Pride & Gospel Humility

Here is a copy of the note I gave to our dads on Father's Day at The Bridge.

Dad’s,

God deliberately designed the gospel in such a way as to strip us of pride and leave us without any grounds for boasting in ourselves. This is actually a wonderful mercy from God, for pride is at the root of all our sin. … So, to experience deliverance from sin, we must be delivered from the pride that produces it. Thankfully, the gospel is engineered to accomplish this deliverance.

Preaching the gospel to yourself each day mounts a powerful assault against your pride and serves to establish humility in its place. Nothing suffocates your pride more than daily reminders regarding the glory of your God, the gravity of your sins, and the crucifixion of God’s own Son in your place.

The gracious love of God, which is lavished on you because of Christ’s death, is always humbling to remember, especially when viewed against the backdrop of the Hell we deserve.


-Pastor Ben

In short: We don't graduate from the gospel.

"For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." - 1 Corinthians 1:18

Preach the Gospel to yourself daily. Why? It brings a proper view of who we are and who He is.

Without Christ I was on the precipice of hell. Without Christ we were all the worst, wickedest, and most undeserving people who ever lived. The worst of the worst. But in Christ we go from worst to first. We receive an “other worldly” gift that we do not deserve, and were absolutely helpless in ever earning.

True Gospel Humility should cause:

• Daily amazement at what has happened to you
  
• Daily gratitude for what has happened for you
  
• Joyful awareness that your greatest problem in life has been resolved.
  
• Overwhelmed by hope because you now know that no problem is too big for God.
  
• Sobered awareness of what you were: amazed awareness of God’s mercy.
  
• Serving others becomes a first thought, as it pertains to behavior.
  
• Hope, joy, care, encouragement, gratitude, and kindness are the characteristics of lives.
  
• Tearfulness is a normal response as you think of Christ and what he did for you.
  
• Gospel-centered-motivations shape what you do.
  
• Radically transformed from the inside out.
  
• Uninhibited in your transparency with others.