RRC Bible Study Podcast · Restoration Revival

What Does The Bible Say About Pride?

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“Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord.”

Pastor Dennis Martin comes straight to pride. He says the church does not talk about it enough. The subject matters because pride shows up everywhere, both in church and outside it. He keeps the tone direct and conversational. He does not treat pride as a side issue. He treats it like a warning that needs repeating. He moves from scripture to ordinary life. He talks about people who were humble at first and then changed once blessing or status came. He uses that change to show how self-importance can grow quietly. He says pride can make a person hard to reach. The message keeps returning to the idea that pride goes before destruction. He says that warning is not limited to church life. He stretches it across politics and other public spaces too. He also leans on the picture of Saul. Saul is the example of someone who was little in his own sight before he became proud. The point is that calling changes nothing if humility is gone. He keeps pressing the listener to see how quickly arrogance can turn into a fall. He later turns to gossip and the habit of spreading secrets, calling that out as taplers. That turn widens the lesson, because pride and careless speech end up being treated as things the church should not excuse. The episode closes by saying the church often promotes the very thing God hates, and he wants that truth to land hard.

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A direct Bible teaching on pride that ties scripture to church conduct and the risk of self-importance.

The episode stays close to a plain Bible teaching on pride and treats it as something the church does not often face head-on. Pastor Dennis Martin keeps circling back to scripture and to ordinary conduct, especially posture, correction, and the quiet danger of thinking too…

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You want a straight Bible study from Pastor Dennis Martin that takes pride seriously.

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