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Britt Worthan | Winston, Georgia
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Podcast + Codes Enjoy sermons from this broadcaster on a variety of mobile devices.MyChurch: calvarypulpit | Set MyChurch Code#: 71134 |
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WE ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT! |
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WE ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT!
Sometime ago a person called upset with the motto that we placed at the conclusion of the weekly newspaper column, âOur Church is the Church where everybody is nobody and Christ is ALLâ. Some men who have taken up the ministry as a profession feel it necessary to create self-esteem, to make men feel good about themselves. They advocate the notion that men need a âgood self imageâ. That may be so in secular occupation and as one seeks a career, but not so in spiritual matters as one seeks a relationship with God. Churches and religious leaders sometime strive to flatter human flesh and make proud sinners, men and women whose hearts are full of hatred toward God (see Romans 8:7) feel important. One example of this flattery is in the following clichĂ© that often appears on church marquees and in bulletins and religious papers. âUâ are important!...We canât spell âChurchâ without âUââŠSunday without âUââŠBudget without âUââŠSuccess without âUââŠWe need âUâ! I suspect you would not be so important were it not for the budgets and ambitions of those who promote such for their own success. This I do know, GOD SPELLED CHURCH FOR 2000 YEARS WITHOUT YOU. The cause of God (His work, His will, His glory, and His Church) does not depend on you. Youâre not that important. Neither am I. What kind of god depends on puny man? The fact is you are nothing! You have nothing that God needs. If you come to nothing, nothing will be lost as to Godâs purpose. Godâs preachers are not to flatter human flesh; they are to expose it. God will never allow the flesh to glory in His presence. âThat no flesh should glory in His presenceâŠThat, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lordâ (I Corinthians 1:29 & 31). When God makes Himself known to sinners in Christ, He causes them to glory in His blood, His righteousness, and His grace. âFor we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the fleshâ (Philippians 3:3). Only when you become nothing will Christ become ALL! The Reformer John Calvin speaking on the doctrine of man said, âWhat are they? What can they do? What is their power? Of what can they boast? They are only vermin and rottenness; still will they wish to justify themselves thereupon. To know who they are let us come to God. For man never will recognize himself as long as he looks only at himself, or as long as he compares himself with his neighbor; but only when we raise our eyes on high, and we reckon that we must come before the Judgment Seat of Him who knows everyone, who is not like mortal men who are satisfied with bits of trash, and before Whom we cannot commend our outward shells which are all those good for nothing things that we prize so much here. When we shall know that all vanishes before God, then we shall learn to put ourselves in our place, and no longer to be so elevated with such pride.â |
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