Submission, Humility, Rebellion, Lucifer, and the Ultimate Sin of Pride

Lesson 5

Part 1:

Christ’s Last Words to His Church The Book of Revelation

God’s desire for submission in our live; the way we were born rebellion; and the ultimate sin of pride,

which is what disqualifies us from rewards at the judgment seat of Christ is what as we’ll see in our

class, as we go through the pages of Proverbs, makes life difficult. What we see is, Proverbs is all

about living life God’s way or man’s way. God’s way is wisdom. God’s way is entered through submission.

He saves us and we choose to clothe ourselves with humility. However, man’s way, which is our fallenness.

Which is actually Satan’s way, because there’s only God’s way or Satan’s way. All of humanity is fallen

and becomes a part of Satan’s domain, is foolishness, rebellion, headed toward destruction, living in pride.

There are 31 chapters in Proverbs. So, if you want to, you could read one chapter every day and if you

really want to grow in wisdom, you could read Proverbs through every month. We’re exploring the book of Proverbs.

Pride was the first sin as Lucifer challenged God. Pride is the ultimate sin and listen –

all conflicts, all fights, all troubles that we have in life flow downward from pride.

That’s why this is so important, that’s why our study is so crucial.

Let’s turn our Bibles to Isaiah 14. I want to show you, before we read our theme verse in Proverbs,

I want to show you the connection that pride has to Satan.

Isaiah 14 verse 12-15

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art

thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt

my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,

in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground,

which didst weaken the nations!”

For, you have said it in your heart:

I will ascend into Heaven.

Number two

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;

Number three

I will also, I sit on the mount of the congregation

on the farthest sides of the north” verse 14,

The fourth I will,

“I will ascend above the Heights

of the clouds,”

Number five

“I will be like the Most High.” Verse 15, “‘yet you shall be brought

down to Sheol.”

Lucifer, the greatest, highest, most intelligent, powerful, creative being of God become Satan.

God’s adversary. Now listen, the Bible says that we can go from Satan’s domain. Jesus said this

in the gospel of John, you are of your father, the devil, and the lust of your father, you will do.

When we are born into this world, we’re born into Satan’s family and we are hardwired to be like him.

That’s called our fallen, fleshly nature. We are rebellious against God. Anyone that rebels against

God is headed toward destruction. The characteristic that drives us and flavors all of our relationships

is pride. But the new creation we are in Christ, our regeneration, our salvation, instantly at the moment

of salvation, Jesus Christ moves into us and we become the wisdom of God. We have His wisdom. We want to

submit to Him and resist the rebellion. We want to live out our salvation. The no longer act like we’re headed

toward destruction, life doesn’t matter. We clothe ourselves with humility.

Only in Christ is true relief found from pride. His mind is that of a bond servant and His confession

was written down.

John 4:34

“Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”

It says, “Jesus said to them,” He’s talking to those who are questioning Him. “My food is to do the will

of Him who sent me.” To do the will of Him who sent me, that submission. Jesus submitted to the Father.

A servant does the will of another. Jesus said I am a servant to God the father, as God the Son.

Look at chapter 5, verse 30.

“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own

 will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”

I do not seek my own will, that’s humility. But the will of my father who sent me, that seeking God’s glory.

Jesus embodies the only relief that we could ever know from our fallen sinful pride that we were born with.

One more, John chapter 6. If you’re following along in your Bible, I have all these marked because I need

constant reminders. That I didn’t come here to do what I want to do, I came to do the will of my Father in

Heaven, of my Lord, and of my Redeemer. And Jesus said this in

John 6 and verse 38.

“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.”

“I have not come down from Heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.”