211: Carl Parry – Exhortation: Men Ought Always to Pray and Not to Faint

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Today’s talk is an excitation by
Brother Carl Perri, that was

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given at the Cumberland Ecclesia
in Adelaide on September 25th of

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this year.
His title was men ought always

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to pray and not to faint which
the quote from Luke 18 verse 1.

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The and his education is based
in Luke 18 here.

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Kind of its kind of a two-part a
station first about the parable

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of the persistent Widow.
And the second about the parable

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of the Pharisee and the tax
collector and he ties them both

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together, as, you know, pointing
out the theme that the Lord

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Jesus is making and kind of
running through about the power

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of prayer, brother.
Carl makes the point that we

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sometimes can be dismayed in our
prayers.

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We all feel like we don’t pray
enough.

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And, and these these Parables
kind of give some purpose to our

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prayers, I very much enjoyed
this.

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I think Exactly something I
needed to hear and it reminded

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me of the passage in Isaiah.
Give not the Lord rest until he

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has established his City and I
think that was a beautiful, a

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beautiful Asian station.
He I think the parallel

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persistent Widow is a confusing
Parable and he kind of reads it

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directly on its face with what
the Lord said it would be about.

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And then pull, Is what he calls
her determination into tying

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that with the attitude of the
tax collector in his prayer and

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that those are our examples to
be determined and humble.

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So I ran much enjoyed this talk
and I’m thankful to the brother

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men ought always to pray and not

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to faint by Brother Carl Perri.
David, a good morning.

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My dear friend assist us in our
Lord Jesus Christ.

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As we come to remember the work
of Salvation that our Lord has

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achieved.
God working in him.

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For our Salvation, we wish to
take a few thoughts of Our Lord

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this morning, based on the first
cup of Parables.

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From Luke chapter 18, we want to
talk about prayer, And we

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approach the subject of prayer
benefits us with a great deal of

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reverence don’t we, because we
are dealing with the way that we

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communicate with almighty God.
And I think in this subject, all

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of us feel very inadequate when
we think of our own prayers and

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the way in which we.
So often neglect, this idea of

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constant prayer.
And sometimes we find it very

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difficult to express ourselves.
Don’t we, you know, We crave to

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be like the the great man, David
who could express, wonderful

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thoughts and his prayers, or to
express the mind that Apostle

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Paul had And all of that
finishes, we look at our own

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feeble attempts and we sometimes
feel very embarrassed and

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dispirited perhaps at our lack
of being able to communicate

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with our heavenly father.
This Parable is for us.

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That men ought always to pray
and not to faint.

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It comes in a significant
context.

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The Lord has been speaking in
the previous chapter about his

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coming it had an immediate
impact of course in relation to

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the Jews of that time in ad 70
but it also has a wider

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application to us for indeed as
it was in the days of Noah.

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So shall also be in the days of
the coming of the son of man.

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And you know, British citizen
the Saints, the body of

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Believers have been waiting, two
thousand, Is for his return.

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So that’s what baptized 50 years
ago, expecting our Lord to

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return immediately.
But Time, Marches On. and one of

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the great challenges that we
have been citizens to persevere

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in prayer when it appears That
our Lord is not answering our

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prayers for his return.
And I think better sisters that

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this Parable in that context is
definitely for us because it’s

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it is very easy to become
dispirited and discouraged as

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time just matches on.
No, it’s not yet in the Earth.

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It’s a parable in which men
ought always to pray and in fact

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that were taught in the Greek.
Really means must not an option.

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It’s a necessity.
Must pray and there’s a

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corollary here.
Isn’t there that that if we are

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praying ceaselessly then this
dispirited attitude will then

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slowly deep be diminished.
But if we’re not people of

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prayer, then it become easy,
just to give up.

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Become discouraged.
Now, the challenge of that verse

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one, better sisters is always
praying and and the Greek is

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well translated, it means
ceaselessly constantly.

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Now, when you examine that, how
practically can we be, always a

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prayer And I think the answer
that question is, is that in the

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end, it becomes a state of mind,
it becomes a disposition that we

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need to develop to have a ready,
mind to be conscious of God’s

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presence.
A Japanese citizen in life.

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It’s that lens that perspective
that we need to have an

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awareness of Almighty, God’s
presence.

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And there are many things that
can give us opportunity for a

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brief prayer.
We may be traveling.

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We may see a magnificent Vista,
a wonderful scene, it’s an

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opportunity to give, thanks to
the creator of Heaven and Earth.

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We may experience an act of
kindness for a brother or sister

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an opportunity to give thanks to
God.

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We may be speaking to somebody
about the truth, an opportunity

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to seek God’s blessing.
We might be facing trial and

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Temptation and, and all of these
kind of incidents benefits as

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provide a lens through, which we
can appreciate that almighty,

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God needs to be drawn into the
picture, and that’s surely the

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way that we can always be in
this state of Readiness and

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prayer.
It’s not easy to cultivate.

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When you think about that, is
it?

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And we have very busy lives.
We rushing hither, and thither

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Time, Marches On and sometimes
we don’t make opportunities for

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prayer.
Regular daily prayer, takes

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discipline.
It takes a concerted effort.

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And, you know, it’s a learned
experience.

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The, the disciples came to
Jesus, after they observing him

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praying, and they said, teach us
to pray as John taught his

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disciples, it can be taught, it
can be learned.

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We just have to have the
discipline and we have to have

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the opportunity been assistance
of having that mind of the

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awareness of God, that is
difficult to achieve.

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I find it difficult to achieve
And I’m one of the most

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difficult aspects is
persevering.

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And sometimes we feel that we’re
just saying the same things over

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and over and over again, there’s
to be no answer but God is

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listening and our Lord
understood.

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The need to persevere in prayer.
The opposite of that is

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spiritual fatigue at the Lord
calls it.

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Fainting, The diag lot says, men
ought always to pray and not to

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be weary the NIV says, men ought
always to pray and not give up.

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It’s a great Temptation, isn’t
there?

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Just to give it up and the the
round of our daily life.

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Can make us faint and
spiritless.

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The demands of spirituality, the
demands of the truth demands of

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the word of God are significant
pressures, are they?

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And sometimes it feels just too
hard.

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Well we can’t give up them
sisters and that closeness to

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God that closeness to our Lord
is something, which needs to be

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cultivated in our life.
Now, to underscore the

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significance of this remark.
He has this rather remarkable

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parable about the unjust judge.
He says, in verse 2, there was

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in a city a judge which feared
not God.

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Neither regarded man.
Now, under the law of Moses, the

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chief qualification of being a
judge, was to fear God.

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In the book of Deuteronomy, it
was a specific qualification.

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The judges had to be aware of
the presence of God fear.

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God, this judge was totally
disinterested in religion.

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Absolutely disinterested.
And on the other side of the

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coin, the record says he feared
not man.

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He had no interest in the
people.

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He was supposed to serve and
here is the ultimate wickedness

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of the man, isn’t it?
The war was irrelevant.

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God was irrelevant and he had no
point in compassion.

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Across the people, who surf,
what kind of Judge is this Why

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was even a judge?
It must have been surely out of

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sense of status and power or
self-promotion.

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In fact, in verse 6, the Lord
calls him unjust people who

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don’t fear God and have no
compassion on their neighbor

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unjust in the Lord’s assessment.
He was not fit to be a judge on

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any spiritual level.
And yet he was appointed by the

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people to represent them in
judgment bizarre situation, but

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it grabs our attention.
He’s not the kind of Judge that

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anyone would really have any
confidence in.

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And in verse 3, there was a
widow in that City.

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Oh, we do as such, she had, no
husband or family member to

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support her, or to go, to, and
widows in Israeli.

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Society were very much poor and
almost defenseless, you know,

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what strikes us about this
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Is her initiative, competency
her, determination her

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persistence her disciplined to
find Justice.

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Now, she could have easily have
just said, well, look, you know,

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I’ll just bare my
disappointment.

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I’ll suffer the indignity of
being robbed or defrauded or

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whatever the problem was, but
she wasn’t like that.

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She had a determination
perseverance, but really is

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quite remarkable.
But she’s a widow.

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She had none to please her cause
it was time to take the matter

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back to the judge.
Now we don’t know the

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circumstances of the case but in
some situations she was either

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said, robbed or defrauded or
some So, he was perpetrated

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against her, that was totally
unjust.

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And she had no one to go to.
So what’s she going to do well

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in verse 3?
She came unto him.

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Now, unfortunately, the
authorized version of skewers

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the drama of that the Greek is
she was continually coming to

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him.
In fact that was the judges

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complaint in verse 5, her
continual coming.

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She was persistent to the point
where she wanted this natural

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Justice to eventuate.
Her words were very simply.

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Verse 3, avenge me of mine.
Adversary actually is the would

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have been just too strong a
word.

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It’s not really talking about
vengeance.

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All the Greek word really means
to vindicate one’s right, she

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sought Justice, she’s not
seeking Revenge.

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She’s just seeking natural
Justice and the word adversary.

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There is opponent at law.
So there’s been a court case.

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At The Meta, had come before
this unjust judge, and he was

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strolling.
She was clearly in the right,

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but the judge would not rule
against her adversary.

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You think what kind of man is
this?

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He’s lazy as well as perverting.
The course of Justice.

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And she’s waiting for decision
and she’s persistently

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persistently.
Coming to him saying, vindicate

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me.
Now we don’t know what was

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preventing in making that
decision, but there was no sense

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of compassion to this woman.
But there was no sense of

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answering to a higher Court.
You just refuse to make a

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decision on her behalf.
This is the epitome of red tape

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bureaucracy.
No decision.

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And she knew she was right.
And the judge knew she was

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right, but he’s not going to
make a decision on her behalf.

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Well, in verse 4, he would not
for a while but after what he

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said within himself though, I
fear not got no regard men yet

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because this would have trouble
with me.

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I would have been sure.
Let’s by her continual coming.

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She weary me some, what kind of
Judges this who Knows it’s his

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duty and responsibility to
uphold some kind of justice but

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he’s flatly refusing to do so.
but after a while, After a while

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he is now reflecting inwardly
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I fear not God nor regard man.
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declaring the fact that he’s not
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In God, is not stuck to the
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about people.
Now you imagine that this is a

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self Proclamation by this man.
He knows he’s evil and is

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comfortable with it.
Here’s the worst possible human

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being.
You could ever bring your case

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before yet because this Widow
trouble with me, it’s all about

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me.
I will vindicate her less by her

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continual coming.
She weary me now, I’m sure we

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appreciate better citizens that
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It is quite significant as them.
The word weary there is to beat

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under the eye to get a black
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So, here’s this Widow.
Who continually comes to her and

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after every session, he feels
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the bush by this woman.
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forthright, she knew what she
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like he’d gone around with her
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Pummeled by oh and that
consistency that continual

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perseverance.
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His motive was
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was to get a bit of peace and
quiet his motive was to just get

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rid of her. now, all of this
stands been sisters as an

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absolute contrast to almighty
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hear what the unjust judge Seth
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corrupt, he was unjust, but
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His Viewpoint was.
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this woman and give her what she
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And an absolute contrast better
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Jesus Christ.
Draws this contrasts with our

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heavenly father in verse 7.
She’ll not God.

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Avenge his own elect, which cry
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He bear long with them.
I will tell you.

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He will avenge them.
Speedily.

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Nevertheless, when the son of
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on the earth?
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our heavenly father is
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listen until he was provoked.
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The judge had no regard for the
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God always regards the plight of
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the time is, right.
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persistently.
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And we to British Institute need
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not to give up.
The Widow constantly worried by

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the judge.
Our heavenly father is not we

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read by our prayers.
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Injustice and we to seek
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that he will pronounce us.
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The judge will only Vindicated
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His people because he has called
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in the end if an unjust judge
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please out of self-interest.
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respond out of compassion.
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Don’t faint.
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We may cry day and night and in
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So we emulate the example of of
Ezra and Nehemiah of David who

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consistently cried day and
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Because you see Brent sisters,
our father is listening and he

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is aware.
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yet right to send his son, he is
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Do we believe that We appreciate
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There’s no outward visible sign.
God is listening is there but he

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does.
And our prayers can be in so

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many Avenues.
Not just for ourselves, but for

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others.
I’m going to list here of the

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things that we can pray for for
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For Israel.
For the Peace of Jerusalem.

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For Laborers in his service.
The extension of the truth.

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For the conversion of all men,
for those who hate us for

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forgiveness and restoration
before God for the Forgiveness

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of others, the strength in, help
in time of need, for development

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of godliness, for wisdom and
spiritual understanding for the

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spiritual physical welfare, of
our brothers sisters, for our

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own salvation, for the welfare
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It has in other countries, The
self-examination for guidance

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during trial for Spiritual
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For the blessings of Providence
for our daily bread. and for

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God’s coming Kingdom when his
will be done on Earth as it is

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done in heaven, is it just a few
of the things that we can pray

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for the the breadth of that is
immense We have the challenge of

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making that a constant.
Ceaseless thing in our lives.

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And how much more says our Lord
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Vindicate us though?
He bear long with them.

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The revised version gives us a
better understanding that he is

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long-suffering over them.
And the Very fact that our law

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is not in the earth is evidence
of his long suffering as it was

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in the days of Noah that
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Been sisters to allow people to
understand the gravity of the

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situation.
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that coming judgment and to do
something about And that

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long-suffering continues.
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Getting baptized, we have
interested, friends, being

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baptized as a long-suffering of
God, continues to wait, all of

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those things occur.
Though he is long-suffering over

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them.
When he does ACT button sits us,

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it will be done.
Speedily in an instant is the

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Greek He’ll wait.
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when he intervenes in world
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Speedily, our Lord will suddenly
be in the earth and we will

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stand before him to give
account.

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The purpose of this parable.
Is really an antidote against

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delay, or a sieve delay and
waiting in the end benefits as

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time unveils true characters
there.

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But the longer our Lord is not
in the earth that then the more

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opportunity we have of either
serving him will be coming to

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see interested and time itself
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Are the antidote to that?
Used to be persistent and

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faithful in that prayer.
And the question, they are

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asking verse eight and he will
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If it was a relevant question.
Is he going to find?

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In the Greek, this faith.
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And the point of that, Parable,
the point of that question is,

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is that we need to ask ourselves
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With.
We have that faith, that kind of

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faith.
Are we giving up?

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We fainting that we becoming
spiritually.

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Fatigued to just too hard, too
difficult.

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The passage of time reveals our
faith.

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And the fact that the Lord
asked, that question is

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incredibly perceptive, because
when he does come, is he going

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to find that only, we can ask
that question to ourselves. now,

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while she’s on the subject of
prayer, he continues in a

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second, parable How we going to
pray with, what disposition?

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Are we going to pray?
What will be our motive in

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praying?
Will it be a prayer of self

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justification or a prayer of
humbly seeking God for that

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righteousness, which he bestows
the Widow sought Vindication,

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the Widow sought justification.
And the law is now going to take

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that subject.
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attitude in prayer and, and the
next Parable benefit has

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addressed the fundamental
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How is one made right with God?
How is one reconciled to God?

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How does one become at one with
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It’s not a new question job.
Ask that question.

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How can man be right with God?
Now this Parable supplies that

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answer and does again in such a,
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And it was targeted, says verse
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To those who trusted in
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righteous and despised others.
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disciples but for the Pharisees,
but nevertheless, the lesson was

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very, very clear.
It was a parable to educate and

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to warn Trusting in one’s self.
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putting confidence that our own
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Paul had to come to the
realization that he could put no

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confidence in the flesh.
But there was some of the felt

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that they were doing pretty good
in the truth.

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They were pretty good.
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well that they had something to
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And this is one of the stumbling
blocks that Jewish people in

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seeking their own righteousness
and seeking to vindicate

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themselves.
Because what that does is it is

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that is that when you when you
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attitude then immediately you
begin to look at other people

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differently and you begin to
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There’s the problem. when you
elevate yourself, you do so at

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the expense of others, Now the
parable is graphic, isn’t it?

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We have in verse 10, two men
going up into the temple, to

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pray the one, a Pharisee and the
other Republican where this

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Parable comes from.
It comes from Zechariah Chapter

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7 and like it a comeback to
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There are two identities here,
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collector, In the days of
Zechariah, there were people

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going up to the temple to
worship chapter 7 of Zechariah

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verse 1.
It came to pass in the fourth

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year of King.
Darius at the word of Yahweh,

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came to Zechariah the fourth day
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Even just flew when they had
sent unto the house of God,

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cherisa and Reagan Milich and
their men to pray before Yahweh.

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Now in actual fact, that
expression of the house of God

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is is more correctly.
Translated Bethel when For had

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sent these two to pray before,
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So, so we have a situation where
men are going up to the temple

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to pray.
And what were they praying

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about?
What the question came on

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fasting.
There’s that interesting fasting

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was the subject of this prayer.
You see what had happened was,

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was that the Jews had impose
upon themselves?

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A fasting regime, to remember
the fall of Jerusalem by the

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Babylonians, and of course,
they’re now in a dilemma because

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you see, the house of God is
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So if the temples being rebuilt,
the question comes, what should

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we be actually fasting for the
destruction of the temple?

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That, that was the question.
The question about fasting.

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And what was called times.
Verse 4 then.

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Came the word of Yahweh of
hosts, to be saying, Speak unto

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all the people and to the priest
saying when you faster them or

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to the fifth and seventh month,
even though 70 years, did she at

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all fast unto me?
Even to me and when you did eat,

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and when you did drink, did you
not eat for yourselves and drink

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for yourselves?
See, they were praying for their

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praying for themselves and
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On the question of fasting.
And go to finally set in verse

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8, this is what I want to
execute.

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True, judgment and show mercy.
And compassion every man to his

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brother oppress, not the window
nor the father lost stranger to

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the poor and let none of you
imagine evil against your

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brother in your heart.
You see, they were separating

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themselves. praying to
themselves on the question of

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fasting and that becomes the
basis of the Publican, in the

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parable of Luke 18, Sorry, the
the Pharisee in Luke 18, the

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capture of the publican.
Is actually based on the life of

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Hezekiah we’re not going to deal
with that particular this

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morning.
Although he was a king, he was

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despised and rejected of men.
And the record says on a number

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of occasions that he went up to
the house of God to pray.

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And he prayed for God’s
salvation because he couldn’t

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help himself in the matter of
the Assyrian invasion.

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The basis of the parable is in
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See each morning and evening.
There was a special ritual in

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which the burnt offering for the
day and the incense was lit and

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early in the morning and 3:00
p.m. the afternoon.

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People streamed into the temple
to pray.

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All sorts of people that
occasion the sacrifice of the

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Lambs was made the continual
burnt offering Time of prayer,

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that’s when rivers acaryas went
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Light, the candles light, the
lamp stands and sometime when

437
00:30:04,200 –> 00:30:07,900
they, the congregation itself,
observing the sacrifice being

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00:30:08,300 –> 00:30:11,900
burnt and the and the type of
incense Drew close to personal

439
00:30:11,900 –> 00:30:17,700
prayer.
And verse 11, Luke 18, the

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00:30:17,700 –> 00:30:22,400
Pharisee, stood and prayed.
Thus with himself.

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00:30:23,900 –> 00:30:30,100
That word stood has an Old
Testament connection, its use of

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00:30:30,100 –> 00:30:34,100
the priests standing before God
in official capacity.

443
00:30:35,100 –> 00:30:38,100
But you see the problem of this
man is is the very standing was

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00:30:38,100 –> 00:30:42,300
ostentatious and very likely he
chose a very visible spot.

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00:30:43,200 –> 00:30:46,500
As close as you can possibly,
get to the Holiness of the of

446
00:30:46,500 –> 00:30:49,500
the temple itself.
And he was there standing for

447
00:30:49,500 –> 00:30:55,800
all to see public display.
His body language, demonstrated

448
00:30:55,800 –> 00:31:00,900
his attitude.
And his prayer was not directed

449
00:31:00,900 –> 00:31:04,100
to God, it was directed inwards
to himself.

450
00:31:04,400 –> 00:31:09,100
The person, he’s addressing is
not God, he become his own God.

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00:31:09,600 –> 00:31:12,000
He was actually directing his
prayer in a very

452
00:31:12,000 –> 00:31:17,400
self-congratulatory fashion.
That’s pretty well indicated by

453
00:31:17,400 –> 00:31:22,200
his words five times.
He refers to himself in that

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00:31:22,200 –> 00:31:25,400
prayer.
Little pray to God.

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00:31:25,800 –> 00:31:28,700
He gave Scott, no, praise.
He asked nothing from God.

456
00:31:28,700 –> 00:31:32,000
He asked them Mercy from God, he
ask their forgiveness from God.

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00:31:32,000 –> 00:31:35,400
He asked no help from God.
Instead, he commends himself to

458
00:31:35,400 –> 00:31:41,100
God.
God, he says it doesn’t.

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00:31:41,100 –> 00:31:42,800
There’s an appearance of
godliness here.

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00:31:44,100 –> 00:31:47,600
I thank thee and we may pause
there and think.

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00:31:47,600 –> 00:31:52,900
Well, here’s a prayer of thanks.
But as one commentator,

462
00:31:54,300 –> 00:31:58,000
Reflected never were words of
Thanksgiving spoken with less

463
00:31:58,000 –> 00:32:02,400
thankfulness than these.
See, there are boastful words

464
00:32:03,400 –> 00:32:06,700
and I think what it demonstrates
is, the deceitfulness of the

465
00:32:06,700 –> 00:32:11,100
human heart that we can have a
form of godliness.

466
00:32:12,700 –> 00:32:20,000
We can seek God In Prayer. but
we do, so Out of the most awful

467
00:32:20,000 –> 00:32:28,900
motives at times his prayer.
Is one of comparison I thank

468
00:32:28,900 –> 00:32:32,600
thee that I am not as other men
are now.

469
00:32:33,500 –> 00:32:36,300
I’m thankful that I’m not like
the rest of men.

470
00:32:37,200 –> 00:32:41,500
His prayer was not about what
God had done for him, but what

471
00:32:41,500 –> 00:32:45,300
God hadn’t made him.
Think about that.

472
00:32:46,900 –> 00:32:49,900
He was thankful that he was good
enough to stand before.

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00:32:49,900 –> 00:32:57,200
God, I deserve to be him said,
I’ve been called.

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00:32:57,800 –> 00:33:01,600
I’m part of the chosen people.
On the christadelphians we could

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00:33:01,600 –> 00:33:04,600
say.
I deserve to stand here.

476
00:33:06,800 –> 00:33:10,500
You know, sometimes we flatter
ourselves that we’re not quite

477
00:33:10,500 –> 00:33:17,200
as bad as some brethren sisters.
And sometimes we make that

478
00:33:17,500 –> 00:33:19,400
comparison.
Well, I’m not doing too bad

479
00:33:19,400 –> 00:33:21,300
compared to Burleson cells.
It’s a sun sign.

480
00:33:24,100 –> 00:33:26,700
But, you know, benefits of other
people’s feelings.

481
00:33:28,100 –> 00:33:30,800
Do not impart any righteousness
to us.

482
00:33:33,900 –> 00:33:36,900
As he looked around, even though
he was praying, he was looking

483
00:33:36,900 –> 00:33:40,200
at all the crowd across the
courtyard there in the temple.

484
00:33:40,600 –> 00:33:43,400
And he was thankful that he was
not like the extortionist, the

485
00:33:43,400 –> 00:33:46,700
unjust adulterers and you can
imagine him looking across and

486
00:33:46,700 –> 00:33:48,400
thinking, even like that
publican.

487
00:33:50,000 –> 00:33:52,100
Casting is I around him and see
that man.

488
00:33:52,200 –> 00:33:55,500
And, you know, all of those were
where a swipe weren’t they at

489
00:33:55,900 –> 00:34:00,100
the publicans, and the harlots
and the Sinners and laughter,

490
00:34:00,100 –> 00:34:02,100
the lift.
This was that tax collector,

491
00:34:02,100 –> 00:34:05,600
they were the lowest of the low.
And this was the distain, the

492
00:34:05,600 –> 00:34:08,800
sitting at North and when we
start to compare ourselves to

493
00:34:08,800 –> 00:34:11,199
other people and see ourselves
as better than other people.

494
00:34:11,199 –> 00:34:13,500
Then that distained comes into
effect, doesn’t it?

495
00:34:14,199 –> 00:34:19,900
Jesus condemned that He was
clean and pure in his own eyes.

496
00:34:21,900 –> 00:34:25,900
Holly religious.
But look at this, religion verse

497
00:34:25,900 –> 00:34:29,300
12, I fast twice in the week and
I give tithes of all that I

498
00:34:29,300 –> 00:34:33,400
possess.
And that’s it, that that’s,

499
00:34:33,400 –> 00:34:36,400
that’s the sum of his
righteousness.

500
00:34:37,800 –> 00:34:41,300
This is what made up the man.
He had a number of manmade rules

501
00:34:41,300 –> 00:34:43,800
and regulations that he was a
good of here to and because he

502
00:34:43,800 –> 00:34:45,900
kept those, he thought his doing
pretty good in the truth.

503
00:34:45,900 –> 00:34:52,600
Pretty good before.
God That’s the sum total of his

504
00:34:52,600 –> 00:34:56,000
religion.
No other Commandments came to

505
00:34:56,000 –> 00:35:00,800
mind.
He doesn’t ask God for anything

506
00:35:00,800 –> 00:35:04,400
because in his eyes there’s
nothing he thinks he needs from

507
00:35:04,400 –> 00:35:07,000
God.
What a tragic picture that is

508
00:35:08,400 –> 00:35:14,300
So, satisfying christadelphians.
In verse 13 are more turns to

509
00:35:14,300 –> 00:35:18,600
the other individual.
The tax collector.

510
00:35:19,700 –> 00:35:23,100
And his body language.
Also tells us an enormous amount

511
00:35:23,100 –> 00:35:27,600
about his disposition, he was
standing afar off.

512
00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:33,400
That’s where the Gentiles are.
That’s where the lepers are far

513
00:35:33,400 –> 00:35:37,700
off.
He was shunned by society around

514
00:35:37,700 –> 00:35:42,600
him, he was pushed to the edges
of the temple, but he was a

515
00:35:42,600 –> 00:35:45,400
worshiper of God.
Look, we’re not talking about

516
00:35:45,400 –> 00:35:48,800
any religious man, but I’m
talking about a man who has no

517
00:35:48,800 –> 00:35:51,700
time for God.
He wants to worship God and he

518
00:35:51,700 –> 00:35:54,400
is braving the scorn of others
to do.

519
00:35:54,400 –> 00:36:01,300
So he is a courageous man.
But he’s a far-off and the irony

520
00:36:01,300 –> 00:36:04,500
is it is closer to God than the,
than the actual Pharisee was

521
00:36:05,100 –> 00:36:08,100
he’s accepted this position at
society and forced upon him.

522
00:36:09,700 –> 00:36:12,900
He knows, he doesn’t deserve to
be in the presence of God or the

523
00:36:12,900 –> 00:36:14,300
premise of his fellow
Israelites.

524
00:36:14,500 –> 00:36:17,300
Yet, he still wants to pray to
God, he’s a religious man.

525
00:36:19,600 –> 00:36:22,700
And the body language is very
graphic is that he stands down

526
00:36:22,700 –> 00:36:25,000
and he would not lift up his
eyes to Heaven.

527
00:36:27,700 –> 00:36:29,700
He’s ashamed to come in the
presence of God.

528
00:36:29,700 –> 00:36:31,500
He’s overwhelmed by his
failures.

529
00:36:31,600 –> 00:36:34,900
He knows his unworthy.
He feels the weight of his

530
00:36:34,900 –> 00:36:37,500
transgression, he wants to be
right with God.

531
00:36:38,300 –> 00:36:41,200
He wants to worship God in
spirit and truth, but he feels

532
00:36:41,200 –> 00:36:44,500
the weight of his transgressions
and left that unworthiness to

533
00:36:44,500 –> 00:36:48,100
stand before almighty God.
In fact, he despises himself

534
00:36:48,400 –> 00:36:50,600
different to the Despised
others.

535
00:36:53,100 –> 00:36:56,600
The eyes of the Pharisee were
casting dispersion across the

536
00:36:56,600 –> 00:36:59,500
even like this Publican, but
this man’s eyes wouldn’t even

537
00:36:59,500 –> 00:37:03,800
even leave the ground.
And more than that, Ben, the

538
00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:07,200
sisters.
He was beating his chest.

539
00:37:07,300 –> 00:37:09,200
Now that that is a remarkable
thing.

540
00:37:09,200 –> 00:37:11,400
When you think about it,
according to Ed Hirsch, I’m

541
00:37:11,900 –> 00:37:14,500
putting your hands over your
chest and bowing.

542
00:37:14,500 –> 00:37:17,800
Your eyes was a posture of
humility, but this man goes

543
00:37:17,800 –> 00:37:20,600
beyond that and there is no
record in any of the Old

544
00:37:20,600 –> 00:37:24,100
Testament passages of a man
beating their breasts.

545
00:37:25,900 –> 00:37:29,800
The only occasion of that.
Is in the New Testament.

546
00:37:30,200 –> 00:37:33,700
When after the Jewish people had
crucified their lord, they smote

547
00:37:33,700 –> 00:37:39,700
their breasts.
You think about that the body

548
00:37:39,700 –> 00:37:43,600
language of that?
Pummeling himself almost beating

549
00:37:43,600 –> 00:37:48,600
himself.
Bruising himself. there’s

550
00:37:49,200 –> 00:37:53,300
frustration with himself
acknowledging, his weakness

551
00:37:53,700 –> 00:38:00,600
broken with shame crushed and
humbled, And he’s going to speak

552
00:38:00,600 –> 00:38:05,200
to God.
God exactly the same beginning

553
00:38:05,200 –> 00:38:13,500
as the Pharisees prayer God.
The merciful to me, you know,

554
00:38:14,100 –> 00:38:17,800
the Pharisee spoke in the Greek
29, Greek words.

555
00:38:18,900 –> 00:38:23,000
Mostly about himself this man
speaks 6, Greek words.

556
00:38:25,300 –> 00:38:28,700
And the power of that expression
is is that that word merciful is

557
00:38:28,700 –> 00:38:33,500
not the normal use of the word
mercy, in verse 38, in our

558
00:38:33,500 –> 00:38:37,700
reading this morning, when the
man said have mercy on me, that,

559
00:38:37,700 –> 00:38:41,000
that’s the normal would have
mercy but but the Lord throws in

560
00:38:41,000 –> 00:38:44,500
this special Greek word that
comes out of the lips of this

561
00:38:44,700 –> 00:38:47,800
particular tax collector and the
Greek word.

562
00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:55,600
Is to make reconciliation.
It’s the word that is connected

563
00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:57,900
with The Mercy Seat Celeste
Ariane.

564
00:39:00,200 –> 00:39:03,600
It’s not the normal word, for
Mercy, it is been a sisters.

565
00:39:05,200 –> 00:39:10,400
Reconcile be to thee.
He has in mind, the attorney

566
00:39:10,400 –> 00:39:16,600
work of God, he’s seeing behind
the ritual of the daily burnt

567
00:39:16,600 –> 00:39:19,300
offering and the offering of
incense, he sing beyond the

568
00:39:19,300 –> 00:39:22,700
ritual to the real issue of
atoning.

569
00:39:26,100 –> 00:39:28,700
He understood that.
God need to provide a sacrifice.

570
00:39:29,600 –> 00:39:31,500
He understood at that.
Perfect.

571
00:39:31,700 –> 00:39:36,000
Perfect animal was a
representation of the Perfection

572
00:39:36,000 –> 00:39:39,500
of the Son of God morally.
And he knew he could never

573
00:39:39,500 –> 00:39:42,200
attain to that.
He understood that God was

574
00:39:42,200 –> 00:39:44,400
righteous in demanding the death
of Flesh.

575
00:39:45,900 –> 00:39:48,300
The girl was righteous in all
his ways and getting all those

576
00:39:48,300 –> 00:39:50,700
principles together.
He stood before God and said

577
00:39:50,900 –> 00:39:54,900
reconcile, they make a tone for
me, unite me.

578
00:39:57,700 –> 00:40:00,000
This man, you the any
righteousness.

579
00:40:01,100 –> 00:40:03,700
Would could only come from God,
not himself.

580
00:40:06,800 –> 00:40:11,100
God.
Be merciful to me a sinner.

581
00:40:11,100 –> 00:40:14,500
Now, in the Greek, it has the
definite article The Sinner.

582
00:40:16,600 –> 00:40:18,300
The Pharisee thought others were
Sinners.

583
00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:21,800
The Publican thinks of himself
as The Sinner.

584
00:40:23,100 –> 00:40:28,200
It’s like Paul who said?
I am the chief of sinners It’s

585
00:40:28,200 –> 00:40:29,700
not comparing yourself to other
people.

586
00:40:29,700 –> 00:40:33,400
He’s looking at himself and
that’s the issue of this man’s

587
00:40:33,400 –> 00:40:37,300
greatness to examine ourselves.
Don’t worry about the person

588
00:40:37,300 –> 00:40:40,900
next to you, don’t compare.
Don’t set yourself above the

589
00:40:40,900 –> 00:40:46,200
people.
He looked at himself, he was

590
00:40:46,200 –> 00:40:49,400
honest in what?
Examination of self The Sinner

591
00:40:49,700 –> 00:40:52,300
and I think it’s we stand before
almighty God seeking to be made

592
00:40:52,300 –> 00:40:55,300
right with God we understand
barristers our real position

593
00:40:55,300 –> 00:41:00,700
before God we are unworthy.
The least of his mercies and the

594
00:41:00,700 –> 00:41:03,400
importance of that confession is
so significant.

595
00:41:04,800 –> 00:41:09,100
He seeks to forsake, he seeks to
reconcile himself to God.

596
00:41:09,100 –> 00:41:12,400
He seeks better and sisters to
undo all of those things that

597
00:41:12,400 –> 00:41:19,100
he’s been doing to change.
And the Lord said, in verse 14,

598
00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:23,100
I tell you.
That this man went down to his

599
00:41:23,100 –> 00:41:28,300
house Justified rather than the
other for everyone that exalteth

600
00:41:28,300 –> 00:41:31,000
himself shall be abased and he
that humbleth himself shall be

601
00:41:31,000 –> 00:41:36,100
exalted.
I tell you, you know, here’s the

602
00:41:36,100 –> 00:41:38,900
authority of the Lord he said
because this, this Doctrine,

603
00:41:38,900 –> 00:41:43,300
this teaching cut across all of
the religious Theology of the

604
00:41:43,300 –> 00:41:48,900
day that God would impute
righteousness by faith without

605
00:41:48,900 –> 00:41:54,600
works of law. and that Doctrine
laid the foundation for Paul’s

606
00:41:54,600 –> 00:41:58,700
Exposition in Romans This is how
man is made right?

607
00:41:58,700 –> 00:42:02,200
With God, not by commending
oneself to God.

608
00:42:02,200 –> 00:42:06,200
But in humbly seeking mercy and
forgiveness, understanding the

609
00:42:06,200 –> 00:42:09,600
righteousness of God and the
unrighteousness of man.

610
00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:13,100
Now it’s interesting, the Lord
added this phrase, in verse 14.

611
00:42:13,100 –> 00:42:17,200
He said this man went down to
his house, Justified, talking

612
00:42:17,200 –> 00:42:21,800
about justification being made
righteous down to his house.

613
00:42:23,500 –> 00:42:26,400
When you put that across the Old
Testament, you find that.

614
00:42:26,400 –> 00:42:29,200
When you go to the temple, you
go up to worship.

615
00:42:31,600 –> 00:42:34,400
And when you go down to your
house, it’s an expression used

616
00:42:34,400 –> 00:42:39,100
in the Old Testament of of the
expression of concluding the

617
00:42:39,100 –> 00:42:43,100
matter.
Of returning to domestic

618
00:42:43,100 –> 00:42:45,600
responsibilities.
And that was it said that the

619
00:42:45,600 –> 00:42:50,900
Pharisee It’s like the Lord
leaves the Pharisee there up on

620
00:42:50,908 –> 00:42:55,400
the Temple, Mount unsatisfied
unanswered.

621
00:42:55,700 –> 00:42:58,000
There’s no closure in that kind
of disposition.

622
00:42:58,200 –> 00:43:00,200
But this man, this man feels
closure.

623
00:43:00,200 –> 00:43:03,000
This man feels the capacity that
he has been heard.

624
00:43:03,000 –> 00:43:06,700
He has been Justified and God
has been merciful and forgiving

625
00:43:06,700 –> 00:43:09,600
him and therefore that concludes
the mountain is able to go down

626
00:43:09,600 –> 00:43:12,000
to his house that never happened
to the Pharisee.

627
00:43:12,700 –> 00:43:15,200
Can’t ever have closure with
that disposition.

628
00:43:18,900 –> 00:43:22,000
I tell you, there’s the
authority of the Lord.

629
00:43:22,000 –> 00:43:26,200
This man is now forgiven, and
he’s righteous, and that would

630
00:43:26,200 –> 00:43:30,000
have seen absolutely outrageous
to the religious leaders of the

631
00:43:30,000 –> 00:43:34,500
day, the unrighteous man who
declared his unrighteousness.

632
00:43:34,500 –> 00:43:37,700
Who sought forgiveness is the
one whom God justifies.

633
00:43:37,800 –> 00:43:39,500
Not the man who keeps the
faster.

634
00:43:39,500 –> 00:43:47,300
The tithing You see in the
ambulance sisters but we look at

635
00:43:47,300 –> 00:43:53,700
ourselves is our religion.
A religion of self of human,

636
00:43:53,700 –> 00:43:58,000
worth of human, Merit of self,
achievement of being better than

637
00:43:58,000 –> 00:44:02,000
others.
Or is it a religion of humble

638
00:44:02,000 –> 00:44:03,800
faith in what God has
accomplished?

639
00:44:04,900 –> 00:44:08,100
An awareness of our unworthiness
is so many ways.

640
00:44:09,900 –> 00:44:12,400
The Pharisee was self-righteous.
He was aloof, he was

641
00:44:12,400 –> 00:44:17,000
contemptuous.
He seeks, no mercy, he seeks no

642
00:44:17,000 –> 00:44:18,600
Grace.
He seeks their forgiveness.

643
00:44:18,600 –> 00:44:19,800
He once.
No sympathy.

644
00:44:20,100 –> 00:44:22,100
He is thankful that he’s not
unrighteous.

645
00:44:22,300 –> 00:44:24,500
We can’t afford to have that
kind of disposition.

646
00:44:25,200 –> 00:44:28,100
He exalted himself in the Lord
said he would be a waste.

647
00:44:30,400 –> 00:44:33,000
We need the disposition of
understanding, our true position

648
00:44:33,000 –> 00:44:35,700
and that humility to approach
almighty.

649
00:44:35,700 –> 00:44:40,000
God, seeking his goodness.
We desperately need that

650
00:44:40,000 –> 00:44:44,600
forgiveness that Grace, we are
distraught at our inability to

651
00:44:44,600 –> 00:44:47,000
be righteous.
We are distraught at our

652
00:44:47,000 –> 00:44:49,600
failings day after day.
Appearances.

653
00:44:49,600 –> 00:44:52,600
As we have this confidence that
we can seek God and be made

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right with God.
If we have that disposition The

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parable.
Of the unjust judge was that we

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would ceaselessly pray and not
faint.

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Let’s take that determination to
Heart.

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To be determined to costly draw
nigh to God, to be aware of his

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presence.
To subject ourselves to the lens

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of that kind of perspective.
And let’s be honest, it has in

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those very prayers, constantly,
day-by-day, expressed that

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humility.
Our inability to achieve any

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sense of perfection our
unworthiness to stand before.

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God.
Let us pray been sisters without

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ceasing.
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