The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of arrogant is “offensively exaggerating one’s own importance.” I added, “The idolizing and assertion of self.” What made the heavenly choirmaster and light bearer rebel? Arrogance. What brought sin into the garden and the lives of mankind? Arrogance. What is behind every lawless act, every evil deed, and every corruption of good, peace, joy and love? Arrogance. It is the power of Sin and the energy of every person’s sinful nature. What shelters rebellion, hatred, unforgiveness and bitterness in the human breast? Arrogance.

When one eats a portion of food, that food, through the digestive process, breaks down and is assimilated into the cellular structure of the body. The body is changed; for good or bad, it is changed. In the same way, when Adam and Eve arrogantly ate of the forbidden fruit, they were changed at the very core, the cellular level. With arrogance come the elements of rebellion and over-infatuation with self. Every cell vibrates with the weakness of guilt and shame; and, succumbs to the lusts of the flesh (sinful nature). Gone is innocence (freedom from guilt); gone is purity and harmony and delight. Gone is the joy of “being.” Now mankind must live under the tyranny of “doing.” And, salvation by works is a hard taskmaster who rewards all your hard labors with death. Arrogance becomes rich at the expense of other’s labors, builds structures to the glory of his success, only to lose his soul in the end. Under the rule of arrogance, one suffers frustration, discontent, discouragement, despair, poverty, and every plague of the human spirit. Think about it.