PRIDE
POISONS THE VESSEL
BREAD
16 There
are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent
blood, 18 a
heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, 19 a false witness who pours out
lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers. Proverbs 6:16-19 (NIV)
5 The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be
sure of this: They will not go unpunished. Proverbs 16:5 (NIV)
18 Pride
goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 (NIV)
12 Before
his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor. Proverbs 18:12 (NIV)
23 A
man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor. Proverbs 29:23 (NIV)
10 The
hand of the Lord will rest on this
mountain; but Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled down in the
manure. 11 They
will spread out their hands in it, as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim.
God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands. Isaiah 25:10-11 (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 But
God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak
things of the world to shame the strong. 28 He chose the lowly things of this world and the
despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast
before him. 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 (NIV)
7 For
who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not
receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? 1 Corinthians 4:7 (NIV)
23 This
is what the Lord says: “Let not
the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the
rich man boast of his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast about this: that he
understands and knows me, that I am the Lord,
who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I
delight,” declares the Lord. Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NIV)
6 Humble
yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due
time. 7 Cast
all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Empty me of the selfishness inside. Every vain ambition and the poison of my
pride. Empty me of me so I can be filled
with You.” Chris
Sligh
“Never
stop learning but don't allow your education to become a point of pride. God
doesn't use you because of what's in your head: He uses you because of what's
in your heart.” Anonymous
“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
“We make our choices and then our choices
make us. Our everyday choices reveal what we really desire. The essence of
sin is pride.
The heart of sin is independence and the core of sin is demanding my own way
instead of God's.” Pat
Singleterry
“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
“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
HEART SAVOR
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God detests the haughty eyes of pride.
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God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
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Humility comes before honor.
