Tag: Pride
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Who Gets to Set the Terms? – Exodus 10:8
Exodus 10:8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the Lord your God: but who are they that shall go? Pharaoh sounds softer here at first. He says, “Go, serve the Lord your God,” but then immediately reveals that he is still trying to stay in…
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Hearing What Pride Wants to Hear – Exodus 10:7
Exodus 10:7 And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? By this point, even Pharaoh’s own servants could see what he refused to face. Egypt was already…
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When Pride Will Not Bow – Exodus 10:3-6
Exodus 10:3-6 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I…
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Burned by His Own Sin – Genesis 38:21-25
Genesis 38:21-25 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot…
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Mercy in the Confusion – Genesis 11:7
Genesis 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. What looks severe at first is actually mercy. The Lord saw where this united rebellion was headed, and He stepped in before it ran farther. Men were not gathering to seek Him. They were…
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One Voice, One Direction – Genesis 11:5-6
Genesis 11:5, 6 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to…
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A Tower and a Name – Genesis 11:4
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Now the real heart of Babel comes into view. It was not just about…
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From Gateway to Confusion – Genesis 10:10
Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Now we begin to see what Nimrod was building. It was not just influence. It was a kingdom. And the first city named is Babel. Originally, Babel carried the idea of Bab El, the…
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The Song of the Sword – Genesis 4:22-23
Genesis 4:22-23 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voiceye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speechfor I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man…
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Rejected Offering, Fallen Face – Genesis 4:4-5
Genesis 4:4-5 And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. The difference was not that Abel was loved and Cain was hated. The difference was that Abel came God’s way, and Cain…
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What Sin Promises – Genesis 3:6
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. This verse…
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Watching from a Distance – Revelation 18:9-10
Revelation 18:9-10 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city.for in one hour…
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One Day Changes Everything – Revelation 18:8
Revelation 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. Babylon says, I sit a queen. God says, I see a city ready for judgment. Babylon says, I shall see no sorrow. God…
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Blind in the Midst of Luxury – Revelation 18:7
Revelation 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Babylon’s problem is not merely wealth. It is self glory. She glorified herself. She looked at her power,…
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What Really Reaches Heaven – Revelation 18:5
Revelation 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. There is something striking here. Back in Genesis 11:4, the builders of Babel said they would build a tower whose top would reach unto heaven. Man has always wanted to climb upward on his own terms, make a name for…
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Blessed, Yet Broken – Jude 7-10
Jude 7-10 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the…
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When Worship Turns – Jude 6
Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Jude now moves to his second example, and it is a staggering one. Not only can the delivered fail to keep themselves in the…
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The Dangerous Hunger to Be First – 3 John 9
3 John 9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Now John turns from Gaius to Diotrephes, and the contrast is sobering. Gaius was a blessing to the body. Diotrephes wanted to be the body. Gaius opened his home. Diotrephes closed his heart. Gaius…
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More Grace – James 4:6
James 4:6 But he giveth more grace.Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Those first four words are a pillow for the soul: But he giveth more grace. Not just grace once. Not just grace for the polished version of you. Not just grace for the days when you…
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Not a Novice — 1 Timothy 3:6
1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Paul now adds something that feels almost protective. Do not put a brand new believer into leadership. Why? Because pride grows fast in fresh soil. The word novice means newly planted. A sapling. Something still…
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The Mirror That Never Smiles Back – Galatians 5:26
Vain glory is spiritual vanity. It is the need to be noticed for being righteous. It is the quiet hope that someone will see how disciplined we are, how consistent we are, how much we have sacrificed. Legalism feeds on comparison. It survives on measurement.