Sermons About Pride-
Praying With The Psalmists: A Study in the Psalms, Psalm 51
Repentance Begins With Acknowledgment of Our Condition: The lack of desire to admit you are wrong is in direct proportion to your pride. It’s hard to be sorry if you don’t feel you are wrong. Repentance Ends With A Restored Heart: Restoration comes as a result of a heart that is free from pride, and that humbly comes before the Lord in repentance. In order to live a mentally healthy life, we need to live aware of our sin and of God’s love and forgiveness in Christ. It is only the morally self-righteous that ignore this through denial or false humility.
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House Rules Part 3
If you are even a casual student of scripture, you will find that there are just some verses and commands in the Bible that just seem...well...hard. There are just some verses that seem practically impossible to obey and some almost don't even make sense. We look at them and think, "Well God, you will just have to do that in me if you want me to do that because I don't see that happening. For example: - Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. o Are you kidding me? Why would I hate my parents? - Matthew 5:39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. o We devise elaborate explanations about why we don't to obey this one. - Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. o We hear that and think, "Yeah, but there are few people that I know I am better than." There are always good, practical theological explanations for these verses, but when it comes down to it, obeying them is just flat out hard Here is thing. When we hear those verses and we think, "God is just going to have to do that if He wants me to obey," we are actually thinking correctly. We often fall into the mistake of thinking all the other verses in the Bible are easily within our grasp. If that was the case, Jesus surely didn't need to die. I Corinthians 15 makes it clear that Jesus' death on the cross was for the payment of our sin and His resurrection was for our new life. The only reason you and I can obey with a desire to glorify God is because Jesus' enables us to now. Otherwise we would be the dead men we've always been. You know there is an old hymn that sings, "I was sinking deep in sin/far from the peaceful shore." That hymn though sweet is completely wrong. We aren't sinking deep in sin; we are dead in our sin. The hymn really should sing, "I was lying dead in sin on the bottom of the ocean floor." If we are going to obey any verse, hard or not, it is because the Spirit helps us to obey. We don't discount the hard work obedience is, but as soon as we get away from dependence on God for that obedience, we have become lazy in our walk with Christ despite the contrary. Well this week in the book of 1 John, we are going look at one of these hard, nearly impossible passages of scripture. We want to pursue it well and understand its application for us, and then we want to ask our God to help us to obey.
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Living a Life Worthy of Our Calling
In chapter four Paul transitions from the rich theology found in the first three chapters to the practical outworkings of the Christian faith. Paul urges believers to live a life worthy of the calling we have received by walking in Christ-like character and by striving to maintain the unity created by the Holy Spirit.
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Pride & Humility, pt. 4 (Philippians 2:1-11)
Humility is the path to Christ-likeness and is marked by self sacrifice. Jesus Christ provides the greatest example of humility in His incarnation and obedience to death, even death on a cross.
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Who Really Reigns?
Who gets the credit for tthe power, control, & prosperity in your life? You or the Almight Creator of all?
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Confessions, Part 4: A Tale of Two Confessions
Part 4 in the series, Confessions: The Joy and Pain of Coming Clean, this message looks at the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Discover what God looks for in a confession.
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Satan and the World: Pride of Life
The Lust of the Flesh, the Lust of the Eyes, The Pride of Life are the chief tools Satan uses us to draw us into love of worldliness. Fight for a spiritual mindset.
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Pride & Humility, Pt. 3 (Selected Texts)
If pride is the root of every sin, then it has been rightly said that humility is the essential mark of a Christian and the soil in which all spiritual fruit grows. Humility can only come when we view ourselves rightly in relation to God.
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