Episode Transcript
Proverbs chapter 11 verse 2, the title of the message is "When Pride Comes."
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The word "pride" can be understood in a good way and in a bad way.
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We want to make sure and understand both of them tonight.
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If a man takes pride in his work, well that would be considered a good thing, wouldn't it?
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I wouldn't want to buy any man's work if he didn't take pride in it.
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If a young woman is living for the Lord and her mother says, "I'm proud of you," well that's a good
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kind of pride too. It's a good thing. That kind of pride is not what Solomon is talking about tonight.
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Just as a person can have good works and bad works, so a person can have good pride and bad pride.
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I want you to think of it like that. Just like there can be poisonous snakes and non-poisonous
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snakes, you can have sinful pride and non-sinful pride.
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The pride Solomon is talking about tonight is the poisonous kind of pride.
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It's the kind of pride that calls Lucifer to fall from heaven and be condemned to the lake of fire forever.
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This kind of pride is a dangerous thing to have, what Solomon is talking about tonight.
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And he's telling us tonight, verse 2, about when pride comes, when pride cometh.
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So perhaps tonight I see Jackie has a praise.
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Thank the Lord for that, Sister Jackie. She did not have a panic attack when she went to the doctor and we're grateful for that.
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I was still in the checker of the Sunday School lesson.
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Oh, wonderful, because of the Sunday School lesson.
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I see, okay. Well I just saw that pop up here. You just texted in.
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I'm sorry, I didn't even realize you were here. I saw it here. I thought, "Well you must be online tonight."
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But you're here. All right. Well when people read the Bible and they read about pride,
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if they're sensitive in their conscience, they may wonder, "Well is the pride I have, is this sinful or is it not sinful?"
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And the devil would take advantage of that and he'll trouble people's minds.
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So how do we know the difference between good pride and bad pride?
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Well to start it off, pride that admires something that's within its God-given order is good pride.
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And we'll expound on that here in just a little bit.
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But pride that admires something that's within its God-given order is good pride.
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Pride that admires something that's outside its God-given order is bad pride.
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The key is inside God's given order or outside God's given order.
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In God's design or out of God's design or according to God's creation or not according to God's creation.
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The first thing I want us to see tonight about pride when we're looking at pride's attributes
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is that pride has the ability to come and go.
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When pride cometh, pride has the ability to come and go.
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Last month we had a large hellstorm come through Athens causing damage to people's roofs,
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putting dents and dings in people's vehicles.
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And after that hellstorm came through, I mean I don't know if they were hidden in the grass,
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I don't know if they came out of the trees, but roofers and paintless dent repair people,
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just everywhere.
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Everywhere you look, someone had a tent that popped up with paintless dent repair and hell damage repair
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and roofers coming and putting flyers on your door and everyone in my neighborhood,
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not everyone, but a lot of people in my neighborhood getting new roofs on and all that.
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They just came.
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They saw the hellstorm as an opportunity to come to our area and make money.
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And pride is very much like those roofers and like those dent repair people.
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Pride is an opportunistic type of sin.
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When pride sees an opportunity, it will cash in on your circumstances in your life,
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it's going to come calling for you.
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Pride's going to come.
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You achieve success and pride comes.
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A young woman grows up, goes through puberty and suddenly starts looking in the mirror
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and recognizes she's pretty.
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And pride comes.
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A young man recognizes his strength and pride comes.
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You get a promotion at work and pride comes.
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Pride recognizes situations like these as opportunities to come pedal its merchandise to you.
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It's very good at what it sells.
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Now, how does pride work in the human heart?
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What goes on in the human heart to cause pride to operate and to make pride sinful, to make
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it venomous?
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And the answer is understanding the Hebrew word that's translated pride here.
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The Hebrew word that's translated pride, if you have your notes or your margin out,
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it means boil, B-O-I-L.
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B-O-I-L, boil.
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If you were looking up in the Hebrew dictionary, it would say seeth, which is an archaic word
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for boil.
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It means to boil something.
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And if you all boiled something for supper tonight, anybody boil anything for supper?
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What'd you boil?
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Soup.
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You boiled my soup.
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You sure did.
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Boil.
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That's what literally this pride means.
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It means to boil.
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We think of pride, the word boil probably doesn't come to mind, does it?
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But imagine right now that you're boiling that soup on the stove, Abigail.
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And let's say that I'm at the house with y'all and y'all have invited me over for some of
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that soup.
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You put that soup on the stove, it's boiling.
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I don't mean simmering.
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I mean it's boiling.
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And then one of y'all's family members says, "Brother Richard, come out and look at our
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garden.
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Come out and see your chickens.
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Come watch your goats, whatever."
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So we go outside and we spend a little time out there looking at your chickens, your gardens,
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your goats and all that.
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You never turn the temperature down on that soup.
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Excuse me.
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We stay out there a few minutes.
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We come back in.
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It's still boiling.
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Where's some of that water going to be when we come in?
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Some of it's going to be in the air.
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Where's some of the other going to be in?
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On the stove.
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That is the idea of pride.
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The idea is this.
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Soup in the pot is good.
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Soup on the stove is bad.
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It doesn't belong there.
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How does that soup get from the pot onto the stove?
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It has to rise higher than where it's supposed to be.
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There is a pot there that has limits, that has boundaries of where that soup is supposed
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to be.
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And when it gets higher than when it's supposed to be, it then spills over.
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That is the idea of pride.
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Pride gets lifted up in our heart above the natural, God-given order of man in creation.
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Above the place that God has put us in by His divine order.
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Pride occurs when our opinion of ourselves boils over its God-given boundaries and spills
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out where it doesn't belong.
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It makes a mess of things.
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Pride is when we start thinking we are more important than we actually are.
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That happens, doesn't it?
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Now are we important?
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Everybody in here is important.
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You're important enough for Jesus to come die for.
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God loves you.
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You are important enough to be created.
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You have importance.
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Every human life we're made in the image of God.
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Every person in here is important.
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But when we stretch that beyond our importance and we think of ourselves greater than we
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actually are, we're boiling over our God-given limits.
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Our opinion of ourselves swells higher than we actually are.
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In Texas we might say we're getting too big for our britches, right?
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In the Gospel of Luke chapter 1, the angel Gabriel told Zacharias that he was going to
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have a son, John the Baptist.
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In Luke chapter 1 verse 18 through 20, Zacharias said unto the angel, whereby shall I know
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this for I am an old man and my wife well-stricken in years.
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The angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God and am sent
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to speak unto thee and to show thee these glad tidings and behold thou shalt be dumb
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and not able to speak until the day that these things shall be performed because thou believe
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it's not my words which shall be fulfilled in their season.
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You know what Gabriel's saying to Zacharias?
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He's saying I just told you what was going to happen.
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You realize who you're talking to, right?
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I'm Gabriel.
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I'm the angel that I stand in the presence of God and God sends me to tell you this information
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and you don't believe me.
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The angel Gabriel is an angel to be respected.
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He is an important angel and Zacharias should have believed him.
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Having the angel Gabriel thought about himself was within the boundaries God created him in.
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Makes sense?
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But compare Gabriel thinking that of himself, I'm a messenger of God, I stand in the presence
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of God, he doesn't deny that high position that he has.
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Pride is not pressing yourself below the limits that God has given you.
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That is, excuse me, humility is not pressing yourself below the limits that God has given
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you.
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Sinful pride is when you lift yourself above the limits.
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False humility is when you press yourself below the limits.
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Both are sin.
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Both are sin.
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Both are unbelief.
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If I don't acknowledge the position God's created me for, that's unbelief.
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It's failure to occupy the position God's put me in.
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If I think myself higher than the position God's created me for, that also is unbelief
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and it's pride.
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We all belong in the pot.
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Compare what Gabriel thought of himself to what Lucifer thought of himself.
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Lucifer thought he was important enough to be worshiped like God, even to take God's
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place.
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Now see what happened with Lucifer, there was this inflated opinion of himself that
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was outside the boundaries God created him in.
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He was lifted up in pride, he spilled over.
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Romans chapter 12 verse 3, you'll write this down in your margin, Romans chapter 12 verse
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3, "For I say, through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you, not to
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think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly."
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That means realistically.
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"According as God had dealt to every man the measure of faith."
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Understand what God's created you for, be grateful for it.
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Don't ever push yourself below it, that's not humility, that's not walking in meekness
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or anything like that, that's just as sinful as going above where you're supposed to be.
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Everything's downfall was his pride.
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He got too big for his britches.
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It happened to angels and it happens to people all the time.
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Don't let it happen to you because it will come.
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It's opportunistic, you'll have something in your life and suddenly that old pride will
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come knocking saying, "Hey, let me talk to you about this.
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Let's see if we can get you to bowl a little bit higher than where God's put you."
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Solomon said, "When pride comes, look back in your text, then come the shame, then cometh
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shame."
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See, pride has a silent business partner, his name is shame.
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But pride never travels alone.
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He always has the business partner out in the car.
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Y'all ever had a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman or someone like that come?
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They'll come do their little sales pitch and then when you start crawfishing on buying
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it they want to go outside and talk to their manager.
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He's out in the car.
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They'll do that at the car lot too.
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Let me leave you here.
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Let me go talk to my manager about this.
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It's just an old tactic they use.
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Pride's like that.
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He always travels with shame.
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At first pride does all the work but in the end sin, I'm sorry, shame finishes the job.
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Pride does all the work in the beginning but in the end shame finishes the job.
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The Hebrew word translated shame here without getting too graphic, it has the idea of nakedness,
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nakedness.
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When I was a young highway patrolman, why would we be saying shame is nakedness?
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Naked not ashamed, now they're naked and ashamed.
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When I was a young highway patrolman working in a small town, when we arrested somebody
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in the north end of the county, we'd usually book them in in the small Jacksonville Police
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Department jail.
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Back then it was just a little podunk, two wholesale, one for the women, one for the
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men.
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When you booked them in, there were no jailers there.
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You were the jailer.
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You counted their money, you went through their inventory, you had them put everything
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up, you took them and closed the door and put them in there.
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And sometimes we would arrest cowboys being in Texas of course.
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We'd arrest these cowboys and these cowboys were all decked out like cowboys do in their
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big hats, their big boots and their big buckles.
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And they're just full of themselves, walking, stomping, all this stuff.
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They were very proud people and their clothing showed it.
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They looked so important and intimidating in that cowboy attire but I was always amazed.
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I don't know if you ever noticed this, I don't know if it ever crossed your mind, Brother
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Shepherd, but I was always amazed at how unimportant they began to look when those big hats came
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off, their big buckles came off and their boots came off.
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Do you ever notice that?
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It just started, they started looking different.
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I mean suddenly they're two inches shorter, they're two inches shorter and they're walking
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around in their socks and they got this little head and it looked like a big head when they
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had that hat on.
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And suddenly they're walking more humble when all of their glories remove from them.
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All the attire their personality hid behind is gone.
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They didn't walk with that same show of importance as before and it humbled them.
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And I believe the reason the word shame here comes from this Hebrew word that means, talking
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about a person's nakedness, I believe it's because shame exposes a person for what they
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really are.
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The man that got arrested, he wasn't the cowboy hat, he wasn't the big shiny buckle, he wasn't
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the big clomping stomping boots, he was the fella and the socks and the saggy britches.
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That's what he was.
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Shame is a good dose of unwelcome reality.
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That's what shame is.
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It takes away that first persona because that's what's going to happen to the devil.
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The Bible talks about the devil in the end.
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Is this the one that weakened the nations?
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When they see him all groveling and afraid and pitiful in the end, when he's judged by
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God and he's going to be cast in the lake of fire, is that the one that everybody was afraid
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of and is that the one that caused all this trouble?
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He's nothing.
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In the end, he'll be exposed for what he really is and all this pompous attitude and great
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swelling self praise, he's going to pop like a balloon when Jesus comes.
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What's going to happen?
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That shame, pride brings shame with it.
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Pride will undress the person who has it in his heart and expose that person for the lowly
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pathetic creature they really are before the eyes of the people they once boasted in front
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of.
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Recently, we had an attorney come to our courthouse who is six foot seven inches tall and he was
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trash talking, the opposing lawyer and the opposing clients, talking real big and warning
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us when he came in there that there were going to be fireworks in this trial this week, he
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said.
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You better get ready, I'm just letting you all know.
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He acted so large and in charge, but a couple of days later, of course he got scolded by
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the judge for his behavior, and a couple days later in between times and before the trial
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was going on.
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He spoke personally to me, very humble like.
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And he said he had been struggling with anger management issues.
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He said his wife had asked him to quit drinking.
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He said, "I started drinking in the middle of the day, drinking during lunch time."
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He said, "I never got arrested for DUI."
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He said, "But it was time for me to quit."
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He was getting out of hand for him and so he quit drinking.
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He's tried to start exercising to relieve stress instead of going to alcohol because
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he said his job is very stressful and he said he's getting a better hold on his anger management.
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And when he was talking to me so frank like that, you know what he was doing?
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He was exposing himself for what he really was.
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All the trash talking and tough guy stuff, all large and in charge and control, that
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was not really what he was.
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He was large, but he wasn't in charge and he wasn't in control.
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But when he was telling me all that, he was really telling me, "You know," he didn't say
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this but this is what he was saying in reality.
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He was saying, "You know, I know I'm 6'7" and I know I talk real big, but I'm having
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trouble maintaining the persona I put on and I want to tell somebody that.
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When he was telling me his struggle, that was pride, silent, partner exposing him for
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what he really was.
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Pride does its work when we feel like we're on top of the world and then shame comes along
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and lets everybody see that we aren't as big, aren't as strong, aren't as important as we
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thought we were.
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So with pride comes shame.
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Look back in your text now.
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But with the lowly, here's the opposite of the person that has pride.
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This is the lowly.
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With the lowly, it's a different story.
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And again, being lowly doesn't mean belittling yourself.
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There's some people who have trouble with pride.
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There's other people who have trouble with self-esteem and they actually take comfort
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by putting themselves down in front of people.
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Anyone know anyone like that?
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They'll belittle themselves.
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You pay them a compliment, they'll cut themselves down.
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"Well, I love your cooking."
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"Well, I think it's too salty."
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I mean, that's just what some people do.
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They look very beautiful.
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"Oh, I'm having a bad hair day."
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That's what some people do.
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They'll belittle themselves and that is not being lowly.
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Being lowly means to keep your opinion of yourself in the pot.
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That's all it means, to keep your opinion of yourself from bowling over onto the stove
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outside the God-given limits God created you in.
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The angel Gabriel didn't have a bad opinion of himself.
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I'm Gabriel.
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I stand in the presence of God.
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You should believe me.
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If he didn't have a bad presence of himself, you know, Gabriel didn't say, "You know,
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I tell you what, Zachariah, you're right.
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If I was in your shoes, I'd have trouble believing me too."
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That's not what Gabriel did.
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Man, we're made the image of God.
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We're the sons of God.
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That's a big deal.
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We are the highest life form on planet Earth, made just a little lower than the angels.
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That's a really big deal.
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But you know what keeps that wonderful self-esteem?
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Because I'm telling you, you know what?
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The psalmist said, "I'll praise thee for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made."
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You know what he was saying?
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"I'm a big deal."
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But you know what kept it from bowling out of the pot?
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I will praise thee because of it, not me.
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I am what I am by the grace of God.
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I am valued because I get my value from God.
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I can do what I do because God enables me.
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I'm intellectual because God has given that to me and he can take it away anytime he wants
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to.
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Whatever your gift is, where pride comes in trying to knock on your door and boil you
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over the pot, pride stays in the pot by giving God credit for everything.
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For everything.
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We should enjoy being everything God made us to be.
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But in all that celebration of who and what we are, we must remember that we were made
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from the dust of the earth.
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And we should never let our water rise any higher than that.
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Do you want to know why people try so hard to believe that God didn't make us but we
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made ourselves?
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Because that's all the atheists are doing.
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All God didn't make us.
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Now we all just came out of it, just evolved on our own.
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Do you know why they try to do that?
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Pride.
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God didn't make us, we made ourselves.
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Their atheists are too stinking proud to acknowledge that they owe their very life's breath to
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their creator.
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So their water boils over and pretends that they created themselves.
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And one day their pride will give way to their shame and they will be exposed for what they
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really are.
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Just dust that God took and made into man and woman.
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People today claim they can be any gender they want to and they call it pride.
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And that's something.
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Pride.
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Their water is boiled over.
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They say we don't have to go by God's design, we can make our own.
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I read today where someone said that genders are just social constructs.
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They're things society created.
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Genders aren't real, they're things we just made up in our minds.
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And society then can then make up any other gender they want to.
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Just make it up.
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You know what they're doing?
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That's just pride.
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That's saying we don't give God credit for making things the way they are.
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And one day their shame will expose them for what they are.
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But the lowly will not be put to shame.
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For the lowly, the Bible says, look back in your text, is wisdom.
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Is wisdom.
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Wisdom is the opposite of shame in this context.
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Shame exposes a man for what he really is.
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Wisdom acknowledges God for what he really is.
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You see the difference?
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Shame exposes a man for what he really is.
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Wisdom acknowledges God for what he really is.
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And anyone who acknowledges God for what he really is will never be put to shame.
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He that believes on him shall not be ashamed.
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Isn't that wonderful?
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Isn't that wonderful?
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That's lowliness.
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Why is it called lowliness, Brother Richard?
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When we see God for what he really is, then we will view God as high.
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He is the what?
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The most high God.
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So when we see God for what he really is, all high and lifted up, then we will view
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ourselves as what?
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God is high.
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We are then what?
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Low.
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But if we fail to see God for what he really is, then we will view God being lower than
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what he is and ourselves higher than what we are.
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Everything gets messed up.
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It all comes back to belief, to faith.
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Here's a kingdom and truth for you tonight.
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Those who have a right view of God will have a right view of themselves.
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Those who have a right view of God will have a right view of themselves.
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Those who have a wrong view of God will have a wrong view of themselves.
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And if you have a wrong view of yourself, then the world will eventually get a real
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view of you.
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And we'll read all that together.
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That's a long kingdom and truth.
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Those who have a right view of God will have a right view of themselves.
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Those who have a wrong view of God will have a wrong view of themselves.
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And if you have a wrong view of yourself, then the world will eventually get a real
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view of you.
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Shame will expose you.
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Christian, remember you are but dust.
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Give God the credit for every blessing in your life.
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Never let pride deceive you into thinking of yourself more highly than you are.
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Remember, if you keep God in His place, then you will never fall from yours.
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Man, that's something to hang on to there, isn't it?
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The lowly cannot fall to shame.
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The pride cannot rise to honor.
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Father, we thank You so much for Your precious Word.
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Thank You, Father, for Your Word keeping us in the pot.
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Meeting us in the right place, seeing You in Your right place, we're so grateful, Father.
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Help us, Father, to remain lowly and to always see You high and lifted up, our great hope,
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our great love in Him from whom we receive our value, our worth.
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In Jesus' precious name, amen.
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