The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
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🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
One of my favorite stories is the parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector. Through this story, Jesus makes it abundantly clear how we’re to come before God. May we today begin a fresh revival of humility in the church as we humble ourselves before God in prayer and honest worship. I want to encourage you to be open and vulnerable as you approach the Lord today.
Our Scripture for today comes from Luke 18:10-14, and today's worship is No One Beside by Elevation Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite stories is the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. |
| 0:10.2 | Through this story, Jesus makes it abundantly clear how we're to come before God. |
| 0:15.3 | May we today begin a fresh revival of humility in the church as we humble ourselves before |
| 0:21.2 | God today in prayer and honest worship. |
| 0:24.6 | I want to encourage you to be open and vulnerable as you approach the Lord today. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome to the 1st of teen podcast. |
| 0:35.8 | Our verse for today comes from Luke 18 verse 14, where Jesus says, |
| 0:49.6 | For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will |
| 0:56.5 | be exalted. |
| 1:00.1 | The ministry of Jesus was one of life-giving transformation. |
| 1:04.7 | His life, death and resurrection ushered in a completely new way of relating to God, |
| 1:11.4 | the way of grace. |
| 1:14.2 | One of the best examples of Jesus shifting paradigms comes in his parable of the Pharisee |
| 1:20.4 | and the tax collector. |
| 1:22.6 | Luke 18, 10-14, says, |
| 1:25.7 | Two men went up into the temple to pray. |
| 1:29.0 | One a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. |
| 1:32.8 | The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus, |
| 1:36.8 | God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even |
| 1:44.6 | like this tax collector. |
| 1:47.3 | I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get, but the tax collector, standing |
| 1:54.2 | far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, |
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