Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

I'm going to be teaching three different messages this weekend, but they're all on pride and humility.

And I think that sometimes we don't think enough about how important it is to be humble and to not let ourselves get into

pride and I think there's a lot of ways that we can be proud and not even realize

that we're being proud, but I want to start off by telling you and I'll read you a few scriptures.

The Bible says that God hates pride. He doesn't like just

dislike it. He hates it. It's impossible to have an argument without pride.

You can't.

There has to be pride if you're going to have an argument.

All judgment is pride.

All gossip is pride.

All jealousy is pride. Pride was the sin that caused Lucifer to become Satan and he

works overtime trying to get us into pride.

And the thing that's interesting is God wants us to be so blessed,

but a lot of times he can't bless people because they don't know how to handle it. You know, it's interesting how humble you can be when you don't have anything

But how important you can begin to think you are the more you have and so let's really take this serious this weekend and let's all be

willing to examine our lives and let God really look at us. I read this definition recently and I just absolutely love it.

That spiritual integrity is the ability to really take an honest look at yourself.

We don't have any trouble looking at other people.

You need this, you need that, you need something else.

But we need to be willing to look at ourselves.

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