North Atlantic Missionary Region - Area 1

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COMPARING THE HUMBLE AND THE PROUD
Pharisee Vs Publican Luke 18:9-14
The Two Prayers In the gospel by Luke Christ brings two men before us the Pharisee and the publican, who went into the temple to pray. One went away as empty as he came. He went into the temple desiring nothing; and he got nothing. The other man asked for something; he asked for pardon and mercy. And he went down to his house justified. Take the prayer of the Pharisee. There is no confession in it, no adoration, no contrition, no petition. He asked for nothing, and he got nothing. He went into the temple not to pray but to boast.
One was altogether of a different spirit to the other.
One prayed with his head, and the other with his heart.
One told God what a wonderfully great and good man he was: “I am not as other men—or even as this publican.” His prayer was not a long one; it consisted of thirty-four words, yet there were five capital “I’s” in it. It was self in the beginning, self in the middle, self in the end— self all through. “I fast twice a week”; “I give tithes of all I possess”; “I am a wonderfully good man, am I not, Lord?” He struck a balance twice a week, and God was his debtor every time. He paraded his good deeds before God and man. Such a one was not in a condition to receive the favor of God. You can divide the human family today into two classes—Pharisees and publicans. There are those who are poor in spirit; the dew of God’s grace will fall upon them. There are others who are drawing around them the rags of their self-righteousness; they will always go away without the blessing of God. There were but seven words in the prayer of the Publican: “God be merciful to me a sinner!” He came to God confessing his sins and asking for mercy; and he received it. If you were to run through Scripture, you would find that where men have gone to God in the spirit of the publican, God has dealt with them in mercy and grace.

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