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Problems With Pride: Overcoming Strife, Worldliness, and Arrogant Boasting

James chapter 4 addresses several problems with pride, including wars and strife, worldliness, speaking evil of others, and arrogant boasting. Discover how to overcome these issues and find peace through humbling ourselves before God.

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Problems With Pride: Overcoming Strife, Worldliness, and Arrogant Boasting

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  1. Problems With Pride James 4

  2. James chapter four addresses several problems. • Wars and strife • Worldliness • Speaking evil of and judging our brethren • Arrogant boasting • Failing to do good (which is sin)

  3. James chapter four addresses several problems. • Wars and strife • Worldliness • Speaking evil of and judging our brethren • Arrogant boasting • Failing to do good (which is sin) PRIDE

  4. Pride is a great problem for man. • Pride is hated by God (Prov. 6:16-17). • Pride brings destruction (Prov. 16:18). • Pride is one of Satan’s avenues of temptation (1 John 2:16).

  5. 1. Pride Leads To Strife vs. 1-4 • Strife with others (v. 1) • Strife with self (vs. 1-3) • Strife with God (vs. 4-6)

  6. 2. Pride Distorts Reality • Life is about seeking and satisfying personal pleasures (vs. 1-2) • The proper objects of our prayers (v. 3) • Seeking friendship with both God and the world (v. 4) • Taking tomorrow for granted (vs. 13-16)

  7. 3. Pride Elevates Man Above God • James 4:11-12 • In order to speak evil of and judge our brother, we must have first judged God’s law forbidding such to be unworthy of following. • Doing so puts us in a very dangerous position - sitting in judgment of God and His law.

  8. Overcoming Pride • Submit to God (v. 7) • Resist the devil (v. 7) • Draw near to God (vs. 8-9) • cleanse our hands – seek forgiveness • purify our hearts – repent • lament, mourn, weep – show godly sorrow • Humble ourselves in the sight of God (v. 10)

  9. Problems With Pride James 4

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