in this video we're gonna talk about the
difference between Pride and Christian
confidence hey everybody I'm mark
multiply God's Word calm a place where
we apply the Bible to your life I think
a lot of times we misunderstand what the
Bible actually says regarding humility
sometimes we think humility means having
a low picture of ourselves we quit
humility with a lack of self-esteem or a
poor perception of ourselves
oftentimes this can even be rooted in a
good desire of glorifying God sometimes
we take the idea that to lift God up we
need to push ourselves down so we
deflect a lot of praise we you know are
very uncomfortable if someone notices
our gifting or we just kind of walk
around with our heads low because we
think we can't shine too brightly
because this is supposed to be all about
God and I want to validate the motive
behind that type of thinking yes artists
are our purpose as Christians is to
glorify God and exalt him and not
ourselves absolutely correct but the
Bible definitely takes a different
approach pride in the Bible is when you
elevate yourself over other people or
over God so you know pride is about you
know your relationship to other people
and saying that you're better than them
now Christianity doesn't doesn't
obviously rejects that like don't be
prideful you know you're supposed to be
humble but it also says we're supposed
to shine brightly for Christ we're
supposed to be lights of the world God
talks about all these amazing things
that he's accomplished for us that are
actually ours and so for example he
calls us Saints throughout the New
Testament we're referred to in a very
glorious manner because of what Jesus
Christ has accomplished for us and
transferred to us so regarding this idea
of being a saint one of my favorite
theologians Martin lloyd-jones says this
he says the first thing to say of a
Christian is that he is a saint
I fear that may sound rather strange
some of us we tend to say well I am a
Christian but I am far from being a
saint
we are afraid of making such a claim
somehow we are afraid of this particular
designation and yet in the New Testament
we are addressed as Saints so again it's
this kind of false humility where we're
uncomfortable being called a saint
because we know well I'm not a saint you
know we kind of used that language in
casual conversation and saying you know
I'm anything but it's saying you should
know man you got you don't know me
behind closed doors and all of that is
very true we all have a sin nature that
we're dealing with but again in
Scripture God refers to us as Saints so
the big idea the first idea we want to
talk about here is that you don't need
to put yourself down to lift God up
worshiping God is totally separate from
diminishing yourself and putting
yourself down CS Lewis said humility is
not thinking less of yourself it's
thinking of yourself
less so humility isn't about having low
self-esteem it's about putting others
before yourself in a sacrificial way so
the difference between pride and
Christian confidence is that pride is
rooted in yourself and Christian
confidence is rooted in Jesus Christ and
what he's accomplished for you in
Galatians 6:14 Paul says may I never
boast about anything except of the Cross
of the Lord Jesus Christ one of the ways
we glorify God and bring him praise is
by reflecting the gifts and the
righteousness that he's given us so
we're not trying to shine brightly so
that people will look at us rather we
are trying to shine brightly and to show
the world how much God has done for us
so that they might see his glory and
fame jesus said in Matthew 5:16 in the
same way let your light shine before
others so that they may see your good
works and give glory to your father who
is in heaven so we're not supposed to be
there's a dimly lit light we're not
supposed to have this false humility but
we're also not supposed to be prideful
we're supposed to shine
for christ so that people will see our
good works are actually because the
gospel has had a great transformative
effect in our lives and therefore we're
shining brightly so that people will
honor Christ
1st Corinthians 1:30 says let him who
boasts boast in the Lord so it's not
really biblical to say Christians aren't
supposed to boast we're just not
supposed to boast in ourselves we're
supposed to have our confidence rooted
in Christ in Jesus so nowhere in
scripture are we told to put ourselves
down to have low self-esteem or to have
this false humility where we're moping
around and trying to elevate God by
diminishing ourselves in front of other
people rather we want to reject pride
and say I have nothing to boast about in
myself but I have everything to boast
about in the Lord Jesus Christ and what
he is actually accomplished for me I
really am new I really AM pure I really
am a new creation but it has nothing to
do with what I've done it's all because
of Jesus Christ so a Christian
confidence is embracing who Jesus has
made you to be while also giving glory
to God for who he's made you both you
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in Galatians 6:14 Paul says may I boast
about nothing