Overcoming Pride: Embracing Humility in Faith

``If you think you don't have pride, you just might be dealing with pride. We all deal with it. As a matter of fact, if you're taking notes, I'd want you to write this down and in big letters in whatever you take notes, pride is sin. Pride is sin. As a matter of fact, I would take it a step further and I would say that pride is the original sin. [00:02:46] (23 seconds)  #prideIsOriginalSin

So what happens with this sin that we call pride is that this sin makes us stop seeking God. The sin of pride will lead you to a place where you think you don't need God anymore. The sin of pride will bring you or lead you to destruction. As a matter of fact, let's say it this way because I'm included in there the sin of pride will lead us to destruction. It'll lead us to destruction. [00:08:25] (30 seconds)  #prideLeadsToDestruction

It's the story of the prodigal son as well. What tells the young man, he looks at his father, listen to the pride in the statement, give me what's mine. Kid never worked a day in his life. Give me what's mine because I am going to go. And what does he do? He gets it because the father loved him that much and he gave it to him, right? And he goes off and he spends it all. He's living with the pigs, with the swine, and says, man, I'm living here wanting to eat slop. And in my father's house, they're servants that are eating and living better than me. I'm going to go back and I'm going to tell him I'm disqualified. I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. And we know the story. As he goes back, the father sees him, runs to him. The kid drops to the floor, starts yelling, I'm no longer worthy. What is the kid starting to do? Truly, he begins to humble himself. And what does the father do? He gives grace to the one that humbled himself and puts him back up in a position. [00:16:14] (67 seconds)  #receiveAndTakeCounsel

So what is God saying? Humility will overcome the pride. We need to humble ourselves. We need to humble ourselves. We need to submit to God is what the rest of that chapter says. It says, humble yourself, submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee. So we're all facing the pothole of pride, but we can overcome it as we stay humble before the Lord. [00:24:56] (31 seconds)  #trueHumilityMatters

Daily encounters with God will keep you humble. Daily encounters with God will keep you humble. Daily encounters with God will keep you humble. Because what does the word of God do? When you read the word of God, it shows you stuff you need to fix. Oh, I've had to do a lot of repenting every year, every day as I read the word of God and something hits me. It's like, ah, maybe you maybe weren't walking in the love you should have. Lord, help me. I write it down. If you go through my Bible reading journal, you actually find a bunch of times where I'll write things like, Lord, help me do this. Lord, help me. [00:25:29] (38 seconds)  #pressOnInHumility

If you can't say I'm sorry there's probably some areas of pride that you need to let go of if you always have to be the one that's right there's probably some areas of pride that we need to let go of I was talking to somebody recently and they said the solution was saying I'm sorry and the person said I'm not gonna apologize because I did nothing wrong that's pride pride says I have to be right humility says I'm nothing but a servant to the father. [00:38:10] (48 seconds)