"GOD Resists The Proud"

A proud sinner and a humble SAVIOR
(William Gurnall, "The Christian in Completer Armor")

"I hate pride and arrogance!" 
Proverbs 8:13

  

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"The LORD detests all the proud of heart! 
Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished!" 
Proverbs 16:5

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A man may be very zealous and 

painstaking in preaching--

and all the while pride is the master 

whom he serves, though in GOD'S livery.  

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It is hard starving this sin of pride--

it can live on almost anything!  

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Nothing is so sacred, but pride will profane it. 

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So far as pride prevails, the proud 

man prays and preaches to be 

thought good by others--

to enthrone himself, rather 

than CHRIST, in the opinion 

and hearts of his hearers. 

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Pride loves to climb up, not as 

Zaccheus, to see CHRIST--

but so that others may see himself!  

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"GOD resists the proud" (James 4:6). 

The humble man may have satan 

at his right hand to oppose him; 

but the proud man shall find GOD 

HIMSELF there to resist him. 

We must either lay self aside--

or GOD will lay us aside.

   

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A proud sinner and a humble 
SAVIOR will never agree! 

CHRIST is humble and lowly, 
and so resists the proud--
but gives grace to the humble.

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"If GOD," says Augustine, 
"did not spare the angels when 
they grew proud; will HE spare you--
who are but dust and sin?"

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GraceGems has published a selection of choice extracts from William Gurnall's,
"The Christian in Completer Armor".