Pride Series, Part 1: The Fall Before the Fall

Here’s the first in a series of videos on pride.

Where did pride really begin? In this first video of the With Open Face series on pride and humility, Brad takes us beyond the Garden of Eden and into the heavens, tracing the origins of pride to the heart of Satan himself. Through a careful reading of Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, we uncover the upward-reaching declarations of Satan — the “Five I Wills” — and contrast them with the downward descent of Christ, the ultimate picture of humility.

This episode explores the spiritual roots of the “pride of life” described in 1 John 2:16, helping us recognize how Satan’s ambition to rise above God found its way into the human heart — and how only Christ’s example of humble descent can rescue us from it.

Join us as we behold the glory of the Lord and are transformed into His image — from pride to humility, from grasping to surrendering, from self-exaltation to saying, “Your will be done.”