Sermon Illustrations about Self-Exaltation
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Aiming Too High
Some people get so caught up in their own holiness that they look at the Trinity for a possible vacancy.
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Purpose or Notoriety
Two centuries ago, when a great man appeared, people looked for God's purpose in him. Today we look for his press agent.
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Headed for a Fall
When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, ...
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No Good without God
Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse ...
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Pride Goeth Before a Fall
Homiletics (Jan.-Mar./96) told of a turtle who wanted to spend the winter in Florida, but he knew he could never walk that far. He convinced a couple ...
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Playing God
There are two sins of man that are bred in the bone, and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exaltation. ...
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All Have Sinned--That Means You
One of the interesting things about preaching to New Yorkers is you don't have to spend much time convincing them they're sinners. They know that ...
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Don't Blow Your Own Horn
Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing--if it is only yours, it won't wake the dead; it will simply disturb the neighbors.
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The Danger of Raw Ambition
Raw ambition pours sand in the ministry gears and forces the machinery to produce an unholy product: human pride.
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Remembering We Are Small
... At Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt and I used to play a little game together. After an evening of talk, we would go out on the lawn and search the ...
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