1. James 4
Pride & Humility

2. James 4
Pride & Humility
Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.

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4. Terrell Owens
―I’m in Hell.‖ – T.O.
―Be careful of making
yourself the focal point of
your own attentions.‖

5. James 3:16
―For where jealousy and selfish
ambition exist, there will be disorder
and every vile practice…

6. James 4:1-3
What causes quarrels and what causes fights
among you? Is it not this, that your passions
are at war within you? You desire and do not
have, so you murder. You covet and cannot
obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not
have, because you do not ask. You ask and do
not receive, because you ask wrongly, to
spend it on your passions.‖

7. James 4:1-3
What causes quarrels and what causes fights
among you? Is it not this, that your passions
are at war within you? You desire and do not
have, so you murder. You covet and cannot
obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not
have, because you do not ask. You ask and do
not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend
it on your passions.‖

8. Pride
1. Self-centeredness
Pride is…
1. Self-centeredness

9. James 4:1-3
What causes quarrels and what causes fights
among you? Is it not this, that your passions
are at war within you? You desire and do
not have, so you murder. You covet and
cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You
do not have, because you do not ask. You ask
and do not receive, because you ask wrongly,
to spend it on your passions.‖

10. Pride
1. Self-centeredness
Pride
1. Self-centeredness
2. Can only exist when comparing one to
another

11. Pride
1. Self-centeredness
Pride
1. Self-centeredness
2. Can only exist when comparing one to
another
Where do I find my worth?

12. James 4
Pride & Humility

13. Pride
• Where do I find my worth?
– Abilities
– Possessions
– Relationships
Where do I find my worth?
• Abilities
• Possessions
• Relationships

14. Pride
• Where do I find my worth?
– Abilities
– Possessions
– Relationships
Where do I find my worth?
• Abilities
• Possessions
• Relationships
―My life would be better and I would be better if
______.‖
―I’m not as good as _____ because _____.‖

15. James 3:16
―For where jealousy and selfish
ambition exist, there will be disorder
and every vile practice…

16. James 4
Pride & Humility

17. James 4:4
You adulterous people!
Do you not know that friendship with the
world is enmity with God? Therefore
whoever wishes to be a friend of the
world makes himself an enemy of God.

18. James 4
Pride & Humility

19. Life without God
―Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent.
This is one of the hardest lessons for humans
to learn. We cannot admit that things might
be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor
kind, but simply callous—indifferent to all
suffering, lacking all purpose.‖
- Richard Dawkins

20. James 4
Pride & Humility

21. Life without God
―As long as you are proud you cannot know
God. A proud man is always looking down on
thing and people: and, of course, as long as
you are looking down you cannot see
something that is above you.‖
- C.S. Lewis

22. James 4:5-8,10
… ―He [God] yearns jealously over the spirit
that he has made to dwell in us‖? But he gives
more grace. Therefore it [Scripture] says, ―God
opposes the proud, but gives grace to the
humble.‖ Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw
near to God and he will draw near to
you…Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he
will exalt you.

23. James 4
Pride & Humility

24. Jeremiah 9:23-24
Thus says the LORD: ―Let not the wise man
boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man
boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in
his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this,
that he understands and knows me, that I am
the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice,
and righteousness in the earth. For in these
things I delight, declares the LORD.‖

25. Pride
1. Self-centeredness
Good Pride
Pride is good only when it reflects and
recognizes the steadfast love, justice, and
righteousness of the LORD.

26. Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save
the lost.

27. James 4
Pride & Humility