Proverbs 16:18
King James Version
18 Pride goeth before destruction,
and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Imperiousness is being haughty, proud, arrogant, superior, froward.
God hates the froward mouth, the boastful mouth.
Proverbs 8:13 (KJV)
13 The fear of the Lord
is to hate evil:
pride,
and arrogancy,
and the evil way,
and the froward mouth,
do I hate.
We in the world, are too concerned with what the neighbors would say.
In my born again heart, it matters only what GOD would say.
What does He think of me?
Am I worthy in His sight?
Sinful as I am, I must have been.
As we all are.
For He gave His life as ransom that we may be saved.
Mark 10:45 (KJV)
45 For even the Son of man came
not to be ministered unto,
but to minister,
and to give his life
a ransom for many.
In the LORD JESUS -- the GOD of ALL -- is no imperious bone in His body.
He didn't care what people said about Him.
He only cared He was obedient to the FATHER.
John 6:38-40 (KJV)
38 For I came down from heaven,
not to do mine own will,
but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me,
that of all which he hath given me
I should lose nothing,
but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me,
that every one which seeth the Son,
and believeth on him,
may have everlasting life:
and I will raise him up at the last day.
Our SAVIOR came to the world, as nothing, for He wanted to set an example for all of us, Jew and Gentile.
Philippians 2:5-7 (KJV)
5 Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a servant,
and was made in the likeness of men:
And as a man of no reputation, the LORD JESUS took on PERFECT humility.
Isaiah 53:3-8 (KJV)
3 He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God,
and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the Lord hath laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed,
and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment:
and who shall declare his generation?
for he was cut off out of the land of the living:
for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
After reading all these verses about the LORD JESUS, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, can we still afford to be froward?
May our hearts be in the right place with God.
Only by His GRACE do we exist, and are saved.
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