Here the Apostle Paul gives us four ways to rightly brag. Four ways to rightly be proud of. Four ways

about our salvation for which we can express absolute pride. In verses 21 to 31 of chapter 3, he said, you can brag about God

who gave you salvation as a free gift. In verses 1 to 8 of chapter 4, he said, you can brag about God's

faith, not yours. And thirdly, in verses 9 to 17 of

chapter 4, he said, you can brag about God's grace, not your works. And finally, verses 18 to 25

of chapter 4, he said, you can brag about God's power. You can brag about what God has done for you.

Look at with me, please, verses 21 all the way to 31 of chapter 3.

Question, why is it? Why is it okay to brag about what God did? Why is it, when we talk about pride, why can you take pride in that?

This is how, the best way I can explain this from the scripture, not from my own understanding.

If you are standing on a high-rise building, you say you're up on the 30th, 40th floor of a high-rise

building, and you're looking down the street.

Here's a question now.

Can you tell the difference between a four-foot-seven person and a seven-foot person?

Can you?

No.

You can't tell the difference because you're all like alike.

I mean, just walking, you can't see. You can't distinguish. When God looks at his humanity,

when he looks down at his human creation, he sees all people all look alike to him.

Nice people, mean people, they look alike. Rich people, poor people, they look alike. When God looks down, he doesn't see someone in the valley and someone

on the mountaintop. Because it doesn't make any difference whether the person

is in the valley or the mountain top if the goal is to reach the stars, right? I mean, the guy on

top of the mountains, he's going to jump just as high as the guy in the valley if he wants

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