Pride and Prejudice Examining a Christian Attitude Pride

Pride and Prejudice Examining a Christian Attitude

Pride and Prejudice What is pride? ● ● Prov. 16: 5 “pride—(n. ) a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc. ” ● Lev. 18: 22; 20: 13; cf. 1 Sam. 15: 23 ● Eph. 4: 17 -24 – “alienated from the life of God” — Lk. 18: 18 -30 – “hardening of their heart” — Ex. 8: 15 14: 22 -23, 28

Pride and Prejudice ● Pride towards the world ● ● “'Tis not gold, nor emeralds, nor purple; but modesty, gravity, and decent deportment that can truly adorn a woman. ” (James Fordyce, Sermons to Young Women, 1766) Lk. 7: 36 -50; 18: 10 -14; Rom. 2: 1 -6; Lk. 10: 30 -37 – ● Matt. 5: 16 — “. . . let your light shine before men. . . ” Matt. 28: 18 -20 – Eph. 4: 2 — “. . . with all humility and gentleness, showing tolerance for one another in love. ” – Ez. 33: 1 -9

Pride and Prejudice ● Pride towards fellow Christians ● ● “. . . Such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin. ” (Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850) Titus 1: 10 -11; 1 Thess. 5: 11 -12; 2 Thess. 3: 11 – ● Phil. 1: 17 — “. . . the other proclaim Christ of faction [selfish ambition], not sincerely. . . ” Matt. 7: 1 -5, 15; Rom. 16: 17 -18; 1 Cor. 1: 10 -15

Pride and Prejudice ● Pride towards God ● ● ● “I will not accept that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God. ” (George Wald, Scientific American, 1957) Jer. 36: 23 -24 — “. . . the king. . . cast it into the fire. . . And they were not afraid. . . ” 2 Thess. 2: 15 — “. . . stand firm and hold fast to the teachings. . . ”