Pride

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Pride Arrogancevs.Humility

• Luke 18 9-14

2
Pride Defined

• self-confidence boasting and empty, braggart
  talk to inflate with self-conceit to be
  high-minded to be lifted up with pride
  haughtiness an insolent and empty assurance,
  which trusts in its own power and resources and
  shamefully despises and violates divine laws and
  human rights and an empty presumption which
  trusts in the stability of earthy things.

3
God Resists the Prideful

• Proverbs 617
• Ezekiel 724
• I Peter 55-7
• Mark 720-23
• I John 215-17

4
Prides Causes Us to Rely on Self, and God Will
Bring Us Low

• Proverbs 35-8
• Proverbs 112
• Proverbs 1618-19
• Proverbs 2923

5
Examples of God Humbling People

• Tower of Babel in Gen. 114
• Jebusites in II Samuel 5
• N. Kingdom of Israel S. Kingdom of Judah
• Assyria and Babylon Isaiah 10 13
• Babylonian Kings Nebuchadnezzar Belshazzar in
  Daniel Ch. 4 5
• King Herod in Acts 12

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Christ is Our Greatest Example of
HumblenessPhilippians 21-11