20221101 Act 13:26-31

Humility Cures Blinding Pride

Blinding pride

What is the solution to blinding pride?

Jas 4:10 (ESV)

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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Read Act 13:26-31

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Act 13:26 (ESV) “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

Gen 12:3 (ESV)

3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

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Act 13:27 (ESV) For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

1Co 1:18-31 (ESV)

18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

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Act 13:28 (ESV) And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

Self-centered perspective skews or twists our perception.

God created the world to make sense.

Sin/self clouds our perception of the logic of God‘s world.

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

Original sin: PRIDE

Isa 14:14 (ESV)

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

1. Inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, accomplishments, rank or elevation in office, which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.

Pride blinds us to the truth!

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

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Act 13:29 (ESV) And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

Act 13:30 (ESV) But God raised him from the dead,

regardless of man’s twisted perspective, reality is, God is accomplishing HIS purposes!

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

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Act 13:31 (ESV) and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

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Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

1Co 1:18-25 (ESV)

18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

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19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

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20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

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21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,

23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord

Pride blinds is to the truth. Don’t allow pride to control your perspective.

Humble yourself before the Lord and HE will lift you up!

Blinding pride

Humble yourselves before the Lord