Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.
The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.
Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.
It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.
Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.
When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
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