Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller. Right now we're learning how to follow Jesus

by working our way through the Gospel of Luke. What keeps people from Jesus? What

keeps them from embracing the Gospel of King Jesus from Christianity?

Well there are a lot of different answers to that question but I think we're going to see

one answer today that might surprise you.

We're going to be looking at a parable in Luke Chapter 18.

It's the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector.

And in that parable, we're going to be challenged

by what keeps people from Jesus.

See, I think one of the things we'd say

that keeps people from embracing the gospel is their

sin, that they love their sin and that keeps them from God.

And to a certain extent that's true, There are people who that would accurately describe.

But I think what we're going to be surprised with is that there are a lot of people,

maybe even more people than we'd suspect who what keeps them from Jesus isn't their

badness but their goodness. It's their own goodness, their own righteousness that keeps them from Jesus.

See, it turns out that if you're not sick or if you don't think you're sick,

if you won't admit you're sick, you won't go see a doctor.

It turns out that if you won't admit

that you have a drinking problem,

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