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Matthew 19-20; Mark 10; Luke 18: What Lack I Yet?

Unshaken Saints

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Jesus's Parable: Humility vs Pride

Jesus prioritizes the humble sinner over the self-righteous saint, aiming to help overcome pride and encourage humility. Whether surrounded by complacent and proud individuals or striving individuals, Jesus focuses on the importance of humility in order to foster personal growth.

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from Luke. Interesting that Jesus would place the humble sinner above the self-righteous saint. Now, you do have to understand that he's speaking to the self-righteous saints right now. So his audience is determining largely what the content of his parable is. He wants them to recognize, wait a minute, are you calling me the Pharisee? If the shoe fits wear it. If he was surrounded by a bunch of, oh, picture people that are kind of really, really lack a dasicle and are proud of that fact and proud of the fact that they are not really living the gospel, but hey, I'm cool about it. I don't judge people. And they look at people that are really striving diligently to do what's right, but they're doing it in a humble way. I think we'd have a different parable then. If Jesus's audience was not the prideful righteous, but if it was the prideful wicked, then yeah, we'd have a different parable. I think either way he's trying to help us overcome pride. That seems to be the bigger issue. It's like God is less concerned about if you're righteous or you're wicked. Those come and go. He's more concerned about humility and pride. Because if you're proud of where you are, you'll stay where you are. If you're humble about where you are, then you'll change. You'll give God a chance to change you. That's the issue here.

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