PRIDE CAUSED THE REMOVAL OF GOOD LAND & THE FALL OF NATIONS
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Pride
a) Pride and forms of the word pride are seen throughout the Bible. Here is a definition of pride both from the Hebrew and the Greek.
1. Pridea) Pride and forms of the word pride are seen throughout the Bible. Here is a definition of pride both from the Hebrew and the Greek.
i) From the Hebrew (OT): Various “ga’avah”, “ge’eh”, “gabah” and “rum” which mean majesty, pride haughtiness, exalted, highly exalted.
ii) From the Greek (NT): Various “hubris”, “hubristic”, “tuphow”, and “phusiow” which mean excessive pride or self-confidence, arrogance, puffed up, conceited.
b) The opposite of pride is humility and the Bible says that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). Everyone is offered grace but to accept it you must swallow your pride and admit that your thinking is wrong and God is right. Let’s take a look at 20 other revealing Bible verses about pride.
Isaiah 2:11
The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
2. Pride Caused The Removal Of Good Land And The Fall Of Nations
ii) From the Greek (NT): Various “hubris”, “hubristic”, “tuphow”, and “phusiow” which mean excessive pride or self-confidence, arrogance, puffed up, conceited.
b) The opposite of pride is humility and the Bible says that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). Everyone is offered grace but to accept it you must swallow your pride and admit that your thinking is wrong and God is right. Let’s take a look at 20 other revealing Bible verses about pride.
Isaiah 2:11
The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
2. Pride Caused The Removal Of Good Land And The Fall Of Nations
Leviticus 26:18-20
And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again seven-fold for your sins, 19 and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
Isaiah 3:16-17
The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet,17 therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.
Zephaniah 3:11
“On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.
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And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again seven-fold for your sins, 19 and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
Isaiah 3:16-17
The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet,17 therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.
Zephaniah 3:11
“On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.
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