This Sunday

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Sermon Outline for March 16, 2025

Luke 18:9-14

Primary Doctrine: The doorway and the path of Christianity (represented by the Tax Collector) is learning to evaluate ourselves properly under the law of God, to see our deep need of a Savior. The doorway and the path of all false religion (represented by the Pharisee) is to evaluate oneself simply by outward actions without ever seeing the condition of our heart.
1. Exploring the Heart of the Pharisee
This Pharisee is so relateable. We, as fallen humans, tend to try to make our religion as easy as possible. And the chief and primary way we have thought to do that, us turn religion into a set of tasks to be done. This makes religion very easy to measure success. You either have or haven’t completed the tasks.
2. Exploring the Heart of the Tax Collector
There no way to God without first seeing yourself rightly. Each of our spiritual conditions is like this tax collector. In the eyes of the world, we may have it all together, but the truth that there is a viper’s nest of false affections, ungodly desires, and self-serving appetite that lurks within our heart.
3. Applications
  • I want to know the horrible depths of my sin, in order that I might truly experience the wonderful heights of the Gospel
  • I want to love Christ more than I love Christianity
  • I want to hate my own sin far more than the sins of others
  • I want to spend my greatest religious effort developing my heart and affections over my outward actions
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