Pride
I.
To walk in reverence
towards God we have to be humble before God
A. Humility is reverent and
pride is irreverent
1. Pride and Irreverence
a. Proverbs 16:5 – The
abomination of pride
b. God hates pride (Proverbs
6:17, 8:13)
c. Proverbs 3:7 – Be
not wise in your own eyes (Prideful), reverence God
2. Humility and Reverence
a. Prov 22:4-Humility &
reverence go together and pride & irreverence go together
b. Proverb 15:33-Before you
can honor God you have to humble yourself before him
B. Humility has to do
lowering yourself and taking your rightful place under (1 Peter 5:6)
1. Not rising far from the
ground, as a condition, lowly, of low degree, lowly in spirit, having a humble
opinion of one's self, modesty, lowliness of mind, to make low, bring low, to
assign a lower rank or place to, to abase, to be ranked below others who are
honored or rewarded, to lower, bring down one's pride, to behave in an unassuming
manner, devoid of all haughtiness
2. Don’t think more highly of yourself than you
ought to think (Romans 12:3)
a. In other words take your
rightful place – That’s humility
b. Lower yourself under the
authority of this word. What it says I am, I am.
(1)
It’s
not only prideful to think to highly of yourself, but it’s prideful to think
too lowly of yourself (In doing so you’re saying that you know better than God)
3. Humility has to do with
truth and reality (2 Corinthians 12:6)
a. People who in pride are
in deception because they have an untrue estimation of themselves (Obadiah 3)
b. Pride will try to hide
reality in fear & embarrassment & in attempt to impress others
C. Pride has to do with over
estimating yourself & underestimating others (Prov
6:17-AMP)
1. Pride – A rising
up, swelling (of the sea), majesty, haughtiness, exaltation, arrogance, height,
a lifting up, presumption, empty, braggart talk, an insolent and empty
assurance, which trusts in its own power and resources, empty presumption, the
character of one who, with a swollen estimate of his own powers or merits,
looks down on others and even treats them with insolence and contempt
2. Pride has to do with
lifting yourself up, being high or lofty; It is an over estimation of your
abilities
3. Pride has to do with
self-exaltation, usually in false manner; You’ve exalted yourself to a high
place because of your high estimation of yourself
D. Awe-Feeling of amazement &
respect coupled w/ feeling of personal insignificance
1. Four IN YOU truths
a. In yourself you are
nothing-Galatians 6:3; In Him you are something
b. In yourself you know
nothing-1 Cor 8:2; In Him you know all things-1 John
2:20
c. In yourself you have
nothing-1 Cori 4:7; In Him you have all things that -2 Peter 1:4
d. In yourself you can do
nothing-John 15:5; In Him you can do all things-Phili
4:13
2. If you’re born again then
you’re not in yourself anymore & it is very irreverent to walk around
saying you are nothing, you know nothing, you have nothing, and you can do
nothing b/c u are devaluing what happened in the crucifixion & resurrection.
a. False humility is
prideful
II.
There’s something
reverent about acknowledging that you need God, you need His word, you need His
wisdom, He need His system, you need His anointing
A. Humility requires God in
all that does; Humility sees the need for him in all that it does
1. Humility recognizes it’s
need for God daily
2. Humility recognizes all
of the “in myself” lacks and deficiencies and the need for him
3. Humility is the
acknowledgment of your dependence on him
4. Humility is the absolute
necessity for Him in everything that I do, say or think
5. There’s something
reverent about humility that says I need to be taught how to live
B. In their pride my people
aren’t requiring me; but those who humble themselves and require me will be
satisfied
1. Psalm 22:26 – Require
him as your greatest need
2. Psalm 27:8 –
Require him has a necessity
3. Psalm 105:3 –
Require him as an indispensable necessity
4. Psalm 34:10 – Those
who require Him like this will not lack any good thing
5. Pride says I don’t need
you, I can do fine by myself
a. Pride exalts itself to
the high place where it doesn’t need God
6. There’s more to showing
God that you need Him than just saying, “God I need you.”
a. You show God you’re need
for him, by living a slow life and acknowledging Him & including him in
every word you speak, every thought you think & every action you make
b. I think we’ll do this and
then you just go do it and didn’t even acknowledge God in it; you’re in pride
because you think you know what to do without Him
C. The humility of our
Master-John 5:19, 30, 6:57, 7:16, 8:28
III.
Pride will lead you out
of your position and out of your place
A. Isaiah 14:12-14-We look
at this like it’s such a foreign thing in the lives of believers, but in
reality it’s active in the hearts of many believers
1. You exalt yourself above
God when u do what u want instead of what he told you
B. 1 Peter 5:5-10
1. 6-Humility has to do with
taking ur rightful place under the authority of God/His
word
a. This word is right and
I’m wrong
2. 6-God doesn’t mind you
being exalted; he doesn’t like you trying to exalt yourself
3. 7-You humble yourself by
casting your cares
a. You are the caster of
cares, He is the caretaker
b. You can’t take better
care of that care than God can
c. It’s very irreverent and
prideful when you take the care b/c in doing so you’ve exalted yourself to his
position; U over estimating yourself & underestimating God
d. God didn’t grace me to
take the care he graced me to cast the care and fear not and believe only
e. People who pick up the
care are in pride and resisted by God
C. 2 Corinthians 11:28,
12:5-10
1. 7-Exalted above measure
(Define)
a. It’s through the
revelation of the Word that’s going to exalt him above measure; that’s not him
exalting himself
2. 7-When the word is
received Satan comes immediately to steal the Word and keep that word from
exalting you (Mark 4:15)
a. God doesn’t have a
problem with you be exalted; he’s got a problem with you exalting yourself (1
Peter 5:7)
3. 7-The thorn in his flesh
was there to torment him
a. 1 John 4:18-Fear has
torment and without fear present the Tormentor has no torment to torment you
with
(1)
The
Apostle Paul wouldn’t be available to be tormented if there wasn’t fear
operating in his life
b. 2 Cor
11:28 – The fear that is operating in his life is concerning those
churches
(1)
This
is the same word “care” that God tells us to cast upon him in 1 Peter 5:6
c. Galatians 1:12 –
Paul used the word “thorn” because his revelation of the things of God came
from Jesus directly and surely Jesus taught him the greatest parable that he
taught the disciples in Mark 4
4. 9-Paul’s in a position where
he is having a time receiving grace
a. Paul’s resisting grace
because he’s in pride taking the care of those churches and God resists the
proud and gives grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5)
5. He was in pride and out
of position & exalted himself to God’s position of caretaker