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NASB | Daniel 4:37 "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Daniel 4:37 "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and faithful and His ways are just, and He is able to humiliate and humble those who walk in [self-centered, self-righteous] pride." |
Subject: so what's the big deal about pride? |
Bible Note: What is pride? A liar? A thief? What? What is it? Why is it so bad? What is it about pride that God hates so much? It hardly seems equal to, murder, or sexual perversion, rape, or sodomy, or even bestiality! Oh my, we don’t even want to mention that. Mass killings by suicide bombers that kill so many innocent mothers and innocent babies! Villagers hacked to peaces by machete wilding hooligans! Oh, how we cringe at the very thought! But pride, It seems so, benign…. After all, it doesn’t go round with a sword, removing the heads of the innocent. Does it? What, is so bad, about pride? Well then, what was it that caused the fall of Lucifer? The most beautiful of all God’s Angels, the one that some say led the songs of praise to The Most High God! And what was it that he said to Eve in the garden that beguiled her and caused her to sin against God? Did he ask her to lie or steal or dance naked in the street, or, what? What was it? What was so bad about just taking a bight of the fruit and why was she so willing to disobey God? And we know what that first sin of disobedience brought into the world, why it brought of course all the sins of all the world for all time, and all the horrible things we have seen before-mentioned. Yes, it is pride that is the father of all sin. Let us pray for the power of God to work in our hearts and tear down that wall of pride that so deceitfully and vigilantly guards our hearts from God’s wonderful, redeeming, and sanctifying grace. |