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Self-exaltation is an excessively intensified sense of well-being, power, or importance. At its worst, it is self-tribute, self-praise, self-honoring, self-glorifying, and self-worshipping. It overtly breaks the first three commandments by placing oneself as more important than God, setting oneself up as an idol, and making the name of one's ...
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For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 2 Thessalonians 2:4. Verse Concepts. who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. Isaiah 14:12-15.
Proverbs 30:32-33 ESV / 12 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.
Jesus Himself warns against the dangers of pride and self-exaltation. In Luke 18:9-14, Jesus tells the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. The Pharisee boasts about his righteousness, thanking God that he is not like other people, while the tax collector humbly asks for God's mercy.
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In Scripture, to glorify, or exalt, or lift up, is sacred action and language. God made us to image him, to reflect and reveal him in the world, that he might be glorified and exalted. Before addressing the question of what it meant for Christ, as man, though God, to not seek his own glory, it may help to rehearse Scripture’s plain and repeated tea...
The question about Christ’s self-exaltation is more challenging than what we’ve seen so far. Scripture is plain that divine self-exaltation and human God-exaltation are righteous, as is divine man-exaltation, while human self-exaltation is folly, rebellion, and even the very spirit of antichrist. Yet with Christ, we come to the unique and spectacul...
What, then, do we learn from Christ, both theologically and ethically, in our milieu increasingly at home with human self-exaltation and confused by self-humbling? First, oh what wonders await us in the unique and spectacular person who is Jesus Christ — the one man who is God, and the one divine person who became man. As Paul writes, with awe, “In...
What the Bible says about Self-Exaltation. (From Forerunner Commentary) Genesis 10:8-12. The name Nimrod means "rebellion" or "let us revolt." At the heart of a rebel or revolutionary—one who seeks to change the present order through his own means—is the desire to rule. Satan, the original rebel, was not merely displeased with God—he ...
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May 1, 2001 · In this Bible study, we will analyze yet another sin of vanity that impedes overcoming and growth: self-exaltation. 1. What is self-exaltation? Exodus 20:3-7; Psalm 83:18; 86:10; Isaiah 43:9-13; I Corinthians 10:12. Comment: The self-exalted person is he "who thinks he stands" on his own merits. Self-exaltation is an excessively intensified ...
