Virtues and Vices, Part 7: Humility vs. Pride
// March 15th, 2010 // View Comments // Bible Study, Mark's stuff
By David Watson
Benchley, March 7, 2010
- Applications, continued:
- Address the causes of pride.
- Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4) – accomplishments
- Heritage/ancestry
- Saul (I Samuel 9:19-10:24; 15:17-19) – power
- Personality
- Use strategies to achieve humility.
- Admit our own pride and be honest with ourselves. I John 1:8-9
- Remember and search out our own faults.
- Remember that we are merely human.
- Matthew 6:1-4 – Hide your good deeds.
- Philippians 2:3-4 – Focus on others.
- Luke 15:15-19 – Let circumstances humble us. II Corinthians 10:17-18
- Address the causes of pride.
- Covetousness: good vs. bad
- Epithumeo: Luke 15:16; 16:20-21; 22:15
- Applications
- Covet God’s Word. – Matthew 13:17; Hebrews 11:13; I Peter 1:10-12; I Peter 2:2




