RIGHTEOUSNESS – 12

RAISING A STANDARD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS – (J)

Isaiah 59:19 – So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will LIFT UP A STANDARD AGAINST HIM.

• Special note: Raising a standard against the enemy is part of the wonderful work of the HOLY SPIRIT! God is looking for HUMBLE PEOPLE to bless. HUMILITY brings exaltation. Pride, arrogance, and haughtiness go before a fall. Raising a RIGHTEOUS STANDARD OF HUMILITY brings exaltation in a nation, but the sin of PRIDE brings destruction.

When we are cleansed through the blood of Jesus (I John 1:7) our sins are forgiven, and His RIGHTEOUSNESS imputed to us. He takes away our UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, and exchanges it for HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (2 Corinthians 5:21).

THE STANDARD OF HUMILITY

BE HUMBLE

Humility is a requirement for God’s Blessing. He resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. 

Micah 6:8 – He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord REQUIRE of you – but to do justly, to love ^[mercy, and TO WALK HUMBLY with your God?

James 4:6 – But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

We need to MAINTAIN HUMILITY. Maintaining a TEACHABLE, FLEXIBLE ATTITUDE is so helpful. We are not to think more highly of ourself than we ought to think…

Romans 12:3 – I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

• Special note: It is so dangerous and dreadful when people get on their high horse, and think they are so much better, and know so much more than others. We are admonished in Scripture to esteem others better than ourself (Philippians 2:3).

Proverbs 21:4 – An HIGH LOOK, and a PROUD HEART, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

Philippians 2:3 – Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit (PRIDE; vainglory; to impress others) , but in LOWLINESS of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

Psalm 101:5 – him that has a HIGH LOOK and a PROUD (arrogant/conceited/thinking they are better – look down on than others) HEART will not I suffer (tolerate/ abide, or put up with/endure/permit).

Proverbs 6:16-18; 8:13 – These six things does the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: ¹⁷ A PROUD LOOK, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief… The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
PRIDE AND ARROGANCE and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.

Proverbs 16:5 – Every one that is PROUD IN HEART is an abomination to the Lord: 

• Special note: The Lord hates PRIDE – it is AN ABOMINATION to Him!

DON’T BE PROUD

Proverbs 16:18 – Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Luke 18:14 – …every one that exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. (Also Matthew 23:12.)

James 4:10 – Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up.

• Special note: It’s nice to have fun, but so important to avoid laughing at others, or being scornful. Making fun of, criticizing, or making your friend or neighbor look stupid and magnifying their mistakes can not only be hurtful, but destroy relationships.

HANNAH’S PROPHETIC PRAYER – DON’T BE PROUD AND ARROGANT.

I Samuel 2:3 – Talk no more so very PROUDLY; Let NO ARROGANCE come from your mouth, For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.

JESUS’S EXAMPLE AND TEACHINGs

Philippians 2:8 – …being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Matthew 11:28-30 – “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle (meek) and lowly (HUMBLE) in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (JESUS)

Matthew 5:5 – “Blessed are the meek (HUMBLE), for they shall inherit the earth.” (JESUS)

Matthew 21:5 – …‘Behold, your King is coming to you, LOWLY (HUMBLE), and sitting on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Luke 18: 9-14 – Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: ¹⁰ “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ ¹³ And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ ¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

WE ARE TO BE HUMBLE SERVANTS

Let’s determine to HUMBLY SERVE one another, and BE HUMBLE SERVANTS – (Mark 9:35).

(Again) Micah 6:8 – He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you – but to do justly, to love ^[mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

(Again) James 4:10 – Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord…

Mark 9:35And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and SERVANT OF ALL.” (Mark 10:44)

Matthew 18:4 – Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 23:12 – And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall HUMBLE HIMSELF shall be exalted (also Luke 18:14).

Colossians 3:12 – Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, HUMBLENESS of mind, MEEKNESS, longsuffering…

MORE SCRIPTURES – PRIDE VS. HUMILITY

The PROUD don’t seek God, nor keep Him in their thoughts

• Psalm 10:4 – The wicked, through the PRIDE of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

PRIDE is a heart issue

• Mark 7:21-23 – For from within, OUT OF THE HEART of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, PRIDE, FOOLISHNESS. ²³ All these evil things come FROM WITHIN and defile a man.”

PRIDE leads to condemnation

• I Timothy 3:6 – (Eldership requirements) not a novice, lest being puffed up with PRIDE he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
• I John 2:16 – For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the PRIDE OF LIFE—is not of the Father but is of the world, and the world passes away….

PRIDE brings bondage, and violence

• Psalm 73:6 – Therefore PRIDE compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

The Lord hates PRIDE, and HAUGHTY ARROGANCE

• Proverbs 12:8-14 – I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: PRIDE, and ARROGANCY, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

PRIDE is shameful; with the HUMBLE is wisdom.

• Proverbs 11:2 – When PRIDE comes, then comes shame: but with THE LOWLY (HUMBLE) is wisdom.

PRIDE brings fighting

• Proverbs 13:10 – Only by PRIDE comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

PRIDE is a demonstration of foolishness

• Proverbs 14:3 – In the mouth of the FOOLISH is a ROD OF PRIDE: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

PRIDE is a heart issue

• Mark 7:21-23 – For from within, OUT OF THE HEART of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,²² Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, PRIDE, foolishness:²³ All these evil things COME FROM WITHIN, and defile the man.

HUMILITY is a qualification of elders – PRIDE leads to condemnation

• I Timothy 3:6 – Not a novice, lest being LIFTED UP WITH PRIDE he fall into the CONDEMNATION OF THE DEVIL.

PRIDE is of this world – not of our Heavenly Father

• (Again) I John 2:15-17 – Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the PRIDE OF LIFE, is not of the Father, but is of the world.¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.

There are consequences, and punishment for those who are PROUD

• Psalm 21:23 – O love the Lord, all you his saints: for the Lord preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards THE PROUD doer.

The PROUD will be destroyed

• Proverbs 15:25 – The Lord will DESTROY the HOUSE OF THE PROUD: 
• Psalm 12:3 – May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks PROUD things.
• Psalm 17:9-11; 36:11; 59:12 – From the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.¹⁰ They have closed up their fat hearts;
  With their mouths they speak PROUDLY… Let not the foot of PRIDE come against me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away… For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their PRIDE, And for the cursing and lying which they speak.
• Psalm 10:2 – The WICKED in his PRIDE persecutes the poor; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

It is much better to be poor and HUMBLE, then rich and PROUD

• Proverbs 16:19 – Better it is to be of a HUMBLE spirit with the LOWLY (HUMBLE), than to divide the spoil with the PROUD.
• Proverbs 21:24 – PROUD and HAUGHTY SCORNER is his name, who deals in PROUD WRATH.

PRIDE, SCORN, AND BOASTING is a fruit of an unrighteous lifestyle, and sign of these last, evil days

• Romans 1:30 – Backbiters, haters of God, DESPITEFUL, PROUD, BOASTERS, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents…
• 2 Timothy 3:1-5 – know this, that in the LAST DAYS perilous times will come: ² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, BOASTERS, PROUD, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ unloving, ^[b]unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, ⁴ traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. 

PRIDE leads to fighting and disputes

• I Timothy 6:3-5 – If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;⁴ HE IS PROUD, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and STRIFES OF WORDS, whereof comes envy, STRIFE, railings, evil surmisings,⁵ PERVERSE DISPUTINGS of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.

HUMBLE SUBJECTION to one another brings exaltation; God resists those who are PROUD.

• (Again) I Peter 5:5,6 Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists THE PROUD, and gives GRACE TO THE HUMBLE. HUMBLE YOURSELVES therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may EXALT YOU in due time:

PRIDE produces rebellion and disobedience

• Nehemiah 9:16 – …our fathers acted PROUDLY, Hardened their necks, And did not heed Your commandments.

SCOFFING AND SCORNING, ARROGANCE, and HAUGHTINESS are the result of PRIDE

• Proverbs 21:24 – A PROUD and HAUGHTY man—“Scoffer” is his name; He acts with ARROGANT PRIDE.

PRIDE brings people down

• Proverbs 29:23 – A man’s PRIDE shall bring him LOW: but honor shall uphold the HUMBLE IN SPIRIT.

KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR HUMBLED

Daniel 4:30-36 The king spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by MY mighty power and for the honor of MY majesty?” ³¹ While the word was still in the king’s mouth, a voice fell from heaven: “King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: the kingdom has departed from you! ³² And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.”³³ That very hour the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws. ³⁴ And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I BLESSED THE MOST HIGH AND PRAISED AND HONORED HIM WHO LIVES FOREVER: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?”³⁶ At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and splendor returned to me. My counselors and nobles resorted to me, I was restored to my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me. ³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, PRAISE AND EXTOL AND HONOR THE KING OF HEAVEN, all of whose WORKS ARE TRUTH, and HIS WAYS JUSTICE. And THOSE WHO WALK IN PRIDE He is able to put down.

• Special note: King Nebuchadnezzar gives a personal, first-hand testimony of what happened to him when he got PROUD. It was dreadful! He learned the hard way to exalt the Lord, and WALK HUMBLY before His majesty.

Daniel 5:18-20 – (Daniel’s account of that to Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar’s son) ¹⁸ O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor. But when HIS HEART WAS LIFTED UP, and HIS SPIRIT WAS HARDENED IN PRIDE, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

KING HEZEKIAH HUMBLES HIMSELF FOR HIS PRIDE

2 Chronicles 32:24-26 – ²⁴ In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the Lord; and He spoke to him and gave him a sign. ²⁵ But Hezekiah did not repay according to the favor shown him, for his HEART WAS LIFTED UP; therefore wrath was looming over him and over Judah and Jerusalem. ²⁶ Then Hezekiah HUMBLED HIMSELF for the PRIDE OF HIS HEART, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

KING UZZIAH’S PRIDE

2 Chronicles 26:16 – But when he was strong HIS HEART WAS LIFTED UP, to his destruction, for he transgressed against the Lord his God 

PRINCE / KING OF TYRE

Ezekiel 28:2, 5, 17-19 …say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because your HEART IS LIFTED^[ UP, and you say, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods,
In the midst of the seas,’ Yet you are a man, and not a god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god… your HEART IS LIFTED UP because of your riches),”… “Your HEART WAS LIFTED UP because of your beauty;You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; … You have become a horror, and shall be no more forever.” 

• Special note: When it refers to someone’s HEART BEING LIFTED up in Scripture, it is not in a good way. It refers to them getting PROUD, conceited, and head-strong.

ISRAEL HUMBLED, WARNED, AND PUNISHED

Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 11-14, 19 – And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, TO HUMBLE YOU and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³ So HE HUMBLED YOU, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord…¹¹ “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, ¹² lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are ^[f]multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; ¹⁴ when your HEART IS LIFTED UP, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;… if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish…

Isaiah 9:8-10 – The Lord sent a word against Jacob, and it has fallen on Israel. ⁹ All the people will know—Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria— Who say IN PRIDE AND ARROGANCE OF HEART: ¹⁰ “The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with hewn stones; The sycamores are cut down, But we will replace them with cedars.”

Hosea 5:5, 7:10 – The PRIDE OF ISRAEL testifies to his face; Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them… And the PRIDE OF ISRAEL testifies to his face, but they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek Him for all this.

Amos 6:8 – The Lord God of hosts says: “I abhor the PRIDE OF JACOB, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city And all that is in it.”

Jeremiah 13:9 – “Thus says the Lord: ‘In this manner I will ruin the PRIDE OF JUDAH and the great PRIDE OF JERUSALEM.

fall of BABYLON – it’s DESTRuction

Isaiah 13:19 – And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ PRIDE, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 14:3-11;22-23 – take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: “How the oppressor has ceased, the golden city ceased! …“Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you… Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.’.. “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, and offspring and posterity,” says the Lord. ²³ “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and marshes of muddy water;I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.

MOAB DESTROYED

Isaiah 16:6; 25:10-12 – We have heard of the PRIDE of Moab— He is very PROUD— Of his HAUGHTINESS AND HIS PRIDE and his wrath; But his lies shall not be so… Moab shall be trampled down under Him, as straw is trampled down for the refuse heap…¹¹  …And He will bring down their PRIDE together with the trickery of their hands. ¹² The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, down to the dust.

Jeremiah 48:29 – “We have heard the PRIDE of Moab (He is exceedingly PROUD), Of his LOFTINESS and ARROGANCE AND PRIDE, and of the HAUGHTINESS OF HIS HEART.”

THE LORD BRINGS DISHONOR TO THE PROUD

Isaiah 23:9 – The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to bring to DISHONOR the PRIDE of all glory, To bring into CONTEMPT all the honorable of the earth.

THE CROWN OF PRIDE OF DRUNKARDS WILL BE DESTROYED

Isaiah 28:1-3 – Woe to the CROWN OF PRIDE, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is at the head of the verdant valleys,To those who are overcome with wine! ² Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who will bring them down to the earth with His hand. ³ The CROWN OF PRIDE, the drunkards of Ephraim,will be trampled underfoot;

PRIDE GOES BEFORE CAPTIVITY

Jeremiah 49:16 – Your fierceness has DECEIVED you, The PRIDE OF YOUR HEART, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 13:15-16 – Hear and give ear: Do not be PROUD, for the Lord has spoken.¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it dense darkness. .But if you will not hear it, My soul will weep in secret for YOUR PRIDE; My eyes will weep bitterly And run down with tears, Because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

THE PRIDE OF SODOM BROUGHT GOD’S JUDGMENT

Genesis 18:20; 19:24,28  – the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave… the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens… and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.

2 Peter 2:6; Jude 1:7  – turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly… as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Ezekiel 16:46-50 – “Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.“As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.⁴⁹ Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had PRIDE, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.⁵⁰ And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.

• Special note: Israel became more wicked in their PRIDE then Samaria and Sodom.

EDOM’S PRIDE BROUGHT THEM LOW

Obadiah 1-3 – And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
“Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):² “Behold, I will make you small among the nations, You shall be greatly despised. ³ The PRIDE OF YOUR HEART has deceived you, You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
whose habitation is high; You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?

GOD’S JUDGMENT ON NATIONS

Zephaniah 2:9-;9:6; 10:11 – Therefore, as I live,” Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Surely Moab shall be like Sodom,  and the people of Ammon like Gomorrah— …And a perpetual desolation. The residue of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them.”¹⁰ This they shall have for their PRIDE,because they have reproached and made ARROGANT THREATS against the people of the Lord of hosts. I will take away from your midst those who rejoice in YOUR PRIDE, And you shall no longer be HAUGHTY In My holy mountain… I will cut off the PRIDE of the Philistines… the PRIDE of Assyria shall be brought down, And the scepter of Egypt shall depart… There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the PRIDE of the Jordan is in ruins.

THE FALL OF LUCIFER, AND LUCIFER’S PRIDE

Isaiah 14:12-15 – “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! ¹³ For you have said in your heart:‘I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE above the stars of God; I WILL ALSO SIT ON THE MOUNT of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; ¹⁴ I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS of the clouds, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.’ ⁵ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

PRIDE IS OF THE DEVIL AND FROM THE DEVIL

Matthew 4:1,8 – Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by THE DEVIL… the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. ⁹ And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and WORSHIP ME.”¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ 

Matthew 16:23 – He (Jesus) turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, SATAN! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

Ephesians 4:27 – …nor give place to THE DEVIL. 

Ephesians 6:11 – Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of THE DEVIL.

I Timothy 3:7 – lest being puffed up with PRIDE he fall into the same condemnation as THE DEVIL. Moreover, he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of THE DEVIL.

John 8:44 – You are of your father THE DEVIL, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

James 4:7 – Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of THE DEVIL.

I Peter 5:8 – Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

I John 3:8 – He who sins is of THE DEVIL, for THE DEVIL has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of THE DEVIL.

GOOD NEWS – WE ARE GIVEN VICTORY OVER THE DEVIL, AND EVERYTHING FROM THE DEVIL – HALLELUJAH!

James 4:7 – Therefore submit to God. Resist THE DEVIL and he will flee from you.

I Corinthians 15:57 – Thanks be to God who gives us THE VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:14 – Thanks be to God who always leads us in (makes us to) TRIUMPH in Christ.

Revelation 12:11 – …they OVERCAME him (the Devil/Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

• Special note: We have been given the power and authority to overcome the enemy of PRIDE through Jesus, and through living a lifestyle patterned after Him and His Word. As He raises the STANDARD OF HUMILITY in our lives, our enemies will be defeated, and the Lord will be glorified!