The Silent Killer | Herbert Cooper - Audio

09-09-18 - Kill The Spider - The Silent Killer - Herbert Cooper Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (NIV) 2 Chronicles 26:15 And he built structures on the walls of Jerusalem, designed by experts to protect those who shot arrows and hurled large stones from the towers and the corners of the wall. His fame spread far and wide, for the Lord gave him marvelous help, and he became very powerful. (NLT) 2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he had become powerful, he also became proud, which led to his downfall. He sinned against the Lord his God by entering the sanctuary of the Lord’s Temple and personally burning incense on the incense altar. (NLT) 1. Pride puts distance between you and God 2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he had become powerful, he also became proud, which led to his downfall. He sinned against the Lord his God by entering the sanctuary of the Lord’s Temple and personally burning incense on the incense altar. (NLT) Psalm 138:6 Though the Lord is great, he cares for the humble, but he keeps his distance from the proud. (NLT) James 4:6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”  (NIV) 2. Pride keeps you from wise counsel 2 Chronicles 26:17–19 Azariah the high priest went in after him with eighty other priests of the Lord, all brave men. 18 They confronted King Uzziah and said, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord. That is the work of the priests alone, the descendants of Aaron who are set apart for this work. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have sinned. The Lord God will not honor you for this!” 19 Uzziah, who was holding an incense burner, became furious. But as he was standing there raging at the priests before the incense altar in the Lord’s Temple, leprosy suddenly broke out on his forehead. (NLT) a. Pride makes you a know it all b. Pride causes you to have a negative response to correction c. Pride blames others for your sins 3. Pride deteriorates your life Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (NIV) The Antidote To Kill The Spider Of Pride: Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. (NIV) Proverbs 18:12 Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor. (NIV) 1 Peter 5:5-6 In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. (NIV) 1. Give God all the credit for all of your successes James 1:17 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. (NLT) 1 Chronicles 29:10–14 David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, Lord, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. 11 Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. 12 Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. 13 Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name. 14 “But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand. (NIV) 2. Serve others selflessly Matthew 23:11–12 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. (NIV) 3. Become more like Jesus daily Philippians 2:3–7 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. (NIV)