KEY SCRIPTURE: John 19:21 KJV “Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.”

These Jewish religious leaders insisted Jesus had to be handed over to be crucified. Pilate did that but wrote a title on His cross that read, JESUS OF NAZARETH KING OF THE JEWS. These people would also not accept that. They asked Pilate to change that and write’ He said He is the King of the Jews. What was happening to these people? Their ego was just at its peak. Pride makes men act petty and unreasonable. What did that title have to do with their main pursuit, which was to get Jesus crucified, which had been given to them?

Pride has often driven men into lots of foolish acts. Many married couples are not enjoying each other because they are just not satisfied with each other. Lots of hurt and unforgiveness which have ruined marriages proceed from pride. Pride is a tool of Satan and places a man in Satan’s palms.

Dear child of God salvation means freedom from the senses.  Salvation means a man is translated from the flesh into the Spirit. The Bible says he has escaped by flight from the corruption of the flesh or lust to be partakers of the divine nature.2 Peter 1:4.

The Christian should never be dominated by pride. The Christian is a supernatural being who is one with the Spirit of Jesus 1 Corinth 6:17. Pride is focusing on yourself, but now your focus is on magnifying the nature and image of Christ. This is the reason the scripture says sin shall not have dominion over you because you are not under the law, or you do not live by the ability of the flesh, but under grace, that is you are living by a higher ability or power. Now it is the spirit that rules you. You have no bitterness in the Spirit, no unforgiveness in the Spirit, and no offense is too huge to be forgiven. Say these things to yourself always. Say I have escaped the dominance of the flesh, and I am in the Spirit and so I have no pride in me. It can’t just function in me. I am full of meekness.

THOUGHT: NO CHILD OF GOD SHOULD FIND IT DIFFICULT TO WALK IN HUMILITY BECAUSE THAT IS WHO YOU ARE.

FURTHER STUDIES

Rom 8:9 KJV” But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition 2 Peter 1:4 “By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.”