1. What is the chief end of man?

2. What is the chief end of man?
To glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.

3. What is the chief end of man?
To glorify God by enjoying
Him forever.

4. Isaiah 42:8 (ESV)
8 I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

5. Isaiah 48:11 (ESV)
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

6. Soli Deo Gloria
To God alone the Glory

7. We are saved by God’s grace alone on the basis of Christ alone
received by faith alone
for the glory of God alone.
We know this by the final and ultimate authority of Scripture alone.

8. Ephesians 1:11–12 (ESV)
11 In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of His glory.

9. Romans 11:33–36 (ESV)
33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways! 34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” 35 “Or who has given a gift to Him that he might be repaid?” 36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.

10. Isaiah 2:12, 17 (ESV)
12 For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low; And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

11. “It is the necessary consequence of his [God’s] delighting in the glory of his nature that he delights in the emanation and effulgence of it.”
—Jonathan Edwards
“The End for Which God Created the World”

12. Glory = Weightiness

13. My work
My Vainglory
Means Ends
God’s Work
God’s Glory

14. Where do you seek approval or recognition in your life?

15. Where do you seek approval or recognition in your life?
Whose approval are you seeking?

16. 7 Capital Vices =
7 Head Sins or
7 Primary Habits

17. Avarice
Gluttony
Anger
Sloth
Vainglory
Lust
Envy
Pride

18. “Pride is ruthless, sleepless unsmiling concentration of self.”
—C.S. Lewis

19. Envy is the ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration of self-hatred.

20. Envy is the hatred of someone else’s borrow glory.

21. Vainglory is the attempt to steal all glory including God’s.

22. Matthew 6:1–8 (ESV)
1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

23. Where do you seek approval or recognition in your life?
Whose approval are you seeking?

24. “…two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former, in a word, glories in itself, the latter in the Lord. For the one seeks glory from [human beings]; but the greatest glory of the other is God, the witness of conscience. The one lifts up its head in its own glory; the other says to its God, ‘Thou are my glory, and the lifter up of mine head [Psalm 3:3].”
—Augustine of Hippo
The City of God

25. Galatians 5:26 (ESV)
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 5:26 (KJV)
26 Let us not be desirous of vainglory, provoking one another, envying one another.

26. What we boast in is where we get our identity.

27. Jeremiah 9:23–24 (ESV)
23 Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”

28. Galatians 5:26–6:3 (ESV)
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. 1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

29. “My life for yours.”— Jesus “Your life for mine.”— Vainglory

30. Galatians 6:12–15 (ESV)
12 It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. 14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

31. Solution to our vainglory
is not our self-sacrifice.

32. “It is difficult to escape vainglory, for what you do to rid yourself of it becomes for you a new source of vainglory.”
—Evagrius (4th Century Monk)

33. Solution to our vainglory
is Christ’s Cross.

34. Where do you seek approval or recognition in your life?
Whose approval are you seeking?

35. We are saved by God’s grace alone on the basis of Christ alone
received by faith alone
for the glory of God alone.
We know this by the final and ultimate authority of Scripture alone.

36. “We never truly glory in him until we have utterly discarded our own glory The elect are justified by the Lord, in order that they may glory in him, and in none else.”
—John Calvin
Institutes of Christian Religions, Book III, Chapter 13.