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  (SERMON CLIP) BEING FREE OF PRIDE BY LOOKING TO JESUS
  by Zac Poonen
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Summary: The permanent solution to living in humility every day is to
look unto Jesus all the time.

Duration: 3:04 Topics: "Humility", "Pride"
Scripture References: Daniel 4:28, Romans 11:36, Philippians 2:3, Hebrews 12:2, James 4:6

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This sermon discusses the dangers of pride and the tendency to build
'Babylon' in our lives, churches, and ministries by seeking glory for
ourselves rather than giving glory to God. It emphasizes the importance
of humility, avoiding comparisons with others, and focusing on Jesus as
the ultimate example of humility and grace.

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See this verse in Daniel chapter 4. We spoke about Babylon. Here is how
people build Babylon even today among Christian churches and preachers.
Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 4.28, was walking on the royal palace of Babylon
and he looked at this beautiful city he had built and he didn't say
anything.

He was the only man walking on the roof and he reflected and said to
himself, isn't this Babylon the great which I myself have built by my
power for my majesty. Pride is always like this. I built it according to
my plan.

I built it with my power. I built it for my glory from man through man
to man. The opposite of that is Romans 11.36, from God through God to
God.

That's how it should be. But it is from man through man to man. My
glory, my power, my plan.

So you can look at your work. You can look at anything. Look what a
wonderful church I have built.

Look how wonderful children I have raised. Not like that fellow's
children. The devil will tell you that.

Comparison, comparison. It's all the time. You can compare yourself with
other people in the church.

You can compare your children with other people in the church. The world
is full of parents who are comparing their children with other people's
children. And it can happen in the church where you compare your
children with somebody else's children and glorying how wonderful they
are.

That's the devil. It's 100%. It's a poison of pride that you cannot say
now in such a situation that the devil comes and he's got nothing in
you.

He's got plenty in you. So what's the solution? Again by comparison, you
compare yourself with somebody who got 100% and you won't be proud. So
that's the solution.

The permanent solution to live in humility every day is to look unto
Jesus all the time. Every step of this race to look at Jesus. Look at
Jesus.

I tell you, I wish somebody had told me this when I was converted at the
age of 19 and a half. I would never have had a problem with pride. But I
had to discover it myself.

But I thank God I discovered it before it was too late. And now I've
seen it. Every single day God is my witness.

I run the race looking unto Jesus. Every single day I'm quick to
apologize if ever I said something wrong, did something wrong, hurt
somebody, misunderstood somebody. Oh, I'm sorry.

That was wrong. It was my mistake. Publicly, privately, all the time, to
anybody, to a husband, to a servant.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/UkVCqxXy87k.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/zac-poonen/sermon-clip-being-free-of-pride-by-looking-to-jesus/
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