PRIDE
VERSES HUMILITY
BREAD
13 To
fear the Lord is to hate evil; I
hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. Proverbs 8:13 (NIV)
2 When
pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. Proverbs 11:2 (NIV)
18 Pride
goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 (NIV)
23 A
man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor. Proverbs 29:23 (NIV)
God
will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands. Isaiah 25:11 (NIV)
37 Now I,
Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because
everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in
pride he is able to humble. Daniel 4:37 (NIV)
27 You
save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty. Psalms 18:27 (NIV)
All
of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God
opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand,
that he may lift you up in due time. 1
Peter 5:5-6 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Pride
alienates man from heaven; humility leads to heaven.” Bridget
of Sweden
“Don’t slack off seeking, striving, and
praying for the very same things that we exhort unconverted people to strive
for, and a degree of which you have had in conversion. Thus pray that your eyes
may be opened, that you may receive sight, that you may know yourself and be
brought to God’s feet, and that you may see the glory of God and Christ, may be
raised from the dead, and have the love of Christ shed abroad in your heart.
Those that have most of these things still need to pray for them; for there so
much blindness and hardness and pride and death remaining that they still need
to have that work of God upon them, further to enlighten and enliven them. This
will be a further bringing out of darkness into God’s marvelous light, and a
kind of new conversion…” Jonathan Edwards
“Here is the divine antidote against the
pride and restless ambition of the men of this world. Nothing is more sad than to witness a
pushing, bustling, forward, self-confident spirit and style in those who
profess to be followers of Him who was meek and lowly in heart. It is such a flagrant contradiction of the
spirit and precepts of Christianity, and is a sure accompaniment of an unbroken
condition of the soul. It is utterly impossible
for anyone to indulge in a boastful, pretentious, self-confident spirit, if
ever he has really measured himself in the presence of God. To be much alone with God is the sovereign
remedy for pride and self-complacency.
May we know the reality of this in the secret of our own souls. May the good Lord keep us truly humble, in
all our ways, simply leaning on Himself and his grace…” C H Macintosh
“Pride
not only withdraws the heart from God, but lifts it up against God.” Thomas Manton
“Before you can
(know you are right with God) you must not only be troubled for your sins of
your life, but also for the sins of your best duties and performances...before
you can be at peace with God, there must be a deep conviction before you can be
brought out of your self-righteousness; it is the last idol taken out of your
heart. The pride of our heart will not let us submit to the righteousness of
Jesus Christ. But if you never felt that you had no righteousness of your own
or if you never felt the deficiency of your own righteousness, you cannot come
to Jesus Christ.” George
Whitefield
“And
if you don’t lie prostrate on the ground before that cross, you have never seen
it: if you are not humbled in the
presence of Jesus, you don’t know Him.
You were so lost that nothing could save you but the sacrifice of God’s
only begotten. Think of that, and as
Jesus lowered Himself for you, bow yourself in lowliness at His feet. A sense of Christ’s amazing love to us has a
greater tendency to humble us than even the conscious awareness of our own
guilt……Pride cannot live beneath the cross.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Pride is utter
poverty of soul disguised as riches.”
John Climacus
“Pride is as safely the sign of destruction as the change of mercury in the weather-glass is the sign of rain; and far more infallibly so than that. When men have ridden the high horse, destruction has always overtaken them…God hates high looks, and never fails to bring them down. All the arrows of God are aimed at proud hearts.” Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
·
God
hates pride but lifts up the humble.
Pride show up not in the mirror but in relationships.
·
A
prideful person tears their house down with their own hands.
·
God is able to
humble the prideful.
