Obadiah: The Biggest Problem
July 14, 2024 / Josh Tovey / Redemption ChurchQuestion: What’s the one thing that creates the biggest problem?
Pride: A desire to live life at the exclusion of God
1. Pride creates a natural on more of self
Jeremiah 17:9-10 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
“Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense” – C.S. Lewis
“Pride is the carbon monoxide of sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing it” – Tim Keller
2. Humility creates a supernatural for more of God
Gospel Takeaway: Jesus was humiliated on the cross so you could be blessed through the cross
Question: Will you bend the knee to Jesus?