Christians are a blessed people. We are forgiven, we have the promises of God. However, it is also easy for us to be presumptuous. We take the philosophy of the French philosopher who said that it was God's job to forgive. We sin presumptuously because God has forgiven us. We also fall into the sin of presumptuous by taking God's promises and turning them unto ourselves. An example of this is prosperity theology. God has blessed us spiritually so we presume He will bless us financially.
We need to guard ourselves against the sin of presumptuousness. The Bible tells us that we are not to put to tempt the Lord our God. Hophni and Phinehas thought that they were the sons of the High Priest so they had special privileges before God. However, God took their lives because of their sin. Psalm 19:13 says, "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be innocent from the great transgression." Presumption is a "great transgression", and if we think we stand, we better take heed lest we fall (1 Cor. 10:12).
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