When God Confronts Pride
In the final five plagues, God humbles a man who considers himself a god and a people who thought themselves untouchable. God opposes the proud and will use any means necessary to humble us.
Author
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Repentance
When God Confronts Pride
In the final five plagues, God humbles a man who considers himself a god and a people who thought themselves untouchable. God opposes the proud and will use any means necessary to humble us.
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Observations
6. Boils (9:8-12) – Imhotep, the god of healing, could not cure the Egyptians of this intense sickness.
7. Hail (9:13-35) – The goddess of weather, Tefenet, could not create or thwart a storm like the one targeting Egyptians.
8. Locusts (10:1-20) – Locusts consumed all the vegetation, unable to be protected by Min, the god of the crops.
9. Darkness (10:21-29) – Amon-Re, the god of the sun, or his claimed son, Pharaoh, could not illuminate Egypt when the LORD turned out the lights.
10. Passover (11:1-10) – Pharaoh, the firstborn of Egypt’s nobility, was rendered helpless to oppose God or protect his people.
- God used an unrepentant man as an invitation for others to believe (9:16).
- Some Egyptians began to show indications of faith in God and His Word (9:20).
- As Pharaoh buckled from these attacks, he still refused thorough repentance (9:27).
Applications
- Sin distorts us so much that we are ashamed for others to see us as we are.
- Pride not only endangers you but also devastates everyone around you.
- God isn’t entertaining your negotiations; He’s waiting for your surrender.
