So many Christians are performance driven...

[Guest duane65]

God hates pride because He loves people. Pride prevents people from recieving help from God.

Prov 8:13 NKJ

13. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate.

Pride is the root of all sin.

Pride is a very serious, and subtle sin. It is often not even recognized as existing.

Pride is the root of all sin. It causes us to turn away from God instead of turning to Him. All disobedience has pride as its root. All rebellion has pride behind it. All mistreatment of other people is caused by pride. Someone putting their self, and feelings above the other person, and their feelings.

Pride is evil.

Read Mark 7:20-23.

1 John 2:16

The world system promotes people who are proud, and performance driven, and often gives them riches. God says pride is evil, and defiles a man.

Pride prevents people from recieving.

Psalm 10:4

James 4:6

Pride causes people to go their own way, instead of God's way. Pride makes you think that you don't need God's advice or help.

Only by faith in God can we recieve His blessings. Pride is faith in yourself.

Pride causes people trouble.

Prov 11:2-Chap 16:18-19-Chap 29:23

Manifestations of pride.

1. Neglecting the Bible, and prayer.

You may think that you do not read the Bible more because you are too busy. The root problem is pride, you think you can make it without God's Word. Those who neglect prayer, have the same root problem.

Pride and prayer are inverse. A proud person does not pray much, and a praying person is not bothered much with pride.

2. Inability to admit when you are wrong.

A proud person blames someone else, the fault is never theirs. And, they refuse to admit anything they are doing could be a failure.

Not submiting to authority.

1 Peter 5:5

A proud person thinks they should do things their way, instead of going by what someone else has to say.

Know it all attitude.

1 Corinth 8:2

No one knows everything, and its okay to not know everything.

Not acting on God's Word.

If we do not act on God's Word, then we are acting on the Word of someone else, thereby placing ourselves above God.

Criticizing other people.

Anyone who criticizes, (not lovingly correcting) another person, considers they a superior to that person. They also think they are qualified to judge that person. ( Which they are not )

You are not better than others, or anyone. Just different in some ways. True you may be superior in some ways, but they are superior to you in at least one way. Everyone of them knows something that you do not. And there are many people superior to you in many ways.

[mrcorey]

God hates pride because He loves people. Pride prevents people from recieving help from God.

My experience with pride is that I never recognize it, it has to be pointed out to me. Pride is very sneaky, it manifests itself in many ways. It's good to have someone close to you to point out pride when it reveals it's ugly head. At least for me.

Corey