A Condemnable Love! Series

1 John 2:16d and the pride of life, -KJV

3. The pride of life? -Has to do with POSITION

a) This is what Satan was cast out of heaven for!

Ezekiel 28 (NIV)

12 This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘You were the seal of perfection,

full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

13 You were in Eden,

the garden of God;

every precious stone adorned you:

carnelian, chrysolite and emerald,

topaz, onyx and jasper,

lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.

Your settings and mountings were made of gold;

on the day you were created they were prepared.

14a You were anointed as a guardian cherub,

for so I ordained you.

i. This was no small honor!

ii. In heaven, the cherubim hold such a position of celestial prominence that God Himself sits “enthroned between the cherubim.”

Isaiah 37:16 “Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Ezekiel 28:14b You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones.

15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.

Isaiah 14 (NIV)

12 How you have fallen from heaven,

morning star, son of the dawn!

You have been cast down to the earth,

you who once laid low the nations!

13 You said in your heart,

“I will ascend to the heavens;

I will raise my throne

above the stars of God;

I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,

on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.

14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.”

15 But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,

to the depths of the pit.

Ezekiel 28:16b So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. 17 Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.-NIV

Bruce Hurst – “The pride of life is the vain mind that thirsts for man’s applause.”

Albert Barnes - It refers to whatever there is that tends to promote pride.

John Gill- The pride of life is the ambition for honor, chief places and high titles, as in the Scribes and Pharisees, or of grand living, living in a sumptuous, gay, luxurious, and pompous manner, in rich diet, costly apparel, having fine seats, palaces, and stately buildings, and numerous attendance; all which is but vanity and vexation of spirit.

Luke 14:10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.-ESV

C) Consistency?

1. Satan has no new tricks and tactics!

2. He has and will continue to use them from the beginning to the end of the age!

a) Eve

Genesis 3:6a So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, -ESV

i. Lust of the flesh

Genesis 3:6b and that it was a delight to the eyes, -ESV

ii. Lust of the eyes

Genesis 3:6c and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, -ESV