On today\u2019s episode, the guys talk about the\u00a0 extremely destructive sin of pride.\u00a0 Pride is \u201cthe silent killer,\u201d the original sin, a self-deceiving foe.\u00a0 It is a form of idolatry present in all of us and driving much of the world.\u00a0 It is subtle and secretive, and while we often can\u2019t see it in ourselves, we tend to be disgusted when we notice it in others.\u00a0 We all know what it feels like to notice pride in this way.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been bothered by the athlete who is obviously full of himself or the self-proclaimed hero who claims praise for helping a person in danger.\u00a0 But how do we define what it is that bothers us in these moments?\u00a0 What is pride?\u00a0 To use the words of Charnock, it is \u201ccontending with God for preeminence.\u201d\u00a0 Its opposite is humility, which entails seeing ourselves in truth and not being overly attentive to self.\u00a0 Getting into more practical outworkings of pride, it\u2019s important to know that it often harms our evangelism as Christians by fueling fear of rejection and driving us to corner people with arguments.\u00a0 Given a Bible, pride can lead to phariseeism.\u00a0 Knowledge inflames pride if the antidote of humility isn\u2019t applied.\u00a0 Pride can be low, disguising itself as humility.\u00a0 Pride clouds our witness by placing attention on ourselves rather than Jesus.<\/p>\n
The stark truth is that \u201cGod opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.\u201d\u00a0 Because of this fact, we need to be the kind of people who try to root out and repent of pride.\u00a0 And since we may not always see it in ourselves, the input of others is tremendously helpful.\u00a0\u00a0 We ought to humble ourselves, because God will not abide our foolish pride.\u00a0 And moreover, the gospel frees us from the need for pride!\u00a0 After all, we are accepted by God, and need no other approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On today\u2019s episode, the guys talk about the extremely destructive sin of pride. Pride is \u201cthe silent killer,\u201d the original sin, a self-deceiving foe. While the sin of pride may be extremely difficult to detect and defeat, we are far from hopeless in this battle. God’s Word has much to say about how we can abound in humility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":281384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"post_series":[],"podcast_series":[11202],"speaker":[11188,11189,11190,11187],"podcast_topics":[11240,11239],"class_list":["post-282150","episode","type-episode","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","podcast_series-season-1","speaker-emeal-zwayne","speaker-mark-spence","speaker-oscar-navarro","speaker-ray-comfort","podcast_topics-humility","podcast_topics-pride","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n