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• Illustration: Robinson retells how easy it was to discern the bad guys from the good guys in the cowboy movies of his childhood and then compares it to reducing biblical stories to caricatures of good and bad.
• Luke 18:9-14

• We see conceit as the sinful opposite of humility.
  - Illustration: Robinson gives hypothetical examples of conceit in athletes and students to demonstrate why we naturally object to conceit.
• God views conceit as merely bad judgment.
  - Illustration: Robinson tells a joke about a churchwoman conceited over her beauty who, her pastor reveals, is merely mistaken.
• One of the symptoms of self-righteousness is a critical spirit.
• The righteous who take pride compared to others defile the grace they have received.
  - Illustration: Robinson shows how the Pharisee, Christian students, and Christian colleges take pride in the blessings they have received, summing up each example with the phrase, “grace gone putrid.”

• Taking pride in the confession of our sins is just another form of Pharisaism.
  - Illustration: Robinson illustrates from the story of a bank robber who wore no mask that it makes no difference to the judge whether you conceal or flaunt your sins.
• Seeing God makes you aware of your sin and need for forgiveness.
  - Illustration: Robinson demonstrates how Job, Isaiah, and a minister in an H.G. Wells story became suddenly aware of their sinfulness when they saw God.
• Big Idea: Humility comes from looking at God and then seeing ourselves.
  - Illustration: Robinson quotes the Isaac Watts hymn, “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.”