Tag: pride
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Exaggeration?
John 21:25 “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” Exaggeration: it’s something that all of us are prone to if the truth be told. It’s a characteristic of the human condition. …
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Do you boast?
1 Corinthians 1:31 “as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’” 1 Corinthians 13:4 “Love . . . does not . . . boast” 2 Corinthians 12:7 “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan…
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A Necessary Need
Philippians 3:3-11 “For we . . . put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to…
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Languages
Acts 2:1-12 “When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And…
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The road to humility
Deuteronomy 8:2-3 “And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor…
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To the “know it all”
Psalm 119:130 “The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.” No one likes a know-it-all. You know the kind. You can’t tell them anything, because they are so enthralled with how much more they know than anyone else that they have no interest in hearing from those who are “lesser.” It…
To Encourage You 