Kingdom Exchange Episode # 7 - Seeing Yourself through Gods Eyes

This teaching session focuses on foundational Christian truths about identity, value, pride, and humility, emphasizing the importance of understanding self-worth from a biblical perspective. The message unfolds by contrasting worldly views of value with God’s eternal standard and explores the nature, symptoms, and consequences of pride, while underscoring humility as a vital spiritual discipline. Key Concepts Value and Love Definition: Love is the recognition of value. Healthy self-love is simply acknowledging your God-given worth. The Command: To "love your neighbor as yourself" requires first having a healthy sense of self-value. Kingdom vs. World: The world bases value on performance, appearance, and status (conditional). The Kingdom declares your value is intrinsic and equal, rooted in Christ’s sacrifice. Impact on the Church Pride and competition arise when roles or gifts are used to create hierarchies. True leadership is defined by humility and servanthood. Pride vs. Humility Pride: Elevating the Self An attempt to artificially raise your value in the eyes of others. Manifestations: Boasting, people-pleasing, fear of rejection, lying, and criticizing others to feel superior. Subtle Pride: Self-deprecation (fishing for compliments) and unteachability. Humility: Grounded Reality Honesty and transparency about who you are, rooted in God’s opinion rather than human approval. The Solution Confess: Recognize pride as it happens. Submit: Choose God’s will over self-importance daily. Serve: Replace competition with love.

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