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>> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE
THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
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ILLUMINATED A WORLD VEILED
IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION ABOUT
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THE CHARACTER OF GOD AND
STILL TODAY THE GREATEST NEED
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OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION
OF GOD'S LOVE AS REVEALED
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IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
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AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS
"THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL"
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WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK
FROM SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH
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IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA,
DISCOVER HIDDEN TREASURES
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IN GOD'S WORD TODAY.
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>> I'D LIKE TO DISCUSS
A PARABLE WITH YOU FROM
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THE WORD OF GOD TODAY
THAT IS FAMILIAR TO MOST.
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IT ONLY APPEARS
ONE TIME IN THE BIBLE.
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IT'S IN THE BOOK OF LUKE 18.
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NOW THE SERMON TODAY IS
DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF AM I
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A PHARISEE OR A PUBLICAN?
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AND YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW
WHAT CHAPTER WE'RE GOING TO.
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LUKE 18:9.
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LUKE 18:9.
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YOU DON'T FIND
IT IN MARK OR JOHN.
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YOU THOUGHT YOU MIGHT FIND THIS
IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW BECAUSE
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MATTHEW IS A FORMER PUBLICAN,
BUT FOR WHATEVER REASON MATTHEW
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DIDN'T PUT IT DOWN.
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BUT LUKE RECORDED
THIS UNIQUE PARABLE.
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LUKE 18:9.
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I'M GONNA READ IT THROUGH.
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I MIGHT REFER BACK TO IT
A FEW TIMES ALONG THE WAY.
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"AND HE SPOKE THIS PARABLE TO
SOME WHO TRUSTED IN THEMSELVES
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THAT THEY WERE
RIGHTEOUS AND DESPISED OTHERS.
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TWO MEN WENT UP TO THE
TEMPLE TO PRAY, ONE A PHARISEE,
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THE OTHER A TAX COLLECTOR.
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THE PHARISEE STOOD AND HE
PRAYED THUS WITH HIMSELF, 'GOD,
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I THANK YOU THAT I AM NOT
LIKE OTHER MEN, EXTORTIONERS,
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UNJUST, ADULTERERS, OR
EVEN AS THIS TAX COLLECTOR.
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I FAST TWICE A WEEK.
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I GIVE TITHES OF
ALL THAT I POSSESS.'
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AND THE TAX
COLLECTOR, STANDING AFAR OFF,
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WOULD NOT SO MUCH AS RAISE HIS
EYES TO HEAVEN, BUT HE BEAT HIS
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BREAST, SAYING, 'GOD, BE
MERCIFUL TO ME, A SINNER.'"
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AND JESUS SUMMARIZES
THE PARABLE BY SAYING
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IN VERSE 14, " I TELL
YOU THIS MAN," THE PUBLICAN,
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"WENT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE
JUSTIFIED RATHER THAN THE
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OTHER, FOR EVERYONE WHO
EXALTS HIMSELF WILL BE ABASED
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AND HE WHO HUMBLES
HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED."
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NOW YOU'RE PROBABLY THINKING,
"PASTOR DOUG, WE'VE READ THIS
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PARABLE BEFORE AND
SHOULDN'T TAKE US LONG TO GET
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THROUGH THIS.
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SEEMS LIKE THE
LESSONS ARE OBVIOUS.
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IT TELLS US WHO HE SPOKE IT
TO AND HE SUMMARIZES WHAT THE
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MORAL IS AT THE END, SO WE
CAN NOD REVERENTLY AND CLOSE OUR
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BIBLES NOW AND SAY,
'THAT WAS A GOOD STORY.'"
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BUT THERE'S REALLY A LOT
MORE HERE THAN YOU MIGHT SUSPECT
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BECAUSE IN THIS
PARABLE YOU'VE GOT TWO GROUPS
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ARE REPRESENTED.
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ONE IS SAVED, ONE IS LOST.
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WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE WE
FIT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE
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IN THIS STORY
GOT THINGS BACKWARDS.
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THE PUBLICANS WERE THE MOST
RELIGIOUS OF THE BELIEVERS IN
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GOD BACK IN THE TIME OF CHRIST.
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AND SO WHEN JESUS TOLD
THIS STORY, IT WAS CONSIDERED AN
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OUTRAGEOUS ILLUSTRATION
THAT WAS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT
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BY ANY MEANS TO SAY THAT
THE PUBLICAN WOULD BE SAVED
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AND THE PHARISEE WOULD BE LOST.
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NOW I, LIKE SOME, HAVE READ
THIS STORY BEFORE AND THOUGHT,
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"WELL, THE TRUTH IS JUST
RIGHT THERE ON THE SURFACE.
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I'M GONNA APPRECIATE
THAT AND MOVE RIGHT ALONG."
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AND THEN IT OCCURRED
TO ME ONE DAY, "WELL DOUG,
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DON'T GO SO FAST.
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YOU MIGHT BE IN THAT
STORY SOMEWHERE AND IT MIGHT NOT
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BE WHERE YOU THINK."
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THIS PARABLE IS PRINCIPALLY
SPEAKING TO THOSE THAT ARE IN
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THE CHURCH BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE
QUICKLY THEY BOTH GO TO CHURCH.
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NOW THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS THAT
THEY HAVE IN COMMON THAT WE CAN
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APPRECIATE, BUT SOMEONE
GOT SOMETHING BACKWARDS.
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I HEARD ONE TIME ABOUT A
TEENAGE BOY THAT GOT A NEW
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SURFBOARD FOR HIS BIRTHDAY AND
THEY GOT A NEW WETSUIT AND HE
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DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT SURFING,
BUT HE TOOK IT TO THE BEACH
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FIRST CHANCE HE COULD GET.
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HAPPENED TO BE A DAY WHERE
THE SURF WAS OUT REALLY HIGH.
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THEY HAD A LIFEGUARD THERE WITH
HIS MEGAPHONE AND SOME FLAGS
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WERE UP BECAUSE ONLY
EXPERIENCED SURFERS WERE OUT.
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WELL, HE GRABBED HIS BOARD,
DIDN'T EVEN SEE THE WARNING
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FLAGS, AND HE WENT
CHARGING OFF INTO THE SURF.
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AND HE HEARD CALLING
OVER HIS SHOULDER, "YOU ARE AN
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UNEXPERIENCED SURFER.
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GET OUT OF THE WATER."
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AND HE JUST FROZE.
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HE WAS MORTIFIED.
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HE TURNED AROUND AND CAME WITH
HIS TAIL BETWEEN HIS LEGS UP OUT
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OF THE WATER AND HE WALKED OVER
TO THE LIFEGUARD AND SAID, "HOW
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DID YOU KNOW
THAT I WAS A NOVICE?"
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HE SAID, "WELL, FOR STARTERS,
YOUR WETSUIT'S ON BACKWARDS."
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[LAUGHING] >> AND
HE WAS THE LAST ONE
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TO KNOW IT.
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AND THE DANGER WITH ARROGANCE
IS--HAVE YOU EVER TRIED
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TO TELL AN ARROGANT
PERSON THEY'RE ARROGANT?
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THEY JUST CAN'T SEE IT.
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AND THE REASON THEY CAN'T SEE
IT IS 'CAUSE THEY'RE ARROGANT.
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AND SO I WANT YOU TO PRAY
FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE SOME
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OF YOU THINK YOU'RE PUBLICANS
AND YOU MIGHT BE PHARISEES.
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SOME OF YOU MIGHT THINK
YOU'RE PHARISEES AND YOU'RE
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REALLY PUBLICANS.
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AND SOME OF US PROBABLY MODEL
A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH OF THESE
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BEHAVIORS, BUT IT'S VERY
IMPORTANT FOR US TO STUDY
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THIS BECAUSE ONE
IS SAVED, ONE IS LOST.
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WE WANT TO MAKE
SURE WE'RE THE RIGHT ONE.
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SO LET'S FIRST TALK ABOUT
THE THINGS THEY HAD IN COMMON.
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THERE WERE SOME GOOD
THINGS AND WE MAY REFER BACK TO
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THE STORY A COUPLE OF TIMES.
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FIRST OF ALL, THEY
BOTH BELIEVED IN GOD.
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THAT'S GOOD.
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IT'S SORT OF OBVIOUS THAT IF
YOU WANT TO BE IN THE KINGDOM,
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YOU NEED TO START
WITH DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD.
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MOSES IN THAT GREAT DECLARATION
IN DEUTERONOMY 6:4 SAID, "HEAR,
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O ISRAEL, THE
LORD OUR GOD IS ONE.
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THE LORD IS GOD.
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THERE IS ONE LORD."
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JAMES 2:19 REMINDS US,
"YOU BELIEVE THERE IS ONE GOD.
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YOU DO WELL."
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IT'S GOOD.
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STARTING POINT.
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BUT KEEP IN MIND THE
DEVILS ALSO BELIEVE THAT.
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SO JUST BECAUSE YOU GO TO
CHURCH AND BELIEVE THERE'S
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A GOD DOESN'T MEAN
THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT.
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I'VE TALKED TO PEOPLE ABOUT
THEIR SALVATION BEFORE AND THEY
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SAY, "OH, DON'T BOTHER ME.
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I BELIEVE IN GOD.
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AND THEY THINK
THAT'S ALL THERE IS.
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WELL, YOU MUST DO
THAT, BUT THAT'S NOT ALL.
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YES, WE MUST BELIEVE IN GOD.
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PSALM 14:1.
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IT'S THE FOOL WHO SAID IN
HIS HEART, "THERE IS NO GOD."
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THERE'S AN ABUNDANCE
OF EVIDENCE FOR THAT.
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ISAIAH 44:6,
"BESIDE ME THERE IS NO GOD."
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WE KNOW THAT GOD IS A NECESSARY
COMPONENT IN SALVATION,
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BELIEF IN HIM.
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WE ALSO READ ON AND FIND
OUT THEY DID SOMETHING ELSE
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THAT WAS GOOD.
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THEY BOTH WENT TO CHURCH.
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WELL, THAT'S A
GOOD STARTING POINT.
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WE NEED TO GO TO CHURCH.
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I'VE OFTEN SAID IF YOU DON'T
HAVE ENOUGH FAITH TO GET YOU
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TO CHURCH ONCE A WEEK,
YOU PROBABLY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
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TO GET YOU TO HEAVEN.
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AND WHILE I'M ON THIS POINT,
SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY, "WELL,
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I'M NOT GOING TO CHURCH
BECAUSE THERE'S HYPOCRITES
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OR PUBLICANS THERE."
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WELL, THAT SHOULDN'T KEEP YOU.
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THERE'S ALWAYS
ROOM FOR ONE MORE.
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DON'T STAY AWAY FROM CHURCH
BECAUSE SOMEBODY AT THE CHURCH
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HAS HURT YOUR FEELINGS.
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YOU'RE NOT GOING
BECAUSE OF PEOPLE.
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YOU'RE GOING BECAUSE OF GOD.
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AND I DON'T WANT TO
RUSH PAST THIS POINT.
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I RUN INTO PEOPLE ALL THE
TIME AND THEY SAY, "YES, I STILL
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BELIEVE THE MESSAGE, BUT
I DON'T GO TO CHURCH ANYMORE
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BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
THEY'RE HYPOCRITES."
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OR IT'S BORING.
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A LOT OF THE TEENAGERS IN OUR
MEETINGS LAST WEEK, THEY SAID,
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"WELL, IT'S SO BORING."
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WELL, DO WE GO TO CHURCH TO BE
ENTERTAINED OR TO WORSHIP GOD?
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AND IF YOUR WORSHIP OF
GOD IS NOT INTERESTING,
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IT ISN'T GOD'S FAULT.
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YOU MIGHT LOOK AT YOURSELF.
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ANOTHER THING ABOUT GOING TO
CHURCH, AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE
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THIS DOESN'T TRANSITION INTO A
SERMON ABOUT WHY YOU NEED TO GO
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TO CHURCH, BUT A GOOD PREACHER
CAN'T MISS THIS COMMERCIAL
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OPPORTUNITY, IN SPITE OF THE
PROBLEMS IN THE CHURCH IN THE
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DAYS OF JESUS, IN THE
DAYS OF JESUS THEY HAD A LOT OF
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PHARISEES IN THE CHURCH.
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THERE WERE A LOT OF
HYPOCRITES IN THE CHURCH.
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INDEED, THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
GOING TO CONDEMN THE SON OF GOD
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TO DEATH WENT TO CHURCH.
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JESUS NEVER FAILED TO BE
SEEN IN THE TEMPLE, IN THE
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SYNAGOGUE.
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HE WAS IN CHURCH.
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HE PRAYED IN CHURCH.
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HE TAUGHT IN CHURCH.
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HE WORSHIPED IN CHURCH.
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AND CHRIST IS AN EXAMPLE FOR US.
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SO WHATEVER EXCUSE YOU MIGHT
COME UP WITH FOR NOT GOING TO
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CHURCH, YOU WANT TO FOLLOW
CHRIST, YOU NEED TO AT LEAST AS
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A BARE MINIMUM DO WHAT THE
PUBLICAN AND THE PHARISEE DID.
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THEY DID GO TO CHURCH.
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SOMETHING ELSE WE
NOTICE THEY HAD IN COMMON.
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THEY PRAYED.
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BELIEVED IN GOD, THEY WENT
TO CHURCH, AND THEY BOTH PRAYED.
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MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU READ IN
LUKE 18, THE BEGINNING OF THIS
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SAME CHAPTER, JESUS SAYS--HE
TOLD THE PARABLE, SAYING THAT
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MEN ALWAYS OUGHT TO
PRAY AND NOT LOSE HEART.
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ALWAYS OUGHT TO PRAY.
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SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO COME
TO CHURCH, IMPORTANT TO PRAY.
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BY THE WAY, THE PHARISEE WENT
TO CHURCH BECAUSE SOLOMON HAD
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SAID THAT THEY WERE TO COME
AND TO PRAY TOWARDS THIS PLACE.
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THE PUBLICAN WENT TO CHURCH
BECAUSE IT WAS TO BE CALLED A
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HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE.
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AND THEY BOTH
WENT AND THEY PRAYED.
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NOW THE PHARISEE, HE WENT UP TO
THE FRONT AND THAT--BY THE WAY,
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YOU COULD COME TO THE JEWISH
CHURCH OR TEMPLE OR SYNAGOGUE.
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IT WASN'T OPEN ONCE A WEEK.
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THEY HAD SPECIAL SERVICES
ON THE SABBATH, BUT THEY COULD
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COME THROUGH THE WEEK AND PRAY.
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JESUS TAUGHT
DAILY IN THE TEMPLE.
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I REMEMBER GOING, VISITING SOME
CHURCHES IN ITALY YEARS AGO.
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I WAS KIND OF AN AGNOSTIC
BACK THEN AND I WAS WITH A TOUR
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GROUP AND WE WENT TO SEE THE
BEAUTIFUL STAINED GLASS IN THIS
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ONE CHURCH AND THERE WAS A SIGN
ON THE DOOR THAT SAID THAT, YOU
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KNOW, THEY WERE
ONLY OPEN ONCE A WEEK.
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AND OUR TOUR GUIDE--THIS
WAS A NEW CHANGE AND HE WAS KIND
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OF MIFFED.
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HE SAYS, "I GUESS
GOD IS NOT AVAILABLE."
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HE WAS VERY SARCASTIC ABOUT IT.
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AND I NEVER FORGOT THAT,
BUT REALLY IT WAS TO BE A PLACE
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WHERE THE DOORS WERE OPEN.
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YOU'VE PROBABLY BEEN IN CITIES
LIKE THIS, WHERE ALL WEEK LONG
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THEY KEEP THE DOORS OF
THE CHURCH OPEN AND PEOPLE
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CAN COME IN.
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ANY TIME YOU COULD GO IN
THERE AND FIND PEOPLE PRAYING.
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IT WAS LIKE THAT IN THE
SYNAGOGUES BACK IN THE TIME
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OF CHRIST.
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SO SOMETIME DURING THE MIDDLE
OF THE WEEK, THEY WANDERED
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INTO CHURCH DURING THE
TIME OF PRAYER AND THERE'S ONLY
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TWO OF 'EM THERE THAT DAY.
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SO THEY BOTH PRAYED.
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NOW I OUGHT TO TAKE A
MOMENT AND EXPLAIN SOME OF THE
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DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN
THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS.
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YOU GOT THE PHARISEE
AND YOU'VE GOT A PUBLICAN.
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START WITH THE PHARISEE.
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WHO WERE THE PHARISEES?
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THE WORD PHARISEE, AS NEAR
AS WE CAN TELL, IT COMES FROM
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THE WORD IN HEBREW
MEANING THE SEPARATED ONES.
00:11:34.00\00:11:38.40
NOW, EVEN THOUGH IN THE STORY
IT SEEMS LIKE THE PHARISEE'S THE
00:11:38.40\00:11:40.83
MOST ARROGANT MAN IN THE
WORLD, THAT WAS NOT TYPICAL
00:11:40.83\00:11:44.26
OF ALL OF THEM.
00:11:44.26\00:11:46.03
THE PHARISEES WERE A
CONSERVATIVE ELEMENT OF
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BELIEVERS THAT WERE VERY
ZEALOUS ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES,
00:11:50.13\00:11:55.20
THE LAW OF GOD, AND THE PURITY
OF THE WORSHIP OF JEHOVAH.
00:11:55.20\00:11:59.23
AND PART OF THE REASON FOR
THAT IS BACK IN THE TIMES BEFORE
00:11:59.23\00:12:02.60
JESUS, WHEN THE JEWISH
NATION HAD BEEN CONQUERED BY THE
00:12:02.60\00:12:05.70
BABYLONIANS, ONE OF THE
THINGS THEY HAD BEEN TOLD BY THE
00:12:05.70\00:12:08.63
PROPHETS IS YOU WERE
OVERCOME BECAUSE OF YOUR
00:12:08.63\00:12:10.76
UNFAITHFULNESS TO GOD.
00:12:10.76\00:12:12.50
SO WHEN THEY CAME BACK FROM
THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY IN THE
00:12:12.50\00:12:15.43
TIME OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH,
THIS SECT DEVELOPED BECAUSE THE
00:12:15.43\00:12:19.83
PERSIAN INFLUENCE WAS
COMING IN AND THEN THE GREEK
00:12:19.83\00:12:22.23
INFLUENCE WAS COMING IN.
00:12:22.23\00:12:23.36
THEN THE ROMAN
INFLUENCE WAS COMING IN.
00:12:23.36\00:12:25.40
AND THEY SAID, "WE ARE NEVER
GOING TO ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE
00:12:25.40\00:12:28.33
INFLUENCED BY
THE PAGANS AROUND US.
00:12:28.33\00:12:30.76
WE'VE GOT TOO MUCH HISTORY
IN THE BIBLE OF WHAT HAPPENS
00:12:30.76\00:12:33.26
WHEN WE GET INTO IDOLATRY.
00:12:33.26\00:12:34.76
GOD WITHDRAWS HIS PROTECTION."
00:12:34.76\00:12:36.66
SO THERE WAS THIS GROUP WHO
FOLLOWED THE THINKING OF EZRA
00:12:36.66\00:12:41.20
AND NEHEMIAH, THAT WERE
VERY ZEALOUS FOR LOYALTY TO GOD.
00:12:41.20\00:12:45.53
AND IT WAS A GOOD THING.
00:12:45.53\00:12:46.80
THEY WERE A GOOD PEOPLE.
00:12:46.80\00:12:48.90
NOW YOU COULD BE A
SCRIBE AND BE A PHARISEE.
00:12:48.90\00:12:52.13
YOU COULD BE A
PRIEST AND BE A PHARISEE.
00:12:52.13\00:12:54.63
OF COURSE, MANY OF THE
PRIESTS IN THE TIME OF CHRIST
00:12:54.63\00:12:56.50
WERE SADDUCEES.
00:12:56.50\00:12:58.00
SORT OF LOT OF
NEPOTISM IN IT BACK THEN.
00:12:58.00\00:13:00.40
YOU COULD BE A LAWYER.
00:13:00.40\00:13:01.53
YOU KNOW, CHRIST TALKS
ABOUT THE SCRIBES, THE LAWYERS,
00:13:01.53\00:13:03.43
THE PHARISEES.
00:13:03.43\00:13:04.76
YOU COULD BE A LAWYER
AND STILL BE A PHARISEE.
00:13:04.76\00:13:07.36
IT'S LIKE YOU CAN BE A
LAWYER AND BE A DEMOCRAT.
00:13:07.36\00:13:09.20
YOU CAN BE A LAWYER
AND BE A REPUBLICAN.
00:13:09.20\00:13:10.93
SO THE PHARISEE WAS A
MIND-SET OF THINKING THAT WAS AN
00:13:10.93\00:13:13.53
UMBRELLA OF THIS CONSERVATIVE,
SPIRITUAL, ZEALOUS GROUP.
00:13:13.53\00:13:20.03
AND THEY EVEN HAD A FEW
FRACTIONS OF THE PHARISEES.
00:13:20.03\00:13:22.43
ONE WERE THE ESSENES.
00:13:22.43\00:13:24.30
HAVE YOU HEARD
ABOUT THE ESSENES?
00:13:24.30\00:13:26.30
THEY WERE THE ONES WHO
WROTE WHAT WE DISCOVERED 1948
00:13:26.30\00:13:28.73
AS THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS.
00:13:28.73\00:13:30.60
THEY WERE THE VERY
DEVOUT GROUP OF PHARISEES.
00:13:30.60\00:13:35.43
SOME OF THE PHARISEES WOULD
TRY TO INFLUENCE THE ROMANS.
00:13:35.43\00:13:39.10
THE ESSENES SAID THEY'RE
HOPELESS AND THEY JUST KIND OF
00:13:39.10\00:13:41.13
WENT OFF BY THEMSELVES AND
THEY GOT ALL OUT OF POLITICS.
00:13:41.13\00:13:44.63
THE PHARISEES DID
INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN POLITICS
00:13:44.63\00:13:47.60
A LITTLE BIT.
00:13:47.60\00:13:49.03
PART OF THE SANHEDRIN,
GREAT POLITICAL BODY IN ISRAEL,
00:13:49.03\00:13:52.53
WERE PHARISEES.
00:13:52.53\00:13:54.30
NOW THEY WERE VERY DEVOTED AND
RIGOROUS IN THEIR PRAYERS, VERY
00:13:54.30\00:14:01.06
RIGOROUS IN THEIR WASHINGS.
00:14:01.06\00:14:02.73
THEY CONDEMNED JESUS ONCE
BECAUSE THE DISCIPLES DID NOT
00:14:02.73\00:14:05.50
GO THROUGH THE CEREMONIAL
HAND WASHING AND CHRIST SAID,
00:14:05.50\00:14:08.06
"IT'S NOT WHAT GOES IN
YOUR MOUTH THAT DEFILES YOU,
00:14:08.06\00:14:10.23
BUT WHAT COMES OUT."
00:14:10.23\00:14:11.60
AND JESUS SAID, "YOU ARE
SO ZEALOUS ABOUT CLEANING THE
00:14:11.60\00:14:14.93
OUTSIDE OF THE CUP, PHARISEES,
BUT YOU'RE NOT CLEANING
00:14:14.93\00:14:17.06
THE INSIDE OF THE CUP."
00:14:17.06\00:14:18.10
HE WASN'T CONDEMNING THEM
FOR BEING FASTIDIOUS AND CLEAN.
00:14:18.10\00:14:21.90
HE SAID, "MAKE SURE
YOU CLEAN THE RIGHT PART."
00:14:21.90\00:14:24.96
AND IT WAS THE
PHARISEES--REMEMBER, HE WENT TO
00:14:24.96\00:14:27.63
THE HOUSE OF SIMON, WHO HAD
BEEN A LEPER THAT WAS HEALED.
00:14:27.63\00:14:30.70
HE WAS A PHARISEE.
00:14:30.70\00:14:32.23
BUT HE WAS LOOKING DOWN AT MARY.
00:14:32.23\00:14:34.43
IF THIS MAN WAS A PROPHET, HE
WOULDN'T LET THIS UNCLEAN WOMAN
00:14:34.43\00:14:37.13
WITH THIS SORDID
REPUTATION TOUCH HIM.
00:14:37.13\00:14:40.13
THAT WAS THE PHARISEE MIND-SET.
00:14:40.13\00:14:41.46
DON'T LET THE
SAMARITANS TOUCH YOU.
00:14:41.46\00:14:43.70
DON'T LET THE SHADOW
OF A SAMARITAN GET ON YOU.
00:14:43.70\00:14:47.13
AND SO THEY WERE SEPARATING
THEMSELVES FROM ANYTHING
00:14:47.13\00:14:50.40
THAT COULD DEFILE
THEM AND MAKE THEM UNHOLY.
00:14:50.40\00:14:54.06
VERY ZEALOUS OF THE LAW.
00:14:54.06\00:14:55.76
VERY ZEALOUS FOR
THE WORSHIP OF GOD.
00:14:55.76\00:14:57.96
VERY ZEALOUS FOR FAITHFULNESS
IN THE LITTLE THINGS.
00:14:57.96\00:15:01.03
WHAT DID CHRIST
SAY TO THE PHARISEES?
00:15:01.03\00:15:02.96
"YOU PAY TITHE FROM YOUR LITTLE
HERB GARDENS, YOUR MINT AND
00:15:02.96\00:15:06.76
YOUR ANISE AND YOUR CUMIN, BUT
YOU OMIT THE WEIGHTIER MATTERS
00:15:06.76\00:15:10.53
OF THE LAW,
JUSTICE, MERCY, LOVE."
00:15:10.53\00:15:13.76
AND SO THERE WAS THIS
ONGOING BATTLE, WHERE CHRIST WAS
00:15:13.76\00:15:16.70
TELLING THE PHARISEES, "I'M
THANKFUL FOR YOUR DEVOTION, BUT
00:15:16.70\00:15:21.60
YOUR PRIORITIES ARE MESSED UP."
00:15:21.60\00:15:24.56
AND IN THIS PARABLE,
THIS PHARISEE WAS EXHIBIT A OF
00:15:24.56\00:15:28.23
A SELF-RIGHTEOUS, HYPOCRITICAL
PHARISEE WHO WAS NOT THINKING
00:15:28.23\00:15:32.66
ABOUT LOVING HIS FELLOW
MAN OR THE INWARD CHANGE.
00:15:32.66\00:15:37.70
HE WAS PREOCCUPIED
WITH EXTERNAL RELIGION.
00:15:37.70\00:15:40.90
THE PHARISEES WERE
ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT A FORM
00:15:40.90\00:15:44.10
OF GODLINESS AND NOT
HAVING THE POWER ON THE INSIDE.
00:15:44.10\00:15:48.46
SO HERE YOU'VE
GOT THE PHARISEES.
00:15:48.46\00:15:50.90
OH, A LITTLE MORE HISTORY.
00:15:50.90\00:15:51.96
THEY BEGAN TO EXIST
ABOUT 144 YEARS, THIS GROUP,
00:15:51.96\00:15:55.56
BEFORE CHRIST.
00:15:55.56\00:15:57.50
THEY HAD SEPARATED
THEMSELVES, WANTED TO PRESERVE
00:15:57.50\00:16:01.13
THE WORSHIP OF GOD.
00:16:01.13\00:16:02.66
AND YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE
ABOUT THEM IN THE WRITINGS
00:16:02.66\00:16:05.03
OF JOSEPHUS.
00:16:05.03\00:16:08.46
THEY ALWAYS WANTED TO
MAKE SURE THEY WERE RIGHT.
00:16:08.46\00:16:12.53
WHO WAS IT THAT
SAID-- JIMMY HOFFA.
00:16:12.53\00:16:15.50
YOU REMEMBER THAT UNION BOSS
THAT DISAPPEARED, A LEADER OF
00:16:15.50\00:16:18.23
THE TEAMSTERS?
00:16:18.23\00:16:19.86
HE SAID, "I MAY HAVE MY FAULTS,
BUT BEING WRONG AIN'T ONE
00:16:19.86\00:16:23.00
OF 'EM."
00:16:23.00\00:16:25.53
SO THAT WAS THE
PHARISEE MENTALITY.
00:16:25.53\00:16:28.93
AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON
SAID, "NOTHING IS SO SHALLOW
00:16:28.93\00:16:31.73
AS DOGMATISM."
00:16:31.73\00:16:34.90
AND PHARISEES WERE ALSO
VERY ZEALOUS OF THEIR ANCESTRY.
00:16:34.90\00:16:39.40
JESUS SAID, "YOU CLEAN AND
YOU WASH AND YOU PAINT THE TOMBS
00:16:39.40\00:16:44.13
OF THE PROPHETS, BUT
YOUR ANCESTORS ARE THE ONES
00:16:44.13\00:16:46.16
WHO KILLED THEM."
00:16:46.16\00:16:48.03
THAT HYPOCRISY.
00:16:48.03\00:16:49.60
SOMEONE ELSE SAID, "SOME
PEOPLE ARE SO PROUD OF THEIR
00:16:49.60\00:16:51.66
ANCESTORS, YOU WOULD THINK
THEY FELT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM."
00:16:51.66\00:16:55.90
NOW THE PUBLICANS.
00:16:55.90\00:16:57.60
LET'S FIND OUT A LITTLE MORE
ABOUT WHO WERE THE PUBLICANS.
00:16:57.60\00:17:02.36
IF YOU'VE GOT A BIBLE
TRANSLATION THAT'S A LITTLE
00:17:02.36\00:17:04.43
NEWER--MATTER OF FACT, EVEN
THE NEW KING JAMES DOESN'T USE
00:17:04.43\00:17:07.66
THE WORD PUBLICAN VERY MUCH.
00:17:07.66\00:17:09.16
IT USES THE WORD TAX COLLECTOR.
00:17:09.16\00:17:11.96
NOW IN CASE WE HAVE ANY
PEOPLE HERE--WE ARE THE CAPITAL
00:17:11.96\00:17:14.43
OF CALIFORNIA.
00:17:14.43\00:17:15.36
WE MIGHT HAVE SOME
TAX COLLECTORS HERE TODAY.
00:17:15.36\00:17:20.50
BIBLE SAYS WE SHOULD LOVE OUR
NEIGHBORS AND OUR ENEMIES, SO
00:17:20.50\00:17:22.80
WE LOVE EVERYBODY, BUT THE TAX
COLLECTORS TODAY ARE DIFFERENT
00:17:22.80\00:17:27.13
THAN THE TAX
COLLECTOR IN BIBLE TIMES.
00:17:27.13\00:17:29.80
YOU COULD BE AN UPSTANDING
CHRISTIAN AND STILL BE
00:17:29.80\00:17:32.43
A TAX COLLECTOR.
00:17:32.43\00:17:34.63
BUT IT'S HARD.
00:17:34.63\00:17:35.50
NO, I'M JUST TEASING.
00:17:35.50\00:17:36.63
[LAUGHING] >>
ACTUALLY, I KNOW WE DO HAVE
00:17:36.63\00:17:39.36
SOME PEOPLE WHO WORK
FOR THE IRS IN OUR CHURCH.
00:17:39.36\00:17:41.30
I'M JUST GIVIN' 'EM A HARD TIME.
00:17:41.30\00:17:43.40
BACK IN CHRIST'S TIME, THE
TAX COLLECTORS WERE CONSIDERED
00:17:43.40\00:17:46.26
TRAITORS BECAUSE THEY WERE
NOT COLLECTING TAXES FOR ISRAEL.
00:17:46.26\00:17:50.03
THEY WERE COLLECTING TAXES
FROM THE JEWS FOR THE ROMANS.
00:17:50.03\00:17:56.06
AND WHAT YOU COULD DO IS
YOU COULD SECURE A CONTRACT.
00:17:56.06\00:17:58.73
YOU PROBABLY HAD TO PAY
SOMETHING OR BRIBE SOMEBODY.
00:17:58.73\00:18:01.23
YOU HAD TO KNOW
SOMEONE IN HIGH PLACES.
00:18:01.23\00:18:03.43
IT WAS KIND OF LIKE THE MAFIOSA.
00:18:03.43\00:18:06.20
AND THEY WOULD GO TO THE ROMAN
AUTHORITIES AND THE ROMANS SAY,
00:18:06.20\00:18:08.50
"LOOK, WE DON'T
SPEAK THE LANGUAGE.
00:18:08.50\00:18:10.26
WE DON'T KNOW THE CULTURE.
00:18:10.26\00:18:11.20
WE DON'T WANT TO COLLECT TAXES,
BUT WE NEED THE TAX MONEY.
00:18:11.20\00:18:13.83
WE WILL SUBCONTRACT TO
YOU PUBLICANS, TAX COLLECTORS,
00:18:13.83\00:18:18.73
TO COLLECT THIS MUCH
TAX FROM THESE DISTRICTS.
00:18:18.73\00:18:23.00
AND ONCE YOU GIVE US OUR
REQUIRED DUE, YOU GET TO KEEP
00:18:23.00\00:18:26.33
THE LEFTOVERS.
00:18:26.33\00:18:27.66
AND THEY WOULD EXPLOIT AND
EXTORT VAST SUMS, NOT ONLY SO
00:18:27.66\00:18:33.40
THEY COULD PAY THE ROMANS WHAT
THEY OWED, BUT THEY'D KEEP IT
00:18:33.40\00:18:37.56
FOR THEMSELVES.
00:18:37.56\00:18:39.10
THIS IS HOW ZACCHAEUS
BECAME FABULOUSLY WEALTHY.
00:18:39.10\00:18:41.83
HE WAS A PUBLICAN.
00:18:41.83\00:18:43.56
HE WAS A TAX
COLLECTOR IN JERICHO.
00:18:43.56\00:18:45.76
GREAT PLACE TO HAVE A CONTRACT
FOR BEING A TAX COLLECTOR.
00:18:45.76\00:18:50.23
BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE
CONSIDERED TRAITORS, TAKING
00:18:50.23\00:18:54.60
GOD'S MONEY FROM GOD'S PEOPLE
AND GIVING IT TO THE PAGANS,
00:18:54.60\00:18:59.10
THEY WERE HATED.
00:18:59.10\00:19:00.86
AND AS YOU LOOK THROUGH HOW
THE TAX COLLECTORS WERE REFERRED
00:19:00.86\00:19:04.66
TO, FOR INSTANCE EVEN JESUS
OFTEN LUMPED THE WORD SINNER
00:19:04.66\00:19:11.06
AND TAX COLLECTOR TOGETHER,
THEY WERE A PRETTY BAD BUNCH.
00:19:11.06\00:19:14.63
THEY WERE KNOWN FOR KEEPING THE
BARS OPEN, FOR GETTING INVOLVED
00:19:14.63\00:19:19.86
IN PIMPING AND
PROSTITUTION, AND IT WAS NOT
00:19:19.86\00:19:23.70
A PRETTY PICTURE.
00:19:23.70\00:19:24.93
THEY WERE THE BOTTOM OF
THE SPIRITUAL FOOD CHAIN.
00:19:24.93\00:19:27.73
LISTEN TO THIS.
00:19:27.73\00:19:28.73
MATTHEW 11:19.
00:19:28.73\00:19:30.60
"THE SON OF MAN CAME EATING AND
DRINKING, AND THEY SAY, 'LOOK,
00:19:30.60\00:19:33.16
A GLUTTON, A WINEBIBBER,
A FRIEND OF TAX COLLECTORS
00:19:33.16\00:19:36.60
AND SINNERS!'"
NOTICE THE LINK THERE,
00:19:36.60\00:19:38.46
TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS.
00:19:38.46\00:19:40.73
LUKE 15:1, "THEN ALL THE
TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS DREW
00:19:40.73\00:19:45.36
NEAR TO HEAR HIM."
00:19:45.36\00:19:46.83
INTERESTING.
00:19:46.83\00:19:47.80
OF ALL THE PROFESSIONS
MENTIONED TO BE LUMPED
00:19:47.80\00:19:49.86
WITH SINNERS IN GENERAL,
IT WAS THE TAX COLLECTORS.
00:19:49.86\00:19:52.60
THEY WERE SORT OF
EXHIBIT A OF SINNERS.
00:19:52.60\00:19:56.23
SO WHEN JESUS TELLS THIS
PARABLE ABOUT THE TWO PEOPLE
00:19:56.23\00:19:58.46
GOING TO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY,
THEY ARE DIAMETRIC OPPOSITES.
00:19:58.46\00:20:03.63
ONE IS THE ANTITHESIS OF THE
OTHER, TWO COMPLETE EXTREMES.
00:20:03.63\00:20:08.30
THE PHARISEES WERE CONSIDERED
THE MOST PURE, RELIGIOUS,
00:20:08.30\00:20:11.83
ZEALOUS.
00:20:11.83\00:20:13.06
THEY WERE OBEYING IN THE
MINUTEST DETAIL OF THE LAW,
00:20:13.06\00:20:16.90
OBEDIENT, HOLY, GODLY.
00:20:16.90\00:20:18.26
THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE DEFILED.
00:20:18.26\00:20:19.30
PURE.
00:20:19.30\00:20:20.60
AND BY THE WAY, AGAIN, NOT
TO BE TOO HARD ON THE PHARISEES.
00:20:20.60\00:20:25.50
YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD--MOST
OF US WOULD VOTE THEM INTO
00:20:25.50\00:20:28.80
LEADERSHIP OF OUR CHURCH
BECAUSE FROM THE PEOPLE'S
00:20:28.80\00:20:32.36
PERSPECTIVE, THEY ALWAYS LOOKED
UPON THE PHARISEES AS THE ONES
00:20:32.36\00:20:35.30
WHO WERE THE CLOSEST TO GOD.
00:20:35.30\00:20:37.73
THEY LOOKED UPON THE PUBLICANS
AS THE MOST GODFORSAKEN
00:20:37.73\00:20:41.03
UNTOUCHABLES THAT WERE LOST.
00:20:41.03\00:20:44.80
SO WHEN JESUS TELLS
THIS PARABLE, A ROAR OF
00:20:44.80\00:20:50.83
CONSTERNATION WENT THROUGH
THE CROWD WHEN THEY HEARD HIS
00:20:50.83\00:20:54.00
ILLUSTRATION THAT THE PUBLICAN
IS SAVED WHEN THE DUST SETTLES
00:20:54.00\00:20:58.30
AND THE PHARISEE IS LOST.
00:20:58.30\00:20:59.83
IT WAS A SHOCKING THING TO SAY.
00:20:59.83\00:21:01.76
YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THEY
KILLED JESUS IN THE END THAT HE
00:21:01.76\00:21:05.06
WOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
00:21:05.06\00:21:07.93
SO PUBLICANS
WERE--BY THE WAY, ONE MORE.
00:21:07.93\00:21:10.90
MATTHEW 18:17.
00:21:10.90\00:21:12.96
WHEN SOMEONE WAS
DISFELLOWSHIPPED FROM
00:21:12.96\00:21:15.40
THE CHURCH BECAUSE OF
UNFAITHFULNESS, JESUS--THESE
00:21:15.40\00:21:18.50
ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS.
00:21:18.50\00:21:20.20
MATTHEW 18:17, HE SAID, "BUT IF
HE NEGLECTS TO HEAR THE CHURCH,
00:21:20.20\00:21:23.73
LET HIM BE TO
THEE LIKE A HEATHEN MAN
00:21:23.73\00:21:26.43
AND A TAX COLLECTOR."
00:21:26.43\00:21:29.36
NOT ONLY WERE THE PUBLICANS
COMPARED TO JUST SINNERS
00:21:29.36\00:21:31.86
IN GENERAL.
00:21:31.86\00:21:32.90
THEY WERE COMPARED TO
ANYTHING OTHER THAN A JEW.
00:21:32.90\00:21:35.50
A HEATHEN, A PAGAN.
00:21:35.50\00:21:39.06
AND SO, WOW.
00:21:39.06\00:21:43.06
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:21:43.06\00:21:44.50
THEY BOTH WENT TO PRAY TO
THE SAME GOD IN THE SAME PLACE.
00:21:44.50\00:21:49.16
AND THEY BOTH WENT TO PRAY.
00:21:49.16\00:21:51.13
SO WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT SOME
OF THE QUALITIES OF THEIR PRAYER
00:21:51.13\00:21:55.30
NOW THAT DISTINGUISH THEM.
00:21:55.30\00:21:58.10
FIRST WE'LL TAKE THE
PRAYER OF THE PHARISEE.
00:21:58.10\00:22:00.70
BY THE WAY, AS WE GO THROUGH
THIS STORY, FRIENDS, I HOPE
00:22:00.70\00:22:04.16
THAT YOU WILL HAVE THE COURAGE,
I'M GONNA PRESENT TO YOU TWO
00:22:04.16\00:22:07.96
PICTURES, TO EXAMINE THOSE TWO
PICTURES AND SEE IF YOU'VE GOT
00:22:07.96\00:22:12.66
ANY GENES THAT RESEMBLE
EITHER PUBLICAN OR PHARISEE.
00:22:12.66\00:22:17.73
YOU MIGHT FIND YOU'RE
RELATED TO BOTH, BUT I'LL DO IT.
00:22:17.73\00:22:21.13
YOU DO IT.
00:22:21.13\00:22:22.70
BUT I THINK WE NEED TO ASK
OURSELVES SOMETIMES DO WE FALL
00:22:22.70\00:22:25.20
INTO ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES.
00:22:25.20\00:22:28.53
AS YOU LOOK AT THE PRAYER
OF THE PUBLICAN, AND YOU MIGHT
00:22:28.53\00:22:31.46
WANT TO RETURN TO LUKE
AND JUST READ THAT THROUGH
00:22:31.46\00:22:33.26
ONE MORE TIME.
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LUKE 18:10--OR 11.
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"THE PHARISEE STOOD."
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HE WANTS TO BE SEEN PRAYING.
00:22:40.63\00:22:43.86
"AND HE PRAYED
THUS WITH HIMSELF."
00:22:43.86\00:22:46.93
SOUNDS STRANGE.
00:22:46.93\00:22:47.93
PRAYED WITH HIMSELF.
00:22:47.93\00:22:49.83
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MEANS
PRAYED WITHIN HIMSELF OR HE'S
00:22:49.83\00:22:51.83
TALKING TO HIMSELF.
00:22:51.83\00:22:54.20
"GOD, I THANK YOU THAT I AM NOT
LIKE OTHER MEN, EXTORTIONERS,
00:22:54.20\00:22:58.76
UNJUST, ADULTERERS, OR EVEN AS
THIS TAX COLLECTOR," MEANING IN
00:22:58.76\00:23:03.83
HIS PRAYER HE MUST HAVE GLANCED
OVER HIS SHOULDER AND SEEN IN
00:23:03.83\00:23:08.06
THE BACK OF THE CHURCH--NOTICE
IT SAYS THE PUBLICAN STOOD
00:23:08.06\00:23:10.60
AFAR OFF.
00:23:10.60\00:23:11.70
THE PUBLICAN'S IN THE BACK
AND HE WON'T SO MUCH AS LIFT UP
00:23:11.70\00:23:14.66
HIS EYES.
00:23:14.66\00:23:15.66
HIS HEAD IS DOWN.
00:23:15.66\00:23:16.93
THE PHARISEE IS STANDING,
PROBABLY ARMS STRETCHED OUT.
00:23:16.93\00:23:19.26
HIS HEAD IS UP.
00:23:19.26\00:23:20.93
JUST VERY OPPOSITE POSTURE.
00:23:20.93\00:23:22.26
HE'S IN THE FRONT.
00:23:22.26\00:23:23.80
NOW I DON'T WANT TO MAKE
ANYONE SITTIN' UP FRONT FEEL BAD
00:23:23.80\00:23:26.43
TODAY, BUT PROBABLY WE
HAVE ALL THE PUBLICANS IN
00:23:26.43\00:23:29.76
THE BACK TODAY.
00:23:29.76\00:23:30.86
THAT WHERE THEY ARE?
00:23:30.86\00:23:33.63
JUST KIDDING.
00:23:33.63\00:23:34.66
COME ON, LIGHTEN UP.
00:23:34.66\00:23:35.96
[LAUGHING]
00:23:35.96\00:23:39.70
>> SO WE NOTICE THAT IT SAYS
THAT THE PHARISEE WAS CONSCIOUS
00:23:40.70\00:23:44.53
OF HIS GIVING.
00:23:44.53\00:23:46.13
THEY WERE GIVING VISUALLY.
00:23:46.13\00:23:48.50
THEY LIKED TO HAVE PEOPLE
KNOW THAT THEY WERE GIVING.
00:23:48.50\00:23:52.03
THEY GAVE TO BE SEEN.
00:23:52.03\00:23:54.23
CHRIST BEGAN HIS MINISTRY
BY SAYING THE HYPOCRITES GIVE
00:23:54.23\00:23:56.96
TO BE SEEN OF MEN.
00:23:56.96\00:23:58.33
THAT'S ALL THE REWARD THEY GET.
00:23:58.33\00:24:01.33
MATTHEW 23:6, "THEY LOVE THE
BEST PLACES IN THE FEASTS, THE
00:24:01.33\00:24:05.70
BEST SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES."
00:24:05.70\00:24:07.46
SOMETHING ABOUT A PHARISEE,
POSITION IS IMPORTANT TO THEM.
00:24:07.46\00:24:11.86
NOW I KNOW WE HAVE NO PHARISEES
HERE TODAY, BUT I HAVE SEEN
00:24:11.86\00:24:14.56
SOME CHURCHES WHEN THEY GO
THROUGH NOMINATING COMMITTEE
00:24:14.56\00:24:17.13
PROCEDURE, IF SOMEBODY GETS
THEIR POSITION OR IF THEY'RE
00:24:17.13\00:24:20.63
VOTED OUT OF POSITION, A
LITTLE PHARISEEISM STARTS
00:24:20.63\00:24:24.36
TO BUBBLE OVER.
00:24:24.36\00:24:26.93
"THAT'S MY POSITION!
00:24:26.93\00:24:29.13
HOW DARE YOU GIVE
IT TO SOMEBODY ELSE."
00:24:29.13\00:24:31.43
I'M SORRY TO SAY I'VE SEEN
PEOPLE TRANSFER OUT OF A CHURCH
00:24:31.43\00:24:33.76
TO ANOTHER CHURCH BECAUSE
CHURCH FELT SOMEONE ELSE OUGHT
00:24:33.76\00:24:37.13
TO USE THEIR GIFTS AND FULFILL
THIS POSITION AND THEY WERE
00:24:37.13\00:24:40.63
SO INDIGNANT, THE THOUGHT
THAT SOMEONE ELSE WOULD GET
00:24:40.63\00:24:43.66
THAT POSITION.
00:24:43.66\00:24:46.36
IS THAT THE SPIRIT OF HUMILITY
OR THE SPIRIT OF THE PHARISEE?
00:24:46.36\00:24:50.73
AND YOU MIGHT THINK THE
SECT OF PHARISEES DIED OUT BACK
00:24:50.73\00:24:54.23
IN CHRIST'S DAY.
00:24:54.23\00:24:55.40
THAT'S NOT TRUE.
00:24:55.40\00:24:56.63
THEY'RE VERY MUCH ALIVE TODAY.
00:24:56.63\00:24:58.43
THIS PARABLE IS NOT
JUST FOR THE TIME OF CHRIST.
00:24:58.43\00:25:01.36
AND BY THE WAY, IT'S
REALLY IMPORTANT WE STUDY THIS
00:25:01.36\00:25:06.36
CAREFULLY BECAUSE THE LORD
CAN'T HEAL YOU OF PHARISEEISM
00:25:06.36\00:25:13.46
UNLESS YOU RECOGNIZE IT FIRST.
00:25:13.46\00:25:15.73
IT IS THE HARDEST CONDITION TO
REACH 'CAUSE IT FEELS NO NEED.
00:25:15.73\00:25:20.93
IT DOESN'T ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT IT HAS ANY PROBLEMS.
00:25:20.93\00:25:23.86
DO YOU SEE ANYTHING IN
THE PHARISEE'S PRAYER WHERE
00:25:23.86\00:25:25.86
HE SAYS, "LORD, I
GOT THIS PROBLEM"?
00:25:25.86\00:25:27.93
HE DOESN'T LIST ANY
PROBLEM THAT HE'S GOT.
00:25:27.93\00:25:30.10
HE IS BLIND TO HIS PROBLEMS.
00:25:30.10\00:25:31.60
ALL HE SEES IS HIS VIRTUES.
00:25:31.60\00:25:35.53
YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO
SINGING OUR OWN PRAISES, WE
00:25:35.53\00:25:37.53
USUALLY SING A LITTLE
HIGHER THAN NORMAL, DON'T WE?
00:25:37.53\00:25:41.63
ALSO WHEN WE'RE SINGING THE
PRAISES OF OUR CHILDREN, THAT
00:25:41.63\00:25:43.66
USUALLY WORKS THERE AS WELL.
00:25:43.66\00:25:46.53
IN MATTHEW 5:20, "FOR I SAY TO
YOU, UNLESS YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:25:46.53\00:25:50.43
EXCEEDS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES,
00:25:50.43\00:25:54.76
YOU WILL BY NO MEANS
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
00:25:54.76\00:25:57.20
WHY DID JESUS SAY THAT?
00:25:57.20\00:25:58.23
PASTOR DOUG, I THOUGHT
THAT JESUS HAD CONSIGNED
00:25:58.23\00:26:00.30
ALL THE PHARISEES TO BE LOST.
00:26:00.30\00:26:02.10
NO, THEY HAD A
LOT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:26:02.10\00:26:04.36
SO WHEN JESUS SAID, "YOUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS MUST EXCEED THEIR
00:26:04.36\00:26:07.03
RIGHTEOUSNESS," HE'S TALKING
ABOUT A HIGHER QUALITY OF
00:26:07.03\00:26:10.26
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:26:10.26\00:26:11.40
THEIR
RIGHTEOUSNESS WAS BEFORE MEN.
00:26:11.40\00:26:14.80
OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
MUST BE BEFORE GOD.
00:26:14.80\00:26:18.50
THEY WERE COMPARED
WITH WHAT--THEY WERE ALWAYS
00:26:18.50\00:26:20.50
COMPARING THEMSELVES
WITH WHAT PEOPLE SAW.
00:26:20.50\00:26:22.90
AND THEN AGAIN IN MATTHEW
6:1, "TAKE HEED THAT YOU DO YOUR
00:26:22.90\00:26:26.06
CHARITABLE DEEDS, NOT
BEFORE MEN TO BE SEEN BY THEM.
00:26:26.06\00:26:30.33
OTHERWISE YOU HAVE NO
REWARD OF YOUR FATHER,
00:26:30.33\00:26:32.60
WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
00:26:32.60\00:26:34.03
THEREFORE, WHEN YOU DO YOUR
ALMS, WHEN YOU MAKE AN OFFERING
00:26:34.03\00:26:37.46
OR GIVE A DONATION, DO
NOT SOUND A TRUMPET BEFORE YOU
00:26:37.46\00:26:40.66
AS THE HYPOCRITES DO IN THE
SYNAGOGUE AND IN THE STREET,
00:26:40.66\00:26:43.93
THAT THEY MIGHT
HAVE GLORY OF MEN."
00:26:43.93\00:26:46.66
IF YOU'RE GONNA GIVE SOMETHING
TO SOMEBODY, YOU DON'T WANT
00:26:46.66\00:26:50.46
EVERYBODY TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
00:26:50.46\00:26:51.76
THEN YOU HAVE TO
ASK, "WHY AM I DOING IT?
00:26:51.76\00:26:54.06
SO PEOPLE CAN THINK THAT
I'M GENEROUS AND HOLY OR BECAUSE
00:26:54.06\00:26:56.83
I REALLY CARE ABOUT
THE NEED IN THE PERSON?"
00:26:56.83\00:27:01.53
SO THEIR GIVING WAS PUBLIC.
00:27:01.53\00:27:04.90
THEY PRAY TO BE SEEN.
00:27:04.90\00:27:07.20
THE PHARISEE WENT TO THE TEMPLE
BECAUSE IT WAS A PUBLIC PLACE.
00:27:07.20\00:27:10.66
JESUS SAID, MATTHEW 6:5,
"AND WHEN YOU PRAY, YOU SHALL
00:27:10.66\00:27:14.13
NOT BE LIKE THE HYPOCRITES.
00:27:14.13\00:27:16.36
FOR THEY LOVE TO PRAY STANDING."
00:27:16.36\00:27:20.03
NOW IS THERE ANYTHING
WRONG IF YOU STAND AND PRAY?
00:27:20.03\00:27:22.90
FOR PERSONAL PRAYER, I BELIEVE
KNEELING IS THE APPROPRIATE
00:27:22.90\00:27:26.23
POSTURE TO HUMBLE
YOURSELF BEFORE GOD.
00:27:26.23\00:27:28.96
IT'S APPROPRIATE ALSO IN CHURCH
TO HAVE A BENEDICTION WHERE
00:27:28.96\00:27:31.73
WE CLOSE AND STAND.
00:27:31.73\00:27:33.36
SOLOMON DID THAT IN THE BIBLE.
00:27:33.36\00:27:35.00
BUT TO MAKE A SPECTACLE
OF YOUR PRAYER IS THE IDEA.
00:27:35.00\00:27:39.10
ARE YOU WANTING
EVERYONE TO SEE YOU PRAY?
00:27:39.10\00:27:42.53
AND NOT ONLY SOMETIMES
WOULD THEY STAND SO PEOPLE
00:27:42.53\00:27:46.33
COULD SEE 'EM PRAYING.
00:27:46.33\00:27:47.53
THE CONTENT OF THEIR
PRAYER WAS A SPECTACLE.
00:27:47.53\00:27:51.66
NOW YOU'VE
PROBABLY SEEN IT BEFORE.
00:27:51.66\00:27:53.86
I'VE DONE IT WHERE YOU PRAY,
AND BECAUSE YOU'RE PRAYING IN A
00:27:53.86\00:27:58.33
GROUP, YOU BECOME SO CONSCIOUS
OF THOSE IN THE GROUP WHO ARE
00:27:58.33\00:28:01.20
LISTENING TO YOUR PRAYER THAT
YOU'RE PRAYING FOR THE BENEFIT
00:28:01.20\00:28:04.06
OF WHAT THEY'RE GONNA HEAR
AS OPPOSED TO REALLY TALKING
00:28:04.06\00:28:06.86
FROM YOUR HEART TO GOD.
00:28:06.86\00:28:09.13
AND WE'RE REAL GOOD
DOING THIS WITH OUR KIDS.
00:28:09.13\00:28:11.26
YOU KNOW, WE'RE
KNEELING DOWN, WE'RE PRAYING.
00:28:11.26\00:28:13.46
"AND DEAR LORD, PLEASE
HELP JOHNNY GET GOOD GRADES
00:28:13.46\00:28:16.26
AND DO HIS HOMEWORK."
00:28:16.26\00:28:17.73
AND JOHNNY'S THERE
KNEELING WITH YOU, RIGHT?
00:28:17.73\00:28:20.06
"AND HELP HIM CLEAN HIS ROOM."
00:28:20.06\00:28:22.80
AND IT'S LIKE ARE--YOU
KNOW, ARE YOU PRAYING OR ARE YOU
00:28:22.80\00:28:24.96
PREACHING IN YOUR PRAYER?
00:28:24.96\00:28:27.00
WE'VE ALL DONE THAT, YOU KNOW.
00:28:27.00\00:28:28.23
YOU TRY AND MAKE
LITTLE INNUENDOS AND MESSAGES
00:28:28.23\00:28:30.90
IN YOUR PRAYER.
00:28:30.90\00:28:32.03
THAT'S STANDING IN YOUR PRAYER.
00:28:32.03\00:28:34.33
THAT'S THE
PRAYER OF THE PHARISEE.
00:28:34.33\00:28:36.46
"LORD, I THANK THEE
I AM NOT AS OTHER MEN."
00:28:36.46\00:28:39.60
ANOTHER SIGN THAT YOU COULD
HAVE SOME PHARISEE DNA IS IF
00:28:39.60\00:28:45.96
YOU ARE CHATTING WITH OTHER
BELIEVERS AND YOU SAY, "HAVE
00:28:45.96\00:28:49.30
YOU HEARD WHAT SO-AND-SO DID?
00:28:49.30\00:28:53.53
WHY, SHE WENT TO LUNCH
WITH HER BUSINESS ASSOCIATE,
00:28:53.53\00:28:56.83
JUST SHE AND HIM
ALONE AND SHE'S MARRIED."
00:28:56.83\00:29:00.80
COULD BE WHAT YOU'RE REALLY
SAYING IS, "LORD, I THANK YOU
00:29:00.80\00:29:03.70
I'M NOT AS OTHER MEN."
00:29:03.70\00:29:06.50
OR YOU MIGHT BE TALKING TO
SOMEONE ELSE AND SAY, "HAVE YOU
00:29:06.50\00:29:10.53
SEEN WHAT THAT
FELLOW WEARS TO CHURCH?
00:29:10.53\00:29:13.66
THAT'S NOT AT ALL RESPECTFUL,
UNLIKE MY MODEST ATTIRE."
00:29:13.66\00:29:20.43
AND WHAT THE LORD HEARS
IS, "LORD, I THANK THEE I AM
00:29:20.43\00:29:23.30
NOT AS OTHER MEN."
00:29:23.30\00:29:26.40
DO I NEED TO GIVE ANY
MORE CASES OR YOU GET THE IDEA?
00:29:26.40\00:29:29.46
I ALWAYS SAY YOU SHOULD
GIVE AT LEAST THREE EXAMPLES.
00:29:29.46\00:29:31.36
I CAN'T THINK OF A THIRD ONE.
00:29:31.36\00:29:33.00
I COULD TALK ABOUT POTLUCK,
BUT--YOU KNOW, DO WE SOMETIMES
00:29:33.00\00:29:36.96
GOSSIP ABOUT EACH OTHER?
00:29:36.96\00:29:39.40
AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE MOST
FAMOUS THING IS WHEN WE GOSSIP
00:29:39.40\00:29:45.80
AND DISGUISE IT
AS A PRAYER REQUEST.
00:29:45.80\00:29:50.66
AND THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
00:29:50.66\00:29:53.93
SOMEONE IS TELLING SOMEBODY
ELSE, THEY SAY, "WELL, I'M NOT
00:29:53.93\00:29:56.00
GOSSIPING, BUT I JUST
WANTED TO MENTION THIS SO WE
00:29:56.00\00:29:58.50
CAN PRAY ABOUT IT."
00:29:58.50\00:30:01.16
YOU EVER SEEN
THAT ONE DONE BEFORE?
00:30:01.16\00:30:03.86
AND REALLY, THEY DIDN'T
NEED TO KNOW AND YOU CAN PRAY BY
00:30:03.86\00:30:07.00
YOURSELF, BUT IN YOUR HEART YOU
COULD BE, "LORD, I THANK THEE
00:30:07.00\00:30:11.00
I AM NOT AS OTHER MEN."
00:30:11.00\00:30:14.86
WHAT SPIRIT IS THAT?
00:30:14.86\00:30:17.86
WHAT SPIRIT IS IT THAT
MAKES IT TO THE KINGDOM?
00:30:17.86\00:30:21.03
SO THEY PRAY TO BE SEEN.
00:30:21.03\00:30:23.96
NOW LET'S LOOK MORE
SPECIFICALLY AT THE PHARISEE'S
00:30:23.96\00:30:26.23
PRAYER.
00:30:26.23\00:30:27.66
IN THE PRAYER,
YOU NOTICE SOMETHING.
00:30:27.66\00:30:31.20
HE CONSIDERS HIMSELF
MORALLY SUPERIOR TO OTHERS.
00:30:31.20\00:30:36.26
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:30:36.26\00:30:38.43
HE DESPISES THOSE WITH
A LOWER SPIRITUAL CALIBER.
00:30:38.43\00:30:43.53
HE SNEERS OVER HIS SHOULDER
AND SAYS, "I'M THANKFUL I'M
00:30:43.53\00:30:46.26
NOT LIKE THAT
EXTORTIONER BACK THERE.
00:30:46.26\00:30:50.26
I THANK YOU I'M
NOT LIKE OTHER MEN.
00:30:50.26\00:30:52.43
I'M BETTER THAN OTHER MEN."
00:30:52.43\00:30:55.03
THERE'S SOMETHING
UNHEALTHY ABOUT THAT.
00:30:55.03\00:30:57.40
HE CONDEMNS HIS NEIGHBOR.
00:30:57.40\00:30:59.13
WHAT DOES JESUS SAY
ABOUT CONDEMNING OTHERS?
00:30:59.13\00:31:02.20
CAN WE BE JUDGING
OURSELVES WHEN WE DO THAT?
00:31:02.20\00:31:04.36
WE CAN'T LOOK
ON PEOPLE'S HEARTS.
00:31:04.36\00:31:07.00
HE'S EXALTING HIS OWN RELIGIOUS
PRACTICES AT THE EXPENSE
00:31:07.00\00:31:10.56
OF HIS NEIGHBOR.
00:31:10.56\00:31:13.13
HE TRUSTS IN HIS OWN GOOD DEEDS
TO MAKE HIM ACCEPTABLE TO GOD.
00:31:13.13\00:31:16.86
DO YOU EVER HEAR HIM
PLEADING THE MERITS OF CHRIST?
00:31:16.86\00:31:20.80
OR IS HE EXTOLLING HIS VIRTUES?
00:31:20.80\00:31:23.40
THERE ARE A LOT OF
GOOD PEOPLE THAT DO THIS.
00:31:23.40\00:31:26.16
HAVE YOU EVER READ THE PRAYER
OF HEZEKIAH IN THE BIBLE, WHEN
00:31:26.16\00:31:28.83
GOD SAID THROUGH THE PROPHET,
"HEZEKIAH, GET YOUR WILL
00:31:28.83\00:31:31.36
FINISHED UP.
00:31:31.36\00:31:32.40
GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER.
00:31:32.40\00:31:33.36
YOU'RE GOING TO DIE."
00:31:33.36\00:31:34.60
AND HEZEKIAH TURNED HIS FACE
TO THE WALL AND HE BEGAN TO CRY.
00:31:34.60\00:31:37.00
YOU EVER READ WHAT
HE CRIED WHEN HE PRAYED?
00:31:37.00\00:31:39.70
"LORD, I HAVE
SERVED YOU FAITHFULLY.
00:31:39.70\00:31:43.10
HAVEN'T YOU BEEN
READING THE PAPERS?
00:31:43.10\00:31:46.20
I GOT RID OF ALL THE
PAGANISM IN THE KINGDOM.
00:31:46.20\00:31:48.70
I GOT RID OF ALL THE IDOLS.
00:31:48.70\00:31:49.83
I GOT RID OF ALL
OF THE SODOMITES.
00:31:49.83\00:31:52.36
I HAVE TRIED TO BE FAITHFUL.
00:31:52.36\00:31:53.90
I'VE EXALTED YOU.
00:31:53.90\00:31:55.36
I'VE PRAYED TO YOU.
00:31:55.36\00:31:56.56
I'VE TRUSTED IN YOU.
00:31:56.56\00:31:57.93
HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME?"
00:31:57.93\00:32:01.43
AND YOU KNOW, GOD
DID HEAR HIS PRAYER.
00:32:01.43\00:32:03.86
LATER, HE HAD TO SHOW HEZEKIAH
WHAT WAS IN HIS HEART WHEN HE
00:32:03.86\00:32:07.50
BEGAN TO BOAST ABOUT--HE
WAS BOASTING TO THE BABYLONIAN
00:32:07.50\00:32:11.63
AMBASSADORS ABOUT EVERYTHING
IN HIS HOUSE, WASN'T HE?
00:32:11.63\00:32:14.20
HEZEKIAH WAS A GOOD KING.
00:32:14.20\00:32:16.50
SAYS HE WALKED IN THE
COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD.
00:32:16.50\00:32:18.83
GOOD KING, BUT HE HAD
THE PHARISEE MENTALITY.
00:32:18.83\00:32:23.60
"HAVEN'T YOU HEARD?
00:32:23.60\00:32:24.70
LORD, YOU OWE ME."
00:32:24.70\00:32:26.53
THAT'S THE IDEA IN
THE PHARISEE'S PRAYER.
00:32:26.53\00:32:28.50
"LORD, YOU OWE ME.
00:32:28.50\00:32:29.66
I AM GOOD."
00:32:29.66\00:32:32.60
IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT
HE FAILED TO SENSE HIS SIN
00:32:32.60\00:32:36.53
AND HIS NEED FOR GOD.
00:32:36.53\00:32:37.73
GOD OWED HIM.
00:32:37.73\00:32:39.20
HE MEASURED HIMSELF WITH
OTHERS RATHER THAN WITH GOD.
00:32:39.20\00:32:43.13
HE LACKS A HUMBLE OR A
CONTRITE, REPENTANT SPIRIT.
00:32:43.13\00:32:47.06
AND NOTICE SOMETHING ELSE
ABOUT THE PHARISEE'S PRAYER.
00:32:47.06\00:32:50.26
HE FEELS GOD'S--HE FEELS THE
NEED OF GOD SO LITTLE THERE IS
00:32:50.26\00:32:53.70
NOT A SINGLE
REQUEST IN HIS PRAYER.
00:32:53.70\00:32:56.30
HE IS SO FULL OF HIMSELF HE
DOESN'T EVEN ASK FOR ANYTHING.
00:32:56.30\00:33:02.06
HIS THANKS IS NOT
THANKING GOD FOR BEING GOD.
00:33:02.06\00:33:05.13
HIS THANKS IS FOR HIMSELF.
00:33:05.13\00:33:06.53
"I THANK THEE I."
00:33:06.53\00:33:08.63
AND YOU NOTICE IN THE PRAYER
FIVE TIMES HE SAYS, "I, I, I,
00:33:08.63\00:33:12.30
I, I, I."
00:33:12.30\00:33:13.96
NOW MOST PEOPLE, WHEN WE'RE
SELFISH IN OUR PRAYERS, IT'S
00:33:13.96\00:33:18.53
BECAUSE WE'RE SAYING,
"LORD, PLEASE DO THIS FOR ME.
00:33:18.53\00:33:20.73
PLEASE DO THAT FOR ME.
00:33:20.73\00:33:21.83
PLEASE DO THIS FOR ME.
00:33:21.83\00:33:22.83
PLEASE GIVE ME THIS.
00:33:22.83\00:33:23.83
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF
THAT PROBLEM, THIS PROBLEM."
00:33:23.83\00:33:25.76
WE ALL DO THAT.
00:33:25.76\00:33:26.73
THAT'S OKAY.
00:33:26.73\00:33:27.66
IT'S OKAY TO
PRAY ABOUT YOUR NEEDS.
00:33:27.66\00:33:29.76
PHARISEE DOESN'T EVEN PRESENT
ONE OF THOSE SELFISH PRAYERS.
00:33:29.76\00:33:32.56
HE IS SO SELF-RIGHTEOUS
HE DOESN'T NEED ANYTHING.
00:33:32.56\00:33:36.10
HE'S BASICALLY JUST BASKING
IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS
00:33:36.10\00:33:40.43
THE ONE THING THAT'S GONNA
MOST DISQUALIFY HIM TO BE SAVED.
00:33:40.43\00:33:44.90
YOU HEAR THAT?
00:33:44.90\00:33:46.33
TRUSTING IN OUR OWN
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS WHAT WILL
00:33:46.33\00:33:49.96
DISQUALIFY US
ACCORDING TO THE PARABLE.
00:33:49.96\00:33:52.90
PROVERBS 11:2, SOLOMON
SAID, "WHEN PRIDE COMES,
00:33:52.90\00:33:58.33
THEN COMES SHAME.
00:33:58.33\00:34:00.20
BUT WITH THE
HUSBAND-- I'M SORRY.
00:34:00.20\00:34:03.20
WITH THE HUMBLE IS WISDOM."
00:34:03.20\00:34:05.00
WITH A HUSBAND TOO.
00:34:05.00\00:34:06.26
[LAUGHING] >> IT'S MY GLASSES.
00:34:06.26\00:34:13.63
C.S. LEWIS SAID, "WHEN A MAN IS
GETTING BETTER, HE UNDERSTANDS
00:34:13.63\00:34:16.26
MORE AND MORE CLEARLY THE
EVIL THAT IS STILL LEFT IN HIM.
00:34:16.26\00:34:21.06
WHEN A MAN IS GETTING WORSE,
HE UNDERSTANDS HIS OWN BADNESS
00:34:21.06\00:34:24.20
LESS AND LESS."
00:34:24.20\00:34:27.43
HAVE YOU EVER
READ THE LORD'S PRAYER?
00:34:27.43\00:34:29.33
HOW MANY TIMES IN THE LORD'S
PRAYER DO YOU FIND THE WORD I?
00:34:29.33\00:34:33.80
THE PHARISEE'S
PRAYER IS FULL OF I.
00:34:33.80\00:34:36.93
HE HAD I PROBLEMS.
00:34:36.93\00:34:39.66
IT IS A SELF-CENTERED SALVATION.
00:34:39.66\00:34:44.36
HE THANKS GOD, NOT FOR ALL
THAT HE HAS, BUT HE THANKS GOD
00:34:44.36\00:34:49.33
FOR ALL THAT HE IS.
00:34:49.33\00:34:51.70
REALLY, IT'S A
BRILLIANT PARABLE THE WAY THAT
00:34:51.70\00:34:55.50
JESUS WORDED IT.
00:34:55.50\00:34:56.63
IT'S JUST REALLY BRILLIANT
BECAUSE IT IS THE EPITOME
00:34:56.63\00:34:59.26
OF THE SELF-CENTERED PRAYER.
00:34:59.26\00:35:02.36
THE PUBLICAN AND THE PHARISEE
BOTH GO TO THE TEMPLE TO
00:35:02.36\00:35:05.83
WORSHIP GOD, BUT REALLY
ONE IS WORSHIPING HIMSELF.
00:35:05.83\00:35:11.56
HE PRAYS WITH HIMSELF AND
HE DESPISES THE ONE WHO IS
00:35:11.56\00:35:16.16
DEPENDING ON GOD'S MERCY.
00:35:16.16\00:35:18.46
YOU KNOW HOW THE BIBLE BEGINS?
00:35:18.46\00:35:20.93
TWO BROTHERS BRING
THEIR OFFERINGS TO GOD.
00:35:20.93\00:35:24.10
WORSHIPING THE SAME GOD,
THEY BOTH PRAY, BUT CAIN DOES IT
00:35:24.10\00:35:28.56
HIS OWN WAY.
00:35:28.56\00:35:29.90
IT'S AN OFFERING OF HIS WORKS,
THE FRUIT FROM HIS VEGETABLE
00:35:29.90\00:35:33.50
GARDEN, RIGHT?
00:35:33.50\00:35:36.40
ABLE BRINGS A SACRIFICE.
00:35:36.40\00:35:39.46
HE'S CLAIMING THE
BLOOD TO COVER HIS SIN.
00:35:39.46\00:35:42.13
THE ONE WHO WAS WORSHIPING
HIMSELF, CAIN, DESPISES
00:35:42.13\00:35:46.03
AND KILLS HIS BROTHER.
00:35:46.03\00:35:49.70
THAT'S GONNA BE REPEATING
ITSELF IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:35:49.70\00:35:51.86
ULTIMATELY, IT'S THE PHARISEES
IN THE LAST DAYS THAT GET
00:35:51.86\00:35:54.16
THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
00:35:54.16\00:35:55.96
IT'S ALL ABOUT
WORSHIPING THEMSELVES.
00:35:55.96\00:35:59.10
BECAUSE WHO'S BEHIND THE BEAST?
00:35:59.10\00:36:02.03
EASY QUESTION.
00:36:02.03\00:36:03.53
ULTIMATELY,
WHO'S BEHIND THE BEAST?
00:36:03.53\00:36:05.63
THE DEVIL.
00:36:05.63\00:36:06.63
HOW DID THE DEVIL GET STARTED
ON HIS ROAD TO DESTRUCTION.
00:36:06.63\00:36:09.66
WASN'T IT SELF-WORSHIP?
00:36:09.66\00:36:11.63
SO EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN
THE DEVIL'S CHURCH MODELS
00:36:11.63\00:36:14.96
THE DEVIL.
00:36:14.96\00:36:16.50
IT'S ALL SELF-WORSHIP,
TRUSTING IN THEIR OWN ABILITY.
00:36:16.50\00:36:21.86
YOU KNOW, I HAD TO LAUGH.
00:36:21.86\00:36:23.10
AS I WAS PREPARING FOR
THE SERMON, I RAN ACROSS
00:36:23.10\00:36:26.10
THIS OLD SONG.
00:36:26.10\00:36:27.53
SOMEONE HERE MAY STILL REMEMBER
MAC DAVIS, THE SINGER, COUNTRY
00:36:27.53\00:36:30.30
SINGER FROM LUBBOCK, TEXAS.
00:36:30.30\00:36:32.10
HE'S STILL ALIVE TODAY.
00:36:32.10\00:36:34.13
HE WROTE A SONG ONCE, "OH
LORD IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBLE."
00:36:34.13\00:36:37.20
OH LORD, IT'S HARD TO BE
HUMBLE WHEN YOU'RE PERFECT
00:36:37.20\00:36:39.40
IN EVERY WAY.
00:36:39.40\00:36:40.36
I WON'T SING IT FOR YOU.
00:36:40.36\00:36:41.70
I CAN'T WAIT TO LOOK IN
THE MIRROR 'CAUSE I GET BETTER
00:36:41.70\00:36:44.16
LOOKING EACH DAY.
00:36:44.16\00:36:46.10
TO KNOW ME IS TO LOVE ME.
00:36:46.10\00:36:47.83
I MUST BE ONE REALLY GREAT MAN.
00:36:47.83\00:36:50.00
OH LORD, IT'S HARD TO
BE HUMBLE, BUT I'M DOING
00:36:50.00\00:36:52.76
THE BEST I CAN.
00:36:52.76\00:36:55.66
ANY OF YOU EVER
HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE?
00:36:55.66\00:36:57.73
IT GOES BACK A WAYS.
00:36:57.73\00:36:59.80
THAT'S THE PHARISEE.
00:36:59.80\00:37:01.26
THAT'S HIS PRAYER.
00:37:01.26\00:37:03.40
HE'S FAMOUS FOR HIS FASTING.
00:37:03.40\00:37:05.93
YOU NOTICE HE BEGINS TO
TELL THE LORD ABOUT HIS GOODNESS
00:37:05.93\00:37:09.50
AND ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT HE CITES IS, "I FAST."
00:37:09.50\00:37:12.63
NOW HE WAS ONLY REQUIRED BY
THE JEWS TO FAST ONCE A YEAR
00:37:12.63\00:37:15.70
AT ONE OF THE
FEASTS DURING THE PASSOVER.
00:37:15.70\00:37:19.43
BUT HE SAYS, "I
FAST TWICE A WEEK."
00:37:19.43\00:37:24.06
THAT DAY HE'S PRAYING COULD
HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE DAYS.
00:37:24.06\00:37:26.96
JESUS TALKED ABOUT THAT.
00:37:26.96\00:37:29.03
MATTHEW 6:16, "MOREOVER,
WHEN YOU FAST, DON'T BE LIKE
00:37:29.03\00:37:32.03
THE HYPOCRITES,
WITH A SAD COUNTENANCE.
00:37:32.03\00:37:34.76
FOR THEY DISFIGURE THEIR
FACES THAT THEY MIGHT APPEAR
00:37:34.76\00:37:37.76
TO MEN TO BE FASTING."
00:37:37.76\00:37:40.06
I SUPPOSE THEY TOOK THEIR
BELTS AND THEY CINCHED THEM UP
00:37:40.06\00:37:42.76
A NOTCH OR TWO SO THEY'D LOOK
A LITTLE HUNGRIER THAN THEY WERE
00:37:42.76\00:37:46.00
AND THEY'D PUCKER THEIR FACES
SO THEY'D LOOK A LITTLE GAUNTER
00:37:46.00\00:37:48.53
THAN THEY REALLY WERE
AND THEY'D NOT DO THEIR HAIR,
00:37:48.53\00:37:51.43
BUT TRY AND LOOK
A LITTLE DISHEVELED.
00:37:51.43\00:37:53.56
AND FOLKS WOULD
SAY, "WHAT'S UP?"
00:37:53.56\00:37:55.86
"I'M FASTING."
00:37:55.86\00:37:57.30
[LAUGHING] >> AND YOU GO, "WOW."
00:37:57.30\00:37:59.63
YOU KNOW, YOU
GOT TO RESPECT THAT.
00:37:59.63\00:38:01.63
I MEAN, I WENT OUT TO
DINNER WITH SOMEBODY ONE TIME
00:38:01.63\00:38:03.60
AND THEY DIDN'T ORDER ANYTHING.
00:38:03.60\00:38:04.76
I SAID, "MAYBE NOT CHINESE.
00:38:04.76\00:38:06.80
YOU WANT TO DO ITALIAN?"
00:38:06.80\00:38:08.03
THEY SAID, "NO, I'M FASTING."
00:38:08.03\00:38:09.30
"THEN WHY DIDN'T
YOU TELL ME THAT?
00:38:09.30\00:38:11.13
WE DIDN'T HAVE
TO MEET OVER LUNCH."
00:38:11.13\00:38:13.13
I FELT REALLY DUMB.
00:38:13.13\00:38:14.13
SAID, "LET'S TALK DURING LUNCH."
00:38:14.13\00:38:16.00
AND SO THEY MEET WITH
ME AND THEY, "I'M FASTING."
00:38:16.00\00:38:18.40
WELL, I FELT REALLY BAD.
00:38:18.40\00:38:20.26
I FELT LIKE A GLUTTON JUST
EATING A NORMAL MEAL BECAUSE
00:38:20.26\00:38:27.46
THEY'RE JUST WATCHING
ME EAT, LOOKING HUNGRY.
00:38:27.46\00:38:31.20
[LAUGHING] >> THAT'S TRUE.
00:38:31.20\00:38:35.50
THAT MADE ME FEEL REALLY BAD.
00:38:35.50\00:38:38.00
SO IMPRESSED WITH THEIR FASTING.
00:38:38.00\00:38:40.90
MATTHEW 9:14.
00:38:40.90\00:38:43.23
YOU REMEMBER THE DISCIPLES OF
JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME TO JESUS
00:38:43.23\00:38:45.76
AND THEY SAID, "WHY DO WE
AND THE PHARISEES FAST OFTEN?"
00:38:45.76\00:38:49.46
ANYTHING WRONG WITH FASTING?
00:38:49.46\00:38:51.53
WE OUGHT TO DO MORE OF IT.
00:38:51.53\00:38:53.30
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
00:38:53.30\00:38:55.16
JOHN THE
BAPTIST'S DISCIPLES FASTED.
00:38:55.16\00:38:57.76
PHARISEES FASTED.
00:38:57.76\00:38:59.66
"BUT YOUR DISCIPLES DON'T FAST."
00:38:59.66\00:39:01.80
JESUS SAID, "THEY
WILL WHEN I'M GONE.
00:39:01.80\00:39:03.73
THE BRIDEGROOM'S WITH 'EM.
00:39:03.73\00:39:04.70
AFTER THE BRIDEGROOM IS
GONE, THEN THEY'LL FAST."
00:39:04.70\00:39:06.93
SO THERE'S NOTHING
WRONG WITH FASTING.
00:39:06.93\00:39:09.00
NOTHING WRONG WITH PRAYING.
00:39:09.00\00:39:10.33
AND THERE'S
NOTHING WRONG WITH GIVING.
00:39:10.33\00:39:12.83
YOU KNOW WHAT'S WRONG IS
THE PHARISEE, HE LIVED BASED
00:39:12.83\00:39:16.33
ON MAKING
COMPARISONS HORIZONTALLY.
00:39:16.33\00:39:20.96
WHEN HE WANTED TO FIND OUT
WHAT THE STANDARD WAS, HE LOOKED
00:39:20.96\00:39:23.70
AROUND AND HE
COMPARED HIMSELF TO OTHER MEN.
00:39:23.70\00:39:26.40
HOW DOES GOD FEEL
ABOUT OUR COMPARING OURSELVES
00:39:26.40\00:39:29.46
AMONG OURSELVES?
00:39:29.46\00:39:30.93
PAUL ADDRESSES THIS.
00:39:30.93\00:39:32.13
2 CORINTHIANS 10:12, "FOR
WE DARE NOT CLASS OURSELVES OR
00:39:32.13\00:39:37.20
COMPARE OURSELVES WITH
THOSE WHO COMMEND THEMSELVES.
00:39:37.20\00:39:41.13
BUT THEY, MEASURING THEMSELVES
BY THEMSELVES, COMPARING
00:39:41.13\00:39:44.30
THEMSELVES AMONG
THEMSELVES, ARE NOT WISE."
00:39:44.30\00:39:48.36
YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND SOMEBODY
ELSE OUT THERE THAT YOU CAN
00:39:48.36\00:39:52.33
POINT TO AND SAY, "BUT
I'M BETTER THAN THEY ARE."
00:39:52.33\00:39:56.46
AND KEEP IN MIND THE GREAT
DANGER AMONG CHRISTIANS WHEN WE
00:39:56.46\00:40:01.36
HAVE THE HORIZONTAL MIND-SET.
00:40:01.36\00:40:03.10
NOTICE THE BIG
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PUBLICAN
00:40:03.10\00:40:05.43
AND THE PHARISEE.
00:40:05.43\00:40:07.16
THE PUBLICAN, HE IS COMPARING
HIMSELF TO GOD AND HE SAID,
00:40:07.16\00:40:11.83
"LORD, HAVE MERCY ON ME."
00:40:11.83\00:40:14.53
IT'S LIKE ISAIAH.
00:40:14.53\00:40:15.66
WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT
INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD,
00:40:15.66\00:40:17.66
HE SAID, "WOE IS ME."
00:40:17.66\00:40:19.73
THE PUBLICAN, HE SAID,
"COMPARING TO THESE GUYS,
00:40:19.73\00:40:22.80
I'M PRETTY GOOD."
00:40:22.80\00:40:25.20
THE PHARISEE.
00:40:25.20\00:40:26.10
I'M SORRY.
00:40:26.10\00:40:26.96
I GOT THAT WRONG.
00:40:26.96\00:40:27.90
THE PHARISEE, HE'S COMPARING
HIMSELF TO THOSE AROUND ONE AND
00:40:27.90\00:40:30.00
HE SAYS, "COMPARED TO
THEM, I LOOK PRETTY GOOD."
00:40:30.00\00:40:33.13
AND YOU KNOW, I THINK WE
ALL KIND OF FALL INTO THAT TRAP
00:40:33.13\00:40:35.46
A LITTLE BIT.
00:40:35.46\00:40:36.50
SOMETHING ABOUT--YOU KNOW,
WE GRAPPLE FOR SELF-ESTEEM.
00:40:36.50\00:40:43.26
MAYBE IT'S AN INSECURITY THAT
WE FIND IT EASIER TO CRITICIZE
00:40:43.26\00:40:47.70
OTHERS AROUND US BECAUSE WE
FEEL GUILTY ABOUT OUR FAILURES,
00:40:47.70\00:40:52.13
SO WE--IT'S LIKE A
SURVIVAL MECHANISM.
00:40:52.13\00:40:55.43
WE RECITE TO THE LORD WHAT
VIRTUES WE DO HAVE AND IT MAKES
00:40:55.43\00:40:58.43
US FEEL A LITTLE BETTER AND
WE POINT OUT THE FAILURES OF
00:40:58.43\00:41:01.43
OTHERS AROUND US AND WHAT
HAPPENS IS WHEN THE CHURCH DOES
00:41:01.43\00:41:04.86
THAT, THE STANDARD, KIND
OF LIKE THE WATER WASHING OUT
00:41:04.86\00:41:08.53
OF A SWIMMING POOL, IT
JUST SLOSHES BACK AND FORTH
00:41:08.53\00:41:11.93
AND GETS LOWER EVERY TIME.
00:41:11.93\00:41:15.13
AND WHEN WE COMPARE OURSELVES
WITH EACH OTHER, MY STANDARDS
00:41:15.13\00:41:20.23
WILL LITTLE BY LITTLE BE
DROPPING BECAUSE I'LL ALWAYS
00:41:20.23\00:41:22.76
FIND SOMEONE
LOWER I CAN COMPARE TO.
00:41:22.76\00:41:25.66
YOURS WILL BE DROPPING BECAUSE
YOU'LL BE COMPARING YOURSELF
00:41:25.66\00:41:27.96
TO ME.
00:41:27.96\00:41:29.30
AND IT JUST KEEPS GOING DOWN.
00:41:29.30\00:41:31.90
THE ONLY WAY TO TURN THAT TREND
AROUND IS WHO SHOULD WE COMPARE
00:41:31.90\00:41:34.86
OURSELVES TO?
00:41:34.86\00:41:37.10
ONLY WAY WE'RE GONNA PULL
OURSELVES UP BY GRACE TO BE
00:41:37.10\00:41:41.23
A DIFFERENT KIND OF PEOPLE
IS BY KEEPING JESUS BEFORE US
00:41:41.23\00:41:44.03
AS OUR EXAMPLE.
00:41:44.03\00:41:45.23
THE PHARISEE WAS
LOOKING HORIZONTALLY.
00:41:45.23\00:41:48.33
THOSE THAT COMPARE THEMSELVES
AMONG THEMSELVES AND BY
00:41:48.33\00:41:50.70
THEMSELVES ARE NOT WISE.
00:41:50.70\00:41:52.23
YOU NOTICE HE SAID, "I THANK
YOU I'M NOT LIKE OTHER MEN."
00:41:52.23\00:41:55.50
PHARISEE BACK HERE,
I'M BETTER THAN HE IS.
00:41:55.50\00:41:59.20
WHEN WE GOSSIP ABOUT
ONE ANOTHER IN THE CHURCH,
00:41:59.20\00:42:02.93
PUBLICAN OR PHARISEE?
00:42:02.93\00:42:05.73
PHARISEE.
00:42:05.73\00:42:06.70
THAT'S THE MENTALITY THAT
CAN'T MAKE IT INTO THE KINGDOM.
00:42:06.70\00:42:10.46
THE PHARISEE IS HORIZONTAL.
00:42:10.46\00:42:13.46
THE PUBLICAN IS VERTICAL.
00:42:13.46\00:42:16.06
IF YOU WANT TO BE IN THE
KINGDOM AND BECOME LIKE CHRIST,
00:42:16.06\00:42:19.13
YOU NEED TO
LIVE BY THE VERTICAL.
00:42:19.13\00:42:21.70
YOU CAN'T BE SAYING WHAT
IS MY STANDARD AND LIVING
00:42:21.70\00:42:24.33
BY THE HORIZONTAL.
00:42:24.33\00:42:26.43
SOMEONE ONCE
SAID-- MATTER OF FACT,
00:42:26.43\00:42:28.76
IT'S BILLY GRAHAM, I THINK.
00:42:28.76\00:42:29.96
SAID, "THE SMALLEST PACKAGE
IN THE WORLD IS SOMEBODY WRAPPED
00:42:29.96\00:42:32.06
UP IN THEMSELF."
00:42:32.06\00:42:36.50
WHAT IS THE RIGHT PRAYER?
00:42:36.50\00:42:38.46
LET'S FINISH ON THAT NOTE.
00:42:38.46\00:42:41.53
LUKE 18:13.
00:42:41.53\00:42:45.20
IN ENGLISH, IT'S SEVEN WORDS.
00:42:45.20\00:42:47.93
YOU NOTICE HOW MUCH LONGER
THE PHARISEE'S PRAYER IS THAN
00:42:47.93\00:42:50.50
THE PUBLICAN'S PRAYER?
00:42:50.50\00:42:52.63
BEST PRAYERS IN THE BIBLE
ARE SHORT AND TO THE POINT.
00:42:52.63\00:42:56.06
PETER'S PRAYER, "LORD,
SAVE ME," WHEN HE WAS DROWNING?
00:42:56.06\00:42:59.00
GREAT PRAYER.
00:42:59.00\00:43:00.10
IT WORKED.
00:43:00.10\00:43:01.03
THREE WORDS.
00:43:01.03\00:43:02.83
IN GREEK, THIS
PRAYER IS FOUR WORDS.
00:43:02.83\00:43:07.26
IN ENGLISH, OF COURSE, IT ENDS
UP BEING SEVEN JUST BECAUSE WE
00:43:07.26\00:43:09.90
BREAK IT UP MORE PLACES.
00:43:09.90\00:43:12.23
"GOD, BE
MERCIFUL TO ME, A SINNER."
00:43:12.23\00:43:14.66
GOD, BE
MERCIFUL TO ME, A SINNER.
00:43:14.66\00:43:17.06
IN GREEK, IT STARTS WITH
THEOS AND ENDS WITH ME A SINNER.
00:43:17.06\00:43:20.36
IT'S LIKE ONE THING.
00:43:20.36\00:43:24.83
FOUR WORDS IN HIS PRAYER.
00:43:24.83\00:43:27.10
NOW I'M NOT
AGAINST LONGER PRAYERS.
00:43:27.10\00:43:30.20
PERSONAL PRAYER, THE
ONE THAT SHOULD BE LONGER.
00:43:30.20\00:43:32.53
JESUS CONDEMNED THE PHARISEES
THAT LOVED TO STAND AND PRAY
00:43:32.53\00:43:34.76
LONG PRAYERS TO BE HEARD OF
MEN, BUT CHRIST SAID, "I TELL
00:43:34.76\00:43:39.16
YOU THIS MAN WENT DOWN TO
HIS HOUSE JUSTIFIED RATHER
00:43:39.16\00:43:43.06
THAN THE OTHER."
00:43:43.06\00:43:44.36
HE DOESN'T SAY, "BELIEVE IT
OR NOT, THE PUBLICAN'S SAVED
00:43:44.36\00:43:48.30
ALONG WITH THE PHARISEE."
00:43:48.30\00:43:50.20
NO, HE CONTRASTS THEM.
00:43:50.20\00:43:52.20
HE SAYS,
"RATHER THAN THE OTHER."
00:43:52.20\00:43:55.10
ONLY ONE WENT HOME FORGIVEN.
00:43:55.10\00:43:57.96
ONLY WENT HOME JUST
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.
00:43:57.96\00:44:00.96
IT WAS THE ONE WHO
TRUSTED IN GOD'S MERCY.
00:44:00.96\00:44:05.36
HE CAME BEFORE
GOD LOOKING FOR GRACE.
00:44:05.36\00:44:07.86
HE WAS NOT PLEADING HIS
VALUE BASED ON HIS WORKS.
00:44:07.86\00:44:12.30
NOW WOULD THE PUBLICAN
HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT AFTER
00:44:12.30\00:44:14.80
HE WAS FORGIVEN?
00:44:14.80\00:44:15.90
LET'S HOPE SO.
00:44:15.90\00:44:17.20
BUT THE ESSENCE OF HIS PRAYER,
PSALM 51:7, WHAT'S THE ESSENCE
00:44:17.20\00:44:22.06
OF THE PUBLICAN'S PRAYER?
00:44:22.06\00:44:24.13
"THE SACRIFICES OF
GOD ARE A BROKEN SPIRIT.
00:44:24.13\00:44:27.80
A BROKEN AND A CONTRITE
HEART, THESE O GOD, YOU WILL
00:44:27.80\00:44:31.60
NOT DESPISE."
00:44:31.60\00:44:34.03
HE CAME BEFORE THE
LORD BROKENHEARTED.
00:44:34.03\00:44:36.46
COULDN'T EVEN FIND THE WORDS.
00:44:36.46\00:44:37.63
THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD TO
MAKE HIS PRAYER ELOQUENT.
00:44:37.63\00:44:40.00
IT JUST SAID, "LORD,
HAVE MERCY ON ME, A SINNER."
00:44:40.00\00:44:44.70
HE CONFESSED.
00:44:44.70\00:44:46.56
HE REPENTED.
00:44:46.56\00:44:48.13
HE BELIEVED.
00:44:48.13\00:44:49.73
HE WAS JUSTIFIED.
00:44:49.73\00:44:51.70
HE WENT THROUGH THE
STEPS IN THAT PRAYER.
00:44:51.70\00:44:54.03
HE HUMBLED HIMSELF.
00:44:54.03\00:44:55.33
HE STOOD IN THE BACK.
00:44:55.33\00:44:56.40
HE SAID, "I'M NOT WORTHY."
00:44:56.40\00:44:59.93
STAYED IN THE BACK.
00:44:59.93\00:45:01.60
NOW I'M NOT--PLEASE, DON'T
EVERYBODY THINK WE'RE SUPPOSED
00:45:01.60\00:45:03.83
TO FIGHT FOR THE BACK SEATS.
00:45:03.83\00:45:04.83
YOU ALREADY DO THAT.
00:45:04.83\00:45:06.43
WE HAVE SUCH A HARD
TIME SABBATH SCHOOL.
00:45:06.43\00:45:08.46
I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT.
00:45:08.46\00:45:08.93
EVERY WEEK, WE BEG
PEOPLE, "PLEASE SIT UP FRONT.
00:45:08.93\00:45:11.73
WE WON'T CALL YOU A PHARISEE.
00:45:11.73\00:45:13.36
COME UP FRONT.
00:45:13.36\00:45:14.36
JUST DON'T STAND
AND YOU'LL BE OKAY."
00:45:14.36\00:45:20.03
JAMES 4:10.
00:45:20.03\00:45:21.83
"HUMBLE YOURSELF BEFORE THE
LORD AND HE WILL LIFT YOU UP."
00:45:21.83\00:45:26.50
PHARISEE HUMBLED HIMSELF.
00:45:26.50\00:45:28.40
YOU KNOW WHAT'S
WONDERFUL ABOUT THIS STORY?
00:45:28.40\00:45:30.90
YOU MIGHT WONDER, "CAN
GOD REACH A PERSON THAT SEEMS
00:45:30.90\00:45:34.13
UTTERLY HOPELESS?
00:45:34.13\00:45:35.26
CAN HE REACH A
PUBLICAN AND A HARLOT?"
00:45:35.26\00:45:39.33
AND YOU GOT THE STORY
IN THE BIBLE ABOUT HOW GOD
00:45:39.33\00:45:41.56
CALLED--IT'S INTERESTING.
00:45:41.56\00:45:42.66
HE CALLED ZACCHAEUS FROM A TREE.
00:45:42.66\00:45:45.43
JESUS CAME TO
ZACCHAEUS AND LOOKED UP.
00:45:45.43\00:45:48.30
BUT WHEN HE CALLED PAUL, PAUL
WAS ON THE GROUND, A PHARISEE.
00:45:48.30\00:45:53.20
AND HE HAD TO LIFT PAUL UP
AS HE HAD GOTTEN KNOCKED DOWN
00:45:53.20\00:45:56.73
BY GOD'S GLORY.
00:45:56.73\00:45:58.13
AND HE BROUGHT ZACCHAEUS DOWN
AND THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH
00:45:58.13\00:46:03.66
BOTH THE PUBLICAN--MATTHEW
WAS A PUBLICAN.
00:46:03.66\00:46:07.03
YOU KNOW WHO TOOK CARE OF JESUS
WHEN HE CAME OFF THE CROSS?
00:46:07.03\00:46:10.00
TWO PHARISEES.
00:46:10.00\00:46:11.50
NICODEMUS.
00:46:11.50\00:46:12.63
JOHN 3:16, CHRIST WAS
SPEAKING TO A PHARISEE, RIGHT?
00:46:12.63\00:46:18.30
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA.
00:46:18.30\00:46:20.90
JESUS WAS PUT IN
THE TOMB OF A PHARISEE.
00:46:20.90\00:46:24.36
IT WAS A PHARISEE THAT
EMBALMED HIM AND THEY PAID FOR
00:46:24.36\00:46:27.16
AND SUBSIDIZED HIS BURIAL.
00:46:27.16\00:46:30.46
AND SO THAT TELLS US THAT
THERE'S HOPE FOR EACH OF US.
00:46:30.46\00:46:33.60
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT
GOD CAN'T HELP IS THAT
00:46:33.60\00:46:36.00
LAODICEAN CONDITION.
00:46:36.00\00:46:37.36
THIS IS THE PHARISEE CONDITION.
00:46:37.36\00:46:38.76
AND BY THE WAY, THIS IS
HOW GOD IDENTIFIES THE CHURCH
00:46:38.76\00:46:41.53
IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:46:41.53\00:46:42.56
YOU KNOW WHERE I'M GOING?
00:46:42.56\00:46:43.73
REVELATION 3:17, "BECAUSE
YOU SAY, 'I'M RICH AND INCREASED
00:46:43.73\00:46:51.20
WITH GOODS AND
HAVE NEED OF NOTHING.
00:46:51.20\00:46:54.33
LORD, I THANK THEE
I'M NOT AS OTHER MEN.'"
00:46:54.33\00:46:57.06
I PAY TITHE OF ALL I HAVE.
00:46:57.06\00:46:59.40
I GO BEYOND THE 10%.
00:46:59.40\00:47:02.03
I FAST TWICE A WEEK.
00:47:02.03\00:47:04.83
I'M NOT AN ADULTERER, AN
EXTORTIONER, OR A SINNER LIKE
00:47:04.83\00:47:07.60
THIS OTHER PERSON.
00:47:07.60\00:47:09.73
COULD THAT BE THE LAODICEAN
STATE OF MIND OF THE PHARISEE?
00:47:09.73\00:47:15.50
JESUS SAID, "YOU DON'T KNOW
THAT YOU ARE POOR AND WRETCHED
00:47:15.50\00:47:18.96
AND MISERABLE
AND BLIND AND NAKED."
00:47:18.96\00:47:21.66
YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR
SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY.
00:47:21.66\00:47:23.70
DID THE PUBLICAN
KNOW THAT HE WAS A SINNER?
00:47:23.70\00:47:27.33
COULD GOD SAVE HIM?
00:47:27.33\00:47:29.06
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID IF
YOU'RE HOLD OR COLD, I CAN WORK
00:47:29.06\00:47:31.33
WITH YOU.
00:47:31.33\00:47:32.53
IF YOU'RE ON FIRE FOR THE LORD,
YOU'RE DOING THE GOOD DEEDS,
00:47:32.53\00:47:35.23
BUT YOU'RE DOING IT FROM
THE RIGHT SPIRIT, YOU'VE GOT
00:47:35.23\00:47:37.53
THE VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP,
HE CAN WORK WITH YOU.
00:47:37.53\00:47:40.36
IF YOU'RE REPENTANT AND ON
YOUR KNEES AND BROKENHEARTED,
00:47:40.36\00:47:42.80
CONTRITE HEART,
HE CAN WORK WITH YOU.
00:47:42.80\00:47:45.56
BUT IF YOU'RE ONLY ON THE
HORIZONTAL PLANE AND YOU'RE
00:47:45.56\00:47:47.73
TRUSTING IN YOUR OWN
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND YOU'RE
00:47:47.73\00:47:50.06
GOSSIPING ABOUT EVERYBODY
ELSE'S WICKEDNESS, THAT IS THE
00:47:50.06\00:47:52.16
MOST PITIFUL CONDITION AND
YOU CAN'T GO HOME JUSTIFIED.
00:47:52.16\00:47:57.60
SO HERE'S THE QUESTION.
00:47:57.60\00:47:59.70
AS WE COME BEFORE THE
LORD TODAY, I WANT TO GO HOME
00:47:59.70\00:48:02.96
JUSTIFIED, DON'T YOU?
00:48:02.96\00:48:05.06
THEN WE ALL NEED TO ASK
THE LORD TO HEAL US OF OUR
00:48:05.06\00:48:08.40
PHARISEEISM AND TO
GIVE US HIS SPIRIT.
00:48:08.40\00:48:13.73
PSALM 32:1, KING DAVID
WROTE, "BLESSED IS HE WHOSE
00:48:13.73\00:48:18.33
TRANSGRESSION IS
FORGIVEN, WHOSE SIN IS COVERED.
00:48:18.33\00:48:21.70
BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE
LORD DOES NOT IMPUTE INIQUITY,
00:48:21.70\00:48:25.73
IN WHOSE SPIRIT
THERE IS NO DECEIT."
00:48:25.73\00:48:29.30
THOSE WHO COME TO CHRIST
FULL ARE SENT AWAY EMPTY.
00:48:29.30\00:48:34.46
THOSE WHO COME TO JESUS
EMPTY AND SAY, "LORD, HAVE MERCY
00:48:34.46\00:48:37.33
ON ME," ARE SENT AWAY FULL.
00:48:37.33\00:48:40.30
SO IT DEPENDS ON HOW
YOU COME BEFORE THE LORD.
00:48:40.30\00:48:42.66
WE MUST COME BROKEN,
RECOGNIZING OUR NEED, AND HE
00:48:42.66\00:48:45.13
CAN THEN CLEANSE
AND FILL AND HEAL US.
00:48:45.13\00:48:48.70
A BAPTIST PREACHER I
RESPECT NAMED VANCE HAVNER SAID,
00:48:48.70\00:48:51.93
"GOD USES BROKEN THINGS.
00:48:51.93\00:48:54.30
IT TAKES BROKEN SOIL TO
PRODUCE A CROP, BROKEN CLOUDS
00:48:54.30\00:48:57.70
TO GIVE RAIN, BROKEN GRAIN
TO GIVE BREAD, BROKEN BREAD
00:48:57.70\00:49:02.00
TO GIVE STRENGTH.
00:49:02.00\00:49:03.36
IT'S A BROKEN ALABASTER
BOX THAT GIVES FORTH PERFUME.
00:49:03.36\00:49:06.83
IT IS PETER WEEPING BITTERLY
WHO RETURNS IN GREATER POWER
00:49:06.83\00:49:10.06
THAN EVER.
00:49:10.06\00:49:11.20
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE, WE SEE
THAT GOD USES BROKEN THINGS."
00:49:11.20\00:49:14.60
AND THAT PUBLICAN, HE
SAID, "LORD, HAVE MERCY ON ME,
00:49:14.60\00:49:17.80
A SINNER."
00:49:17.80\00:49:19.20
IF WE COME, TRUSTING IN HIS
GRACE AND HIS MERCY, IF WE COME
00:49:19.20\00:49:22.36
TRUSTING THAT HE CAN TRANSFORM
AND FORGIVE US, RECOGNIZING
00:49:22.36\00:49:27.56
THAT WE ARE SINNERS, THEN
GOD CAN BLESS AND TRANSFORM US.
00:49:27.56\00:49:31.13
WHEN WE START TO TRUST IN OUR
OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND WE MAKE
00:49:31.13\00:49:33.80
FIG LEAVES FOR
OURSELVES, THAT WON'T DO.
00:49:33.80\00:49:38.16
I PRAY THE LORD WILL
HEAL ME OF THAT DEADLY DISEASE
00:49:38.16\00:49:42.83
OF PHARISEEISM.
00:49:42.83\00:49:44.60
I--IS THAT YOUR PRAYER?
00:49:44.60\00:49:47.00
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A SONG IN THE
HYMNAL WE DON'T SING VERY OFTEN
00:49:47.00\00:49:49.20
BECAUSE IT'S NOT--IT'S
NOT A REAL GOOD MOTIVATIONAL
00:49:49.20\00:49:52.43
OPENING LINE.
00:49:52.43\00:49:53.80
CHIEF OF SINNERS THOUGH I BE.
00:49:53.80\00:49:56.76
HOW CAN YOU
MARKET A SONG LIKE THAT?
00:49:56.76\00:49:59.36
BIBLICALLY,
THAT'S HOW YOU MARKET IT.
00:49:59.36\00:50:01.53
SO WHY DON'T WE TURN TO THAT?
00:50:01.53\00:50:02.60
WHAT'S THE VERSE NUMBER?
00:50:02.60\00:50:04.10
TWO-NINETY-FIVE.
00:50:04.10\00:50:05.33
LET'S STAND
TOGETHER AND SING THAT, 295.
00:50:05.33\00:50:08.86
[MUSIC]
00:50:10.33\00:50:15.43
? CHIEF OF
SINNERS ? ? THOUGH I BE ?
00:50:16.70\00:50:21.73
? JESUS SHED HIS
BLOOD ? ? FOR ME ?
00:50:21.73\00:50:27.06
? DIED THAT I
MIGHT LIVE ? ? ON HIGH ?
00:50:27.06\00:50:32.16
? DIED THAT I MIGHT NEVER DIE ?
? AS THE BRANCH IS TO THE VINE ?
00:50:32.16\00:50:42.76
? I AM HIS AND HE IS MINE ?
00:50:42.76\00:50:49.00
>> BEFORE WE SING THE SECOND
VERSE--THEY'RE SHORT VERSES.
00:50:50.66\00:50:53.66
WE'RE GONNA DO ALL THREE.
00:50:53.66\00:50:56.30
HOLY SPIRIT MAY BE SPEAKING TO
SOMEBODY TODAY AND YOU REALIZE
00:50:56.30\00:50:59.90
THAT YOU'VE BEEN MAYBE
CONDEMNING YOUR NEIGHBOR
00:50:59.90\00:51:02.93
OR TRUSTING IN YOUR OWN
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND FORGETTING
00:51:02.93\00:51:06.40
THAT WE ALL ARE SINNERS
WHO DESPERATELY NEED JESUS.
00:51:06.40\00:51:10.70
AND YOU MAY HAVE SOME
SPECIAL NEED IN YOUR LIFE
00:51:10.70\00:51:13.10
OR WHATEVER IT IS.
00:51:13.10\00:51:14.20
WE JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU AN
OPPORTUNITY AS WE SING VERSES
00:51:14.20\00:51:16.63
TWO AND VERSE THREE, IF
YOU HAVE SOME SPECIAL NEED
00:51:16.63\00:51:20.56
FOR PRAYER OR YOU MIGHT WANT TO
RENEW YOUR RECOGNITION OF YOUR
00:51:20.56\00:51:23.50
NEED FOR JESUS' MERCY, COME.
00:51:23.50\00:51:26.16
WE'LL HAVE PRAYER
TOGETHER AS WE SING VERSE TWO.
00:51:26.16\00:51:29.63
[MUSIC] ? OH, THE HEIGHT ?
00:51:29.63\00:51:33.90
? OF JESUS' LOVE ? ?
HIGHER THAN THE HEAV'N ABOVE ?
00:51:33.90\00:51:42.36
? DEEPER THAN THE DEEPEST
SEA ? ? LASTING AS ETERNITY ?
00:51:42.36\00:51:53.10
? LOVE THAT FOUND ME
? ? WONDROUS THOUGHT ?
00:51:53.10\00:51:58.43
? FOUND ME WHEN ?
? I SOUGHT HIM NOT ?
00:51:58.43\00:52:05.03
>> VERSE THREE.
00:52:05.03\00:52:06.33
? CHIEF OF
SINNERS ? ? THOUGH I BE ?
00:52:06.33\00:52:11.43
? CHRIST IS ALL IN ALL TO
ME ? ? ALL MY WANTS TO HIM ?
00:52:11.43\00:52:20.40
? ARE KNOWN ? ? ALL MY SORROWS ?
00:52:20.40\00:52:25.33
? ARE HIS OWN ?
? SAFE WITH HIM ?
00:52:25.33\00:52:30.73
? FROM EARTHLY STRIFE ? ?
HE SUSTAINS THE HIDDEN LIFE ??
00:52:30.73\00:52:41.00
>> ALMIGHTY FATHER IN HEAVEN,
LORD, AS WE COME BEFORE YOU
00:52:46.10\00:52:50.10
TODAY, I BELIEVE THAT ALL OF US
RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE NO HOPE
00:52:50.10\00:52:57.06
EXCEPT IN YOUR GRACE AND MERCY.
00:52:57.06\00:53:00.53
AND WE SHARE IN THE
PRAYER OF THAT PUBLICAN.
00:53:00.53\00:53:04.86
LORD, HAVE
MERCY ON ME, A SINNER.
00:53:04.86\00:53:09.00
AND LORD, WE PRAY THAT WE CAN
ALSO KNOW BY FAITH WE CAN SHARE
00:53:09.00\00:53:12.26
IN THE PROMISE OF
CHRIST THAT WE CAN GO
00:53:12.26\00:53:15.43
TO OUR HOMES JUSTIFIED.
00:53:15.43\00:53:18.03
FORGIVE US FOR THE
TIMES WHERE WE'VE COMMITTED
00:53:18.03\00:53:20.96
THE GREATEST SIN, THE ONE
OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE
00:53:20.96\00:53:24.06
THAT IS THE
MOST HOPELESS OF ALL.
00:53:24.06\00:53:26.73
FORGIVE US FOR OUR PRAYERS
AND OUR GOSSIP THAT SOMETIMES
00:53:26.73\00:53:30.00
HAS BEEN CLOAKING
OUR OWN SELFISHNESS.
00:53:30.00\00:53:34.46
HELP US TO LAY OUR SOULS
BARE HERE IN YOUR HOUSE, LORD,
00:53:34.46\00:53:38.23
BEFORE YOUR
THRONE, SAYING, "WOE IS ME.
00:53:38.23\00:53:41.56
I AM UNDONE."
00:53:41.56\00:53:42.96
AND THEN HEARING YOU
SAY, "YOUR SIN IS PURGED."
00:53:42.96\00:53:47.46
I PRAY YOUR BLESSING
IN EACH PERSON'S LIFE.
00:53:47.46\00:53:50.23
LORD, BE RIGHT NOW IN A
VERY SPECIAL WAY WITH THOSE
00:53:50.23\00:53:52.70
WHO HAVE RESPONDED
TO THE INVITATION TODAY.
00:53:52.70\00:53:55.06
HELP THEM TO EXPERIENCE THAT
CLEANSING AND THAT FORGIVENESS.
00:53:55.06\00:53:57.66
WHAT A JOY TO KNOW THAT WE
CAN GO HOME JUST BEFORE YOU
00:53:57.66\00:54:02.06
BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS.
00:54:02.06\00:54:04.43
WE ALSO PRAY FOR A SPECIAL
DOUBLE BLESSING ON THOSE WHO
00:54:04.43\00:54:07.26
HAVE SEALED THEIR COMMITMENT
THROUGH BAPTISM TODAY.
00:54:07.26\00:54:10.26
FILL THEM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:54:10.26\00:54:12.26
HELP THEM TO RECOGNIZE
THEIR LIVES OF MINISTRY NOW.
00:54:12.26\00:54:15.20
KEEP THEM SHOULD TEMPTATION
COME, AS YOU DID YOUR OWN SON.
00:54:15.20\00:54:18.86
BE WITH US AS A CHURCH FAMILY.
00:54:18.86\00:54:20.46
BIND OUR HEARTS
TOGETHER IN CHRISTIAN LOVE.
00:54:20.46\00:54:23.00
WE THANK YOU FOR HEARING
THIS PRAYER 'CAUSE WE'RE COMING
00:54:23.00\00:54:25.56
BEFORE YOU, PLEADING THE
BLOOD AND THE MERITS OF JESUS.
00:54:25.56\00:54:28.83
AMEN.
00:54:28.83\00:54:31.26
>> HELLO FRIENDS,
I'M DOUG BATCHELOR.
00:54:31.26\00:54:33.46
FOR MORE THAN 40
YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN
00:54:33.46\00:54:36.93
A MINISTRY OF EVANGELISM,
REACHING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE,
00:54:36.93\00:54:41.40
CHANGING LIVES WITH
THE POWERFUL MESSAGE OF
00:54:41.40\00:54:44.03
HOPE AND PURPOSE
FOUND IN THE BIBLE.
00:54:44.03\00:54:47.26
AS DISCIPLES OF CHRIST, WE HERE
AT AMAZING FACTS HAVE ACCEPTED
00:54:47.26\00:54:51.00
THE GREAT COMMISSION CHALLENGE
TO SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS
00:54:51.00\00:54:54.10
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
00:54:54.10\00:54:55.76
WHAT BEGAN AS A 15-MINUTE RADIO
PROGRAM HAS BEEN BLESSED BY GOD
00:54:55.76\00:55:00.50
TO GROW INTO A MULTI-FACETED,
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA MINISTRY.
00:55:00.50\00:55:05.30
THESE ARE TRULY EXCITING TIMES,
YET WE CANNOT DO ANY OF THIS
00:55:05.30\00:55:09.20
WITHOUT YOUR
CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP.
00:55:09.20\00:55:11.86
>> AMAZING FACTS HAS
BEEN A HUGE CORNERSTONE IN MY
00:55:11.86\00:55:15.26
WHOLE CONVERSION EXPERIENCE
AND MY WALK WITH CHRIST.
00:55:15.26\00:55:18.40
>> INVESTING IN
AMAZING FACTS IS A NO-BRAINER.
00:55:18.40\00:55:22.00
IT'S AN INVESTMENT IN ETERNITY.
00:55:22.00\00:55:23.33
>> I AM SO THANKFUL FOR WHAT'S
HAPPENING IN AMAZING FACTS.
00:55:23.33\00:55:25.80
IT'S CHANGING PEOPLE'S LIVES.
00:55:25.80\00:55:27.50
>> AMAZING FACTS HAS
TOUCHED MY LIFE IN WAYS THAT
00:55:27.50\00:55:30.26
I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN.
00:55:30.26\00:55:31.70
>> WE ARE A PART
OF GOD'S GREATER PLAN.
00:55:31.70\00:55:35.06
>> INVESTING IN AMAZING
FACTS IS ACTUALLY AN INVESTMENT
00:55:35.06\00:55:38.40
IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:55:38.40\00:55:40.03
>> I'M A PRODUCT OF THE
GIFTS THAT SOMEONE HAS GIVEN.
00:55:40.03\00:55:44.03
>> I'M ONE CHANGED LIFE.
00:55:44.03\00:55:45.60
>> I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME.
00:55:45.60\00:55:47.36
>> THOUSANDS OF LOST
SOULS ARE COMING TO KNOW JESUS
00:55:47.36\00:55:50.13
AND ARE BEING
TRANSFORMED INTO HIS LIKENESS.
00:55:50.13\00:55:53.16
THOUSANDS MORE ARE EXPERIENCING
NEW DEPTH IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP
00:55:53.16\00:55:56.43
WITH CHRIST.
00:55:56.43\00:55:58.73
WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH
CONTINUED PRAYER, TRUST IN GOD,
00:55:58.73\00:56:01.73
AND OUR SACRIFICIAL GIVING,
THAT WE CAN TAKE THIS MESSAGE
00:56:01.73\00:56:05.06
OF HOPE AROUND THE
WORLD TO ONE AND TO ALL.
00:56:05.06\00:56:10.73
[MUSIC]
00:56:11.70\00:56:16.70
>> HOW MUCH MORE
EXCITING CAN IT BE THAN THAT?
00:56:18.70\00:56:22.86
>> IN THE SAME WAY ALL OF
THE PLANETS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
00:56:31.13\00:56:34.20
REVOLVE AROUND THE SUN,
EVERYTHING WE DO HERE AT
00:56:34.20\00:56:37.16
AMAZING FACTS REVOLVES AROUND
THE NUCLEUS OF GOD'S WORD,
00:56:37.16\00:56:41.40
THE SCRIPTURES.
00:56:41.40\00:56:42.66
THAT'S WHY WE'RE VERY EXCITED
TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE RELEASE
00:56:42.66\00:56:45.40
OF A NEW RESOURCE
THAT WILL BLESS YOU IN YOUR
00:56:45.40\00:56:48.03
PERSONAL STUDY.
00:56:48.03\00:56:49.43
IT'S THE AMAZING
FACTS PROPHECY STUDY BIBLE.
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