1. Dealing with Low Self-Esteem

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5. Low Self-Esteem ↔ Pride

6. And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
- Jude 6

7. Improper estimate of our worth
Pride
Improper estimate of our worth

8. Measure worth by possessions
Pride
Improper estimate of our worth
Measure worth by possessions

9. Excessive self-sufficiency
Pride
Improper estimate of our worth
Measure worth by possessions
Excessive self-sufficiency

10. Many problems are rooted in the spirit and manifested in the psyche.

11. For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
- Romans 12:3

12. The goal is sober or sound judgement of ourselves.

13. The Sober Truth About Self
The Inward Man
The Flesh

14. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
- Galatians 5:17

15. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man.
- Romans 7:22

16. Our Flesh gets in the way
The Conflict
We Know the Truth
Our Flesh gets in the way

17. A Sober & True Self Analysis:
We are in Christ
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 3:26

18. - Isaiah 64:6 For all of us have become like one who is unclean,
And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us wither like a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
- Isaiah 64:6

19. God’s estimate of our value or worth is based on our relationship with Christ, not our performance.

20. Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 8:1

21. 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
- I Corinthians 6:9-10

22. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
- I Corinthians 6:11

23. and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood —
- Revelation 1:5

24. and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father — to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
- Revelation 1:6

25. Our Self-Esteem
God decides our value

26. Our Self-Esteem
God decides our value
Our value is priceless

27. Accepting reality is accepting these sober truths
Our Self-Esteem
God decides our value
Our value is priceless
Accepting reality is accepting these sober truths

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