Chasing the Real Me (Week Four)
Part of Chasing the Real Me Notes
January 20, 2022

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Chasing the Real Me (Week Four)

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I

on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: what is behind and toward what is ahead, I on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. —Philippians 3:12-14 (NIV)

Soul Tattoo: Chasing the real me requires humility!

And He also told this parable to some people who

that they were , and with : “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a and the other a .The Pharisee stood and was praying this : ‘God, I thank You : swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. twice a week; tithes of all that I get.’” —Luke 18:9-12 (NASB)

Instead of seeing his good things as a gift from God, he viewed himself as the gift too God.

Spiritual Pride - inward directed emotion that leads to outward directed actions.


  1. When we are full of , there is no room for .

    “But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast saying, ‘

    !’ I tell you, went to his house rather than the other; for everyone who will be , but he who himself will be .” —Luke 18:13-14 (NASB)

    Kingdom Principle - Humility comes before Exaltion.
  2. When we

    ourselves, we are in the perfect position to be by God’s grace.

  3. When we

    ourselves, we are in the perfect position to be by God.


Pride is about glory; humility is about glory!

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. —Proverbs 16:18 (NIV)