Why God Hates Pride — Harold Vaughan

Certainly have enjoyed the music here at this church. It's been a great blessing to Just be with you. I remember meeting pastor Joe and some of you dear folks at family camp a couple of years ago and Sure was a blessing to get to know you and I felt like felt like an old brother Joe my whole life.

He's one of those guys to where we kind of had a kindred spirit and appreciate his heart and Appreciate the opportunity to be here with you in these days. A few things that might be of interest to you.

We have a little table back here in the back and I think Ruth's going to be helping us with that and on there. You'll find this little handout called. When do we need revival? 50 evidences of the need for a fresh visitation of the spirit and revival.

This would be a good little tool. It's just kind of short kind of brief here be a good little tool for you tonight. And when you get home to gather the family around and just read through this and then have a little season of prayer that might be more encouraging than looking at the Results from the sports events of the day.

So you might want to gather around together tonight. Have a little family time. I think it'd be a blessing to you. Pastor Joe also wanted me to mention some of the things on the table. So I'll just take a moment to do that.

We are published books because you know, you'll be the same person you are five years from now. Other than the books you read and the people you meet. It's the inspiration and information you come in contact with that will have an effect of change upon your life.

So we publish books and here's one by prayer secrets by Guy H King the old Keswick speaker. Now the covers not much. But the ingredients are excellent prayer secrets. Here's one. What does it mean to be crucified with Christ?

If you've ever wonder how come your old man doesn't feel crucified most of the time you ought to check this book out right here. Here's one thoughts for young men by JC Ryle. Excellent for young men middle-aged men older men, especially men and their sons thoughts for young men sinners in the hands of an angry God by Jonathan Edwards.

The most famous sermon ever preached the price and power of revival by Duncan Campbell a man who saw Extraordinary things. The principles of spiritual growth by Miles Stanford a classic. It ought to be mandatory reading on what it means to be in Christ.

You're either in Adam or in Christ and if you're in Christ, you're richer than you think and brother. This is a classic. It'll it'll stir your heart up. Here's one Lord. Help me not to have these evil thoughts.

Something about the battle for the mind spiritual warfare. Forgiveness how to get along with everybody all the time. Keep your seats. Don't run out to purchase this until after service. TP Johnson and I wrote this book and the half that TP wrote is really good.

So you ought to get it. It's a tremendous and then the nature of a God-sent revival by Duncan Campbell and then a scripture memory program called overcoming bad habits. And it's all ten blue light special blue light special all in one little package here.

You get all ten. Keep the nine for your library give the bad habits to somebody that needs it and everybody would be happy and everybody will benefit. So there's all kinds of things out there that might be of interest to you.

Pride as the Roadblock to Revival

Now I want to speak tonight to you on the subject of what I'm calling the roadblock to revival. The roadblock to revival and we're just going to cut to the chase and get down to the bottom line issue.

You say well brother Harold, are you gonna be speaking on hatred and bitterness? No. Are you going to speak on rebellion? No, are you going to speak on disobedience? No. Stubbornness no, are you gonna speak on hypocrisy?

Gossip ungratefulness. No, are you going to be speaking on disunity? No, are you going to speak on prayerlessness? No, I'm not going to speak on prayerlessness. I'm going to speak on the roadblock to revival now all of these sins that I just mentioned are the effect of the roadblock.

But the roadblock itself is pride all of these sins of the fruit, but pride is that? Diabolical root. Do you realize that pride is the central sin of humanity? And I want to tell you that nothing breeds antagonism in the heart of God like the sin of pride.

It was pride that changed angels into devils. It was pride that cast Adam and Eve from paradise and there is no spirit in man. More opposed to the Spirit of God than the spirit of pride. I want to tell you it is a deadly thing.

It's the greatest enemy of the child of God and it's a great danger for the Christian. You know if you're having success Pride would put in your heart that you're the cause of it. And if you're not having success then pride would put it in your heart that you deserve better.

I want to tell you whether in poverty or in prosperity whether in feast or in famine whether whether. No matter what condition you're in pride is your greatest adversary. One of the old Puritans said that there's only two safe places for a Christian only two safe places.

And that is in heaven and in the dust and of the two. The dust is safer because Satan fell from heaven. Two Corinthians in your Bible or two Chronicles rather chapter 7 verse 14. Most of you know this text from memory and if you know it don't even look it up.

Humility and the Promise of Revival

We'll quote it here in just a moment. This is a very common text with a very uncommon application perhaps a very familiar text to most of us. But perhaps a very unfamiliar Application this evening now, I understand that in context that second Chronicles chapter 7 was written to God's covenant people Israel.

I understand that but I believe there's an application for us. Because all the Word of God is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction and for instruction in righteousness. I do not believe that we can work up revival.

But I do believe we can prepare the way of the Lord and I believe we need to be about Preparing the way of the Lord. Second Chronicles 7 14 let's just stand and quote or read aloud this verse together as a congregation.

Tonight second Chronicles 7 14 out loud together, please if my people which are called by my name. Shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways. Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land now before we pray notice.

What he's saying if my people. He was not addressing. He was not addressing the Philistines the Pagan the idolaters. He was talking to his crowd if my people which are called by my name. You know, I think it's time that rather than having the finger pointed out.

Maybe it's high time. We had the finger of God point toward us if my people that's us. Revival does not start with the people farthest from God. It starts with the people nearest to God. Revival doesn't start with the Sunday morning crowd.

It starts with the prayer meeting crowd. Because it doesn't start with those that are farthest from God and always starts with those that are nearest to God. And he said if my people which are called by my name will do certain things.

God said he had turned around and blessed and an incredible way a moment of prayer together. Tonight, please our Father in Christ name. Would you speak a word? Would you speak a word tonight? To our hearts.

Lord may there be a word of healing tonight. May there be a word of health tonight. May there be a word of hope tonight for hearts. God feed us tonight. Lord speak to us tonight. We give you permission to speak to our souls.

Thank you for what you're going to say in Christ name. Amen, you may be seated. You know tonight I believe not only is every word of this Bible inspired by God. I even believe the order of the words are inspired by God with the design in mind and He said if my people which are called by my name Will do certain things.

He said that he would bless in an unbelievable way. Notice the first thing on the lineup if my people which are called by my name shall number one humble. Themselves. Hey, why do you suppose that humility precedes prayer?

What do you think that perhaps? Humility precedes turning from wicked ways. Why is pride so detrimental that God said that my people must humble themselves Before they can seek my face. Why is pride so detrimental?

The word pride is mentioned 49 times in the King James Bible and the word proud 48 references and all of them negative. Search the book from Genesis to Revelation and you'll never find one positive comment from God concerning human pride.

God’s Hatred of Pride in Proverbs

Now what is God's attitude toward the proud and how does God feel about this business a pride? Well look in your Bible in Proverbs chapter 6 this evening very quickly. And let's find something of God's attitude toward the proud.

Proverbs chapter 6. Proverbs chapter 6 and verse 16. How does God feel about pride. Proverbs chapter 6 in verse 16? These six things that the Lord hate. Yay, seven are an abomination unto Him. Six things that God detests seven categories of persons and things that Almighty God despises.

You know Ray Stevens wrote that wrong a song. Everything is beautiful in its own way. Well, I'm going to tell you that's not that's not true. Not everything is alike to God. God does not feel the same way about everything.

God does not feel the same way about everybody according to these verses. Now notice seven things that God hates tonight in verse 17. The very first one a proud look. Read on you'll find that God hates a lying tongue.

He hates hands that shed innocent blood. God hates a false witness that speaks lies. God hates those that sow discord among the brethren. God hates a heart that devises wicked imaginations and feet that are swift in running to mischief.

Seven things tonight that God hates. But the very first thing he lists is God hates a proud heart. God hates pride. Look over in Proverbs chapter 16. Proverbs chapter 16 in verse 5. Note God's attitude toward the proud.

Proverbs 16 in verse 5. Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord. Now that's about a high and negative as you can get everyone proud in heart an abomination To the Lord. God hates pride.

Look in Proverbs 21 and verse 4. Proverbs 21 in verse 4 and I look and a proud heart. And the plowing of the wicked is sin. A High look and a proud heart is sin. Now these verses and a host of other verses Lead us to the undeniable conclusion that Almighty God is Unalterably opposed to pride.

He detests pride. He abominates pride. He despises pride. He hates pride. And we've got to ask ourselves the question Why is the high God of heaven so unalterably opposed to human pride tonight? I want to give you three Bible reasons why God hates pride.

Three Bible reasons Why God hates pride. Reason number one. God hates pride because pride is so deceitful. God hates pride because pride is so deceitful. Obadiah 1 3. The pride of your own heart has Deceived you.

The pride of your own heart has deceived you. True humility. What is it. True humility is proper thinking about God and proper thinking about ourselves? True humility is correct thinking about God and correct thinking about ourselves.

Webster defined pride is inordinate self-esteem or conceit. Inordinate Self-esteem psychologists tell us we need more. God says we have too much in inordinate self-esteem conceit. Bill Gothard said pride is believing we have accomplished what God and others have accomplished in us.

Trying to take credit for something. We can't take any credit for. What man said pride is the disposition to exalt myself? To get above others to hide my defects and to pass for more than what I really am.

I want to tell you that God hates pride because it's so deceitful it can cause Church members to put on a mask of pretense and pretend to be something other than what they really are. I have one brother.

He's two years older than I and he'd gone off to public school and he'd gotten a hold of one of those Mathematic books and he had brought it home. This particular book had a triple digit subtraction and addition problems.

And my brother had taken a finely honed number two pencil and he had carefully worked out those triple digit addition and subtraction. Problems don't on the worksheet on the page there in the book and for some reason he had taken the eraser and he'd carefully erased every Mark of pencil off the page.

Nevertheless, my keen beady eyes could detect that impression that that number two finely honed lead pencil had made there on the page, so I took my pencil and I Carefully traced over those imprints in the page and I worked out all the problems that my brother worked out.

And then I took it to my mother and I've not been to school a day in my life. And I took it to my mother and handed to my mother now. You know how mothers are prone to believe the best about their children.

Mothers are prejudiced and they think that their children are all Exceptional and unusual and they're far ahead of their age. So when I handed my mother this math book with these problems worked out my mother Went ballistic and she thought she thought she had a child prodigy on her hands later.

She found out she had a child problem on her hands. But you know, she thought this is amazing. Absolutely amazing. Now dear people here. I was pretending to be something other than what I really was and you know Pride can cause us to put on a front and to pretend to be something other than what we really are.

Isn't it wonderful tonight that you don't have to pretend with God? If you're converted tonight, you've got nobody to impress. You only have somebody to please and the way you please God is by being real by being honest and by being simply yourself.

Roy Hanschen in his book the Calvary's Road said that openness number one is a willingness to know the truth about myself a Willingness to know the truth about myself from God's point of view. There's nothing anything more Devastating than a good God dose of genuine self-knowledge.

And he said number two that openness number two is a willingness to let other people know me like I really am and I want to tell you friend that revival begins when we pull off the mask of pretense and Get rid of the fig leaves of pretense and simply get out and they open in the light as he is in the light.

But pride is so deceitful. It can cause us to pretend to be something other than what we really are. It's so deceitful. I'll tell you number two pride is so deceitful. It can cause human beings to blame others for their problems.

Somebody called it the blame game. Adam blamed Eve for his sin. Eve blamed the devil for her sin and the whole race has been following suit ever since. Well pastor for one for my wife. I could live the victorious Christian life.

Preacher for one for my husband. I'll tell you I could make a go of it for God. Pastor if it wasn't for my parents or preacher if it wasn't for my children. That's kind of like the student one time that said well if it wasn't for my teacher, I could make it to the next grade.

They're going to be over 40 to understand that back in the old days in public schools. They didn't graduate the idiots. They made them take the class over but it's always somebody else's fault. Now modern counseling will tell you it's always somebody else's fault.

Always somebody else's fault, you know. Let's somebody spill a hot coffee on themselves at McDonald's and what do they get other than third-degree burns? $300 ,000 because McDonald's must be the blame, you know, I just heard the most recent class-action suit now.

They're suing the fast-food restaurants for having unhealthy food. May I make a recommendation tonight? If you do not understand that health food that fast food is not good for you. Then perhaps you ought to stay home tomorrow because you might not make it back.

You might get hurt friend. Listen, it's not somebody else's fault that the American public weighs 400 pounds on average. The individual might bear some responsibility. Is there an amen in the house on that point?

But it's always somebody else's fault. Can I tell you tonight? We're not responsible for everything that happens to us. Friend you are not responsible for everything that happens to you. But you're entirely responsible for how you respond to what happens to you and it is pride that has turned the American public into a nation of victims.

Jeremy Sykes wrote a book along that line a nation of victims. So rather than taking responsibility for our own actions reactions and inactions. It's how much easier to blame. Circumstance or somebody or I got cold oatmeal when I was six and that's why I'm a child abuser.

That's a bunch of hogwash. I want to tell you friend it's pride that has caused people to blame other things and other people rather than take personal Responsibility. I'll tell you number three pride is so so deceitful.

It can cause us to become critical of others. It can cause us to become critical of others. One fellow said tell me what ticks you off and I'll tell you what makes you tick. One fellow said Calper said though him writer Cooper said the proud are always most easily provoked by pride.

Ben Franklin said the proud hate pride in others. And friend I want to tell you a proud man is Suspicious of everybody else. He's suspicious of ever you ever meet these these the spiritual Gestapo crowd.

I mean they're always suspicious of and you're just looking through these x-ray goggles and Surveying your heart motives. And and friend I want to tell you a proud man is suspicious of everybody else.

But a humble man is more suspicious of his own heart than he is anybody else. Roy Hessian tells the story about that Pharisee and the publican and In the gospel that Jesus spoke of him and you remember this character.

He was the one that stood and prayed thus with himself. He really wasn't talking to God. He was giving himself a self-talk. He was 20 centuries ahead of himself. If he'd been alive today, he could be a famous best-selling Christian author.

But this fella he stood and prayed thus with him self remember how he prayed he said Lord, I want to thank you. I am NOT like other men. Lord, I thank you. I'm not like other men extortioners and Adulterers and Lord, I thank you.

I'm not even like this publican down here beating his breast and making a spectacle out of himself. And then he went on to give his good points. Lord, you know, I fast twice in the week. I Give tithes of all that I possess.

Here he is just bragging it up, but but the main point was he was glad he wasn't as bad as everybody else. Well Hessian tells the story of a Sunday school teacher Who decided to light in on the Pharisee for a Sunday school lesson and let him have it for 45 minutes.

Here was a guy who was glad he was not as bad as everybody else so she gave him down the road for about 45 minutes and the time came for the class to end and the Sunday school teacher said now students Let's bow our heads now and let's all thank the Lord that we're not like that Pharisee.

How many of you think maybe she missed the whole point of that message right there a little Pharisee in some of us. You bet a rather large Pharisee and many of us. You better believe it friend and I'll tell you something about pride.

The more we have of it in our own hearts the more we despise it in other people. You know what? It says in Romans 2. Why do you judge another man for the things you judge him of. You're guilty of yourself.

Have you ever noticed that the things that bother you about other people are typically things that are true about you. Have you ever noticed that. But it's a whole lot easier to nail the other man than to admit.

I'm the man. Oh Friend I want to tell you sometimes I preach in churches and I go out the back door and people people come by and they shake my hand and they have all sorts of interesting comments and what what one.

Many times they come by and they make a statement like this brother Harold. That was a great message. I mean they roll the R's like they're from South Africa. Harold that was a great message great message and brother Harold.

That was a great message. They really needed that. Keep it up, man. That was a great message. Well, that was a great message brother Harold. I Wish my wife had been here. She really needed to hear that message.

I'm gonna go get the tape and give it to her. I've had people say this all the time. Whoa, brother Harold a great message, man. I know some people didn't really needed that. I'm gonna get a bunch of tapes and pass them out and You know when you hear preaching if all you can do is think about who it applies to.

But never realize how it applies to you. You're infected with a disease called pride. You know. You know what revival is it's God pointing his finger right at you. I mean God putting his finger right at me.

When's the last time you were in a service when you were the only person in the whole building as far as you're concerned I Mean every word was directed toward your heart every word struck your heart.

I want to tell you it's a good thing when God's talking no matter what he's saying. But I'll tell you when we're full of pride. We assume that well, we are already past that point. We've already we've already exceeded that level of maturity and this must be for that other crowd that we.

We are the weak crowd friend the only way to look down on somebody else's to think we're better than they. And you know when we're full of pride we can spot a splinter a mile away in the other man's eye.

But we can't detect the beam in our own eye when we look in the mirror of the Word of God. I'll give you a little test for pride a little test for pride. Can you think of anybody within a thousand miles of here that in your heart of hearts you believe you're better than they are?

Well get real. Madison's only a couple of hundred miles up the road. Really. Come on Harold. What better than those liberal politicians? Yeah. Lot better than those those homosexuals. A lot better than those streetwalkers.

That right. Lot better. No rush. He's even a dope addict a lot better than him. Is that right? You know if you ever really get a good clear vision of the holiness of God. You'll see clearly you have the potential for every depravity known to man resident within your own heart and.

But by the grace of God, you'd be leading the pack when it comes to depravity. You see this pride that causes us to become critical of other people and I want to tell you something friend. God has no use for a critic and where the devil doesn't go personally.

He sends a critic and We can't help anybody or be of use to God when we're full of criticism because we're so full of pride Causes us to be critical. I'm taking number four pride is so deceitful. It can cause you to water down sin and this is this has become an art form and we've got this down to a science.

In the United States, you know pride will cause you to deal with what's respectable rather than what's real. Do you realize that there are? Respectable sins in various regions of the country just depends on where you're at.

I Milwaukee might be two different things. It's amazing. How's you go from area to area? They're acceptably regional sins. Oh, but we'll never do that. This is our backdoor man, don't don't talk about that.

I was in Las Vegas one time and the pastor said don't preach on gambling because we got a bunch of people that work in The casinos so pride will cause you to deal with what's respectable rather than what's real.

Pride will cause you to deal in Generalities rather than specifics and there'll never be any revival as long as we're blame-shifting and rationalize. One time a young man came forward in the church service.

He took the pastor's hand and he said preacher. I came to read that it rededicate my life to the Lord pastor said wonderful. Why don't you get on your knees over there in front of that chair and confess your sins to God?

The young man looks stunned and shocked and he said well Preacher I can't. I can't think of anything to confess and the pastor said son just guess at it. Just guess at it. And you know what? He hit the nail on the head on the very first try.

We were in Nashville, Tennessee. We had Roy Hessian from England who wrote the Calvary Road. He came to be the featured speaker the Apostle of Grace and I want to tell you I needed the message of grace.

I still do but I needed it bad back in those days and God got to working in that conference and in that church. There was a lady in the church an older lady that had a had a blind spot. I'm not talking about an optical problem here.

We're talking about a Spiritual problem a blind spot. That was a blind spot is something that's obvious to everybody except the person that has the problem. Like the guy with bad breath. Everybody knows it except him.

You ever run into these people to go out and eat spicy foods and they want to get up and talk about one foot Away from your face. Have you ever been around these people? It seems like they all the time follow you around man.

I mean, what is wrong with you, but they're oblivious to the fact that they're about to got to gag you. You know, they they don't know that. Well a blind spot is something that's obvious to everybody except the person that has it now this older woman in this church.

Her blind spot happened to be an abrupt abrasive offensive tongue. She would spout all things offend people. They never would come back to church. She was unaware of her effect upon others she was she was Oblivious to the fact of her offensive tongue so some younger ladies in the church decided it was time To lovingly confront the older sister about the blind spot.

Now how many of you think there's ever a time? When it's appropriate for the brethren to confront us. About the things we're unaware of is there ever a time for that as appropriate way in there. There's a time for that.

Well, they went to the older lady. They didn't read it as a riot act. They went in lowliness humility and carefully tried to lay it out Before the lady and tell her about the blind spot the offensive tongue and when they confronted her, do you know how she responded?

She said well, that's just my personality. No doubt. She had read one of the temperament books. And oh, well, I'm just a cleric. I'm gonna mow people down. I'm just overbearing and rude and I can't help it and that's just the way my parents were.

That's just the way we were brought up. That's just the way we are in this part of the country. By the way, I was in Madison, Wisconsin Back earlier last fall and we went out to be to a certain restaurant and I had my four-door dually truck.

I took up four parking spaces and when I came out I got a nasty note on the windshield and I said to my family I can tell we're back in Wisconsin already. Because I hear they are letting me letting us have it with all these short words but anyhow anyhow, I don't know what that's got to do with the point, but They confronted the older woman.

She said well, that's just my personality. Can't help it. It's an inherited trait. It's where I was brought up. God made me this way. Well, you ever read in the Bible 1st John 1 9 if we confess our lousy personality God is faithful and just to forgive us for our personality and to cleanse us from all our character defects and imperfections.

If you listen friend, they're probably going to come up with a Bible it says something along that line to accommodate the line of thinking that we've adopted. Let me tell you something tonight friend God can't forgive personality.

I met some people that ought to be forgiven for their personality, but God can't forgive personality. God cannot forgive temperament. God cannot forgive weaknesses. Mistakes or inherited traits. The only thing God can forgive is sin.

And it's just about come down to the point now where there's a three-letter designation to excuse every every wrong behavior. There's 440 psychological Dysfunctions that they're now categorized and I'm sure they're adding to them daily.

Let's somebody get involved in an adulterous affair. And what's the first thing that comes out of somebody's mouth? Well, they're having a midlife crisis. I Like what one guy said he said how can you have a midlife crisis when you have eternal life?

I mean, how you gonna find halfway of that friend? There's just it's impossible. I Was in Maine and the public schools were having problems. They brought in the psychologist to diagnose the students and they came to church that night the principal and the teacher were in this particular Church, and by the way, God really did something that place and and they said that the psychologist diagnosed the students with with a syndrome called odd Oppositional disorder dysfunction.

They all had a case of odd and they came to church and told me about it. I said, yeah, I think I was born with Oppositional disorder dysfunction. I believe the Bible calls it the sin nature. Houston, Texas two thugs Kill somebody and the defense is urban survival syndrome got a case of USS.

I had a fellow come down. He was talking to me. He was counseling and Anyhow, his wife wrote me back in a couple weeks. He'd been in for to a Christian Christian for Christian counseling, and I'm not opposed to some counseling.

But friend I want to tell you something. We need to quit listening to these Freudian flops who can quote a Bible verse at the end of some of this junk that they've read from some humanist or some pervert like Freud and then try to convince us that this is Christianity and You know, she wrote back and said her husband had been diagnosed with Intermittent explosive disorder a case of IED.

Which means that he throws temper tantrums and acts like a two-year-old and it's all because he can't help it. He's a victim of IED. He is not. But you see it's pride that causes us to water down the concept of sin to where nobody's Responsible for a blooming thing and everything is explained away in terms of let-offs and excuses and rationalization.

I want to tell you a friend We're never gonna have revival until we get off the page of the humanist and get out of psychology and get back into theology. I was in a meeting in Signal Mountain, Tennessee.

I think went on for three Sundays. It's good to be in town when God is I'm telling you. It's good to be in town when God is man. God moved in that meeting. There was a fellow in that church. He said on the back row.

He's the kind of guy an older guy. He'd come in late leave early sit on the back row never did anything never said anything. He was a timid shy backwards sort and he often would come to his preacher and say preacher Please don't call on me to pray because I'm afraid I might make a mistake and the people might laugh at me and the preacher Was one of those Slobbering mercy showers.

I mean just came to just just brother, you know, and you know, it's just the way you are. Don't you and and and he was all the time patting a guy on the back. Well, I want to tell you that God pointed his finger right at brother Johnson one night and showed him.

His problem was not his timidity. His problem was his pride. No. No, he was not a loudmouth extrovert but he was just as concerned as the loudmouth extrovert about what people thought about him and God convicted him that his his backwardness was really a Manifestation of pride in reverse not in high gear but in reverse gear.

Brother Johnson hit the prayer room. He wept it out. He got in front of the church place was packed and the people couldn't believe it. Brother Johnson giving a testimony. What's up? They all perked up and brother Johnson was weeping and crying and he said I've hid behind my Timidity and used it as a self-protection device.

But he said tonight God has shown me how what a proud heart and God gave him his composure and that man began to testify and the people were Absolutely stunned. You know what? I think they thought and if God could do that for brother Johnson, maybe God could do something for me.

I'm telling you put hope in their hearts and a preacher told me that from that night to the day of his death. That brother Johnson became the boldest witness in that church for Christ, you know, isn't it good?

Isn't it good? That we're not locked in to what we are by nature. We're not limited to what we are by upbringing or temperament or personality or training or any other thing. But we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us.

But you see it's pride that causes us to water down the concept of sin and come up with some sort of a Explanation rather than just being honest in the presence of God. So deceitful, I'll tell you number two pride.

Pride as the Essence of Sin and Satan’s Nature

God hates pride because pride is the greatest of all sins. It's the greatest of all sins because it's the essence of all sin. Humility is the foundation for all virtue, but pride is the essence of all sin.