God Detests Pride

Main Point:  Pride is an abomination to God and He detest it. Sin has a price. Those who are proud in heart will suffer punishment. God will humble the proud!

Foundation Scripture:  Proverbs 6:16-19 NKJV.  Pride is listed first of the seven things God hates.

• In all honesty, pride is a problem we all wrestle with. But, we all must heed what the Bible says about pride.

 
Proverbs 15:25 ESV- “The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widows boundaries.”
Proverbs 16:18 ESV- “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Proverbs 26:27 ESV- “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.”
 
Seven sneaky symptoms of the infection of pride: #1 Fault Finding. #2 A Harsh Spirit. #3 Superficiality. #4 Defensiveness. #5 Presumption before God. #6 Desperation for Attention. #7 Neglecting Others.
 
The sin of pride will do five things to ruin your life: #1 Pride defies God. #2 Pride defiles man. #3 Prides divides society. #4 Pride dishonors life. #5 Pride destroys souls.
Psalm 139:23-24 ESV- “Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!”

• Isaiah 2:11 NKJV “The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.”

 
C.S. Lewis said, “As long as you’re proud, you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people. And as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something above you.”
 
Psalm 10:3-4 GNT-“The wicked are proud of their evil desires; the greedy curse and reject the Lord. The wicked do not care about the Lord; in their pride they think that God doesn’t matter.”
 
Mark 10:17-22 NKJV- The Rich Young Ruler. Four things come directly out of this passage.

• Proud men at their best are sinners at their worst.
• God’s perfect law condemns man’s sinful pride.
• No man can serve two masters.
• Whatever master a man chooses will master that man.

Pride tells us that we have to be first. But scripture tells us this!
Philippians 2:3-5 NIV- “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but…to the interests of others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset of Christ Jesus.

Closing Thoughts

• Consider your perspective today. Is it one of pride or of humility? Are you looking down or are you looking up. Choose eternal life and acknowledge that there is none good but God. Let go of any false idols or pride in your life.
• Repent of your sin, take up your cross, and follow Him. Give your heart completely to Jesus Christ and allow Him to be the Lord of your life.