Remember Where You Have Fallen: The Sin of Pride Revelation 2:5
Laodicea’s Rebuke and Fall: Revelation 3:14-22
The Sin of Pride!
1st Pride’s Beginning:
In the Heavenlies: The Fall of Satan Isaiah 14:12-16:
In the Garden: Adam and Eve’s Fall: Genesis 3:1-10
2nd How We Become Proud: Deuteronomy 8:11-17
We Leave God Out of Our Thinking. 11
We No Longer Keep His word. 11
We Lose Perspective on the Temporal. 12-13
We Become Proud and Forget the Work of God: 14-18
We Run After Other Gods 19-20
3rd Pride’s Consequences!
– Dishonor:
Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom.
Luke 14:8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him, 9 and he who invited you both shall come and say to you, `Give place to this man,’ and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place.
– Destruction:
Proverbs 16:18 Pride {goes} before destruction, and a haughty spirit before stumbling.
Destruction – fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution affliction, breach, breaking, broken bruised, crashing, destruction, hurt, interpretation, vexation.
Remember Herod: Acts 12:21-23 (Not even Ivermectin could save Him)
– God’s Opposition:
James 4:6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore {it} says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Pride’s Consequences!
– You Become UnFaithful 2 Chronicles 26:16-19
– You Miss God’s Blessings2 Kings 5:11-13
– You Miss the Justification work of Faith: Luke 18:9-14
– You May Ultimately Walk in Anger, Unforgiveness and Bitterness
– God’s Glory Departs
The Story of Nebuchadnezzar: Daniel 4:28-33
Daniel 5:20 “But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and {his} glory was taken away from him.
Overcoming Pride – James 4:5-10
– Remember Where You Have Fallen>
– Reverse Deuteronomy 8:11-17
– Humble Yourselves Under the Mighty Hand of God
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