It was his prayers that he thought made him righteous. There was a church in this town some years ago that begin to do right well. They had a small sanctuary but it got to filling up on Sunday mornings for both services. They build a new church and within a month it was full. At one of their first services in their new building the people that led the service strutted like peacocks.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
I have a good friend who was a pastor in another denomination. He moved to a bigger church and it was not long when word came that he had become involved in an affair with a woman. By the grace of God, they were able to put their family back together again and find healing and restoration. He talked about what it was like to go in his church with hundreds of people waiting to hear what he had to say. Pride began to swell up in his heart.