The Stupidity Of Pride 1 Corinthians 4:7 Proverbs 11:2 Proverbs 13:10 Proverbs 16:18 Proverbs 29:23 Daniel 4:37 Mathew 6:1-6 Matthew 23:11-12 Luke 14:11 Philippians 2:5-11 03.08.19

THE STUPIDITY OF PRIDE

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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)

² When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. Proverbs 11:2 (NIV)

¹⁰ Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. Proverbs 13:10 (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)

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)

¹ “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. ² So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. ³ But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
⁴ so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. ⁵ And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. ⁶ But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”   Matthew 6:1-6 (NIV)

¹¹ “The greatest among you will be your servant. ¹² For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” Matthew 23:11-12 (NIV)

¹¹ “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”  Luke 14:11 (NIV)

⁵ Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: ⁶ Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, ⁷ but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross! ⁹ Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.  Philippians 2:5-11 (NIV)

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“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

“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

“The most difficult person to deal with is the one who has the prideful self-satisfaction of a past experience, but is not working that experience out in his everyday life.  If you say you are sanctified, show it.  The experience must be so genuine that it shows in your life.  Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent or self-gratifying; that belief came from the pit of hell itself, regardless of how beautiful it may sound.”   Oswald Chambers

“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”   Thomas Merton

“Pride is the devil’s dragnet in which he takes more fish than in any other, except procrastination.”   Charles H. Spurgeon

“Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience.  We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously.  It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.  Our work is jubilant, carefree, merry.  Utter abandonment to God is done freely and with celebration.”   Richard Foster 

“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  

“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 always looks more powerful than humility on the outside. But in reality, it’s not. It’s not even close. Humility is stronger than pride like heaven is stronger than hell. Like the cross was stronger than the Roman Empire. Like the Resurrection and the Life was stronger than the grave. In the same way, thankfulness is stronger than lust, and serving is stronger than exploiting.”  Jon Bloom

“O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it.  Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud.  The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.”    Charles H. Spurgeon 

HEART SAVOR

• ·        God abhors a prideful heart.
• ·        In His kingdom we stoop to rise.
• ·        Pride goes before a fall.