Crucify Pride Romans 12:3 1 John 2:15-17 Proverbs 8:13 Romans 12:16 Proverbs 26:12 Proverbs 11:2 Proverbs 16:18 Proverbs 6:16-19 1 Corinthians 4:7 Matthew 23:11-12 Galatians 2:20 11.27.19

CRUCIFY PRIDE

BREAD

³ For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.   Romans 12:3 (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)

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

¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.   Romans 12:16 (NIV)

¹² Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?  There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:12 (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)

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)

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)

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)

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.   Galatians 2:20 (NIV)

BUTTER

“Pride is utter poverty of soul disguised as riches.”   John Climacus

“While God may give us extraordinary grace in one area, he never gives every grace to one member of the body, but makes us humbly, even uncomfortably, dependent on one another (Romans 12:5). And as we mature in humility, we not only acknowledge that dependence, but relish God’s wisdom in weaving us together by grace.”  Marshall Segal

“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

“Whatever knowledge, wisdom, or gifting we do have, we only have as a gift from God meant to make God, not us, look great.”   Marshall Segal

“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

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

“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

“Beware of any confidence in your own wisdom, remembering that you have nothing apart from grace and know nothing apart from God. And whatever the infinite mind and imagination of heaven has shown you, remember how painfully little you still know.”  Marshall Segal

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

“When I am weak, then I am strong. When I am foolish, then I am wise (1 Corinthians 3:18). When I am humbled, then I will be exalted (Matthew 23:12). These are the cries of crucified pride. We do not treasure our weaknesses in themselves, but the wise and humble savor the good God does through our weaknesses when we entrust our frailty and inadequacy to him. He loves to see his surpassing power perfected and put on display in the storefronts of brokenhearted souls.  Marshall Segal

“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

HEART SAVOR

·         Pride goes before a fall.

·         Haughty eyes God’s soul hates.

·         Pride brings disgrace.