(Clip) God Is The Enemy Of The Proud — Zac Poonen

Pride's Hidden Root

Pride is so close to us and I am absolutely convinced that the reason why many believers, even in CFC, have not grown as much as they should have by now, after all the wonderful messages they've heard, brothers and sisters, there's only one reason.

God's Opposition to the Proud

Deep down in their heart, they are proud of something. I don't know what it is. You know. Many years ago, I understood one thing, that God is the enemy of the proud and there's no partiality with God.

It's like the law of gravity, if you jump off the roof, the law of gravity doesn't first check up whether you're a believer or whether you speak in tongues, it just pulls you down. God resists the proud.

It doesn't matter who you are. You can be the most useful person on earth, God will resist you. Pride is what makes us disobey God's commandments. Pride is what makes us look at some verses in the Bible and say, oh, that's not one of the major commandments.

Pride and Selective Obedience

Boy, you must be a very important person to dissect God's word and decide which are things that you should take seriously and which are things you don't have to take seriously. Do you see the pride there?

Humble Submission to Every Commandment

Almighty God has given his word and you decide what is important and what is not important? I say the smallest little commandment, which may be written in half a verse, I want to obey it.