Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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… grace is diminishing the whole point of the universe and God's purpose in it, which is to take boasting away and to replace it with praise. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord and specifically in grace. And grace is the absolutely free action of treating sinners better than we deserve. So grace is huge. And I'll just point out one thing, and you test this, whether it's true or not. The difference between, I won't give a name to the alternatives, but just here's here's Johnny Erickson and John Piper's theology called Calvinism. And here's the alternative, that denies that God is that sovereign in salvation. And the denial comes at this point. This is all my Calvinism right here in a sentence. And you must ask this question. So when you got saved, when you passed from death to life, you were dead in your trespasses, God made you alive in Christ Jesus, Ephesians 2.5. When you passed from death to life, from unbelief to belief, from blindness to seeing, from rebellion to submission, when you crossed that line, were you decisive or was God decisive? …
… That's what the Scripture says. And also at the end of chapter 1, verse 31, let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. That's right out of Jeremiah 9. So you don't compare these men because one is wiser, one is more clever. Thank you. There's no room for boasting. No room for boasting. Down in chapter 2, verse 8, Paul writes about the wisdom that none of the rulers of this age has understood, for if they understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory, just as it is written, things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him. Another basically rejection of human wisdom, that the things that come from God are not available to the human heart. So you don't judge people by what they can produce out of their own minds. And verse 16 is another Old Testament quote from Isaiah 40, "'Who has known the mind of the Lord that He will instruct him. …
… Therefore, I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in the things that pertain to God. You remember what he says elsewhere, let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. And when Paul says, I have reason to glory, what he is saying here is that all of that glory that I've experienced, all of the reason I have to boast is rooted and grounded in Christ Jesus. He's understanding that it is not of Himself. As He wrote elsewhere to the Philippians, I didn't come to you with eloquence. I didn't come to you with all of the skills of public orators, but I came to you in the power and in the demonstration of the Holy Ghost. So he says, for I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me in word and deed to make the Gentiles obedient. Now is he saying I can boast in some things that I've been able to accomplish, but I didn't make it in these other areas, and so I can't boast of them? …