The Power and Peril of Pride

THE ACTS: POWER
“The Power and Peril of Pride”
Acts 12:18-25
March 5, 2017

Our Private Pride Can Become Our Public Fall.

Isaiah 13:11; Proverbs 16:18

Pride Always Lifts Up the Wrong God.

Vs.23; Proverbs 29:23

Pride Negates the Soul and Elevates the Flesh.

Proverbs 21:24

“Too many people spend money they don’t have to buy things they don’ need to impress people they don’t like.”    Will Rogers –

Pride Limits Our Eternal Purpose and the Gospel’s Progress.

Vs. 23; I Peter 5:5-7; Proverbs 29:23; Isaiah 2:17; 42:8

“Pride must die in you or nothing of heaven can live in you!”   Andrew Murray

Pride Brings Death.

Job 35:12; Psalms 59:12; Isaiah 13:11; I Peter 3:12; I John 2:15-17