Set Free_Set Free from Pride Sermon.pptx

The inspiration for this series was an exercise that we did together at the Good Friday service. Those attending were challenged to anonymously write down a sin that was a persistent problem in their life. We tabulated the results and created this series entitled "Set Free." During this series we will look at the seven top responses and explore how Jesus can set us free from these sins. This week we take on the first topic: Set Free from Pride.

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4. What sin do you need to be set
free from?

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5. TTS ORIGINS

Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:12-17

6. The Five | Wills of Lucifer (The Devil)
1.1 will ascend into heaven.
2. | will exalt my throne above the stars
of God.
3. | will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north.
4.1 will ascend above the heights of the
clouds.
5. | will be like the most High.

7. Proverbs 16:18-19

8. 18 Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.

19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit
with the poor than to divide the
spoil with the proud.

9. Two Bad
Examples
The Fall of

King Uzziah
(2 Chronicles 26:16-
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10. Lessons we
learn from King
Uzziah:

1. Our strengths fi
can be the seed
of our
destruction.

11. Lessons we
learn from King
Uzziah:

2. Overstepping
our authority is
an act of
unfaithfulness
to God.

12. Lessons we
learn from King
Uzziah:

3.Spurning
correctionisa
doubling down

on sin (and gets us
in “double trouble”.)

13. Lessons we
learn from King
Uzziah:

4. Spiritual pride is
still pride -it is
sin!

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14. The Fall of
Haman
(The Book of Esther)

15. *The Offense taken (3:1-6)
«The Trap Laid (3:8-11)

*The Plot Refined (5:12-15)
*The Unanticipated Turn (6
*The Anticipated End-game
«The Final Straw (7:7-10)

16. 1. Pride causes us
to harbor hurts
and fuels
hatred and rage.

17. 2. Pride leads to
exaggerated
responses.

18. 3. Others often
see “The Fall”
long before we
do.

19. 4. Haman is not
the only person
to hang on his
own gallows.

23. 3. Take the lower
place and wait for
God to exalt you!