One of the conclusions I have come to after many years of biblical reflection and my own and other believers' experiences is a rhetorical question.
Was Satan removed from God for alcoholism, or for masturbation, or perhaps for tobacco addiction?
Niestety pośród wierzących grzechem, którego się nie widzi jest właśnie grzech Lucyfera – PYCHA.
Alcoholism or cigarettes are the scapegoat of people's self-purification. Most who see an alcoholic or a smoker take pride in their weaknesses. This is how Lucifer's clever sin mechanism works: he's worse I'm better.
How can a believer commit the sin of Lucifer? By thinking that what he does is more important than the work of others; that he is more sanctified, that he prays better, or even in my case, that I write more truth than others, etc.
Of course prayers, the struggle for truth and sanctification, and other elements of the believer's life are important. But even more important is the approach you take to it. We are only tools and we are not irreplaceable.
The Pharisees knew the Bible very well. I think 99% of us could not compare to them, yet they rejected God.
Judaism today relies precisely on the belief in the power of biblical knowledge. Theology alone does not save. It is the circumcised heart that saves. A heart circumcised of pride.
The alcoholic and the smoker or the masturbating believer suffers. But he who has pride does not see this evil in himself.
For the past two years I have had this one line in my head all the time looking at myself and believers.
"12) A tak, kto mniema, że stoi, niech uważa, aby nie upadł.” 1 Kor 10
I have already seen many believers fall. Not because of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, but because of pride.
Knowledge, conspiracies inflate. But they don't save. Just because you have knowledge of demons or the symbolism of Israelite holiday ceremonies will not give you salvation. Grandmothers living the simplicity of the gospel will be before you.
A follower of Jesus is easy to recognize: he is characterized by humility. Not false humility, but true humility.
Not the one the scouts had recognizing that the forces were larger, but the one Jouze had. The recipe for a victorious life is simple:
“Bądź mężny i mocny, ponieważ ty rozdasz temu ludowi w posiadanie ziemię, którą poprzysiągłem dać ich przodkom. 7 Only be valiant and strong, observing the fulfillment of the whole Lawwhich Moses my servant commanded thee. Do not depart from it either to the right or to the left, that your prudence may be proved in all your undertakings. 8 Let this Book of the Law be always on your lips; ponder it day and night, that you may strictly fulfill all that is written in it, for only then will you succeed and your prudence prove itself. 9 Czyż ci nie rozkazałem: Bądź mężny i mocny? Nie bój się i nie drżyj, bo z tobą jest Pan, Bóg twój, wszędzie, gdziekolwiek pójdziesz».” Jozue 1
Some deceivers say that God's Law is Judaism. Judaism is a perversion of the teachings of the Bible. Judaism is based on Talmudic interpretation. Jesus came to fulfill the Law because it was twisted. The Sabbath was unbearable.
” rozważaj ją w dzień i w nocy, abyś ściśle spełniał wszystko, co w niej jest napisane, bo tylko wtedy powiedzie ci się i okaże się twoja roztropność.”
Any reasonable believer knows that this is not talking about a sacrificial system, but about God's Law as a value system.
David did not sin (break the law) by the sacrificial system, or by mixing materials in his clothes, but by taking to himself a WHOLE wife. The Decalogue comes to mind.
Saul had the sin of pride, not any of the sins of Judaism's 613 commandments.
Uzza touched the Ark and died. Why? Because he did not obey God.
Uzza was wrong, judging bythat it does not matter who carried the ark.
Uzza was wrong, thinkingThat it did not matter how the ark was moved.
Uzza was wrong thinkingThat he knew all about the ark because it had been in his father's house for so long.
Uzza was wrong, judging byThat God could not take care of the ark by himself.
Uzza was wrong, judging byThat the ground of Nachon's threshing floor is less holy than his own hand.
If we lived in those days we would all perish. But the fact that we live in a time of grace does not mean freedom from God's Law, but only and as much as God's gracious look upon the repentant sinner. If Uzza were alive today, God would admonish him, but the sin would remain sin and Uzza would have to apologize in Jesus' name.
Pride is the most insidious sin because the offender himself does not see it.
Na facebooku bardzo łatwo to sprawdzić. Jeśli ktoś kogoś atakuje personalnie – nie w miłości i w oparciu o Słowo – to pychą bije niczym w Watykanie czy możnych tego świata.
“I ujrzałem Niewiastę drunk with the blood of the saints i krwią świadków Jezusa” Ap 17.
People who are full of pride are drunk and they are fine with it.
In general, we all have more or less hubris.
We rely on our accomplishments rather than on God's grace.
Me, me, me, me, me.
The number of the beast is 666.
“Tu potrzebna jest mądrość. Kto ma rozum, niech obliczy liczbę zwierzęcia; jest to bowiem liczba człowieka. A liczba jego jest six hundred and sixty-six.” Ap 13.
Liczba człowieka, to “ja” razy trzy. Pełnia wywyższenia człowieka.
" Then God said: Let us make man in our image, like unto us, and let him rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. (27) And God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. As male and female he created them. (28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Rejoice, and multiply, and fill the earth, and make it subject unto you; and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth. (29) Then God said, Behold, I give you every plant that produces seed in all the earth, and every tree whose fruit has seed in it: let it be food for you. (30) And to all the wild animals, and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to all the amphibians of the earth, in whom is the breath of life, I give all plants for food. And so it came to pass. (31) I spojrzał Bóg na wszystko, co uczynił, a było to bardzo dobre. I nastał wieczór, i nastał poranek – dzień szósty.”
Relying on our own works is robbing God of His glory.
What is the difference between a Christian who prides himself on praying or evangelizing and Kuba Wojewódzki? Only the type of car.
You can have a $100,000 car and be humble, and you can have a $10,000 car and have hubris reaching for the stars.
Mając na uwadze, że jest to grzech Lucyfera, walczmy z pychą w sobie, a o innych módlmy się aby Bóg im to zabrał……
Instead, let us not purify ourselves by the sins of others. Rather, let us pray for them, but let us never purify ourselves by detracting from them.
"12) A tak, kto mniema, że stoi, niech uważa, aby nie upadł.” 1 Kor 10
Praise Jesus.
