head of the line, the evangelist leaned forward and with a grin said quietly in his ear, “I didn’t do badly, did I?” His friend murmured something and hurriedly walked out, a disillusioned man. Satan had found a chink in the shining armor of this man of God. Success had turned into an ego trip. Pride goes before a fall. Deuteronomy 8:11–17 warns of the temptation in the midst of material success to take selfish credit for it: “My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth” (Deut. 8:17).
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