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[223]. A Message From A Poem - Our Boast Is In The Lord
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 10, 2025 (message contributor)
[223]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - OUR BOAST IS IN THE LORD
Last Sunday I preached on this verse - {{Galatians 6:14 “MAY IT NEVER BE THAT I SHOULD BOAST, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”}}
Then we looked at how boasting related to Paul. I won’t go into all that. The sermon is on SermonCentral in the Galatians 6 messages (the series on Galatians).
In fact we actually sang this poem as the closing hymn to the tune “Darwall” which is the tune for “Rejoice, the Lord is King. Your God and King adore!” (Charles Wesley).
Boasting means to get glory from yourself and for yourself. This is how we see politicians using boasting. These false ones want the focus to be on them so they obtain the glory derived from how important they think they are. It can also mean to vaunt oneself, meaning to blow your own trumpet and announce your importance and impressiveness to the world.
A Christian must never go down that path for it dishonours the Lord. We are to glorify Christ, not ourselves. What should our attitude be? It is found here – {{Luke 18:10-13 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer. The Pharisee stood and was praying thus to himself, ‘God, I THANK YOU THAT I AM NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer. I fast twice a week. I pay tithes of all that I get,’ but the tax-gatherer, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven but was beating his breast saying, ‘GOD, BE MERCIFUL TO ME, THE SINNER!’}}
Anything and everything we have has come from the Lord through His gracious gifts. Of ourselves we have nothing. Therefore we must never take what the Lord has given and appropriate it to ourselves to make it a cause of boasting for it is wrong.
To whom do we bring glory? It is something to think about. {{1 Corinthians 1:31 that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”}}
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OUR BOAST IS IN THE LORD
Our boast is in the Lord
Who gives the victory.
The Lamb is our reward,
Who took our penalty.
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CHORUS
Jesus is Lord!
His love supreme is great,
And to it, we relate.
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He ransomed us from sin.
His love has conquered all.
How then do we begin
To answer love’s great call?
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Men boast in earthly things;
Vain things that fade away.
Out boast in Christ, it rings,
Eternally to stay.
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His name brings joy and peace.
O, worship Him, the lamb!
His love will never cease.
He is the great I AM.
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The Lord will come again
To gather all His own.
Our hope, it is not vain;
It reaps what it has sown.
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Our boast in Christ is sure.
The Lamb is our desire.
To heaven, He’s the Door;
Lord, set our hearts on fire.
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Ron Ferguson 6 October 2025 ABAB 6-6-6-6
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