7 Ways Pride Deceives — Shane Idleman

The Deceptive Danger of Pride

The message is you know, I don't even know if I should say this title the deception of pride the deception of pride and I often say that I am a prideful man working on humility. Often I think it's healthy to admit that because pride can can rise up in the best of us and we can Start to think a little bit more highly of ourselves than we should and God will begin to humble us.

Pride Leads to Spiritual Destruction

When that happens because he loves his children and pride is deadly. What I'm going to talk about is pretty serious because pride leads to deception. Pride leads to rebellion. Pride leads to spiritual blindness.

Pride leads to quarrels. Pride leads to confusion. Pride leads to anxiety and depression and and pride leads to false worship. That's not a good list. Because it's it's dangerous and it can really sidetrack us.

Planning Under the Lord’s Will

So if you have your Bibles, it's James 4 chapter 4 verse 13 and James is saying something interesting here at first. It might seem like Something that doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'm hoping to unpack that and I did a little bit last Wednesday.

James says this come now you who say today or tomorrow we will go to such-and-such a city. Spend a year there buy and sell and make a profit. Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow for your for what is your life?

It's even a vapor that appears for a little time and then it vanishes away. Instead you ought to say if the Lord wills we shall live and do this or that. But now you boast in your arrogance. So it wasn't just somebody saying, you know, I'd like to do this or do this.

They were boasting in their arrogance. They were boasting in their self-confidence all such boasting is evil. Therefore to him who knows to do good and does not do it to him. It is sin. In other words, he's saying, you know.

Now the boasting is evil and because you know it if you continue in that pattern It's going to be sinning that you will be caught in a sinful lifestyle and boasting. The word means to talk with excessive pride and self.

Satisfaction about one's achievements. Possessions or abilities it's it's excessive pride and and don't have you ever been around those people where it's just like I Can't be around you much longer. It's just it's just terrible go down and take a trip to Hollywood and listen to those guys or sports often Athletes or or people who have been successful in a different thing.

It's it's they just want to tell you I'm so successful in this area and and I and I'm and look at my achievements. Look at what I've accomplished and it's just it's his arrogance because even our breath is from God.

I Think we forget that even that that breath we're taking that wonderful gift of life is from God everything our money our accomplishments. If somebody accomplishes something it's because he's given you the gifting and the ability to accomplish it.

That's why he gets all the glory and all the credit and and thank you. That's why I love that song hallelujah that that word Hallelujah is a praise to God for what he's done. And so when we boast and we say well Here's what I'm going to do and there's nothing wrong with planning.

This isn't about is somebody saying you know what next year? I'd like to do this I'd like to move here. My plan is to be here at work and and retire at this age and by next year I want to hopefully have a raise and we want to have our car paid off and that's not boasting.

That's that's planning and God when you say God, here's what I'm planning. What is your plan? I want to come alongside of your plan versus saying God. Here's what I'm doing now. Bless it and we do that.

Don't we we just we steamroll ahead. I'm not really concerned what God's saying. I'm just going to do this and and that's that's boasting and that's arrogance thinking we're going to accomplish something Without the Lord's help.

So that's really what he's talking about here what happens is pride knocks us off track. A Prideful person cannot be led of the Lord. It knocks us off track. We make bad decisions. We have the wrong focus it wastes time.

It wastes money. It wastes energy and we actually drift away from God. Now this is probably I'm sure a group of believers. We love the Lord, but the sad fact also is that pride ultimately ultimately leads to Damnation a fool has said in his heart There is no God and when somebody rejects God they die in that state of rejection.

It's because pride played the biggest role I've got people in my own life, which I'm sure you do too. I'm trying to get to friends in high school. Other people that I'm trying to get to but you know, what's preventing it not humility.

They're not humble and teachable. They're prideful and they're arrogant and they don't they don't you know, that's good for you Shane that's good for you. I'm glad you found religion like I'm some little kid who needs to be appeased but this isn't for me why is it for me.

Because it's pride and Pride will lead to damnation. Satan said I will be like the Most High God and he was cast down. It was pride. It's pride the Bible if you're ever wondering where the enemy's coming at you, it's just three areas, that's all.

That's all you have to worry about. Three. That's all. Just three the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and The boastful pride of life. That's where he comes and it's interesting you watch. He you start to do good at work and money's coming in.

Do you get more humble? No. We get wet sometimes prideful things are going our way. Things are going good. We do we get humble or to get prideful. Now now walking around every it's like it seems like everywhere we go people like I've heard of that church.

It's out there. You know, it's growing so much to puff up the chest. Yes prideful or no. Humility and that's why God keeps it in check stay it's his work. I mean for anybody to think that anybody is orchestrating all this and look at what we've done is ridiculous.

It's God bringing people from all over. But see the pride of life can rise up in success. And then we often have failure to humble us and we get prideful and success and then we get humbled. So that's what's happening here.

Pride is a very destructive thing and it has to be dealt with. Often on a daily basis or at least a weekly basis or taking it to the Lord saying, okay, Lord this week I'm getting prideful in this air these areas and you might be thinking what is prideful mean?

Well Boasting is accomplishing. Look what I've accomplished. Look at what I've done. It manifests itself in a lot of different ways. One way is you're not teachable. You're always right. You've got to get the last word in can I say amen on that one?

No men's on that one. You're gonna leave me hanging right? I have to do this too. Sometimes You're just just not gonna get just prideful, you know, and and we don't want to be challenged. We don't want to be you know.

It's just this pride rises up in us because it's thinking of ourselves. More highly than we should and Paul says you should not think of yourself more highly than you should. So let's let's get into this for a minute the key is don't plan for it it says not to boast.

Well, I should reiterate that the key is plan for things but don't boast in them plan what I talked about earlier Lord. Is this is this part of your plan? What do you want me to do? God bless? My plans is what we often say rather than God.

What is your plan? So the right way that we should handle this planning for tomorrow is Lord. Here's what we would like to do what we feel you're calling us to do, but would you direct us? I mean, I've got plans that I'd love to pay off bills at some point.

I'd love I plans for this church. You know, we'd love to see two services here. We'd love to see two services full. We'd love to see the Kids Connection building full. We want to make a kids area there.

We want to do but Lord, would you show us what is best? What would you guide us and it's good to make plans, but you better be very flexible. Because often we make our plans a certain way, but things happen life happens.

People get sick. They get hurt. They get we've got to take care of certain family members. We didn't plan on things are are shifted. This isn't what I thought. This is what I didn't plan on as I talked about Sunday.

You've got to learn to trust in God's sovereignty. He can deliver you but even if he doesn't he's still sovereign like those three Hebrew boys that were caught in that fire and They said right before they went to the fire.

They told the king and I'm reiterating I know some of you heard this but I think it's important point is they told the king that we are not going to bow Down to your image our God is able to deliver us but even if he doesn't we're still not going to bow to you and I've noticed that sometimes we can get on the other side of you know, God's gonna heal This person or me God's going to do this and God's gonna get me through this.

I'm gonna I'm actually have to he's gonna take me over it. I'm not gonna have to deal with it. I didn't know he's gonna have to go through it and and we have these plans and when God doesn't fulfill the plan like we thought.

If we're not careful, it can lead to bitterness and people get there's a lot of people angry at God. There's a lot of people that's a lot of times what I deal with when I'm talking with atheists I'm going back and forth with a few online and in and I've had lunch with them.

I've shared that before and other people at these at the hospital homes sometimes is they're angry at God. They're mad. Why did God allow this? How could a loving God and and we we forget that he is sovereign in the good times and the bad times we trust him regardless.

With what things look like and that will make life much easier. Because you're not fighting against God. Yes, it's challenging. I'm not trying to minimize challenges. Please don't misunderstand. We don't like the curveballs that life throws to us.

But I'd rather live trusting God and saying Lord, you're sovereign. You'll get me through this and humbling myself instead of getting prideful and how could you okay? I'll play this game. But on my terms and that never works.

So this is an interesting area. That's the right way to do it Lord. Here's what I would like to do. But what do you want to do the wrong way arrogantly assume that this is what you're going to do. Arrogance is Self-willed.

Being self-willed is not God-centered. Being so I'm trying to being self-willed is here's what my will wants. Here's what I'm going to do. Dobson wrote a book many years ago the strong-willed Child.

Oh Man, do you have any strong-willed children or is it just me? I think I got all four all four. Just just just mine. No, even the little three-year-old today. She's like Stupid means cuz she she's strong.

I want that and I want it now and that's how we're raised. I want to know I want my crackers now. I want to eat now. I don't want to go to bed now, and that's an interesting part, too. Because I tell my kids I would if I wish Morgan would come home and tell me it's now time.

I would love to take a nap what or let's go to bed. I'd love to just go to bed. I'm tired. What's wrong with you guys? You just want to stay up even when you're exhausted and and they're so Self-willed that's pride.

Humbling Pride Through Parenting and Prayer

So what parenting does is you actually over the course of parenting is you break that pride out of them. By helping them humble themselves and talking I'm saying that's not right. We don't allow that.

You're not going to act like that and I really about six months ago. I Had a quite an experience with my son. He was not acting good and school and and I know that because I went through that when you don't like something.

You don't want to read something. You don't want to learn it. And and it realized I took him in his room and I was you know. This is you're not going to talk to mom like that. You're not going to throw fits like this.

It's not it's not acceptable. It's not going to happen and I finally realized. He looked at me said dad. I'm trying I don't want to but I don't know how I don't know and I really he's like me. He's struggling.

He wants to be a good son, but dad I don't know how and he's crying. I want to but I don't know so I saw the struggle. Ah I know I know that struggle, you know here we think we can raise them like little drill sergeants.

Yes, sir. No, sir, and then it is perfect little kids, but he struggled. I want to treat mom good, but it's hard. I want to treat you good. But it's hard and I have and so I've walked so I went and got a prayer journal with him at the store and we're Walking through prayer and we're praying for and that seemed to calm everything down and with spiritual warfare.

Okay devil. You want to play this game? Yes, let's play this game. We're gonna get into prayer. We're gonna get into seeking you. We're gonna train them but understanding his struggle, too I didn't get as upset.

I became a lot more compassionate. But the kids are strong-willed. They are very strong-willed and What we are parents they're supposed to do is help them. Break that will what's the old saying break their will but not their spirit.

You you show them and that's part of training. Teach a child. I believe in that when the Bible says teach a child in the way that he should go when he was older. He will not depart from it that teaching is a molding shaping humbling process.

Because I want to take my kids to the hospital homes. I wanted to show them what it looks like to feed a homeless person, you know, I want to be humble. Did I do that Dennis? There we go, I need a new microphone again, okay, so back to the self-willed now this whole topic of pride.

Pride’s First Deception: Spiritual Self-Deception

The deception of pride. I know it doesn't apply to anybody in this room, right? See just get it just get a CD on your way out get a CD and there's people we know who we can give this CD to and. But just just sit and listen that if this doesn't apply to you.

If it doesn't apply to you, that means it does apply to you, right? Leads to deception. Let's look at the first point leads to deception. The pride of your heart has Deceived you Obadiah one three. It's interesting these proper prophets Obadiah and Micah Nahum and aback and Zephaniah and Zechariah and these these minor prophets it's interesting God would call them at certain points in Israel's history because his people had become prideful and They would often say you stiffed Nick people.

You don't listen to God or this the pride of your heart has deceived you. Here's the danger with pride when we don't stay humble. We don't stay teachable and we're not teachable. We think we think we're doing God's will and we think we're spiritual and we think we're on God's side when reality Deception has crept in and I see it and I'm not talking about anybody in this room.

So don't think I am but I see it a lot. I used to in marriage counseling I don't do it as much. My mom's helped out a lot in that area because she's has a. She's a marriage family therapist who who's helped with the church church really started to grow, but I would see really angry men and Looking you mean when you you know when you look at something from the outside you can you can see clearly.

But they can't see clearly and I'm like if you talk to me that way at home, too I would be you know, it's in but they were so prideful. They were like, well the Bible says this they need to submit to me and I'm the man of this house and I make all The money and God, you know, I get my kids there and and they're just so prideful.

But it's that pride has deceived him like why is my wife upset at me? Why why are we having marriage problems? Why why why can't see it because pride deceives that's the deception L element of it. Is we think we're holy and spiritual and in tune with the things of the Spirit when really it's deception.

Because pride you can't see clearly you can't see clearly spiritually and Pride begins to puff up and we begin to think even we're writer. Is that a word? I don't know, but we're right. And and others are wrong.

And so what will happen it it leads into deception. Those who are humble are led by the Lord Shane. Do you have a scripture for that? Yeah. The humble he teaches his way. So as we humble ourselves and what that looks like Lord I was prideful today.

I was prideful today. I was arrogant I didn't treat somebody the right way or and you humble yourself and you begin to see clearly again but if you if you don't and that pride begins to build and Build and build and you live in this bubble of deception even as a Christian.

That's why a Christian can continue in some Horrendous sins and not really see anything wrong with it justify it because of pride. Because of pride it leads to deception. It also leads to rebellion for rebellion is as a sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.

So when a person is stubborn that they are rebellious to God it and when we're stubborn about Certain things and we know who we are we know when those things happen and the stubbornness leads to rebellion against God and Rebellion is as a sin of witchcraft and I said well Shane How is that rebellion very easy.

God says I hum humble yourself and I will lift you up the humble. He teaches his way the humble shall inherit the earth the humble will know my will and so as we're not Humbling ourselves and we are doing things our way.

Pride’s Second Deception: Spiritual Blindness

We are in rebellion against God. We rebel against his clear-cut commandments for us and as a result deception rebellion at least a spiritual blindness. Isaiah 610 make the heart of this people dull in their ears heavy and shut their eyes.

Lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and return and be healed. Now some people say well Why is God making their heart make the heart of this people dull and their ears in their ears heavy?

Often you'll see in this case in other cases with Pharaoh was a good example when a person begins to continually and continually rebel against God and got and hardens their heart and hardens their heart.

God basically says you want it you got it and Then he would make their heart Dull in their ears heavy and they could not hear. So that's what pride will do. It will lead to spiritual blindness. You can't see clearly when you're prideful.

You can't read the Bible very well, and you sure can't pray. How can how can a prideful person pray? Well, we have an example in the New Testament, don't we Jesus gave example. Can you believe that person that that that person came up.

I think it was one like a religious leaders or somebody wealthy in the city and said God. I thank you I'm not like that tax collector. I'm not a sinner. I get he's telling God he gives I give him 10 I do all these things and This other sinner beats his chest and said Lord have mercy on me a tax collector have mercy on me a sinner.

Actually see the humility and the pride so the pride led to spiritual blindness. This guy actually thinks he's gonna come before God and say I'm glad I'm not like him and I give to you. Aren't I spiritual and he was blinded spiritually and wouldn't Jesus rebuke the religious leaders more often than not for their blindness.

You blind guides you're leading blind. You're leading people astray. You are blind guides. You're a whitewashed tombs. You don't know the things of God. You're stiff-necked people you draw nigh into me with your lips.

But your hearts are far from me. So they that that's what sat I believe for the religious leaders in my opinion. They were deceived because of pride and they had spiritual blindness because of pride and they actually thought they were God's Representative they did not know that they were going to spend eternity in hell because of pride.

Isn't that deadly isn't that dangerous and here's an interesting thing with pride you need to abort it quickly. That's a good kind of abortion. You see it coming up. You have to get rid of it because pride grows.

It starts little it begins to grow and begins to grow begins to grow and over and overtakes us. The deception is that you think God is on your side because you're going through the motions. That's what these religious leaders did.

That's what people do. They go through the motions. I'm talking about spiritual people now, they'll go to church. They'll even read their Bible. They'll even do things spiritually and they think because of that they're on God's side without looking at the condition of their heart.

Pride’s Third Deception: Quarrels and Strife

Now it also leads to quarrels. Don't we know that? Oh Goodness, how many house fights could we stop if we would humble ourselves? Leads or no amens on that one. That's right. Oh, that's right. We don't need this message.

We're gonna give out the CDs. We're gonna give out the CDs to people that we know leads to quarrels. I don't like what you said. You challenged me. Where there is strife there is pride. But wisdom is found in those who take advice.

Isn't that interesting Proverbs 13 10? I always look to this when I'm when I'm struggling in this area where there is strife there is pride. Now it doesn't mean that there's always anytime there's strife.

There's always pride because now let me qualify that not necessarily on your part. You could be loving and nurturing and trying to keep your family together. Here comes Christmas their strife. What's going on?

It's pride in the other people often their pride will always lead to strife. Because remember self-willed and as soon as I don't get my way what happens? Strife and. Then he goes on to say but wisdom.

Wisdom and humility are always often Interchangeable or link together knowledge wisdom humility. It's all this the wise or humble the humble use wisdom. It's used together. So but wisdom is found in those who take advice.

This is interesting. This is one word. This is one reason I try to be note the word try teachable. Teachable you want to learn and it's another reason why it personally I read a lot of books. I don't want to I don't have that approach where you know I just I'm just not going to read a lot of books.

I read a lot of different authors a lot of different theologians and I've learned so much I wouldn't trade that for the world. I am able to get different views different perspectives on different things in theology and church history and you look at things and You want to be teachable from looking at the experiences of others and especially those who have came before us and those who have succeeded.

So one aspect of pride to avoid quarrels in your house. At your job with your family is to humble yourself. You don't always have to get the last word in. You challenged me. I'm upset. Do you ever feel that way?

Somebody's challenging you and like well, yeah, and you get you go back and forth and here comes the strife. Where did that come from humility? No, it came from pride pride and that's why we're trying to do in this church and that's why I brought the the team on Sunday is I so appreciate all these people because I could truly say that we're trying to work on humility.

We're trying to you know, say Lord what teach us help us work together. Humble ourselves and not get prideful and why I want to do it this way or I want to do it this way and it's A process and it hurts sometimes it hurts to humble ourselves.

It hurts the flesh. The Spirit loves it, but the flesh does not like when we humble ourselves so it leads to deception leads to rebellion leads to spiritual blindness leads to quarrels and it leads to confusion.

Pride’s Fourth Deception: Confusion

Proverbs 22 for the reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life in this word life. There he's talking about like when Jesus said you shall have life. It's abundant life. It's life over filling.

It's life that where it's not confusion confusion a lot of times pride brings in confusion because you know. There's something missing there. You're walking that fence. I know I need to be pleasing God and humble.

But I'm so confused in life and that confusion sometimes makes us even more prideful. So one thing we have to watch out for with pride is if life is very confusing. There are seasons, but if it's always confusing and there's all this drama.

Pride might be in there somewhere. If there's tons of drama Trump Tom's is confusion what's going on? This is chaotic and there's there could be pride at work there because that's a part of quarrels leads to anxiety and depression.

Pride’s Fifth Deception: Anxiety, Depression, and Comparison

Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone without comparing themselves to someone else. Galatians 6 640 each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone without comparing themselves to someone else.

Humble yourself before God. And he will lift you up. James 4 10. So here's anxiety and depression. Oftentimes are the result of pride and trying to get our way being anxious being depressed about things all these emotions.

Sometimes are centered around not getting our way and things not going the way we want and pride. We start to become prideful and angry and we also compare ourselves with one another. Don't we? We compare we why why aren't I?

Why don't I have that? Why aren't they going through what I'm going through and and as a result we become prideful and lifted up and arrogant. That's why I like James 4 10 humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you up.

Here's how you have to humble yourself. Well, maybe I'll get to a way to get to the end. I don't give it too much right now. Then next at least a false worship. This is scary. This is very scary. Matthew 15 Jesus said you've made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition hypocrites.

Pride’s Sixth Deception: False Worship

Well did Isaiah prophesy about you saying these people draw near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips. But their heart is far from me. In other words, they were saying the right thing. Sound familiar.

What does this mean quoting scripture? Appearing godly. Saying the right thing, but Jesus said your heart your heart is far from me. And that's my concern for a lot of people is they can say the right thing.

But their heart is so far from God and in vain they worship me. So they will come so a prideful person when they come to church, you know, they're there it doesn't happen here again. But other churches they'll come in in and they'll be judging already.

They'll be judging from the lobby. They'll be judging what people are wearing. They'll be a judging certain things and they they come in with this sense of pride and God has given them this gift of discernment.

Really not the gift of discernment. It's a prideful arrogant feeling and they come in and how brother and I'm spiritual and I've gosh I spent 14 hours in this this weekend and I'm just you know. And and and just boasting and gloating and then they'll come to church and they'll sing a few songs and and they'll sing in there.

Participate, but they are worshiping God in vain. Vain means. It's pointless. Why are you doing that? I don't desire sacrifice and mercy. I desire broken and contrite heart sayeth the Lord. So these people were they had their hearts were far from him.

They were worshiping God in vain they're teaching as Doctrines the commandments of men another sign of pride as you start to put a lot of rules on things. Now there's nothing wrong with rules. Thank God that God has given us a lot of rules.

Do this obey this. Stop that do this take on this put on that, you know all these things. But we start to make all these rules as a form of spirituality and pride. See I can I can. It's funny a prideful person.

They'll make these rules. You know that that I don't even know tons of rules and that you have to meet these rules in order to be spiritual. But then they break all these other rules. You know, they'll say we can't watch TV, but they're addicted to pornography.

They'll say you can't go to the movies but then they treat their family like garbage and. They make all these well, you shouldn't do that and this and this and they put all these rules on people. They're carrying that's why the Bible talks about feet freedom in Christ.

I believe the closer we get to Christ the more we look like him and. You're not bound by all these rules and things because you want to do it out of love. It's like saying it's just like your spouse telling you every week you better not cheat on me.

Gosh I guess not. Better not this way. You better not cheat like alright fine. It doesn't. What kind of marriage is that? The the true love is is saying I don't want to do that because I love you that would hurt you.

That's not right and we do it. That's why with grace. Grace is an interesting thing because of God's grace. We actually live under a higher standard. People think because of God's grace I can sin more.

Actually no because of the grace you want to live. At a higher standard you want to obey him you want to love him. You want to follow his laws and his rules and in his things because of that relationship.

So because of that it flows out out of a loving relationship. Joy comes when you follow. It's not it's if it's ever difficult and rigid you've got all these rules and things you might want to rate reassess.

What's going on in your heart? The deception of pride we think that we are right when we are wrong. That's the deception. Like the Old Testament prophet Elisha who spoke on God's half behalf the same plea goes out today.

God’s Discipline and the Need for Repentance

How long will we waver between two opinions if God is God follow him? Here's the thing you either humble yourself or God will. As A Christian I've knows as God loves us enough that if we don't humble ourselves He'll convict us.

He'll show us and if we don't humble ourselves, he will. I've seen it so many times. Okay, tough guy. I'm gonna take that job from you. What? I'm gonna take that vehicle from you. I'm gonna take that source of income.

I'm going to make you Just at work this or foolishness or I'm gonna humble you in your marriage. I'm gonna and God will humble us if we don't humble ourselves. Because he loves us because we know it's pride.

Here's why it's deceptive to a person who's prideful. They get away with it for a week. Then they get away for it way with it for a month. Then they get away with it for six months and then they think why must be on God's side.

He's blessing me. Did you know the devil can bless you? Take it take an hour drive that way the devil can bless you. That's Hollywood LA Los Angeles, right? I mean you can you that there's rich mill and they're miserable.

They are absolutely miserable. So just because God is and people say that will look Shane God's blessing me. Well, the devil could be. He might be just opening tons of doors and keeping you in that pride because we often tie blessings into God's favor.

Right. God's opened this tremendous door at work. I'm making more money. This is happening. God must be happy with me. Not necessarily not necessarily. Because then it then it doesn't follow that if somebody's going through sickness or hardship or a tough time that God doesn't love them.

And he's frowning upon them. He actually uses the valleys as well as the mountaintop experiences. It's the valleys where we appreciate the mountaintop experiences. It's the valleys where we learn to trust in God when you don't have that job when you.

When you're when you're relying on him, I've shared this before I don't know if I have here, but I did a Lancaster a few different times, but I he took me through So many things when I when I recommitted my life, I would say I just had a come-to-Jesus moment in 1999 2000 right in there I was at 24-hour fitness.

Making a lot of money well over six figures in my 20s built a custom house in Quartz Hill Big Dodge truck all lifted up with the big motor and you know this, you know prideful boy looking back I'm like, oh goodness gracious Lord.

You were so grateful man, you just just so prideful and and and just and then he began to take those things away and I was like the number one salesman in all the area of California different things tons of awards and different things and then what happens though with corporations you have to beat Last year's numbers.

I have to increase same-store growth by 6 and all these budgets. I'm beating myself every year like I can't keep this up and I got demoted. To run just one gym in Santa Clarita the 24-hour fitness off via Princesa.