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  OVERCOMING PRIDE
  by Sandeep Poonen
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of humility and the need
to address pride within ourselves. It draws parallels to the story of
Peter being sifted by Jesus, highlighting the transformation from pride
and comparison to humility and pure love for God. The message encourages
individuals to let go of the spirit of comparison and focus on loving
God wholeheartedly.

Topics: "Humility", "Overcoming Pride"
Scripture References: Proverbs 16:5, James 4:10, 1 Peter 5:6, Philippians 2:3

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of humility and the need to
address pride within ourselves. It draws parallels to the story of Peter
being sifted by Jesus, highlighting the transformation from pride and
comparison to humility and pure love for God. The message encourages
individuals to let go of the spirit of comparison and focus on loving
God wholeheartedly.

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CONTENT
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I will remove from your midst your proud exalting ones and you will
never be haughty again in my holy mountain. But I will leave among you
the humble and lowly and they will take refuge in the name of the Lord.
I know that this verse at least refers to a group of people but what if,
what does somebody like me do when I know I have so much pride within
me? What do I do? I should have, I clearly should have been thrown out
of the church long time ago.

I should have been sifted like that rock. But I took hope from the story
of Peter who when he was about, when Jesus was about to go to the cross,
Jesus said, Peter said, everybody else will deny you but I won't. And
Jesus said, you're going to be sifted.

And like that strainer, I praise God that what came out of it was not
the rocks but the purity of Peter that came through it. That when Jesus
asked him and he restored him in John 21, now do you love me more than
these other disciples do? Peter says, no, I'm not going to say anything
about anybody else. Gone is my spirit of comparison.

Gone is me saying I'm better than John, I'm better than Andrew. I love
you but I don't want to talk about more than these. I'm not here to
compare myself to anybody else.

A few days earlier he was ready to compare himself that he's better than
every one of the other disciples that he wouldn't and he fell. But
that's what the Lord gripped me with that there's a spirit of humility
that draws out all of the spirit of comparison so that I don't seek to
love God more than anybody else. I just seek to love God.

Time's up. Thank you.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/rW9Ol-NyAoQ.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/sandeep-poonen/overcoming-pride/
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