Preached at Merritt Island 8/13/2017 PM Lesson MIChurchOfChrist.org Adapted from Marty Pickup's lesson at the Velrico church of Christ.

2. For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to
think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to
have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
- Romans 12:3 NASB
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3. 6 “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your
God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all
the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 “The LORD did not set
His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number
than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but
because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to
your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and
redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 7:3 NASB
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4. For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not
receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not
received it?
- 1 Corinthians 4:7 NASB
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5. 1 “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to
dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified
to heaven.
4 “Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them
out before you, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought
me in to possess this land,’ but it is because of the wickedness of
these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you. 5 “It is
not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you
are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of
these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you,
in order to confirm the oath which the LORD swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:1, 4-5 NASB
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6. 7 “Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to
him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit
down to eat’? 8 “But will he not say to him, ‘Prepare something for me
to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink;
and afterward you may eat and drink’? 9 “He does not thank the slave
because he did the things which were commanded, does he? 10“So
you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say,
‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to
have done.’”
- Luke 17:7-10 NASB
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7. 6 “Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD
your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a
stubborn people. 7 “Remember, do not forget how you provoked the
LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that you left
the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been
rebellious against the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 9:6-7 NASB
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8. 17 But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in
God, 18 and know His will and approve the things that are essential,
being instructed out of the Law, 19 and are confident that you yourself
are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a
corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law
the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth, 21 you, therefore, who
teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one
shall not steal, do you steal? 22Y ou who say that one should not
commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you
rob temples? - Romans 2:17-22 NASB
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9. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild
olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of
the rich root of the olive tree, 18 do not be arrogant toward the
branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who
supports the root, but the root supports you. 19You will say then,
“Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20Quite right,
they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do
not be conceited, but fear; 21for if God did not spare the natural
branches, He will not spare you, either.
- Romans 11:17-21 NASB
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