling.
S1 (01:30):
Well, let's jump in. This message comes from the book
of Ephesians, chapter four. Here's Mark's message on bold steps weekend.
S2 (01:37):
I don't know if you've ever walked out of your
house some morning, and your wife looks at what you're
wearing and she says, uh, doesn't match. There's something about
when you see someone wearing something that obviously doesn't match,
that draws your attention in a negative way because it
(01:57):
seems incongruent. He's like, whoa, Who put that together? It
just doesn't match. It doesn't go together. I grew up
in a many of you know, I grew up in
the country of Spain, and I came one year to
the US when I was in high school and I
was 15 to go to a school, and they happened
(02:20):
to have a special event, a prom or something of
that nature. And in order to go to this event,
you need a suit. And I didn't own a suit.
I didn't want to own a suit. I didn't like suits.
But my grandfather said, you need to wear a suit
to this event. So he dragged me out to the
store and I bought myself a suit for the event
(02:42):
that I was going to, but I just was kind
of dragging my feet on it, and, um, I decided
I wore a suit, but but I wore my, um,
my white gym socks. with, uh, you know, with red
(03:03):
stripes on the side there and that that's what I
wore with my suit. And I was sitting there at
this event and my friend looked over and said, hey, bro,
you can't wear those kind of socks with that suit, man.
It just doesn't match. It doesn't match. It brought his
attention right away. Like, no, you can't do that. Now.
If you're in a gym outfit, you can wear that.
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But if you're in a suit outfit, you have to
wear that which matches with it because it just doesn't
seem to go together. And what the Apostle Paul is
saying is that you have a calling upon your life
and that your walk, the way you live your life,
needs to match your calling. And if it doesn't match
(03:50):
your calling, then people around you will notice you not
because they're attracted to the message that you're proclaiming, but
they'll notice you because they'll notice you in a negative way.
They'll notice you in a way that says, hey, they
claim to be this, but their lifestyle is that it
(04:12):
just doesn't match. Do you realize that most people aren't
as impressed by what we say we are as by
how we live our life? Most people don't notice the
label that you wear. You can call yourself a Christian,
(04:33):
and most people don't really care that much about what
you call yourself. But what impacts people is if your
life is different, if it's lived different, if your life
is different than the norm, then it makes sense to them.
And many non-believers tend to be turned off by people
(04:54):
that claim to be Christians, but their lifestyle doesn't match
at all their claim of Christianity. Now when Paul says,
I urge you to live according to. To live worthy
of the calling that you have received. I want to
(05:15):
clarify that, because many people seem to think that there
are people that are called and people that are not called.
Some people think that only those people that are going
to be missionaries in Africa are going to be pastors
or going to be evangelists, or have some sort of
ministry that those are the called ones and that everybody else, yeah,
(05:36):
they're believers, but they're not really called that. There's a
division between those that are called and those that are
not called. And I want you to understand that that
is a huge misrepresentation of the gospel, because what the
gospel teaches is that every one that names the name
(06:01):
of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is called everyone
that we're all called. If you have proclaimed Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior, if you consider yourself a Christian,
call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ, that you have
a calling on your life and it's a high calling.
(06:24):
So why don't you turn to the person beside you
and tell him I'm called? Go ahead. Turn to the
person on the other side and say I'm called. Alright,
I want you to know you're called. Now that you
know you're called. I want you to understand that you're
calling oftentimes determines the expectations. I have an 11 year
(06:48):
old son. He's in sixth grade right now. His calling
is to be a sixth grader in my house. So
my expectations of him are a little bit lower than
they would be someone older, because that's his calling right now, right?
And so I don't expect that he gets a job
(07:09):
and helps pay the light bill. I've been tempted to
move in that direction, but no, I don't expect that
of him. I don't expect that he drive a car
right now. I don't expect that he know how to
fill out his tax return forms. I don't expect that
he know how to do trigonometry. Why? Because he's 11
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years old and he's in sixth grade. So my expectation
go along with his calling. His calling right now is
at a sixth grade level. So I have expectations of
a sixth grade level upon his life. Now, when someone
is in office, for example, the president of the United
States and the highest political office that you can hold
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in this land, we have higher expectations of someone like that. Why?
Because the calling determines the expectations that we have on someone.
When someone is living out the calling of being a
married man and has kids and is raising them, then
I have a different set of expectations upon that man
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than I would upon a single man, a single young man. Why?
Because he's living out his calling. Part of his calling
is to be a husband and a father. And so
the expectations are different. Why? Because the calling determines the expectations.
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And in the same way, Paul is reminding the believers
that we have a calling on our life and it's
a high calling. And since our calling is high, then
our expectations need to be high. We don't have a
low calling. We have a high calling. Now, what he's
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not saying is that you have to try to be
worthy of the call, because you are already worthy of
the call. Because we have a call, we need to
live what our calling is. You already have everything that
you need to live up to that call, so do it.
You already have everything that you need to be able
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to raise to the level of expectation that God has
upon your life. So rise up. You have all that
it takes within you. He just told us in our
previous verses that we read last week in the previous chapters,
that you are indwelt with the Holy Spirit, that you
have everything that you need, all the power of God,
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that you need to be what God has called you
to be. So now be it. So live worthy of
the call that you have received. And then he goes
on to explain what it means to live worthy of
the call that we have received, and in essence, he
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tells us that there are two tests that make us
that help us understand whether or not we're living worthy
of the call that we have received. One has to
do with our character, uh, how we live, our attitude.
And the other has to do with whether we are
peacemakers or divisive people, whether we're bridge builders or whether
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we tear bridges down. So the first one, I'll categorize
it as this. It's the attitude towards leadership or what
I call servant leadership. He tells us in verse two
what it means to live worthy of our call. And
he says this. He says, verse two, be completely humble
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and gentle. Be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Aren't there certain verses you just wish you could kind
of scratch out of the Bible. This is one of them.
This is tough. A verse he gives us for attitudes
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that every person that's called by Jesus Christ should have.
And these are not easy attitudes. Believe me, these are
some hard attitudes he's calling us to live up to.
I'm going to give him to you. And again, these
are not optional. These are required of people that are
called by God to live up to your calling.
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Mark Jobe will be back to explain these attitudes in
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with Mark Jobe on Bold Steps Weekend.
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Number one, he says, be humble. Be completely humble. Now,
when I say humble, most of you aren't really excited
to be humble. Most of us do not really value
the attitude of humility highly. It's not something that that
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fathers often tell their sons. They don't say, son, I
want you to be humble. It's not something that coaches
tell their athletes, hey, I want you to be humble.
It's not. In fact, in the Greek and Roman culture,
it was looked down upon to be humble. And I
think part of our reticence to accepting humility and celebrating
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humility is that we don't really understand what true humility is.
For example, some people think that being humble means that
you have an Then inferiority complex. That being humble means
that you're going to be like a mat that people
sort of dust their feet off of. Uh, some people
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think that humble means that you can't look someone in
the eye, that you kind of walk around hunched over,
looking at the ground all the time. And when someone
greets you, you kind of look up at them and
kind of shy away. Uh, some people think humility means
being shy or being timid or not being able to
voice your opinion or not being assertive or not being
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able to to speak. And some people think if I'm humble,
I'm going to be someone's doormat. If I'm humble, I'm
going to be stepped on. If I'm humble, I'm going
to be taken advantage of because we have not quite
understood what humility means. Jesus was humble. And yet, do
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you remember when Jesus entered into the temple, He threw up.
He turned over the tables of the money changers. He
got a whip and he drove everybody out of the temple.
And he said, my house. My house shall be called
a house of prayer. But was he humble? Yeah. He
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acted in humility. The Bible tells us that Moses was
one of the most humble people on the face of
this earth. Yet Moses challenged an entire nation, and he
brought the most powerful man in the world at the time,
whose name was who was a pharaoh. He brought him
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to his knees. He challenged the powers and authorities that
were there, and he led almost 2 million people out
of slavery into to look to a new Promised Land.
And yet he was a humble man. You see, humility
has to do with You understanding your proper worth before
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God and before men. Having a proper view of yourself,
before God and before men is the definition of humility.
You don't think more highly of yourself than you should,
and you don't think more lowly of yourself than you should.
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You understand who you are, and you're comfortable and confident
in who you are. You see what happens when. When
you do not understand who you are and you're not humble,
then you have to try to project an image, uh,
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when someone is proud, they're not humble. And oftentimes what
happens is, if you don't understand who you are and
are confident who you are, you have to try to
make sure that people know who you are. You walk
into a room and you think, oh, people don't really
know what I've done or who I am. So you're
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impulsively driven to hand out business cards with big titles
on them. And when you talk, you have to tell
people who you know and what you've done and what
you've accomplished. Why? Because, well, they don't really know. I
need to. And you want to sit at the best
place in the front place where everybody can acknowledge you,
that the seats of importance. Why? Because you have to
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make sure that everybody knows who you are and what
you've done and how you are. Why? Because you're you're
not confident already in who you are. You're not comfortable
with understanding who you are. You see, when you're humble,
you're not driven to try to show everybody that you
have value. When you're humble, you know you have value.
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When you're humble, you already know who you are. You
don't have to prove that you're somebody because you know
that you're somebody already in God. When you're humble, you
don't have to take credit for everything because you can
share the credit. Why? Because you're already you already know
that you're somebody in God. You're comfortable with who you are.
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You're not trying to secure a name. You already know
your value because you're humble. You understand that when Jesus
was arrested and he went before Pilate. Pilate asked him,
some say that you are the king of the Jews.
What do you say? And notice that Jesus said nothing.
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He didn't respond. He didn't say, oh, you better believe
I'm the king of the Jews. He didn't say, oh,
you want to hear what I've done? Let me tell you, man,
you should have seen when I rose Lazarus from the dead.
He was all dead for three days, And I said, Lazarus,
come forth. Man, that stone rolled away. Everybody was shocked
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and amazed at what I did. I mean, Lazarus came forth.
And you want to know power? Let me tell you,
there was a blind guy that came to me. I
spit on the ground, make it a little mud. I
put him on his eyes and whoa, he could see.
Now that's who I am. Jesus didn't say that. Jesus
didn't say, hey, one day I was out on the
sea and there was a storm and a tempest. Everybody
was afraid. I got up in the boat and I said, storm,
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be still, man. It went quiet and still. Why? Because
that's who I am. And Jesus didn't have to say that.
He didn't have to boast. He didn't have to brag.
He didn't have to tell everybody his story. Why? Because
Jesus walked in humility. He knew who he was. And
when you know who you are, you don't have to
go around trying to prove to people that you are
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somebody because you already know who you are. That's true humility.
S1 (19:59):
Learning what true humility looks like. That's the takeaway from
today's message with Mark Jobe. And you're listening to Bold
Steps Weekend. If you missed any of the messages from
his series called When You Believe Everything Changes, let me
invite you to catch up right now by visiting Bold Steps.
Tired of feeling like your Christian life doesn't measure up
to Jesus example? Well, you're not alone. In Walk Like Jesus,
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Dan Speer examines the broad scope of who Christ is
and how his life should transcend our 21st century lifestyles.
This bold step gift offers more than inspiration. It provides
a practical roadmap for genuine transformation. Mark, we're joined now
by Dan Spader, who's the author of our Bold Step Gift.
S2 (20:40):
Yes, and so excited to have Dan Spader. He's been
a friend of Moody, went to Moody, started his ministry
on Moody, was alumnus of the year.
S1 (20:50):
How about that? Right.
S2 (20:50):
And, uh, yeah. So we feel like Dan is a
part of this ministry. And so great to have him
in the studio. And, you know, it's one thing to
admire Jesus in his life, but it's another thing entirely
to actually walk the way he walked. And what I
love about Dan Spader, his emphasis has been largely on
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let's do things the way that Jesus did things. And
so we have a bold step gift called Walk Like Jesus.
And Dan, you wrote this book or study guide, would
we call it Walk Like Jesus? Seems like impossible to do.
Talk to me a little bit. Why you wrote this?
S4 (21:30):
Well, it's I love Moody, too. I'll go back to that.
And it was while I was a student at Moody,
a professor there, Stan Gundry, challenged me that some of
Christ's disciples could have been teenagers, and it was probably true, John.
And that set me changed the trajectory of my life, literally.
He just compiled a harmony of the Gospels, and he said,
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you need to just study. What did Jesus do the
first year? What did he do second year? What did
he do third year? What did you do fourth year. here.
And we called our youth group sunlight because we just
were trying to figure out the sun's life.
S2 (22:05):
Mhm.
S4 (22:05):
And uh, soon we began to really understand that when you,
when you do a deep dive into Jesus, which I
spent ten plus years my doctorate work trying to analyze
the life of Christ chronologically, begin to see that he
was all about making disciples and all about building movements
of multiplication. Yeah. And so I began to teach that.
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And as we taught that around the country, I had
person after person say, well, that's really great, Doctor Slater,
but I can't do what Jesus did. He was God,
and I'm not. And I would struggle with that statement.
I probably heard it hundreds of times. And so I said, I,
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I've got to look harder at this aspect of Jesus
because it was a different Jesus. I understood because Jesus,
I see over 40 times said, do what I've done,
walk as I walk, Walkers follow the pattern I gave you.
And he said, if you can even do greater things
than I did. Now I'm not talking miracles, signs and wonders.
I'm talking. He says he had four years to reproduce
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his life and others, and I think he was saying,
we have 40 years if we walk as he walked.
So that caused us in our training to begin to say,
what does it mean to walk as Jesus walked first?
John two six if any of us claim to be
in Christ, we must. It's a command walk as and
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I believe that's the key word as Jesus walked. So
that began us looking at not only what did Jesus do,
but how did Jesus do what he did in his humanity?
Because he was fully God. But even more critical, if
you understand Hebrews two and five, he was fully human,
and that's how he made atonement for our sins. So
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we really looked at in his humanity. How did Jesus walk?
Because he said walk as I walked.
S1 (24:01):
Well, Dan, it is fantastic that you've written this. And
now that we get to offer it to our listeners,
we'll talk more about this book, Walk Like Jesus. But
thanks for explaining how it all came about. Appreciate it. Dan. Thanks.
S4 (24:12):
My pleasure.
S1 (24:14):
And you can get a copy of Dan's life changing
resource today. Just call 800 Moody. That's (800) 356-6639 or give
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for joining us today. Be sure to come back next
time when Mark addresses the next three points on Walking Worthy.
This message comes from our series when you believe everything
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