The Hated Six - God Hates Our Pride

The Hated Six - God Hates Our Pride

Paul Trulock - 7/30/2023

Key Passage: Proverbs 6:16-19

Haughty Eyes

• Haughty, prideful, arrogant.

• To have too high a view of yourself and too low a view of others. 

• Eyes

• The eyes convey what is in our hearts.

No exceptions

• God hates our pride.

Why does God hate pride?

Our pride promotes selfishness

• “The world wants proof that Christians are better than other people. The proof is that Christ can change selfish people into models of love and self-sacrifice.”

• Philippians 2:3

• 1 Corinthians 10:24

• James 3:16

Our pride causes us to stop listening 

• Isaiah 28:33

• John 8:47

• Luke 11:28

Our pride steals God’s glory

• Daniel 4:30

• John 15:5

• Isaiah 42:8

How do we overcome our pride?

Recognize our opposition 

• James 4:6 - God opposes the proud…

Repent of our pride

• 1 John 1:9 - if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us…

Rely on the Holy Spirit

• Romans 8:6-7 - …the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace…

What Are You Chasing?

What are you chasing?

Dave Riddle - 8/14/22

Key Passage: Matthew 6:19-21

The STUFF we love is temporary

• Matthew 6:19

  • The things we chase so fervently disappear so quickly.

• James 4:13-14

  • We don’t know what tomorrow will bring.

    • Life is unpredictable!

  • Your life is like a puff of smoke.

• Psalm 39:4-5

  • Temporary, fleeting, gone so fast.

• Psalm 39:6

  • We rush around in vain, gathering possessions that won’t last.

What are you chasing?

• Dreams

• Money

• Possessions

• Love

• Happiness

Eternal Rewards

• Matthew 6:20

  • Store you for yourself treasures in Heaven.

• What are they? We don’t know.

• How do we receive them?

  • By pursuing Jesus.

  • Giving to the needy

  • Prayer and fasting

  • Being persecuted for Jesus

  • …all without seeking earthly recognition.

• 1 Timothy 6:17-19

  • Be rich in good works

  • Be generous and willing to share

  • …This is truly life!

• “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot love”. - Jim Elliot

• Luke 12:15-21

  • Are we chasing and hoarding the things that we cannot keep?

• Matthew 6:21

  • Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Examine your heart to see which treasure you’re really chasing.

What Does Jesus Say About Hate?

Hate The World?

Dave Riddle • 05/22/2022

Key Passage: John 15:18-16:4

The “World” Hates Jesus

• John 7:7 (CSB): The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify about it—that its works are evil.

  • Compare to John 15:18-19

A message for those of us who don’t want to be hated.

• James 4:4 - Friend of the world = enemy of God

A message for those of us who enjoy looking for a fight

• Romans 12:18 - as much as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

We need to live in the tension between these two passages.

Expect Persecution

• John 15:20

• Matthew 5:10

  • Persecution is a blessing!

• Matthew 5:11-12

  • Rejoice!

  • A blessed inheritance

Hating Jesus = Hating God

• John 15:21-24

  • Jesus makes a claim of divinity.

    • John 10:22-38

• Why did they hate Jesus? For no reason.

  • John 15:25

Jesus sends help!

• John 15:26-27

• The Holy Spirit

  • More on this next week.

“Fall away”

• John 16:1-2

  • Fall away, stumble, be trapped

  • skandalizō - to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall. to offend

Outcasts

• John 16:1-2

  • Outcasts: put out of your religious community, academic community, social community.

    • Did it happen? Yes.

      • Acts 26:9-11 - Paul’s testimony.

Why do they do this?

• Because they don’t know Jesus or the Father

  • John 16:3-4

    • Jesus doesn’t want his followers to be caught off guard.

Do Not Love the World

Message begins around 32:00

Do Not Love the World

02/13/2021 - Dave Riddle 

Key Passage: 1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world

• 1 John 2:15a Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world.

• James says it, Paul says it, John says it…

• “Love” agapaō (ἀγαπάω) - unconditional love.

• 1 John 2:15b If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

  • You can’t serve two masters.

  • There’s gotta be one Lord, Master, priority, affection of your life.

What are the aspects of the world that are most tempting to give my undivided attention to?

• James 4:4 Adulterers! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

• We need to be very sensitive to the Holy Spirit to recognize when things of the world begin to displace our focus on God.

  • Revelation 2:4 - …you have abandoned your first love…

Everything that belongs to the world

1 John 2:16 For everything that belongs to  the world—the lust of the flesh,  the lust of the eyes,  and the pride  in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world. 

• Not an exhaustive list

• Flesh - Our base physical passions (Hedonism)

  • 1 Peter 2:11

    • We are foreigners and strangers here on Earth. Temporary residents.

    • Our life is not solely about what happens between birth and death.

• Eyes - The tendency to be captivated by the outward appearance of things. An inordinate desire for the finer things in life. (Materialism)

  • Proverbs 27:20 - Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and people’s eyes are never satisfied. (CSB)

  • Human desires are like the world of the dead - there’s always room for more. (GNT)

• Pride - the trust that we have in our own power, resources, abilities, insight. (Self-sufficiency)

  • Luke 14:11 - Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Why don’t we care about those things?

• 1 John 2:17 the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.

  • Paul says the same thing in Romans 7:31

  • Jesus reframes our thinking in Mark 3:35

We need to do a heart check

• What has your heart?

  • If it’s something other than God… it’s the wrong answer.

• Mathew 6:21 - Your heart will always be where your treasure is.

A Useful Struggle

Power Within
- 2 Corinthians 4:16
- We are not ekkakeō (ἐκκακέω)
to be utterly spiritless, to be wearied out, exhausted
- 2 Corinthians 4:7-9
- Galatians 2:20
- Lamentations 3:19-24

Useful Struggle
- 2 Corinthians 4:17
- “incomparable” - hyperbolē (ὑπερβάλλω)
metaphorically, superiority, excellence, preeminence
- James 4:14b
- 2 Corinthians 12:10

Different Point of View
- 2 Corinthians 4:18