‘Be Free From Self Confidence.’
a) Proverbs 18:11; Jeremiah 49:4-5; Luke 12:19. In financial wealth.
b) Deuteronomy 29:18-19. In following the desires of our own stubborn hearts.
c) 1 Kings 20:11. In boasting before the battle begins.
d) 2 Kings 18:21; Isaiah 36:6; 31:1. In leaning on the World system.
e) Job 29:18. In our natural family.
f) Psalm 10:6. That nothing bad would ever happen and that no trouble would come.
g) Isaiah 5:21. In being wise in our own eyes and thinking of ourselves as clever.
h) Jeremiah 7:8. In trusting in a religious building.
i) Jeremiah 8:11; 23:17; Ezekiel 13:10. In giving assurances of Peace when there is no Peace.
j) Jeremiah 17:5; Zechariah 4:6. In trusting in mere humans and human strength.
k) Jeremiah 21:13; Obadiah 1:3. In saying that no one can touch us or invade us.
l) Hosea 10:13. In trusting in great armies.
m) Zephaniah 2:15. In saying “I am the greatest.”
n) Luke 18:9. In our own Righteousness.
o) Galatians 6:8. In living to satisfy our own human nature.
(This QT strongly urges and reminds me to Be Free From Self Confidence)
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‘Only God’s Miracle Can Restore Fallen Believers.’
Hebrews 6:4-8.
a) Hebrews 6:4-5. It is impossible to renew to repentance people who have:-
1- Already been enlightened.
2- Tasted the Heavenly Gift.
3- Become partakers of the Holy Spirit.
4- Tasted the Good Word of God.
5- Tasted the powers of the Age to come.
b) Hebrews 6:6. If these people have fallen away they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.
c) Hebrews 6:7. When the cultivated Earth receives the rain it produces crops – this is the Blessing of God.
d) Hebrews 6:8. If it only produces thorns and thistles it is rejected and near to being cursed. It will be burned.
(This Second one is very clear in that Only God’s Miracle Can Restore Fallen Believers, humanly it is impossible)
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Chris.
Some people trust in the fact of being wise in their own eyes and think of themselves as clever. This is a very big mistake and an even bigger mistake if they are professing “Christians”. One of the fruit of the True Believer is the fruit of Humility and the True Believer puts their total confidence in God and not in themselves. It is God that gives both Wisdom and Success, so if we have those things we should really Glorify God with them.
