{"id":6192,"date":"2016-03-16T03:34:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T08:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=6192"},"modified":"2016-03-15T03:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T08:52:36","slug":"pride-and-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=6192","title":{"rendered":"Pride and the gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"

If what you are believing increases your self-image, it isn’t the gospel.<\/p>\n

>According to Scripture, God deliberately designed the gospel in such a way so as to strip me of pride and leave me without any grounds for boasting in myself whatsoever (Eph 2<\/a>; 1 Cor 1)<\/a>. This is actually a wonderful mercy from God, for pride is at the root of all my sin. Pride produced the first sin in the Garden (Gen 3<\/a>), and pride always precedes every sinful stumbling in my life (Prov 16:18<\/a>). Therefore, if I am to experience deliverance from sin, I must be delivered from the pride that produces it. Thankfully, the gospel is engineered to accomplish this deliverance.<\/p>\n

Milton Vincent, Gospel Primer, 27<\/p>\n

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Verse links to @biblegateway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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