Boasting has been a part of the human heart and experience since very early in human history. And the first explicit example in Scripture, the boasting we read about is a boasting in sin. In Genesis 4:23, 24 we read, "Then Lamech said to his wives: 'Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, listen to my speech! For I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for hurting me. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.'" The sword-song of Lamech expresses the boast of the unregenerate, unmerciful, and prideful natural man. The same kind of boast in human power and strength is made by the unregenerated human heart today. But when the human heart is regenerated and the message of the gospel of grace is received with joy and humility, the natural and fallen human prideful boasting in one's own power is replaced with a confession of inability and reliance on the grace of God in Christ. This does not mean that we have nothing in which to boast, but our boasting is no longer in ourselves and our own power. If we boast, it is in the Savior who gave Himself for us and who meekly paid the price of our sins. The boast is no longer in what I can do, but in what He did for me. – Pastor Schlegel
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