1. What Are You Bragging About?
LESSON 14
What Are You Bragging About?

2. Introduction
At the end of this epistle, Paul has one question on his mind, “What are you bragging about?” When it comes to your religious commitments and spiritual perspective, Paul wants to know what you are boasting in.
He knows that we’ll boast about something, and so he’s concerned that we be boasting about the right thing—because, in spiritual and eternal matters, a false boast has tremendous consequences.

3. Boasting in the Flesh (vv. 12-13)
Religious pride (v. 12a)
First, it is apparent in those who are trusting in their self-effort and personal religious accomplishments.
Second, it is evident in those whose religious activities merely mask fleshly living.
Legalistic coercion (v. 12b)
Cowardly fear (v. 12c)
Blatant hypocrisy (v. 13)

4. Boasting in the Cross (vv. 14-18)
It frees us from the world (v. 14).
Positionally, we have been freed from the world’s status as the enemy of God (John 4:4) and the resulting condemnation of such hostility (1 Corinthians 11:32).
Practically, we have been freed from the bondage and dominion of the world (Ephesians 2:2).
It recreates us as new creatures (v. 15).
It graces us as God’s people (vv. 16, 18).
It identifies us as Jesus’ followers (v. 17).

5. What Are You Bragging About?
LESSON 14
What Are You Bragging About?