Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. 19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, Than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 16:18-19 KJV
Leviathan-The spirit of pride
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? Or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? Or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee? 4 Will he make a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
8 Lay thine hand upon him, Remember the battle, do no more.
15 His scales ae his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal. 16 One is so near to another, That no air can come between them. 17 They are joined one to another, They stick together, that they cannot be sundered. 18 By his neesings a light doth shine, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, And sparks of fire leap out. 20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, As out of a seething pot or caldron. 21 His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth out of his mouth. 22 In his neck remaineth strength, And sorrow is turned into joy before him.
Job 41:1-4, 8, 15-22, 24, 31, 34
1. A prideful spirit will be _uncontrollable/untamable_.
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? Or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? Or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Job 41:1-2
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
1 Peter 5:6
2. A prideful spirit will not need _prayer_.
3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee? 4 Will he make a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Job 41:3
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalm 10:4
• Prayer is just an obstacle to pride.
++29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
Mark 9:29
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalm 10:4
• Whenever your mind is full of self, there is no room for God.
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
3. A prideful spirit will not honor _relationships/covenants_.
4 Will he make a covenant with thee?
Job 41:4a
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
James 4:6
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7
Humility enables grace and more grace to live victorious in covenant relationships.
4. A prideful spirit will not be a _servant_.
Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Job 41:4b
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Philippians 2:3-8
God will not make you be a servant-
++You must choose to serve by humbling yourself.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians 9:19
5. A prideful spirit will not be _corrected_.
8 Lay thine hand upon him, Remember the battle, do no more.
Job 41:8
8 Never correct conceited people; they will hate you for it. But if you correct the wise, they will respect you.
Proverbs 9:8 GNBDC
6. A prideful spirit is a deception of _self-protection_.
15 His scales ae his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal. 16 One is so near to another, That no air can come between them. 17 They are joined one to another, They stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Job 41: 15-17