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adulterers or even like this tax

collector. I fast twice a week and

give a tenth of all I get. But the

tax collector stood at a distance. He

would not even look up to heaven, but

beat his breast and said, God, have

mercy on me, a sinner. I tell you

that this man, rather than the

other, went home justified before God.

For all those who exalt themselves

will be humbled, and those who humble

themselves will be exalted.

The context of the story is the Jerusalem temple, a place of prayer. The temple is the religious centre of Judaism,

where sin is dealt with. Yet its also the cultural centre of Jewish society, clearly expressed in the temple boundaries:

Jews are allowed inside, Gentiles are kept outside, males are up the front, females are up the back. Its like the way a

mosque reveals both Islamic religion and Islamic culture.

And in both the cultural dimension and the religious dimension, the Pharisee clearly feels at home, while the tax

collector feels alienated. The tax collector is on dangerous ground: hes a corrupt extorter of Jews, a collaborator

under the authority of the Roman occupiers, working against his own countrymen. The Pharisee is out the front

praying confidently and visibly, while the tax collector is far off praying in desperation and in hiding.

Its easy for us to think of the Pharisee as a legalist, someone trying to earn his way to God via good works. Not so.

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This is why verse 14 is so stunning: It is this man, the tax collector, who went down to his house justified. Everyone

who exalts himself will be humbled; everyone who humbles himself will be exalted. Imagine a British royal function

in which a grubby street child is seated first, in prime place, while the royals are left outside in the yard thats

what this is like! In the worlds eyes, the tax collector is a disgrace who shouldnt even have made it as far as he did

in the temple, but in Gods eyes, he

s honoured.

How is this reversal possible? Well, the Pharisee has forgotten the ancient truth: it is only by atoning sacrifice that we

can come before God. This truth is embodied in the very temple structure itself the whole point of the temple is

for filthy people to be washed clean! For the Pharisee to come as he does is actually undermining the whole point of

the temple. The Pharisees attitude is like going into a hospital ER and boasting that you dont have a broken leg! Of

course, thats not the point of an ER. Yet the tax collector has stumbled on truth: he has come seeking propitiation

in the place that its actually available.

The question: which of the two hearts do we have?

6 key lessons on hear t hea l th

1. We must see ourselves as God sees us. The tax collector comes acknowledging that he is dirt, yet he is honoured!

So too us: we are dirt before God, and yet weve been clothed with righteousness in Christ. We can only

acknowledge Gods grace and righteousness if were aware of our sin.

2. We must not see ourselves as the world sees us: as good people. For those of us who are leaders in our Christian

communities, others typically perceive us as powerful and attractive, and we are easily deceived. Our righteous

deeds are like filthy rags. It is only the grace of God, the propitious work of Christ on the cross, that brings us into

relationship with God.



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3. Dont treat Jesus like the Pharisee treated the temple. For all the Pharisees assurance, he forgot the whole point

of the temple. Meanwhile, the tax collector has miraculously stumbled on the true meaning of the temple, which is

the meaning of Jesus for us: he came to give his life as a ransom for many. Its easy for us to talk incessantly about

Jesus yet make Jesus a source of boastful pride. Where is my trust and confidence? Well, how do I know Im a

Christian? Its easy for me to answer that with a list of all the things Ive done: Im David Williams, I became a

Christian in 1983, I was a missionary in Kenya for 9 years, and now I train missionaries. No those righteous

deeds are like filthy rags. Thats a Pharisee heart. The only basis of confidence is the cross of Christ.

4. Dont allow Gods means of grace to become a source of pride. One of the stunning things about this Pharisee is

that he boasts in Gods gifts as if theyre his own achievements. Yet these gifts prayer, reading, fasting, tithing

are all given by God with the intent of creating in his people a dependence on God. Theyre meant to turn us to God.

5. Confess your sin. A generation before David Williams, new Christian disciples were taught to kneel by their beds

at the end of each day, think over the days sins, and commit them to God. Weve lost that discipline. Do you

regularly, honestly, wholeheartedly bring your sins to God? Do you have an accountability partner? And why not?

Were afraid of what people might think and thats a Pharisee heart. Consider the ways that we introduce

confession in our local churches: Think back over the last week and what youve done wrong, well take a moment,

and then well confess to God. This betrays an awfully light view of sin when everything

about me is matter out of place, in need of propitiation. We need the righteousness of Christ.

6. Have no contempt. This is a diagnostic question: if you treat others with contempt, you are inherently trusting in

your own righteousness. Where do you show contempt? In social status? In Christian maturity? In theological purity?

Some diagnostic questions: Would you prepare your sermon more thoroughly if you knew that John Piper would be

listening? Would you put more effort into an adult Bible study than into a childrens Sunday School class when know



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throws himself on the mercy of God and were not to give honour to the honourable but to the repentant. The

riches of the gospel is that though we are matter out of place, God clothes us with grace



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These are my notes from the talks at Summer Encounter, the annual conference ofCMS in South

Australia.

Dr David Williams is the head of development and training in CMS. His talks covered the three parables in Luke 18:1-30.

2. The Pha risee a nd the tax collector

Its easy for us to think that this parable (Luke 18:9-14) is simply about whos in the right and whos in the wrong. As with the

previous parable, this is a shocking tale of status reversal. Its about who has the position of honour and who has the position

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To some who were confident of their own

righteousness and looked down on everyone

else, Jesus told this parable: Two men

went up to the temple to pray, one a

Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed:

God, I thank you that I am not like

other people robbers, evildoers,

adulterers or even like this tax

collector. I fast twice a week and give a

tenth of all I get. But the tax

collector stood at a distance. He would

not even look up to heaven, but beat his

breast and said, God, have mercy on me,

a sinner. I tell you that this man,

rather than the other, went home

justified before God. For all those who

exalt themselves will be humbled, and

those who humble themselves will be

exalted.

The context of the story is the Jerusalem temple, a place of prayer. The temple is the religious centre of Judaism, where sin is

dealt with. Yet its also the cultural centre of Jewish society, clearly expressed in the temple boundaries: Jews are allowed

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inside, Gentiles are kept outside, males are up the front, females are up the back. It s like the way a mosque reveals both

Islamic religion and Islamic culture.

And in both the cultural dimension and the religious dimension, the Pharisee clearly feels at home, while the tax collector feels

alienated. The tax collector is on dangerous ground: hes a corrupt extorter of Jews, a collaborator under the authority of the

Roman occupiers, working against his own countrymen. The Pharisee is out the front praying confidently and visibly, while the

tax collector is far off praying in desperation and in hiding.

Its easy for us to think of the Pharisee as a legalist, someone trying to earn his way to God via good works. Not so. Hes

someone who believes that hes a child of the covenant by birthright, one of Gods children. This is the sense in which he is

confident in his own righteousness not his own works, but his status as a child of the covenant. This is why he thinks that

he belongs here. In contrast, the tax collector is a man with downcast eyes beating his breast. Hes not trying to gain attention,

but is genuinely distressed, feeling abandoned. He does not belong here. His prayer is literally Be propitious to me / make

propitiation for me he throws himself on Gods mercy as a bankrupt sinner, seeking rescue.

The whole point of the temple is sacrifice, dealing with the sin of Gods people. The peoples sin must be dealt with in order

that Gods wrath wont destroy them. This idea of ritual cleanness and uncleanness is central to coming before God.

For us, dirt is about hygiene and bacteria; something can look clean but be dirty. But in other cultures, this is simply not the

case. Mary Douglas, anthropologist: Dirt is matter out of place. Something can be clean in one place (shoes are not dirty in

and of themselves) but dirty in another (shoes on the dining table are dirty). Food on my plate is clean, but food on my shirt is

dirty. My bedroom and my sons bedroom both contain clothes, but one is messy (clothes on floor) and the other is not (clothes

packed away). Cultures all have taboos and understandings about dirt as matter out of

place .

In the Old Testament purity laws, uncleanness (menstruation, ejaculation, etc) is all about matter out

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of place . The purity rituals are to enable the unclean to become clean again and all of this is intended to be

symbolic of our need for cleanness before God. So the temple stands at the heart of coming before God.

The Pharisee is confident that he is clean he is in the heart of the temple believing that he is not out of place. But the tax

collector knows that he is dirty, and that he is dirt he has no place here, he is matter out of place.

This is why verse 14 is so stunning: It is this man, the tax collector, who went down to his house justified. Everyone who exalts

himself will be humbled; everyone who humbles himself will be exalted. Imagine a British royal function in which a grubby

street child is seated first, in prime place, while the royals are left outside in the yard thats what this is like! In the worlds

eyes, the tax collector is a disgrace who shouldnt even have made it as far as he did in the temple, but in Gods eyes, hes

honoured.

How is this reversal possible? Well, the Pharisee has forgotten the ancient truth: it is only by atoning sacrifice that we can come

before God. This truth is embodied in the very temple structure itself the whole point of the temple is for filthy people to be

washed clean! For the Pharisee to come as he does is actually undermining the whole point of the temple. The Pharisee s

attitude is like going into a hospital ER and boasting that you don t have a broken leg! Of course, thats not the point of an ER.

Yet the tax collector has stumbled on truth: he has come seeking propitiation in the place that its actually available.

The question: which of the two hearts do we have?

6 key lessons on hear t hea l th

1. We must see ourselves as God sees us. The tax collector comes acknowledging that he is dirt, yet he is honoured! So too us:

we are dirt before God, and yet weve been clothed with righteousness in Christ. We can only acknowledge God s grace and

righteousness if were aware of our sin.

2. We must not see ourselves as the world sees us: as good people. For those of us who are leaders in our Christian

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communities, others typically perceive us as powerful and attractive, and we are easily deceived. Our righteous deeds are like

filthy rags. It is only the grace of God, the propitious work of Christ on the cross, that brings us into relationship with God.

3. Dont treat Jesus like the Pharisee treated the temple. For all the Pharisee s assurance, he forgot the whole point of the

temple. Meanwhile, the tax collector has miraculously stumbled on the true meaning of the temple, which is the meaning of

Jesus for us: he came to give his life as a ransom for many. It s easy for us to talk incessantly about Jesus yet make Jesus a

source of boastful pride. Where is my trust and confidence? Well, how do I know Im a Christian? Its easy for me to answer that

with a list of all the things Ive done: Im David Williams, I became a Christian in 1983, I was a missionary in Kenya for 9 years,

and now I train missionaries. No those righteous deeds are like filthy rags. Thats a Pharisee heart. The only basis of

confidence is the cross of Christ.

4. Dont allow Gods means of grace to become a source of pride. One of the stunning things about this Pharisee is that he

boasts in Gods gifts as if theyre his own achievements. Yet these gifts prayer, reading, fasting, tithing are all given by

God with the intent of creating in his people a dependence on God. Theyre meant to turn us to God.

5. Confess your sin. A generation before David Williams, new Christian disciples were taught to kneel by their beds at the end

of each day, think over the days sins, and commit them to God. Weve lost that discipline. Do you regularly, honestly,

wholeheartedly bring your sins to God? Do you have an accountability partner? And why not? Were afraid of what people might

think and thats a Pharisee heart. Consider the ways that we introduce confession in our local churches: Think back over the

last week and what youve done wrong, well take a moment, and then well confess to God. This betrays an awfully light view

of sin when everything about me is matter out of place, in need of propitiation. We need the

righteousness of Christ.

6. Have no contempt. This is a diagnostic question: if you treat others with contempt, you are inherently trusting in your own

righteousness. Where do you show contempt? In social status? In Christian maturity? In theological purity? Some diagnostic

questions: Would you prepare your sermon more thoroughly if you knew that John Piper would be listening? Would you put




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more effort into an adult Bible study than into a childrens Sunday School class when know one else what you re saying? If so,

youre treating others with contempt a Pharisee heart. Yet the tax collector throws himself on the mercy of God and were

not to give honour to the honourable but to the repentant. The riches of the gospel is that though we are matter out of place,

God clothes us with grace.

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Discipleship series, Part 4

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View flood! The end is near!!

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Church Doctrine = "We are good, they are bad." = The root of war

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Be Not Troubled

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COMPASSION IS A PART OF CHRIST'S PERSONALITY

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GOD WILL CARE FOR JUDAH

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"Do You Want to Get Well?"

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Trust

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gfrasewrote 2 hours ago: One of my favorite sections of the Bible is John 4, especially 4:21-24. Jesus saith unto her,

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#0261sva - Suit Up

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Yep, that's pretty accurate

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