The natural man in all his most pious religious endeavors is carnal filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousnesss...therefore he covets the praise of men, his wickedness is attempting to have the glory that is God's alone, he maliciously wounds his own conscience and maligns anyone who would jeopardize his self-service (Ro 1:29.) Proof comes just prior to our text, in verse 13; the Lord rebuked these men saying, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." And what was their response? "And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him."

Believer, do not ever think it a strange thing when your old heart flies up to protect yourself against your brethren. These zealously religious men are what every believer is in his old flesh. They got angry at the Truth himself. Why; because our carnal nature hates the truth. Christ is competition to the flesh.

Yet, God will not allow the believer to attempt to glory in self and glory in God. God will not share his glory with another. Though our old nature hates to be put down and wars against the new nature in a believer, God graciously makes us to hear the Lord in our hearts, saying, "What do ye have that ye did not receive? If ye received it why then do ye boast as if ye did not receive it?" And the believer submits to Christ our All.

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SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH Of Princeton, New Jersey

LOCATION & TELEPHONE
Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd floor
150 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, NJ, 08553
Pastor's Telephone: 615-513-4464

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Sunday 10 AM Bible Class
11 AM Morning Worship
Thursday 7:00 PM Mid-week Service
(The first Sunday of each month, morning worship begins at 10am followed by observing the Lord's Table. Afterwards we have lunch together.)