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BOASTFUL & PROUD*

Text : 2 Timothy 3:2

 *...They will be boastful and proud...* 

Today, we shall be looking at another sign of perilous times as stated in 2Tim chapter 3. Apostle Paul mentioned that people will be boastful and proud in the last days. Today, we are already seeing the progressive Fulfilment of this in our churches and on the pulpits. So many proud and boastful preachers are on the pulpits. Many in the church are proud and boastful of their abilities, giftings, riches, titles, anointing, achievement, the list is endless.

 *One major antidote to Pride and Boastfulness is to always know that everything you have is from God.* 

 _... What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?_ 1Cor. 4:7

While you can easily notice boastings, it may not be easy to identify pride in certain people. For some people, pride is embedded deep down in the heart. Therefore, only God can see it. While boastings can easily be seen on the outward, pride may not. Pride is more subtle than boast. You can easily identify boastings but not Pride. 

Boast is often based on achievements, status, position, possessions and on few occasions on NOTHING. Pride on the other hand does not necessarily need an obvious or outward platform to ride on. Man in his fallen state can take pride in anything. It will surprise you to know that man can even take pride in his poverty. 

It is possible you have come across an arrogant and proud poor man. He has nothing (no possession, no status and no Christ) but he is full of pride. Please do not mix it up. A genuine child of God has good ground to GLORY, but, *only* in the Lord Jesus Christ and nothing else. 

 _But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world_ .Galatians 6:14

Despite the slight difference in the expressions of Boast and Pride, both are of the same family. They are bird of the same feathers. You cannot have one without the other. 

 *You need to resist Pride lest God resists you* ,

 *But he giveth more grace to the humble.* 

 _Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble._ James 4:6 


Bible Reading : 1Timothy 6:6-11.

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