Beloved sinful people don't rush into the presence of the holy.

They flee from the presence of the holy.

It's vital that we understand how unholy people can be reconciled to a holy God.

Because if we get that wrong, it's the difference between eternal life and eternal death.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us for this Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

Today we return to another parable of Jesus as our C-Sproul continues through the Gospel of Luke.

However, he qualifies this sermon by saying that perhaps it's the most important message he ever preached at St. Andrew's Chapel

because eternal destinies are on the line.

Here's Dr. Sproul.

This morning we're going to continue our study of the Gospel according to St. Luke, and we're in the 18th chapter,

and I will be reading from verse 9 through verse 17.

I would ask the congregation, please, to stand for the reading of the Word of God.

Also, he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others.

Two men went up to the temple to pray.

One of Pharisee, the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus within himself,

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

I fast twice a week.

I give tithes of all that I possess.

And the tax collector standing afar off would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven,

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

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

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