Breaking through to the heart of a prideful person on this edition of Truth and Love. I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

Amy, this week on the podcast, we are talking about arrogant people. In particular, we are talking about the kind of person that many of us know, some of us are, and they, in their arrogance, refuse to admit when they are

wrong. They just don't see it. They deny it. They ignore it. And this is a problem that causes

tons of frustration in the lives of many people, doesn't it? Yeah, I would say that this is a really hard place to be in

when you're in a relationship with someone who just is blind to their own pride.

Maybe you've even confronted them about it and they say,

I don't see anything wrong.

I don't understand where you're coming from.

So how would you say that we should handle this situation?

You know, the first thing I would say about this is that we should try, if we can at all,

to see that arrogant person who won't listen to correction, who won't admit their sin. We should try to see them as something of a gift to us.

Because what they're doing is they're holding up an example of what not to be.

We don't want to be that.

We, as we interact with them, we're seeing, hey, this is where this kind of stiff-necked,

hard-heart response gets you. And so we want to fight that.

And so it can serve as a blessing in our life to remind us to fight against in our own lives

what we see in someone else's. And so what that would mean is when someone comes to you to

confront you, that is an opportunity for you to avoid being like this person

that you're concerned about. And it reminds us to look for an opportunity to confess our own sins.

We all can fall prey to this temptation of denial and self-justification. And so the gift of

dealing with this kind of person is it reminds

us not to be that way when people approach us. And so, hey, when somebody comes to you and says,

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