How Does Pride Prevent You From Knowing God?

The real question about pride comes down, can any authority on earth be trusted? Why?

At some point, the church must accept spiritual authority. The delivery of God's authority has many places it is revealed; over time this shapes our Christian ONLY world view. It's revealed in rightly dividing the scripture, a knowledge of God, righteous rebuke by a brother, and most importantly by God himself. And we must be open, willing to test the spirit of those around us and see if they be of God. And if they are, to accept what they say. Often though, we have a barrier so thick that only God himself could rebuke us, and friend, that is a man-made wall and serves no heavenly purpose. Admittedly this post is aimed at how pride shows up in every day Christian conversation, so thus my points tend to focus on that element of pride.

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Pride at it's very core removes Christ from the throne and if that were not enough, elevates self to his seat. Pride at it's core creates a man to be God himself.

Now if we knew that every time we reacted pridefully to something we're actually screaming at the top of our spiritual lungs "NO! I WANT TO BE GOD!" Then friend, we likely we think of different ways to blaspheme and to sin...but the majority do not realize this.

I am, was and will still, be guilty of this. I do not tell you these things out of triumph over my sin, but out of recognition of my depravity.

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Remember the movie with Rowdy Rod Piper? Where he puts on these glasses and he can see the aliens? Pride is a lot like that. To the outside, we have the appearance of holiness...but we deny its power, because in us, is PRIDE, and in that is the genuine desire to be LORD over your own life. This prevents you from knowing God....God does not save you because you are equal, lesser or greater than he. He saves you because of his will and for his purposes. You cannot save yourself. Can you even rebuke yourself? That is why you must DAILY search yourself and see if the truth be in you...

Again, we have nothing to be proud of. We have no understanding, we have no knowledge, we own nothing. Christ's Church are GOD's Possession, a Chosen People, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation, CHOSEN, so that YOU might proclaim the excellencies of HIM who has called you out of darkness into HIS marvelous light. Friend...the authority of God and our position relative to his should help us understand what we have to be proud of.

Final note, when considering how pride infects your life, don't think big. Think small. Think about how you complain because the music at church isn't to your liking, rather than being at church to PRAISE the ALMIGHTY, or when you look down your nose at someone because they seem to have a little less than you, rather than reaching out and ministering to the POOR, or when you accept the social culture of our society as normal and acceptable to be around, rather than being ON FIRE for GOD and set apart, or when you don't open your mouth and share the Gospel, even though you feel the spirit tell you to do it.

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