Seven Designer Sins

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Seven Designer Sins
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Seven Deadly Sins
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7 Deadly Sins FAQ

• Where do I find them in scripture?
• You dont, at least not as a list
• Why are these Deadly?
• Catholic doctrine distinguishes between mortal
  sins and venial sins, mortal sins need the
  intercession of a priest
• Why study them?
• We are about transforming lives!
• Attacks on Gods very heart and image!

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7 Deadly Sins

• St John Cassian (360-435)
• Pope St. Gregory the Great (540-604)
• Dantes The Divine Comedy
• Purgatorio
• Chaucers Canterbury Tails
• Spensers The Faerie Queen
• SE7EN Movie starring Brad Pitt and Morgan
  Freeman
• 1993 MTV Documentary

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Seven Designer Sins
PRIDE
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I. Pride Distorts
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God
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Proverbs 112

• 2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with
  humility comes wisdom.

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Proverbs 2923

• 23 A man's pride brings him low, but a man of
  lowly spirit gains honor.

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Remember Eve?
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Genesis 34-6

• 4"You will not surely die," the serpent said to
  the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of
  it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like
  God, knowing good and evil."
• 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree
  was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and
  also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some
  and ate it. She also gave some to her husband,
  who was with her, and he ate it.

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Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now A New Earth
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II. Pride Divides
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Proverbs 1310

• 10 Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is
  found in those who take advice.

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3 John vs. 9

• 9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who
  loves to be first, will have nothing to do with
  us. 10 So if I come, I will call attention to
  what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us.
  Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome
  the brothers. He also stops those who want to do
  so and puts them out of the church.

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Satans Yard Sale
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III. Pride Destroys
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Proverbs 1618

• 18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty
  spirit before a fall.

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Luke 1117

• 17 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them
  "Any kingdom divided against itself will be
  ruined, and a house divided against itself will
  fall.

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Remember Ananias and Sapphira?
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Remember the Fried Chicken Church Split?
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What antidote has God given us in His image?

• TRUTH

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John 330

• 30 He must become greater I must become less.

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