Known for his unique ability to simplify profound truth so that it can be applied to everyday life.

Adrian Rogers was one of the most effective preachers, respected Bible teachers, and Christian leaders of our time.

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Here's Adrian Rogers.

Today, I want to speak to you on this subject, freedom from the performance trap.

And I think many of us have gotten into this problem trying somehow to make ourselves acceptable to God.

And we have gotten into this thing called perfectionism.

Now, you may not think that this applies to you, but stay tuned.

Read Galatians 3 and verse 3.

Are ye so foolish, having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect in the flesh? And then 1st

Corinthians 15 verses 9 and 10. Here's the Apostle Paul. For I am the least of the apostles

that are not meet to be called an apostle

because I persecuted the Church of God. But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And His grace,

which was bestowed upon me, was not in vain.

But I labored more abundantly than they all.

Yet not I, but the grace of God, which was with me.

Now, perfect is a beautiful word.

But perfectionism is an ugly word. What is

perfectionism? Well, perfectionism is that disease of judging yourself by your achievements.

Does that apply to you? The performance trap. I judge myself by how I perform,

and therefore I must perform. The key words for the perfectionist are these. I must,

I should, I ought. And they're perfectionists around us, and they're

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