Sermon 2828 - Kings Whose Downfall Was a Lifted-Up Heart of Pride....(Sun pm 8/23/2009)

KINGS WHOSE DOWNFALL WAS A LIFTED-UP HEART OF PRIDE.....(SUN PM 8/23/2009)
God’s Word reveals some examples of a lifted-up heart, a heart that is lifted up in pride. Forgetfulness is what produces the pride, arrogance, and haughtiness that results in a lifted-up heart. Forgetfulness of  Who God is, forgetfulness of who we are, forgetfulness of what God has done for us, forgetfulness of where we were when God found is forgetfulness of all His wonderful Mercy and Grace. The following people used their worker heart to lift themselves up: Amaziah, Uzziah, Hezekiah, and Lucifer. In so doing, they sinned against the Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, and Prudence of the LORD’s Name.

The lover heart can also lift one up in pride. When people get their hearts lifted up in pride, they have no sense of reasoning. The eyes of a proud heart are closed, but the person does not know it. He is blind. His ears are deaf, and his feelings are paralyzed. So how are such a person going to reason and to think? When we are lifted up in our heart; then we become all involved with who we are and who we think we are.  And Leviathan is there to give us his eyesight, his hearing, had his feelings. And so then we go off guided by Leviathan, not knowing that we are in the wrong way. This is exactly what happened to Judas Iscariot. When God blesses us, the first thing we should do is go back to the Feet of Jesus Christ and wash His Feet with our tears of gratitude.