How The Mighty Fall: The Anatomy of Arrogance

The number one institution that God has created in the world today for us is family. The one who should support you more than anybody else in your life is family. The one that you should support more than anybody else is family. That includes marriage. That includes children, parenting. That includes your senior adults. That is God's design for us as the family. It's the strongest institution that God created. And now we live in the church age. You know what the words that Paul uses to describe us here today more than any other illustration? It's family. [00:53:19] (37 seconds)  #FamilyFirst

Are you quick to try to earn approval from other people, and you have to flex. You have to share about your successes in life to make them love you or like you because maybe you didn't get that in the home that you grew up in, and so you've been earning, been performing your whole life. In every conversation, you've gotta share your awards, your degrees, your successes, the things that you used to do. Oh, you don't have to be powerful to struggle with pride. In fact, you can have very, very little and still struggle with pride just as much as somebody who's powerful. [00:42:46] (37 seconds)  #StopPerforming

Life's too short to take that to your grave, to let that hurt live on into eternity. Address it. It's hard. I'm not telling you it's easy, and it's rainbows and unicorns. It's hard. You gotta own it. It hurts. When you own it, it means somebody's gotta pay for this hurt. I can pay for it. Why? Because Jesus has paid for my hurt, So I'm able to extend that grace and mercy to to others. [00:58:32] (26 seconds)  #GraceOverGrudges

What's that mean? Oftentimes, church or Christians will talk about sins that you do, and so you're you're encouraged, don't do that. There's two categories of sins. There's sins of commission. That's when we commit sins, we do things wrong. We break the 10 commandments. But we often forget about sins of omission. And when I hear people, I didn't do anything, yeah, that's sin of omission. You knew what you could have done and should have done. You didn't do it. It's called sins of omission. Both are sins. [00:59:29] (34 seconds)  #SinsOfOmission

Do you spend a lot of time focusing on how you look, focusing on how you appear, and thinking about what others think about you? Another question. When you experience success, does your first thought go to how good I am versus how grateful you are to God? Do you pat yourself on the back first, or are you thanking God first? Are you easily offended? Let me ask that question again. How offended are you? Are you easily offended? [00:41:42] (38 seconds)  #GratefulNotProud

As Edom has done, so it will be done to Edom. Every debt will be paid. Every account settled. We have no hope without God's justice. Unless God deals with human sin, heaven will be made hell. Every time we cry out, where was God when? We're seeking perfect justice. It's necessary. It's right. [01:07:04] (25 seconds)  #DivineJustice

that is worth leaving with here today. The kingdom shall be the Lord's. Everything in Obadiah points to that truth. Obadiah answers the question, does history matter? Yes. Does the future matter? Because God's people have suffered great injustice, and God sees it. You feel like, well, God doesn't know what I'm going through. If you've ever said, where was God when? He will answer that question one day. You can trust him. Obadiah wants to encourage all of us with God's coming justice. [01:06:31] (33 seconds)  #GodRulesHistory

My wife and I, we married thirty years, rupture and repair, thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands of times. It's called grace. Same thing between siblings. Right? And some of you may have a sibling you haven't spoken to in years. This is a word from Obadiah for you today. If you let that fester and you take that to the grave, you'll miss out you'll miss out on the beauty of repair, the beauty of reconciliation. [00:55:12] (26 seconds)  #GraceInMarriage