Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast.

If you were to ask someone right now, are you a good person?

What response would you expect to hear?

For the vast majority of people in America, we would determine how good we are by comparing

ourselves to others rather than to Jesus himself.

In this classic teaching, Francis Chan confronts the sin of pride by taking a look at the

parable of the Pharisee and the text collector found in Luke chapter 18.

He reminds us that, in order to guard ourselves against overconfidence and self-righteousness,

we need to remember who is ultimately our final judge.

So we pray that you find this episode especially encouraging and that it brings you deeper

in your walk with the Lord.

This morning as you come in and you're getting ready to hear a message, do you tremble

at the words of God?

Or do you go, well, you know, I'm going to listen to this and see if I want to obey

it or not, this or that, or do you really just go, gosh, I'm about to hear some words

from God.

That's a serious thing.

And to have such a humble spirit and hold his word up so high that it actually causes

you to tremble and you think, I need to take this seriously.

These are coming out of the mouth of God because this can quickly become something that

is common, something that is regular or just normal and just a part of your life rather

than something that would seriously cause trembling.

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