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Yet they say to each other, ‘Don’t come too close or you will defile me! I am holier than you!’ These people are a stench in my nostrils, an acrid smell that never goes away.

Isaiah 65:5

“O, the folly of our race.” - Charles Spurgeon

Identifying a “holier than you” attitude.

Do I condemn others for what I excuse myself of?

• “They condemn in other people what they consider to be very excusable in themselves.” - Charles Spurgeon  

Do I call out sin in others sin that I commit?

• “They would cry out against others for a tenth part of the sin which they allow in themselves” - Charles Spurgeon

Am I beyond rebuke?

• “They are wrong upon some points, yet in other directions they are beyond rebuke.” - Charles Spurgeon 

Do I claim to be innocent of things God forbids?

• “They drink, they do not swear; and if they swear, they do not steal: they make a great deal out of negatives: if they steal, they are not greedy and miserly, but spend their gains freely.” - Charles Spurgeon 

Am I unfaithful to my spouse? 

• “They practice fornication, yet they do not commit adultery; if they talk filthily, yet they boast they do not lie.” - Charles Spurgeon 

Charles Spurgeon: Self Righteousness – A Smouldering Heap of Rubbish

Nothing turns the unsaved away from Christ more than a saved person who judges what they do, when they behave in the same manner.

Refrain from being holier-than-you. Live like a save-by-grace-and-you-can-be-too.

For when I called, you did not answer. When I spoke, you did not listen.
Isaiah 65:12b

For when I called, they did not answer. When I spoke, they did not listen.
Isaiah 66:4b

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Refrain from being holier-than-you. Live like a save-by-grace-and-you-can-be-too.