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Praise the Lord Church. Today's topic is all about confidence. Confidence in the Lord.

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Our scriptures today are Proverbs 3 verse 26, 2 Corinthians 3 verse 5 and Psalm 20 verse

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7. Our first scripture, Proverbs 3 verse 26 in the ESV version says, For the Lord will

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be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught. Confidence is a reflection of what

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we believe that Jesus says over us. What we speak over ourselves will determine how we think about

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ourselves. We have to take care of ourselves because we are vessels of God. Confidence doesn't

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come from the outside, but it comes from the inside and it comes from Jesus. Confidence,

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what people don't understand about confidence is it's also humble. Confidence and cockiness are

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two very different things. Cockiness is prideful and selfish, while confidence is the humble

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assurance of our identity in Christ. Cockiness always brings the attention to ourselves,

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while confidence brings the attention back to Christ. Confidence is also God honoring. Two

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very different things. So we may think we're confident while we're really just displaying

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traits of cockiness. The second scripture today is 2 Corinthians 3 verse 5 in the ESV version.

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Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our

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sufficiency is from God. There is no such thing as self-confidence. We don't give ourselves

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confidence. So we have to ask ourselves, what is the source of our confidence? Is it Jesus? Is it

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what other people think of us? Or is it what the devil is saying to us? The scripture 2 Corinthians

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5 also makes me think of Philippians 4 verse 13, which says, I can do all things through Christ

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who strengthens me. Paul's famous saying at the end of most scriptures that he's written is in

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Christ. Jesus is our source. We can't do anything apart from him. In anything that we do, we also

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have to trust that Jesus will provide us with the wisdom and the strength. We can't find the

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strength in ourselves because Jesus is our source. He made us to be inadequate without him. The only

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way we can be fulfilled is when we come to him and we are connected to him. We find fulfillment in

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him and only him. Our last scripture is Psalm 20 chapter 20 verse 7 in the ESV version. It says,

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some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. This

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scripture is talking about how it's so important not to put our trust in anything else around us,

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but to only put our trust in Jesus. We don't put our trust in other people, but we trust God to help

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them do the right thing. And we don't put our trust in things because we can't control circumstances

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and we can't control anything else. Nothing in the world is our true sense of security. When we

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don't put our trust in Jesus, we will be let down. We aren't confident in ourselves, but we're

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confident in Jesus. We aren't confident in things, but we are confident in Jesus. We're not confident

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from other people, but we are confident in Jesus. We don't find our sense of self-worth in other

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people or things. We find our sense of self-worth in Jesus. A false sense of security is one of the

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many ways Satan traps us. Oftentimes our focus is on so many other things that Jesus is the last

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thing we remember. The scriptures that he wrote in the Bible are the last thing we remember.

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Instead of being engulfed in the word of God, we are so weighed down and worry and trying to please

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others. Because when we find our sense of security in others, we try to please them so that we don't

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lose that sense of self-worth. When we place our sense of self-worth in things, we try to acquire

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more and more and more so that we can be fulfilled. But see, nothing else works because like I earlier

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said, God made us for himself. We are inadequate without him. We will never feel fulfilled,

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feel fulfilled without him because he made us to be fulfilled when we have salvation in him.

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Our points today are one, undying confidence only comes from Jesus. Two, true confidence isn't what

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the world views as confidence. See, the world views as confidence cockiness. The world views as

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confidence selfishness. And the world views confidence as something that comes from yourself.

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You just wake up and you feel confident. The third point today is it isn't rooted from others'

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opinions. So many of us struggle with trying to please others because we're so engulfed with the

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opinions of others. But the only opinion that matters is Jesus. And when we remember that,

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we will have undying confidence because we know our security is found in Jesus. So,

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if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, then this message will help you. But if

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you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, then I invite you to give your heart to

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the Lord today. To receive him into your heart, go to Romans 10, 9 through 10. It says that if you

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confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the

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dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth

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confession is made unto salvation. If you said this prayer with sincerity, you are saved and now

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have eternal life with Jesus. You are saved from all your sins, past, present, and future sins you

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may commit. This truth is not a free past this in any time. Instead, Jesus gives you power over

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all wrong choices and empowers you to spread the gospel to others. You are saved forever and your

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name is written in the book of life.