Sermon Topic: Pride

Who Maketh Thee to Differ?

Date: June 19th, 1955  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:6-7  |  Topics: Diversity, Pride, Spiritual Gifts, Unique, Unity

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?


Strength for the Tempted

Date: October 23rd, 1955  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:12-13  |  Topics: Apostasy, Perseverance, Pride, Satan, Temptation

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.


Love Never Fails

Date: December 11th, 1955  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-8  |  Topics: Endureance, Hope, Love, Pride, Unity, maturity

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish aContinue Reading


The Post-Diluvian Age

Date: May 19th, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 9-12  |  Topics: Dispensations, Noah, Pride

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shallContinue Reading


Faithful Under Reproach

Date: May 17th, 1959  |  Scripture: Numbers 16  |  Topics: Ambition, Confidence, Humility, Meekness, Obedience, Pride, Rebellion

Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, andContinue Reading


Samuel’s Resignation

Date: November 20th, 1960  |  Scripture: 1 Samuel 10-12  |  Topics: Humility, King, Pride

Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? Then shalt thouContinue Reading


Samuel’s Last Activities

Date: November 27th, 1960  |  Scripture: 1 Samuel 13-15  |  Topics: Disobedience, Pride, Samuel, Saul

Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. And all Israel heaContinue Reading


David and Saul

Date: February 19th, 1961  |  Scripture: 1 Samuel 18:5  |  Topics: Anger, David, Pride, Saul

And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.


Naaman The Leper

Date: January 14th, 1962  |  Scripture: 2 Kings 5:1-14  |  Topics: Elisha, Faith, Humility, Leprosy, Naaman, Pride

Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy. AndContinue Reading


The Tragic Sin of Good King Hezekiah

Date: March 4th, 1962  |  Scripture: 2 Kings 18-20  |  Topics: Assyria, Exile, Hezekiah, Pride, Sin

Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in piecesContinue Reading