Pride (6 of 7)
Series: Seven Fatal Attractions
Collin Wimberly
2 Chronicles 26:1-23
CIT - Uzziah is disciplined by God for the sin of pride
INTRODUCTION:
John Ortberg writes: Not long ago, there was a CEO of a Fortune 500 company who pulled into a service station to get gas. He went inside to pay, and when he came out he noticed his wife engaged in a deep discussion with the service station attendant. It turned out that she knew him. In fact back in high school before she met her eventual husband, she used to date this man.
The CEO got in the car, and the two drove in silence. He was feeling pretty good about himself when he finally spoke: ''I bet I know what you were thinking. I bet you were thinking you're glad you married me, a Fortune 500 CEO, and not him, a service station attendant.''
''No, I was thinking if I'd married him, he'd be a Fortune 500 CEO and you'd be a service station attendant.''
Nothing like a little humble pie is it? Pride is a deadly ride. One that will wreck your relationship with God and with others around you. Pride is a ride you need to get off of as soon as possible.
Pride is a poison so very poisonous that it not only poisons the virtues; it even poisons the other vices. ... And we all do in fact know that the primary sin of pride has this curiously freezing and hardening effect upon the other sins. Uzziah experienced this first-hand.
Uzziah was a great leader and King. None of his physical enemies oculd touch him. What was this subtle enemy that defeated Uzziah? Basically, he let his V.I.P. status go to his H.E.A.D. In other words, Uzziah became proud and haughty. Somewhere amidst all the blessings, he lost sight of the fact that God was the source of his power, popularity, and prosperity.
So in our study of the seven deadly sins, our first topic is Pride.
We will begin this study in 2 Chronicles 26.
Uzziah is a classic example of someone who just got too big for their spiritual britches.
...
Series: Seven Fatal Attractions
Collin Wimberly
2 Chronicles 26:1-23
CIT - Uzziah is disciplined by God for the sin of pride
INTRODUCTION:
John Ortberg writes: Not long ago, there was a CEO of a Fortune 500 company who pulled into a service station to get gas. He went inside to pay, and when he came out he noticed his wife engaged in a deep discussion with the service station attendant. It turned out that she knew him. In fact back in high school before she met her eventual husband, she used to date this man.
The CEO got in the car, and the two drove in silence. He was feeling pretty good about himself when he finally spoke: ''I bet I know what you were thinking. I bet you were thinking you're glad you married me, a Fortune 500 CEO, and not him, a service station attendant.''
''No, I was thinking if I'd married him, he'd be a Fortune 500 CEO and you'd be a service station attendant.''
Nothing like a little humble pie is it? Pride is a deadly ride. One that will wreck your relationship with God and with others around you. Pride is a ride you need to get off of as soon as possible.
Pride is a poison so very poisonous that it not only poisons the virtues; it even poisons the other vices. ... And we all do in fact know that the primary sin of pride has this curiously freezing and hardening effect upon the other sins. Uzziah experienced this first-hand.
Uzziah was a great leader and King. None of his physical enemies oculd touch him. What was this subtle enemy that defeated Uzziah? Basically, he let his V.I.P. status go to his H.E.A.D. In other words, Uzziah became proud and haughty. Somewhere amidst all the blessings, he lost sight of the fact that God was the source of his power, popularity, and prosperity.
So in our study of the seven deadly sins, our first topic is Pride.
We will begin this study in 2 Chronicles 26.
Uzziah is a classic example of someone who just got too big for their spiritual britches.
...
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