The Spirit Alive Praise & Worship Experience: Self Help Test: Pride Part One

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Message: Sef Help Test: Pride      

Text: James 4:1-12

Pride is the deadliest disease known to man. You can certainly think of selfish pride as a horrible sickness. It’s not seasonal, it not  matter of fact, it’s something you’re born with. You can’t catch it from other people, but being around other people with the same sickness can make it worse. The biggest problem with this sickness is, you don’t necessarily feel bad when you get it. Sometimes it feels really good—for a while. But if left unchecked, selfish pride will destroy everything you hold dear. It will destroy your marriage. It will destroy the relationship between children and parents. It will destroy your family. It will destroy your friendships and it will destroy the church.

In today’s passage, James asks his readers where their continual desire to fight amongst themselves comes from. And his answer is surprising. Rather than point his finger at an outward cause of their strife, he tells them it is because of each of their individual selfishness. Selfishness that is rooted in their pride.