This message names pride as the very first sin, Satan’s fall recorded in Isaiah’s taunt against the king of Babylon, before turning to pride as “the root problem in the Corinthian church.” Paul’s repeated instruction there, that no one may boast in the presence of God, that neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, and that all we have was given, unmasks pride wherever believers compare themselves to one another.
Because God hates human pride, it robs him of his glory and forgets that we are his creatures, the sermon lays out practical ways to fight it: recognizing our desire to boast, affirming that God alone is superior, abandoning self-reliance, remembering why God chose us, and finding our fulfillment in glorifying him rather than ourselves.