Blog 07-07-2008
PRaP 7/7/08 (16 Days Until Outrigger Island!)
“I’m a Christian!”
Well does that make you better than me? Are you exalted to the highest place because you think you’re better than me? Just because you read your Bible and fast twice a week and give to the church, that makes you better than me? Well I have some words from Jesus Christ just for you:
Luke 18
9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10″Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee stood up and prayed about[a] himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men-robbers, evildoers, adulterers-or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
13″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.’
14″I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Just something for you to chew on this Monday.
Key Verses:
Luke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 14:10-12 (in Context) Luke 14 (Whole Chapter)
Luke 18:14
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 18:13-15 (in Context) Luke 18 (Whole Chapter)
Week 27 for those of you doing the Bible in 52 weeks program, http://www.c2cministry.org/Bible
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PEACE and AGAPE LOVE, Pastor, Dad, DJ Dude
From The Desk Of:
Pastor Stephen Eldridge
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Matthew 7:7-8
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