- Pride makes life revolve around self, not God
- Sin is more than wrongdoing—it is self at the center instead of God.
- Romans 1:24, 26, 28 – “God gave them up” to their own desires.
- Isaiah 53:6 – “All we like sheep have gone astray… every one to his own way.”
- Pride keeps self on the throne
- Symptoms: envy, immorality, gossip, arrogance, cruelty.
- Romans 1:29–31 – full list of sins flowing from rejecting God.
- Judges 21:25 – “Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
- Salvation is deliverance from self, not self-improvement (Galatians 2:20).
- Pride blinds the mind
- When God is dethroned (in the throne of your life), sin no longer looks like sin. (God is still sovereign and on His throne in heaven. He allows man to exercise freewill)
- Isaiah 5:20 – calling evil good, and good evil.
- Jeremiah 17:9 – “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.”
- 2 Corinthians 4:4 – “The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.”
- Pride enslaves, but Christ frees
- Sin deceives us into thinking we are free.
- John 8:33–34 – “Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.”
- Romans 6:16–18 – slaves of sin, but made free through obedience to Christ.
- Reconciliation requires redemption, not just forgiveness (Colossians 1:13–14).
- Only Christ restores God to His rightful place in our lives (Philippians 2:9–11).
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