The Hater Of Haughtiness Proverbs 6:16-19 Proverbs 16:18 Proverbs 18:12 Proverbs 29:23 Proverbs 8:13 Daniel 4:37 Proverbs 3:34 James 4:6 James 4:10 1 Peter 5:6-7 Ephesians 4:2 Isaiah 66:2 03.14.18

THE HATER OF HAUGHTINESS

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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)

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)

¹³ To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.   Proverbs 8:13 (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)

³⁴ He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble.   Proverbs 3:34 (NIV)

⁶ But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”   James 4:6 (NIV)

¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.  James 4:10 (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)

² Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.   Ephesians 4:2 (NIV)

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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“Such as are haughty and self-conceited, rush against the mighty hand of God, and destroy themselves; but those that are humbled under it, will be protected by the same.  Whatever knowledge or skill we may obtain in the schools of human learning, the Scripture does not yet allow us to be truly wise, but calls us blind and mere worldly students, till we learn to be poor in spirit, lowly in heart, and dead to the world.  Therefore, the more a man dies to this world, the more is he enlightened.”    K. H. Von Bogatzky

“Strong faith enables the servants of God to look with calm contempt upon their most haughty foes.  We know that our enemies are attempting impossibilities…When the Lord arises, they shall fly as chaff before the wind, and be consumed as crackling thorns.  Their utter powerlessness to do damage to the cause of God and His truth may make the weakest soldiers in Zion’s ranks laugh them to scorn.  Above all, we know that the Most High is with us, and when He dresses Himself in arms, where are His enemies?  The kingdom is safe in the King’s hands.”  Charles H. Spurgeon

“God only despises those who are arrogant and haughty -- those who are proud and are never willing to humble themselves and confess their sins. Those who have made a habit of rationalizing their sin, of explaining away their sin, of justifying their sin, will not experience restoration.  But God loves to forgive and restore a repentant sinner. God loves to use those who are truly brokenhearted and contrite. God loves to use them in a unique way.”   Michael Youssef

“The pride that God loathes is not a healthy self-respect or a legitimate sense of personal dignity.  It is the haughty, undue self-esteem out of all proportion to our actual worth.  It is the repugnant egotism that is repulsive to both man and God.  It is that revolting conceit which swaggers before men and struts in the presence of the Almighty.  And God hates it.  Pride may take various forms.  Spiritual pride trusts in one’s own virtue rather than in the grace of God.  Intellectual pride gives its possessor self-confidence rather than God-confidence.  Pride in material things enthrones self and displaces God – secondary things are exalted to the place of first importance.   Social pride manifests itself in arrogance and status.  All forms of pride emanate from the haughty human heart, and pride is the sin that God hates most.”    Billy Graham

“Pride is an insidious disease of the soul because it can turn even justice and kindness into self-righteous deeds.”  Chuck Swindoll

“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

“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 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

HEART SAVOR

• ·         A humble and contrite heart God will never despise.
• ·         God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
• ·         Destruction follows pride.