Why I Believe In Jesus

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How Do We handle Abundance?

• Deuteronomy 811-20 (NKJV) 11Beware that you do
  not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His
  commandments, His judgments, and His statutes
  which I command you today, 12lestwhen you have
  eaten and are full, and have built beautiful
  houses and dwell in them

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How Do We handle Abundance?

• 13and when your herds and your flocks multiply,
  and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and
  all that you have is multiplied 14when your
  heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your
  God who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
  from the house of bondage

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How Do We handle Abundance?

• 15who led you through that great and terrible
  wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and
  scorpions and thirsty land where there was no
  water who brought water for you out of the
  flinty rock 16who fed you in the wilderness with
  manna, which your fathers did not know, that He
  might humble you and that He might test you, to
  do you good in the end

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How Do We handle Abundance?

• 17then you say in your heart, My power and the
  might of my hand have gained me this wealth.
• 18And you shall remember the LORD your God, for
  it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that
  He may establish His covenant which He swore to
  your fathers, as it is this day.

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How Do We handle Abundance?

• 19Then it shall be, if you by any means forget
  the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and
  serve them and worship them, I testify against
  you this day that you shall surely perish. 20As
  the nations which the LORD destroys before you,
  so you shall perish, because you would not be
  obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.

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What is Pride?

• Several words describe it. (Prov 2514)

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What is Pride?

• Several words describe it. (Prov 2514)
• It is an unrealistic view of ones abilities. (Gal
  63 Rom 123)

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What is Pride?

• Romans 123 (NKJV)
  3For I say, through the grace given to me, to
  everyone who is among you, not to think of
  himself more highly than he ought to think, but
  to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a
  measure of faith.

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What is Pride?

• Galatians 63 (NKJV)
  3For if anyone thinks himself to be something,
  when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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What is Pride?

• Several words describe it. (Prov 2514)
• It is an unrealistic view of ones abilities. (Gal
  63 Rom 123)
• Pride often comes from that which is good within
  itself!

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Knowledge is Good.

• 1 Corinthians 81-2 (NKJV) 1Now concerning
  things offered to idols We know that we all have
  knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
  2And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he
  knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

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Being an Elder is Good

• 1 Timothy 36 (NKJV)
  6not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he
  fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

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Writing Much of the N.T. is Good

• 2 Corinthians 127 (NKJV) 7And
  lest I should be exalted above measure by the
  abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the
  flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to
  buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.

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The Horrors of Pride

• Pride is a sin

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How Does God View Pride?

• Proverbs 214 (NKJV) 4 A haughty look, a proud
  heart, And the plowing of the wicked are sin.
• Proverbs 616-19 (NKJV) 16 These six things the
  LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to
  Him17A proud look...

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How Does God View Pride?

• Proverbs 813 (NKJV) 13The fear of the LORD is to
  hate evil Pride and arrogance and the evil way
  And the perverse mouth I hate.
• Proverbs 165 (NKJV) 5 Everyone proud in heart is
  an abomination to the LORD Though they join
  forces, none will go unpunished.

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The Horrors of Pride

• Pride is a sin
• Pride causes other sins (1
  Jn 216-17 Gen 35)

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The Horrors of Pride

• Pride is a sin
• Pride causes other sins (1 Jn 216-17 Gen 35)
• Pride causes blindness (Rom 120-22)

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Identifying Pride in Us

• Pride is competitive

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Identifying Pride in Us

• Pride is competitive
• Pride looks down on others (Lk 189)

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Identifying Pride in Us

• Pride is competitive
• Pride looks down on others (Lk 189)
• Pride produces Envy and Jealousy

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Identifying Pride in Us

• Pride is competitive
• Pride looks down on others (Lk 189)
• Pride produces Envy and Jealousy
• Pride seeks the praises of men (Mt
  235-12 1 Tim 617)

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Identifying Pride in Us

• Pride is competitive
• Pride looks down on others (Lk 189)
• Pride produces Envy and Jealousy
• Pride seeks the praises of men (Mt
  235-12 1 Tim 617)
• Pride produces self-sufficiency (1
  Tim 63-4 3 Jn 9-10 1 Sam 228)

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A Test for Pride

• 1. Have we ever become envious when someone
  out-did us, or were commended and we were not?

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A Test for Pride

• 1. Have we ever become envious when someone
  out-did us, or were commended and we were
  not?
• 2. Are we offended at constructive criticism?

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A Test for Pride

• 1. Have we ever become envious when someone
  out-did us, or were commended and we were
  not?
• 2. Are we offended at constructive criticism?
• 3. Have we ever pushed ourselves to the breaking
  point because of pride?

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A Test for Pride

• 4. Have we ever had difficulty appreciating what
  others have done, and expressing that
  appreciation, because of pride?

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A Test for Pride

• 4. Have we ever had difficulty appreciating what
  others have done, and expressing that
  appreciation, because of pride?
• 5. Have we ever been controlled by pride to the
  extent that we would not admit that the position
  we held on a given matter was wrong?

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A Test for Pride

• 6. Has pride ever hindered us in responding to
  the invitation when we really should have done so
  to make things right?

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The End of the Proud

• Proverbs 1525 (NKJV)
  25 The LORD will destroy the house of the
  proud.
• Proverbs 1618 (NKJV)
  18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty
  spirit before a fall.

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The End of the Proud

• 1 Corinthians 1012 (NKJV) 12Therefore
  let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he
  fall. James 46 (NKJV) 6But He gives more grace.
  Therefore He says God resists the proud, But
  gives grace to the humble.

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Can You See Clearly?

• 1 Corinthians 46-7 (NKJV) 6Now these things,
  brethren, I have figuratively transferred to
  myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may
  learn in us not to think beyond what is written,
  that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of
  one against the other.

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Can You See Clearly?

• 7For who makes you differ from another? And what
  do you have that you did not receive? Now if you
  did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you
  had not received it?

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