Title: Prideful Men Will Go to Hell 
Meta: Man doesn’t want to admit how utterly helpless and worthless he is before God because of his pride. It’s this very pride that will send him to hell.
Tags: pride, hell, judgment, Bible,

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And prideful men will absolutely clench their teeth and go to hell.

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Do you know why they are not?

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Because men want to make God their debtor.

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Men want to be God.

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They want to put God in a position where He owes them something.

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And if they can work it out, and they can be good, then God owes it to them.(P)

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Oh, how often I see this.

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"O but I prayed. I prayed."

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I mean, it is, "I've done this."

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I have come across people that they are so angry

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that they have not gotten their way or their thing from God,

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after all the good they did, after all they've served Him,

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after all they've prayed to Him, after all they've done,

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and they've fasted, and they've given.

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They are like that older brother, are they not?

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"How come I don't get the fated calf? You've never killed anything for me."

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They want to put God in a place where He owes them something.(P)

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Listen to me. Here is the issue:

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It's man's pride that lies right in the way of submitting to the righteousness of God.

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Do you know why it is?

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Because men are so determined to believe that they are good, that they will go to hell for it.

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They are so determined to believe they are good, and God owes them something.

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They are so determined to believe grandpa and grandma were good people

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and they deserve to be in heaven.

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They are so determined to believe that they deserve heaven;

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that they at heart are good people.

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And you know what the gospel does? Do you know what Christ does?

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Do you know why they hated Christ?

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Because He told them the truth.

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And for anybody to submit to the righteousness of God, they've got to humble themselves,

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and they've got to come face-to-face with the fact that they are not righteous,

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they are not good people.(P)

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The proud sons of Adam must accept that righteousness alone comes from God.

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And in order to do that, they have to admit that they don't have any righteousness of their own.

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They must admit that they are sinners, that they are wicked, that they are evil,

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that they are not good, they are not nice, they are not admirable,

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not honorable, not acceptable, not reputable, not valuable, not wonderful.

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Men only abandon their own righteousness when God breaks them,

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and they are brought face-to-face with the stark reality that they don't have anything

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to offer themselves acceptable before God on their own.

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And prideful men will absolutely clench their teeth and go to hell,

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holding to their own righteousness.

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That is the issue.(P)

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And I was just saying that, that sat wrong with some.

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Some of you are sitting there and you are saying, "I'm not that bad. I am not that wretched."(P)

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You ask people, "Are you evil?"(P)

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"No, I mean, I know I have sinned but I am not evil.

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You know, people like Adolf Hitler, they are evil."(P)

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"Are you wicked?"(P)

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"No, you know that's right there in the same category - evil people, wicked people.

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Those are the people that run around in their gutters and have their orgies."(P)

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Don't you understand what Scripture says?

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All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

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And the wages of sin is death.

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God has never thrown a good man into hell.

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The wages of sin is death.

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You say, "Ah, it's just a little lie." It's death.(P)

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You are wicked by nature; wicked, worthless, you are undesirable to God.

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You are simply fodder and fuel for the fire.

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And until you realize that, until you come face-to-face with that,

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the righteousness of Christ will mean nothing.

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It will have no value.(P)

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Most people in this world will not submit to this.

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But if you are wicked, if you want to escape your sin,

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if you're looking for an answer, if you're looking for hope,

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if you're looking for rescue, if you're looking for salvation,

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there it is.

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How does it get from Christ to me?

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By faith.

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You say, "How does that happen?"

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Because God said it would happen.

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And what God does is, the moment you put your faith in Jesus Christ,

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He takes all that glorious merit of Christ and He lays it to your account.

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It's justification. It's the heart of our gospel.

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And you know what? We Gentiles are freely invited to come in.

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It's the heart of our gospel.