Sermon
Pride Must Die
Cross Church
Speaker: Ryan Blackwell
January 3, 2021 · 38 min
Summary
Pride is the greatest spiritual danger Christians face, and humility is essential for spiritual growth. Using Israel's wilderness failure as a cautionary example, the sermon calls believers to intentionally pursue humility through prayer, Bible reading, and community, recognizing their constant vulnerability to pride's deception.
Highlights
Pride convinces us that while that person over there may fall into sin, while that person may fall into that temptation, man, I'm good. I've got this thing. I will not fall.
The natural drift for every person in a fallen world is toward pride and moving further and further away from Jesus.
One of the greatest skill sets of every human is this: we can deceive ourselves about our sin. And that is why God has given us other Christians that know us, they know our commitment to Christ and they can help push us in that walk with him.