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“Breaking Arms to Pat Backs!”
Jeremiah 9:23-24 and selected passagesSlide2
An egotistical young salesman was composing a letter to the president of the firm he felt he so ably represented…Slide3
An ant climbed on an elephant’s back and asked for a ride over a bridge…Slide4
“Few people need voice lessons to sing their own praises.”Slide5
Purpose:
to examine the Biblical right and wrong about boastingSlide6
I WRONG Types of Boasting
A.
Boasting of That Which is FalseSlide7
Exaggeration: “the making of claims which is the product of inflamed imaginations.”Slide8
Have you seen a recent
Geico
commercial featuring Pinocchio? “I see nothing but untapped potential here… You have potential and you have potent… Oh boy…”Slide9
I WRONG Types of Boasting
A.
Boasting of That Which is False
B. Boasting of That Which is TrueSlide10
Proverbs 25:14“Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of his gifts falsely.”Slide11
Isaiah 64:6a“For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment…”Slide12
Christians are often deceived as to the state of their Christian progress or maturity…Slide13
I WRONG Types of Boasting
A.
Boasting of That Which is False
B. Boasting of That Which is True
C. Boasting of That Which isn’t WorthySlide14
2 Kings 5:11“But Naaman was furious and went away and said, ‘Behold, I thought…’”Slide15
I WRONG Types of Boasting
A.
Boasting of That Which is False
B. Boasting of That Which is True
C. Boasting of That Which isn’t Worthy
D. Boasting of That Which is FutureSlide16
Proverbs 27:1“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.”Slide17
Luke 12:16-21“…I’ll build bigger barns… ‘Soul, you have it made, eat, drink and be merry.’ ‘You fool! Tonight your soul will be required.’”Slide18
“Lord, I will die for You…” Remember a few shorts hours later, Peter denies three times he even knew Jesus!...Slide19
II RIGHT Types of Boasting
A.
Proper Boasting ExamplesSlide20
Genesis 41:16“…It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”Slide21
1 Samuel 17:37“The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of the Philistine.”Slide22
II RIGHT Types of Boasting
A.
Proper Boasting Examples
B. Man Was Made to Boast (for God’s Glory Alone)Slide23
Psalm 34:2“My soul shall make its boast in the Lord.”Slide24
Psalm 44:8“In God we have boasted all day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever.”Slide25
Samuel F. B. Morse
Was a portrait painter… a sculptor… writer having published hundreds of articles… “Father of American photography… college professor… and inventor…Slide26
Conclusion and Summary:
The usual items in which men boast are temporary and can flit away in a moment’s notice – wealth, prestige, wisdom of the world… Because of this may we say with Paul (Galatians 6:14)
“But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.”