00:00Good day everyone, I'm Reverend Ezekiel. I'm here today to preach the gospel of Christ to you.
00:11You are watching World Exploration right now. World Exploration.
00:17And the title of my message today is, Beware of Self-Glorification.
00:24Beware of Self-Glorification.
00:27First of all, what is Self-Glorification?
00:32Self-Glorification is glorifying yourself or praising yourself.
00:39Self-Glorification means glorifying yourself or praising yourself.
00:47Now, the truth I want you to know in my message is that, Self-Glorification is very dangerous.
01:02Therefore, you must avoid it.
01:06That is why the title of my message is, Beware of Self-Glorification.
01:14Self-Glorification is very dangerous and you should avoid it.
01:24Let me buttress my point with the Holy Bible.
01:30As I said in World Exploration, World Exploration is all about exploring the Word of God from its source.
01:40And its source is the Holy Bible.
01:42Now, let me explore the Word of God from the Holy Bible to buttress my message.
01:53In the book of Jeremiah, chapter 9, verse 23, I read,
01:58Thus said the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in
02:07his might.
02:08Let not the rich man glory in his riches.
02:24What I want you to know is that, if you are a wise man and you are glorifying yourself, God
02:38will not be happy with you.
02:48If, also if you are a rich man and you are glorifying in your riches, automatically you are glorifying yourself.
02:56God will not be happy with that.
02:58There are some men in the Holy Bible that glorify themselves.
03:05And that led to their downfall.
03:09It led to their destruction.
03:11For example, the rich fool.
03:14The rich fool.
03:17In the book of Luke, chapter 12, verses 16 to 21,
03:28That Bible tells me not to understand about a rich man that possessed, you know, farmlands.
03:39And, you know, he had bountiful harvests.
03:44To the extent that there was no room to contain his harvests.
03:50You know, the mistake this man made, he made the mistake of self-glorification.
03:56Instead of him to give God the glory, he started glorifying himself.
04:02He started glorifying in his riches.
04:05He started glorifying in his riches.
04:09Automatically, he glorified himself.
04:13He made a big mistake.
04:15What he ought to do at that time was to glorify God.
04:19But he refused to glorify God.
04:21And what did God did?
04:23God asked for his soul.
04:25God killed him.
04:29God asked for his soul.
04:31And God killed him by himself.
04:33And he died.
04:34I'm going to read that for you right now.
04:38Now, what God said unto him,
04:42Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee.
04:48Then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided.
04:53This man glorified in himself.
04:56He glorified in his riches.
04:58And God asked for his soul.
05:01Self-glorification led to his destruction.
05:05Self-glorification led to his death.
05:08So, what I'm trying to let you understand is that you should not glorify yourself.
05:16If you are a wise man, glorify God.
05:19If you are a mighty man, glorify God.
05:24If you are a rich man, glorify God.
05:27Because everything you acquire today, or everything you acquire in the past,
05:33it is God that gave you the grace to acquire them.
05:38Whatever you become, whatever you are today, it is by the grace of God.
05:43It is not by your might.
05:45It is not by your wisdom.
05:47It is not by your intelligence.
05:49So, every glory must go back to God.
05:53Every glory must go back to God.
05:56So, it is very dangerous to be glorifying yourself.
06:00It will harm you.
06:02Look at the rich fool.
06:03He glorified himself instead of glorifying God.
06:07And God killed him.
06:11Self-glorification ended.
06:13I mean, self-glorification led him to destruction.
06:17That was the end of his life.
06:19By glorifying himself.
06:23By glorifying himself.
06:24So, in conclusion, I want you to take note of this, that glorifying God is what you are supposed to
06:34be doing.
06:36Give God the glory all the time.
06:40Give God the glory for your achievement.
06:42Give God the glory for your promotion.
06:45Give God the glory for every blessing you receive.
06:49Because God is the provider of all these things.
06:54Don't give yourself the glory.
06:56If you are wise, don't give yourself the glory.
06:58Give God the glory.
07:00If you are a strong man, don't boast in your strength.
07:04Give God the glory.
07:05If you are a rich man, don't boast in your riches.
07:08Give God the glory.
07:11You are watching World Exploration right now.
07:16In my next video, I will be preaching another message by the grace of God.
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