has made them very ineffective for God. They go in for show, but the thing they are building is a big haystack. They are not building on the foundation of Christ with gold and silver and precious stones. Pride has a great many saints down for the count of ten; it has pinned the shoulders of many to the mat today. Pride, after all, was the sin of Satan. He said, “I will exalt my throne above the stars of God…. I will be like the most High” (see Isa. 14:13–14). Pride was also actually the root of Nebuchadnezzar’s