WHO SHOULD DIE: YOU OR YOUR PRIDE?
Jeremiah 13
" 'For as a belt is bound around a man's waist, so I bound the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to me,' declares the LORD, 'to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.' " v. 11
BELT
PRIDE --antonym: humility; syn. arrogance, conceit, smugness, self-importance, egotism, vanity, immodesty, superiority --a haughty attitude shown by somebody who believes, often unjustifiably, that he or she is better than others
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WHAT PRIDE DOES:
PRIDE VS. HUMILITY
1 John 2:15-17
Lord, You know the depths of my heart. You know the pride I have hidden inside. Though at times I tried to deny or reprimand myself, but You know so much that there is a poison in my heart which is pride. Especially when I was younger, I was conceited and boastful, I love to hear people praise me. I was a show off! I was proud of the things I can do. What a shame! Though I am a lesser proud person now, but I still am.
I have made myself the idol. Because that's what pride do. I have crowned myself with their praises. I have stolen Your glory, Lord! When You created me for Your renown and praise and honor. I have stolen something that's due to You. Though I never ask for people to praise me but I admit I love their attention, I love hearing them say that I can do something great.
Thank You God for binding me to You. I don't want to be like Israel or Judah, Lord. I don't want to be completely useless. I want You to use me for Your glory.
Lord, today, I will transfer (by Your grace) everything I have devoted my time and skills from myself to YOU. Lord, teach me. I give You authority to change the direction of my heart/pride from myself to You. I will no longer be my pride. You will be my pride and joy. You are my Crown! You are my trophy!
My pride is only on the surface Lord. You know that so well. But on the inside, there are so many things that I am ashame of.
COMMAND:
Cast out your crowns and lay it down.
Go down from your throne.
Surrender and fall face down at the feet of the real King!
Do not be arrogant. v.15
Give glory to the Lord your God. v.16
Come down from your thrones, for your glorious crowns will fall from your heads. v.18
WARNINGS:
If I will not listen, God will make me completely useless! God will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep Him from destroying me. v. 14
If I will not give glory to the Lord, He will bring thick darkness and gloom and I will stumble.
If I will not take my pride away, God will put me to shame, "pull up my skirts over my face that my shame may be seen." He will EXPOSE things I am ashame of. v. 26
WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT PRIDE:
I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. Lev. 26:19
Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel! 2 Kings 19:22
But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. 2 Chronicles 26:16
Then Hezekiah repented of the pride of his heart, as did the people of Jerusalem; therefore the LORD’s wrath did not come on them during the days of Hezekiah. 2 Chronicles 32:26
Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds, Job 20:6
to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride...Job 33:17
In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God. Psalm 10:4
Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous. Psalm 31:18
He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved. Psalm 47:4
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. Proverbs 8:13
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. Proverbs 11:2
Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. Proverbs 13:10
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Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:1
Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and human pride brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
All the people will know it— Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria— who say with pride and arrogance of heart,
Isaiah 23:9
The LORD Almighty planned it, to bring down her pride in all her splendor and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
Isaiah 25:11
They will stretch out their hands in it, as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim. God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands
Isaiah 28:1
[ Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah ] Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley— to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!
Isaiah 28:3
That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, will be trampled underfoot.
Isaiah 37:23
Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Isaiah 43:14
[ God’s Mercy and Israel’s Unfaithfulness ] This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians, in the ships in which they took pride.
Jeremiah 13:9
“This is what the LORD says: ‘In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:17
If you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears, because the LORD’s flock will be taken captive.
Jeremiah 49:16
The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:20
They took pride in their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their detestable idols. They made it into vile images; therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.
Ezekiel 7:24
I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.
Ezekiel 24:21
Say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary—the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 28:2
“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “‘In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.
Ezekiel 32:12
I will cause your hordes to fall by the swords of mighty men— the most ruthless of all nations. They will shatter the pride of Egypt, and all her hordes will be overthrown.
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk inpride he is able to humble.
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
Daniel 11:12
When the army is carried off, the king of the South will be filled with pride and will slaughter many thousands, yet he will not remain triumphant.
Amos 6:8
[ The LORD Abhors the Pride of Israel ] The Sovereign LORD has sworn by himself—the LORD God Almighty declares: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and detest his fortresses; I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
Obadiah 1:3
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
Zephaniah 2:10
This is what they will get in return for their pride, for insulting and mocking the people of the LORD Almighty.
Zechariah 9:6
A mongrel people will occupy Ashdod, and I will put an end to the pride of the Philistines.
Zechariah 10:11
They will pass through the sea of trouble; the surging sea will be subdued and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. Assyria’s pride will be brought down and Egypt’s scepter will pass away.
2 Corinthians 5:12
We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
Galatians 6:4
Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else
James 1:9
Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position.
James 1:10
But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.
1 John 2:16
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
HUMILITY
Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the LORD, and humility comes before honor.
Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Humility is the fear of the LORD; its wages are riches and honor and life.
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents.
[ Paul’s Defense of His Ministry ] By the humility and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” toward you when away!
[ Imitating Christ’s Humility ] Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.
Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
[ Two Kinds of Wisdom ] Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin,
(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.
You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.
You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me.
I will humble David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.’”
“Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.”
Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people—that they would become a curse and be laid waste—and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is just.”
When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.
Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the LORD’s anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some good in Judah.
The LORD had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.
Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and went to Jerusalem.
In his distress he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.
But unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble himself before the LORD; Amon increased his guilt.
Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because youhumbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD.
He did evil in the eyes of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke the word of the LORD.
There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
ARROGANCE
Deuteronomy 1:43
So I told you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the LORD’s command and in your arrogance you marched up into the hill country.
So I told you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the LORD’s command and in your arrogance you marched up into the hill country.
1 Samuel 2:3
“Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.
“Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.”
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.”
Job 35:12
He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
Psalm 10:2
In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises.
In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises.
Psalm 17:10
They close up their callous hearts, and their mouths speak with arrogance.
They close up their callous hearts, and their mouths speak with arrogance.
Psalm 73:8
They scoff, and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
They scoff, and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
Isaiah 13:11
I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
Isaiah 16:6
We have heard of Moab’s pride— how great is her arrogance!— of her conceit, her pride and her insolence; but her boasts are empty.
We have heard of Moab’s pride— how great is her arrogance!— of her conceit, her pride and her insolence; but her boasts are empty.
Jeremiah 48:29
“We have heard of Moab’s pride— how great is her arrogance!— of her insolence, her pride, her conceit and the haughtiness of her heart.
“We have heard of Moab’s pride— how great is her arrogance!— of her insolence, her pride, her conceit and the haughtiness of her heart.
Hosea 5:5/Hosea 7:10
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them.
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them.
Mark 7:22
adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
