66 Luke 18:9-17 (Two men pray, one justified)

I. Review/background
II. Narrative
1. The Nature of Parables
2. The parable of the Pharisee and Tax collector (18:9-14)
a. The purpose (18:9)
b. Praying at the temple (18:10)
c. The Pharisee (18:11-12)
d. The tax collector (18:13)
e. The lesson (18:14)
3. Jesus and the little children (18:15-17)
a. Disciples rebuke (18:15)
Matthew 19:13-15 / Mark 10:14
b. Jesus’ response (18:16)
c. Jesus’ reasoning (18:17)
III. How should we then live?
1. God loves a contrite heart (18:13)
Psalm 51:16-17
2. The nature of righteousness
Romans 3:23, 3:10
Isaiah 64:5-6
Proverbs 6:16-17.
Galatians 3:10-11
2 Corinthians 5:21
a. Get right with God legally.
Colossians 2:13-14
b. Get right with God relationally.
1 John 1:9
3. Treat others according to their atonement, not their caste (18:9)
4. Observations on the kid’s passage (18:16)
2 Samuel 12:23
Deuteronomy 1:39
5. Function with a childlike faith (18:17)