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Galatians chapter 6 verse 14

Paul says but far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world

has been crucified to me and I to the world. What a statement.

Paul saying that he has one boast in this life and it's nothing in the world.

It's only in Christ and specifically the cross of Christ for

at the cross I see I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me that this

world has nothing for me. Christ is everything to me. The

cross is everything to me because it reconciles me to God and this is my greatest need so this is my only boast and yet when I think

about that I think about well is everything in the world bad I mean obviously

there are good things in the world, so families, not bad,

friends are not bad, so everything's not bad, and even when I think about boasting, I think about

my kids when I watch my four-year-old son this morning at a swim lesson and he's

learning to swim like I'm kind of proud of him as I'm watching him or when when I see my wife recognized by people for her gifts and skills I'm kind of

prone to boast in that so is that? But this is where we realize the beauty of what

Paul's saying here and the beauty of the cross. Because apart from the

cross, apart from Christ's death on our behalf,

we deserve nothing but condemnation from God.

If our sin is not paid for, then what do we receive before God? We receive judgment, condemnation,

and as a result, every good thing we every even bad thing that God turns from good

it all comes from the cross we almost assume we deserve the blessing of God or God owes his blessing to us

but the reality is we can only experience the blessing of God by the grace of God

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