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Pride boastfully prays, “God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are…”[2] Pride is the opposite of Paul’s instruction, “in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”[3] Pride focuses on self’s achievements, self’s accomplishments, and self’s recognition. Such a puffed up
Pride causes people to rationalize their sins and in some cases the sins of ones they love. Pride makes people cover up their sins instead of confessing them. Pride answers a valid rebuke with an attack. Pride holds grudges and blocks forgiveness. Pride makes it impossible for people to see their ow
That's just an innate law, an innate principle in the very fabric of the universe itself. Destruction always follows pride. That's just a law of nature, according to the pagans of the East. We must not view it that way. And you say, well, of course I don't view it that way. But do we? Sometimes w
Superiority in who we are and what we have, our gifts and our abilities and our achievements and all of the other things that characterize us and our life. sinfully elevate ourselves. Pride is a sin that has reference to self, but often has a reference as well to others. In pride, I elevate mys
Our pride shows itself in a spirit of being unteachable. I have in my pride this idea that I've got things figured out. My opinions and understandings of things are always the correct one. There's nothing I can learn from someone else. There's no way that I can be corrected. Everyone else is wr
Pride is the sin of making myself my God, the sin of exalting myself within my heart, which sin gives rise to boasting about myself, glorying in myself, and expecting others also to praise me and to recognize my greatness. The word for pride in the text, the original Hebrew word, means exaltatio
The proud man does not view himself as equal to his fellow man, and certainly not as inferior to his fellow man. Certainly not that. But the proud man views himself as superior to his fellow man. As we say, he thinks he is better than everyone else. That's pride. He doesn't recognize himself to
We need to be reminded that pride is not something to be taken lightly. It is one of the key characteristics of the wicked man, and will not go unpunished. “Pride goes before destruction,” as it says in Proverbs 16:18. We must strive to get that adder’s poison out of our mouth and our mind. Sing or
Last Sunday, in the applicatory sermon that we had in the morning, We were called in Hebrews chapter 12 to run the race that God has set before us. And we're to run that race with patience or with endurance. And in order to do that, we are called to lay aside any weight. And we are to lay aside
“And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.” Isaiah 2:17 The year 2022 is quickly winding down. Naturally, this gives us the opportunity to look back and reflect on what has transpired. I find it bot