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  1. Timothy J. Keller _ The Freedom of Self

    This is gospel-humility, blessed self-forgetfulness. Not thinking more of myself as in modern cultures, or less of myself as in traditional cultures. Simply thinking of myself less.
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  2. Timothy J. Keller _ The Freedom of Self

    By comparing ourselves to other people and trying to make ourselves look better than others, we are boasting. Trying to recommend ourselves, trying to create a self-esteem résumé because we are desperate to fill our sense of inadequacy and emptiness. The ego is so busy. So busy all the time.
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  3. Timothy J. Keller _ The Freedom of Self

    Could you explain to someone else how the gospel can {and should} transform our sense of identity? How much do you experience that transformed sense of identity? • In what ways has God's Word encouraged you or challenged you? Pray about it. • Pray that God would give you what you need to enable you to develop true gospel-humility and the freedom of self-forgetfulness.
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  4. Timothy J. Keller _ The Freedom of Self

    Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next person. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about.'3 In
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  5. Timothy J. Keller _ The Freedom of Self

    She quotes three current studies into the subject of self-esteem, all of which reach this conclusion and she states that 'people with high self-esteem pose a greater threat to those around them than people with low self-esteem and feeling bad about yourself is not the source of our country's biggest, most expensive social problems.'1
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  6. Timothy J. Keller _ The Freedom of Self

    He sees all kinds of sins in himself – and all kinds of accomplishments too – but he refuses to connect them with himself or his identity. So, although he knows himself to be the chief of sinners, that fact is not going to stop him from doing the things that he is called to do.
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  7. Timothy J. Keller _ The Freedom of Self

    I cannot live up to my parents' standards – and that makes me feel terrible. I cannot live up to your standards – and that makes me feel terrible. I cannot live up to society's standards – and that makes me feel terrible. I cannot live up to other societies' standards – that makes me feel terrible. Perhaps the solution is to set my own standards? But I cannot keep them either – and that makes me feel terrible, unless I set incredibly low standards. Are low standards a solution? Not at all. That makes me feel terrible because I realize I am the type of person who has low standards. Trying to boost our self-esteem by trying to live up to our own standards or someone else's is a trap. It is not an answer."
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  8. Timothy J. Keller _ The Freedom of Self

    Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance? The atheist might say that they get their self-image from being a good person. They are a good person and they hope that eventually they will get a verdict that confirms that they are a good person. Performance leads to the verdict. For the Buddhist too, performance leads to the verdict. If you are a Muslim, performance leads to the verdict. All this means that every day, you are in the courtroom, every day you are on trial. That is the problem. But Paul is saying that in Christianity, the verdict leads to performance. It is not the performance that leads to the verdict. In Christianity, the moment we believe, God says 'This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
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