In this message, Michael Treat takes on what he calls the foundational sin beneath all other sins: pride. Opening vulnerably about a car wreck that left him with a traumatic brain injury and forced him to confront his own pride in ministry, he walks the congregation through pride defined, diagnosed, and defeated. Drawing from C.S. Lewis, Timothy Keller, and a range of Scripture, he broadens the definition of pride far beyond simply thinking you are better than others, exposing it in moral self-righteousness, doctrinal superiority, and the subtle pride of achievement. He challenges us that prayerlessness alone is a simple litmus test for pride, because it declares we have no need of God. Michael closes by pointing to the cross as the only place pride can truly be defeated, and calls everyone to examine their hearts with the same prayer David prayed in Psalm 139.