SPECIAL TOPIC: LIFTED UP
This VERB (BDB 146, KB 170, Qal PERFECT) can have two senses.
- positive
- God, Isa. 5:16
- Messiah, Isa. 52:13
- God's ways, Isa. 55:9
- God's true followers, 2 Chr. 17:6
- negative
- 2 Chr. 26:16; 32:25
- Ps. 131:1 (the psalmist asserts he is not)
- Pro. 18:12
- Isa. 3:16
- Jer. 13:15
- Ezek. 16:50; 28:2,5,17
- Zeph. 3:11
- the NOUN is also used of haughty people
- 2 Chr. 32:26
- Ps. 10:4
- Pro. 16:18
- Jer. 48:29
- as is the ADJECTIVE
- 1 Sam. 2:3
- Ps. 101:5; 138:6
- Pro. 16:5
- Eccl. 7:8
- Isa. 5:15
The major problem of mankind (and some angels) is pride (cf. Ezek. 16:49; 24:21; 27:3; 28:2-6,9,17;
Gen. 3:5; Isa. 10:12; 14:13,14; 23:8-12; 25:11-12; Jer. 48:29-30; Daniel 2-4, esp. 4:29-30; Zeph. 2:8-11; 3:11; I Tim. 3:6).
Notice the Proverbs that deal with this sin: Pro. 11:2; 13:10; 16:18; 29:23.
I think pride, arrogance, and self-centeredness are the epitome of the attitude of independence and
self-achievement, which characterizes the fall of Genesis 3 (see
SPECIAL TOPIC: THE FALL). Salvation is a restoration of the image and likeness of God (Gen. 1:26-27) from the
original creation. Intimate fellowship with God, for which humans were created, is possible again, even now in a fallen world.
The evidence that salvation/conversion has occurred is that the new creation is selfless, not self-centered. Selflessness
is analogous to Christlikeness, which is God's irreducible will for every Christian!
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