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Introduction
Pride is the refusal to acknowledge that “I Am” is “the Lord,” ().
Pride is “suppress(ing) the truth” that is “plain to (us), because God has shown it to (us),” ().
“For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.
So (we) are without excuse,” ().
God exists.
That is plain enough to all of us who will take an honest look around creation.
[INTER] But will we humble ourselves before God in light of his existence?
What price will we pay for not humbling ourselves before God?
Paul writes about those who know that God exists but refuse to humble themselves before him when he writes in ...
“Therefore God gave them up...” ().
“For this reason God gave them up…” ().
“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up...” ().
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.
(2016).
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Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
They knew God’s righteous decree that those who practiced such things - those who lived so pridefully - deserve to die, ().
There will come a die when every prideful person who refuses to humble themselves before God through faith in Christ
There will come a die when every prideful person who refuses to humble themselves before the Lord will be humbled by the Lord.
Listen to these sobering words from ...
A day like that - a day of wrath - had come for Pharaoh and Egypt in .
[CONTEXT] Pharaoh and Egypt tried to rescue God’s people from God’s discipline.
The people of Judah had rebelled against God.
God was disciplining them in the form of Babylonian subjugation.
Judah tried to cut short the discipline of God by rebelling against their Babylonian overlord, but Babylon (as directed by the sovereign hand of God) laid seige to the city.
Judah, however, was quite down.
It called on Pharaoh and Egypt to rescue it from the Babylonian siege.
For a moment it looked as if it had worked.
But, alas, the Babylonians returned and Jerusalem - the capital of Judah, the city of God - fell.
Two months after Jerusalem fell, this prophecy in came to the prophet.
Jerusalem was conquered and Egypt was next.
[CIT] is a sad song - a lamentation - that God aimed to stick in the minds of his people as a warning, “Pharaoh thinks himself lovely, but Pharaoh is ugly; he thinks himself tall, but Pharaoh is going to fall.
Don’t trust in him!”
[PROP] Oh, how we need a sober view of ourselves through the grace that God provides in Jesus Christ.
If we don’t wake up to our God-rejecting, humility-refusing pride, we will perish in our sins.
Salvation, however, lies in acknowledging Jesus as Lord and in humbling ourselves before him in light of that reality.
[INTER] will we humble ourselves before Jesus?
What price will we pay if we don’t?
[TS] Let’s notice a few ELEMENTS within this chapter...
Major Ideas
Element #1: The Sin - Pride (v.
2b)
[Exp] Pharaoh sees himself as a “lion of the nations” but God says he is more like “a dragon in the seas.”
The differences between these two views or estimations of Pharaoh involve more than just appearances.
The lion was seen as a symbol of royalty, especially in Egypt.
You remember seeing the Egyptian Sphinx with the head of Pharaoh and the body of lion.
This represented the king’s role as “the invincible protector of the people,” (Block).
In seeing himself as lion of the nations, Pharaoh no doubt sees himself as a leader of the world, but if he is leading the world, he is leading it in rebellion against God.
I should mention here that although Pharaoh likely sees himself as a leader of the world, God’s primary concern is not the world but his people, Judah.
Judah looked to Pharaoh as a lion of the nations, but under the judgment of God Judah will see that Pharaoh is nothing more than a common Nile crocodile that will be captured and killed.
Back in God said...
Here again in God referred to Pharaoh as a “dragon” or a “monster” if you’re reading the NASB.
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