Distressed Request
You regularly meet with a small group from church for a Bible study. During the time when things are shared so the rest of the group can pray about them, someone requests prayer because their son has just come back from college & told them he has been in a homosexual relationship & wants to introduce them to his partner. You are disgustingly aghast & can’t believe a Christian could let their son grow up like that.
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While God consistently condemns the sin of homosexuality (1 Cor 6.9-11, Rom 1.26-27), He condemns the sin of pride with many more passages (Pr 8.13, 16.18, Rom 12.16). Pridefulness fails to acknowledge one’s own sinful condition as well as God’s holy righteousness, causing us to look on the sins of others with contempt while minimizing our own. Your sin of prideful contempt & hate resided where you should have had compassion. You have fallen short of God’s perfect standard.
He mocks proud mockers, but gives grace to the humble. – Pr 3.34
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” – Lk 18.9-14
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin! – Pr 21.4
He mocks proud mockers, but gives grace to the humble. – Pr 3.34
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” – Lk 18.9-14
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin! – Pr 21.4