Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.
Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.
