An addiction to anything other than God Himself is wrong. God is the only thing we can (and should) occupy ourselves with habitually. To do so with anything else draws us away from Him and displeases Him. He alone is worthy of our complete attention, love, and service. To offer these things to anything or anyone else is idolatry.
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AMBITION

AMBITION

AMBITION

  1. God condemns # Ge 11:7 Isa 5:8
  2. Christ condemns # Mt 18:1,3,4 20:25,26 23:11,12
  3. Saints avoid # Ps 131:1,2
  4. Vanity of # Job 20:5-9 24:24 Ps 49:11-20
  5. Leads to strife and contention # Jas 4:1,2
  6. Punishment of # Pr 17:19 Isa 14:12-15 Eze 31:10,11 Ob 1:3,4
  7. CONNECTED WITH 7a) Pride

    # Hab 2:5

7b) Covetousness # Hab 2:8,9 7c) Cruelty # Hab 2:12 8) EXEMPLIFIED 8a) Adam and Eve # Ge 3:5,6 8b) Builders of Babel # Ge 11:4 8c) Miriam and Aaron # Nu 12:2 8d) Korah, &c # Nu 16:3 8e) Absalom # 2Sa 15:4 18:18 8f) Adonijah # 1Ki 1:5 8g) Sennacherib # 2Ki 19:23 8h) Shebna # Isa 22:16 8i) Sons of Zebedee # Mt 20:21 8j) Antichrist # 2Th 2:4 8k) Diotrephes # 3Jo 1:9