All right, let's go together to Luke chapter 18, verse number nine, beginning at verse number 14.

This series is the most difficult series I have taught in a very long time.

It is probably the second most difficult to any series I do on money.

It is so difficult for me to put this together and the way I'm wrestling over my words

and I want to challenge you without condemning you and I want to.

So I need you really praying for your pastor during this series and I need my ameners backing the bishop up during these sermons because it's not typical church content

and I want to expose some things we may need to move away from without insulting the foundation that got us all started in the faith.

So that's the tension that I'm really honestly struggling with here.

And I don't know, I go home each week, not feeling great about how it's going.

But I promise you, I'll give you the best I got.

I'm just trying to be obedient to what God is instructing me to teach so so Luke 18

verse 9 says to some who are confident of their own righteousness and look down on

everyone else Jesus told this parable two men went up to the temple to pray one a

Pharisee and the other tax collector the Pharisee stood by himself and prayed God? I thank you then I'm not like other people

robbers evil doers adulterers even like this even like this tax collector

I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get. But the tax collector stood at a distance. He wouldn't even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said,

God, have mercy on me. A a sinner I tell you that this man rather

than the other one went home justified before God for all those who

exalt themselves will be humbled and those who humbled themselves will be

exalted I want to stop the reading of scripture there.

We're going to talk from this subject in our time together.

One word is the topic of this teaching.

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