INSIDIOUS
PRIDE
BREAD
18 Pride
goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 (NIV)
2 When
pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. Proverbs 11:2 (NIV)
5 The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be
sure of this: They will not go unpunished. Proverbs 16:5 (NIV)
23 A
man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor. Proverbs 29:23 (NIV)
17 You
may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this
wealth for me.” 18 But
remember the Lord your God, for it
is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his
covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today. Deuteronomy 8:17-18 (NIV)
13 To
fear the Lord is to hate evil; I
hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. Proverbs 8:13 (NIV)
3 “The
pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks
and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me
down to the ground?’ 4 Though
you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will
bring you down,” declares the Lord.
Obadiah 1:3-4 (NIV)
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)
36 At the
same time that my sanity was restored, my honor and splendor were returned to
me for the glory of my kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was
restored to my throne and became even greater than before. 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 4:36-37 (NIV)
15 Do not
love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of
the Father is not in him. 16 For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful
man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not
from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who
does the will of God lives forever. 1
John 2:15-17 (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)
BUTTER
“Pride is the devil’s dragnet in which he
takes more fish than in any other, except procrastination.” Charles
H. Spurgeon
“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
“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
“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 any one 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
“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 any one 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
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” Thomas Merton
“All the commandments of God are commandments
of love tending to our real good and great happiness; far from being grievous
to those who have faith and love, the practice thereof is life and peace. The world may think it a grievous burden;
but this is a great mistake indeed. Sin
is grievous. In hatred, envy, anger,
revenge, pride, there is nothing but torment and slavery; but in love there is
a sweet rest and pleasure. Thus a sinner
always punishes himself, and is robbed of great peace and blessing, by
transgressing the commandments of God.” K. H.
Von Bogatzky
“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
HEART SAVOR
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God opposes the proud yet gives much grace to the humble in
heart. 2 “Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into
being?” declares the Lord. “This is
the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my
word.” Isaiah 66:2 (NIV)
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I am to humble myself under God’s mighty hand that He may lift
me up in due time.
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Everything comes from His all-powerful hand. Knowledge of this should remove every ounce
of pride from the vessel.
