The Only thing short of extermination is the presentation of the Gospel & Prayer. It's then in their "Court" as to what happens with that Info. The "Problem" is that they are "All about Themselves" & "Blinded by their Arrogance" which is being "Promoted" by their "Leaders" suffering from the same "Problem". Towards better Understanding I Post for u the Doctrine of Arrogance. Enjoy!!! John
DOCTRINE OF ARROGANCE
A. Introduction.
1. God has a plan for your life. God is perfect,
therefore, His plan is perfect.
a. It is impossible for the believer with his sin
nature to execute the protocol plan of God for the Church.
Therefore, God has provided through His grace policy the means of
executing His plan, purpose, and will during the Church Age.
b. Contradictions cannot exist in the perfect plan of
God. Therefore, anything that contradicts the protocol plan of
God hinders the believer from utilizing the grace of God, and
thereby, glorifying Him in the execution of His plan.
c. Arrogance is a major contradiction to the protocol
plan of God; and therefore, the primary reason for the believer's
failure to execute God's plan, will, and purpose.
2. Arrogance is the basic mental attitude sin. Satan is
the first creature guilty of arrogance.
a. Satan's motivation of arrogance is found in one
line of Isa 14:14. "I will make myself like the Most High God."
b. The original sin of arrogance is amplified in Ezek
28:14-17, "You were the anointed cherub who guards, and I placed
you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked in
the midst of the stones of fire. You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in
you. By the abundance of your slander (of God) they filled your
inner life (motivation and thought pattern) with violence, and
you sinned; therefore I (God the Father) have cast you out as
defiled from the mountain of God. And I have excluded you, O
guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your
heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your
wisdom because of your glamour. I cast you to the earth; I place
you before kings, that they may see you."
(1) Satan was the highest form of angelic
creation. He was the highest and greatest of the cherubs.
(2) He had a special job to guard the throne room
of God. He had the ability to go to the palace where God lived
(the holy mountain of God) and was the guardian.
(3) Satan was created blameless, perfect, without
sin.
(4) The unrighteousness found in Satan was
arrogance, Isa 14:14, "I will make myself like the Most High
God."
(5) The Hebrew word REKULLAH means to go from one
place to another for trade or to be in the service of someone.
Wherever the Arab traders went in the ancient world there was
gossip and slander, and that is what happened to Satan.
(6) The abundance of the slandering of God filled
Satan's motivation and thought pattern with violence.
(7) Satan corrupted his own wisdom with his own
arrogance. Satan made glamour a substitute for wisdom.
3. Arrogance is defined as a lofty self-respect totally
apart from reality. It is high esteem of oneself from some
imagined or real superiority.
4. Arrogance is the antithesis of grace and the total
blindness to the grace of God.
5. Arrogance is synonymous with vanity, which is empty
pride in regard to one's person, attainments, or possessions
coupled with an excessive desire to be noticed, lust for
attention, lust for approval or praise from others.
6. Arrogance is the pomposity of vain glory. It is
supercilious and haughty contempt of others.
7. Arrogance is a complex of sins like: jealousy,
bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, revenge motivation and
revenge function, self-pity, conceit, inordinate ambition and
competition, slander, gossip, and maligning.
a. Jealousy has a system of self-righteousness in
which it always justifies itself in whatever it is doing.
b. Bitterness is just as bad as jealousy and is the
result of jealousy.
c. From the combination of jealousy and bitterness the
monster of vindictiveness is created. Bitterness leads to self-
vindication and vindictiveness toward others.
d. Vindictiveness then feeds on implacability.
Jealousy eventually leads to implacability.
e. The result of these is revenge motivation and
function.
f. The person who does this is a weak person and feels
sorry for themselves followed by conceit, and competing with
others. A weak person is full of self-pity. A conceited person
often has self-pity.
g. The final result is verbal sins with the intention
of destroying the lives of a lot of people. When the jealous
person sees their rival winning out over them, their
vindictiveness leads to the attempt to destroy the other person
as a function of revenge. The attempt to destroy results in
trying to destroy the other person by what they say about them.
8. Arrogance is a mental attitude sin which overflows into
the motivation, decision making, and evil action.
9. Arrogance includes at least four different concepts.
a. Egotism. This is an excessive preoccupation with
self and must be distinguished from ego, which is self-
consciousness and is perfectly normal.
b. Vanity. This is self-admiration and an excessive
desire to be admired by others. Hence, vanity is easily
flattered and patronized.
c. Pride. This is lofty and arrogant assumption of
superiority.
d. Conceit. This is exaggerated estimate of one's
abilities and attainments.
10. Arrogance includes most of the emotional complex of
sins. It is also moodiness, wide emotional swings, morose,
sullen, the desire to hold oneself aloof in a sulking manner of
resentfulness, and always being offended.
11. Arrogance is the only disease known to mankind which
makes everyone sick except the one who has it.
12. Legalism and self-justification are a part of the
arrogance problem.
B. Biblical Documentation With Regard to the Sins of Arrogance.
1. Prov 11:2, "When arrogance comes, then come dishonor."
2. Prov 16:18, "Arrogance precedes destruction, and before
a fall there is a lifestyle of arrogance."
3. Prov 23:29, "A person's arrogance will bring him low,
but a lifestyle of humility will attain honor."
4. Rom 12:2-3 defines arrogance as mental attitude sins.
"Stop being conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renovation of your thinking that you may prove what the will of
God is, namely, that which is good, and the well-pleasing to God,
and the complete [the superabundance of happiness]. For I say
through the grace which has been given to me to everyone who is
among you, stop thinking of self in terms of arrogance beyond
what you ought to think, but think in terms of sanity because God
has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from
doctrine."
5. Arrogance is defined in terms of the sin of jealousy in
Jam 3:14-16, "But if you have bitter jealousy and inordinate
ambition in your right lobe, stop being arrogant, and stop lying
against the truth [Bible doctrine]. This pseudo wisdom is not
that which comes from above, but is earthly, natural, and
demonic. For where jealousy and inordinate ambition exist there
is disorder and every evil deed."
6. Prov 13:10, "Through arrogance comes strife, but wisdom
is with those who receive instruction."
7. 1 Pet 5:5, "Likewise you younger men be subject to the
elder [pastor], and all of you cloth yourselves with humility
toward one another. `For God makes war against the arrogant
[believer], but He gives grace to the humble [believer].' Humble
yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may
promote you at the proper time." Compare Jam 4:6.
a. If God does not promote you, you are not promoted.
b. God promotes men of doctrine.
c. God promotes humble or grace-oriented persons.
d. Promotion is a matter of doctrinal inculcation and
grace-orientation.
e. Promotion is a matter of glorifying God through the
execution of the protocol plan of God for the Church.
f. The promoted believers are the invisible heroes.
g. 2 Chr 7:14, "and if My people who are called by My
name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from
their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, I will forgive
their sin and I will restore their land."
8. 2 Tim 3:2-7 describes facets of arrogance. "For persons
[believers] will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful,
arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,
without virtue-love, malicious gossips, without self-control,
brutal, not lovers of God, treacherous, thoughtless, conceited,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of
godliness but having denied its power, in fact, avoid such
persons as these. And among them [immoral arrogant believers]
are those who creep into households and captivates silly women
who are loaded down with sins and lead on by their multifarious
lusts, always learning but never able to come to metabolized
knowledge of the truth."
9. Occupation with Christ is the ultimate problem solving
device regarding arrogance. Prov 8:11, "The respect for the Lord
is to hate evil, to hate pride and arrogance and the evil way.
And I hate a perverted mouth."
C. Nations can become arrogant and under divine discipline.
1. Lev 26:19, "And I will break down the arrogance of your
power. And I will make your sky like iron, and your land like
bronze."
2. Isa 9:8-9, "The Lord sends a message against Jacob and
it falls on Israel. And all the people know it, that is, Ephraim
and the inhabitants of Samaria, who spoke with pride and
arrogance of heart. The bricks have fallen down, but we will
rebuild with smooth stones."
3. Ezek 7:10, "Behold, the day is coming. Your doom has
gone forth. The rod of discipline has budded because arrogance
has blossomed."
D. Pressure on arrogance produces the complex of the sins of
arrogance.
1. Pressure on arrogance produces jealousy, bitterness,
implacability, vindictiveness, revenge, guilt, slander,
inordinate ambition.
2. Arrogance is personally self-destructive. Arrogance can
produce mental illness.
3. Arrogance is nationally self-destructive.
E. The rejection of Bible doctrine is always related to
arrogance.
1. 1 Tim 6:3-4, "If anyone teaches a different doctrine and
does not concur with sound doctrine, those doctrines of our Lord
Jesus Christ, even doctrines pertaining to godliness
[spirituality], he has become arrogant, understanding nothing.
Furthermore, he has morbid obsessions about controversies and
verbal conflicts from which originate jealousy, discord, evil
speculation."
2. Arrogance is the corruptor of the soul and the sign that
the sin nature is dominating the soul.
3. Arrogance is the basic sin that motivates rejection of
Bible doctrine. Therefore, it is a destruction to post-salvation
epistemological rehabilitation.
4. Arrogance distracts the believer from doctrine.
5. Arrogance divorces the believer from reality, both
personal and historical.
6. Arrogance destroys capacity for life, love, and
happiness.
F. Concluding Principles.
1. Arrogance rejects authority.
2. Arrogance motivates emotional sins.
a. Fear, worry, anxiety.
b. Hatred, anger, violence, murder.
c. Guilt.
d. Self-pity.
3. Arrogance reproduces itself in jealousy, bitterness,
vindictiveness, implacability, revenge motivation and function,
inordinate ambition and competition, gossip, slander, maligning,
and judging.
4. Arrogance parlayed into self-righteousness produces
legalism.
5. Psychopathic arrogance includes the following:
a. The hysterical psychopath.
b. The pathological liar.
c. The amoral psychopath.
d. The sexual psychopath.
e. The fanatical psychopath.
6. Political arrogance exists in many political opinions.
a. Political arrogance which tries to christianize a
nation.
b. Religious arrogance in trying to change the world
through pressure and activism instead of understanding that the
world will never get better, and that the purpose of the believer
is to witness, to execute the protocol plan of God, and to become
an invisible hero with invisible impact.
c. Political arrogance which rejects the separation of
church and State.
d. Political arrogance which rejects the separation of
free enterprise and the State.
