Walking in Love - Part 13: Be Careful What You Flex | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. And as you

0:50 Speaker 2: would have seen that, we're doing a series on how

0:52 Speaker 2: to practically walk in unconditional Love. I really challenge you

0:56 Speaker 2: to check out each of these segments because there's so

0:58 Speaker 2: much of truth that you and I need to get

1:00 Speaker 2: dive into. And maybe there are things that you already know,

1:03 Speaker 2: but we just need to revisit and make sure that

1:05 Speaker 2: we are walking in this truth so that we are

1:08 Speaker 2: actually walking in the love, walking in the kind of

1:11 Speaker 2: life that God has in store for us as well.

1:13 Speaker 2: And we've been talking about various aspects that our Bible

1:16 Speaker 2: is talking about with regard to the Loud chapter first

1:18 Speaker 2: Goud Intean Stebrad thirteen. And today I'm going to talk

1:20 Speaker 2: about another important aspect from this. If you look at

1:24 Speaker 2: verse four, which we have already talked about love being patient,

1:29 Speaker 2: love is kind, love does not envy. Today we're going

1:31 Speaker 2: to talk about how love does not boast and love

1:35 Speaker 2: is not proud. Now, I want you to understand something

1:38 Speaker 2: very important here that I know for a fact that

1:42 Speaker 2: most of us say, oh, I don't want to be proud.

1:44 Speaker 2: I am who I am what by the grace of God.

1:47 Speaker 2: But sometimes we need to check ourselves, like maybe in

1:51 Speaker 2: a subtle way, we tend to boast. Not I mean

1:55 Speaker 2: the apostle Paul said, you know, I boast only in

1:57 Speaker 2: the Lord. We are supposed to boast in the Lord,

1:59 Speaker 2: like I am who I am by the grace of God.

2:01 Speaker 2: If not for God's grace, I wouldn't be able to

2:02 Speaker 2: do what I'm doing. That's true. But at the same time,

2:05 Speaker 2: sometimes just sometimes we just tend to think more about

2:09 Speaker 2: ourselves or boast in our own capabilities. And I've noticed

2:12 Speaker 2: this in my life where I realize sometimes we tend

2:16 Speaker 2: to think like, oh I am able to do this.

2:17 Speaker 2: I am, you know, like indispensable. I need to be there,

2:23 Speaker 2: you know, like we have that subtle things, and sometimes

2:25 Speaker 2: even in a conversation sometimes that sense of boastfulness just

2:29 Speaker 2: comes in, like oh, you know what, I've done this,

2:32 Speaker 2: or I've been here, I travel so much, or I

2:35 Speaker 2: have accomplished this, I have done that. See, whenever I share,

2:38 Speaker 2: I'm always very cautious, like God, keep me sharing things

2:42 Speaker 2: that needs to be shared from the right heart. You know,

2:46 Speaker 2: when I share a lot of times that the podcast

2:48 Speaker 2: is stop ranking, or the book is a bestseller, my

2:52 Speaker 2: books were bestsellers, or certain accomplishments like the world recort

2:56 Speaker 2: that I've set and all of that, I am very

2:59 Speaker 2: cautious because I want to use it only to give

3:01 Speaker 2: in a sense of credibility. But not from a place

3:04 Speaker 2: of look who I am, look where I am, or

3:08 Speaker 2: look what I have done. It's never from that place.

3:10 Speaker 2: It's always from a place of look what the Lot

3:13 Speaker 2: has done with my life, Look what the Lord can

3:15 Speaker 2: do with your life. If he did it for me,

3:17 Speaker 2: he will do it for you. And only from that

3:19 Speaker 2: so always introspect your heart and say, am I boastful?

3:23 Speaker 2: Am I always saying like, look I am this, I

3:25 Speaker 2: am that. You know. Sometimes we see people who allow

3:29 Speaker 2: to boast about them maybe accomplishments or their education. Oh

3:34 Speaker 2: you know what I'm in, you know. For me, for example,

3:37 Speaker 2: I'm an aerospace engineer. Like I've seen people if they

3:40 Speaker 2: were in a similar place, they would be like I

3:42 Speaker 2: am an irosp engineer, you know, like in a very

3:44 Speaker 2: boastful manner. Or for example, sometimes I've seen people post

3:49 Speaker 2: on socials. I'm very, very careful when I post on socials.

3:52 Speaker 2: I post when the Lord leads and how sometimes you know,

3:56 Speaker 2: you used it to tell people certain things and convey things.

4:00 Speaker 2: But I'm very cash careful, Like for example, one of

4:03 Speaker 2: the things that I try my best to avoid is,

4:08 Speaker 2: you know, like even family photos. I'm very careful when

4:11 Speaker 2: I post because I've seen sometimes it might be innocent

4:17 Speaker 2: in one way, but it can also be hurting to

4:21 Speaker 2: somebody else, because somebody else who's not having that, you know,

4:26 Speaker 2: like the gift of being able to travel with their family,

4:30 Speaker 2: or the gift of being able to do certain things.

4:32 Speaker 2: I don't want them to feel envious or them to

4:36 Speaker 2: feel like, oh my gosh, you know what this guy

4:39 Speaker 2: is enjoying and look at me. You know, like, even

4:42 Speaker 2: if that's not my intention, sometimes I'm very careful on

4:46 Speaker 2: those things and I really challenge you, like like I've

4:49 Speaker 2: seen sometimes people they just want to post and post

4:52 Speaker 2: you know what this is, this many at the place

4:56 Speaker 2: or where I'm going, and see it's all with a

4:58 Speaker 2: grain of salt. You need to take it right, like

5:00 Speaker 2: there is a place where you can share as a testimony,

5:04 Speaker 2: but it should be careful that it's coming from a

5:06 Speaker 2: heart of testimony. The tone of a testimony to say,

5:10 Speaker 2: look what a lot is done in comparison to somebody

5:13 Speaker 2: just boasting and saying see what I have done? You

5:16 Speaker 2: see where I am now? No, no, no, no. Your

5:19 Speaker 2: tone matters when you post, even on social media. Is

5:22 Speaker 2: it coming from a heart of testimony or is it

5:25 Speaker 2: coming from a heart of boasting? Matters. If you're proud,

5:29 Speaker 2: it will be visible. I have seen it in people

5:33 Speaker 2: they want to boast like oh I'm doing this, I'm

5:35 Speaker 2: going here, I'm doing this. Great. I'm not denying that

5:39 Speaker 2: look what a lot is done. But if you're giving

5:41 Speaker 2: glory to God through that, great but if you're boasting

5:45 Speaker 2: just to boast, I'm sorry, you need to reevaliate. And

5:49 Speaker 2: it can be with regard to posting on social media.

5:52 Speaker 2: It can be with regard to you know, your conversations.

5:56 Speaker 2: You know some people they like in the past. I

6:00 Speaker 2: think I've I've been with people, uh you know, when

6:04 Speaker 2: I share about being best selling author or anything, I

6:07 Speaker 2: use it in a very you know, credible manner or

6:11 Speaker 2: something like that. Whereas I've seen people they have to say, oh,

6:14 Speaker 2: you know what, I am a best selling author, or

6:17 Speaker 2: I am you know, a commander in chief, or I

6:22 Speaker 2: am this, I am that they in the way they say,

6:26 Speaker 2: you know that they post or their their security or

6:29 Speaker 2: their identity is rooted in that accomplishment. I wanted to

6:35 Speaker 2: really check yourself. Are you posting even when you don't

6:40 Speaker 2: realize you're actually posting? Are you just being proud of

6:43 Speaker 2: your accomplishments to a fact that your identity is rooted

6:47 Speaker 2: in that? Be very careful. When the podcast was ranking

6:52 Speaker 2: up the charts, and even by God's grace, even I

6:55 Speaker 2: think even right now it's ranking in several countries. The

7:00 Speaker 2: thing is this, there was a moment I actually took

7:02 Speaker 2: a break from you know the podcast. You know why,

7:06 Speaker 2: because there came a point when I noticed that my

7:08 Speaker 2: podcast was taking up my identity, Like I was son

7:11 Speaker 2: as the podcast guy, the top ranking podcast, all of

7:14 Speaker 2: these things. It was taking up my identity and I

7:17 Speaker 2: had to pause, like, you know what, I don't care

7:19 Speaker 2: about the ranks. My rank should not be my identity.

7:24 Speaker 2: Sometimes our accomplishments end up becoming our identity. The blessing

7:30 Speaker 2: that God has given us end up becoming an identity,

7:33 Speaker 2: and we need to be careful that we don't go

7:35 Speaker 2: into that. The way we say, in the way we boast,

7:40 Speaker 2: in the way we portray sometimes it can be evidently

7:45 Speaker 2: seen that we're being postful and it's coming from a

7:49 Speaker 2: heart of pride instead of coming from a heart that

7:54 Speaker 2: wants to testify. So I really challenge you to introspect.

7:59 Speaker 2: You know, even as today is ashwaynes Day, we think

8:02 Speaker 2: about Jesus, you know, or that when he moved towards Jerusalem,

8:07 Speaker 2: we moved towards his ultimate calling. Jesus did not operate

8:11 Speaker 2: from a place of pride. He operated from a place

8:14 Speaker 2: of humility. He never boasted like there were so many

8:19 Speaker 2: chances where when people got hit he could have used

8:21 Speaker 2: that to trumpet himself and say, yeah, I got I

8:24 Speaker 2: hear this person. What did he do? He told him,

8:28 Speaker 2: don't mention about it, keep him mouth shut. Why he

8:33 Speaker 2: didn't want to boast. He operated in love, he didn't boast,

8:40 Speaker 2: and I challenge each one of us to learn to

8:43 Speaker 2: walk in that maturity where we are walking in love

8:47 Speaker 2: and not working in pride. Amen, God bless you.

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