SOME RESULTS OF SINFUL PRIDE (1)
(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. Some Results Of Sinful Pride
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. Some Results Of Sinful Pride
2 Chronicles 32:25-26
But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem. 26 But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
Isaiah 10:12
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
The End ...
But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem. 26 But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
Isaiah 10:12
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
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