Sunday Morning in the Word

1. Sunday Morning in the Word September 3,2017

3. People and Parables A Study of the People Jesus Met and the ParablesHe Taught which Will Help Us Follow Him! Coming to Grace Summer 2017

4. People and Parables The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Luke 18:9-14

5. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector We had better pay very close attention to this parable! 1. To put it plainly, these are the words of God! 2. It answers the most important question in life, “How can a person get right with God!”

6. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Luke 18:9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else: 

7. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house having his prayer answered . . . Luke 18:14 I tell you, this one went down to his house justified . . .

8. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector “It (justification) alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God; and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.” Martin Luther

9. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector We had better pay very close attention to this parable! 1. To put it plainly, these are the words of God! 2. It answers the most important question in life, “How can a person get right with God!”

10. People and Parables The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Luke 18:9-14

11. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector The two very different men … Their two very different prayers … The two very different outcomes …

12. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Two Very Different Men Luke 18:10 Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

13. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Two Very Different Prayers Luke 18:11-12 The Phariseewas standing and praying like this about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like other people—greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’

14. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Two Very Different Prayers Luke 18:13 “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’”

15. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Two Very Different Prayers Luke 18:13 “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’” Word used here is the word used to refer to the Mercy Seat on the Ark of the Covenant in the Jewish Temple.

16. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector • ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’”

17. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Two Very Different Prayers “God be propitious to me -- the sinner!” (Young’s Literal Translation) “God, turn Your wrath from me—a sinner!” (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

18. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Nothing in my hand I bring, Only to thy cross I cling!

19. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Two Very Different Outcomes Luke 18:14 I tell you, this one went down to his house justifiedrather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.

20. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Which of these two men, these two prayers, come closest to describing you?

21. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poorin spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. “God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers – not because we are worthy but because he is merciful.” (Martin Luther)

22. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Psalm 51:17 The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. You will not despise a broken and humbled heart, God.