Boastful Believers | Lord's Day Sermon | 23rd June, 2024 | Kwaw Andam

What does it mean to be a boastful believer? The word boast itself will jump off as connoting a vice. Why then does the Bible admonish believers to boast?

The word translated boast in English versions of the Bible is synonymous with the word rejoice. When the Bible asks us to boast in Christ, it is asking us to rejoice in the fact of what Christ has done for us, not in anything we can ascribe to ourselves. Being justified by faith, we have faith in God through Christ Jesus. We can boast in the glory of God because we have been justified by faith. In Christ we have a sure hope in God; a hope that enables us to rejoice because we can trust in his finished work and the justification he has extended to us not because of anything we can do to earn it.

In this sermon, our Deacon, Kwaw Andam highlights four major points about our boast in Christ – the cause, certainty, capacity and the centre of our boast in Christ as he aims to show that Christ is the centre of our boasting as we have nothing to boast about.