everybody what is going on you know what time it is you're listening to join the journey podcast

with your host emma daughter thanks for joining i am in the podcast studio or i should say i am back

in the podcast studio with today's divo writer mr jonathan landon and glad to be here. Jonathan, you have been here before.

Hebrews 8 will link that episode in the description, but we didn't get to hear your story.

Right.

So would you share with us?

How did you come to know the Lord?

And then fast forward what's going on in your life today?

Absolutely.

So the place I like to start is Luke 189.

It's a parable that Jesus tells to some people that were around him at the time. And he said that he told this parable to those who trusted them themselves that they were righteous and they treated others with contempt. And that was my life grown up. That was my life grown up in the church even, hearing the gospel, hearing things about

Jesus, who he was, reading things in the Bible. But my life was dominated by thinking that God

loved me because I did good things for him. My life was dominated by not wanting to be around people

who I deemed as the true sinners.

In that parable that Jesus tells, he tells this story of a Pharisee and a tax collector

who both go up to the temple to pray.

And the Pharisee says, Lord, thank you that I'm not like other men.

I'm not like this tax collector.

I'm not like this adultererter.

I'm not like this thief. And that was me. I was that Pharisee of saying, Lord, thank you. I'm not like this adulter. I'm not like this thief. And that was me.

I was that Pharisee of saying, Lord, thank you, that I'm not like these other people. And so

then it took years of me living in that. And then ultimately, when I got to college, ended up getting an

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