
By Ray Comfort
The life and death of Jesus Christ is a standing rebuke to every form of pride of which men are capable:
Pride of birth and RANK: “Is not this the carpenter’s son?” (Matthew 13:55)
Pride of WEALTH: “The Son of man has no where to lay his head.” (Matthew 8:20)
Pride of personal APPEARANCE: “There is no beauty that we should desire him.” (Isaiah 53:2)
Pride of REPUTATION: “A friend of publicans and sinners.” (Matthew 11:19)
Pride of LEARNING: “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?” (John 7:15)
Pride of SUPERIORITY: “I am among you as he that serves.” (Luke 22:27)
Pride of SUCCESS: “He was despised and rejected of men.” (Isaiah 53:3)
Pride of ABILITY: “I can of my own self do nothing.” (John 5:30)
Pride of INTELLECT: “As my Father has taught me, I speak these things.” (John 8:28)
Pride of SELF-WILL: “I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me.” (John 5:30)
Pride in DEATH: “He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” (Philippians 2:8)
