Pride
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Father,
You will fulfill Your purpose for us, and we praise You for that! Your purpose is better, Your plans are better, and Your process is better! We praise You for being righteous in all Your ways and we thank You for being so very kind to us in all Your ways.
Have mercy on me, a sinner. We repent of our sins and turn to You and we ask You to make our hearts clean. We confess our rebellion and thank You for not giving us what we deserve. You are so much better than fair—You even extend Your common grace and common mercy to those who don’t know or love You!
Give us eyes to see the kindness You’ve extended to us in ways big and small, in ways common and specific. We get to breathe Your air and enjoy Your creation, we get to taste delicious food, we have access to tools and technology that helps us understand Your Word that didn’t exist for any prior generations. You have done us SO MUCH GOOD.
We surrender our lives to You, Lord—every moment of our day, each decision we make, we yield our will and way to Your perfect will and way.
Amen.
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Family Tree of Jesus Mathew 1:1-17
we are going to talk about a man with a legacy… King Uzziah had a legacy of royalty. but like all families, things can get messy...
The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong. Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them. And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil. Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders. The whole number of the heads of fathers’ houses of mighty men of valor was 2,600. Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging. In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.
Uzziah became a mighty King. Sometimes, independence, power, fame, entitlement, heritage... they can develop into pride.
2 Chronicles 26:16 (ESV)
But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
you do not often find the sin of adultery; in the pulpit.
you do not often find the sin of corruption; in the pulpit.
you do not often find the sin of addiction; in the pulpit.
you do not often find the sin of greed; in the pulpit.
These sins are not prevalent in high profile leadership roles. What you will find behind the pulpit across the nation on a weekly basis;; is the Sin of Pride. (of course not here)
Pride!!! The invisible: yet highly destructive sin, is not only in the pulpit but also in the church pew!!!! Pride leads to destruction, it was the sin that cast Lucifer from Heaven! It was the very sin that Satan used to temp Adam and Eve in the garden;;; LEADING to the fall of man. Romans 3:23 For all have Sinned
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Nobody sins in a vacuum!!! Your sins affect those around you
Humility is the opposite of Pride.
Luke 18:9–14 (ESV)
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Matthew 23:12 (ESV)
12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
I love proverbs!!! If you have a pen...
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
we can go on and on about the wise man and the foolish man.
But pride is the sin that blinds the fool and the wise!!!
Pride will build a pedestal...
it will make you feel wiser than anyone around you.
Uzziah was on a VERY high pedestal.
2 chronicles 26:16 “But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.”
you see PRIDE is the sin that is normally hidden.
it is a sin of the heart.. the same sin that corrupted mankind in the beginning. the sin that got Lucifer kicked out of heaven
Lucifer thought he was better than God.
Uzziah though he was better than the Law...
The LAW that GOD gave Moses.
Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Uzziah didn't physically sin. His sin was of the heart.
But Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor, and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.”
Uzziah- angry- leprosy broke out in his forehead in the presence of the priests.
And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king’s household, governing the people of the land.
verse 21 chapter 26
I want to be more like Jesus and walk in humility.
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
A theme of both the OT and NT is God’s hatred of pride; therefore, he opposes the proud and gives attention and help to the humble
Pride causes God to turn from our prayers and withhold his grace. To be exalted in our own minds or to pursue the honor and esteem from others in order to satisfy our pride is to cut ourselves off from God’s help. But for those who humbly submit to God and pursue a deeper relationship with him, he gives generously of his grace, mercy and help in every situation of life
building a foundation in Christ, a lasting relationship with God.
what happens with a relationship that becomes complacent.
True humility starts with God.
Christ’s example of humility...
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
*Paul wrote to the church of Philippi* Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 2:1–11 (ESV)
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Jesus in Gethsemane: Jesus did not approach his death as a superhero....
he prayed in the garden First… and asked for help.
This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless. He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights. He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
wise man built his house on the rock
Identifying with the poor and needy. “the broken hearted”
OUR prayer should be: God, Would You steer us toward hope and plant our feet firmly on YOU as our foundation so that fear doesn’t inform our decisions? Remind us that we’re eternally safe and permanently secure in You. Give us your peace when we’re filled with unrighteous anger. Hold our tongues when we want to pick a fight. We can’t do it, God, but Your Spirit in us can.
Paul, the example of humility. when speaking to the church of Corinth. (Divisions of the church) He Thanked God that he didn't baptize none of them except Crispus and Gaius
Paul said 1 cor 1:17
“For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.”
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.