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Pride and Humility
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| What happens to man when he tries to wear the crown that belongs to God? | |
| Well, I tell you what, all too often we as Christians, we often say, hey, we're seated with God in heavenly places. | |
| But I tell you what, he's not seated on our throne. | |
| We're supposed to be seated on his throne. | |
| And too often, we wear the crown of pride. | |
| That is one of the greatest sins is pride. | |
| And when we try to wear God's crown, the crown that belongs to him, God is going to take us down. | |
| God will humble the proud very quickly. | |
| And it's amazing to me. | |
| Do you know in Jeremiah, it states how God is weeping in the secret places because of our pride. | |
| Our pride is so horrible. | |
| In Micah 6, it says, He has showed me, oh man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you to do justly, to love mercy. | |
| And then it says to walk humbly with your God. | |
| We have a humble God. | |
| And how horrible for this humble creator of the universe to have a man who steals the crown and puts it on his head. | |
| Wow. | |
| Wow. | |
| You write that the prophet Jeremiah lived in chaotic times. | |
| Maybe like ours, I don't know. | |
| But some of the culture factors that you have uncovered, just go through some of that because I know that you have found similarities to what Jeremiah faced, to what we're facing today. | |
| Oh, exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| What happened then is what's happening now. | |
| They are calling evil good and good evil. | |
| Here they were offering their children to Molech. | |
| And we have this big abortion issue that's going on right now. | |
| Not only that, there was all kinds of fake news back then, prophesying lies. | |
| The prophets were all false prophets prophesying fake news. | |
| There was political chaos, political chaos going on as Josiah had two wives. | |
| And so two different children from two different mothers are fighting over who would be king. | |
| So there's political chaos. | |
| There's also quarantines. | |
| There was also religious chaos where the religious people were fighting and disputing, just like much that is going on today. | |
| Not only that, what's fascinating, there's a mistranslation in the Gospels where it says a nation will come against nation. | |
| It's actually ethnic group will come against ethnic group, just like we're seeing in the United States today. | |
| Well, that was also going on there. | |
| But there's also religious chaos where the religious leaders were fleecing the flock instead of feeding the flock. | |
| But the bad thing was God's people were loving what the false prophet said. | |
| They did not want to hear what God said. | |
| They only wanted to hear what they wanted to hear. | |