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 You are listening to a message from Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama.

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 Our passion is to experience and express grace. Join us.

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 Some of you may have noticed that Old Dominion beat Virginia Tech yesterday.

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 I figured that was a non-controversial football game to bring up.

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 Big upset though. Back in March, there was an upset of historic proportions.

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 Underdog University of Maryland, Baltimore County, defeated top-seeded Virginia in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

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 It never happened before. 16 seed over a 1 seed.

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 After reviewing the two teams' resumes heading into the game, only about 2-3% of the country picked UMBC to win that game.

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 Most of them probably accidentally.

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 This parable that we are going to look at in Luke 18 this morning is meant to be as shocking as that game.

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 And it is hard for us because most of you know that when you hear Pharisee and tax collector,

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 you expect Jesus to pick the tax collector to be on God's team because we know Pharisees are no good.

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 That's not the way it would have been in Jesus' day.

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 Nobody thought that way.

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 The Pharisees were esteemed as paragons of religious virtue.

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 You would have really liked them.

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 They are the ones who were committed to God's word, who took His word seriously, who followed God's law.

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 On the other hand, even the outsiders hated the tax collectors.

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 They didn't see them in the temple very often.

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 If people listening to Jesus had to make a pick between the two, the Pharisee and the tax collector for a spiritual victory,

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 at least 97% of them would have picked the Pharisee.

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 I want you to feel this surprising challenge from Jesus.

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 So let me give you a modern day picture before we read the parable that He tells.

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 Imagine that you were sent to Southwood on a Sunday morning and you were told there are two guys there named Bob.

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 Random name, Bob.

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 And only one of them is a Christian.

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 If you pick the right one, you get a hundred bucks.

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 You win the game.

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 So you show up early and you ask for Bob.

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 Immediately, you're pointed to a long-time elder in the church.

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 He's actually just coming out of the prayer room where He has been even before you arrived.

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 You start to look Him over, you notice there's a check tucked in His Bible.

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 It's there every week, actually.

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 And you think, wow, He looks like a pretty good guy.

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 You start to ask around about Him.

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 You hear that He's actually a pillar of the community.

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 He's run a very successful business for many years.

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 He's an outspoken Christian in the community.

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 His business supports many of the poor and needy with its profits.

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 You're about ready to go ahead and submit your vote.

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 But you ask if there are other bobs around.

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 Oh yeah, there is another guy visits pretty often.

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 He's never joined the church.

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 You learn later that he's not sure they'd have him if he wanted to.

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 He doesn't seem to be around today.

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 Right as you're about to give up, someone says, there he is!

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 Bob's coming in late.

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 He smells like freshly mown grass.

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 In fact, you and Elder Bob both recognize him as the guy you drove by that morning on the way to church.

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 He's been doing odd jobs around town for years.

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 Started this and that.

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 And someone whispers to you that the last business he started up actually was shut down for doing something illegal with taxes.

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 That's all you've got to go on.

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 You need the prize money.

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 Which one is the Christian?

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 Whom do you pick?

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 Now turn to Luke 18 at verse 9.

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 Kids, I know that sometimes it's hard to listen to me for 30 minutes anytime, especially on Sundays.

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 Can I tell you something?

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 The most important time for you to listen, the whole time for you to be listening really carefully is right now.

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 Because we're going to read God's word.

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 And that's so important.

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 This morning, kids, if you like to draw, it might help you to draw a picture of what Jesus talks about of two different men.

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 Listen as Jesus describes them and see if you can draw what you think they might look like.

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 And I'll tell you something else to add to the picture a little bit later.

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 But right now, just pay attention to God's holy word.

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 Jesus also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and treated others with contempt.

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 Two men went up into the temple to pray.

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 One a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

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 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus,

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 God, I thank you that I am not like other men.

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 Extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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 I fast twice a week.

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 I give tithes of all that I get.

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 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven,

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 but beat his breast saying, God, be merciful to me, a sinner.

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 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other.

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 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,

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 but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.

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 Let's pray together.

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 Father, we come to ask for your help.

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 Holy Spirit, soften our hearts.

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 Help us to hear even things that are hard for us to hear.

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 Work on our hearts.

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 We pray that we might trust you more.

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 Love our Savior more.

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 In his name, amen.

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 Amen.

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 Jesus told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous

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 and treated others with contempt.

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 Is Jesus talking to me?

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 A recent survey of U.S. college seniors asked them how they did getting along with other people.

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 Were they below average or above average?

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 Exactly how good were they at doing life?

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 60% put themselves in the top 10% of people.

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 25% put themselves in the top 1%.

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 They're pretty crowded up at the top.

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 Hard to squeeze 25% into 1%.

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 We have this tendency to think of ourselves more highly than we ought, don't we?

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 It's even worse on Sundays.

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 Sundays, when I was a kid, found my travel baseball team in the tournament championship almost every weekend.

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 Without me.

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 My parents decided that in an effort to follow Jesus, prioritize the worship of God, the community of His people, and the rest provided by that day,

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 that I wouldn't play then.

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 My heart often took that as an opportunity for spiritual pride.

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 I mean, after all, when you look at the guys on the team, most of them didn't even go to church.

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 Then a few of them went to church and played in the game afterwards.

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 And then there was me, the holiest one left.

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 I really liked that feeling.

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 And that others thought it about me too.

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 So in high school, I avoided things that my friends got into.

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 And I especially looked down on them when they got caught.

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 I was above that stuff.

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 I thought.

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 I was focused on winning character awards and out-arguing them on theology.

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 That I could handle.

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 Certainly, I did not smoke, drink, chew, or go with any girls who do.

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 I didn't even date anyone.

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 No comments as to why that might have developed.

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 But I got to college.

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 And while my friends slept in, I walked over to the hall kitchen each morning for a quiet time with my Bible.

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 And this nice little commentary book I happened to find on my shelf still.

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 I felt pretty good about myself.

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 And yes, I was cool too.

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 Mercifully, during that time and over the years, God has humbled me and is humbling me.

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 His word will do that.

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 Even to the proud.

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 He's brought me face to face with my heart so that I knew for sure I wasn't better than anyone else.

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 Even if I was still pretty decent at making myself look like I was.

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 But this tendency to spiritual pride, thinking I'm pretty good or at least better than the next guy, is a big part of my story.

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 It still nags at me and something I wrestle with.

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 We were talking last week in our small group about where our selfishness shows up in our marriages.

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 It's different for all of us.

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 For me, I still love to out-serve my wife so that she owes me something and I feel superior to her.

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 I'm often serving me by serving her.

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 In my spiritual pride, I like to feel like I'm right.

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 And at least a little bit higher up so that I can look down on someone else.

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 That means Jesus spoke this parable for me.

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 Maybe for you too.

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 It's a really serious issue though, even though we've chuckled a couple of times.

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 Because spiritual pride can be a deadly disease.

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 Only one of these men is on God's team eternally.

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 And it's not the one we might think.

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 We dare not be presumptive about ourselves.

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 We must take an honest look at what Jesus says.

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 So what do we learn here about spiritual pride?

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 First, it finds comfort in external morality and ignores the heart.

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 Verse 11.

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 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus,

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 God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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 I fast twice a week.

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 I give tithes of all I get.

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 It sounds good at first, right?

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 The guy's going to church and praying to God.

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 Thanking God for his own goodness that he performs better than others.

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 The Pharisee makes a list, doesn't he?

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 I love lists.

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 How is he not like other people?

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 How does he know that he's on God's side and he can talk with them?

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 Well, no extortion.

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 No dishonest practices.

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 No adultery.

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 No filthy tax collecting.

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 On the other hand, fasting 100 times a year when God's law requires one time.

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 And tithing off of everything.

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 Not merely crops, maybe herbs too.

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 Sounds pretty good, right?

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 A list like that sounds like most southern evangelical Christianity.

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 Ask many of us what makes a good Christian.

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 It's a pretty good list.

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 Does God want him to quit tithing?

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 To start extorting and committing adultery?

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 No.

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 No.

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 No.

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 But let me ask us something.

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 What is he missing?

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 It's the heart, right?

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 You don't hear any of that.

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 All these things could be true of him and he could be full of anger, lust, envy, greed,

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 and many more things.

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 See, the activities weren't the problem for me either, right?

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 I don't regret a moment of keeping the Lord's day holy.

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 Avoiding immorality.

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 I don't regret a single morning in God's Word.

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 And what he's taught me through that.

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 Serving my wife.

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 Y'all, good commands from a good God.

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 Where'd the problem come in?

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 My heart.

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 My heart, deceptive and wicked, twisted those things from what they were supposed to be.

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 What markers for me of my need for God and of his good care for me as his child that I could trust him.

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 And it took them and it twisted them into markers for me and others of my spiritual success.

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 Pride.

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 Pride does that in our hearts.

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 It's ugly.

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 And it's not that actions are irrelevant to him, but God cares deeply about what's going on in our hearts, doesn't he?

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 Focusing on external lists can lead to pride, especially when we write the lists.

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 It covers over an ugly internal reality.

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 Jesus said as much in Matthew chapter 23,

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 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

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 For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

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 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

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 It's the heart first that flows into the actions.

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 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

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 For you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.

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 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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 Yikes!

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 The heart is the priority to God, for from it flow the issues of life, our actions and our words.

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 When we really look honestly at our heart instead of merely the external morality,

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 we are sure to see our sin as the tax collector does.

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 I see my need for God here, not my success for God, he says.

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 Okay, kids, if you've drawn two men, or if you're still working on that, now draw two hearts.

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 They're different, aren't they?

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 What's in the Pharisee's heart and what's in the tax collector's heart?

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 See if you can draw so that we see what we usually don't see when we just look at the men on the outside.

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 Jesus pushes us here.

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 He wants to help us see our hearts.

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 Where we are boasting, as Ron has said.

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 Where we have spiritual pride.

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 He says, look for where you treat others with contempt.

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 Where you look down on them as not measuring up.

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 This is the point at which I ask you to consider if he's talking to you too in this parable.

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 Verse 11.

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 God, I thank you that I am not like other men.

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 Extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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 Who makes your list?

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 You've got to ask yourself.

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 Whom do you look down on?

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 Is it the poor person you feel is lazy?

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 Or uneducated?

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 Who ought to take more responsibility?

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 Someone with a different ethnicity?

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 A different political affiliation from you?

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 A different sexual orientation?

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 From you?

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 A different substance addiction?

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 From you?

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 See, it's often someone whose specific struggle is a little different from mine.

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 Isn't it?

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 Maybe you can't stand the people who talk too much in small group.

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 The non-denominational Christian with their loose theology.

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 The people who always have to be on the inside and know everything.

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 Maybe you've thought or even said, bless her heart, she doesn't know how to dress for church.

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 At a church that loves grace as we do.

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 For you, it may even be the people who know too much theology.

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 Whose kids memorize the catechism.

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 The guy who wears the suit even in the summer.

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 And you've even thought to yourself, once they really get grace, they'll be more like me.

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 Is that the good news of Jesus?

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 I think I've probably hit everyone in the room by now.

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 But the danger is that you may think I haven't hit you.

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 See, pride's like that, isn't it?

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 By its very nature, it blinds us to its existence.

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 It tells you, that's not pride, it's just being right.

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 Told you I was an expert at this one.

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 It's just loving God more.

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 It's just taking the Bible seriously.

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 Being a serious Christian.

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 Listen, let me warn you.

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 You may be right as far as the external actions go.

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 But is your heart twisting them into merit badges that they were never meant to be?

00:20:47.620 --> 00:20:48.660
 How do you know?

00:20:50.540 --> 00:20:54.240
 How do you identify pride that you can't see?

00:20:56.740 --> 00:20:58.360
 Let's take Jesus' test.

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 Treating others with contempt.

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 What does that phrase mean?

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 What would that look like or feel like that might indicate spiritual pride is present?

00:21:12.340 --> 00:21:16.019
 Y'all, I wouldn't dig if eternity wasn't at stake.

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 I know this is painful, but go there, will you?

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 Will you consider if you've thought or felt these things?

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 You're probably looking down on others, whatever person or group of people,

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 if you don't involve or invite them into your life.

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 That's treating them with contempt.

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 They can stay over there, I'll live my life.

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 If you're not.

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 If you're not.

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 If you find yourself impatient with them or lacking compassion for them.

00:21:49.620 --> 00:21:54.440
 If you speak with others like you about how they frustrate you.

00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:59.680
 If you find yourself feeling superior to them.

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 If you pray for them, but never talk to them.

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 All those would be indicators.

00:22:09.099 --> 00:22:13.899
 Red flags of spiritual pride.

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 You've not said the words, but your heart says,

00:22:18.539 --> 00:22:21.759
 God, I thank you that I'm not like.

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 Can you finish that sentence?

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 Let me ask us something.

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 I know you're not like them externally in whatever way it is,

00:22:35.319 --> 00:22:38.160
 but is your heart as different as you'd like to think?

00:22:39.879 --> 00:22:44.279
 See, I realized I wasn't as different from my high school and college buddies

00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:47.059
 as I wanted to be and pretended to be.

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 They were desperate to fit in and belong and resorted to big bottles, for example, to do so.

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 And using booze and girls to feel important and valuable is wrong.

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 God's Word warns us against that and tells us to trust only Him.

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 My heart longed for exactly the same thing.

00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:19.059
 But pursued it through big books.

00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:27.620
 And using theology and morality to feel important and valuable is also wrong.

00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:34.059
 God's Word warns us against that too and tells us to trust only Him.

00:23:34.059 --> 00:23:38.859
 Again, I'm not saying the actions don't matter,

00:23:39.740 --> 00:23:45.500
 but I am saying my heart had a lot more in common with them than I wanted to admit.

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 Are you willing to consider that possibility this morning?

00:23:52.059 --> 00:23:54.559
 To look honestly at your own heart?

00:23:54.619 --> 00:23:55.319
 Would you do that?

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 Be warned, when you do, there won't be anyone left to look down on.

00:24:01.099 --> 00:24:02.000
 It'd be a little scary.

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 It's actually where the tax collector finds himself, isn't it?

00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:11.579
 He's seen the ugliness of his sin.

00:24:12.539 --> 00:24:15.960
 He knows he deserves to be separated from God.

00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:18.160
 He can't even look up to God,

00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:21.920
 but beats his chest in humble repentance.

00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:23.119
 I'm not worthy.

00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:24.220
 Mercy.

00:24:24.220 --> 00:24:24.440
 Mercy.

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 He calls himself sinner.

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 Almost certainly even better translated, the sinner.

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 No one else to look down on.

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 He's not comparing himself to others, is he?

00:24:42.500 --> 00:24:45.900
 He's humbled before the holy God.

00:24:46.100 --> 00:24:46.440
 Needy.

00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:47.960
 Desperate.

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 Dependent.

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 Repentant.

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 And that, paradoxically, brings him near to God.

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 We'd have thought maybe God was way up there,

00:25:00.339 --> 00:25:02.259
 and so this takes me away from God.

00:25:02.419 --> 00:25:04.740
 But in his humility and desperation,

00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:08.059
 he actually finds himself near God.

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 There's no other record of good deeds.

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 No other evidence of probation.

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 Revelation, verse 14 says,

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 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.

00:25:20.819 --> 00:25:24.559
 This man went down to his house justified.

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 Right with God.

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 What good news!

00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:28.700
 Right?

00:25:29.819 --> 00:25:31.380
 If you're here today,

00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:33.559
 and you find yourself crying out,

00:25:33.860 --> 00:25:35.279
 God have mercy on me,

00:25:35.559 --> 00:25:38.160
 unworthy sinner that I am.

00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:40.860
 God says that's all you need

00:25:40.860 --> 00:25:43.120
 to be right with him.

00:25:43.360 --> 00:25:45.700
 All the fitness he requires

00:25:45.700 --> 00:25:48.920
 is to feel your need of him.

00:25:49.300 --> 00:25:51.680
 Come to him this morning just as you are

00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:55.700
 and find him to be just as he promises to be.

00:25:56.340 --> 00:25:57.019
 Merciful.

00:25:58.480 --> 00:25:59.200
 Gracious.

00:26:00.540 --> 00:26:01.060
 Loving.

00:26:02.580 --> 00:26:07.080
 This is gloriously good news of great joy.

00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:09.339
 There is hope for you.

00:26:09.539 --> 00:26:10.379
 No matter who you are,

00:26:10.460 --> 00:26:11.759
 there's great hope for you.

00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:12.980
 Don't miss it.

00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:15.679
 A Savior for sinners.

00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:19.099
 Just as the man whose life of thievery

00:26:19.099 --> 00:26:22.299
 was so bad that he deserved to be crucified,

00:26:23.379 --> 00:26:24.960
 in his last breaths,

00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:26.319
 calls out to Jesus

00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:29.220
 and hears the words of great assurance,

00:26:29.419 --> 00:26:32.879
 today you will be with me in paradise.

00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:35.240
 Nothing else required, right?

00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:40.059
 So this traitorous tax collector,

00:26:40.919 --> 00:26:44.240
 who can't even imagine looking up to God,

00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:46.319
 he stands far off

00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:50.579
 and finds God moving toward him.

00:26:51.740 --> 00:26:53.579
 As he cries for mercy,

00:26:53.879 --> 00:26:56.059
 the humble one is exalted

00:26:56.059 --> 00:26:58.439
 by a gracious heavenly Father

00:26:58.439 --> 00:27:00.119
 who welcomes sinners.

00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:05.059
 Come home to your Father this morning.

00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:12.879
 But the parable is told primarily

00:27:12.879 --> 00:27:17.159
 to challenge the Pharisee, isn't it?

00:27:18.619 --> 00:27:23.199
 Jesus is not content to leave us in our pride, is he?

00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:26.200
 No, he wants to expose it

00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:27.720
 so we see the danger

00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:29.900
 and our need of him.

00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.539
 He's gracious even to us,

00:27:33.059 --> 00:27:36.019
 even to say hard things to people like me

00:27:36.019 --> 00:27:38.960
 who may appear just fine.

00:27:40.900 --> 00:27:42.700
 Do we love our outwardly

00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:46.360
 just fine neighbors like that?

00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:51.579
 Are we content that they're comfortable now

00:27:51.579 --> 00:27:55.599
 even if eternity promises to be much less so?

00:27:57.979 --> 00:27:58.819
 See, shockingly,

00:27:58.939 --> 00:28:02.439
 the comfortable, confident Pharisee

00:28:02.439 --> 00:28:05.299
 does not leave church right with God

00:28:05.299 --> 00:28:07.339
 even though he looks like it.

00:28:07.339 --> 00:28:12.379
 His spiritual pride

00:28:12.379 --> 00:28:15.539
 distances him from God.

00:28:16.399 --> 00:28:18.319
 We see it happening in his own words

00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:21.000
 where his prayer begins with God

00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:22.899
 but then it's all about himself.

00:28:22.899 --> 00:28:26.259
 I, I, I, I, I, I.

00:28:27.259 --> 00:28:28.639
 And the text can even be read

00:28:28.639 --> 00:28:31.399
 to say he prays to himself.

00:28:31.959 --> 00:28:33.720
 It certainly reflects

00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:36.480
 that he's living for himself.

00:28:38.019 --> 00:28:39.619
 He thought he was separated

00:28:39.619 --> 00:28:40.879
 from other people, didn't he?

00:28:41.339 --> 00:28:43.019
 Jesus tells us he's actually

00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:44.559
 separated from God.

00:28:46.199 --> 00:28:48.259
 He leaves not on God's team,

00:28:48.619 --> 00:28:49.899
 distanced from a God

00:28:49.899 --> 00:28:52.799
 he doesn't believe he needs anyway.

00:28:54.819 --> 00:28:57.059
 It's hard to read this passage

00:28:57.059 --> 00:28:58.859
 and not realize

00:28:58.859 --> 00:29:01.399
 that in God's family

00:29:01.399 --> 00:29:04.779
 many I think are in aren't

00:29:04.779 --> 00:29:07.059
 and many I think aren't

00:29:07.059 --> 00:29:08.059
 may well be.

00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:11.980
 Our spiritual pride

00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:13.420
 can keep us from God

00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:16.839
 even while we sit in church.

00:29:19.639 --> 00:29:20.839
 In case you hadn't noticed,

00:29:20.940 --> 00:29:21.619
 that's been something

00:29:21.619 --> 00:29:22.899
 I've had to wrestle with

00:29:22.899 --> 00:29:23.940
 all week.

00:29:24.779 --> 00:29:26.139
 Not to mention all life.

00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:28.720
 I've seen this week

00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:31.059
 enough spiritual pride in me

00:29:31.059 --> 00:29:33.000
 to keep me from God

00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:34.919
 for a long time.

00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:38.700
 Perhaps you have too.

00:29:40.619 --> 00:29:42.919
 And that's eternally serious,

00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:43.399
 isn't it?

00:29:43.919 --> 00:29:47.299
 Where do we go with that?

00:29:49.399 --> 00:29:50.899
 Well, to the cross.

00:29:52.399 --> 00:29:55.220
 Beautifully with our fellow sinners.

00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:55.339
 Church.

00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.299
 Kids, both the humble heart

00:29:59.299 --> 00:30:01.940
 and the proud heart

00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:03.920
 need Jesus.

00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:07.019
 That's hard to draw,

00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:09.500
 but they both need

00:30:09.500 --> 00:30:11.420
 the cross of Jesus.

00:30:11.860 --> 00:30:13.440
 The words of the tax collector,

00:30:13.539 --> 00:30:14.140
 I love this,

00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:15.660
 actually point us there.

00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:17.240
 When he says,

00:30:17.700 --> 00:30:19.519
 God be merciful to me,

00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:21.660
 the word for be merciful

00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:24.079
 is an uncommon word

00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:24.659
 in the Bible.

00:30:24.779 --> 00:30:25.500
 Only other place

00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:26.279
 in the New Testament

00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:28.019
 is Hebrews chapter 2.

00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:30.480
 Speaking of Jesus

00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:32.139
 as a sacrifice

00:30:32.139 --> 00:30:35.099
 to cover our sins.

00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:36.119
 Essentially,

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:37.199
 what all that means is

00:30:37.199 --> 00:30:38.359
 the tax collector

00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:39.059
 is saying,

00:30:39.659 --> 00:30:40.000
 God,

00:30:40.159 --> 00:30:42.399
 make some sacrifice

00:30:42.399 --> 00:30:43.619
 on behalf

00:30:43.619 --> 00:30:45.500
 of such a great sinner as me.

00:30:45.679 --> 00:30:46.899
 Could you do something

00:30:46.899 --> 00:30:48.859
 on my behalf?

00:30:51.339 --> 00:30:52.439
 And yes,

00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:53.319
 he's come for that.

00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:54.839
 The cross

00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:57.599
 destroys our pride

00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:58.859
 because we see

00:30:58.859 --> 00:31:00.819
 that the Son of God

00:31:00.819 --> 00:31:01.740
 had to die

00:31:01.740 --> 00:31:04.159
 to pay for my sin.

00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:05.480
 The external stuff

00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:07.819
 and the heart stuff.

00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:10.339
 What a wretched man I am

00:31:10.339 --> 00:31:11.139
 that the death

00:31:11.139 --> 00:31:12.319
 of God's Son

00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:13.240
 was required

00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:14.359
 to pay

00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:15.299
 my

00:31:15.299 --> 00:31:16.559
 penalty.

00:31:16.559 --> 00:31:19.259
 I see there

00:31:19.259 --> 00:31:19.779
 nothing

00:31:19.779 --> 00:31:21.119
 in my hands

00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:21.720
 I bring

00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:22.379
 simply

00:31:22.379 --> 00:31:23.940
 to the cross

00:31:23.940 --> 00:31:24.700
 I cling.

00:31:25.940 --> 00:31:26.940
 The same price

00:31:26.940 --> 00:31:28.059
 was paid for me

00:31:28.059 --> 00:31:28.919
 as was paid

00:31:28.919 --> 00:31:29.720
 for the worst

00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:30.679
 of my brothers

00:31:30.679 --> 00:31:31.399
 and sisters

00:31:31.399 --> 00:31:32.659
 I look down on.

00:31:33.339 --> 00:31:34.440
 I'm no better.

00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.980
 And

00:31:37.980 --> 00:31:40.180
 if I will

00:31:40.180 --> 00:31:41.180
 but cry

00:31:41.180 --> 00:31:42.500
 for mercy

00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:43.960
 my Savior

00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:45.320
 forgives

00:31:45.320 --> 00:31:46.220
 big

00:31:46.220 --> 00:31:47.120
 sinners

00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:48.000
 even

00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:48.820
 big

00:31:48.820 --> 00:31:49.320
 sinners

00:31:49.320 --> 00:31:50.080
 who have been

00:31:50.080 --> 00:31:50.779
 blind

00:31:50.779 --> 00:31:51.680
 to it

00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:53.120
 for years

00:31:53.120 --> 00:31:53.940
 in their

00:31:53.940 --> 00:31:54.720
 spiritual

00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:55.580
 pride

00:31:55.580 --> 00:31:56.120
 even

00:31:56.120 --> 00:31:56.960
 those

00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:57.640
 sinners

00:31:57.640 --> 00:31:58.400
 Jesus

00:31:58.400 --> 00:31:59.720
 comes to

00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:00.259
 call

00:32:00.259 --> 00:32:01.220
 home.

00:32:01.220 --> 00:32:03.819
 His death

00:32:03.819 --> 00:32:04.400
 pays

00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:05.319
 for my

00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:06.240
 pride

00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:07.480
 too.

00:32:08.140 --> 00:32:08.519
 Will you

00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:09.240
 join me

00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:10.920
 in humbling

00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:11.559
 yourself

00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:12.400
 before Him

00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:13.019
 this morning

00:32:13.019 --> 00:32:14.259
 that He

00:32:14.259 --> 00:32:14.880
 in His

00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:15.819
 glorious

00:32:15.819 --> 00:32:16.960
 infinite

00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:18.100
 grace

00:32:18.100 --> 00:32:19.380
 may lift

00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:19.980
 us up.

00:32:20.900 --> 00:32:21.360
 Let's pray.

00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:30.960
 Holy Spirit

00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:31.360
 if there's

00:32:31.360 --> 00:32:31.779
 anything

00:32:31.779 --> 00:32:32.220
 I don't

00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:32.500
 know how

00:32:32.500 --> 00:32:32.779
 to do

00:32:32.779 --> 00:32:33.500
 for myself

00:32:33.500 --> 00:32:33.980
 it's

00:32:33.980 --> 00:32:34.660
 humble

00:32:34.660 --> 00:32:35.180
 myself.

00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:37.759
 I need

00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:38.180
 You to

00:32:38.180 --> 00:32:38.740
 do that

00:32:38.740 --> 00:32:39.840
 in my

00:32:39.840 --> 00:32:40.240
 heart

00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:42.799
 in our

00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:43.299
 hearts.

00:32:47.380 --> 00:32:48.039
 We need

00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:48.440
 to see

00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:48.960
 how much

00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:49.640
 we need

00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:50.220
 Jesus

00:32:50.220 --> 00:32:50.980
 again.

00:32:53.299 --> 00:32:54.019
 Some of us

00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:54.340
 have never

00:32:54.340 --> 00:32:54.799
 seen it.

00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:55.259
 Some of us

00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:55.600
 have just

00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:56.480
 forgotten.

00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:57.059
 Some of us

00:32:57.059 --> 00:32:57.920
 quite honestly

00:32:57.920 --> 00:32:58.720
 just like the

00:32:58.720 --> 00:32:59.559
 feeling better

00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:00.519
 of being

00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:01.139
 good enough

00:33:01.139 --> 00:33:01.639
 on our

00:33:01.639 --> 00:33:01.960
 own.

00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:06.839
 Would You

00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:07.379
 bring us

00:33:07.379 --> 00:33:08.700
 before You

00:33:08.700 --> 00:33:09.879
 humble

00:33:09.879 --> 00:33:12.159
 and hopeful

00:33:12.159 --> 00:33:14.240
 because of

00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:14.500
 how You

00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:14.940
 treat

00:33:14.940 --> 00:33:15.919
 the humble.

00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:17.899
 Oh, You

00:33:17.899 --> 00:33:18.460
 oppose the

00:33:18.460 --> 00:33:19.039
 proud but You

00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:20.000
 give grace

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:21.419
 to the

00:33:21.419 --> 00:33:21.879
 humble and

00:33:21.879 --> 00:33:22.179
 that's what

00:33:22.179 --> 00:33:22.619
 we need.

00:33:23.579 --> 00:33:24.220
 So we ask

00:33:24.220 --> 00:33:24.679
 You for it

00:33:24.679 --> 00:33:25.059
 in Jesus'

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:25.419
 name.

00:33:25.420 --> 00:33:26.600
 Amen.

00:33:28.800 --> 00:33:29.620
 The song we

00:33:29.620 --> 00:33:30.200
 sang earlier

00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:30.480
 we're going

00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:30.779
 to sing

00:33:30.779 --> 00:33:31.240
 part of

00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:31.680
 again.

00:33:32.420 --> 00:33:32.620
 It was

00:33:32.620 --> 00:33:33.620
 written many,

00:33:33.779 --> 00:33:34.279
 many years

00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:35.039
 ago by a

00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:35.539
 guy named

00:33:35.539 --> 00:33:36.120
 Augustus

00:33:36.120 --> 00:33:36.740
 Toplady.

00:33:37.860 --> 00:33:38.460
 I'm telling

00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:38.940
 you about it

00:33:38.940 --> 00:33:39.480
 for this one

00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:39.800
 reason.

00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:40.300
 It's called

00:33:40.300 --> 00:33:41.120
 Rock of Ages.

00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:42.860
 He had a

00:33:42.860 --> 00:33:43.759
 subtitle for

00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:43.940
 it.

00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:44.620
 It's really

00:33:44.620 --> 00:33:45.480
 strange.

00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:46.240
 It's called

00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:47.460
 The Prayer

00:33:47.460 --> 00:33:48.380
 of the Most

00:33:48.380 --> 00:33:49.300
 Sanctified

00:33:49.300 --> 00:33:50.080
 Man Who

00:33:50.080 --> 00:33:50.340
 Ever

00:33:50.340 --> 00:33:50.840
 Lived.

00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.240
 In other

00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:53.859
 words, the

00:33:53.859 --> 00:33:55.439
 furthest you

00:33:55.439 --> 00:33:55.819
 could ever

00:33:55.819 --> 00:33:56.599
 get, the

00:33:56.599 --> 00:33:57.319
 closest to

00:33:57.319 --> 00:33:58.459
 Jesus, and

00:33:58.459 --> 00:33:58.819
 what do you

00:33:58.819 --> 00:33:59.599
 cry out?

00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:00.939
 I got

00:34:00.939 --> 00:34:01.299
 nothing.

00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:03.559
 Nothing but

00:34:03.559 --> 00:34:04.139
 the cross.

00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:06.539
 Let's stand

00:34:06.539 --> 00:34:07.480
 together and

00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:08.039
 make this

00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:08.880
 profession

00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:09.579
 something we

00:34:09.579 --> 00:34:10.380
 pray God would

00:34:10.380 --> 00:34:11.000
 make true in

00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:11.719
 our hearts as

00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:12.099
 we sing.

00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:15.699
 For more

00:34:15.699 --> 00:34:16.219
 information,

00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:17.019
 visit us

00:34:17.019 --> 00:34:17.940
 online at

00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:18.819
 southwood.org.

00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:22.840
 For more

00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:23.840
 than

00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:24.840
 other

00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:25.840
 things,

00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:26.840
 we

00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:27.840
 can't

00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:28.840
 see you

00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:29.840
 as

00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:30.840
 as

00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:31.840
 as

00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:32.840
 as

00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:33.840
 as

00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:34.840
 as

00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:35.840
 as

00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:36.840
 as

00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:37.840
 as

00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:38.840
 as

00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:39.840
 as

00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:40.840
 as

00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:41.840
 as

00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:42.840
 as

00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:43.840
 as

00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:44.840
 as

00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:45.840
 as

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 as

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 as

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 as

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 as