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So what is vain glory? Well, turn with me,

please, to Philippians chapter 2. Now, we've

read from Philippians 2 at least 10 or 15

times this year, and I hope next year we'll

read from it 25 times, because we need this

passage. But let me take one verse, and

then I'll read some other verses around it.

But let me take just one verse to begin with,

verse 3: “Let nothing be done through strife

or vainglory” — now, there’s the provoking

and the envying — “but in lowliness of mind

let each esteem other better than

themselves.” So this vice of vain glory is to

be avoided at all costs. It is a danger that is

common to all men and women, and it is a

work of the flesh. Strife and vain glory are

the opposite of walking in lowliness of mind

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