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Overcome Your Inferiority Complex
by Don Gossett
I. Why should you be inferior? You know the secret of the Christian life is not in yourself, but in the Christ who indwells you. The Bible makes it clear: you are in Christ and Christ is in you. The very word Christian means we are "Christ‑in people." We are not Christian workers . . . we are Christ containers. Say it, "It is not I that liveth, but Christ liveth in me, and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me" Galatians 2:20.
II. When you are aware that Christ lives in you, there is nothing inferior about Him and He is your life. Colossians 3:4, "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory." Paul tells us 67 times that we are in Christ.
III. You can overcome your inferiority complex if you simply yield to Christ. The Christian life is not a struggle, it is a yielding process. "Yield yourselves unto God" Romans 6:13. Let Christ live His life in you. You will overcome your inferiority complex by the joyful awareness that Jesus Christ indwells you by His Spirit.
IV. "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so" Psalm 107:2. Christianity is a "Say So" thing. "With the mouth confession is made unto salvation" Romans 10:10. Your confession precedes your possession. You can not rise higher than your confession. A wrong confession will imprison you, but a right confession will set you free.
V. "Let the weak say, I am strong" Joel 3:10. Confess it, "I am strong." Let the defeated say, "God always causeth me to triumph through Christ" II Corinthians 2:14. Let the apologetic say, "I know whom I have believed and I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day" 2 Timothy 1:12. Let the timid say, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31. Let the fearful say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear what man can do unto me" Hebrews 13:6.
VI. You do not have to struggle through life bound with an inferiority complex, How can you be inferior when you know your rights in Christ? How can you be “complexed” as a Christian when you count on this fact: "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God" 2 Corinthians 3:5.
VII. What you say is what you get. You get victory over an inferiority complex when you say these things: "I overcome an inferiority complex through Christ, His Word and His sufficiency. By divine birth I am linked up with Jesus Christ, there is nothing inferior about Him! I am who God says I am. I have what God says I have. I can do what God says I can do."
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