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Introduction
Most of you have probably heard that pride is the root of all sin.
Pride of self, or we think so much of ourselves that pride is the root of all sin.
Let’s read a story from the Bible where pride is fully on display.
Luke 18:
The Pharisee in this picture who shows how righteous he is.
All of his works.
Prayer.
Fasting.
Everyone sees how much he tithes.
On the outside he is the righteous of the righteous.
He is the man.
But this picture shows us a story of pride.
A man so prideful that in the eyes of God it is disgusting.
And it can be easy to point out this pride.
It is easy to point out pride in others, but what about in your own life?
Can you point to where you are prideful?
Today we are not looking at pride in general.
Rather we will look at some specific issues of pride and it is those issues of pride that we are calling our respectable sins.
The pride of moral self-righteousness
The pride of correct doctrine
the pride of achievement, and the pride of an independent spirit.
The pride of achievement
The pride of an independent spirit
All of these we will be taking a closer look that we may all be guilty of in some way, but these are respectable sins because we look at them less harshly.
These sins we may see in our friends and will not call them out on it as quickly as others.
Sins that on the surface may be less consequential than if you murdered someone.
Moral Self-Righteousness
The story we read about the Phariseee would fit in this category.
He put himself above everyone else.
He prayed.
fasted.
Tithe.
He did everything he was commanded to do and made sure everyone around him saw that.
This type of pride can be found anywhere.
Christians are not the only one guitly of this.
Politicians.
Your fellow workers wherever you have a job.
Anyone you come in contact with can be guilty of being morally superior.
You can get on the news or twitter or anywhere where people can have a voice calling out or supporting choices.
Whether that is being pro life, pro gun, pro trump, pro democrat, pro immigration.
People can support a view or a policy, and then be attacked and while they are attacked the other side makes themselves look morally superior.
It was in the news, I am not sure how far back but Trump was being attacked because he had committed adultery with a porn star while he had a 4 month son at home.
I use this example because i would assume that all of us in here would say that is horrible, but we can feel morally superior and look at his actions with disdain and we commit the pride of moral superiority.
We can do this with any sin such as divorce, homosexuality, abortion, drunkeness, drug use.
We can look at any of those sins and start playing the comparison game “I am not commiting those sins.
I am better off than they are.”
This sin.
Sin of pride of moral superiority may be second to ungodliness in this book.
It is such widespread in our society.
How do we fight this pride.
What steps can we take.
1.
We have to be humble.
We must seek a attitude of humility in our life.
There are believers in this room, in this church, and in this world that live morally upright.
They read, they pray, they obey the commands God has laid out in His Word and they seek the Lord’s will.
They are not perfect, but they try but they recoginze that all of it is by the grace of God.
Instead of feeling morally superior, they give thanks to God that by His grace he has kept them from those sins.
Or they give thanks because they rescued them from that lifestyle.
There are plenty of men and women in this church who have gone through struggles such as drugs, alcohol, and many other different lifestyles of sin that they will credit the grace of God from rescuing them out of that sin.
Give thanks to God that his grace is sustaining you in this fallen world.
2. We seek to be humble, but we also identify with this fallen society.
He was one of the godliest men of the people of Israel at this time.
His life was committed to the Lord.
Yet even his life being committed to the Lord was surrounded by brokenness.
surrounded by people turning their back on God.
Turning to everything else but God.
But hear Ezra’s prayer.
You see that 1st person plural pronoun “our.”
Ezra who was an upright man identified with the sins of God’s people.
We can identify with the sins in our society to keep us from self-righteous pride.
Pride of Correct Doctrine
This sin can be dangerous in the church world.
Everyone has a theology.
The way you live your life is you living your theology out.
And the danger is that whatever your beliefs are they are the correct beliefs.
We should all care about doctrine.
We have heard David quote someone and I have no idea who said this but I know David does all the time “right doctrine leads to right living”
The pride of correct doctrine can be played out in many ways.
We can think that our beliefs are right and we are so convinced of that.
The problem then is that we look at other peoples’ beliefs with arrogance.
We look down at them.
May even think they are stupid for this belief.
Paul addresses pride of this manner in
Paul in this chapter discusses that some have a weaker conscious than others.
When Jesus died and fulfilled the law, eating and not eating of certain foods went away.
The Jews could not eat pork, but after Jesus died they could eat pork.
The Gentiles did eat pork, but the Jews even though they could and it not be a sin they felt as if they were sinning.
They sinned against their conscious.
And this was Paul’s response.
So let’s take a modern day example.
Tattoos
Dancing
Music with bass
Worship music with drums
Many different issues that Christian Liberty can cover.
But Paul’s point is that your knowledge.
When you strive to grow in knowledge.
When you are studying your Bible and picking up on golden nuggets.
Things you have never seen before.
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