Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Let's continue the series on humility in the life of the believer by hearing and applying some practical advice for overcoming pride.

Now, as we've said before, as we think about what humility is, it is a very healthy, godly sense of one's self.

And that is one, the Bible talks about being lowly of mind.

That is as far as our merits and our life is concerned, not seeing ourselves above other people or critical of them.

While on the other hand, pride is something entirely different.

The very word pride means to lift oneself up above others.

It includes arrogance and a sense of superiority that a person can have of other people.

And oftentimes, people can be prideful and never even

realize it. And we can be proudful about lots of things. A person can be prideful about their

possessions, about their appearance, about their particular position in life, whatever it

might be, about their relationships. A person can be prideful, arrogant, haughty, lifting themselves above others,

seeing themselves as superior to other people, and oftentimes making themselves very obnoxious.

But the deceitfulness of it is this, that a person can be prideful and lots of other people recognize it, but they don't. And even more

deceitful is this, that a person can be prideful on the inside, cover it rather well before everybody but

God. And yet when you begin to understand what God says about pride, what an absolute 180 degrees it is from

humility, absolute tone it is from the life of the Lord Jesus Christ, you and I do not want

pride in our lives because all it can be is a hindrance to us. And so what I'd like to do is I

would like to take a number of areas of pride that a person can be

prideful about. And I want to talk about how to respond to those to get from those. Now,

the best way for me to do that is to start with myself. So I want to tell you something that

happened to me. So when I get in this list, don't sit there like, it's never happened to me in my life, because I know it has.

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