Tim Keller paraphrased Jonathan Edwards on Pride and Humility as follows:
My life for you
(your needs above mine)
or
My
life for me (my needs above yours)
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Spiritual pride and
spiritual humility.
1) Spiritual
pride makes you more aware of others’ faults than you are of your own
faults. Humility makes you far more
aware of your own faults than the faults of others.
2) Pride leads you to speak of others with an
air of contempt. Humility speaks of
others’ faults with grief and mercy.
3) Pride leads you to break ties quickly with
those you have criticised. Humility
means you stick with people through difficult relationships.
4) A proud person is dogmatic and sure about
every point of belief and they cannot distinguish between major and minor points
of belief. Everything the proud person
believes is major. He cannot stand to be contradicted. The humble person is flexible and is not out
to merely win, but to heal.
5) A proud person either loves to confront because
he loves winning or he refuses to confront because he doesn’t like losing an
argument. A humble person confronts when
necessary.
6) A proud person is often unhappy and sorry for
himself because he believes he knows what is best for him and he's convinced he deserves the good life.
Humble people say I’m alive because of the grace of God and I don’t always know what is best for
me. A humble person does not grumble
about life.
I listened to Tim Keller's sermon on James 4 and was so gripped that I started to make notes to go back to again and again. If you go to this link you will find Keller's audio sermon on the Gospel Coalition webpage.
Here is a further post from notes on Tim Keller's sermon: "The Enormity of God's Love"
Here is a further post from notes on Tim Keller's sermon: "The Enormity of God's Love"
